Grace Walking: Earthly Stories with a Heavenly Message

Copyright © 2011 by Sir Charles Davis.

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Contents

Christianity

Introduction

It Is For A Purpose

OUTPOST

The Temple of God

The Visitation

Times and Seasons

He Is There

A Sense of Danger

To Charles D. Watson, Sr., my Dad

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the Divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places demonstrates to the ages the exceeding riches of God’s kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

A.W. Tozer

Christianity

It amazes me what many Christians think Christianity is about or who Jesus is or even God. When I read the book of Acts in the Bible of the New Testament Church and I look at the 21st century Church I fail to see the similarity. There was so much energy, so much excitement about the things of God that all kinds of people sought the Disciples of Christ to see if they were real and it is written that God added to the church daily. We read how the disciples were used by God to carry out His plan and purpose in the earth. We read about the miracles they performed in the name of Jesus. The people were astonished at how these Christians loved one another. I am not saying that they did not have their problems. I am saying that there was just one church, one body, one Holy Spirit, one Christ, and one God. Whereas today, we have numerous denominations, doctrines, and teachings, the Body of Christ is fragmented, broken even as Christ’s body was broken on the cross. Jesus told us what to do to re-member him; for in doing this we keep the body whole. But we have allowed the disease of confusion, backbiting, murmuring, and complaining to enter the body. We argue among ourselves what the scripture says and mean and the world is watching us. It is like a family arguing and fighting among themselves all the time and the neighbors witnessing their daily melee. And just like the neighbors the world is shaking its head wondering when the children of God will appear, for there is no love in what they see in these Christians of today.

Many of us use Christianity as a convenience, to be used when it pleases us, or used to keep or gain control over whomever or whatever. Instead of us being transformed into His likeness by letting the mind of Christ dwell in us and the word of God become alive in us and allow it to transform our lives. We do our own transformation by re-writing the Bible to fit our life style. Then we will compromise with the world in hopes of having nothing to interfere in our lives or cause us to experience any discomfort. We have seen groups after groups in the world come against the word of God and we have compromised. We see all kinds of abominations rise up knowing that the word of God speaks against it and we have compromised. We say, Live and let live or I don’t judge, and we sit in our little corner of our world holding on to our Jesus fearing man more than God.

So we categorize Christianity as a religion and in doing so we take Christ out of it. They were first called Christians at Antioch because they mimic Jesus and not only by the way He talked but they mimic the way He lived. They believed when Jesus told them, All that the Father has given me I give to you and When you ask anything in my name it will be given to you. They believed that greater was He that was in them than he that is in the world and greater things they did in His name. He gave to us the Holy Spirit so that we would not be left alone when He ascended to heaven. The Holy Spirit guides, teaches, and leads us into all truth. Man can only lead us to death; there is no life in man without the Holy Spirit, Selah. We do not have to prove that God exist, is right, or prove that the world is wrong all we have to do is live as Jesus says we should live.

How is the Christian life lived? It is a life of love. It is written that though we may have extraordinary talents, posses spiritual gifts, and have great knowledge through education it all means nothing if we do not have love. And we can read in the scriptures what love is. We can read that God is love and love is not an attribute, a virtue of God or part of His character it is who He is, Love. Christianity is a faith walk. You cannot live a Christian life without faith and it is impossible to please God without it. To a true Christian to believe is to see. To be able to see anything in the Kingdom of God one must first believe that God is then and only then will eyes be open to see the magnificent of His being. God reveals things to his children that the world will never understand. We walk by faith and not by sight. A Christian life is holy, sacred, sanctified, consecrated, and blessed by Father God. A Christian life is not self own but purchase by Christ through his death, burial, and resurrection. So that the life we live in the flesh is lived by faith in Christ Jesus. Many Christians do not understand that. We hold within our imperfect bodies the Perfect One, the Anointed One working in us the will and to do of His good pleasure. He is the Author and Finisher of our faith. He is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Where were you when God picked you out of your mess? What had you gone through when you lifted your voice asking Christ to forgive you and to come into your life? Do you remember? Do you remember confessing with your mouth and believing in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord? Do you remember confessing that you were a sinner saved by grace? Do you remember how His love over shadowed your fears and you felt safe, cleaned, and brand new? Do you remember? Then live out of that, wrap it around yourself, and let the word become alive in you. Christianity is not a religion to those who truly love and know Him, to those who have an intimate relationship with Him, to those it is the way.

The church in the New Testament, those who were called Christians of that time knew what it meant to sacrifice, give, and love. The disciples taught the way, the truth, and the life given to them from Christ through the Holy Spirit. They were given Apostles, Pastors, Evangelist, Prophets, and Teachers for the edifying of the Body. The blind was given sight, the lamed walked, the sick were healed, and the dead rose but we of the 21st century church say that it is not for us today making the word of God of no affect; we cannot pick and choose, we either live by the word of God or we die without it. Do we believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? We have to take our hands off the things of this world and take hold of the things of God in Christ Jesus. We must return to our first Love. The world is anxiously waiting for the coming of the Children of the Most High God. The world is anxiously waiting for the Children of the Light to consume the darkness that surrounds it, in Jesus name. It all comes back to this, Christianity is not a religion it is a life style. It is the way we live our lives in Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit and in this there is no compromise.

Introduction

Grace Walking

Walking in the unmerited Favor of God

It is a season of natural enlightenment as well as spiritual. We are experiencing a new dimension of God’s grace, learning how to walk in that grace and learning how to bestow God’s grace to others. Throughout the years we have witnessed the out-pouring of His grace. The Holy Spirit has been taking us on a journey through the scriptures teaching and admonishing us about the grace of God. The Spirit of God is guiding us to a more excellent understanding of how greater the He that is in us than he that is the world is.

Grace is the highest privilege that God has lavished upon His people. We have received His Grace because of His unconditional love, we did not earned, merited, deserve blessings, or gifts. He is teaching us how to move in the unforced rhythms of His grace that flows freely from His throne. Therefore, we the church, the Bride of Christ ought to glory in that truth. God’s grace reveals to us the richness and unfathomable things of His heart and His love towards all creation. We have access by faith to the grace of God because of the blood of Jesus Christ and we are authorized to be seated with Him in heavenly places.

Once we receive and acknowledge the out-pouring of God’s grace in our lives we must become dispensers of that grace. We must become vessels that the Holy Spirit can use to pour out that grace on a hurting people. Our Father is gracious and we being His children must also be gracious even to our enemies, and to those who spitefully use us. But we must walk in God’s grace to be able disperse His grace on this age; standing in the gap interceding through prayer. By His grace alone we do what we do and we are who we are.

God’s grace is eternal and goes beyond time and space. Look back to the fall of man, I say look back at your own life and see how God has brought