Good morning blessed one!

Let’s take a look together at Acts 5:20.  It says,

  • Go to the temple and give the people “THIS MESSAGE OF LIFE!”

Everything associated with God is filled with life!  There’s no darkness in Him at all!  As a matter of fact, 1 John 1:5, 7 says,

  • This is THE MESSAGE (OF LIFE) which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is NO darkness at all…And if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another (us and the Father) and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

I want you to notice the expression that the Lord gives of the gospel message in Acts 5:20 ~ He calls it, “THIS MESSAGE OF LIFE!”  Family, it’s the most wonderful life possible – a life of faith in the Son of God!

I always say to my husband Randy, “It’s like an adventure in faith every day!”  Who wants to live a mundane worldly life when you can life a life full of THE LIFE OF GOD?  This is a life where God is all the time.  He’s around you and lives within you!  It’s a life where God is continually seen, known, felt, and heard.  It’s a life without death because the Scripture declares in 1 John 3:14 that we have passed from death unto life.  Jesus goes on to say in John 5:24,

  • “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My Word has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”

Wow, family!  The very life of God has come within us when we hear His Word!  And when the life of God is within us it its fullness, sickness and disease cannot exist.  Proverbs 4:22 says,

  • For they (HIS WORDS) are LIFE to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh.

It would take me a month to tell you all about this wonderful life.  I want to encourage you that you can go in and possess this wonderful LIFE.  It’s found in His Word!!!  In John 6:63, Jesus says,

  • …The Words that I speak to you are spirit and THEY ARE LIFE.  

I want you to know, though, that you can be within the vicinity of this LIFE and yet miss it!  It’s possible for you to be in a place where God is pouring out His Spirit and yet miss the blessing that God is so willing to bestow.  This is because of a misunderstanding of the infinite grace of God ~ “The God of All Grace” (1 Peter 5:10), Who is always willing to give you everything if you’ll reach out your hand of faith!

Family, THIS LIFE that He freely gives to us is a gift.  Just reach out and receive it by faith!  Dare to believe God for everything He has so freely given you.  1 Toimothy 6:17 says,

  • …NOT to set our hopes on uncertain riches, but on God, Who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

What an amazing God we serve!  Just remember, this isn’t something we can earn.  If we think we can somehow earn it, we miss the whole thing!  It’s by God’s grace through faith!  Have a simple faith, like a little child, and receive all that God so lavishly and extravagantly offers.  You’ll never be ordinary again from the day you receive THIS LIFE from above.  You’ll become extraordinary, filled with the extraordinary power of our extraordinary God!  Hallelujah!

Walking in God’s abundant life,

Lisa Gordon

Assistant Pastor

Jesus City Church