Stay seated!

Good Morning!

Thanks for stopping by--it is always nice to have visitors!
If you were here we could sit on the couch and talk awhile about what God is teaching you and what He is teaching me. We could spend some time in prayer and then glory in the power of God that flows down from the heavenlies as we praise Him.
That would be so great. When we listen to others and hear what God is doing in them--- it lifts us up. We feel the fire of the Spirit in them and it pumps up our faith.

The other day I heard someone say something that I already knew but it struck something in me-sparked a certain longing in me.
They said, God sits in the heavens and He has no worries, no concerns, no anxieties.
In other words He is not sitting up there wondering how in the world He is going to work it all out. He does not wonder if He is going to have enough of this or that to get through the day, the week, the month. Matter of fact He looks down on all that is going on in us, and around us all over the world and it does not raise His blood pressure even one point.

This morning the phone rang and I felt my stress level start to go up. Keith had taken Paw Paw to visit Granny--so I had the house all to myself. Sitting on the couch with my Bible and devotional book I was ready for some peaceful time with God.
I took the phone call and planned to start my time after that.
The phone call was not nice. Not ugly--just not peace producing.

After I got off the phone, I could feel the stress level. I began to tell God how much I needed Him. How it would be so cool to be away from here just sitting with Him in the heavenlies.
I could just sit next to Him and Jesus and we could sit up there and watch what was going on down here and I would just let Him deal with it.
Do you know where I am going?
Next comes the voice of the Holy Spirit and this is the conversation we had.
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Hellloooooo, wake up Sharon, you are already there.
What?(me)
Yes, you are already there in heaven with them.
Remember that verse that says you are already seated with Christ in the heavens because of the work He did on the cross?(H.S)
Your right(duh)I think it is in Ephesians.(me)
flip, flip, flip-me turning to Ephesians
Here it is,
Ephesians 2:6--"And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,(that means read on) 7. in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus."

O.k, I get it. If I remain where I should be--seated with Christ in heaven---then I will view this world through my heavenly perspective. Cool. No worries! That's great.(at this point I have to tell you that the presences of God and His peace were pretty strong)(me)

After this I just spent some time loven on God.
And He did some loven back. :)

The book that we have--it's living. If you have the Spirit of the living God living in you---He will bring all things to remembrance. We have got to take some time to play in and drink in the living water.
Then..... the Holy Spirit will fill us up and there will not be room for this world to push it's way in and push out the peace of God.

Want to stay seated in the heavens with God?
Stay seated next to Him.
Have you ever thought that every time we stand up, we actually raise ourselves above Him.
He sits on His throne--period.
Now I am talking spiritually of course.
When we rise to deal with life we are in fact saying---God I'll have to handle this.
Then we leave the throne room and of course our eyes are no longer on Him. So scripture says, He will no longer be able to keep us in perfect peace because our eyes on not stayed on Him.
Make sense?

It was a good morning with God. Great truths.

What has He been sharing with you?