Pursue The GROOM by Marietjie Chase

There is a need for the Church/Bride of Christ to be reconciled to the Groom. It is frustrating when you do all that you know how and He still does not respond. That is why many have walked away from organised religion. What is the answer to this?? STOP the pursuit of all the other things and pursue the Groom...!!!




" When we become people of one thing, we are not easily offended by the Lord,..... We are not quickly alienated by distrust for His motives. ..... By being people of one thing, we help to immunize our hearts against that sense of betrayal the enemy would like us to buy into. " Mike Bickle in After God's Own Heart.



Abiding in the Vine, Jesus said, for without Me you can do nothing. I would push it a bit and say if we are not abiding in Him, if it is NOT Christ in you the hope of glory, then we ARE nothing. The BEING comes first. We cannot be by doing but we can do because of who we are.



When we become intimate in our relationship with God through Jesus Christ by the power and ability of the Holy Spirit, His seed in us procreate according to it's own kind. It will bring forth the fruit of the Holy Spirit and change us from one degree of glory into another.



It is NOT by our own effort. We cannot make ourself into His image any more than a flower can make itself red, yellow or blue. It IS not of ourselves so that we can boast and become pharisees condescending upon others glorying in our own ellevation. It is as we pursue Him, when our entire attention is focused upon Him and the glory that He has starts to reflect of off our faces that we become the dwelling place of God's presense.



Paul said that he no longer judge himself. This is what he was talking about. Our hearts, minds, will and emotions... our very being... gets so wrapped up in the beauty and splendor of the KING that we loose the importance of our self and our own little agenda.



When we can unite not in our agreement in doctrine or methods or common enemy but by the magnificence of our common Lord and King. When we behold His beauty and our eyes are turned to Him as we adore Him and open our lives and hearts for Him; we are truely His Bride.



"AND the things of this earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace."