The Mind Of Christ Is Peace And Joy And Life

                    

God speaks to me about Life, not death, as some dwell on. In order to have the true depths of His joy, we must have the mind of Christ and this is Life, having His mind.

In the past year, God has given me more of the Mind of Christ, meaning I have more of it than I did even a year ago. I understand more of how His mind is, what He expects of us, both what He thinks and what he wants us to think. That we might love, act, speak and commune with Him in every single moment of our lives.

As I continue to grow in Him it is like sometimes lately I can almost 'crawl inside Him.' I feel so close to Him in my mind and spirit that I feel my heart merge as one at times in my closeness and relationship with Him. I don't mean at all in a new age type of one-ness as if I were somehow a part of God himself. (Does this make sense?) I feel more a part of Christ than I ever did, like there is only an inch separating us, like I know more of what He felt, feels now, and where I am with Him and even where I am supposed to be with Him.

The true relationship He desires for us to have with Him is so deep and separated from anything else in this world that we could ever imagine. It is like my spirit is in tune with His spirit, in harmony with his spirit, like a deep moaning with each other in spirit. It is like I am beginning to touch Him, merging with Him in my walk with Him in an all consuming great desire to have the Mind of Christ.

To have the mind of Christ is to really know how He looks at us, how He sees us, and then we can go back to how we really see and understand Him and His majestic being and the power flowing from Him.

I feel the end times are very near, and there is not much time left, and some are not going to be able to hang on till the end to make it through the golden gates of heaven with our Jesus, and Jesus knows this, and we must do every thing in His power to be ready for Him.The greatest thing we can do in order to prepare for His return is to have the mind of Christ.

The mind of Christ is revealed only in the bible. His thoughts... His ways and will...

Because the bible is a grand collection of His thoughts it can become our thoughts and our mind if we only diligently allow our minds to be filled with His mind revealed and always available to us in His word. You see, He is preparing us for heaven, for eternal life with Him, preparing us now while we are temporarily on this earth for what He has for us in His Kingdom, and we must pass the test here on earth first; this is what He is showing me!

The fiery trials we go through are testing us, and the only way we can be peaceful inside while battling this till the healing comes from Him is through the mind of Christ.

I have seen and talked to many people who were walking through their final illness toward their deaths, facing the fear and pain of death, and even if we die, how are we going to handle it? How can we go though it? I am sharing things He has been showing me, things He has been speaking to me on.

Please understand, when I say God is speaking to me it is not in an audible voice that could be taped on a tape recorder, he speaks in the silence of my mind. He speaks through the very thoughts of the mind of Christ that has been stored up within me through His word. If you want God to speak to you, begin immersing your mind in His word. Soon He will begin to speak to you also.

With the Mind of Christ we will not question Him. We will trust him completely and absolutely. We will be peaceful and without confusion or complaining. We will just let Christ have control. I am not perfect in this yet and still face daily fears and anxieties, but I am doing much better in this lately than ever before, and am so much more peaceful inside, but have a long way to go to be totally in the Mind of Christ. But I now know what it means, what He is talking about, what He wants and expects of me. HE WANTS ALL OF ME, not just part of me.

I know I complain too much about being in bad pain, but I am doing much better than in the past. Also it is sepecially difficult to have peace when suffering like we do, (If you too have fibro or a similarly painful long term illness) but I am doing much better in this area then I ever have before, but still have a ways to go to be totally 'with' Him on this also. And I want to be 'with Him' in all things great and small.

The reason I say this is that lately God has give me so much trust in Him, so much faith that I did not have before, yet in the past I thought I had trust and faith for Him, but compared to today, I did not truly have it then. His word says "His mercies are new every morning, Great is You'r faithfulness O Lord." Every day we can get to know Him in a new way as if we really didn't know Him at all the day before!

- Oh goodness, Lord! His anointing just come over me, all though me just then, just now on me, Thank You Jesus. -

Ok, I am back, His presence sent me into praying in the spirit just then, He is 'all over me.' And it is the desire of His heart to be 'all over you too!'

Yes, all the terrible suffering around us, especially when we are part of it, and pain tries to eat away at our faith it is not always easy to have the Mind of Christ, but with faith and trust, deep prayer, and in the Word, God ministering to us, I can see that we are getting there.

