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God’s Original Intent

(Kathy G.) Rom 8:23, but we ourselves groan inwardly as we wait for redemption which will reveal our adoption, our manifestation as God’s sons.  Some SunReflectWaterpeople misunderstand that “groan” for redemption as a groan to escape somewhere over the rainbow someday, but we weren’t born here to live our years yearning to get out of here. We were born to display Father’s glory.  According to Romans 5:2, “bringing sons to glory” is a matter of Father leading, influencing, carrying and persuading mature sons, who bear the likeness of Christ, to do what they were born to do according to Father’s design and intent.  Relationship and having sons is God’s Original Intent, and bringing sons to glory is priority with our Father. The process to that priority is in 2 Cor 3:18, as we consider who He is and reflect and pattern after Him as we are changed into the same image from glory to glory.  It is by His Spirit that we are enabled to change and be and do what we were born to in our lifetime.
(This is the first excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Bringing Sons to Glory“. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)


 


Strength to Strength

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May the Lord God take you beyond weariness as He carries you from strength to strength, faith to faith, and glory to glory.

”They go from STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.” (Ps.84:7, KJV)
”For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from FAITH TO FAITH: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” (Rom.1:17, KJV)
”But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from GLORY TO GLORY, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2Cor.3:18, KJV)


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Pulling Us To The Image Of Christ

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The overwhelming factor in God’s design is that He has purposed to bring each of us to the Image of Christ (Rom.8:29). That wondrous “Gravity Pull” upon us is not pulling us to heaven. It is pulling us to display the Word… made flesh… full of grace and truth. (Jn 1:14) God is pulling us to Himself in order that we may be like Him. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2Co 3:18)
(This is the third excerpt from Marty’s article “Black Holes, Planets And Gravity” which was published in SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)