Chihuahua Mexico |
| Posted by Bill Orf (billorf) on Sep 07 2007 at 12:20 AM |
I just returned from Chihuahua Mexico and all is well. This was the first event I have traveled to in many months and it felt like a family reunion. It is beautiful to see how close a group of men can become as they individually are walking in intimate relationship with the Lord. I wasn’t sure what to expect after being gone so long and what it would be like for me to go back into this position I had once laid down. But I can now say with full assurance that the Holy Spirit has produced in me an even greater measure of love and grace towards these men. It is as though our time spent praying for each other has created a deeper type of intimacy than what comes from just spending time together. Remember that the desire of our Father is for us to become one. He want us as his kids to not just be unified in our efforts but to become so close in our relationships that we are capable of working as one body. When we become one people submitted to one King we are being Kingdom people. In a culture that measures success by the amount of activity that we do, it is important for us to insist on placing the highest premium on the relationships. I believe that as we put loving our Father first and loving others second, the activity that truly honors our Father comes out of that.
In the pursuit of Holiness,
Todd and Leslie
John 10: 16 And jother sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; kand there will be one flock and one shepherd.[1]
1 Cor. 12:12 For sas the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, tso also is Christ. 13 For uby one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— vwhether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and whave all been made to drink 7into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.[2]
John 17:20 20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who 1will believe in Me through their word; 21 gthat they all may be one, as hYou, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the iglory which You gave Me I have given them, jthat they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; kthat they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.[3]
j Is. 42:6; 56:8; Acts 10:45; 11:18; 13:46
k Ezek. 37:22; John 11:52; 17:20; Eph. 2:13–18; 1 Pet. 2:25
[1]The New King James Version, Jn 10:16. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996, c1982.
s Rom. 12:4, 5; 1 Cor. 10:17; Eph. 4:4
t [Gal. 3:16]
u [Rom. 6:5]
v Rom. 3:22; Gal. 3:28; [Eph. 2:13–18]; Col. 3:11
w [John 7:37–39]
7 NU omits into
[2]The New King James Version, 1 Co 12:12. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996, c1982.
1 NU, M omit will
g [John 10:16; Rom. 12:5; Gal. 3:28]; Eph. 4:4, 6
h John 10:38; 17:11, 23
i John 14:20; 1 John 1:3
j [2 Cor. 3:18]
[3]The New King James Version, Jn 17:20. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996, c1982.
