Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Moment By Moment Cross - part 4

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 51
         
Michael’s book is available through:

Abiding Life Ministries International
Littleton, Colorado
(303) 972-0859       www.abidinglife.com

Notice:  this email is part of a BLOG, called Getting Out of the Wilderness.  Why a blog?  So that many can receive the weekly thoughts I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner. 

You are about to read some of the most incredible insights into God’s truths that have evaded many for so long.  This monumental experience of “entering into Christ” and “Christ entering into us” at the moment we are Born Again is so full of life changing happenings that we should be praying and praying for God to reveal it ALL to us. 

THE MOMENT BY MOMENT CROSS – part 4

excerpt from pages 144-146 of SIW (5th printing, March 1998)
excerpt from pages 144-146 of SIW (14th printing, March 2012)
                   (used with permission from ALMI):


God is not bound by something that He Himself has created, such as time…From His perspective, once we enter into Christ at any given point in time, we have always been in Him…At this point, it might help if you would see Christ’s life as a line that meets to form a circle, described as the Alpha and the Omega (Revelation 1:8), the first and the last (Revelation 1:17), the beginning and the end.

You have eternal life because you have Christ’s life within.  You need never worry that there will come a time when God is weary of you, because you are in the very eternal life of His Son, of whom He never grows weary.

…Getting into the line of this circle called eternal life was a one-time event.  It happened the day you gave your life to Christ…Co-crucifixion is a one-time event in that it happens the moment that you enter the line of the circle, and yet it is moment by moment as you abide in His life.

…God put me in Christ and I was crucified.  The Christian is never to attempt self-crucifixion; it cannot be done.  We are to only act on what has already been done.

Therefore, my crucifixion with Christ is an accomplished fact, but if I close the door to His life, the moment-by-moment application of the cross to my old baggage and residue – which makes the experience of the victory a reality – will cease.  Again, God has structured my life to be lived in a moment-by-moment fellowship with Himself.



One of the biggest challenges for man is to believe, receive, reckon, and appropriate the great, marvelous SPIRITUAL truths that we cannot see or touch with our physical parts.  We say we do when we get Born Again…then begin to doubt.  We wouldn’t IF we had a PHYSICAL ticket!  So, it is imperative upon us to find our way to trust God for that which only those who are Born Again can truly trust Him.  I’m so grateful for men like Michael who have known and shared the truths revealed to them so that I (and YOU!) can “own” them also!!!

Praise God for His revelations!  May we experience His Life in us more so in 2015 than each of us have ever before experienced Him…


Note: if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books, please contact ALMI (www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!

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NOTICE:  another blog on Michael Wells’ book, My Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”.  You can access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com



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