As the drive would have it..God will use that short 7 minute period to speak to me.
I was thinking about the perfection we can find in Him and how through His Spirit and our pursuit we are being perfected in Him. And He just caused me to think on that statement I often hear and sometimes say: "I am not perfect, but I am being perfected in Him", or something along those lines.
Then I just heard Him say: If the focus of that statement is "I" you're in trouble, if its "being perfected" , you're still distracted and deceived, if its "in Him" you're still a bit off track, but if your complete focus is "Him".. you can't go wrong".
Thats where He sees the perfection in us, when all we are, see, hear, do and think is focused on Him - to Him that is the perfection in us. And when we get to that point in our walk, our journey - when we are truly living the first commandment - thats when we will perceive and truly behold the perfection in Him!
Its amazing what 7 minutes of turning my time and attention toward Him, can do. Just 7 minutes. Reminds me of this scripture:
Hebrews 10:12-17 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them, 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
Aug 30, 2017
Aug 20, 2017
Rivers of Living Water
Rivers of Living Water & Discerning Truth
I was exhausted today after some study and meditating on His Word(s) and usually I will take a nap, and usually He will give me more.
He had me thinking about the phrase 'Rivers of Living Water". This is how Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit in the book of John.
John 7:37-39 "On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now this He said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
You see Jesus was speaking about the Spirit of God, who was in Him and once He ascended to His Father - would be available to all who would receive Him.
There are many spirits but only One True Holy Spirit.
In John 14:16- 31 when Jesus is comforting His disciples, we hear Him speak about the Holy Spirit:
"And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him; but ye know Him, for He dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
These things I have spoken to you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall tech you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father; as as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence."
God had me thinking of where we get water. Most of us simply go to a faucet and turn the knob and out flows the water. We get it from our garden hoses, our own wells, we buy it from the grocery store in plastic bottles. We rarely get it directly from the source. Thats how it is with many today when it comes to their Christian walk, their Christian lives. Few have a direct relationship and communication with the One True Living God, through the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. They receive their water through other vessels, sometimes other sources, foreign sources.
Just as it is with drinking water, the water we bathe ourselves with, the water we use to clean, to add to recipes, to mix things with - we have no idea of the source and even when we do we have no idea of the integrity of the vessel from which it is carried and flows through. Even if we get it from a well that has been on our property for generations, we never truly know if it has been breached and poisoned until its to late. Thats what I see today, so many levels of deception and so many detours away from the pure, unadulterated truth.
If I put a few drops of cyanide in your drinking water every day for the next several months, eventually you would die. We must test the purity of what we are seeing, hearing and consuming, body. mind and spirit.
Romans 8:12-17 "So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh to living according to the flesh - for it you are living according to the flesh you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba! Father! The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him that we may indeed be glorified with Him."
The Holy Spirit within us will witness to Truth
"For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God." 1 Corinthians 2:10
The things that God wants to reveal to us have been and will be revealed to us through His Spirit within us. These things have been written down for us to read and understand. Jesus, on the night of His betrayal, promised His apostles that He would send the Holy Spirit to them as we have just read in John 14:16-31. The Spirit will guide us into all truth and bring these things to our remembrance, clearly and unerringly. Unlike men and women, who they themselves fail to rely on the Spirit of God within to discern the truth, who profess to be the mouthpieces and voices of God. These people, if you follow them blindly without testing the spirits, will lead you astray. The enemy will find every possibly way to pervert God's truth and he does it through this very thing.
It is the Holy Spirit of God that reveals the mind of God to us. We need have His Word in our minds and learn not to "exceed" or "go beyond" what has been written.
"Therefore judge nothing before the proper time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God. Brothers I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride on one man over another. For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do yo boast as though you did not?" 1 Corinthians 4:5-7
He wants clean, strong, willing and able vessels to reveal the through Truth through. He wants transparent and yielded vessels to carry the Rivers of Living water to a dry and parched land!
There is only One who will always give you the Truth, anything else is a lie. My mom always taught me that if you only shared part of the truth the whole thing was a lie. She was right! The only way to get the whole Truth is to have a relationship (i.e. direct communication with) with the One who is Truth!
I was exhausted today after some study and meditating on His Word(s) and usually I will take a nap, and usually He will give me more.
He had me thinking about the phrase 'Rivers of Living Water". This is how Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit in the book of John.
John 7:37-39 "On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now this He said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
You see Jesus was speaking about the Spirit of God, who was in Him and once He ascended to His Father - would be available to all who would receive Him.
