Be Perfect

As I was seeking the Lord today during lunch, He spoke this word. I did not plan on sharing it, but as I considered it this afternoon, I felt stirred that there may be some that need to hear it, even as I did:

I desire to use you for the glory of My name. Keep yourself unspotted from the world and go unto perfection that you would be blameless before men. This is what I require of those who will stand in strength in the days to come. Be holy as I am holy and be perfect as I am perfect. Those who have My Spirit and have ears to hear know that those who I have called to stand can accept nothing less. It is what I require of you. Seek to be last, to humble yourself before men always. Seek Me with a pure heart that you may become all things to all people, that some might walk on the path of righteousness toward perfection.

Seek not another man's ministry. Seek not to be lifted up or to have the approval of man. For many judge themselves by themselves and in doing so become unwise. I tell you seek after wisdom and get understanding that you may see the end from the beginning and that you would continue to walk on the path that is set before you, stumbling not.

Love to see others strengthened by the prayers of the righteous. Take joy in knowing that I the Lord hear your cries and do see to it that My word is performed, and that it is written on the hearts of men. Take all that I speak to you and consume it that nothing can keep you from the fullness of what I have for you.

Romans 8:18-39
¹⁶The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: ¹⁷And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. ¹⁸For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ¹⁹For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. ²⁰For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, ²¹Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ²²For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. ²³And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. ²⁴For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? ²⁵But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. ²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. ²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ²⁹For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. ³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ³²He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? ³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. ³⁴Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God be glorified,
Ryan