Today I want to share Joseph Prince's "Grace Inspirations".
GOD WANTS YOU CROSS-CONSCIOUS
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I
determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him
crucified.
The apostle Paul, in his letter
to the Corinthian church, said that he determined to know nothing among them
except “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” In other words, Paul, who wrote
two-thirds of the New Testament, had his mind full of Jesus and His finished
work.
Beloved, God wants your mind full
of the cross of Jesus. He wants you cross-conscious.
But what does it mean to be
cross-conscious?
To be cross-conscious is to see
Jesus, who loves you so much that He willingly died for you on the cross. To be
cross-conscious is to look to Jesus, who offered His own body to be punished,
so that your body can be free from all punishment.
To be cross-conscious is to fix
your eyes on Jesus, who has provided for your deliverance and victory at the
cross. At the cross, all your enemies were vanquished. All your diseases were
destroyed. Your poverty was removed at the cross. Your sins were wiped out at
the cross.
When the Israelites tasted
bitterness in the waters of Marah, God showed Moses a tree, which he cast into
the waters, making them sweet (see Exodus 15:23–26). The tree represents the
cross, which turned the bitter waters sweet. Today, Calvary’s tree has turned
your bitter situations sweet. Because of the cross, you can expect to see the
bitter situations in your life made sweet!
When the Israelites were bitten
by serpents in the wilderness, God told Moses to put a bronze serpent on a
pole. The pole represents the cross and bronze speaks of judgment. Those who
beheld the serpent on the pole lived because they saw their problem—the deadly
serpent—nailed and put to death on the cross (see Numbers 21:6–9).
Today, you too will not die but
live when you see all your sins judged at the cross, and with them, all your
sicknesses, diseases, pains, failures and defeats! At the cross, all that is
deadly in your life has been removed!
AMEN! Being "cross-conscious" is NOT continually seeing JESUS still on the cross! It is seeing what He DID, and then seeing Him, and YOU, off the cross, set free, made new, healed, delivered, anointed and appointed for GOD's great plans! I hope that you will make this your determined purpose so that your faith will grow so strong in the accomplished work of that cross that you will never allow yourself to sit under the enemy's feet again! HE is under YOURS, when YOU are IN JESUS! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "At The Cross":
Shalom in Him!