There are many spirits but only One True Holy Spirit.
In John 14:16- 31 when Jesus is comforting His disciples, we hear Him speak about the Holy Spirit:
"And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him; but ye know Him, for He dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
These things I have spoken to you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall tech you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father; as as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence."
God had me thinking of where we get water. Most of us simply go to a faucet and turn the knob and out flows the water. We get it from our garden hoses, our own wells, we buy it from the grocery store in plastic bottles. We rarely get it directly from the source. Thats how it is with many today when it comes to their Christian walk, their Christian lives. Few have a direct relationship and communication with the One True Living God, through the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. They receive their water through other vessels, sometimes other sources, foreign sources.
Just as it is with drinking water, the water we bathe ourselves with, the water we use to clean, to add to recipes, to mix things with - we have no idea of the source and even when we do we have no idea of the integrity of the vessel from which it is carried and flows through. Even if we get it from a well that has been on our property for generations, we never truly know if it has been breached and poisoned until its to late. Thats what I see today, so many levels of deception and so many detours away from the pure, unadulterated truth.
If I put a few drops of cyanide in your drinking water every day for the next several months, eventually you would die. We must test the purity of what we are seeing, hearing and consuming, body. mind and spirit.
Romans 8:12-17 "So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh to living according to the flesh - for it you are living according to the flesh you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba! Father! The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him that we may indeed be glorified with Him."
The Holy Spirit within us will witness to Truth
"For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God." 1 Corinthians 2:10
The things that God wants to reveal to us have been and will be revealed to us through His Spirit within us. These things have been written down for us to read and understand. Jesus, on the night of His betrayal, promised His apostles that He would send the Holy Spirit to them as we have just read in John 14:16-31. The Spirit will guide us into all truth and bring these things to our remembrance, clearly and unerringly. Unlike men and women, who they themselves fail to rely on the Spirit of God within to discern the truth, who profess to be the mouthpieces and voices of God. These people, if you follow them blindly without testing the spirits, will lead you astray. The enemy will find every possibly way to pervert God's truth and he does it through this very thing.
It is the Holy Spirit of God that reveals the mind of God to us. We need have His Word in our minds and learn not to "exceed" or "go beyond" what has been written.
"Therefore judge nothing before the proper time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God. Brothers I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride on one man over another. For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do yo boast as though you did not?" 1 Corinthians 4:5-7
He wants clean, strong, willing and able vessels to reveal the through Truth through. He wants transparent and yielded vessels to carry the Rivers of Living water to a dry and parched land!
There is only One who will always give you the Truth, anything else is a lie. My mom always taught me that if you only shared part of the truth the whole thing was a lie. She was right! The only way to get the whole Truth is to have a relationship (i.e. direct communication with) with the One who is Truth!
Do You Want to Hear from God?
Do you want to hear from God?
More and more people are crying out to hear from God in the midst of growing chaos and turmoil. Tradition, ego and our flesh have taught us to look for a sign or a thunderous voice, an out of body experience, some big neon sign that says "hey its me, God, and this is what I am saying" and more often than not even what the people "think" is being said is up to personal interpretation. Granted God can and will speak audibly and He does use many things to point to Himself or something He wants to convey to His people. But more often than not we are deceived. We are deceived on all fronts from seeing the image of a man (some say Jesus) burned on a piece of bread to the mother Mary formed in the clouds. Much greater deceptions have already come and even greater ones are yet to be. One of the greatest deceptions is the distractions the enemy causes that keeps us separated from God and from hearing His Voice. One is laziness.
Proverbs 14:23 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
If we discover the things that are in the foods we buy on the shelves, with our hard earned money, are poisonous, how much more do you think the word of God has been polluted, twisted and turned (even through the mouths of good intentioned pastors and teachers)? The enemy seeks to hide the truth from you and will do it at all costs.
We think that going to church on sunday is 'relationship', when in reality its no different than going to a football game and other spectator sports. Thats right.. many are spectators looking from the outside in, on what should be a relationship for themselves. Many seek a relationship of surface value. Knowing about God, talking about God, singing and reading about God, but never being a participator of the relationship He freely offers - thats when things change. Thats when you really start speaking to Him directly, singing to Him directly and He becomes real in your lives. Here is a thought I have repeated over the years: You will never, ever, ever have a relationship with your mother or father through your brother or sister. Do you honestly think you will have one with God through your pastor, teacher, brother or sister, mother or father? Never.
