TO BE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST

RHEMA 4/21/11 TO BE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST

PIX: I saw a piece of cooked steak having been cut into a one inch bite size piece.

PARABLE: Today I cut my steak into the same bite size pieces I had seen in the above vision last night.

John 6:53-58

Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven — not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever."

Matt 26:26

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."

VISION: I was walking up a hill and knew that it was the hill that Jesus walked with His cross on His back. I had the sense that I was really experiencing this.

CONFIRMATION Dave Moore 4/22/11

http://riversedgeatl.com/

"As we are sitting here worshiping at the Sanctuary at River's Edge Church a family walked in. The little boy 10 years old was carrying a cross. He said God told him to carry it everywhere he want today. After prayer he is taking a 5 mile hike up a mountain...carrying that cross to the TOP! All I can do is weep...

QUICKENED REMEMBRANCE: A couple weeks ago, I heard, "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me."

Gal 2:20-21
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Matt 10:38-39
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

TAO'S VISION 4/11/11

"With sincere gratitude, I said "I love my cross, it brings out the brokenness and it leads to the abundant life". I also saw the Lord increased the temperature from 100, 1 degree a time to accomplish His purpose.

I sense the Lord is using the circumstances we are facing each day to shape us to be more like Him. Sometimes it is painful, but it accomplishes something eternal and valuable.

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” (Romans 8:28-30)

WAYNE 4/18/11: Wayne mentioned today that even as Jesus was crucified, he wondered about Christians being crucified with Christ. It was later confirmed an amazing from a QW Member:

DREAM FROM QW MEMBER 4/18/11

"Dream....Yes, this is a dream that I had a couple of nights ago... stunned then...and stunned now.... But the reality of this dream keeps flooding back to me... I must share it... But, Yes, my friends... I had this dream...

...kneeling to the ground... a dry dusty ground... I feel a heavy weight on my shoulders and back... it feels wet...I see dirty feet wearing sandals... rushed... again my attention is back to the weight on my shoulders and back... I hear the sounds of spitting... and I feel the splatter against my skin... I turn my head to look over my shoulder and notice I am covered in blood... my arms... my chest... my shoulders...my skin is torn... I am covered in spit and blood...as I look around I see Roman soldiers and crowds of people... it's a scene of chaos...yet everything is quiet... I see hurried motions and distraught faces...yet everything is in slow motion... I try to stand...and again I feel the heavy weight on my back.... I notice I am carrying a piece of wood...my eyes are blinded by blood and sweat as I try to see to place one step in front of the other...it's so heavy...the crowds of people...the soldiers keeping everyone at arms distance from me... no one can help...shouting... I can see angry people shouting...yet I hear no words... {stunned at this point as I realize where I am and what I am experiencing.... I black out... only to rejoin ....once nailed to the cross} Now, I see... now I see the face of Jesus...but I look down and notice... I am nailed to a cross....But, I see the face of Jesus and as he takes deep breaths in... and looks upward...up to the sky... I notice the most loving... forgiving eyes...and I hear.... "FORGIVE THEM...THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO"

WORD TO PONDER: TO BE CRUCIFIED WITH ME

I came down to earth not to do My will, but only My Father's will. I did not speak on My own authority, but My Father's. I was His Word, manifested in flesh. I did nothing of Myself, but only what I saw My Father do. Whatever I saw My Father do, I did also. Therefore when men saw Me, they saw My Father, for He dwelled in Me and I dwelled in Him.

I left My heavenly state and was sent in the likeness of sinful flesh to dwell among men. I emptied Myself of My own identity to be abased into the form of a slave. I chose to instead represent My Father, so that all would see Him and not Myself. Finally I so emptied Myself in Gethsemane - the garden where oil is pressed - that every bit of self will was squeezed out of Me. I drank the cup to be crucified, to lay My life down and die, not of My own will but the will of My Father.

You too are called to lay your own will down and drink of My cup. You too will carry your own cross and follow after My pattern, for I was the firstborn among many brethren. You will deny your own will, and become crucified with Me, so that I will live in you and manifest Myself in you, even as My Father manifested Himself in Me. When the world sees you, they will see Me, even as they saw My Father in Me.

This beloved ones, is the true intimacy of finding Oneness with us. There is no greater glory, no greater honor, no greater love than being One with us.

Matt 10:38-39 NKJV

And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

Luke 9:23-26

Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.

Phil 2:6-8 AMP

Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, 7 But stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being. 8 And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!