Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Inherit THIS!

Tonight was very, very good. The Inheritance study is about what God promises those who love and live for Jesus. It's not a prosperity gospel thing at all; in fact, Beth is very clear about the fact that yes, in the OT, God promised land, wealth and crop to those who were obedient. But in the new Covenant, He promises the wealth of Jesus and the spiritual fruit that comes from obedience to Him as our reward.

So we've been talking about OUR inheritance as a daughter of the Most High God. We studied Levi and the Levites: God promised them an inheritance beyond their imagination. Something that would out-gift the best present anyone had every been given. Obviously, they were chomping at the bit for their God-given inheritance, but when the day came, God said, "I love you so much, you get nothing...but Me." Confused and feeling more than a little misled, the Levites realized the Lord's message is this: nothing compares to I AM. There is no earthly, tangible thing we could receive that would even slightly, barely, remotely, minutely compare to even one iota of Him.

Tonight, we looked at passages that blew my mind...scriptures that said that we are God's inheritance!

Deuteronomy 32:8-9 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacod his allotted inheritance.

Deut. 4:20 But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.

Ephesians 1:18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints...

We (!!!) are his rich, glorious inheritance! Knowing that, it makes me want to live as such.

Like a creeper I wrote down some of the things she said, some quotes that just strike me as "so BETH:"

"Lord, with all my heart I cannot think of anything more I'd ask for but hearts to love You. WE WOULD persevere. WE WOULD love others. WE WOULD...Hallelujah and Amen."

"You think living holy is boring? The kind of boring that speaks and seas are calm? The kind of boring that heals? That touches, and eyes are opened? The kind of boring that raises the dead and rolls away the stone? Being holy brings FREEDOM! We have no idea."

"When everyone else is tired of the length and breadth of your need, when everyone else thinks you should have been OVER "this" issue long ago, God stays with you, tells you of all his undying, incredible love for YOU."

Mmmm. Hallelujah and AMEN!!

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