Careful in those you place over you

Know those who you place in Authority over you!

Recently I had a very unusual experience that would create fear in any heart except those well planted in faith of Jesus Christ and in the Word of God.

God has blessed us with eyes to see at times those things hidden from the eyes of the worldly; This I have found to be a mixed blessing at times. However not without purpose!

There are those within the heart of Christ that would impose their views into the flow of the Spirit of God. I have prayed earnestly about this and was reminded of the Tower of Babel.

NKJ Genesis 11:4

And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

“nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.” God is truly a gracious God for he has given us power through the spirit a power I fear sometimes we fail to realize the depth and width of.  Really think about this passage...ponder it deeply...for it is saying many things...

Back on track

People preach for all reasons as stated by Paul:

NKJ Philippians 1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will: 16 The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains; 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. 18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

Knowing this as a truth in my heart I give attention to all who speak the Word of God with a prayer for God to guide me in what I receive or reject. My personal experience made me suspect of the intention of one who would attempt to over ride the flow of the Spirit of God in communal prayer... with their own perception that I fear is born in prejudice and judgment from some of the lessons I have learned spiritually in the steed of our acquaintance, which is the brotherhood of Jesus. At the risk of sounding totally insane this persons continence changed to a hardened fearsome mask of legal danger with their iniquities trying to show themselves. Knowing somewhat of this person I know that the pure love of God is their base, covered by the grace of our Lords precious blood and always seeking that love and the gospel they preach normally with a gentle and endearing spirit of love. Yet in this spiritual moment fear had to be overcome with love and prayer for this person...With a gentle warning not to fall under the authority of this person. Yet this person is in a vision I have had of prayer and faith standing quietly in approval. (Which leans me to wonder perhaps dual faith in denominations needs revisited)

Be careful when choosing those who you allow spiritual authority over you to be pronounced. Even with those you know to be in Christ.

I still hold fast to the faith that we who have chosen to follow Christ in the river of forgiveness’ granted at Calvary no matter what we call ourselves we are all children of the living God. How people can express that those who confess Christ are demons is beyond my scope of reason. For in my heart it is truly like the head telling the foot it is to be cut off for the body has no need of it; which is stated in scripture as a warning not to allow... For It is the living Christ only who leads and guides us in the truth within his word; Though I have many good teachers and mentors the increase comes from God alone has always been my experience. I am going to revisit John1 to update myself on this.

Do all things in prayer, stay planted if that is God’s will for you, but pray earnestly that you fall not under an authority who will stunt or hinder your growth. Spiritual Authority you will know and recognize if you stay in prayer for guidance from your true teacher and re-warder Jesus Christ by His Spirit alone will you reach the inheritance he has laid up for you.

So let us be mindful of the great power God has endowed us with, when drawing opinions, or judgments of those who confess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, test all things in the Sprit of Love of our great and glorious God and His Son Jesus Christ through the wisdom of their most holy Spirit. For the days will come at the end that judgments will be necessary to fulfill the Word of God, let us be careful to be in the flow of our precious Jesus and His love, not a spirit of judgment.

Scripture and prayer for the day

KJV 1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

KJV 1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

I thank you Jesus for all you give to me each day, in spirit and in the physical. For without you I would be nothing, with no hope, no love, no future. I praise and exalt your might name, your are King of kings and Lord of Lords, the Great and Might I AM.

I pray Dear Lord that you would be my all, that every thought every dream, every imagination be drawn from Thy most Holy Spirit...For you are my shelter from the storm, you are my hiding place Dear Lord...It is only you I wish to exalt, may my essences be yours dear Lord.

You are the Lord on high, give me a new song to sing onto your Glory...May I hear the words I gave to Hope Street also, and may your love shine on them as they create a song to bring many onto the Lord and exalt your mighty name. Give me direction I need to take now for my writing Lord. Fill me up Jesus, place each of my steps in a path to bring you Glory, may I walk in freedom as you would have me walk, may I understand all that comes with, calling on living waters...Work in me Dear Jesus...I submit onto Thee Dear Lord all of my sin and iniquities cleanse me in your blood, wash me in the cleansing waters of your love, let my life and Spirit reflect the you in me...to all that are to know...Go before me dear Lord and prepare the hearts of those to help me along the way that your will and glory not be delayed in your purpose for me within the inheritance thou has chosen for me Dear Lord..

My sweet, sweet Jesus Dear Lord I thank you for all the blessings you have placed in me, for I am very undeserving Father of such a great love, Keep me now Lord, let not my enemies rejoice over my trials and make folly of my love for Thee my precious precious Lord. You know my every thought Dear Lord and my every weakness, remember dear Lord that in My weakness YOU will be strong. Mold me and shape me to what you have set for my destiny within this life for you are my destiny, grant to me the destiny Thou has prepared for me, grant me the inheritance thou has chosen for me Dear Lord.

