**NEW ARTICLE** 5-25-07

I have just traveled about 18,000 miles in the last five months in several countries and in many
states. Many lives have found a new dimension of God's Presence. Many lives have been released and healed of deep anger, rejection, hurt, grief and much, much more as they came into the lovely and real Presence of Christ. After finding such a radical change in them, they often wonder, "how can I maintain this lovely Presence and transformation of heart and
life?" This article is being written to answer this question.

The normal christian life is a life of Another and this Life has all the characteristics of the very heart and mind of God. Every life must bring forth fruit after its own kind and Jesus said, "every tree is known by his own fruit." (Luke 6:44a) John said that he who has the Son has the Life. (1 John 5:11,12). If I have the Son of God living in me; then I have the Life and if I don't have the Son of God living in me then I don't have the life of God. A good moral person can give his body to be burned and sell all of his possessions to feed the poor and still not have the Love of God in him. (1 Cor. 13:3)

Jesus spoke to a religious crowd and he said that they would not come to Him that they might have this life and that God's love was not in them. The main reason that the love of God was not in them was because they were seeking to be honored and esteemed by men. (John 5:41-44) Pride greatly desires to be esteemed and given recognition from others.

One of the most revealing and prominent characteristics of God's Love is that, "it does not seek its own."
(1 Cor. 13:5) Pride deceives a person into wanting others to esteem them and within a person's mind when this thought evolves it will block God's love from flowing. Pride always seeks its own. Love will never seek its own.

God's love will seek to give, expecting nothing in return and it fulfills the law of God and leaves the person with great internal peace. (Luke 6:34-36) Psalm 119:165, Roma. 13:8-10)

When we shut our bowels of compassion, then we close the very funnel in which the love of God flows through. John said how can God's love flow through hearts who have closed their bowels of compassion? Compassion basically means to suffer with. Selfishness will cause me to ignore the sufferings of others, blame them for their wrongs done to ME and justify myself concerning any hardness that might have gotten into my heart. Remember, pride will always seek what is best for ITSELF and and love will always deny and lose itself. The reason Jesus said that one must DENY self in order to follow Him is because the substance of satan's heart; which is pride, has saturated mankind's heart with selfishness and this is why self must be denied. If a person does not deny themself, then they will inevitably deny God the Right
to use them as one of His chosen vessels to pour Him SELF through to this world. God will not mix His Pure self-less and Holy self with my impure selfish and unholy self. Self must be denied in order to walk in the Master's footsteps. (Luke (9:23, 14:25-33, John 12:24-26, Mat. 10:37-39, 16:24, Mark 8:34)

God's inner Self is full of compassion, humility, love, meekness and lowliness. Our inner self is full of pride, which is an inner drive to be exalted above others. Therefore, if my heart attitude hurts others (their feelings, their reputation, their family or their very body) it doesn't affect me as long as my self is benefited in some way. In 1 Cor. 15:57, Paul said thanks be to God which is constantly giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Also the literal meaning of 2 Cor. 2:14 says, "Now thanks be to God, which is always causing us to triumph in Christ and continuously making manifest or known the savour of his knowledge by us in every place." The Holy Spirit is wanting us to realize that the victory is constant in Christ and that there are flowing constant rivers of life-giving waters (John 7:37-39), and lastly there is a beautiful aroma or fragrance of the lovely Christ being released through us everywhere we go. What is the savour that God said is flowing through us everywhere we are going? Jesus said that this savour is so important that if we lose it; then we are good for nothing. (Matt.5:1-13)

What is this savour that the salt must not lose? I believe this savour is the beautiful fragrance of Jesus' heart of humility (Matt. 11:29) Right after Jesus told his disciples what was the Blessed Life, he mentioned the savour. It is the lowly heart of Christ that sees the true blessedness of suffering for righteousness' sake. It is only the lowly lamb's heart that releases a beautiful aroma into the nostrils of God. "The Life of God has only one main essence and this is Victory and Triumph, therefore if Christ is truly living His Life in me, then I am more than a conqueror in all situations! (Rom. 8:37). He knows no other life, therefore, this kind of living is only possible as one allows Jesus Himself to live his very own life through them. But, we must remember that Jesus' life is a lowly, meek, compassion filled life that flows out of his lowly heart.

