Convergence
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Convergence:
The way I am defining Convergence is when, your identity, your calling, timing, and anointing all come together.
Identity, Calling, Timing, Anointing.
People who walked in that Convergence Zone:
Job, David, Solomon, John the Baptist until the lane changed and timing passed, Jesus, Paul and his journey in finding that Zone.
Read 1 John 1&2 in the TPT
John the beloved wrote his magisterial letter to bring the churches back into unity and clarity of faith, and beckon them to hold fast to the tradition and values they had already committed themselves to in Christ. There were false teachers who had come in and divided the flock with doctrines that diminished the glory of Christ. John’s teachings always take us deeper into the truth and ways of God, and deeper into love for Jesus Christ. Anything that moves the heart away from loving Christ and loving others is to be viewed as suspect and diversionary. We can thank God for John’s three letters to consistently point us back to the Light!
Your identity and purpose, your lane, timing, place, and anointing all come together.
Identity, Calling, Timing, Anointing.
1 John gives us a ton of revelation on these topics.
A fresh revelation is an invitation to a deeper connection with Jesus.
Identity #1
When we know who He is.
When we know who we are.
2 This Life-Giver was made visible and we have seen him. We testify to this truth: the eternal Life-Giver lived face-to-face with the Father and has now dawned upon us.
Face to face is where find Him and ourselves.
What is eternal life?
3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
Eternal Life is to be one with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The disciples, when given a choice to leave Jesus refused and said who else has the words of eternal life.
Jesus was the connection to those words.
Jesus is the connection to the words of eternal life.
You can only find your Identity in being one with Father.
Face to face with Jesus is the way to Father.
We can stop looking these places to find our Identity:
At our work or what we produce.
At our parents.
At our politics.
At our passions.
At our music choices.
At our spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend.
How we are treated.
What we do or don’t produce.
Any place outside of us. (The Kingdom is within)
Pause and think about all the times you found a false identity about yourself.
When you felt not enough or to much where did that idea come from.
It is always outside of you.
You broke something, You made something worse, You did not do anything....
Someone hurt you. Someone forgot about you, Someone said you were not enough or too much.
What about the identity of God.
When you got hurt by what happened to you or what did not happen because you thought God should have done something different. You may have accepted an identity about God that was not Truth.
It is always outside of you.
You always find your true identity and Father’s true identity face to face.
Heart to heart, Inside you.
The only way you can find your identity, is through your connection with Jesus.
No one can find your identity for you.
You have to look inside you and see Jesus there.
Face to Face with Christ , Fellowship with Christ
Being Born again makes you a New Creation.
When you connect with Jesus, He gives you a new identity.
“There is a Son rising within your heart.”
We find our identity in Christ.
In fellowship with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We find our identity when we find His love for us face to face.
When is the last time you saw Jesus face to face?
Just because you can’t see Him with your natural eyes, does not mean we can not be face to face.
Activation:
Jesus would You show me Your Face?
You always find your true identity and Father’s true identity face to face.
Convergence is when, your identity, your calling, timing, and anointing all come together.
Identity, Calling, Timing, Anointing.
Calling #2 /purpose: (Your Lane)
When you know what you are called to impact and how.
Read 1 John 1&2 in The Passion Translation.
11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Timing:
There are so many factors in this one. Timing of God, Timing of you being ready or being able. Timing of others that you know of or may not even know of.
Most of the timing ingredient is out of our hands though.
Hope is a key for this. Being full of expectancy in the waiting.
Anointing:
This where God’s hand is on your life.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
24 As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. 27 As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.
Read 1 John
TPT Intro
In fact, John tells us four reasons why he wrote his letters:
(1) to bring us into life-union (fellowship) with God (1 John 1:3);
(2) that we might experience the fullness of joy (1 John 1:4);
(3) that we might not sin (1 John 2:1);
(4) that we might have the full assurance of our salvation (1 John 5:13).
