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There is something that Jesus taught that was so extraordinary.
John 3: 1-7
v6: That which is born of the flesh is flesh... If you've been born of the flesh, All you know and all you will see is flesh. You have to be born again so that your spirit can be reborn.
2 Cor 4:16-18
There is an outward man and there is an inward man. The outward man is the flesh man. The inward man is called the hidden man of the heart.
How can you look at things that are not seen?
It's a dichotomy of experience. The things which are seen versus the things which are not seen. The eyes of the flesh can see the things the flesh can relate with but the eyes of the spirit can see the unseen things.
The things which are seen are transient. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
He tells us to look at the things which are not seen.
They are only unseen by the flesh.
He tells us to look at them because we have the capacity to see. We are born of the spirit.
The spirit of God is guiding us on how we should see. What should be our focus on life.
There is the hope of the inward man.
If you are born again, your spirit is recreated and you can see what man cannot see.
God wants us to live from inside out; to live by the spirit.
And if we live by the spirit, we have power over the world.
Because the spiritual controls the physical.
So no matter what happens in this world, you are unperturbed, unmoved and unafraid because you know you are a victor from the spirit.
What a life he's given us. Great Grace!
Live with absolute confidence.
Last month was the month of growth.
Don't forget... every blessing that comes in each month must not pass with the month. Take it along with you. The blessing of growth goes with you into October.
Every day you might as well say "I am a blessed man/woman. I am so blessed".
Have you been amazed by your blessings?
Maybe you haven't gotten that far but you should.
Be blessing conscious. Be conscious of how blessed you are and always will be.
Psalm 25:6
The word "mercies" is translated from the Hebrew "raham".. both the singular and plural form and the word for loving kindness are interchangeably used in the KJV for the word "mercies".
One (CHESED) means Covenant Kindness. Where God binds himself with his own word to be favorable to you. He chooses to be favorable to you by Covenant that He cannot break.
He has to be favorable to you.
All He needs from you is to have respect to that agreement. And within the context of that agreement, if anything goes wrong on your side and you require his forgiveness, He has to do it. He never can say NO to you.
Can you imagine how blessed you are?
And nobody can spoil your thing. You never have to worry that somebody somewhere doesn't like you or is working against you. It doesn't matter. By virtue of his covenant kindness you are going to be successful anyway because He is with you and For you.
You have to become bold, excited and enthusiastic in his love.
That's what it's called loving kindness.
It's about his faithfulness.
To explain the second one (raham or raharin) to you, there is a scripture that I have to read to you.
Raham is the more visceral compassion of God.
Isaiah 49:15
"Compassion". Raham is the organic compassion of God. it has something to do with the word womb. A woman will naturally love her child. She doesn't have to think about it or reason it. It's just the way the organs of her system work. It's just the way she is built by God. He loves and protects you because you are his child.
Before he reasons it, He responds to you.
Like a Mother who has a child inside a burning house...you can't stop her from going inside.
(Solomon understood this as shown in the case of the two women and the dead child).
Twh visceral compassion of the real mother came alive instantly. She wanted to protect that child from dying even if that other woman took the child. She knew one day everything would be alright.
Our God has visceral compassion
The mercies of God from his inside.
The Organic mercies of God that spring to action just because you are his child. He can't just watch you suffer or go down. He will reach out to you.
This month is the month of Mercies.
You are going to experience the CHESED AND RAHAM Mercies of God towards you..
in your life.
Jacob experienced so much with God.
As he was preparing to return to his country. He said something in his prayer to God
Gen 32:10.
He was saying "I came with nothing except the staff in my hand
But because of the CHESED of God he had grown too large.
The mercies of God multiplies you.
Nehemiah 9:
He was talking to God about the people of Israel and how that in God's mercies, He did something for them
v19- Night and Day He protected them. He gave them their own atmosphere.
It's no different today.
They were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and the sea
When you are born again, you were baptized unto him in that holy Ghost cloud. You are protected of God.
You are going to walk in God's mercies this month.
His mercies are new and fresh every day
You didn't finish the one of yesterday yet a new one is there today.
Just because you didn't expens the previous ones doesn't mean he doesn't give you a new one every time you wake up.
Experience his mercies in your home, finances and everything that concerns you this month and that these blessings will be abundant in your life.