Category: From Our Fathers Heart

“I have the antidote for anything and everything that is wrong. His Name is Jesus. He has overcome the world and its ways. He has overcome all of the frailties of mankind. He has overcome all future perils. You can trust Him! Stop looking at the challenges that face you. Look to Jesus. Stop looking at who you are not. Look to Jesus. He will make you whoever He wants you to be. Jesus is everything! Forever.”

Romans 8:33-34 NIV

33) Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

34) Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died - more than that, who was raised to life - is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

2 Cor. 5:18-20a AMP

18) But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].

19) It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).

20a) So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us.

I Cor. 3:11  AMP

For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Hebrews 1:3 AMP

He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power.  When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high…

 

I love the idea that a perfect Person made the perfect sacrifice, so that anyone who chooses to believe can be perfected in God’s eyes. To me, that thought carries over into the day to day working out of life’s situations and challenges. In fact, I believe that they are there to be used as tools to help perfect us. If that is true, what is there to worry about? We have a perfect Savior Who knows how to work things out perfectly – especially in us!

Teach me to trust only You, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“Do not shake off the desire that I am placing in your heart. I am calling those who will listen to an intimacy with Me. Personal attention has been won for you at the cross of Jesus Christ. You have a covenant right to spend time with Me.

“It came at a high price, the blood of My Son. Don’t take this call lightly. It is for your eternal good. I will show you My heart. I will show you My will. I will prepare you for what lies ahead in your life. I will give you the wisdom, strength, and power to overcome everything that attempts to destroy you. Come close now. I am waiting.”

Mark 15:37-38 AMP

37) Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed out His life.

38) And the curtain [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

Romans 2:4 NIV

Or do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance?

Romans 12:1 NIV

Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – which is your spiritual worship.

 

In the world, access to the heart of a friend is earned. It takes time to develop the trust and vulnerability that is required. True friends understand the privilege it is to have that kind of access and they guard it carefully.

Jesus has won access to His Father for us. When the temple veil was torn from top to bottom, it would never separate us from Him again. Access from the holy place into the holy of holies, once reserved only for the high priest once a year, is now available to all those who have given themselves over to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

What is so incredibly sad is that few of us actually tarry with God, the Creator of all things, even though we are invited to do so. Think of it, we are invited into the presence of the One Who gave us life, knows our hearts, and desires to spend time with us. When we do not go to Him, is that pride, ignorance, fear, busyness, or a combination of them all?

Form in me whatever it takes to be able to come to You, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“How much have you heeded My warnings to you? How much have you modified your lifestyle, realigned your priorities, and eliminated your excesses in response to the warnings given to prepare for the perilous times ahead? I am not asking you if you have made material provisions to “hunker down.” I am not asking if you have fortified your positions of comfort. Before you answer Me, I already know.

“Most of you have done little or nothing to prepare yourselves in a way that pleases Me in order for My purposes to be accomplished. Your world tells you to “go on as usual.” It tells you to not be afraid. It has no foundation for those boasts. It has never listened to Me and has no idea what I will be doing during the times ahead. I tell you to prepare for many changes. I am requiring significant modifications to your life if you want to flow with Me in the times ahead. Today, much has already happened in the heavenlies. It is only the beginning of a massive tide that will require uninterrupted communication between Us if you are to be prosperous during these seasons.

“You need to be able to hear only My directions. You will need to discard everything that stands in the way of Our fellowship. You must turn your priorities to My work, My plan, My purpose for your life. Invest radically in those who are being called out now to accomplish significant areas of duty. Invest radically in your time with Me. I have been calling you. You have not come. You have not changed even a small portion of your world to get in line with My call to you

“All the time, everything is changing around you. You are like an ostrich with its head in the sand. Stop being foolish. Time is running out. Prepare My way. Use My provisions My way. Seek Me My way. It is the only way.”

Isaiah 30:21 NIV

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Isaiah 48:3  NIV

“I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.”

 

Have you ever attempted to communicate with someone who had no desire to hear what you had to say? No matter what you said, no matter how much you waved your hands or explained in detail what you meant, he stood - stone-brained – and just looked at you? After you walked away, did you feel that nothing you said or did had any effect on his actions or even his thinking in the slightest bit? I might as well have talked to a tree, you said.

I believe that is how most of us must appear to Father God at present. He has warned us of special times on the horizon. He has told us to prepare ourselves for the good of others and the implementation of His work. He has called us to an intimacy with Him, so that we are equipped to prosper in the times ahead. We have stood with glazed eyes and wandering minds, while He has expressed the importance of His words. Most of us have done little or nothing to heed His words. In fact, few have even acknowledged that He was speaking.

In the time of need, Jesus always did what was best for others. His life was spent for those who hated Him. If any of us have heard even a portion of what the Lord has been saying in these past years about preparation, we have taken His words and chosen to prepare only for ourselves, without even thinking of those Jesus cares about.

We need to respond to some difficult questions, like: What is your priority today? If the Lord called you to pray all day, this very day, and the next, and the next, would you do what is necessary to respond? Or isn’t that as important as your job?

Where is your treasure invested? How many workers are doing without because you are hoarding His wealth?

How will you respond to the fast-approaching tragedies?  Of whom will you think during a catastrophe - the one next to you, or only yourself? What would Jesus do?

Look around at today’s church. We haven’t heard! We haven’t moved! We haven’t responded to the many calls of our Lord! We do not know of what spirit we are!

