Some would say, "We’re all capable of heinous acts"-I contend; we are all capable of Jesus sized, love fueled, hope inspiring, generous, grace-filled, merciful acts, behaviors and character. Christ in us, Christ through us! Let it be so! Ron Ross

Jesus-The Worship Leader

Jesus is our worship leader in 2015 by the Holy Spirit. Let’s enter in to the worship and sound of Heaven!

"So let's do it-confident that we are presentable inside and out. Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching." Hebrews 10: 22-25, Msg.

Hebrews 7: 20-22 and 8: 1-13, Msg.
^20-22 "The old priesthood of Aaron perpetuated itself automatically, father to son, without explicit confirmation by God. But then God intervened and called this new, permanent priesthood into being with an added promise:

God gave his word;
    he won’t take it back:
“You’re the permanent priest.”

This makes Jesus the guarantee of a far better way between us and God—one that really works! A new covenant.

^23-25 Earlier there were a lot of priests, for they died and had to be replaced. But Jesus’ priesthood is permanent. He’s there from now to eternity to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them.
^26-28 So now we have a high priest who perfectly fits our needs: completely holy, uncompromised by sin, with authority extending as high as God’s presence in heaven itself. Unlike the other high priests, he doesn’t have to offer sacrifices for his own sins every day before he can get around to us and our sins. He’s done it, once and for all: offered up himself as the sacrifice. The law appoints as high priests men who are never able to get the job done right. But this intervening command of God, which came later, appoints the Son, who is absolutely, eternally perfect."
8 ^1-2 "In essence, we have just such a high priest: (Jesus) authoritative right alongside God, conducting worship in the one true sanctuary built by God.

^3-5 The assigned task of a high priest is to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and it’s no different with the priesthood of Jesus. If he were limited to earth, he wouldn’t even be a priest. We wouldn’t need him since there are plenty of priests who offer the gifts designated in the law. These priests provide only a hint of what goes on in the true sanctuary of heaven, which Moses caught a glimpse of as he was about to set up the tent-shrine. It was then that God said, “Be careful to do it exactly as you saw it on the Mountain.”
^6-13 But Jesus’ priestly work far surpasses what these other priests do, since he’s working from a far better plan. If the first plan—the old covenant—had worked out, a second wouldn’t have been needed. But we know the first was found wanting, because God said,

Heads up! The days are coming
    when I’ll set up a new plan
    for dealing with Israel and Judah.
I’ll throw out the old plan
    I set up with their ancestors
    when I led them by the hand out of Egypt.
They didn’t keep their part of the bargain,
    so I looked away and let it go.
This new plan I’m making with Israel
    isn’t going to be written on paper,
    isn’t going to be chiseled in stone;
This time I’m writing out the plan in them,
    carving it on the lining of their hearts.
I’ll be their God,
    they’ll be my people.
They won’t go to school to learn about me,
    or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons.
They’ll all get to know me firsthand,
    the little and the big, the small and the great.
They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven,
    with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.

By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and his people, God put the old plan on the shelf. And there it stays, gathering dust."

According to the New Covenant, Jesus is The High Priest after the order of Melchizedek-His is a Priesthood of Heavenly Worship. Why this matters and what does it mean to our Prophetic call in Worship is following?

In 2015 you are to prophetically connect with the High Priest Worship leader of Heaven; Jesus. Conducting worship in the one true sanctuary built by God. The one true sanctuary is the earthly Body of Christ being led by the Head of the Body-Jesus! Jesus will lead worship (if we let him and enter in by faith) in the New Covenant sanctuary built by God. Notice; "no human intervention is needed" in joining up with Jesus in this Heavenly sanctuary as He Conducts Worship! The sounds and colors of Heaven will dance around us like the Northern lights and the Worship of Angels! Ours is too not neglect the worship of/and with Jesus!
"So let's do it-confident that we are presentable inside and out. Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching." Hebrews 10: 22-25, Msg.

Ron Ross

Empowered by Grace

Grace enables us to discover who we really are. It empowers us to live in our true identity-to be our true self and live out of the heart Jesus gave us. 'To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting,'' E.E. Cummings. Live today in the grace to be who He is making you to be! Ron Ross

Quieted in His Love

Ron Ross

There is nothing in our journey quite like being quieted in His love. Have you been? Is this a normal part of your walk with Jesus? All of hell is against this! Fear assaults us daily while stress, anxiety, nervous tension, constant worry and trauma work there insidious plan in our lives. We cannot quiet in His love if focused on these demons. But we must. It is a non-negotiable daily part of our joy in Him. These demons will flee as we quiet in His love!

