Seed for Aug 14

You have heard it said, "Act like Jesus" or "What would Jesus do?" And that we are to be "imitators" of Jesus, to copy Him, or follow in His footsteps. All these terms describe someone or something "trying" to be something else. The Church is not "like" the Body of Christ, but "is" the Body of Christ. We are not to try to "act" Christian, but to simply let the Life that is within live through us. If we are truly born again, then the Spirit of God lives in this earthly vessel. It is not a matter of me pretending...but a matter of Him "living".

I don't try to be nice...like a thorn tree "tries" to bare grapes, for that is impossible! I don't try to bare the fruit of the Spirit, but the fruit of the Spirit is borne in me by the natural process of the Life within. Many have it all wrong. Trying to “be a Christian” is hard work! Letting the real Jesus that really lives in me express Himself is easy. Paul put it this way..."reckon yourself dead". The old Billy Wells is dead! I see it and believe it, because the Word of God declared it. Romans 6. That is a fact! There is a new Creation is in me, Him. His Seed is planted in this fertile ground called me. If I get out the way, acknowledge with His Word that I am dead, and let Him live...then I enjoy the real Sabbath. I rest from my own labors and He lives! What a great victory when I don't have to try to be or do anything! I rest! He lives. Be blessed.

Drawing a straight line,
Billy and Jan WellsSan Antonio, TX http://www.bountyhunt.com/
theseedsofgrace.blogspot.com (our blog)
billy20772@gmail.com

Seed for Aug 13

He is a present help in time of need. Every one of us from time to time NEEDS the Lord's help. But I am here to declare that we can go to Him in the most mundane things of day to day life. He is not too busy. He tells us in His word to not worry about anything but in ALL things make our request and petitions known to Him. "In all things" means just that. All things both big and small. The wonderful thing about being able to talk to Him about all things brings Him nearer to us and our relationship closer to Him. Don't be afraid to let Him know what you need, what you are thinking, asking for guidance in every detail of your life. The Word says it like this..."lean not to your own understanding, but acknowledge the Lord in all things and He will direct your steps." He is a God at hand and not a God afar off. Be Blessed.

Drawing a straight line,
Billy and Jan WellsSan Antonio, TX www.bountyhunt.com
theseedsofgrace.blogspot.com (our blog)
billy20772@gmail.com

Seed for Aug 12

Ps 122:1
1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
(KJV)

David, a man after God’s own heart, desired sweet fellowship with the Lord and longed to be in His presence. The Lord has always desired to be in sweet fellowship with man. The Lord walked with Adam in the garden, and they had sweet fellowship. But sin broke that fellowship. Then, the Lord’s plan was to allow Israel to live on all sides of the Tabernacle (His presence), because of the blood of the sacrificed lamb. 12 tribes of Israel camped 3 on each of the 4 side of the Tabernacle (His presence). This signifying, God’s presence dwells in the middle of His people. Then the plan further evolved to, the Spirit of the Lord making Himself a body and dwelling with mankind, and He was called Emmanuel, God with us. But the ultimate plan was for God to not just to be with us, but dwell in us. After Calvary, sin debt paid, the way was made for God to dwell inside His people, and now we have become the “house” of the Lord. No longer do we have to go somewhere to be in His presence. He does not live in houses made by men’s hands. He does not dwell in church building, but in His people. Thus, where ever 2-3 or gathered in His name, there He is. Not only is He in me, but when I join with more of His body, there He is in the midst. So, let me ask….is it a joy for you to live in the presence of the Lord? Do you long for sweet fellowship with Him in His body? Be blessed.

Drawing a straight line,
Billy and Jan WellsSan Antonio, TX www.bountyhunt.com
theseedsofgrace.blogspot.com (our blog)
billy20772@gmail.com

Seed for Aug 11

Grace gives what is not deserved. Grace gives what is not earned. What we deserved was judgment and conviction and condemnation, but instead He gives us justification (just-as-if-I-had-never-sinned), acquittal and restoration. Now, how many times do we meet people that need grace? Everyday of our lives we meet people just like us, who need the grace of God and we are the vessels God want to use to minister that grace. Here is the trick. Give away what you need/want to receive. Give love instead of wrath, peace instead of conflict, mercy instead of judgment, help instead of condemnation. An amazing thing happens in the Spirit. What every you give away comes again to you. I know that I don't need guilt, or condemnation, so I sure don't want to give any way! I know I need peace love and joy, so I plan to heap those on the "undeserved" today in bucket loads. Be blessed.