God has been helping me on this more lately, and I have been getting more and more of the Mind of Christ. Resting in His thoughts and trusting in his eternal life and provision for me every day. After all, He said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." (This is a part of the mind of Christ and you can see how much one single sentence from His mind comforts and helps overcome this fear.)

Daydreaming about heaven is one of my favorite occupations and this too is an exercise of the mind of Christ. Imagine the description of heaven as laid out in Revelation, (Especially chapters 21 and 22... Go read those chapters over and over and the mind of Christ about eternity will begin to speak to you on this also.)

Having visions and dwelling on heaven helps immensely when a person is finally facing that abyss of death an the last days and hours of their life here on earth.

A dear friend of mine named Ray died a few days ago. He had turned into a living skeleton but had great peace the last weeks before he died. He had a smile on his face most of the time for he knew when Jesus was fixing to take him home. Instead of fear, he was peaceful. In the last hours of his life he woke up and said to his wife Shirl, "One hour." Then he would look up and say "OOHH." As if he was looking at heavenly fireworks, or something so beautiful that it took his breath away. At these times Shirl said he would smile and sigh with such a peaceful look on his face. It was like he had just smelled a beautiful fragrance on the breeze from across the river. Exactly one hour after he said, "One hour." He breathed his last on earth and went home with a sigh so peacefully.

Someone has called the bible, "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth!" The mind of Christ in these matters is so important!

Now, this is where we, and I, need to be totally, and I feel myself soooo much closer to being that way than I was a year ago. I still do not want to die, but I want sooo much to be with Jesus some day... I love it. I feel like I am leaving out a lot of what I am trying to say on what God has shown me, and spoken to me for sometimes it is hard to explain. Some things are too deep and awesome for words and God is not through working on me yet.

My friend Ray died only last Sunday. That night when I was praying for Shirl, his wife in Canada, God gave me a vision of Ray in heaven and I can see it again as I write this. This is what the mind of Christ is showing me, and remember the mind of Christ is really Christ's thoughts, not some rules or regulations about 'religion.'

In my vision Ray was wearing a long white flowing robe. I could not see his feet because the robe covered them. There was a white fog like all around him on the ground. It did not look solid or even like the ground, just mist like. Ray was looking up and all around him like you do when you hear an airplane overhead, and your head turning just looking for it. This is the way Ray looked but he had this huge smile on his face and his mouth 'open' in awe of what he saw and felt around him, like he could not believe how beautiful it was and the awesomeness of God's presence He felt. He looked so peaceful and there was such a joy on him, just in awe of his surroundings. When I saw Ray like this, I could not cry for him.

Tonight when thinking about this vision God gave me, all of a sudden I longed to be in heaven and see and feel what Ray was feeling that tears came in my eyes, but I do not want to die, but be in the rapture. I was happy for him, no more suffering with that horrible word that makes me sick at my stomach, cancer... I just wanted to share this with you all.

God has revealed to me there are many things He does not want us on this earth to know while here, there are many things of the Spirit, understandings of Him and the spirit world, we will not know till we are taught them in heaven. These things of Him are reserved for His saints that hold out to the end and live with Him in heaven; things that now we cannot even imagine with our earthly minds that will be in heaven. The bible says, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, what God has prepared for the hearts of those who love Him."

Yes, we have to interpret the bible to have the Mind of Christ. Study it and 'break it down' and use the discernment God has given us; but we must remember there are millions of people who do not have discernment or God's wisdom, they just take every thing like it is, or as they see it or think it is, instead of seeking God for His interpretation and what He wants to tell us and let us see...

The bible is so interesting. The Spirit of God leaps out to us through it and speaks to us, and to and through His spirit in us; there is nothing like it. But it seems that some don't take it seriously, it is a book we HAVE to read, we HAVE to believe in
God in order to receive His mind.

Some go to church because they think that is all there is to God and Christianity. They go because they feel they have to, and then do their own thing the rest of the week. This is what I see so much. Yes, most people do believe in God, but do they KNOW God. This is why when I pray with someone to accept Jesus in their heart, at the same time I also pray for them to receive the Holy Spirit, be baptized in the holy Spirit, to be filled with the zeal and fire of the Holy Spirit and to get to know Him the way He wants us to know Him, not just warm a pew and say "I got saved when I was six years old, so I will always be saved."

I have been dwelling a lot on heaven, and with my imagination I can 'see' pictures of heaven like I think it might look, how pleasant and peaceful and beautiful it is. I think there will be flowers. The flowers I mostly see are yellow tulip like with green, but flowers of all kinds and colors everywhere with bright green grass expanding out with no end or stopping. Like looking at the ocean that goes out and out and you think it might drop off because you can't see anything on the other side of it. I don't know if this is my imagination or God showing me this, but I keep seeing it. I 'see' the fog like substance all around, laying low close to the ground, with not a solid land to stand on.

Thirteen years ago God gave me a dream and a vision. It was a vision of the coming Rapture of the church when we all will be snatched up by God to meet him in the air like it say's in the book of Thessalonians. In it my husband Larry and I were caught up in the rapture in a twinkle of an eye. It was awesome, and as I write this, He is showing me the same vision again, of heaven.or something like heaven. It was fog like around us, clinging to our ankles and feet, lying low on the 'ground.' We had on white gowns like that flowed free, we were bare footed, on Holy Ground like Moses in front of the burning bush in the desert. It took only a second to get to heaven, and as soon as we did, I could feel such a peacefulness, such an awe. In this vision God did not show me much of heaven or what it looked like or anything, for the dream and vision ended there with us standing in awe taking in the peacefulness around us, white fog like all around us, under
us, over us, in the midst of us...

I am sure that is all God wanted me to see at the time, but by this dream and vision He gave me, it brings me such peacefulness knowing that I will be in the rapture, that I will be part of His kingdom, that I will be kneeling at His feet in His presence... Only the Mind of Christ can give us this kind of faith and hope as we live here in the midst of all the pain and sickness and death all around us.

I do not know if I will still be here for the rapture or not, but do know about the dream and vision God gave me. I do not know what is going on, only God does, I stopped trying to figure it out a good year ago and am only now at last letting God have control like it should be. I just know that things will happen in His time. What I am trying to say to you is that your wish, your desire, and the desire of all those that truly love his word and have his mind, including mine, may happen down the road not too far off. We will be in heaven with Jesus. And we (Oh Lord have mercy, I am starting to cry now) won't be in this horrible pain anymore.

I have so many friends that are dying with cancer right at this moment, they won't be suffering anymore. (Now I am really crying, His presence is very strong on me at this moment.) Those of you who are reading this and longing for His return, I know what you are feeling, I know the pain you are in and exactly how it feels. I have been like this for three weeks now. Massive charlie horses on both sides of the shoulders, shoulder blades, the neck, it is awful, I know. I have not been able to sleep for three weeks because of it, and when I lay down on my shoulder and arm, it makes it worse. I could not turn my neck or shoulder to talk to someone or to drive the car, I have to turn my whole body because the pain is terrible. It is just now starting to let up some, but still bad. But I can still feel the peace and joy of the Lord because I have the Mind of Christ within me giving me hope and comfort.

Lord God, You hear you'r precious children and their cries of pain, needing relief from the every day drudgery of pain and suffering. I ask you to touch them and heal their bodies of all pain and the cause of it, all Fibro or what ever it is, but you know God what it is. What ever is causing them fear and pain muscle cramps or spasms in their neck and shoulders, I ask you to take it away now Lord as they are reading this prayer. I pray for them Lord. That they would be able to apply the mind of Christ that is so clear and calm, the still hand of God reaching out to them in the midst of the storms of their lives. As Jesus calmed the storm with a word, Let the word of God calm the storms of fear and anxiety and depression that threaten to overturn the ships of their lives. I ask you to sustain them, make their his job's light and easy for them each day. Make each day easy for them to face untill you return for Your Bride. Use them mightily for Your work each day as they come in contact with other people, let Jesus Light in them shine through for others to see and want what they have. Make manifest the mind of Christ in each and every one of your children. In Jesus Name I ask you this, Amen!

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August 2000