Laborers of God’s Great Garden,

Today, let’s jump right into the Word of GOD:

Romans 8:1-4 The Passion Translation “So now the case is closed. There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life-union with Jesus, The Anointed One. 8:2 For the “law” of the Spirit of life flowing through the anointing of Jesus has liberated us from the “law” of sin and death. 8:3 For God achieved what the law was unable to accomplish, because the law was limited by the weakness of human nature. Yet God sent us his Son in human form to identify with human weakness. Clothed with humanity, God’s Son gave his body to be the sin-offering so that God could once and for all condemn the guilt and power of sin. 8:4 So now every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit!

Merriam-Webster terms “condemned” as “declared to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil” and “pronounced guilty and sentenced to punishment especially: sentenced to death” and “officially declared to be unfit for use.”

Ponder on this for a little while.

REDEMPTION STORY: I thank GOD that I’m no longer under condemnation. No matter what others say or have said about you, your sins are forgiven when you’re sincere, honest, open, and naked before Our Father who loves us unconditionally and accepts us back into His Arms when we’ve tried it our way and it’s failed. No degradation. No talking about me and not helping me; GOD helps all who come unto Him with a pure heart. Will you come? He doesn’t talk down to us. He welcomes us because His love overflows; you can see His Love in every part of our existence, from inhaling and exhaling, to putting one foot in front of the other. It’s in Him that we live, move, and have our being, Acts 17:28.

The enemy understands that if he can isolate you then he can condemn you, causing you to have doubt, confusion, frustration, emptiness, brokenness when all the while GOD has been right there with you, keeping you from harming yourself.

GOD is right here, Jehovah Shammah! The enemy uses these tactics to detour and distract us who are SAVED because he can see the potential and the power vested in us so he tries everything possible to create obstacles, cause issues that seemingly feel like there’s no way out. He blinds us.

GOD builds us up!

Lord, quiet the noise around us so that we can hear You, clearly, knowing Your voice and taking heed. LORD, YOU are our vindicator, it’s in You that we place our trust, our commitment, our confession and our profession. You have claim over our lives because You created us. Now teach us Your ways, Psalm 25:4-12.

CONDEMNED (Before Christ’s Resurrection): so when Adam and Eve sinned against God and didn’t obey His commandment to avoid the forbidden tree, we (all humanity) were immediately separated from God. Our sin drew a division in the sand, per se, and we see God (at a distance) rather than God very near to us. The wages (punishment) of sin is death, Romans 6:23, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Our Lord.

Daily Digest: Today, can you even imagine not being able to reach God, not being able to pray OR what if GOD didn’t answer prayers? What if we couldn’t feel His warm embrace, suffering the absence of The Holy Spirit in your life? What if GOD had no grace and no mercy towards us?

That’s what it would be like today if Jesus Christ hadn’t been the Sacrificial Lamb of God for the sins of the whole world. We’d be lost, without hope. We’d have no reason to live nor to expect anything out of this life. Due to God turning away from us, forgetting His wondrous creation, humanity, we’d be desolate, destitute and abandoned. There would be no blessing of new mercies daily nor grace upon grace given unto us because there would be no atonement for our sins that caused the separation.

That’s deep. Really deep!

I’m so glad that GOD loves us so much that He didn’t throw us away nor cast us away from Him. He cherishes us, loves, and chastens us because of His great love.

HEART OF THANKSGIVING: Thanks be unto Our Father, who we call “Abba,” because even before He sent Jesus Christ to the Cross, He told us that “He’d never leave us nor forsake us,” Deuteronomy 31:8. David said that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, Psalm 139:14. In fact, God, Himself, has made us a little lower than the Angels and has given us authority over all of His Creation, Psalm 8:5-9. Hallelujah! Ezekiel 36:27 KJV lets us know that God said that His Spirit would be placed inside of us, causing us to obey His Divine Authority over our lives as Our Lord and Savior.

