God's Blessing!
Numbers 6:24-26
24 “The Lord bless you and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
26 The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.”’
I was reflecting upon this verse today, pondering it's deeper meaning. The verse is clearly showing that the Lord is the one working in us giving us what we need.
"Lord lift up HIS countenance upon you, giving you peace."
If we are to be cleansed and changed it will only be through the power of Christ in us, anything we attempt on our own is fleshly and will fall short of God's true change, a change deeply transformed by Him in our spirit.
As our spirit is changed, then too will our mind follow after.
Romans 8:28
"28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."
Again in the Romans verse we see that God works things in us as well as in the world. He will not work in those who resist Him, but He will work mightily in those who want to be changed by Him.
Jeremiah 33:3 "'Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'"
James 4:3
“When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures”
Isaiah 59:1-2
“Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities (sins) have separated you from God; your sins have hidden his face from you so that He will not hear."
Hebrews 13:20-22
"20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, 21 equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen."
He brought us up from the dead, He created the eternal covenant with us through His blood, He is working in us and He gets all the glory.
Ephesians 2:8-10
"8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
We are not saved by our works, nor are we kept by our works! We are saved by grace and kept by His grace.
Hallelujah!
