Ed Christian's World

Beggars Of Heaven…

When my father was very young he would often see people in restaurants eating things he wanted. He would go to the other tables and beg for food. When his father saw this, he was embarrassed because it was a reflection of him.

So it is for the children of God. When we live as desperate, needy people, always feeling the need for love, the approval and acceptance of others, and needing what other people have, we are dishonoring Him.

If we live to get success and comfort from this world or to take from this world, we will be miserable; we are saying He is not taking care of us. We are testifying against our heavenly Father. We are an embarrassment to the kingdom.

He commanded us to rejoice; it’s a great thing. Be joyful, it’s okay, it’s a command. You are a child of God, a child of the King. Stop being needy; stop living like a beggar. You have everything you need.

Remember that you’re a reflection of your Father in heaven. He is the God of all, and God called you to live like the child of a King–not like a beggar.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33

Today don’t live in need, but truly as a child of the king – giving and blessing.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Receiving The Forever Gift…

Micah 5:2 talks about the One who was born in Bethlehem. Beyond that it says “from the days of forever.” Clearly, someone is from the days of forever. Everyone begins at one point in time, but only One is from forever.

Only One has no beginning–God! The One born in Bethlehem is God–Jesus. It has to be that way because only God is God, only God is good, and only what comes from God is good.

Jesus didn’t really come from Bethlehem. He came from eternity. Bethlehem received Him. So we need to be like Bethlehem. If you try to produce righteousness, love or holiness, it won’t be good. You can’t produce God from yourself; you must receive Him every day from eternity.

You receive that which you didn’t begin, and it will become a blessing in your life. Jesus, the Gift of God, is not from Bethlehem, but through Bethlehem, from the days of eternity. Realize that all the good you will ever do in the Lord cannot be produced. It can only be received and then given from the days of eternity.

“Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. Luke 18:19

Whatever you need to do and become in your walk and calling – first receive God’s infilling of blessing and anointing. Then do it.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Miracle Transporter…

Mary didn’t leave the glorious miracle of Jesus behind in Bethlehem. She brought it with her into Egypt, then out of Egypt, across its borders. She carried it to Nazareth because the miracle wasn’t about a place. Mary took the treasure and she went.

We have to do the same. The miracle is not having a high experience with God; a miracle is greater. The miracle is Him, not something for a moment, not dependent upon anything else. It’s what you carry from your time with the Lord.

If the miracle is just an experience, it won’t change your life. A miracle changes you when you apply it to your everyday life. That’s when it becomes a miracle life. For Joseph and Mary, the angels and shepherds all left; the thing was over. They no longer had the experience.

Nevertheless they left Bethlehem with the reality of the miracle. So you too, become a transporter of miracles. Take the miracle home; take it everywhere, and don’t leave home without it.

The miracle will transform every situation in your life, and your life will become, at all times, a miracle.

Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you.” Exodus 34:10

Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, is your miracle. Bring it’s presence and life into parts of your life and world you never have before.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Inn Place…

With life’s many distractions, it’s often hard to get alone with the Lord. Two-thousand years ago in Bethlehem, the place to be it seemed, was the inn. The inn was filled with people; there was no more room.

The inn was where it was at. It was “in” to be at the “inn.” The manger was outside the inn, not the place to be. But today no one is interested in the inn, but everyone is interested in the manger.

In the end, it’s not the “inn” things that are going to be where God is at. That seems like the “in” place, but in the end, it’s not going to be. The “in” place is going to be where Jesus’s presence is – God’s presence.

The other stuff is going to be empty; forgotten. The only thing that will matter is you being alone with the Lord, in God’s presence; that’s it.

Just like Joseph and Mary, get out of the inn and get into the manger, into the quiet with God, because there’s no room at the inn. But in the manger is the presence of God.

You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16:11

Find a quiet place where you can be completely alone with God, to pray and have fellowship with Him! You will find rest there.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The End Time Warriors…

God’s people are fighters. Israel wasn’t just a nation, it was an army. If you are a child of God, you need to be a fighter. It may be great to hang out and fellowship with others, but you also need to fight.

The world is fighting with darkness; the light has to fight back. It’s not against flesh and blood, but against this present darkness. Fight the good fight. The people of God had swords, armor, shields, and they fought against overwhelming odds. Most weren’t even trained soldiers, but it was God’s power. So for you; the same thing.

You may not consider yourself strong, but with God you have to fight, and you will be a fighter. With God you will overcome and win. Don’t only have hope. Have a fighting hope.

Put on fighting goodness, fighting perseverance, fighting faith, fighting joy, fighting encouragement, fighting self-control, fighting zeal, and worship–that fights through; discipline that fights, courage that fights, a victory that fights, joy that fights even when it’s hard to be joyful, a fighting spirit. Fight the good fight of faith. Be a warrior…an end- time fighter in the Lord.

When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” Judge’s 6:12

Stand firm today; resolve to fight against the darkness by shining the light of Messiah and upholding His word!

