Lift Up Your Chins!

This was K-Love’s radio scripture today!

Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. ~ Colossians 3:12

When Jesus prayed he looked up toward heaven, not with his eyes closed or his head bowed. John 17:1. Our sin was nailed to the cross of Jesus and being justified is "Just as if I never sinned." Romans 8:30, 5:1, 9, 1 Cor 6:11, and Galatians 2:17, 3:24.  If we confess our sins he faithful to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all righteousness, 1 John 1:9

What Jesus did for us on the cross, put us in right standing with God. (Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Romans 8:30)

What we work out as believers is the sanctification of our soul and body since our spirit is united with God. (But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 1 Cor. 6:17)

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17 (Ephesians 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word)
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality 1 Thess 5:3
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:14

Sanctification is a daily process. It is really yielding ourselves to God's spirit and word. (And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Ephesians 4:30)

There is a tune to a scripture that came to me when I was in a Christian missionary group when I was 19 years old. It was from Psalm 24:9. It is basically to “keep our chins up.”

Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty--he is the King of glory. Psalm 24:9

When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near Luke 21:28

The closest song I’ve heard since then is a song that was playing in a dream I had about a year ago.

You Raise Me Up:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOiTaaoKca4

He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. Psalm 40:2
For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock. Psalm 27:5