What is relationship? Relationship requires communication from both directions. Communication that is directed to and received by, both parties. Its not a party line where you listen in on some else's conversation and you won't get into the door by just associating yourself with His name.
Matthew 7:21-23 Not everyone who says "Lord, Lord" will enter the kingdom of heaven. But the one who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, did we not cast our demons in your name, and do mighty works in your name?" And then I will declare to them; "I never knew you, depart from me, you workers of lawlessness."
In order to receive what He is speaking to you, you must be able to hear His voice and hearing His voice requires that you are able to discern it amongst the millions of voices the enemy is sending your way. We must have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, that you are not your own?
Ezekiel 36:27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances".
2 Timothy 1:14 Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
A word of warning, you will rarely hear clearly from God if you do not have His Word in your mind and written on your heart. Oh you may hear clearly, but be mindful and test the spirits to see whether or not they are from the One True Living God.
2 Peter 1:20-21 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from the prophet's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever brought about through human initiative, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
1 John 4:1-2 Beloved, do not believe every spirit. but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is from God.
When we start to seek the Voice of God, we must test the spirits and testing the spirits can only come from having the Word of God in our minds and the Holy Spirit within us. This means we must study the Word of God for ourselves and not depend on our pastors, teachers, friends or family members to tell us what the scriptures say. Every human is subject to err and the enemy twists our understanding, twists scripture and is more subtle than any beast of the field. Seducing spirits, familiar spirits, every weapon the enemy can use, he will. Remember a little leaven, leavens the whole lump.
When we turn our ears to hear, be assured many voices will come. But its the Voice of God who professes the testimony of Christ and will bare witness to the Spirit of the living God within you. You can't have one without the other and expect to discern the truth, remember we are blind, naked and poor, its the Spirit of the Living God that gives us sight, not our fleshly eyes, He is the one who opens deaf ears. He is the way the truth and the life and there is no other. No man or woman, no pastor, no teacher, no evangelist, no lay person, no prophet or apostle. Surely these people are used by God, but only His Spirit within us, can lead, guide, direct. Only His Spirit within us empowered by His Word, i.e. His voice can empower us, liberate us, sanctify us.
Jesus said in John 14:6-7 "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me". No one can teach us the whole truth, except the Spirit of God within us. John 2:27 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.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come".
Picture yourself turning your ear toward a crowd of people speaking all at once. Do you recognize which one is speaking the Truth? Do you recognize the one who is speaking the Word of God? When you start to listen be sure you can hear and discern which voice is worthy of your attention. There is only One, and He speaks through many. Just as the enemy does. We give the Holy Spirit within us His voice, when we study His Word. Without His Word within us, we are in essence silencing the Holy Spirit. He is there, but the truth of His Word lacks any influence on our lives and that of others. We cannot know the truth and speak unless God through His Holy Spirit reveals it to us and He is willing and able to do so, just as you read in John 16:13.
1 Corinthians 2:9-11 Rather, as it is written: "No eye has seen, nor ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him." But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him. So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirt of God.
When we hear or see Truth, His Spirit within us will testify of the same and thats when His Word is written on our hearts. It becomes indelible. We will never forget it. But if we leave the well dry, i.e. do not fill it with rivers of living water, His Word and His life.. then the Holy Spirit within us has nothing to draw upon to teach us, to guide us, to help us discern. Surely He can still influence our lives and still lead us and guide us, but the true power of God, the true resurrection power of what was accomplished at Calvary will not be manifested in our own lives if we do not have His living Word within us.
Trust no man or woman, but only the Holy Spirit within you. What you hear may sound sweet, may "feel right" may line up with this or that, but unless it lines up with the Word of God and the Holy Spirit within you, the enemy can and will pervert what is being said, is must be proven. God's Word and His Spirit within you should be the only and final source for Truth. The Word of God should settle the matter among us and within us. What we speak must point others to the Truth.
Hearing from God, may seem difficult at first, but as we study and search the scriptures having received Christ as our Lord and Savior, confessing our sins and asking for forgiveness of our sins- as we pursue Him, as we pursue righteousness and obedience to His commands, His Voice becomes clear. Truth becomes evident and discerning whether a thing be true or whether it is a lie will become easier and easier. With Truth comes liberation and freedom from deception and the enemy and we become willing captives of our Lord and Savior's great love and affection for us! We need the Word of God in our lives today.