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Holy Headband…

Israel’s priest wore a gold crown that said, “Holy to the Lord.” His headpiece had to be consistent with the holiness of the rest of his garments. We too are called priests, and need to have a crown consistent with our faith.

Your thought life crowns your mind; it has to be consistent. However, how often do you worship the Lord while thinking about something else? You say, “I love you brother”, but you really can’t stand him. “I’ll pray about that,” knowing you’ll probably never pray.

Your thought life has to be consistent with your faith and ministry, and the rest of your life. The inside has to be the same as the outside. Your actions and thoughts must be pure and consistent with what you mean in your heart.

Say what you think; think what you mean; mean what you say; do what you mean–it’s all together. Be consistent in every way; holy from the inside out. God wants your prayer life, thought life, and emotional life to be holy.

Let Him have His way. Let your thoughts become Kadosh L’Adonai, holy unto the Lord; pure as a crown of gold.

For it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16

Consecrate your thought life to God and His purposes. Seek to bring every thought in line with your faith.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Pascha…

We know it as Easter, the time of the crucifixion and resurrection. Easter is a pagan word linked to Ayustra, the goddess of fertility. The actual word in the Bible is written in the old King James is the word Pascha.

Pascha comes from the Hebrew word Pesach. Pesach is Passover. Jesus is not our Easter, but Jesus is our Passover Lamb. Even the first believers celebrated what we call Easter on Passover.

It was only later ruled out as they ruled out the Jewish things. It shows us that our faith is Jewish, no matter what; you are born as a citizen of Israel. Jesus is our Passover; Pesach, our Passover Lamb.

His name is Passover. And therefore, Jesus gives you the power of Passover, the power to walk in freedom as did the Israelites. Let the power of Passover cause you to Passover that past, to whatever you have been in, to Passover from death to life, from that sin to freedom.

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. Romans 6:13

Receive the power of the Passover Lamb in every area of your life, and walk in freedom today.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Sacred Undergarments…

The priests of Israel wore sacred, holy garments. The high priest wore the breastplate; the ephod; the urim; the thummim, and the golden crown. He also had to have holy undergarments. Even on the inside, that which touched his body had to be holy.

There’s a lot we can take from this. It’s not just the outer things that people see, but the inner things, the things that touch. In Hebrew it speaks about the private parts. There is to be no hint of sexual immorality; everything in our life is to be covered by the Lord.

No off-colored remarks, no room for wandering eyes, even our private thoughts are to be covered. Each of us is brother and sister until there is union in marriage; that is the covering. Many ministers have fallen because this was not covered.

Cover yourself, every part of your life, under the holy covering of God including your sexuality and God will bless you. For the Lord requires us to be holy from the outside in and the inside out.

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. Deuteronomy 7:6

Bring any impurity in your life to God. Open it up totally to Him. Let Him touch it. Commit your heart to total victory, by the power of God.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Upside-down Power…

The power of the cross…think about it. An execution stake, a horrible vessel of torture and death that becomes a symbol of life and hope. Death turns into life.

The worst thing that can happen becomes the best thing. Here’s the worst sin, the crucifixion of God, yet it becomes the greatest act of righteousness that’s ever been. Here’s the ending of God’s life, yet it becomes the beginning.

The cross becomes a place of hope; the tomb, a place of new beginning. That’s the power of God. The power of Jesus is to turn everything upside down. The Apostle Paul was accused; the man who was turning the world upside down.

You have that power too. If you are in Jesus, you have the power to turn everything upside down, to turn your sorrow into joy, your setbacks into victory, your failures into triumph, to turn every bad thing into the blessing of God.

Use that power; the cross is the most revolutionary power in the universe. It’s the power for the Lord and in the Lord to turn your life and the world upside down.

But to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 1 Corinthians 1:24-25

Ask God to show you the areas of your life that need restoring/healing and apply His power to them. Seek God to turn problems into answers, tears into joy, and endings into new beginnings.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Zoroastrians…

In an ancient Middle Eastern land, there’s a caste of priests called the Zoroastrians of the Magian or Zoroastrian faith–the Magi. They dressed in white robes and conical hats. They begin a journey not knowing where it will lead them.

Seeking something greater, they ultimately came to the house of a Jewish family with a Jewish child. They would come to know the child as the Light of the world, the Glory of Israel. They followed a star which brought them to Bethlehem; a moment ordained from the beginning.

The prophet Isaiah said in his writings, “Arise, shine, for your light has come. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising.” It says, “They will bring you gifts of gold and frankincense.” When the Light of Israel comes, the Gentiles will come bringing gold and frankincense.

They were the first to fulfill the prophecy-because the Light has come. Be like the Magi. You don’t have to understand everything. Just follow His leading, and you will end up fulfilling the destiny for which you were born.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness,  righteousness and truth) Ephesians 5:8-9

Make today a spiritual journey. Seek and follow God’s will and leading in everything, and be led to a treasure.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed