Loving Like God

Grace is the impartation of the DNA of God.

In the moment, James 4:6 comes to mind:

“… the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.” John 14:17-19 NIV

What I want to say here is that the impartation of Grace is a package deal. It not only comes with DNA of God, it also comes with the “Everlasting Father” (Isaiah 9:6) to watch over His DNA in us.

“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?“ Hebrews 12:7-9 KJV

Our heavenly father is not far from any of us, and for many of us He has gone so far as to come to us with “skin on,” namely in the fathers and mothers who Jesus promised to us a hundred fold, Mark 10:29, 30.

“Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.” 1 Corinthians 4:15 NIV

The truth of this didn’t end with Paul, as many would have us believe. The key thing we need to appreciate is that all of this is of GRACE… relationships of GRACE. If we have been given the kind of eyes that are able to see, and the kind of ears that are able to hear, we can experience and appreciation this impartation of GRACE. The Grace of Spiritual fatherhood looks after, and nurtures the Grace of God’s DNA in us, as we “grow up into Him who is the Head, even Jesus Christ,” Ephesians 4:7-24.

In Short, It’s All GOOD, because It’s All God. :-)

• By Jay Ferris, originally posted November 2012

For more reading, see A Woman

The following is an explanation that will help in comprehending much that is in the audio presentation, “The Needs of The Bride.” (see below)

By way of introduction to Isaiah 53, I need to make an observation that was brought home to me by the prompting of The Spirit to look up the word “astonied.”  It appears in Isaiah 52:14. The N.A.S. has it, “Just as many were astonished (KJV-“astonied”) at you, (my people) So His appearance was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men.”  In the original, the word here translated “astonished” or “astonied” is the same word that is translated “desolation” in the “abomination of desolation” of Daniel.

For the Hebrew reader there would be a connection – an important connection, I believe between the two passages, and from there the Olivet discourses. With that in mind we could understand Isaiah 52:14 it to read, “Just as there were many who were made desolate at the sight of you, my people, in the same way His appearance is also enough to make one desolate.” I believe this is what the Woman, the “desolate woman,” of Isaiah 54:1 (same word in the original) saw, and realized, and embraced – her desolation was His desolation.  His desolation was the response of His love for her. It is His love that transforms her into the “drop dead gorgeous woman,” but first, she must own up to her own desolation.  It is this desolation of the flesh that is the fertility of the Spirit.  In his letter to the Galatians, Paul tells us that this woman is our mother, that she is the free woman, represents the New Jerusalem that comes down form Heaven, and her children, which children we are, are likewise free.

I trust this will be enough to help in understanding much that is said in the “Needs of The Bride audio” which I consider to be one of the most inspired messages that I ever was prompted to deliver.

Love!

• By Jay Ferris, originally published November 202.

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