Our Recipe for Life

Throwing Away the Directions-

This Afternoon, as I was just enjoying my time with the Presence of God here,  having the wonderful opportunity to cook a meal,  as the Spirit of the Lord quickened me with something I am led to share.

Everything we make in the natural and prepare for meals, for families, friends, and ourselves require directions in the preparing of the food.  I have made this meal many times, and yet,  I forgot the directions in preparing the food. I also threw the box that contained the directions for the recipe of the meal.  Without the directions,  I can do very little, but with the directions I can’t do much in preparing a meal for anyone much less our selves.

There is a reflection here with our relationship with our Abba Father. There is a certain door, that we must enter.  I am the way, the Truth and Life, no comes to the Father but through Jesus Christ.

 Our Recipe for Life.

. In the world, our recipes and concoctions are of our own making. In the world the flesh cries, without Jesus the soul starves for this Love that is created for communion with the Father.  The Pride of Man is the recipe for disaster that says, this is MY recipe and “I” made this. Pride says, I don’t need anyone, when in fact that would be a pretty selfish thought and intent in our own hearts, because who created me? Who created you? Yes you came from a seed of your mother and father, but who created that seed of Life within your parents?  The Father took a part of Himself and planted himself in this earth in this world,  in Mary. His name is Jesus Christ, and just as precious of the Lamb of God that He is, so are you that precious seed that was created for HIM.  God created us for relationship.

In the world, we seek and seek and, believe me I sought in the world for the things that only God Himself can give us. He made that very place that beats within you to beat with His, your Heart.

The enemy would try to come in and say to you, that if only you succeed here in this place, or if only you make this position, or if only you have this high grade, but I am here to tell you, that no matter how successful you are in the natural, there will always be a void that will go unfilled, until you become one with the ONE who made you to be one with Him.  I have been there, and there comes an end to our selves, and end to the desires of the things of this world, when you see His hand in everything.  My mentality in the world was as this.  

If only I could do “right” (which would be the concoction) of the things of this world. This thinking was under the law, believing I would be able to DO something right to EARN the Love of God.  That would also be coming into agreement with the adversary that you are not loved unless you do something . Which would also mean,  that the greatest sacrifice given, The Precious blood of the Lamb did not complete the forgiveness that is given to you.  This absolutely denies and is in direct opposition of God.  He took the sins of WORLD upon HIMSELF.  Where man once entered into the Holy Place and sacrifice himself.

The Lord says to you, “ I am your success” When things of the world and the beliefs of this world have forsaken you, I will not forsake you. When those who you have believed loved you, I will give you living water, that will never dry up. He says you will never thirst again for the things of the world. You have been bought with a great price, I have paid for you. I chose you before the foundations of time.  Yes my success is YOU. Yes your success with me. Walk with ME, take my hand for a journey together.

Each day we have choices and decisions to make but the LIVING Word of God (JN  1) Jesus Christ, who is the bread of Life is that recipe in which we obtain LIFE., He is Living, alive and full of directions, journey’s , paths in Life. He is not of this world, but He lived here as well. He did the will of His Father.  That was His recipe, doing what He saw His Father doing, as they are one.

In Kingdom of God as heirs of Our Heavenly Father,  for myself, I had to throw away and discard the directions that I had always known, that brought heart ache in my life, and read the new recipe that was given to me, Jesus Christ.  His love, His gentleness, mercy.

John 1

The Eternal Word

 ¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend^[a] it.

John’s Witness: The True Light

   
⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. ⁸ He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. ⁹ That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.^[b]
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. ¹¹ He came to His own,^[c] and His own^[d] did not receive Him. ¹² But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: ¹³ who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

The Word Becomes Flesh

   
¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
¹⁵ John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’”
¹⁶ And^[e] of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. ¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son,^[f] who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

^{John 4}

¹¹“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”

 ¹³Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

 ¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

 ¹⁶He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

 ¹⁷“I have no husband,” she replied.

   Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

 ¹⁹“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

 ²¹Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²²You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

 ²⁵The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

 ²⁶Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”

Romans 8 (New King James Version)

Romans 8

Free from Indwelling Sin

 ¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,^[a] who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Sonship Through the Spirit

   
¹² Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

From Suffering to Glory

   
¹⁸ For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; ²¹ because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. ²³ Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us^[b] with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷ Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. ²⁹ For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰ Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

God’s Everlasting Love

   
³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:      “ For Your sake we are killed all day long;
       We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”^[c]

³⁷ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

John 6:50-52 (New King James Version)

⁵⁰ This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
⁵² The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?”

 

Galatians 6:1-5 (New King James Version)

Galatians 6

Bear and Share the Burdens

 ¹ Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³ For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴ But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. ⁵ For each one shall bear his own load.

