Tag: Spirit Food

Jn1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “In the beginning was…” The word ‘was‘ means in the past. In this scripture the apostle John is emphasizing “…the Word was…“, “…the Word was…“, “…the Word was…“.

What was in the beginning? Gen. 1:1“ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Creation was in the beginning. The Word was there and “…was with God” in the beginning as all creation came into existence. The two points is the “Word” was there and was with God.

Is the word “with” meaning beside or possibly presently in mind? One meaning would be separate and the other would be together in one.

Apostle John said, “the Word was God.” The “Word” was there, was with, and was God in the beginning. Apostle John is making out the “Word” to be God’s central core of knowledge like our brain is to our body. The Word was God’s mind of thoughts, ideas, and plans.

Apostle John repeats it in the next scripture to emphasize ² “The same was in the beginning with God.” You could easily reverse the “Word” and “God” with the same outcome. In the beginning was God, and God was with the Word, and God was the Word. Does your thoughts stand beside you or do they process things inside you? We are made in His image.

We have the “Word” was there, the “Word” was with, and the “Word” was. All of this sounds past tense from apostle John. He wrote three times “…the Word was…“, “…the Word was…“, “…the Word was…“. As though the location of the “Word” has changed to another place. The Word has not changed within itself just dwelling somewhere else.

In verse three Apostle John brings the “Word” and “God” together at creation as “him” pointing out the “Word” and “God” are the same person just like our brain is inside our body. ³ “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” God’s Word in His central core put the rest of Himself into action with power and presence of creation coming into physical being with a knowledgeable purpose.

Our brain with words of thoughts is in a contained area in our bodies and God’s Word of thoughts is in His unlimited area, but still centralized. We are made in His image on a much smaller scale than Himself. God’s Word is the command center or the Godhead center for the rest of Himself.

“All things were made by him…” God through the thinking of His Spirit mind of thoughts, plans, and ideas saw creation inside the deep dark waters like we could imagine a house in our minds on a piece of land. The “All things were made…” is the action of God’s Word thoughts put into motion much like anything we think of needs to be done our body goes into action to do it on a much smaller scale.

The rest of the scripture says, “and without him was not any thing made that was made.” This puts the emphasis that everything has His design plans of purpose on them. This is “…him…” in the beginning as the Word of all plans utilizing His power of creation and presence to hold all of it together. All knowledge working with All Power creating and maintaining All Presence.

The “Word was“, the “Word was with“, and the “Word was God” in the beginning and the same was with God. This all sounds like the Word has a new location with the repeated use of “was“. The “Word” and “God” being all the same had a Spirit form that made creation for the image of a “him” to dwell in. Simply like, if I had children this is what I would create for them to live in. A place where all the functions of the body could exist freely.

The question is, “What new location did God/Word move to?” ¹⁴ “And the Word was made flesh…“. If the Word and God are the same then God was made flesh. The Spirit centralized Word in God moved from the beginning of creation in the past to the present day of apostle John pointing out the new location to be inside the fleshly body of Jesus.

The Word was in the beginning and was with God and was God is now moved presently into a new location of the body of Jesus Christ. God being a Spirit is not limited to only being in a body, but everywhere else at the same time. God could be in Jesus, talk from the sky for all to hear, and descend a dove at the same time to confirm to John the Baptist this is the one.

¹¹ “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” ¹⁰ “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” Apostle John emphasized the past, the present, and the future was in the beginning, moved to the present, and continues into the future. He created the world, he came among us and was rejected, but that was the price to pay for our future. So, we would not be rejected from heaven.

This explains, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Heb. 13:8. Jesus is the Word Spirit plan of God that was there in the yesterdays of creation, presently came in solid form to pay our sin debt releasing a future fellowship directly with His Spirit once again like it all started with Adam and Eve, but better.

God took His original plan of His Spiritual self and put it in an exact representation of Himself in fleshly form to speak to us directly, to bring the inheritance back to mankind, purge our sins, making a physical place beside Him for mankind to sit through Jesus, while being the Creator Himself that made all things(Heb. 1:1-3).

God has the “was“, the past covered as the Father of Creation. God has the “with“, the present of apostles John’s day covered as the Son in redemption. God has the “was God” future covered as the Holy Spirit of reconciliation. If we, so choose to be born again of the water and of the Spirit through Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.

The past Father of Creation, present Son of Redemption, and future infilling of the Holy Spirit is in Jesus Christ covering our past sins in water baptism in Jesus name (blood of forgiveness is in his name), presently forgiving us with a completely clean slate, and filling us with His Spirit as an inheritance for a future of 100 percent direct fellowship in all eternity with God.

