Are you crucified with Christ?

God uses Love and Mercy to get you in the door but after that it is purging time. Yes, it is painful. The road to life is painful but it brings life. Is death not painful? Yes, when the flesh dies it is painful but we must die daily. It is a process of sanctification that must be completed. It is mandatory. Many seem to come close to the cross but never finish it. Instead, they run from the pain.


Death for life. Do you not understand this concept? The Lord had to die so we can live. The wheat germ must fall and die to produce a harvest. Our flesh and the old man must die so our spirit grows and lives. All that you had depended on the Babylonian system must die as well. Your dependence must be God. Death can be painful process yet it is very liberating.


When you run from the pain required to purge you, you RUN FROM GOD'S WILL. You must learn to digest the spiritual meat that is given. You cannot continue on milk alone or forever. Spiritual maturity is a mandate. 


Let us die to self. Stop bursting out in anger. Stop taking a second look at the women crossing. Stop speaking negative words. Stop using foul languages. Stop bashing your leaders. Stop gossiping. Stop doing the things of the world. You must stop it. Sanctification is a painful process but it is required for salvation. Scripture says, Be Holy for He is Holy. No one will see the Lord without Holiness.


Col 3:5-14 " So kill (deaden, [a]deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God). 6It is on account of these [very sins] that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons of disobedience (those who are obstinately opposed to the divine will),7Among whom you also once walked, when you were living in and addicted to [such practices].8But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips!9Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices,
10And have clothed yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process of being] renewed and remolded into [fuller and more perfect [b]knowledge upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it.11[In this new creation all distinctions vanish.] There [c]is no room for and there can be neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, [nor difference between nations whether alien] barbarians or Scythians [[d]who are the most savage of all], nor slave or free man; but Christ is all and in all [[e]everything and everywhere, to all men, without distinction of person].12Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own chosen ones (His own picked representatives), [who are] purified and holy and well-beloved [by God Himself, by putting on behavior marked by] tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, [and] patience [which is tireless and long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes, with good temper].13Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference (a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive].14And above all these [put on] love and enfold yourselves with the bond of perfectness [which binds everything together completely in ideal harmony].


Hebrews 12:14 (AMP) Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord


Fire of God!!