Amos 8:11-12 "Behold, days are coming' declares the Lord God; "When I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of the Lord. People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north and even to east; they will go to and fro and seek the word of the Lord, but they will not find it..."
More and more people are crying out to hear from God in the midst of growing chaos and turmoil. Tradition, ego and our flesh have taught us to look for a sign or a thunderous voice, an out of body experience, some big neon sign that says "hey its me, God, and this is what I am saying" and more often than not even what the people "think" is being said is up to personal interpretation. Granted God can and will speak audibly and He does use many things to point to Himself or something He wants to convey to His people. But more often than not we are deceived. We are deceived on all fronts from seeing the image of a man (some say Jesus) burned on a piece of bread to the mother Mary formed in the clouds. Much greater deceptions have already come and even greater ones are yet to be. One of the greatest deceptions is the distractions the enemy causes that keeps us separated from God and from hearing His Voice. One is laziness.
Proverbs 14:23 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
If we discover the things that are in the foods we buy on the shelves, with our hard earned money, are poisonous, how much more do you think the word of God has been polluted, twisted and turned (even through the mouths of good intentioned pastors and teachers)? The enemy seeks to hide the truth from you and will do it at all costs.
We think that going to church on sunday is 'relationship', when in reality its no different than going to a football game and other spectator sports. Thats right.. many are spectators looking from the outside in, on what should be a relationship for themselves. Many seek a relationship of surface value. Knowing about God, talking about God, singing and reading about God, but never being a participator of the relationship He freely offers - thats when things change. Thats when you really start speaking to Him directly, singing to Him directly and He becomes real in your lives. Here is a thought I have repeated over the years: You will never, ever, ever have a relationship with your mother or father through your brother or sister. Do you honestly think you will have one with God through your pastor, teacher, brother or sister, mother or father? Never.
What is relationship? Relationship requires communication from both directions. Communication that is directed to and received by, both parties. Its not a party line where you listen in on some else's conversation and you won't get into the door by just associating yourself with His name.
Matthew 7:21-23 Not everyone who says "Lord, Lord" will enter the kingdom of heaven. But the one who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, did we not cast our demons in your name, and do mighty works in your name?" And then I will declare to them; "I never knew you, depart from me, you workers of lawlessness."
In order to receive what He is speaking to you, you must be able to hear His voice and hearing His voice requires that you are able to discern it amongst the millions of voices the enemy is sending your way. We must have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, that you are not your own?
Ezekiel 36:27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances".
2 Timothy 1:14 Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
A word of warning, you will rarely hear clearly from God if you do not have His Word in your mind and written on your heart. Oh you may hear clearly, but be mindful and test the spirits to see whether or not they are from the One True Living God.
2 Peter 1:20-21 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from the prophet's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever brought about through human initiative, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
1 John 4:1-2 Beloved, do not believe every spirit. but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is from God.
When we start to seek the Voice of God, we must test the spirits and testing the spirits can only come from having the Word of God in our minds and the Holy Spirit within us. This means we must study the Word of God for ourselves and not depend on our pastors, teachers, friends or family members to tell us what the scriptures say. Every human is subject to err and the enemy twists our understanding, twists scripture and is more subtle than any beast of the field. Seducing spirits, familiar spirits, every weapon the enemy can use, he will. Remember a little leaven, leavens the whole lump.
When we turn our ears to hear, be assured many voices will come. But its the Voice of God who professes the testimony of Christ and will bare witness to the Spirit of the living God within you. You can't have one without the other and expect to discern the truth, remember we are blind, naked and poor, its the Spirit of the Living God that gives us sight, not our fleshly eyes, He is the one who opens deaf ears. He is the way the truth and the life and there is no other. No man or woman, no pastor, no teacher, no evangelist, no lay person, no prophet or apostle. Surely these people are used by God, but only His Spirit within us, can lead, guide, direct. Only His Spirit within us empowered by His Word, i.e. His voice can empower us, liberate us, sanctify us.
Jesus said in John 14:6-7 "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me". No one can teach us the whole truth, except the Spirit of God within us. John 2:27 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.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come".
Picture yourself turning your ear toward a crowd of people speaking all at once. Do you recognize which one is speaking the Truth? Do you recognize the one who is speaking the Word of God? When you start to listen be sure you can hear and discern which voice is worthy of your attention. There is only One, and He speaks through many. Just as the enemy does. We give the Holy Spirit within us His voice, when we study His Word. Without His Word within us, we are in essence silencing the Holy Spirit. He is there, but the truth of His Word lacks any influence on our lives and that of others. We cannot know the truth and speak unless God through His Holy Spirit reveals it to us and He is willing and able to do so, just as you read in John 16:13.
