Saturday, March 27, 2010

Dream a little dream part 7

God's dream for me is not fantasy. It is a very real goal and has existed since before Adam and Eve and before He formed the earth into what He wanted in order to support life. He wants me to come to Him. The grandeur of His desires and dreams for me is shown through His desires and dreams for Israel in 1 Chronicles 22:19m; 1 Chronicles 24:15; and 1 Chronicles 28:10. God warns His people, including me centuries later to heed what He says about keeping His temple undefiled. (2 Chronicles 20:8; 2 Chronicles 29:18-21; 2 Chronicles 32:8-19) I share His dream. I have a dream to be in His heavenly sanctuary, and that is why I Am in the representation of it on earth. I have a dream to build as He wants me to build a part and parcel of it and to sit and sing with Hm in it, to bring Him myself as an offering, just to serve Him. (Nehemiah 10:30) He tells me in John 1 I am His child. I want to be with Him in His sanctuary (Isaiah 16:12; Psalms 150) I want to walk in those high places where He lives. (Psalms 74:3,7; Psalms 77:13; and Psalms 78:19) I have a dream that all who believe in Him believe in Him totally and in His way. I have a dream there are no divisions in His church. I want to be a part of Zion, as described by David. I want to be in that spiritual home that is represented here on earth by the church. Therefore I want to make sure that the church has nothing that could be confused with what is in the world. I want to build it to be like His temple of worship with internal glue and bonds. (Psalms 65:29, Psalms 48:9; Psalms29:9) It is where God sits on His throne, as in Isaiah 6:1, and it is from where He delegates all those who will demonstrate His great power. (Malachi 3:1) Only His power, only His power, not man's power. It is not where we should come but where we do come to see Him in all His reverence, in all His Magnificent Presence. It is where we come to realize that our power is not really our power after all. It in fact only comes from Him. (Jeremiah 50:5) But also I want to realize that I am His temple. Within me is built that when I put Him on in obedience. Because of this, I need to acknowledge Him daily, in this, not just when I am in His presence because after all I am never not in His presence. In that regard, daily praising Him becomes a part and parcel of my relationship with Him. (Luke 24:53; Psalms 9:11; Psalms 48:11; Psalms 74:2) and realize I am in His holy city when I join with my brethren in church. And when we are together, His Zion is completed. His temple has all the stones He requires of it, and not one of those needs to be renamed with our name or some preacher we admire but with His and His Son's holy name.

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