Don't be left out,
come inside. Rank does not matter outside.
Outside is the place of
groaning and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 12:46-50
The household of faith is made by those who are inside the
house where Jesus dwells speaking to them who listen.
Outside the household of faith no matter who you
are or what your rank is or what your desire be, in order to talk to God instead
of listening you must come in Jesus’ terms. Come you must for no other reason but at the recommendation of God
the Father in the mountain of Transfiguration who said “Listen to him!”
Fellowship with God in prayer is more listening
than talking to God.
What is there for man to say to God that he has
to leave those inside and go outside to listen to them? If a servant want to address the king he must go to
the palace of the King and in humility wait and see if the King is willing to
receive him and talk to him.
The priority of God is with those who in a
childlike manner have come to faith by taking Jesus at his
word and agreed in prayer with the will and word of
God that makes them capable to say “YES” to God and becoming
so closely relatedto
God to the point of Jesus calls them mother, brother and sister.
That
is what F=PW2 is all about, the capacity to say, “YES” to God.
No one who is outside the household of faith who
has not agreed with God and his word and will, will be in oneness with
God.
By the same token and the same breath we must
say that rank and family ties are not as important as the bonds of faith that
without it it’s impossible to please God. The fact
that you have godly parents does not mean that you are automatically a godly
person.
Furthermore, it is a very important fact from
the lips of the Lord Jesus that you can be like a mother or a sister or a
brother to Jesus but never like the Father of Jesus. You must never call anyone father because there is
only one God and one father and that’s the Father of our Lord Jesus who is also
our Heavenly Father.
I
should not be trying to convince anyone to buy these things as if the truth
needed advertisement in order to be sold. All I’m trying to say is
that you are Royalty and you should behave as such. Listen to Jesus in
the inside, back in the garden at the cool of the day with the power and
authority to say “YES” to God in prayer to his will and word.
Come inside and forget your rank, look to Jesus,
look him up from your knees for he along should look you down and to him along
you should look up because he is King and Lord.
If you must speak to God it should only be to
say “YES” to God because the power of prayer is the power to say “YES” to God
unconditionally, submissively, thankfully and joyfully and always.
Come inside its cool and beautiful to once again seat at the feet of
Jesus to pray and play. Come to the playpen, there is room for you in the
garden.
Your fellow Toddler of Jesus who loves you and
wants to play and pray with you.
Gerry Gutierrez.
Persuading
others to come inside.