Jan 19, 2008

The Standard

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning

"I will give you everyplace where you set your feet." Joshua 1:3

Or in today's language: I am giving it to you - everyplace you walk - it's yours - just take my check and whatever is the cost, just add another zero. You have an unlimited account. Just remember to focus. Focus on me, focus on what I say. Don't get distracted, diverted, or side tracked with stuff. There is a lot of ground to cover, so get up, and get going. For the 40 years you were practicing in my playground - but now we are going to the Big Dance. Remember everything I taught you. Keep your heart, and you will keep your mind, keep your mind, and your will keep your actions, keep your actions and you will keep your destiny. You used to keep track with rulers and calculators but in this new land I am giving you a new measuring stick - a new ruler - it is my love - which is represented by the cross - so start using my standards of measurements. Put the cross over everything that you are about to encounter - you will begin to understand how I measure things in heaven __ it is by the cross. There is nothing in this world that my Son's Cross hasn't bought and paid for in FULL.
Signed God the Father.
Remember, the Universe is his footstool.

This provides a whole other concept and perspective for what Jesus told us to do when He said "Take up your Cross and Follow Me." The Cross does not just represent the submission to God and dying to self. The Cross is the New Standard by which everything, in Heaven, Earth and below the Earth are measured. And so whenever you come across a situation, problem, concern that is too big for you to handle - start measuring it against the Cross of Christ. You will begin to see and experience the power and capacity of God.

The advertisement for American Express tell us Don't Leave Home Without It. - but it's just a card - and anything I use the card to get, I have to end up paying for myself.

But God did not give us a card - He gave us a Cross. So I am telling you. Don't leave Home without it. Pick up your Cross and follow Him. There is nothing in this world or the world to come that the Cross has not paid for In Full. This teaching was presented at New Life Fellowship in New York City, and at the Monday IPO.

Anthony DiMaio, BOLD

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