Jesus is being formed in you -- if you'll let Him

A week ago Friday, at the Believer’s Prayer Service, the Lord spoke prophetically to the Body gathered there from 1 Corinthians and Philippians (below.) The Lord is taking us deeper than we’ve ever been in our faith. The Father is opening a door for intimacy with Him through His Son. Jesus is, still, offering Himself sacrificially to us, to live His life through our lips, hands, feet and hearts. The Holy Spirit is ministering that we might keep in step with Him in every moment. In these last few days, the Lord has really been speaking to my heart about who we are to be here, at Countryside, in the Lord. No clichés or cute mottos or simplistic formulas, but the simple Truth (Jesus is the truth, John 14:6) for the Lord Himself in the person of our Savior Jesus to be formed in us, and the great pains He is going through to see that “Christ formed in you” and me takes place. (Galatians 4:19) How might that happen? I think Paul has the answer: “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2) For Paul said: “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,” “until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” (Philippians 3:10, Ephesians 4:13) “Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.” (Ephesians 4:14-16) May the Lord boldly speak to you as He ministers the depth of His Spirit to your heart. —Pastor Terry