Exodus 2:23-24 “And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage .So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.”

Do you feel like the Israelites in this verse? You have cried until no more tears come, and you don’t have any prayers of your own left, but only a heart cry? God has heard your cry, and remembers His covenant with His Son. When we have depleted our own resources, we can hold God to His covenant He made with His Son at the Cross. If we have been bought with the blood of Christ this covenant belongs to us. We can’t overcome in our own strength, but we can hold God to the covenant He has already established that we are partakers of.

Heavenly Father we hold you to Your covenant with your Son Jesus Christ. We come into agreement with the prayer of your Son in John 17, that the words of Jesus are fulfilled IN us. We ask you remember your covenant for each of your children and hear our cry.

17 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

² As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

³ And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

⁵ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

⁶ I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

⁷ Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

⁸ For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

⁹ I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

¹⁰ And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

¹¹ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³ And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁵ I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁷ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

²⁰ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

²¹ That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²² And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

²⁴ Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵ O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

²⁶ And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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Genesis 11:3 “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”

1 Peter 2:5 “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

Babylon is built with bricks, while the house of God is built with living stones. Man creates bricks, God creates stones. May we reflect on our lives and all we are building. Though they may reach into the heavens, our brick structures are worthless in God’s sight. He is ONLY desired in constructing a spiritual house founded on the corner stone, Jesus Christ Himself.

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Who are we in this story?

22 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

² The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

³ And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

⁴ Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

⁶ And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

⁷ But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

⁸ Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

¹⁰ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

¹¹ And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

¹² And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ For many are called, but few are chosen.

1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

This verse is a wonderful exhortation for our fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ and other saints partaking of the same divine nature in Christ. We would be deceiving ourselves if we were to think this fellowship described is what we have come to know in most western churches as coming to some church building once, or maybe a few times a week, to hear a message then go home.

This verse lays out a condition. IF we walk in the light, as He is, THEN we have true fellowship and cleansing from all sin. IF we don’t walk in the light THEN those promises don’t apply to us. The Greek word for walk (Strong’s 4043) implies to live a certain way. The Greek word for light (Strong’s 5457) implies a manifestation of God’s life. Are we living in the manifest presence of God? Is our fellowship with others based on THAT manifestation of life alone or are we deceiving ourselves fellowshipping on the basis of something else? Maybe our fellowship has actually become founded on our denomination or way of thinking instead of the life of Christ. We could have at one point been walking IN the light, but do to various reasons no longer are. May we take an honest assessment of our lives.

This fellowship is much deeper and real. This fellowship can happen at any place and anytime IF we are walking in the light. This fellowship exists only in the light, where He is. It is hidden from the eyes of men. There are no easy roads into this fellowship, only through the door Jesus Christ Himself. This type of fellowship cleanses us from all sin, and most importantly it’s where the Lord Himself is manifesting to His people standing in their midst.

May we begin to, or continue to simply walk in the light where He is.

John 12:26 “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour”

If He arrives, we arrive. If He leaves we leave.