Crucifixion brings resurrection
How would you live today is your past never happened? At the cross we die to the past and are resurrected by Christ power to a blank slate. The place of reinventing is the place of crucifixion. Knowing what it is like to die, be barred and raised again as reinvented saints for the purpose of letting the Jesus in our hearts become the only thing left in us. Living, breathing, surviving, though I am dead, I am alive in Christ alone. This is were I found another way to die, with nothing left here but Jesus we find another way to live. Are you dieing to know God, dieing to who you were and what you dreamed, forsaking all to truly have abundant purpose in life?
I don’t know about you but for years I had a hard time seeing with my ears and hearing with my eyes. The fog of life blinds so much that we pray that God would give us eyes to hear and ears to see, not knowing how blinded by the fog we are. Yet through the fire of crucifixion the fog of this world lifts up and we are able to truly see God’s direction and purpose for our lives. Here He gives eyes to see and ears to hear.
“Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf be unstopped”(Isaiah 35:5
He is the true vine and we are the branches apart from Jesus we can do nothing that will last. Apart from Jesus I am nothing more the worst of sinners corrupt to the core. Its this stop on the tour that must continue through the life of a believer. Though we all at times put up a façade of change on the outside of our lives we can’t change what’s on the inside without crucifixion. The spiritual tour with Christ can not happen without crucifixion. The crucifixion from within dieing to who we are without Christ is the beginning of reinventing through resurrection to a new life, new heart beat, and new purpose. At the place of the Skull a criminal who was crucified with Christ found another way to die.
. “When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals - one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, ‘Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’ And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, ‘He saves others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.’ The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar and said, ‘If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.’ There was a written notice above him which read: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him; ‘Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!’ But the other criminal rebuked him. ‘Don’t you fear God,’ he said, ‘since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.’ Then he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ Jesus answered him, ‘I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:33-43 NIV



Your Crucifixion
Do you remember your place of the Skull? The place where Gods Holy Spirit became one with you and you were born again in spirit and truth to another way to die and another way to live? All is new here, the old is forever gone. If you have never been to the place of the skull if you have only been an observer never truly knowing Jesus let today be the day you start the tour of eternal life. Believe Jesus will do all He has promised ask Him in and you will never be the same. None of this can work without faith that the Holy Spirit gives when we ask Jesus in.
Here at the place of the skull this love that burns deeper then the sea, and taller then the sky we find purpose that last beyond a lifetime. All we have here is Jesus and all we are is Jesus. Just like the thief on the cross at the crossroads of death, he asked Jesus for life, he had been crucified next to Christ because of his poor choices but he ask, he believed and he found another way to die. Today for what ever reason be it from walking with God or be it your poor choices come to your place of the Skull. Has the evil, darkness, the snakes of your life crushed you on the tour? Don’t dwell on the past but remember when the tour gets rough again you can look at the hard times in light of what you lived through and know that you have already been crucified with Christ. At the place of the skull, fear, doubt, death, darkness, evil, snakes have no power over you because Christ died once for all and we know that since He was raised, He is the only thing that has power over us. Through Jesus death and resurrection He has cut the heads off the snakes, demolished evil, shines light in the darkness, and defeats death. Embracing this stages takes away all fear.
Like Job you already lost it all and when you felt so dead you can’t even move remember where you found another way to die. Never forget that all the stages of favor are secondary to the only thing that never leaves. The life we live today must be by faith in the Son of God and not in the things and people that will fade with the seasons.. Living Gods word, breathing it, it’s the only thing sustaining you, moving you, picking you up off the floor leading you to the day were you live like yesterday never happened. Loss becomes gain here, you will never be the same when you know the fellowship of Christ sufferings. Because it leads to the fellowship of His resurrection power in your life hear and life after.



Another way to Live

Here at the place of the skull we never sleep alone, here we never walk alone, here we see what the apostle Paul wrote from the walls of a prison cell. This is were the living word comes full circle, you can know the living word by living the emotions found in it. This conclusion to the tour is the tour never ends it’s a tour for life and beyond. This way to live is the one thing that brings all contentment and escapes everything on the tour we find. I never again want to let life get in the way of seeing Jesus crucifixion and resurrection. When we have been crucified with Christ we have nothing to fear, nothing can hurt us here, we already died once with Christ now the lifestyle we live as sinners & saints is by faith in the Son of God.
Let this tour lead to change in you. This is were we lose hypocrisy and become real as sinners & saints on the spiritual tour of life. Satan will put up road blocks and try to use our weakness to lead us away from Highway of Redemption. Though we might stumble from time to time we have the power of Christ to bust through those road blocks when we go back to the place of the skull. Living like your dead having another chance in this body another chance to make change, find purpose, and impact the world for the better being filled with the resurrection power of God’s love. You can make a change in this other way to die, lives can be changed as you have nothing left to loose and everything to gain.
The place of skull is not a onetime thing though salvation never leaves we are stuck with Jesus no matter what we do. Yet to kill the sinner every day we must start at the place of the skull so that the saint in us will have renewed resurrection power to demolish the daily road blocks.
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Message of the cross is foolishness it means that the sinner is going to his funeral. Another way to die going to our funerals at the prison of our life in the body everything dies, our past, our goals, our dreams, our actions, our successes, our failures, crucified to the point of redemption, reinvented the life I now live I live by faith in the Son of God. Life will beat the hell out you one way or the other but on this side of the cross its never in vain because it leads to your destiny as a saint being conformed to the image of God‘s one and only Son.
Really friends this way to die, is the only way to live. This place on the tour drowns out everything else. There is nothing living in us other then our faith in the Son of God. God I hope we can never forget this place. What the apostle Paul said in Galatians 2 is conclusion to Rockstar Devotion, it is the lifestyle of saints that still have sinners in them trying to die another way, so we can live another way. True purpose is found on this stop, it’s the purest place we come because every stage we step onto from here is given by God’s divine resurrection power. When we come back to this place we can move forward, broken barricades from the past have disappeared, failures no longer exist, set free moving forward with the One and only Way to life. God loves us so much that His Son was crucified to death and raised back to life so we could experience the divine power of His love. Make your devotion to live out the word of God and become the change in the world that longs for truth.
 
 
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