"Be With Me Where I Am" - Jesus, John 17:24
Blessings, grace and peace to you in abundance through our glorious indwelling Savior, Jesus Christ!
Jesus desires to show you His glory! In this world we face many a tribulation, our Savior declared as much, “but take courage,” He said, “I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). How do we avail ourselves of this “courage,” His “courage,” which allows us to see the overcoming victory and reality of Christ, instead of our being overwhelmed by this world?
“Be with Me where I am” (John 17:24).
Where is God’s sweet peace, the peace that “passes all understanding” (Phil. 4:7), the peace Jesus promised when He said “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you: not as the world gives do I give to you” (John 14:27)?
“Be with Me where I am.”
Where is the place of glory, where God’s glory dwells; where we may behold His glory, be surrounded by His glory, be enveloped in His glory, made whole, kept safe, nurtured and nourished in His glory?
“Be with Me where I am.”
Our Savior prayed for us... on the eve of His death for us... asking His heavenly Father, near the close of His prayer, “Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given Me, be with me where I am, so that they may see My glory which you have given Me, for you loved Me before the foundation of the world” (John 17: 24).
“Be with Me where I am... so that they may see My glory.”
Some may think, “this is for a future time when we will live forever and ever with God.” And I would say, “You are right. This indeed will be our reality forever with our Savior.”
But, when do you suppose “forever” begins? Why wait for heaven? What about now? Didn’t “forever” begin when you received Jesus Christ as Savior? Did He not enter you at that very moment with His Own heavenly Holy Spirit and resurrection forever life? Yes He did. Praise God, forever began for us the moment we received Christ into our lives!
“Be with Me where I am.”
He, Himself, is forever. “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17:3). God IS eternal life!
“Be with Me where I am.”
It is now that we need to be with Jesus where He is. It is now that we need the benefits of His presence and glory. In heaven, yes, praise God we will live forever and ever with Christ in His glory. But we so need His glory now. Now is the time for us to live in the peace, the joy, and the abundance of life which comes from being with Him. Yes He is glorious, isn’t He? He is full of glory and where He is right now, in His glory, is... in us! Yes - “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” (Col. 1:27).
“Be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory.”
To “be” with Jesus is to “see” His glory, and this is what He desires for us. “Be with Me” - surely our purest state of “being” is indeed when we are consciously and gratefully “being” with Him, in ongoing fellowship, aware of His life within.
Ask and allow God to keep you in remembrance of this simple but sure word, this ever-present reminder to “Be with Me” - right now, moment by moment - “Be with Me.” Yes, “Be with Me where I am” and He is in us so we may “be” with Him.
Christ, our victorious Savior, is also seated in glory at the right hand of the Father and we are graciously invited to “be” with Him there as well. “God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ, and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2: 4-6). When we are “being” with Jesus, we are definitely being with “Christ in us.” We also see in this Scripture that when we are “being” with Jesus that we are being seated “with Him in the heavenly places that are in Christ Jesus.” Praise God there are “heavenly places in Christ Jesus” and “Christ (is) in us”!
We are actually entering into heavenly places when we are being with Jesus.
“Be with Me where I am.”
This is our solid rock, ever-steady, sure foundation; our anchor-within-the-veil reality - we are invited, encouraged and commended to “Be with Me where I am” any moment and every moment, availing ourselves, now and always, of sweet powerful communion with the Lord of our lives, the One Who has redeemed us from this world and called us to Himself. He is our Protector and our Perfecter, at all times, and we know this best when we heed the call of God to “Be with Me where I am.”
Never forget, whenever you need and desire to see and be filled with the glory of God, to “Be with Me where I am so that they may see my glory.”
Heavenly Father, we praise You and thank You for Your presence and Your glory, realized in Jesus Christ our Savior, our Lord of Life. We ask You, Abba Father, for Your Holy Spirit to quicken this word to life within us so that we may live with You in the conscious light and love of your presence and glory. In the Name of Jesus we ask and thank You. Amen.
