"So don't lose your bold, courageous faith..." Hebrews 10:35-36 (TPT)

God’s will is like a poem, a master script written out which details His desires from the beginning of time.  It is the beauty of the Lord when we recognize that His master plan was always in effect detailing every aspect of creation down to the last molecule which obeys His desires.

When we venture out in Christ, we are exercising faith by reading that poem this is written within our spirit with our own vision and creativity which honors God and furthers the purpose for which God created this world, to give us an opportunity to speak spiritual life into His creation.

The writer of Hebrews is telling us not to “lose your (our) bold, courageous faith”, this is speaking forth the faith to believe in miraculous encounters for every situation or person within our sphere of influence.  These miraculous encounters are the manifestation of God’s presence as we read the poem that God has written about our lives and we speak it out into the atmosphere. 

We are told we are destined for a great reward, a treasure with is so full and rich that the entire earth cannot contain its sheer volume, our great reward is Christ Himself.  He is the one who created all things included in this poetry of God’s will for our lives. 

This treasure is steeped in inexpressible love, the very essence of God Himself.  It is precious and all-encompassing for this treasure grows out of our own heart as we submit to Him and allow His presence to flow through us.  We are changed from glory to glory, moment by moment, as we desire Him more and more.

We do “need the strength of endurance” to continue on to receive the prize which is the promise in its fullest measure, and only the pure in heart will receive it and the end result is to actually see God.  Scripture says that “no one can see God and live” which is a true statement, we must die to our carnal nature, our attitudes, and our wrong beliefs, and see Jesus and Him alone as He is, and realize that He is the only one who can take us on this journey to see God face to face.

Moses saw God face to face and was transformed by the encounter.  He had to wear a veil over his face to hide the fading glory because Moses did not have the benefit of the cross of Christ to atone for all of his sinful nature so the glory began to fade.  We have the benefit of the cross and the glory revealed to us through Jesus does not fade or diminish.

"So what do we do, then? Do we persist in sin so that God’s kindness and grace will increase? What a terrible thought! We have died to sin once and for all, as a dead man passes away from this life. So how could we live under sin’s rule a moment longer? Or have you forgotten that all of us who were immersed into union with Jesus, the Anointed One, were immersed into union with his death?

Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried and entombed with him, so that when the Father’s glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co-resurrected with him so that we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of new life. For since we are permanently grafted into him to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his and the new life that it imparts.

Could it be any clearer that our former identity is now and forever deprived of its power? For we were co-crucified with him to dismantle the stronghold of sin within us, so that we would not continue to live one moment longer submitted to sin’s power.

Obviously, a dead person is incapable of sinning. And if we were co-crucified with the Anointed One, we know that we will also share in the fullness of his life. And we know that since the Anointed One has been raised from the dead to die no more, his resurrection life has vanquished death and its power over him is finished. For by his sacrifice he died to sin’s power once and for all, but he now lives continuously for the Father’s pleasure. So let it be the same way with you! Since you are now joined with him, you must continually view yourselves as dead and unresponsive to sin’s appeal while living daily for God’s pleasure in union with Jesus, the Anointed One." Romans 6:1-11 (TPT)

We are no longer identified as sinners before a Holy God, for we are dead to sin through Christ.  We are free from sin and we inherit all the benefits of that freedom which is to receive Christ and we must recognize we are not just sinners saved by grace, we have a new identity we are now redeemed sons and daughters of the king.

There is no greater treasure than to become connected to a family who’s identity is connected to Jesus Christ, and their goal in life is to know Him and be transformed into His glory to be more like Him.

Isaac Watts penned one of the most profound hymns back in 1707 which details this relationship with Jesus and what He accomplished on the cross for us.

"When I survey the wondrous cross

On which the Prince of glory died,

My richest gain I count but loss,

And pour contempt on all my pride."

Listen to this song above. 

Be Blessed;

Stephen Barnett