1 We saw him with our very own eyes. We gazed upon him and heard him speak. Our hands actually touched him, the one who was from the beginning, the Living Expression of God. 2 This Life-Giver was made visible and we have seen him. We testify to this truth: the eternal Life-Giver lived face-to-face with the Father and has now dawned upon us. 3 So we proclaim to you what we have seen and heard about this Life-Giver so that we may share and enjoy this life together. For truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus, the Anointed One. 4 We are writing these things to you because we want to release to you our fullness of joy. 5 This is the life-giving message we heard him share and it’s still ringing in our ears. We now repeat his words to you: God is pure light. You will never find even a trace of darkness in him. 6 If we claim that we share life with him, but keep walking in the realm of darkness, we’re fooling ourselves and not living the truth. 7 But if we keep living in the pure light that surrounds him, we share unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, continually cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we boast that we have no sin, we’re only fooling ourselves and are strangers to the truth. 9 But if we freely admit our sins when his light uncovers them, he will be faithful to forgive us every time. God is just to forgive us our sins because of Christ, and he will continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim that we’re not guilty of sin when God uncovers it with his light, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
1 You are my dear children, and I write these things to you so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does sin, we continually have a forgiving Redeemer who is face-to-face with the Father: Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 Here’s how we can be sure that we’ve truly come to know God: if we keep his commands. 4 If someone claims, “I have come to know God by experience,” yet doesn’t keep God’s commands, he is a phony and the truth finds no place in him. 5 But the love of God will be perfected within the one who obeys God’s Word. We can be sure that we’ve truly come to live in intimacy with God, 6 not just by saying, “I am intimate with God,” but by walking in the footsteps of Jesus. 7 Beloved, I’m not writing a new commandment to you, but an old one that you had from the beginning, and you’ve already heard it. 8 Yet, in a sense, it is a new commandment, as its truth is made manifest both in Christ and in you, because the darkness is disappearing and the true light is already blazing. 9 Anyone who says, “I am in the light,” while holding hatred in his heart toward a fellow believer is still in the darkness. 10 But the one who truly loves a fellow believer lives in the light, and there is nothing in him that will cause someone else to stumble. 11 But whoever hates a fellow believer lives in the darkness—stumbling around in the dark with no clue where he is going, for he is blinded by the darkness. 12 I remind you, dear children: your sins have been permanently removed because of the power of his name. 13 I remind you, fathers and mothers: you have a relationship with the One who has existed from the beginning. And I remind you, young people: you have defeated the Evil One. 14 I write these things to you, dear children, because you truly have a relationship with the Father. I write these things, fathers and mothers, because you have had a true relationship with him who is from the beginning. And I write these things, young people, because you are strong, the Word of God is treasured in your hearts, and you have defeated the Evil One. 15 Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible. 16 For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance —none of these things come from the Father but from the world. 17 This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever. 18 Dear children, the end of this age is near! You have heard that Antichrist is arising, and in fact, many enemies of Christ have already appeared, and this is how we know that we are living in the closing hour of this age. 19 For even though they were once a part of us, they withdrew from us because they were never really of our number. For if they had truly belonged to us they would have continued with us. By leaving our community of believers they made it obvious that they never really belonged to us. 20 But the Holy One has anointed you and you all know the truth. 21 So I’m writing you not because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and no lie belongs to the truth. 22 Who is the real liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ. He is the real antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever rejects the Son rejects the Father. Whoever embraces the Son embraces the Father also. 24 So you must be sure to keep the message burning in your hearts; that is, the message of life you heard from the beginning. If you do, you will always be living in close fellowship with the Son and with the Father. 25 And he himself has promised us the never-ending life of the ages to come! 26 I’ve written these things about those who are attempting to lead you astray. 27 But the wonderful anointing you have received from God is so much greater than their deception and now lives in you. There’s no need for anyone to keep teaching you. His anointing teaches you all that you need to know, for it will lead you into truth, not a counterfeit. So just as the anointing has taught you, remain in him. 28 And now, dear children, remain in him, so that when he is revealed we may have joyful confidence and not be ashamed when we stand before him at his appearing. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who lives in righteousness has been divinely fathered by him.