The House of The Lord

This beautiful setting is in the Great Smoky Mountains.

 

 

Psalm 122:1 "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into The House of The Lord."

 

The House of The Lord takes on a whole new concept, when we realize that we who have been born-again into newness of life, into the family of God; we are now The House of The Lord.

For it is in us that Christ dwells through the power of The Holy Spirit. We carry the gospel of salvation within our bosom, our being. It is our privilege, and honor, to serve God in this capacity.

As Mary was the first one to carry The Gospel within her, when she carried the baby Jesus in her womb, so to are we given the same blessing.

Carrying the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ

within us we are able to present Him to other people,

that those who are called out of darkness at the urging of the Holy Spirit

into the Light and Love of God can receive His salvation and

worship at His presence.

As the shepherds of the fields were called out of the darkness of the night

upon the fields where they lay watching over their flocks,

so to were we called out of the darkness of spiritual night,

to a place where we could worship at the feet of Jesus.

A place where we could sing our hearts out in praise for what Jesus did for us.

A place where we could worship God for Who He is and What He does.

A place where we could receive the message of salvation:

That Jesus died on the cross,

suffering the punishment for our sins,

was buried in a tomb,

and walked out of it

full of glory and truth and power,

into a resurrected life.

Having conquered death and the grave,

He held the keys to both.

By His example of love for us and to us,

we now can have this eternal life and joy

when we believe.

 

When we accept Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God,

Who died for the sins of the whole world,

And rose from the dead,

We become born-again people.

We are borne, carried, through the blood

which flowed from His head, His hands, His feet

onto us and into the ground where we stand.

We are born-again through The Spirit

into God's family.

As Jesus told Nicodemus, "You must be born again",

so to is that command given to us.

Born of water and born of spirit:

first we are born and then we are reborn.

How cool is that?

 

And when we receive the baptism of The Holy Spirit,

and are given the evidence of same by the speaking in tongues,

which is a heavenly language and not of our own knowledge,

then He begins the transformation process within us.

Cleaning out our hearts and our minds

from all unrighteousness, removing wickedness from within us,

that our hearts, our seat of emotions, might be made new and perfect.

Would you invite Jesus into a dirty house? Expect Him to sit on filthy furniture?

Give Him a drink of water in a dirty glass? Feed Him off of stained plates?

And, yet, that is what many of us do, or have done.

 

The Holy Spirit of God first convicts the sinner of sin,

then begins to clean out all sin from the sinner's life,

making us able to house The Lord within us,

that His Light would shine brightly and clearly

into the darkness of this world in which we live.

 

I am the house of The Lord.

He shines brightly within me.

The Spirit reveals through The Word of God

all unrighteousness that is still in me,

and I give Him authority over my life

to remove all uncleanliness from within.

For when I stand before God at m judgment day,

I would like nothing of myself to be left in the ashes,

only what I have done for God.

 

I thank God that someone prayed me out of darkness.

Lord, let my prayer be that I would continue in their stead

and pray my family and friends out of darkness.

Amen.

"...The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." James 5:16

 

"I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of The Lord."