LEARNING DEATH TO SELF 9/03/09

HEARD: Surgery.  Moving you off the table to heal.   Medic.  Your tears are missing.  Before long it happened.  Bring her a glass of water. 

PIX:  I saw a beautiful crystal glass pitcher and glass by a hospital bed. 

HEARD:  Please don’t be afraid.  I don’t want to hurt you.  I have been the doctor. 

PIX:  I saw a lady with a long pony tail and she was putting her head on the shoulder of someone who was comforting her with a hug.  She was crying. 

HEARD:  You’ve come a long way.  A weeping willow.  You laid down your agenda.  She is learning death to self.  Through a series of circumstances.  The letter “I”.  It’s not easy to swallow. 

Gal 2:20 KJV

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

HEARD:  You kept the standard and stayed the course.   The right to passage.  Elected.  To have no identity after elected.   

To wash away the sin.  My blood.  Dont be afraid any more. 

Rom 8:33 NKJV

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect ? It is God who justifies.

1 Peter 1:2 NKJV

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:

ELECT

eklektos

NT:1588 eklektos (ek-lek-tos'); from NT:1586; select; by implication, favorite:

KJV - chosen, elect.

eklegomai

NT:1586 eklegomai (ek-leg'-om-ahee); middle voice from NT:1537 and NT:3004 (in its primary sense); to select:

KJV - make choice, choose (out), chosen.

HEARD:  I’m trying so hard.  I know you are. Sorrow. 

HEARD:  Life begins.  My power.  To breathe upon the dead places.  Another year.  A slow process.  These pieces fit together.  Zeal.  

WORD TO PONDER:  LEARNING DEATH TO SELF 9/03/09

Beloved one, you have come a long way.  As Your Doctor, I have been with you every step as you have trusted Me to cut out those places in your soul that were not My will.  I have taken you through death to self, as you have laid down your own agenda to embrace My will.  I know it has not been an easy cup to swallow.  I have lived every moment of pain with you and prayed you through each day. 

I know it has been very painful and you feel as though you have no more tears left. This is a temporary Novocain dear one, to hold you till your final surgery.    My weeping willow, many are called but only few are chosen.  When you graduate from the surgeries of death to self, you will have earned the right of passage.  To be elected is to be selected and chosen.  When your “I” dies, you will have found your identity in Me.  All that is left will be an earnest passion to be so One with Me that your own identity disappears. 

Dear one, I will breathe upon your dead places with My power. My promise is that what you died to, brings resurrection power multiplied filled with joy and zeal. 

John 12:24-26 NKJV

Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain .  25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.  26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. 

1 Peter 1:2 NKJV

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:

Matt 20:16 NKJV

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.

Rev 17:14 NKJV

These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.