I ask these things my redeemer, my salvation, my-love, my hope My precious, precious Jesus I ask all within your name my precious Lord Jesus your will be met not mine.....Amen.

Small reflection

From an old prayer journal "This must have been a day of philosophy for me! After reading Chesterton no doubt; He reasoned that Christianity as written was most sufficient, its problem was it has never been practiced in truth."



On a hill so far away in what appeared to be despair the Son of God gave forth all he was that we might join our God!

God took his hand and raised His Son that all to be would know the great love in creation was theirs if they would but seek and believe upon the Son..

There is a seed within us planted at creation~~~to seek the source of our being; to acknowledge and know our creator the Holy One of Israel.

The ways of man are onto themselves accepting their own wisdom or trusting in the wisdom of other men to guide them on their way~~

Never searching within themselves to find the truth hidden within the great love they have access to…at Calvary it is a hard thing to search within~~

For the ability to find ones truths all lay within their own hearts~~I pray who ever reads these words~~to take time to spend just pondering his Word and getting to know Jesus Christ finding out what His word has to say. Our thoughts are fertilizer to our Souls in need of control. For as we look to the living God that seed planted in creation begins to grow~~~in open hearts and minds.

Jesus and the Word, for Jesus is the Word bringing our seed to life so tenderly He guides us~~In what we need to know and this seed is planted within each and every Soul~~

Our emotions are negativity's play ground, our opinions usually build grieve and strife~~Less they are tempered with love and understanding to know and come to oneself that there is more to life than what we can see, hear and touch; That we are indeed a part of something much bigger.

To weigh the worlds argument we are just an accident, can you look in a child’s eyes filled with hope and love and honestly believe it is by accident…Do you not know that same hope and love is what God wants to restore to you! He is waiting on you! Holding out his hand!

We are filled with emotions and opinions that we have generated from our limited capabilities to understand how we as individuals fit into any whole. Anger, pride, self sufficiency all filling our heart and minds to where the art of reasoning has taken a back seat to the fast paced things we can see, hear and touch; keeping us from pondering and reasoning out truths that may lie directly in front of us.Less we submit that there is a higher power and that power is Jesus Christ and in this submission we find His mercy, His knowledge we come to an understanding that is beyond ourselves and the understanding that we cannot reach independently.

Thanksgiving

The only way it could be!

His love so vast and eternal

His Son gave our salvation to unfold

His spirit to guide us through

Love so deep beginning to end

From all three the only way it could be!

That we might see

And seek a love so true!

Who are we that He should care!

Yet a companion He desires us to be

Everlasting love granted through the Trinity

The whole of God who is love in all through all

How blessed we are to even contemplate a love so true!

Yet by His Spirit united as one we shall be!

Praise God for His wisdom

Praise God for His love

Praise God for His Son

Seek His great wisdom

Seek His eternal love

Seek the Son

Give thanksgiving for His wisdom

Give thanksgiving for His love

Give thanksgiving for Jesus Christ

That through His great love we all shall be one!

We all make mistakes

Spiritual Growth

Here is an excerpt from a letter 

I wrote to a dear brother in the Lord.

Your words “I have made a lot of mistakes” is tumbling around in my heart maybe even, not so much the words as the feelings expressed in those words my heart identified with as something I have experienced. We all make mistakes in our spiritual walks. I found with myself I allowed spiritual excitement to carry me farther than my knowledge, wisdom and discernment of God’s word had taken me at that time...Disaster In big bold red letters.

Repercussions, yes, and it is humbling to have to deal with them, but God is gracious in His love for us. In my heart He is looking down on us as children first learning to walk, children who run and fall down for they have not yet mastered their balance. God allows us to fall down to skin our knees, bruise our egos, scratch our legs, arms and elbows sometimes so we learn to get back up dig in the word and see where we errored at. To fine tune our balance to our walk, skip, hop, jump or run. With this in mind...know it is just the Holy Spirit at Work in You! Teaching, leading and guiding you into the Word of God so you have better balance in your spirit.