1 Corinthians 2:9-11 Rather, as it is written: "No eye has seen, nor ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him." But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him. So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirt of God.
When we hear or see Truth, His Spirit within us will testify of the same and thats when His Word is written on our hearts. It becomes indelible. We will never forget it. But if we leave the well dry, i.e. do not fill it with rivers of living water, His Word and His life.. then the Holy Spirit within us has nothing to draw upon to teach us, to guide us, to help us discern. Surely He can still influence our lives and still lead us and guide us, but the true power of God, the true resurrection power of what was accomplished at Calvary will not be manifested in our own lives if we do not have His living Word within us.
Trust no man or woman, but only the Holy Spirit within you. What you hear may sound sweet, may "feel right" may line up with this or that, but unless it lines up with the Word of God and the Holy Spirit within you, the enemy can and will pervert what is being said, is must be proven. God's Word and His Spirit within you should be the only and final source for Truth. The Word of God should settle the matter among us and within us. What we speak must point others to the Truth.
Hearing from God, may seem difficult at first, but as we study and search the scriptures having received Christ as our Lord and Savior, confessing our sins and asking for forgiveness of our sins- as we pursue Him, as we pursue righteousness and obedience to His commands, His Voice becomes clear. Truth becomes evident and discerning whether a thing be true or whether it is a lie will become easier and easier. With Truth comes liberation and freedom from deception and the enemy and we become willing captives of our Lord and Savior's great love and affection for us! We need the Word of God in our lives today.
Amos 8:11-12 "Behold, days are coming' declares the Lord God; "When I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of the Lord. People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north and even to east; they will go to and fro and seek the word of the Lord, but they will not find it..."
Flat Earth - Eclipse explained
For those of you who want to know how an eclipse takes place on the flat earth model, here you go. Its self explanatory.
Aug 17, 2017
Aug 15, 2017
A War is Coming
By no
means is this post directed at anyone or any group of people on facebook or
outside of facebook but it is directed at a nation and a world full of pride,
division, prejudice, racism, hatred and violence. God just put this on my heart
tonight. I have had and continue to have some of the same feelings expressed by
many, by what I see and witness daily be it here on facebook, on the news
(which I rarely watch) in the papers, the communities and throughout the entire
planet. But I am being directed, perhaps even cornered to take a different
approach. I pray that God continue to direct my path and that my heart and mind
be open to that "corralling" that I know He is doing with many.
A war is coming..
While you spew vomit out of your mouths
and return to it like dogs.
While you ridicule, judge and defame one another,
While your thoughts, your actions, your deeds are filled with hate & violence,
The enemy sets a trap – before you, behind you and within you.
While you ridicule, judge and defame one another,
While your thoughts, your actions, your deeds are filled with hate & violence,
The enemy sets a trap – before you, behind you and within you.
While you place yourselves upon that
rickety and feeble pedestal of pride.
While you scream and shout at one another.
While you bicker, blame and belittle one another.
The enemy snickers and sneers exploiting the blindness in your eyes and the deafness in your ears.
You are already defeated.
While you scream and shout at one another.
While you bicker, blame and belittle one another.
The enemy snickers and sneers exploiting the blindness in your eyes and the deafness in your ears.
You are already defeated.
The day is coming when this will end,
when the vile and putrid words you utter will be silenced and your voice will
cease to exist or even be remembered.
Is your pride and your anger more
valuable than your friend, your family member, your coworker? Your eternal
soul?
When the excrement that flows out of
your mouths rooted in the evil thoughts you entertain in your fragile and
filthy minds – suffocates you, will you remember?
Will you remember we wrestle not with
flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places?
When will your suffering be enough? How
many innocent lives will be lost, how many will you yourself drive to the
enemy’s camp and subsequent slaughter? How much blood do you have to have on
your own hands?
Because you have loved not the truth
and disregarded it, but instead loved the works of your flesh and your carnal
minds and that of others: He, the One who created you and loved you before you
were formed in your mother’s womb. The One who died for you an agonizing death,
the One who sent the Comforter to teach you, to give you hope, to impart
wisdom, who has loved and loves you, who gave His own life for you –He, yes He,
will seal your consciousness, imprison you in your own delusion and
derangement. You won’t even have the ability to discern the truth if it was even
offered. The blindness and deafness you choose will no longer be a choice.