Drawing a straight line,
Billy and Jan Wells San Antonio, TX www.bountyhunt.com
theseedsofgrace.blogspot.com (our blog)
billy20772@gmail.com

Seed for Aug 10

The 10 Commandments were written by the finger of God on tablets of stone. They were written on stone to match/equal the hardness of men's hearts. Since men's hearts were as hard as stone, the commandments had to match that hardness. But the promise was for a day when God would no longer have commandments written in stone but His law would be written in the flesh of our hearts. He would take away our old hard heart and give us a heart sensitive to Him. So we have a contrast of the "law without" and the "law with in." The "law without" did absolutely nothing to make men right. How then do we think that men's law or religious laws are going to make men right? We go to church and immediately they begin with "don't do this, don't handle that, don't taste this, don't go there, don't look at that, don't, don't, don't." Is there any wonder why men become turned off to religion? That is not God's way! He writes His law in our hearts. When we come to Him he changes our hard stoney hearts, to one that can be sensitive to Him. If your heart has not been changed by God, you can keep all the commandments you want, and you will not please God. They that are in the flesh cannot please God. We must walk in the Spirit, and it must be the "life within" not the rules "without" that govern. Be blessed

Drawing a straight line,
Billy and Jan WellsSan Antonio, TX http://www.bountyhunt.com/
theseedsofgrace.blogspot.com (our blog)
billy20772@gmail.com

Seed for Aug 9

Heb 11:13-1613 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.16 Instead, they were longing for a better country-- a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.(NIV)

This passage is about the Hall of Fame of the Faithful. The point today is the verse saying "if they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return." This is speaking to us spiritually, and talking about the life we left before we knew the Lord. I call them my "BC" (before Christ) days. If I were to spend all my time talking and thinking about the past life of sin I left behind, I would have opportunity to return to that past life.

Ever hear people, who claim to be converted, yet spend all their talking time about their past bad life? They are "mindful" of the country they left and it will not be long until they are longing to return like a fool to his folly.

We have a new hope, and a new mind, and have become a new creation. We may remember out past, but God does not! He will never remember it against us again, so it is best if we forget. Paul said it best, "Forgetting those things that are behind, I press on..."

Remember you are what you think about all the time. Let this same mind be in you that was in Christ.

Drawing a straight line,
Billy and Jan WellsSan Antonio, TX www.bountyhunt.com
theseedsofgrace.blogspot.com (our blog)
billy20772@gmail.com

Seed for Aug 8

The Bible says that we were called with a hope. The same way a farmer plants seeds he does so with a hope. The farmer hopes to make a crop and that his seed produces fruit. Our God plants His own seed in us, with the hope that we produce fruit. That fruit has the seed in it for more production. So you see God's hope does stop with what that seed will do in your, but then in turn when someone taste your fruit and sees how good God is, that some of that new seed will be sown in them. That is how the "good news" has spread from the days of Christ until today.

What exactly is that hope God planted in you? That Christ would be formed in you. That you would grow up into Him in all things. That the Mystery of the gospel would be made known in you, that being, Christ and you married become one flesh. This goes so far beyond "religion" that I find it hard to believe it has not been realized by His people. It stead of a bunch of rules, it has become a life. Instead of pretending, it is a reality in us, that the Living God lives in us. I have stopped "trying" to be a Christian, and simply allow Him to live out His life in me. How? Reckon myself dead, and Him alive in me. That is the hope of His calling, Christ in me the hope of glory.

Drawing a straight line,
Billy and Jan WellsSan Antonio, TX http://www.bountyhunt.com/
theseedsofgrace.blogspot.com (our blog)
billy20772@gmail.com