Remember too that sometimes when we are working in faith that work also requires others involved to have faith also; God’s work is seldom a solo performance. The first think I learned about God was to fear Him in awe understanding that He really is God and He will do what He has said He will do....It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, a God that has such an intense love for us that he is jealous. I think a lot of people miss that, just how intense, deep, and enduring God’s love for us is...True it is a love to deep for us to understand completely it is beyond our minds ability, however I also believe if we do not try to get that concept our understanding is clouded...So if you are in check, check out the faith on the other end...sad to say however there are professed Christians out there that are clueless...and lack even simple understanding of those things unseen...inexperienced....you know what I am going to Say...My all times line....”some allow religion to happen to them not in them”.....Had too......:)

All we can do to build their faith is pray for them and perhaps find a gentle way to lead them back to Calvary all of it...guide them to review from the agony in the garden to the cross, for it is sometimes hard to realize and grasp just how much our Jesus went through that we not be burdened with those trials...Have them pray for understanding of those events, for with understanding comes faith, and by faith we understand, that we have never given enough until we have given it all...( I know faith comes by hearing but for me it has come in other ways too) Then love comes... in abundance even Jesus after he gave it all came back to give more...Teach them to ponder on these things. Many have only been taught about the blood and it is most precious and what cleanses us of our sins, but he gave us much more and the mystery of those things are in His blood from his tears of blood in the garden to the cross He overcame much for us. Let us remind others to receive, ponder, and pray for understanding of all the heartache he has already covered for us....If we will just pass it on!

Preaching again aren’t I. Okay, just one more thing! Teach them to ponder...I know they have translated it out of the bible, but I honestly believe removing some things like pondering, perception, and kissing the son should have been left in there!!!!! For all three have been vital points of learning in my walk...(Sorry....Rabbit trial) you know how opinionated I can get about that....:) okay two more things:)

Remember, one instant in His will is worth 10,000 lifetimes. For just a glimpse into his Glory sears a heart to eternity. Desire His gifts and work and train and be diligent towards them, they shall come, for it has been spoken and there is life in God’s Word not one will return to Him void. Give thanksgiving always for the writing of the word on our hearts.

When the spirit manifests within you, you are no longer just a follower of Christ but now you are a vessel of Christ by his indwelling Spirit and builder toward His will on earth even as it is in heaven. He will mold you and place you where you are to be...that your manifestation work toward His will in all things that His will be met in the earth even as it is in heaven. To His Glory be the work of our hands as ministers of His Word we bring Glory to the name above all names, Jesus. Never forgetting to seek His face in all we do, trust in God and place our faith in the things unseen anticipating fully His return in Glory; our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Remember me in your prayers.

In the love of Christ,

Don't worry Pray

If your going to worry don’t Pray

If your going to Pray don’t worry!

This is one of those ole’ time sayings

that holds a lot of truth!

How many times do we give an issue, problem, healing, burden, or friend over to our Lord Jesus in prayer requesting he handle the situation and the moment we stop praying we go right back to worrying.

We seldom think of worry as a thing, an object of our thoughts, being an object it is finite. Being finite it can not be in two places at one time. So if you have the situation an are continuing to worry how can God fix it? You have not let it go!

Put your faith to work, trust God with all your heart an lean not on your own understanding. God has a way to fix anything, anything at all, he can fix it, mend it, repair it, replace it, heal it, recreate it in a way you would have never thought of or even imagined.

We have a grand habit of trying to do it ourselves. After generations of hearing “The Lord helps those who help their-selves” May I submit to you this saying “The Lord helps those who accept wisely council from him and let God’s will prevail.”

We need to but our faith into action and trust God, once this is done then: tune up our listening skills and follow where are spiritual man guides us, listening carefully to the inner man that little voice we sometimes ignore. Listen!

Solomon in his wisdom repeated many times in all the books we have of his writings “we live by what we speak”. So if we speak victory over the situation carefully praying in faith that God will handle it how can we not be victorious.

God does not want us playing tennis with our problems, give God the ball walk off the court, let Him play on your behalf. And you have a guaranteed WIN! But remember if you keep going back on the court you are apt to get hit in the head with the ball. Trust me I speak from experience on that!

Lord work in my heart

Seek within

when all is not well

As I wallow in my own self pity, undone in prosperity by my own iniquity I pray and give thanksgiving to my God for showing mercy and loving kindness toward me even in my despair.

Ezekiel’s words bring wisdom to my heart for man sets in place his own iniquity that when it comes he might fall prey to it in a continuous nature that we might wail in wonder of our own iniquity; crying onto the preciousness of the Son’s mercy why, why, refusing to look into our own hearts for fear of knowing we ourselves hold on to and set ourselves up to fall. Then, we dig a hole deeper and deeper by blaming others for our own deceptive thoughts blaming even the devil for our failure to examine our own thoughts and imaginations in the deepest folds of the heart. All the time, we keep the iniquity before our own eyes and in our plans.

Have we become so hardened in our own hearts we cannot see, nor hear the call to empty ourselves that God might fill us daily? For the events of even one day can seed our thoughts and imaginations toward many ill fated judgments, better known to some as opinions.


I pray Dear Lord, Rid me dear Lord of this curse, for you are my Lord and the desire of my heart. Guide me to know my heart and the hardness there in,  that I repent of all un-forgiveness even onto myself, that my opinions not over rule good judgments in the matters of life and love. In the name above all names Jesus, Amen.