 

 

^{Genesis 2}

⁷ And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Life in God’s Garden

   
⁸ The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. ⁹ And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

 

John 14:5-11 (New King James Version)

⁵ Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

The Father Revealed

   
⁷ “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
⁸ Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹ Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

 

There were quite a few of us that went to the zoo this past weekend. It’s been years since I have had the opportunity to do this.  I love to capture in images/pictures what God is revealing through His beauty as this is displayed in everything that has been created by Him.

Every capture is moment of intimacy with the Father, as His expressed love is manifested in every living thing in the natural.  He created it, therefore He is in it. 

These images can be images in our mind, the pictures that are either enlightened by the glorious light of Lord (living) or those things that bring to the bones of the body, a dryness-such as lack, doubt, condemnation, and then become the “decoy” (distraction) to conceal the truth of  the love of the Father.

A decoy is a person, device or event meant as a distraction to conceal what an individual or a group might be looking for.  (www.answers.com) 

I heard, Watch for the decoy, I saw the decoy, on the right was what was a living breathing duck. The decoy is meant to be  the  distraction  to what God is doing in our lives, to take the focus off the LIVING breathing Lord, Jesus. I am quickly reminded of Joseph. His brothers were jealous, as Joseph shared a dream with his brothers. His brothers attempted to “conceal” Joseph before his father, leaving him for dead as they stripped Joseph of his coat of many colors that were made for him.  

Joseph was a slave in Egypt, but the hand of God was still on him. There were many distractions that were thrown his way, decoys so to speak in attempt to conceal God within him. Joseph however, remained focused, when temptation arose, he resisted the temptations and the enemy fled.  He was successful in His relationship with the Lord, though his family  concealed his life, his body, the Lord was with him. He knew who he was, he knew the dream that was given to him though having shared it prematurely, God still restored the relationships with his brothers.

While in prison, the favor of God was upon Joseph.

In Genesis 39:

Genesis 39

Joseph a Slave in Egypt

 ¹ Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. ² The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand.

As Joseph, so shall you be. Stay watchful and gaze into my eyes, Where I lead, you will be. There is no place you have gone, or will go that I am not with you, for I have seen the end from the beginning. Keep watchful, let not the snares or pestilence be of deep concern to you, but the treasures I have hidden within you. The treasure you are within me. I say come up here, I say come up here, let me show and give to you all that I have promised as the rainbows, as the promise and the inheritance of the children of the most high God, I say to you, my children come find rest in me. My beloved, You are my beloved, I am your refuge and strength in times of trouble you are hidden within me, I am your rear guard, I am with you. I am vision, I am your vision, for apart from me, you can do nothing, I love you.

 Apart from me, you only have A Part of me, but I have come that you may receive all that I have for you. I desire you, I desire for you to receive in my fullness.

You have been engraved on the palm of my hands, what is engraved will always be, I know by name, I know you, there is nothing about you that is hidden from me, for I have created you.

My hand is upon you as was Joseph, I lay my hand upon your mind and renew each thought, bringing down every stronghold every decoy that would attempt to separate your mind from me. For I am truth. My hand is upon you, my children. When my sheep go to the pasture, I gently bring you back I am your comfort and guidance, I have set the paths before you, no harm will come to you, for I have you, I have you, I have never forsaken you, my love for you is from ever lasting to everlasting. You are blessed, for the inheritance you have my inheritance.

I am taking those who have hunched over, those who have sought me, I am raising you up, I am bringing you into alignment, I have taken every crooked path in your life, I have straigtened it, the narrow way, come with me, come I say come with me, into the rich fullness of my love of my bride. There is no harm that will come to you, no weapon that will prosper as you are clothed in my righteousness, you are my beloved.

Isaiah 54

¹² I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
      Your gates of crystal,
      And all your walls of precious stones.
       ¹³ All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
      And great shall be the peace of your children.
       ¹⁴ In righteousness you shall be established;
      You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
      And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
       ¹⁵ Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.
      Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
       ¹⁶ “ Behold, I have created the blacksmith
      Who blows the coals in the fire,
      Who brings forth an instrument for his work;
      And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
       ¹⁷ No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
      And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
      You shall condemn.
      This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
      And their righteousness is from Me,”
      Says the LORD.

Just random sharing here. I believe the Lord is stirring deep desires within each heart of His Bride. I have been seeing, “Fire Bride” in the past few weeks more and more. This is the season to awaken Love, in the spring with new things blossom. “Transistions”

With that, all things become new as we continue to yield to the Spirit of the LIVING God. Prepare the way of the Lord! Fullnes of Joy!

Have a blessesd Day.

Teresa