Re: [FamilyofGod] prayer and Godly advice needed
Complete But Not Completed
Colossians 2:9,10:
For in him [Christ] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete [pleroō] in him [Christ], which is the head of all principality and power:
One of the most difficult truths for people to accept is that they are complete in Christ. The work of God in Christ in us is magnificent, and our acknowledgement of it is vital as we walk with Him. We are complete, filled to maximum capacity, in Christ. Our completeness is absolute, and this great reality of life is a springboard from which we can dive into a life of service to God. Just as surely as Christ is the head of all principality and power, we are complete in him.
To communicate the magnitude of our completeness the Aramaic uses a special conjugation. This fourth conjugation, the eshtaphal, shows the most intensive and extensive form of the verb. We are not just complete; we are completely, completely, absolutely complete. We lack nothing; God has provided for us exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think.
As born-again sons of God we are completely, completely, absolutely complete. Now our challenge becomes manifesting or demonstrating our completeness. Although we are complete, we are not completed. Paul prayed for the believers to continue to grow and demonstrate their completeness. God has done a complete work in us, but he is not done with us yet. Indeed we are complete, but not completed.
Philippians 1:3-6:
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
We are complete, but not completed. God continues to work with us as we manifest and demonstrate our completeness to the world. It may be difficult for us to think of something as complete unless it is fixed. Our completeness still allows for growth. Perhaps it may help to use an illustration of a seed.
A seed, for instance, is complete. It is inert, fixed, perfect in every detail. It is tightly sealed in its rigid case. You can pick it up and examine it. However, the seed is not complete, if by complete you mean completed. The seed has scarcely begun. Its end is to begin. A seed is sealed and complete. But this self-enclosed, walled-around globule has the power of expanding and growing into - a blade of grass, a flower, a redwood tree, a frog, an elephant, a human being. It is not limited; it may reproduce itself many times. It may expand into generations of roses, redwood trees, or human beings.
Living things, without exception, begin as a single cell. In the living world of which we are part, we typically see things begin as a seed, a cell, an egg, an embryo. Then, cell by cell, it grows. This is a universal rule of the living world. Nothing starts out full-grown. Everything has to grow… we become… our powers develop… our faculties mature.
God made us complete, but He did not make us with our growth achieved. He made us with the power to grow, and He promises to work with us until the day of Christ. We lack nothing. The full extent of how complete we are in him can only be known when we see him face to face we shall be like him.
Colossians 3:1-4:
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
What a day that will be. When we see him face to face we shall be like him. When we appear with him in glory we will demonstrate that we are completely, completely, absolutely complete in him. How exciting and invigorating life is as we realize we are complete and are being completed as we renew our minds to believe and appropriate His Word to transform our everyday living.
Shirley La Fave
From: George <george_smith92530@yahoo.com>
To: "FamilyofGod@yahoogroups.com" <FamilyofGod@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, June 24, 2011 7:36:52 AM
Subject: Re: [FamilyofGod] prayer and Godly advice needed
From: shirley lafave <amba55ador4chr15t@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [FamilyofGod] prayer and Godly advice needed
thanks for the prayers and advice . she changed her mind on going into the criminal justice field..... to many wolves in the police force she would rather be a sheep.....lol she learned those terms when she was doing criminal justice in las vegas, nv
Shirley La Fave
From: Wanda Ward <angelina56p47@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thu, June 23, 2011 7:19:47 AM
Subject: Re: [FamilyofGod] prayer and Godly advice needed
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Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:06:50 am
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From: "George" <george_smith92530@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [FamilyofGod] prayer and Godly advice needed
Sorry your daughter had to go through all that. If they were local police she should call the state police or the sheriff. I'm praying all goes well with her.
In Christ, George...
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From: sogwap <amba55ador4chr15t@yahoo.com>
To: FamilyofGod@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:29 PM
Subject: [FamilyofGod] prayer and Godly advice needed
Today my daughter Danielle went to sign up for volunteer work at the hospital in richland, wa.. she was walking to dairy queen after signing up because she is also looking for work. a gang of police officers approached her and started bulling her and searched because they were accusing her of being high. they tryed to bully her into getting in the car with them and go for a ride with them she refused of course and would not go anywhere with them but she is very shook up. tried calling the poli
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