After reading this book you will understand why Bob Mumford is credited with some of the important teachings of our times. This powerful and expansive thesis is obviously the result of a lifetime of observation and experience. This may be a little book, but it packs more insight and understanding than most books many times its size.
Mysterious Seed is a compilation of more than 133 powerful daily devotional-size teachings designed to move you forward in your spiritual life. Rather than vague concepts and principles, well-known author Bob Mumford plants specific seeds that will grow within the serious believer. Seeds include getting to know God’s seven strands of DNA: compassion, grace, slow to anger, mercy, truth, faithfulness, and forgiveness.
Learning to Love what Father Loves Other seeds fell on good soil, and yielded grain—some a hundred times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much, and some thirty (Matthew 13:8 AMP). Nourishing the Seed is the result of well-known Bible teacher and author Bob Mumford’s spiritual walk with the Lord. You will come alongside his unfolding journey over the past 55 years of learning to love what God loves. Like his book Mysterious Seed—Maturing in Father’s Love, he passes along to you the bag of seed that the Father gave him. The DNA of the acorn enables it to become all that God the Father intended: a huge, symmetrical, and fully formed oak tree. Father’s Seed in you comes to maturity in the same way. Nourishing the Seed helps you: Understand Agape love as the mysterious Kingdom Seed that must be cultivated and nourished to grow and produce fruit in your life. Address the issues that keep that nourishment from happening. Thoughts and Questions at the end of each chapter provoke deep and inspiring introspection to form a more meaningful relationship with God the Father. Helpful diagrams and charts throughout also add depth of understanding. Nourishing the Seed is a compilation of powerful, daily, devotional-size teachings designed to move you spiritually forward. Rather than vague concepts and principles, these teachings will nourish the Seed that is growing within you—the serious believer—so that you can be unshakable and learn to love what Father loves.
Within the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit there is a circle of friendship between the Trinity and we are being invited into it. When Jesus started His journey with the disciples, one of His goals was friendship-He wanted to reveal Father's secrets to them. Before He could do that, He had to work them through a few "relational" problems like calling down fire on their enemies, competing for the best positions, self-confidence, fear of man, and betrayal. When they had learned their lessons, He began to reveal His heart to them, offering them a degree of intimacy that is difficult to grasp. Real friendship involves trust and intimacy, not over-familiarity. In this Plumbline, Bob gives us four ingredients common to friendship and to basic human need and shows us that if a relationship is always directed to you or from you, it is not reciprocal. God is calling us into a true friendship with Himself and with men and women in the body of Christ. Every one of us has developed elaborate escape mechanisms and use both self-protection and control as barriers to intimacy in our relationship with God, in our marriages, as well as in every other relationship. We know exactly what to do and say when the pressure is on. The only way we can experience intimacy is by acceptance. We must accept each other just like we are and choose to surrender self-protection and control. When we center our whole being on pleasing the Father, it radically affects our ethical and moral behavior. A vital aspect of our circle of friendship with God is waiting on Him. By waiting on Him we exchange our weakness for His strength. After a while, we come to a place where the poise of our soul is toward the Lord, and we can enjoy the Father's presence. Isaiah 40:31 says, "Those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.
When we speak of God as Reality, we use a capital "R." He is more than, greater than anything we have ever encountered. The fact is we need to become adjusted to and more comfortable with entering Reality. Father chose to become incarnate in the person of Christ in order for us to enter the Way He has provided so we could come to know Him.
The road believers travel is broken with twists, turns, and detours into worldliness and man-made religion. Thankfully, God uses that broken road to draw us back toward the destination our hearts long for----intimacy with Him. In Agape Road, author Bob Mumford illustrates how to avoid taking detours by abiding in Jesus. Experiencing God's unconditional agape love gives us the security, identity, and belonging we cannot get any other way.
I am seeking to explore with you "that other god." Jesus personifies mammon making it equal with God as to its potential influence on our lives. We can only serve one god at a time; the governing influence of one negates the influence of the other. According to Jesus we must make a choice of which will be our decisive master.
