Those Stubborn Wrinkles......deno....share freely.

    

.......In my nearly 6 years living in England back in the 80's I was blessed to live right next door to a lady who in her younger days used to go around England and minister the gospel and grace of God with a man by the name of Smith Wigglesworth. She told me how Brother Wigglesworth had strong bold faith that glorified God with multiple miracles and healings. Even many, I think over twenty people, God raised from the dead in his calling to bear witness to the truth that is only In Jesus. 
     This precious elderly women (Mrs Sargent) one day invited me over to talk and to listen. I did. She told me so many things but this one I want to share. She said, Deno, if you will get what I'm about to tell you , you will then better understand the grace of God. She said, "It is much easier for God to save us with His salvation than it is for Him to remove from us the wrinkles in our lives and devotion and commitment to Him. She said salvation is the gift of God thru the power of the Cross, thru the blood, the death and resurrection of Jesus His Son received by the mix of faith. He saved us by His will and His performance. But to get us who believe that He gave us His Son, to submit and obey him daily is a work in which our own personal will is involved. That is where the BIG PROBLEM is. That is why it is much harder for Him to remove our commitment, devotion, consecration wrinkles than it is to save and regenerate the spirit of the believer.  For as soon as the believer receives Christ, right then and there God in the speed of the twinkling of an eye quickens, rebirths and makes alive the spirit, but to get us to walk in the new holy created spirit as to not fulfill the lust and will of the present sinful flesh is a clashing of wills. For in this we all do war.
        We can be stubborn some times. We do our will and not His. But being BORN OF GOD or BORN AGAIN no man can do to himself, just as no man can of his own will or of his own power raise his body from the dead. We all need God to do this for us. When we RECEIVE His Son  HE DOES......John 1:12-13) But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become THE SONS OF GOD, even to them that believe on His Name. 13) WHICH WERE BORN (Born Again in their spirit (John 3:6-8), which were BORN AGAIN not of blood (meaning John is not talking about the flesh of man but of mans heavenly part, MANS SPIRIT), nor of the will of the flesh, nor was it wrought by the will of man BUT OF GODS WILL and doings only. Only God can save us and not we ourselves and only God can reach into the heavenly man within each of us and make him alive (Born Again). We all must call upon HIS NAME (Jesus Christ) to be saved, to be BORN AGAIN. Let us all call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ unto so great a salvation. And.....
     Let us (THE SAVED, THE REDEEMED, THE BORN AGAIN ONES, THE RISEN WITH CHRIST ONES, THOSE OF US WHO BY GODS POWER GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD EVEN AS JESUS IS NOT OF THIS WORLD (John 17:14-17) let us keep growing in the Lord and more and more turn to the Lord each morning and say, Lord this day is yours. I'm yours. Your Will Be Done, Not Mine....This is one of God's greatest prayers that He ask His children to say, mean and really do with all of our hearts..Let us freshly remember that whatever we do in word or in deed to do all to Jesus' glory and honor in His Name......deno.....share freely.