God’s Plan of Salvation: ^{Acts 2:38} “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

God’s Promise to You: ³⁹ “For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

Are you going to open up your heart for the new location of the Word to dwell within you?

^{2Cor. 5:17} “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.“

¹⁸ “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;“

¹⁹ “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.“

I see a table with plates, spoons, forks, knives, napkins, glasses, and each plate has a Bible on top of it laying open, all very neatly arranged. As the meal progresses, reading of the Word, all the words remain in their black letter forms until I see a key word begins to float upwards towards the person’s face changing into a glistening silver and gold with a slow sparkling tail trailing its ascent into the person’s being. The person’s eyes widen slightly as though they have seen something awesome that they had not seen before.

Their eyes light up as they take inside the word, feeling in their spirit that extra attention coming upon them as a still small voice begins to speak (saying, “…the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life” Jn 6:63). At that moment Jesus is speaking to your spirit directly feeding you personally a spoon of truth. You can hear as the others around the table continue the reading, but you are captivated by that glistening light of understanding you have received. What is happening to you is the Spirit of God has made something that has always been there in black and white to leap out in a lively way revealing spiritual life to you. It is a call to your mind, heart, and soul to “come and dine” (Rev. 3:20). Now, your mind, heart, and soul are standing before two paths. Do you rejoin the others running through the  words they are reading from the Bible or do you stop and turn down the path with the words of light shinning upon a path that has always been there, but unseen by you?

Fork in the road: this is where the decision is made to follow format and traditions or follow the leading of the Spirit of the Lord. If flesh is allowed to control the meal spiritual things God wants us to have will be lost (1 Cor. 2:14) like the seed by the wayside – quickly forgotten; among the rocks – lightly taken; among the thorns – weakly accepted to be choked out later. If our spirit takes control the spiritual thing God is trying to share with us falls under the slow down, follow, enjoy every bite, savoring this truthful flavor because I want to see this that has an extra touch on it for me and I want it to stay (Mtt. 13:11-16) – good soil.

The majority of times people read the Bible is read in a fast fashion and it is over, done with falling into the routine of a quickly forgotten event. A meal we just swallow and go. This sitting down meal with the Bible is a living and spirit filled substance that cannot be afforded to be missed. There is an adversary of our soul wanting us to eat, drink, and be merry quickly in this world only appealing to our flesh overlooking the end of our time in this world. The Bible is here for us to eat and live above and beyond the bad endings of this world. The words should be a meal of life to our soul each time we read it. We need to sit down with a hunger of expectation to find exactly what will nourish our soul at that present time and the times to come. We should not live by the foods of this world alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mtt. 4:4).

Our flesh does not care about the condition of our soul, but only the happiness and pleasures this world can bring to it. Our flesh will never accept God and become a follower of the Word of God. It is our spirit that will live on forever from what it has digested and accepted as the life to be lived. The question is do we allow our flesh to control the reading of the word of God or the Spirit control the meal we can have in the word of God?

What happens when you sit down with the word of God on your plate in front of you and trust the Spirit of the Lord? You are staring into the deepest spiritual food bar of all you can eat that can mankind could ever find. The words coming to life off of those pages can show you a journey that no Pirate story could ever match. When the words of the Bible come to life into your understanding it has a substance about it no other words can hold. When those words change from black letters to a lively glistening gold empowering life changing form, the substance of pure wisdom flows down over your spirit with a peace that passes all understanding bringing your spirit submissively to a halt considering what is transpiring before you feeling the privilege of mercy’s fullness and good fruit that is given birth within you guiding you to impartiality and sincere truth (Ja. 3:17).

When the Lord allows His word to leap off the pages and open my understanding it is like being born again anew. It is as though He is standing right beside you breathing Spirit and liberating Life directly into your spirit. He is telling you something personally to help you and those you speak with in the days to come. He is filling you up with living bread to be shared with others. We are not to live this life by earthly food alone, but by heavenly bread words of life spoken by God.

The Spirit gives life to us if we are asking, seeking, and knocking for it to be opened to us. What blows my mind away is the fact when God sends His word into our eyes and ears opening with living perception and understanding He is sending forth a substance of Himself that will not return unto Him empty, but will accomplish that which pleases Him and will achieve the purpose for which He sent it (Is. 55:11) because we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth (2 Cor. 13:8).  Dare we read over the Word of God with fleshly memorization only or do we read with an expectation for the Spirit to jump a word of understanding for us to personally follow to the end of the spiritual path?  Look for Him in every thing you are doing and you will find Him sending you words of life when reading, spiritual pictures when praying, breezes of accepted worship, invisible hands of love, and much much more than you can imagine.

I look forward to those glistening words of life to leap off the pages from God’s word awakening your mind and spirit to the gold treasures of heaven.