1954 to 2014 marks 60 years in active ministry for Bob Mumford. His story began in the Navy in a little four-bed sick bay on the USS Aludra when he began to embrace the call to teach. Feeding God s people in every nation has been his life-long commission. This story chronicles Bob s journey from meeting Christ through his Navy experience, Bible College, Charismatic Renewal, and the Covenant Movement. He shares what he has learned in following Jesus all these years. God, as a heavenly Father, set His choice on a small street kid from the other side of the tracks, moving him towards his destiny we know as THAT. If He can do it with a street kid, He can do it with you and with those whom you are seeking to share the Good News of the Kingdom. Maturity in the body of Christ depends on each of us discovering and being loyal to the process of moving towards our destiny. May we not tire and become weary of the journey; His purpose and intent is more than worthy of our uninterrupted abiding.
I begin with a simple yet often disregarded idea that has become an important part of my personal journey. Jesus states it sort of off-handedly, like everyone should know this. He says, "for whoever has, to him more shall be given" (Matthew 13:12). Thtat staement allows us to see and embrace a very important concept of spritual growth. There lay hidden in plain sight concepts of the Kingdom that will be opened to those whose hearts are seeking and pressing into the things of the Lord. Time is Father's gift to the human race; it prevents everything from happening at once. Our growth allows us to see the issues more clearly. My intent in this Plumbline is to present 10 aspects of Kingdom truth that if properly engaged will bring life and progress.
Maturing in Agape is a cosmic event; it affects everything and everyone around us. Being perfect as Father is perfect (see Matt. 5:48) means growing up and developing Kingdom responses to inevitable situations that will occur. The Kingdom consists of the governing aspects of Father's own DNA that are being made incarnate in us as we mature in Agape! Defining the Kingdom in this light would mean the cessation of internal conflict within our will and emotions and that requires some emotional maturity. Using two stories about the trap, Bob identifies what keeps us trapped and how to get out. While we are in the trap we continually surrender our freedom for our feelings. The entire creation waits to be set free from its slavery to corruption into freedom (Rom. 8:19-21). From 2 Peter 1, Bob shows us six steps to finding the exit and the reward: a rich and abundant welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord (2 Pet. 1:11) so that we can participate in setting creation free.
We receive Christ out of personal need, inner hunger, and with the awareness that things must change in our lives and futures. The concept of conscious Fatherhood will enable you to abide. It is life changing, and will hold you steady in the most complex and difficult of circumstances.
This Plumbline is the second in a series of 3 that explores how we may practically live and manifest the essence of God's Agape government in a post-Christian and hurting world. Jesus' "Follow Me" ignited a burning to leave everything and pursue something longed for but never known until Jesus. May we embrace and bring His Kingdom offer.
Abba Father" is a statement that moves us toward personal freedom. When we authentically love someone, our primary intent is to set them free. Father's forgiveness sets us free, giving us the internal capacity and desire to respond externally to God as a Father so we can hear His voice. To give us this freedom, Christ came to take us to the Father. Cultivating our relationship with Christ prepares us to more perfectly understand the Father. On the Cross, at the moment of His death, Jesus offered His Own human spirit to God the Father. Of course, all that Christ experienced and everything that occurred was born and facilitated by the Person of the Holy Spirit in preparation for this Eternal Lamb to be made a sin-offering, but He also gave up His Own human spirit. Christ has not only demonstrated His love for us, He has made intricate arrangements to participate with us, be present with us, and be our source of strength on our personal journey into God. In this Plumbline, Bob helps us get beyond our present application that Jesus' sacrifice was limited to our forgiveness. He gave Himself to us in every possible way-even in the complexities and crazies that life presents for the working out of our salvation. He gives Himself for us as the sacrificial Lamb of God. And, He gives His human spirit to us in order to conform us into the image of Himself.
This Plumbline is the final volume in a series of three that explores the manner in which we may practically live and manifest the essence of God's Agape government in a post-Christian and hurting world. The word incarnation is never used in the New Testament, but it is broadly used to describe a non-material entity becoming embodied in a material form. It expresses the eternal Son taking on human flesh. This begs the question: why would the infinite God choose to express Himself in any limited material form. God is in His very essence is relational. He is relationship living within the Sweet Society of the Trinity. Out of this circle of Agape He desires to reveal Himself, to know and to be known.
It is a joy to introduce an innovative and fresh translation of the New Testament. It is not bound by overt doctrinal and denominational presuppositions. With great care and unusual boldness, this author, Francois du Toit who lives in South Africa, seeks to introduce us to the authentic Jesus Paul was seeking to make know to the Philippians
What a blessing the wisdom he shared in it has been to me through the years of my walk with the Lord! It provides biblically based counsel about how to find and follow God's guiding path through life.
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