I have been recently reading from the In Christs Image Training materials and it has enriched my spiritual life immensely. This is mainly because I hear in them the same voice of the Spirit of God that has been teaching me for the past several years. The emphasis is the same, focus is the same and the words even better. Francis sometimes puts beautifully into words the concepts that Our Lord had seeded into my soul. I can feel the Oneness of the Eternal God at work here. I can also feel that our Lord is in setting up mode.
He is indeed setting up and placing his chosen vanguard in the various geographical locations he needs them to be. He is pruning them and teaching them to be the beacon of light that they are supposed to be in the upcoming times of darkness.
Do you want to be part of the vanguard the Lord is setting up?
Then its time to begin work within yourself NOW.
Let me borrow this beautiful sentence by Francis Frangipane- God is not looking at His watch; He’s looking at His crop.
Yes,we are His crop. The Lord is instructing and teaching with passion those souls that are seeking and desiring Him in openness and humility. For this particular mission He reaches out to the spiritually responsive and carves out a desire for His image and likeness in their soul. Once the soul starts desiring this spiritual transfiguration the Lord begins to feed, nourish and prune it. He is the diligent farmer tending the crop.
Now let us delve a little deeper into this transfiguration. The fulfillment of mans created purpose is man in the image of God. This simply means the when The Father looks at us He sees the image of Christ His son in us. This does not mean that we become God or that we take the place of Christ. It simply means that we have humbled, pruned and loved such that Christ is visible through us and indeed if it can be said so--that Christ has taken our place.
For this to happen we should become like the flute in the hands of the flutist that renders the most mellifluous music - where flute and flutist become one - working together, delivering a taste of heaven. Like the flute and the flutist the Will of God should be able to course through our veins and find the most beautiful expression through every pore of our being. The Will and Glory of god should be manifest in us His beloved crop.
When the crop is mature in fullness and number, then the reaper will come to gather in the harvest.
Let us read Paul to the Ephesians to illustrate this point.
Ephesians 4:11-13 11 The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
I urge you dear friends to fall on your knees and pray. Pray for a deeper understanding and love. Pray for a cleansing and purification. Pray for mercy. And last but not the least pray for the Divine Will of God to be manifest passionately in your life. Pray that your transfiguration is so complete that the inner you has disappeared. Pray, pray and persevere - knowing that Christlikeness is the raison d'etre of your existence. the Lord will pour into you every grace for the attainment of your desire for transformation. He will mould you, love you and transfigure you--all He needs is a loving, humble and desiring heart.
He is indeed setting up and placing his chosen vanguard in the various geographical locations he needs them to be. He is pruning them and teaching them to be the beacon of light that they are supposed to be in the upcoming times of darkness.
Do you want to be part of the vanguard the Lord is setting up?
Then its time to begin work within yourself NOW.
Let me borrow this beautiful sentence by Francis Frangipane- God is not looking at His watch; He’s looking at His crop.
Yes,we are His crop. The Lord is instructing and teaching with passion those souls that are seeking and desiring Him in openness and humility. For this particular mission He reaches out to the spiritually responsive and carves out a desire for His image and likeness in their soul. Once the soul starts desiring this spiritual transfiguration the Lord begins to feed, nourish and prune it. He is the diligent farmer tending the crop.
Now let us delve a little deeper into this transfiguration. The fulfillment of mans created purpose is man in the image of God. This simply means the when The Father looks at us He sees the image of Christ His son in us. This does not mean that we become God or that we take the place of Christ. It simply means that we have humbled, pruned and loved such that Christ is visible through us and indeed if it can be said so--that Christ has taken our place.
For this to happen we should become like the flute in the hands of the flutist that renders the most mellifluous music - where flute and flutist become one - working together, delivering a taste of heaven. Like the flute and the flutist the Will of God should be able to course through our veins and find the most beautiful expression through every pore of our being. The Will and Glory of god should be manifest in us His beloved crop.
When the crop is mature in fullness and number, then the reaper will come to gather in the harvest.
Let us read Paul to the Ephesians to illustrate this point.
Ephesians 4:11-13 11 The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
Here Paul talks of the gifts of the various ministries that God has given to build up the body of Christ which is the church. He goes on to reveal the end point of this building up! The unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the FULL STATURE OF CHRIST. Christ is indeed the only measure for us the sons and daughters of the most High God!
Remember, Mathew tells us in 13:39 that the harvest is the end of the age. What you believe or don't believe about the end of age/tribulation/rapture etc is insignificant compared to whom your Father in heaven wants you to be. I urge you dear friends to fall on your knees and pray. Pray for a deeper understanding and love. Pray for a cleansing and purification. Pray for mercy. And last but not the least pray for the Divine Will of God to be manifest passionately in your life. Pray that your transfiguration is so complete that the inner you has disappeared. Pray, pray and persevere - knowing that Christlikeness is the raison d'etre of your existence. the Lord will pour into you every grace for the attainment of your desire for transformation. He will mould you, love you and transfigure you--all He needs is a loving, humble and desiring heart.
