How you doin? Stacey and I attended a healing & miracle service last night. It was totally AWESOME!!!!!!! I saw/felt an atmospheric shift. I've only ever seen this happen one other time. Both times it was dealing with deliverance. The air in the room felt different on my skin and it looked "hazzy" is the best way I can describe it. As if there was a clear fog, if that makes sense. SO, powerful. There were healing and miracles. The deliverance wasn't clear as to what happen. This older woman couldn't say "Jesus is Lord" or even "Jesus". She screamed out several times and tried to hit the person attempting to cast out the unwanted spirit(s). This was the first time I ever saw, in person, this type of demonic manifestation. At one point it/they screamed out, "I'm not coming out". So wild. The people with her said that she has been in this condition for several years and that they are having trouble determining the name of the demon or demons that have her captive. They said that they just started ministering to her and they have nearly zero history of her life. Incredible stretching and learning for me last night. I can't wait to go to another one of these services.
So as mentioned last Mon. I want to at least start talking about the 5 crowns we can earn in heaven. I'm very preoccupied with what happen last night, but I'll at least start this thought about the crowns. Of course as I research this on the internet, I become more confused. I just don't believe that God's word is left up to interpretation. Literature, like Shakespeare, is left up to interpretation. That's fiction. God is Truth. I've recently experienced people using Scripture to rebuke me and certain ministries. When I looked those Scripture up, they were the same Scripture that supported my believe and the ministries theology. So two people reading the same Scripture and using it for opposite positions in theology. I would think that one or both of us are wrong. God has and is teaching me about the two Spirits that drive every one of us. The Spirit of love, which comes from God and the spirit of fear, which comes from Satan. This is why I pray for the body of Christ to seek and desire Christ likeness. If we accepted and believe that we are created in His image, then we can begin the process of becoming like Him. If we all become like Him, we will consequently have unity. Unity comes from transformation (in to His likeness), not conformity.
With all that being said, I'm only giving you what I found through Google search. Some sites say there are 7, 8, or 10 heavenly crowns. Most say there are 5. All the sites that speak of 5 say that their order "MAY" be the order in which a follower of Jesus may earn the crowns. They all had the same core Scripture, which is helpful.
I'll give you 4 list with different orders, but the same Scripture references.
1) Incorruptible Crown (1 Corinthians 9:24-27), 2) Crown of Righteousness (2 Timothy 4:8), 3) Crown of Life (James 1:12; Revelation 2:10), 4) Crown of Joy (Philippians 4:1; 1 Thess.2:19), 5) Crown of Glory (1 Peter 5:4).
1) Incorruptible Crown (1 Corinthians 9:24-27), 2) Crown of Righteousness (2 Timothy 4:8), 3) Crown of Life (James 1:12; Revelation 2:10), 4) Crown of Joy (Philippians 4:1; 1 Thess.2:19), 5) Crown of Glory (1 Peter 5:4).
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, 3) Crown of Rejoicing, 4)
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5)
Crown of Righteousness
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1) Incorruptible Crown
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Crown of Rejoicing,
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Crown of Righteousness
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Crown of Glory
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1) Imperishable Crown, 2)
Crown of Rejoicing
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4) Crown of Glory, 5)
Crown of Life
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Keep in mind why we should be trying to earn crowns. Not only because we will be judged for what we did in/with Christ, but for what Revelation 4:10 tells us... "the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,". I certainly what to be able to honor and worship Jesus in a HUGE way by casting many big crowns at His feet or thrown. COME ON!!!!!!! The thought of this gets me a little charged up. Next Monday I will give you what each crown is and tell you more of my own search of the Scripture, not Google. Pray to become transformed into His likeness today.
PS If everyone in the Cape May County woke up this morning and new beyond a shadow of a doubt in their own mind that they had to wear a white shirt, we would have some serious unity in shirt color though out the county. Think about the unity in the body of Christ if we thought, understood, had an attitude, forgave, and most of all loved like Christ. WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!
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