Awakened and Aligned

that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. (John 17:20-23) It will not, nor cannot, be produced by the hands of man. Our Father is building us into His holy habitation by His Spirit. He WILL have His holy dwelling place with Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone. One of the synonyms for ‘FOCUS’ from the Oxford Dictionary is, interestingly enough, CORNERSTONE. If our focus is Jesus the Chief Cornerstone, the plumb line by which the whole house is being fit together perfectly, then we will organically and authentically be the House built by the hand of the Lord. (Anything else is laboring in vain.) We are a people belonging to Him, crafted by His hand, prepared to display His glory. Keeping our eyes and hearts fixed on our Prize, our very great Reward, Jesus Christ Himself. Keeping our minds set on the eternal things above and living from that place of knowing Him. 19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:19-22)

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