Jesus said that we must learn this heart. The way that I learn his lowly heart is by having hidden
areas of pride in my heart exposed by the Light of His Presence and with each exposure of my hidden prides I am to humble myself and confess my attitudes (defilement of spirit) and my actions (defilement of flesh). This tremendous power that is in the blood of Christ is only for sinners. (1 John 1:9)

The beautiful Life of Christ will continuously flow through His body if this body will remove the
stones that are blocking the flow. I will mention 6 major stones that tend to stop the victorious,
precious and pure life of Christ from flowing through us.

1) The stone of judgment:
This stone is the fruit of a person's judgment. All unrighteous judging of others are invisible declarations to God that I am not like the one I am judging. But, by the mere fact that I am judging them I am proving that I am taking the credit to my own achievements and not God's grace. When I judge another I am telling God that I am pleased with my own ability to live righteously. This causes God to remove his grace from this area of my life and the consequence is that I will fall. (Rom 2:1-3; Prov. 16:18, Matt 7:1-3) Unrighteous judgments come out of a heart that is lifted up in pride.

2) The stone of offense.
This stone comes as a result of my refusal to give mercy to another person. Whenever I don't allow another person to have mercy for whatever reason I am stating in my heart that this person does not deserve to be forgiven. Jesus said that there is no forgiveness for unforgiveness. All unforgiveness leaves a person feeling hard on the inside towards the one they won't forgive. Many individuals have been greatly blessed by ministers until they judge them. Then, after there is hardness in the heart to the person we judge, we can no longer see with the eyes of Christ. There is no ministry for someone that I have judged in my heart. Wherever I can be offended by anyone is an area in which I am seeking to be honored, and since that one does not give me honor: it offends my pride..

3) The stone of grumbling and murmuring.
"Grudge not one against another brethren lest you be condemned; behold, the judge is standeth before the door." (James 5:9) We murmur and grumble in our hearts towards another believer, and the judge hears our criticism and we stand condemned.. Phil 2:13,14 says that God is constantly working His very own lowly Life into us until we murmur and rationalise within our heart. The Lord is continuosly working his very own life into us, but when we murmur or dispute (this word means to rationalise), we stop the flow of God pouring His Life into us. Phil 2:13-14" For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:" (KJV)

4) The stone of unbelief.
Heb. 3:12 Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil
heart of unbelief in departing from the living God." Unbelief is a direct attack against the truthfulness and character of God. This attitude that refuses to believe the Word of God comes out of a hard heart.

5) The stone of the deceitful nature of sin
(Heb. 3:13) Sin will deceive any heart that is confident in itself to overcome sin. We cannot overcome sin apart from Christ and we will turn away from the living God when we enter into the Pride of self confidence. (Heb. 3:12b)

6) A self righteous heart.
The last stone is the number one reason why we do not walk in victory and reveal the lovely
Presence of Christ; The stone of a self righteous heart that refuses to humble. Grace is for the
humble, but God resist the proud. (James 4:6) Forgiveness and cleansing is for the sinner, not the healthy.
(1 Jn. 1:9), Jn. 9:41) When my heart feels hard for any reason I must find where I failed, where I displeased God and I must take the blame and take the place of the sinner. Light always will uncover; then the Lord will forgive, cleanse and totally cover with His Presence and His Glory. When sin entered, Adam and Eve knew that they were naked. They never had any clothes on so it wasn't their bodies that were naked. They were suddenly aware that they had lost something. This was the Glory of their Maker. God's Glory will once again cover His creation when his creation takes the place of the naked that need covering. Rev. 3: 17-19
Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked; I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Beloved to walk with God requires that we become more and more one with the very heart of God. This is the lowly heart of the Lamb. This heart goes lower and lower into humility and it will destroy every excuse that the wicked spirit of Pride gives to cover itself.. WE can either be covered with the Glory of God's very own heart or we can be covered with the deceitful nature of pride. True humility will release the very fragrance of the beautiful Christ; His very Savour into this world. May God richly bless you brothers and sisters as you commit to humble yourselves and become one with the heart of the Lamb. The Lamb's Wife is making herself ready now!

Love in Christ,


Brother Greg