Furthermore, John 10:10 and Ephesians 3:20, alongside Romans 8 summate for us The Merciful Hand of Our God. It shows us His generosity, lovingkindness, communion with us, His abiding in us as we abide in Him (John 15:4). When Jesus ascended to Heaven to sit on the right hand of God, He told us that He’d leave with us “The Comforter,” our “Paraclete,” which is The Holy Spirit. He tells us the purpose of The Holy Spirit: to lead, to guide, and to show us things to come, John 16:13.

John 16:6-8 Amplified Bible “But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts [and taken complete possession of them]. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor – Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you. but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you]. And He, when He comes, will convict the world about [the guilt of] sin [and the need for a Savior], and about righteousness, and about judgement:

STYLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT:

It’s through The Holy Spirit that we adjust our behaviors; we don’t act the same old way we used to act because our minds, hearts, and Spirits have been cleansed. If we’d be honest, there’s still more cleaning to do!

For instance, I may not curse people out (as much) these days but I may do something else that depletes me, causing me to be dehydrated in The Spirit Realm. We must stay under the shadow of the Almighty, in efforts to be shielded, safe, protected, and HYDRATED in His Arms, Psalm 91.

The Holy Spirit perfects us because it penetrates our deepest lie we’ve ever told ourselves, breaks it down, de-clutters our hearts and leaves room in our minds to adopt the Mind & Heart of Christ. It’s only when we’re completely naked before GOD, exposed, that He reveals unto us what we’ve been missing and then He carefully molds us into a better image of His likeness. He takes the stain away from the sin and remembers them no more, Hebrews 8:12.

Wrapping It Up:

• When we accept Christ as Our Lord & Savior, we’re telling Him that we’re submitting to His Will and His Way. We’re expressing by sacrificing, giving up what we want or what we think we want, thereby readily taking on what GOD wants for our lives. In essence, we’re saying “Yes” to GOD and “No” to Satan.
• We rely on The Holy Spirit to guide us and we ask GOD for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, which breeds forth The Spirit of Discernment within us to decipher what means us good and what means our demise.
• We openly accept kinship with Our Father. We realize that He’s Our Source and everything else is just a “resource” from “Our Source – who is GOD,”
• We must learn how to access The Holy Spirit so that our every action reflects the likeness of Christ. We’re Heirs of GOD and Joint-Heirs with Jesus Christ; this means that we operate in Kingdom Principles, living by faith and not by sight, ignoring what it may “seem” to be and readily speaking LIFE into our existence amiss the storms of life. We endure as good soldiers. We persevere and we conquer!
• We understand that nothing and no one can separate us from the Love of Our GOD. Even though weapons are formed, they don’t prosper!
• We acknowledge GOD by wearing the Full Armor of GOD and we declare and decree that Our GOD is El Shaddai (GOD ALMIGHTY) and Jehovah Sabaoth (GOD OF HEAVEN’S ARMIES, LORD OF HOSTS). We believe that GOD is El Roi, He sees us! We believe that our sincere prayers produce miracles, signs, and wonders for and through us.
• We’re not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we know it gives us abundant life. The Holy Spirit guides us into the Abundant Life and teaches us how to remain within “His Abundance.”
• Because we’re connected to GOD, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit (The Holy Trinity) We reverence Our GOD by exemplifying His character in our daily lives. Our old lifestyles are shedding away as we walk towards Christ.
• The Holy Spirit teaches us life lessons as we yield in humble submission to GOD. We love as GOD requires us to love, without judgment but with a genuine concern for others, helping and not hindering, as The Holy Spirit gives us utterance.
• We believe that The Holy Spirit unveils us. We’re fully exposed directly in frontal view of The Holy Spirit, in the Holy presence of GOD and Jesus Christ. We’re naked before The Trinity. We’ve nowhere on or under the Earth that we can hide the truth from The Trinity. We’re willing to show our flaws, our imperfections, where we struggle, where we’re unsure, where we’re perplexed.
• We’re yielding and yearning for Divinity to arise within us, to cause us to see, hear, taste, feel and touch ONLY what He desires of us.
• The Holy Spirit prays on our behalf. We don’t know what we ought to pray but The Holy Spirit teaches us and then transmits our prayers to Our Father, in a language that Our GOD responds to and therefore works all things out in our favor when in accordance to His Will for our lives.