“There's nothing to fear from evil ever again! God Is Present among You 16 Jerusalem will be told: Don't be afraid. Dear Zion, don't despair. 17 Your God is present among you, a strong Warrior there to save you. Happy to have you back, he'll calm you with his love and delight you with his songs. 18 The accumulated sorrows of your exile will dissipate. I, your God, will get rid of them for you. You've carried those burdens long enough. 19 At the same time, I'll get rid of all those who've made your life miserable. I'll heal the maimed; I'll bring home the homeless. In the very countries where they were hated they will be venerated.” (Zephaniah 3:15b-19, Msg) Truly, what marvelous news this is!

“The Lord your God is in the midst of you, a Mighty One, a Savior {who saves}! He will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest {in silent satisfaction} and in His love he will be silent and make no mention {of past sins, or even recall them}; he will (instead) exult over you with singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17, Amp)

If you so much as bring up your failures and sins, He will look at you with a question mark. In the silence of His love he makes no mention of them. What more could he do for us to show his unconditional love. Truly He daily quiets us with His love.

He also daily heals the infirmities in our souls; those wounded places that render us weakened and hopeless. His love shores up those parts of our lives were we have languished in silence.

14 We have a great high priest. He has gone up into the heavens. He is Jesus the Son of God. So let us hold firmly to what we say we believe. 15 We have a high priest who can feel it when we are weak and hurting. We have a high priest who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. But he did not sin. 16 So let us boldly approach the throne of grace. Then we will receive mercy. We will find grace to help us when we need it. (Hebrews 4:14-16, NIRV)

The words to this great hymn shed more light as to what He has already done and will always do for you and me!
Could we with ink the ocean fill?
And were the skies of parchment made?
Was every stalk on earth a quill?
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry?
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Tho stretched from sky to sky.

Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One. 15 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. 16 Practically everything that goes on in the world - wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important - has nothing to do with the Father. It (focus on the world system) just isolates you from him.

Truly He daily quiets us with His love. Dive heart first this day into His quieting love!

Quieted in His love, Ron Ross

There is No Plan B!

There is No Plan “B”

"Still, it's what God had in mind all along, to crush him with pain. The plan was that he gives himself as an offering for sin so that he'd see life come from it--life, life, and more life. And God's plan will deeply prosper through him. Out of that terrible travail of soul, he'll see that it's worth it and be glad that he did it. Through what He experienced, my righteous one, my servant, will make many "righteous ones," as He himself carries the burden of their sins.

Therefore I'll reward Him extravagantly--the best of everything, the highest honors--Because He looked death in the face and didn't flinch, because He embraced the company of the lowest. He took on His shoulders the sin of the many; He took up the cause of all the back sheep." Isaiah 53:10-12, (Msg). Where would we be had he not embraced the company of the lowest?

No ear has heard, no eye has seen, no mind can conceive, the wonderful things God has in store for those who love Him. The height, depth, width, and length of Papa's love are way above our ability to fully comprehend. We must simply place the fullness of our faith in Father's love-heart. Jesus, the only begotten Son has embraced all of His adopted brothers and sisters and become our Elder Brother.

As such; He lovingly shares His abundance of life, freedom from the tyranny and punishment of sin, and the making of our lives into what He calls "righteous ones." Today, no matter the circumstances, yours can be a life of life, life, and more life! No more sin consciousness, only love and righteousness consciousness!

What is life, life, and more life? In my experience it is the daily receiving of His life for myself, co-operating with the inner working of His life force in producing abundance of life, and then becoming a channel through which He is able to impart His life to others! He'll see to it that everything is worth it and you will be glad you embraced Him and His plan 'A'.

If you still see yourself as the 'lowest' and a 'black sheep'-then just go ahead and shout and hallelujah to your heart’s content!!! It is your cause He is taking up! Be 'nurtured' by plan 'A'.

