Pure Glory

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

If you’ll walk through the doors, I’ll open them for you.  Don’t just talk about your season, walk IN your season.  It is Divine!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

I was lost in my own order
Consumed with my own love
A Pharisee, a Sadducee needing to be free
Desiring to be forgiven but harboring unforgiveness
Trying to make others perfect, never seeing the flaws in myself
I wonder how I could have been so blind
And how would I had ever known
When all that I could ever see
Were the person’s faults not their needs.
But Mercy found me…

I was lost in a world of intolerance, a world of impatience;
But Mercy found me…

Strengthened me where I was weak,
Healed me where I was scorned and becomes new every morn.
Great deliverance he gives the King,
And gives mercy to David and his seed
Mercy
I was trying to rescue others
Until your mercy came and found me.

Holding others to a standard that I couldn’t live myself
I had salvation and relation, but self-deception too
Ministering to their actions instead of to their hearts
For all the paths of the Lord are mercy and His truth
Tell me how could I be so blind and how would I’d ever known
When all that I could ever see
Were their faults not their needs.
But Mercy found me…

I was lost in a world of intolerance a world of impatience
But it found me
Strengthened me where I was weak,
Healed me where I was torn
And becomes new every morn.

Great deliverance he gives the King,
He gives mercy to David and his seed
Oh, I was trying to rescue others
Till your mercy came and found me.

Why do I keep allowing the same to affect me?
How can I stop doing what seems to beset me?
When will it end, so I can live again?
What is it Lord?
The answer is mercy, mercy, mercy me.
Mercy, mercy, mercy me.

I was weak but Mercy strengthened me
I was sick but your mercy healed me.

Your mercies are new every morning no matter what we did or did not do yesterday.

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

The time has come to end performance, entertaining, and impressing of others by the flesh. Skills, talents, and human abilities are no match nor substitute for the Glory. Now is the time for the true worshipers to come forth…and nothing impresses us more than the pure Glory of the Lord.

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

The dreams God gave you are real. Please don’t allow life and the enemy, to steal, kill, and destroy your destiny. If you’ve tried the possible and the possible ain’t working; then it’s time to do the impossible. No matter how farfetched it may seem, pursue the Dream.

Undoubtingly,

Dream Giver

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

The lack of love causes us to speak out of hurt, the abundance of love causes us to speak healing. The absenceof love causes us to fear, the presence of love makes us fearless. The weakness of man tries to change others, the power of love changes our hearts. What has love got to do with it…a whole lot!

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

If you are always joyless because of how people hate you, then you might not know who you are. If you’re joyful, despite how people hate you and love them unfeigned, then you know who you are; a “True Worshiper.”

Joy, predicated on the One internal not the ones external…” (John 15:18-19)

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

Instead of trying to make others perfect, focus on trying to love others perfectly, it’s akin to loving others as I have loved you.

Sincerely,

Love…

by Apostle Gabriel Cross

The more you realize God has approved you and given you authority, the less you will seek the approval and authority of others. People pleasers live to hear people say, “You are important.” However, God pleasers live to hear the Father say, “You are my beloved in whom I am well pleased.”

by Hazel Straub

Can you remember being a college student and taking many classes in your major area of study?  You spent time in the classroom hearing your professor lecture, you read books on your area of interest, did research and wrote papers, and even took the final exam.  Once you satisfied the college’s requirements, you received a diploma attesting that you had completed the requirements to become a graduate.  After a job search, you were hired for the job that you had long anticipated.  Although you had the job title, you still needed time to learn how to do your job duties. You no longer could dress like a student or think as you did formerly.  The work place was different from school. Studying about the subject did not give you the wisdom to know how to deal with the job challenges.  It made you think wistfully of your more carefree student days. This time of transition to the new professional life, required help from your supervisor and coworkers to learn how to become an employee that was confident in performing all the job duties. It took some time to master every facet of your new occupation.  You were earning a pay check in your chosen field but experienced much discomfort.

The church, similar to the recent college graduate, has transitioned into a new place of destiny that we anticipated occupying.  Now that we are here, we find it uncomfortable and unfamiliar. The comfort of the past is not there. We have arrived in new territory but we do not know how to conduct ourselves.  This is a place that we have never seen or known.  The old paradigms of the past no longer fit.  Our old ways, relationships and structures have changed.  What worked well in the past, no longer does.  We need to rely on the Holy Spirit (job supervisor) to show us how occupy this new place.  It is a time to stop, pause and listen. The old is gone and we need instruction for moving into our destiny.  We cannot trust in ourselves but only in the small, still voice of our teacher of all truth, comforter and friend-Holy Spirit.

Jesus is our Good Shepherd, who leads and guides us into abundant provision.  We know his voice and need to stay close by his side, as we walk into this new place and season.  Let him define you and your relationships.  He is there to give you comfort, when you go through this season of death to the old.  Even when your enemies are near, our Shepherd provides you with covenant provision.  During this new season his goodness and mercy will follow and pursue you all the days of your life as you follow his lead.