Apart From His Grace

"'Behold, O my people, I will open your graves.' When God wants to show you what human nature is like apart from Himself, He has to show it you in yourself. If the Spirit of God has given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God (and He only does it when His Spirit is at work), you know there is no criminal who is half so bad in actuality as you know yourself to be in possibility. My 'grave' has been opened by God and 'I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing.' God's Spirit continually reveals what human nature is like apart from His grace." -Oswalt Chambers in "The Staggering Question"

Do not take His Grace, Mercy and Love for granted. His Grace, Mercy and Love saves us from our own sin nature. Anyone who relies upon his or her own nature and intelligence, and denies Jesus' At-one-ment and the power of His Spirit, is "condemned already."

Listen to your heart. Is it at peace right now? If so, feel the Holy Spirit at work within you and praise the One who has united you to His Sacred Heart.

Make no mistake. You will know when He shows you yourself apart from Him. No matter when or where or how this happens, remember to CALL TO JESUS AND BELIEVE IN HIS HOLY NAME! These are the "labor pains" of a new birth in Christ. This is why He died...so you could live through Him and in Him.

I love you.

-Daddy

"I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn." -Zechariah 12:10 NASB

"With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." -Micah 6:6-8 NIV

"He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." -John 1:11-13 NASB

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." -John 3:16-19 KJV