In the firm grip of Plan “A”, Ron Ross

Let the Future Begin

When you go all out with Jesus, you burn all the bridges, you surrender the past and you willingly venture toward a new place-one that you have not seen before. Only then can the Holy Spirit have complete control. The Bible portrays this quality of life as a pilgrimage--one that we must relinquish control to.
We are here for a season, and then we move on. All incidents on earth are but training sessions for that which comes later. If we stop at any given place — at a house, at a relationship, even at an experience, (no matter how wonderful it is), then we miss what God has for us down the line. Our heart attitude must be becoming; “Let the Future Begin.”
The Bible portrays life as a pilgrimage. We are here for a season, and then we move on. All incidents on earth are but training sessions for that which comes later. If we stop at any given place — at a house, at a relationship, even at an experience, (no matter how wonderful it is), then we miss what God has for us down the line.
‘The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.³ by faith; we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.’ (Hebrews 11:1-3, Msg)
Let’s be gut level honest; you and I came within an inch of giving up in 2014. We thought that the end had come. We cried out and even despaired as to the future being any better. This state of mind accentuated the negative experiences of 2014. What part of the past are you allowing to linger into the now? Hear this! God says that Hope has been born and His Grace will bring forth Great things in 2015. God is giving you and me a fresh Start with a New Beginning. (Watch for it!). God is saying that the pains of last year were labor pains for the Birthing of New Blessings in 2015. Consider the word picture King Solomon.
‘You’ve captured my heart, dear friend. You looked at me, and I fell in love. One looks my way and I was hopelessly in love! How beautiful your love, dear, dear friend— far more pleasing than a fine, rare wine, your fragrance more exotic than select spices.’ (Song of Solomon 4: 9-10, Msg)
Again; Let the Future Begin! Let our hearts be homesick for the courts of God — not for what lies in the past. If there is to be nostalgia, let it be for what is yet to come, not for what was.
It’s difficult to understand — God is invisible and we are looking for something tangible; like a roof over our heads, someone to hold our hand, a lap to sit on.
“That’s the reason we want to return to the old homestead, or visit the cemetery and place flowers every Saturday morning on our mother’s grave, or carry the torch for some old flame vowing we’ll never marry. That’s the reason many widows refuse to consider a second marriage; their dead husbands remain their “place” — rather than the living God.
“But the call of God is to move upward and forward; beyond mother and daddy, beyond that aunt or uncle who was so meaningful to us, beyond that gray-haired grandmother who let us sit on her lap or snuggle into bed beside her, beyond that old house where we were raised as a child, beyond the childhood romance and all the misspent dreams of how it could have been, beyond all that to the tabernacle (dwelling place) of God. In the abiding place of God there is satisfaction for every need.” (Jamie Buckingham, Where Eagles Soar.)
“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4, NKJV). If that’s not hopeful unto 2015, I don’t know what is!
Consider one example among many: For friendship to be worth anything, innocence is a non-negotiable-The innocence Adam walked in before the fall is the same innocence that Christ enjoys in union with his Father and is now the restored privilege of every human. (From my book “Divine” Embrace available in Print or on Kindle)

“Where does God fit into the story of my life (my journey)?” When the real question is, “Where does my little life (journey) fall in the great story of God’s mission?” Christopher J. H. Wright

Like it or not, our lives are a part of a much larger story. Everything we do in our journey, from the most trivial and even mundane, to handling the most serious of family crises becomes part of our life story (2014) and thus our inner and outer journey. Everything that happens to us in our journey; wonderful things, terrible things, and everything in between advances the plot of our story and journey. The following Psalm injects hope for 2015!

A David Psalm

1 Light, space, zest—
    that’s God!
So, with him on my side I’m fearless,
    afraid of no one and nothing.

² When vandal hordes ride down
    ready to eat me alive,
those bullies and toughs
    fall flat on their faces.

³ When besieged,
    I’m calm as a baby.
When all hell breaks loose,
    I’m collected and cool.

⁴ I’m asking God for one thing,
    only one thing:
To live with him in his house
    my whole life long.
I’ll contemplate his beauty;
    I’ll study at his feet.

⁵ That’s the only quiet, secure place
    in a noisy world,
the perfect getaway,
    far from the buzz of traffic.

⁶ God holds me head and shoulders
    above all who try to pull me down.
I’m headed for his place to offer anthems
    that will raise the roof!
Already I’m singing God-songs;
    I’m making music to God.

^7-9 Listen, God, I’m calling at the top of my lungs:
    “Be good to me! Answer me!”
When my heart whispered, “Seek God,”
    my whole being replied,
“I’m seeking him!”
    Don’t hide from me now!

^9-10 you’ve always been right there for me;
    don’t turn your back on me now.
Don’t throw me out, don’t abandon me;
    you’ve always kept the door open.
My father and mother walked out and left me,
    but God took me in.

^11-12 Point me down your highway, God;
    direct me along a well-lighted street;
    show my enemies whose side you’re on.
Don’t throw me to the dogs,
    those liars who are out to get me,
    filling the air with their threats.

^13-14 I’m sure now I’ll see God’s goodness
    in the exuberant earth.
Stay with God!
    Take heart. Don’t quit.
I’ll say it again:
    Stay with God. (Psalm 27, Msg)

Does this New Year promise and breathe out with new hope? I think so! A friend recently challenged me with this question, ‘the greatest promise of God is that He will fulfill all His promises.
2014 Lingers, But 2015 will prove to Overcome! Ron Ross

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