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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they have been given, rather than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." |
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| 15 November 2012
I am constantly overwhelmed by the thought that I didn’t begin in my mother’s womb. I heard my Father say to me today, “This is it! This is what I saw before time began! This is my dream; You in me and I in you.”
It is such an overwhelming thought to think that I am what I AM dreamt about before the world was. I didn’t begin when my parents had an intimate moment and planned me or had me by accident. No, I began in the intimacy and overflowing love between the Father, Son and Spirit. I belonged before I could ever have the thought that I didn’t belong.
We are what God saw before He spoke the earth into being! We are the moment He anticipated long, long ago. To realize that “The secret is out! His cherished love-dream now unfolds in front of our very eyes” (Eph 1:9) is a wonderful discovery. We are living in the substance of everything that was anticipated by God, by the Prophets and by every story of the Old. Everything in His master plan pointed to the day when we would discover Christ in us and us in Him.
I believe the Father’s dream for our lives is that we would discover that we are His dream. He didn’t come so that He could be present one day in the gathering of a few believers but so that we could discover Him IN us!
Paul says, “Our constant desire for you is that you might be overwhelmed with the knowledge of God’s dream for your lives.” (Col 1:9)
God’s eternal love dream separated me from my mother’s womb; his grace became my identity. (Gal 1:15)
He is the architect of our design; his heart dream realized our coming of age in Christ. (Eph 1:5)
When I think about what human beings have dreamt up and invented it blows my mind. The things that people have created and done with the earth are incredible! Then I think about God, the Uncreated One Who needs nothing, lacks nothing and knows all things. If He dreamt something up, how magnificent would it be? How mind blowing? Of all the things that He could think of in His uncreated mind what would He conjure up? The answer is YOU! A self-portrait best expresses Him. He made us in His image and likeness.
Psalm 8 puts it this way…
3 When I view and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?
Psalm 139 puts it this way…
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me,[b] O God.
They cannot be numbered!
18 I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
I pray that our eyes will be open to see what has always been. To see what He has always seen! |
| 30 October 2012
I have been thinking a lot lately about the confusion that many people have around declaring themselves to be one thing and seeing or experiencing another. Declarations of faith is not neuro linguistic programming (NLP) or positive thinking. It can never be that because at the end of belief is an actual person. Your creator. So when I repeat daily, I am seated in heavenly places, or I am completely righteous, or made perfect, I am not hoping to change my manifest presence. Although NLP has proved to be highly successful, this is not what we are about. At the end of believing is Jesus.
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| 18 October 2012
Disappointment that hasn’t been dealt with causes us to talk in “one day” language but Jesus is “Today”. His name is I AM, not “I WAS” or “I WILL BE”. The person of Jesus: His birth, life, death and resurrection and ascension are the most important events in your life. If you are looking for another event and are consumed with another event other than this then you haven’t seen the magnitude of Christ.
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Grant Flaum
| 10 October 2012
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Since May this year Central Parks has embarked on an adventurous journey together as a community. We want to go deeper as a people – deeper with God and deeper with each other. What does it take to go deeper with each other? Whether it be a spouse or a close friend or a friendship waiting to happen.
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