Zoejo or Grub Club?

Zoejo is better than mojo. Mojo is just luck but Zoe is life. Zoe is the Greek word that describes the absolute abundant God quality of life given to us in salvation. Jesus said, “I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” (John 10:10AMP) So we’ve got an abundance of Zoe and that gives us Zoejo. That means that we don’t have to live our lives by chance longing for luck but that God has a plan. His vital virtue is in us and His power upon us so that we may live supernaturally and possess all His promises! When we endeavor to walk with Him He orders our steps and anoints and enables us to fulfill His will. We can’t do it on our own because it’s beyond mere human ability but “with God all things are possible.” And that becomes our reality when He fills our hearts with His hope and our lives with His love!

It’s clear that God wants us to enjoy this Zoe life so what could happen that would cause us not to? If we don’t seek God first then we’ll be out of order and it’s hard to enjoy life if we’re “out of order.” If we seek other things first like to please people or be pleased by them. Or think that things can make us happy or places can give us peace. If we seek riches, recognition and rewards from the world we’ll end up weary, wavering, deluded and disappointed. There is only One that can satisfy our soul and it’s the Almighty. He said, “I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward." (Gen 15:1) “And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord." (Jer 31:14) He is our reward, exceedingly great and our riches are in Him. It doesn’t matter where we are or what we have or have not we can always be happy because our hope is in Him.

Phil 4:12-14
12 I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. 13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
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Now it’s one thing to have a recipe and another thing to cook a cake. If you’ve tried it out lately and it seems like your feelings have fallen then welcome to the grub club. There seems to be a severe sense of discouragement looming large lately. It’s like a dark cloud covering and the weight is just in the air. The whole point of the thing is to keep us obscured from God’s light, life and love. So many people are having a hard time and apparently the world is getting darker. God has not changed! So why does the pain of problems seem to be increasing? If we focus on our fears and failures, unfifilled hopes and dreams and man made schemes then we’ll end up wanting. When we’re obsessed with bringing our own plan to pass and it won’t the way we want then we end up depressed. It’s woe to us when we’re walking in our own ways. So how long can this go on and when your heart hurts like hell then what’s the answer? It’s time to, “Get the Hell out!” and the heaven back in!

Matt 6:22-23
22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
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Matt 6:22-23
22 "Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. 23 If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have!
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We need to pay attention to Him Who is good and not that which is evil. There may be clouds above but God’s above the clouds and He has, “raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus!” (Eph 2:6) In His presence “is fullness of joy” so if we’re not full of joy then we have not been spending enough time in His presence. If this message of joy is making us mad then welcome again to the grub club, because worms just dig in the dirt instead of look to the Lord. But if we really want to live life and enjoy it then we need to pay attention to the light. God’s Word is the source of light, life and love so we have to think about what He said and think about it again and again. It’s the opposite of worrying and whining in woe. Instead we choose to trust in the Truth!

John 8:31-32
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
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Col 3:1-4
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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Col 3:1-2
3 So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. 2 Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ — that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.
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So practically if we want to have peace then we need to “see things from His perspective.” When we pray it helps us see things His way and when we think about what He said it helps us to think like Him. When we see like He sees and think like He thinks then we begin to live like He lives. Abundant life is already flowing all we need to do is get in the current. If we’ve been standing on the shore looking under rocks all we’ve got is grubs but now it’s time to get back in the water of the Word and go with the flow! His Words are “life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.” (Prov 4:22) If we will really pay attention to Him and do our best to do what He said and live in His love then our days will be “as the days of heaven upon the earth.” (Deut 11:21 KJV) Because we have the One who makes heaven heavenly living in our hearts! When we get our eyes off the darkness and refuse to dwell on it then we will “Get the Hell Out!” and everyday we open our hearts to Him we experience heaven within!

Eph 3:14-21
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Col 1:27
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory
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Rom 5:1-5
5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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Rom 8:18-19
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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