“Be With Me Where I Am” Through “LET’S TALK ABOUT JESUS”
This past August I entered my 32nd year of hosting “Let’s Talk About Jesus” for which I praise and thank God for His faithfulness. I praise God for lives saved and lives brought back to Jesus Christ. I praise Him for allowing us this time to meet together where we may meaningfully magnify Jesus Christ and sanctify this hour of fellowship for His praise and glory. Amen, thank You Lord.
This past August was also my final broadcast over AM970 WWDJ, the station I first began broadcasting “Let’s Talk About Jesus” over in 1977. I miss being on WWDJ and still forget sometimes that I’m not there anymore. I thank God for the opportunity and call He gave me “to proclaim Him,” to make His ways known. I am thankful for 31 years of an hour a day, six days a week ministry where Jesus Christ was (hopefully) proclaimed in His fullness and His simplicity. I feel sad about precious brothers and sisters who may not be able to listen in any longer, however...
I praise God that He allows us to still be on the air in New York, now from 3 in the afternoon to 4 o’clock, Monday through Friday, over AM570 WMCA. We are receiving good, positive initial response. I’m receiving lots of phone calls when I host LTAJ live from 3 to 4 over WMCA so I praise God that through this radio change we are able to speak with more people than ever about Jesus Christ!
Please pray this new time and station will take hold, being established soon, in terms of fellowship and financial support, for we are in a very difficult time indeed. Yet, I must say and I love saying, because it’s true, that the Lord has always delivered us, every time, and I trust Him fully during this challenging time that He will be proclaimed even further and that the flow of support will be strong from all so we may continue this specifically Christ-centered ministry to God’s glory.
MORE “LET’S TALK ABOUT JESUS” - ON THE WEB
Here’s another glorious blessing from our radio program change - there’s more “Let’s Talk About Jesus” than ever before. Right now I’ve been averaging two live afternoon programs per week, in addition to our morning editions of LTAJ, and all of these radio broadcasts may be downloaded from our website lovinggrace.org. You can distinguish the afternoon editions of LTAJ because they say WMCA after the date. Thousands of hours of LTAJ are being downloaded from around the world every month! We praise God for His ever increasing fruitfulness and we thank you for your life-giving support. Together we are decidedly and delightedly laboring in His harvest, according to His power within, His “be-with-Me-where-I-am” reality in our lives.
STILL MORE LIFE
It’s not too early to make plans to share a wonderful day of fellowship and adoration with us for our annual “CHRISTMAS SEMINAR CELEBRATION” Saturday, December 6th out here in Lafayette, New Jersey. As you may know, we purposefully choose the first Saturday in December, so we may celebrate the birth and wonder of Immanuel, Christ with us. It is now, at the beginning of December, that we wish to enter more fully into the awareness of His presence, so we may be strengthened and centered, carrying the joy of Christ with us throughout this entire season. Our Christmas Seminar Celebrations are vibrant and alive with the joy of Christ our Savior. I hope you will be part of this year’s annual event.
We are continuing to receive wonderful feedback from “WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME,” newly published this year by CLC. It’s such a blessing to see “Mountaintop” back in print, ministering life in Jesus all over again. Praise God. If you have not yet read “WHY,” I hope you’ll send for your own (autographed) copy and enter into the deep joy of realizing the Wounded Healer.
I hope you will send for some, if not all, of the messages we are releasing this month. By sending for these spoken word CD’s and tapes, you are helping to continue the ministry of “Let’s Talk About Jesus.” You are also receiving tools that will help you grow in the Lord and they are tools that you may share with others, to encourage them in the faith and love which are found in abundance in Jesus Christ.
Thank you and may God indeed bless you richly through these items and through every bit of this ministry. May everything we say and do be to the glory of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit, for the building up of Christ’s body in Jesus Christ Himself. Hallelujah, may Jesus Christ be proclaimed further and wider, with greater clarity and substance through all that we say and do in His Name.
I thank God for you and pray His full blessing upon and within you.
In His loving grace,
Rev. Wayne Monbleau
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