Move this fool, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“Mention My Name wherever you go. Tell everyone to Whom you belong because of Jesus! Shout the wonder of His glory from the rooftops. Whisper His Name with the reverence that is due Him. Walk in the wonder of My Holy Spirit. Do powerful acts of love and mercy because of the freedom you have in Him. Proclaim all of the wonders that are part of your heritage by living rightly in front of others. It is your legacy. It is your duty. It is your privilege.”

Luke 6:45-46 AMP

45) The upright (honorable, intrinsically good) man out of the good treasure [stored] in his heart produces what is upright (honorable and intrinsically good), and the evil man out of the evil storehouse brings forth that which is depraved (wicked and intrinsically evil); for out of the abundance (overflow) of the heart his mouth speaks.

46) Why do you call Me, Lord, Lord, and do not [practice] what I tell you?

 

How much or how little you focus on the things of God are pretty good benchmarks as to how much you really love Him and are willing to serve Him. Whatever you truly treasure in your heart is what exudes from your lips and from your life.

Have you ever experienced those who are in their first love experience with Jesus? Even for many Christians, their overwhelming enthusiasm is sometimes too much. Their wide-eyed drooling over the Lord and His Word can almost be embarrassing in some circles.

Has it ever occurred to you that they are not the foolish ones? Could it be that your love has been dampened by the things of the world and the pressures of life? Could your complacency be a delight to Satan and a heartbreak to Jesus?  Maybe it’s time to begin to stir up the gift you have been given! Maybe it’s time to rekindle what has become dull.

Stir up my dying embers and rekindle Your love in me, Lord,

Jim Corbett

“I wish that none should perish. That is the priority of My heart for your creation. It is the reason that I have set everything in motion since the fall of Adam and Eve. Their fall was no surprise. The need for redemption was no surprise. Every action by every individual born of woman was no surprise. All that has happened, is happening, and will happen is right on My timetable. There are no surprises when it comes to those who are to spend eternity with Me.

“Where each of you spends that eternity is My heart behind My Word. It is the central focus of all that I have created thus far. Consider this. Pause quietly and think on what I am about to say. Before any of My other creation processes will unfold, the redemption of your generation must be completed. That is how important each and every day of your existence is.

“With that in mind, I would have you consider your reasons for everything that you do compared to My reasons for your life. What is the purpose for your every action? I have a specific plan for your birth. Have you taken the time to really find out what it is and function in it with the same importance that I place on your days? Look at the life of Jesus. He is your example. For everything that He was, for all that has been said about Him, most people have not applied His zeal for the fulfillment of My plan to their lives. His every breath was dedicated to My desire that none should perish. That is the way I want you to live.

“Your specific task is part of the overall fulfillment of My plan. If you get in line with My heart from now on, everywhere you go and whatever you do will have that purpose in mind. Turn now from every other distraction. I need you. So does everyone around you.”

Genesis 1:27-28a AMP

27) So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28a) And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]…

2 Samuel 14:14b NIV

“But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.”

John 4:34 NIV

”My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”

John 5:19 AMP

So Jesus answered them by saying, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the Son is able to do nothing of Himself (of His own accord); but He is able to do only what He sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does is what the Son does in the same way [in His turn].

 

Did you ever stop to think that everything from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 deals with the plan of God for you and me? He tells us of a single, former creation that He focused on before us and now uses for His greater plan. He also shows us that there is much more that will be happening after He is finished with our processing.

Now, some of you may have fully understood that long ago, but it has taken awhile for me to become acutely aware of it. Think this through with me. Could it be that you and I have become so involved with the day-to-day circumstances of our lives, that we really haven’t heard the very point that our God was making when He had His authors write down His Words? Could we be so busy discerning every jot and tittle of what they said that we have overlooked the essence of the heart of our Father?

A whole universe was set in motion and the planet that we call earth was created so that our feet would have a place to rest. A whole new world will be created after we have no more need for this one. That’s some pretty heavy information we have been given. To have set that all in motion tells me that our Father in heaven is pretty much involved with us.

For many years, the prominent phrase traveling through the church was, “It’s all about Jesus,” meaning that our life is not about us; but about Him and what is important to Him. What I hadn’t understood fully was the fact that God’s life has been focused on each one of us for this time in His history because His heart is that none should perish. The problem arises when we take the fact of God’s love for man and consume it upon ourselves, but don’t carry it further by allowing that love to flow to those around us and bring others to Him. In other words, it’s wonderful that He may be all about us – please keep that in the context of this message - but we can’t be all about us. If we really understood the fact that our God truly has our best interests in mind, it should generate a vibrant love within each of us that’s just waiting to be unleashed at every opportunity.

If it is true that God’s life has been centered around our best interests as part of this creation, and if some of our Lord’s incredibly precious time – the Lord of everything who left everything and came to earth to die for our benefit - was taken so that we might have a way to be delivered from the horrible prospect of being separated from God, then wouldn’t you think that each of us should place a little more importance on that purpose also? How do we do that? Once again, intimacy with the Lord is the key. If we truly know Him, how can we not burst forth with an eagerness to share Him with others, so that they might know Him, too!

Is it not time for us to get in line with God’s desires? Shouldn’t we care about what He cares about? Let’s truly get to know Him so that we can’t help but share Him, giving others the opportunity to come into His fullness as well! If it’s important to God, it should be important to us!

Turn me back to You, Lord,

Jim Corbett