The works of the enemy will be
destroyed, don’t be his friend, don’t promote his works, fight the good fight
of faith. Repent and humble yourselves.
A war is coming, its already raging and
the battle is seen over the horizon, soon it will be on your doorstep. The
light will always dispel the darkness and the greatest power we can yield is
the power we find when we are on our knees, seeking the face of the One True
God.
Don’t you see the great division taking
place? Its not about race, color or creed. That’s just a symptom. Whatever
flavor you want the enemy has. Whatever argument or debate you find power in,
its available. What ever drug, vice or distraction you need, just say the word.
Whatever your flesh craves, or your ego
needs to be puffed up just a little more, its presented to you in every
television show, ad and social media post. It exists within your own mind,
because you have been corrupted, polluted – a little leaven is all it took. And
you don't even know it.
And if you are religious, you have a
buffet laid out before you, a million different doctrines of demons to satisfy
any thought, any idea, any vain philosophy its all there and all against the
testimony of Christ.
Don’t you see what the enemy has done?
He has persuaded a whole nation if not the world to kill their innocent unborn
and each other, proclaiming their right to murder. He has placed upon our heads
the burden of materialism, the pride of intellect, the addictions of everything
under the sun. We have been given over to delusions and lusts of the flesh of
every sort and doctrines of every demon. We are distracted, deceived and just
before being destroyed.
Don’t you see it? We fight amongst
ourselves like starving immature rats, arrogant in our pride and prejudices,
divided and subdivided right down to our very soul. There is no love, none,
except the love of darkness, the love of division, the love of hate, of self,
of power and pride. Its revolting and the stench of it has filled His nostrils.
Amos 4:10 "I have sent among you
the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the
sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps
to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the
LORD."
The things we consume with our eyes,
our mouths and our minds is vile and putrid. We regurgitate it, feeding it to
each other like a meth addict feigning for the next fix. While we rot from the
inside out. We are like lazy gluttonous pigs, being fattened for consumption.
Poisoned and put on display, a mockery to The Most High!
We have no relationship with our Father
- instead we fornicate ourselves with the doctrines of our leaders, our
teachers, our pastors, who tickle our itching ears appealing to this apathetic
complacency and prideful arrogance.
I can assure you the foundations of
this earth are being shaken up and will continue. I firmly believe we are in
that timeframe that many thought would never come and few can discern. Its time
for people to decide what it is they believe and whom they will serve. Its time
to get off the fence and on our knees.
Revelations 3:15-17 – I know your
deeds, you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other. So
because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit you out of
My mouth! You say “I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.” But you
do not realize you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked..
2 Chronicles 7:13-15 "If I shut up
the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the
land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by
My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their
land. "Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer
offered in this place.…
The days of being on the fence and
undecided are about to end. The complacent mindset and attitudes will be shaken
to such a degree that people will be divided, starkly divided and the veil of
delusion will come off our faces and we will no longer seek refuge through our
religion or rebellion. We will face a truth we never comprehended.
Habbakkuk
2:1-3 I will stand on my guard post And station myself on the rampart; And I
will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, And how I may reply when I am
reproved. Then the LORD answered me and said, "Record the vision And
inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run. "For the vision
is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.…
Aug 7, 2017
Is the Mark of the Beast a Computer Chip?
After hearing Mr. Wohlberg speak on this topic many times along with others, I do not believe that the "mark of the beast" is a chip, surely it could be part of it, but with the recent news about employers implanting chips into their employees, I think the deception is growing deeper. Most Christians are already breaking the fourth commandment - this teaching should open your eyes. The enemy's motive is to deceive. This was his mode of operation in the garden and it hasn't changed today... do you honestly think a chip being implanted under your skin is deceptive? No, surely the purpose behind it may be but the act of doing it, is clear and obvious, nothing deceptive about it. But this teaching below, is so clear and supported by scripture and historical events. Think about it - after you watch this... the majority of the world worship on Sunday - (NOT the true Sabbath)..and when this is enforced very few will complain and blindly go along with it, because they are already doing it. How deceptive??? You will see a sharp contrast between those who will and those who won't... it won't be about the chip, although I am sure many will refuse a chip implant, but how many people in the world will willingly accept a law enforcing Sunday as a national even international day of rest? Most already do.
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