Hello Everyone!
Well, my first year up at Bethel is complete and here I am, back at home, and the adventure continues! I wish I had time right now to recount all the things God did in me this year, all the revelations I've received, all the ways I've been equipped... I will do that sometime this week. You all have had the privilege of seeing me change in ways that I could not see from my perspective! More than aything, I know who I am and what I have more than I ever have in my life, and that's probably the most priceless thing I could have come away with.
So at some point in the near future, I'll do a recap but for now, the best thing I can imagine doing is to share the things that God is teaching me and birthing in me. And that would be EPHESIANS. Gosh, I think Ephesians must be one of the most pregnant books in the entire Bible... especially this year, I have been so wrecked as I've read through it. I was reading just the first chapter this morning, and this cry rose up within me to the Lord, that even though what I was reading was so beyond my comprehension, He would birth in me those truths and revelations that the fullness of Christ might be seen in my life. Read this a few times, meditate on it, really take it in...this is Paul's prayer for us...
"...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to
you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of
your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His
calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and
what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, acording to
the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him
from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above
all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this age but also in that which is to come."
Isn't that SO PREGNANT? And it's that last portion that really awakens my spirit to cry out... what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places. AH. His power toward us as His people is the very same power that raised Christ from the dead and exalted Him as the name above all names! And this rocked me even more, that we are seated in heavenly places with Christ. As He is, so we are. As He is a perfect representation of the heart of the Father, so we are. As He is above all principality and power and might and dominion, so we are. I don't even know what else to say other than "YES GOD"! Work that in us, God... Help us to truly understand that as Christ was and is, so we are to be in this world. Encounter us with the revelation that you have created and empowered us to do all that Jesus did... He has given us everything. Everything... Go deep, God. All we can say is yes... yes. Yes and amen... Yes and amen.
Wow, as you can tell it's rocking me even now so I just release whatever God's doing in me to you... Meditate on these verses some more and get all you can because there is so much available.
I love you all so much!
Blessings for MORE,
Melissa
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man has it been a long time since I have come to your site! I got used to all the blogs that I have on RSS and stopped just randomly checking the blogs I had been reading. Definitely gonna add you now. I can't wait to see what the summer will produce in all of us!
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