Thursday, February 3, 2011

Travail of His Soul

Jesus Christ offered the ultimate Travailing of the Soul.  None can top what He did.
 
So why would our Father desire for us that are called by His Name and have become His Habitation to have to travail also in our souls?
 
First, being birthed as a member of His Son, and walking in the identity and as co-heir of His Son, and being filled with God’s Holy Presence/Spirit – being filled with all the fullness of Him (Ephesians 3:19, John 1:12)…. we have a responsibility to be Obedient to our Father’s Desires… And PRODUCE after His Kind. (Genesis 1:28, 1 Cor 15)
 
So when the Father wants to “birth” His Son, in character and fruit, or an idea, His will, and/or purpose in and through us FOR THE PROFIT OF HIS BODY AND PEOPLE, then we should do as Jesus also did….
 
Travail with Holy Spirit, in obedience to the Lord for the situation.  In Isaiah 53:11 we see that Father God was satisfied with the Travail of Jesus’ soul and was satisfied.  So by His knowledge of His works and Victory for us, we can by faith walk with Holy Spirit and yield to Father’s instructions for the birthing of what He wants to do now.  Jesus’ travail was sufficient in all areas for us.  So now we are to Intercede with Lord for today’s issues. He makes it easier for us.  Have Faith In God. Ask and Receive. Give Thanks. Listen and be Obedient to Him. But in the growing up into Christ Jesus, we find that the working of our faith through trials the Lord puts before us, can be trying.  But He guarantees the Victory and producing of His Life in and through us by His Holy Spirit.  Jesus is our anchor and surety of Life and Liberty.
 
Travail:  (in my dictionary) means to labor, to toil, to suffer the pangs of childbirth.  Jesus birthed forth the New Generation *regeneration.  And made all things new.
 
Jesus talks of travail as the “seed” being planted and producing out of the earth…. (John 16:21).  Then in Galatians 4:19 Paul says “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you.”   Again in the sense of the experience the mother parent must go through within themselves to bring forth the produce of the seed that is planted in them.
 
Now, take this to the next level!  ….  YOUR Soul is that Mother, that God has planted THE SEED (HIS WORD) to germinate within Your Soul and PRODUCE after That SEED WHICH IS CHRIST JESUS.
 
Jesus said in John 15:4-5 “Abide in me, and I in you…..I am the vine, ye are the branches; He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”  So here He speaks as the One IN your Soul as The Spirit that is all Righteousness and Holiness, to impregnate your Soul with His SEED, Word, Spirit… to produce His presence IN you and then Through you to this world. ! .  (So many scriptures to confirm this working)
 
Breaking forth through you is THE SON OF GOD swallowing up your nature body, yet it is The Holy Spirit: the Father & Son having produced themselves to, in and through you, having now SWALLOWED UP YOUR MORTAL BODIES having RENEWED and TRANSFORMED your MIND (the falling away of the chaff – that carnal mind). (2 Cor 5:5 1-5)
 
Oh how exciting is this birth.  Don’t give up now, it is too late to turn back now….  take a deep breath and push!!!!  Joy comes in the morning!
 
So, Travail is a meditation on the Word that God has Planted in your Soul and Mind.  Think on it. Meditate on it.  SEEK the Lord In It Always!!!!  Until His Nature is Revealed… (2 Peter 1:4; Gal 4:19)
 
Acts 13:23 states “Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:”   ‘this man’s seed’ is Abraham’s seed that God used to bring forth the Promised Saviour for Israel and us all.  But listen to what the Lord is saying here ----- That is and has been accomplished through Jesus Christ, yet NOW we are become that BODY of the Lord… His Spiritual Body and now our natural vessel is benefiting and reaping of the Spirit of the Lord and all is swallowed up and clothed in Christ Jesus. Sanctified.
 
In and by the Spirit of the Lord (1 Cor 15:44-47), we are become The Church, HIS BODY, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all (Eph 1:22-23).  God in the flesh, returned to the earth, the visible image of the invisible God, Heaven and Earth brought together in one who is The Lord and Savior, The Son of God.
 
The Holy Spirit of the Father is abiding in us and swallowing us up and manifesting His Nature in us and through us.  The Divine Power working in us to transform us into His same image, the Divine Nature that is without sin: In spirit and soul and body.  That through your soul He is PRODUCING that divine nature of the Son who is the firstfruit of the Spirit that is without sin and death (2 Corinthians 5:1-5; 2 Cor 4:14).
 
Jesus Christ walked on the earth as the second man, who rose from the grave and death in the glorified body, which is His natural and spirit body that is without sin and death.  By the Holy Spirit, we partake of Jesus as our Lamb for the repentance and forgiveness of sin, right? Right. And by the Holy Spirit we are beholding Jesus in His Glory by every revelation given, and are changed and baptized into His death and raised up in newness of life by the Glory of the Father, just as Jesus was too.  He is our Overcomer and our example to follow Him and do the same, yet only by the Lord abiding in us and the working in us by the Holy Spirit, and by having that Seed which is Christ Jesus, God's Word in us, can this be possible. So by faith in God we walk on. Oh Hallelujah !!!!!  Lord is swallowing up our mortality with His Life! 
 
So allow the travailing to continue in the Lord until the Lord’s Desire is fulfilled through you.!. Producing after His seed, not according to the natural seed, but according to the spiritual seed the WORD of GOD.  God PRODUCING His Son in and through you.
 
Amen.
RPJ
 

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