I Press Toward The Mark
I’d like to share my heart with you today.
There’s a place in the Lord where we can all go while we are here on this earth that is higher and deeper than anything we have ever experienced before. It is a place of strength and power and might with an anointing like we have never had before. There is a fullness of God that none of us have experienced to the maximum possible. God has made it available for each one of us, and it is not just for ministers. It is for anyone who will press in and take it for themselves.
God is desiring to take us higher into Himself, higher into Who He is, higher into His glorious realm of love and goodness. His glory is His goodness. When Moses asked to see God’s glory, the Lord replied: I will let my goodness pass before you. The glory of the Lord is His nature, His Love, His power, His might expressed in this earthly realm in manifested, visible form.
There is so much that God wants for us as His children to experience and to have. He has made available to us all of His kingdom right now. All we have to do is know about it and how to access what He has given to us. We access everything in God’s Kingdom by our mouth, out of the faith that is in our heart. The words of our mouth are the creative force of our lives, creating our future and shaping our destiny. God has a perfect plan for each one of us, a perfect purpose for our lives, and we must find that purpose by spending time with Him, listening to His voice, obeying His word of instruction to us. Our words determine what happens in our lives. God has made us creatures of choice with a voice. He has made available to us the ultimate of abundance in every area of our lives. The choice is ours and not His. He has chosen the best for us. What we must do is get into agreement with Him. We cannot agree with someone if we have no knowledge of what they have for us. Neither can we agree with someone if we don’t know how to receive what they have given to us.
The greatest need I see in the Body of Christ today is learning how to receive what is ours. We receive with the words of our mouths. Those words come from our hearts. Jesus told us that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What is in our hearts in abundance will come out. What are you putting in your heart today? Are you spending time with God and His Word or are you spending time with everything but His word? What is going into your heart?
As I look around me, I see people who are desiring to do what is right, desiring to live the good life, desiring to be prosperous, desiring to be healed and healthy, desiring to be like Jesus. And most of them are struggling, trying to receive what God has for them. The Holy Spirit will teach every one of us how to receive what God has for us if we will give Him some time to do it for us. And we must desire that teaching more than we desire anything else. When we desire Him more than we desire anything, we will have what He has and be like He is.
Oh, there is such a place of intimacy and joy in the Lord that He wants to take each of us into. My heart is full to overflowing with Him today and His absolute love for each person on this earth. He loves both the sinner and the saint. The difference between the two is that He has relationship, fellowship with the saints and wants to have relationship with the sinner. It is our responsibility as the saints to show the sinners this wonderful love that God has for them. They will run into His arms of love, if someone shows them the way. Let’s you and I be those who show them the way.
There is a whole world out there now looking for answers. And we have the One Who is the answer. When we press toward Him with everything in us, we will be the demonstrations of the answer to people’s challenges and give them Jesus. I see an interpretation of Philippians 3:14 that I have never seen before. Paul said that he was pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. He was in white-hot pursuit of the Presence of God, which is the highest calling in life. And we go into the Presence of God in Christ (The Anointed One and His anointing) Jesus (our Savior and Redeemer). When we press, we are determined to attain what we are after. I am after Jesus with everything in me. How about you? The world is waiting for the real Christian to stand up and be counted. They will follow Him in us.
There’s a place in the Lord where we can all go while we are here on this earth that is higher and deeper than anything we have ever experienced before. It is a place of strength and power and might with an anointing like we have never had before. There is a fullness of God that none of us have experienced to the maximum possible. God has made it available for each one of us, and it is not just for ministers. It is for anyone who will press in and take it for themselves.
God is desiring to take us higher into Himself, higher into Who He is, higher into His glorious realm of love and goodness. His glory is His goodness. When Moses asked to see God’s glory, the Lord replied: I will let my goodness pass before you. The glory of the Lord is His nature, His Love, His power, His might expressed in this earthly realm in manifested, visible form.
There is so much that God wants for us as His children to experience and to have. He has made available to us all of His kingdom right now. All we have to do is know about it and how to access what He has given to us. We access everything in God’s Kingdom by our mouth, out of the faith that is in our heart. The words of our mouth are the creative force of our lives, creating our future and shaping our destiny. God has a perfect plan for each one of us, a perfect purpose for our lives, and we must find that purpose by spending time with Him, listening to His voice, obeying His word of instruction to us. Our words determine what happens in our lives. God has made us creatures of choice with a voice. He has made available to us the ultimate of abundance in every area of our lives. The choice is ours and not His. He has chosen the best for us. What we must do is get into agreement with Him. We cannot agree with someone if we have no knowledge of what they have for us. Neither can we agree with someone if we don’t know how to receive what they have given to us.
The greatest need I see in the Body of Christ today is learning how to receive what is ours. We receive with the words of our mouths. Those words come from our hearts. Jesus told us that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What is in our hearts in abundance will come out. What are you putting in your heart today? Are you spending time with God and His Word or are you spending time with everything but His word? What is going into your heart?
As I look around me, I see people who are desiring to do what is right, desiring to live the good life, desiring to be prosperous, desiring to be healed and healthy, desiring to be like Jesus. And most of them are struggling, trying to receive what God has for them. The Holy Spirit will teach every one of us how to receive what God has for us if we will give Him some time to do it for us. And we must desire that teaching more than we desire anything else. When we desire Him more than we desire anything, we will have what He has and be like He is.
Oh, there is such a place of intimacy and joy in the Lord that He wants to take each of us into. My heart is full to overflowing with Him today and His absolute love for each person on this earth. He loves both the sinner and the saint. The difference between the two is that He has relationship, fellowship with the saints and wants to have relationship with the sinner. It is our responsibility as the saints to show the sinners this wonderful love that God has for them. They will run into His arms of love, if someone shows them the way. Let’s you and I be those who show them the way.
There is a whole world out there now looking for answers. And we have the One Who is the answer. When we press toward Him with everything in us, we will be the demonstrations of the answer to people’s challenges and give them Jesus. I see an interpretation of Philippians 3:14 that I have never seen before. Paul said that he was pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. He was in white-hot pursuit of the Presence of God, which is the highest calling in life. And we go into the Presence of God in Christ (The Anointed One and His anointing) Jesus (our Savior and Redeemer). When we press, we are determined to attain what we are after. I am after Jesus with everything in me. How about you? The world is waiting for the real Christian to stand up and be counted. They will follow Him in us.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 8:35 PM
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