The governing vision of the Bible
Is the heavenly vision of God's eternal economy,
Which is God’s internal intention with His heart’s desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity as the Father in the Son by the Spirit into His chosen people to be their life and nature that they may be the same as He is His duplication, to become an organism, the Body of Christ as the new man for God’s fullness, God’s expression, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem.
Planned in eternity past. God’s heart is in dispensing Himself into the Body of believers. It is an inside job that needs our cooperation. The Trinity is one God that cannot be separated. He chooses all who chose Him. The life-giving Spirit transforms our nature to be like His. We will become like Jesus in life and nature but not in the Godhead. This is a lifelong organic process to become an organism that completes His Body. So that He can speak through us.
Pray-Read
You can contact the Author of the Bible by pray-reading and asking Him what He wants you to learn from what you are reading.
Ephesians 6:17-18
The sword of the Spirit is the word of God.
We come to the word by prayer.
Psalm 91
Talks about a place every believer wants to be.
The secret place…. Lord where is the secret place?
Hebrews 4:12
This verse tells us that the word of God is alive and powerful and that it is sharper than any twoedged sword so that it cuts between our soul and our spirit. Our soul is the seat of our mind, emotion, and will. When our soul functions without directions from our spirit then it is getting directions from our flesh which we are to put to death daily (Rom. 8:13) so that we can hear from and grow in Christ – John 3:30.
The secret place is in our spirit. That is where the Spirit of Christ dwells as the Life-giving Spirit – 1 Cor. 15:45. Pray-reading is about getting more Life in us which prepares us for the kingdom, His glory in this age, and the mystery of God’s economy – Col.1:27
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Scripture is given to us by the breath of God, and it meets all our spiritual needs. Read aloud. After reading the verse through then take each word or phrase and read asking the Lord who, what, when, where, what, how, and why about each word or phrase. I recently did this with Hebrews 11 and learned much about faith. I will share this in the future.
The Bible is not just for information, it should change the way we live and how we identify in this life. It should change our habits.
Start each day early
- Praise God
- Sing Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
O Glorious Christ, Savior Mine -my favorite:
- Confess sins that the Lord reveals
- Claim that your flesh is crucified. (Christ crucified your old man with Him)
- Now you are prepared to go into the secret place to pray-read.
- Then learn to live in two realms.
- Taking care of responsibilities while
- Praying without ceasing.
Still Drinking Milk?
Hebrews 5:11-14
- The rudimentary first principles must be gained and held on to, from the oracles of the word of God before we can go on to receive the deeper truths of His teaching.
- The verse divides the milk drinkers from the meat eaters. Milk is food that mother has chewed, digested, assimilated through experience, and gives to a newborn. Meat must be chewed thoroughly, a process of musing which is speaking the word out loud, then going about my day, bringing the subject back up like sheep that ruminate, which yields life change formed on revelations from the word.
Righteousness refers to the Triune God that is not seen by those drinking milk. It takes many years before an infant can eat steak. To experience the righteousness of God one must walk in His ways a long time. Do not confuse the fact the He sees us righteous when we receive Christ as savior, this kind of righteousness is our practice here, it is what people see.
- This verse is the key. How much do you practice the exercise of your faculties of discrimination between good and evil? Not the good and evil that came from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but the difference of cutting a line between Christ’s working through you versus the works of the flesh and the accomplishing of the old man that does nothing that will go into eternity.