incarnate

I had an amazing experience the other night as I slept and then as i awakened to listen more intently to the Lord.

As I slept i felt the Lord stirring in me the presence of the Holy Spirit. I kept thinking about stuff my pastor had said in his sermon on Sunday evening. He had been talking about who Jesus is/was when He incarnated to the earth ... and how He had done so many amazing things - how He had done miracles, and spoke amazing truth, and walked with the Holy Spirit. Then he talked about how we are to be like that - present, full of love, and full of truth.

But it got my mind all stirred up wondering about this:  if that is how Christ was then - what is He now that he has gone to sit at the right hand of the Father ... is He done being all those things on earth? Does He work differently now than He did then? What are we to expect from Jesus now ... what is His ministry in essence?

I felt like that night like the Lord was saying - I am no different! And eventually He dropped the verse in my mind - Jesus is the same today, yesterday, and forever - from Heb 13. If I healed people then - I will heal people now... just like that woman who was healed because she reached out to touch my robe - you can reach out and touch me now - but even more so - you can boldly approach my throne and ask for whatever you may need! So I prayed for a friend's baby - who has prenatal heart problems and asked for a miracle. And then I reached out and touched his robe and prayed for my back issues ... and in the morning - I felt significantly better - like He had removed a whole layer of pain.

Somewhere in all of this I felt the Lord asking me to read Phil 2, and Heb 12, and study more about what Jesus does for His people now today... I need to do that - soon!