“Moving OPPOSITE the Jordon”

3-29-13

Judges 7:25

*25 And [the men of Ephraim] (fruitful; increase) took (to be caught of men in a trap/snare) the two (division/ separation or witness/testimony) princes (to have dominion) of Midian, ("strife"/contention; a contest/quarrel; from: to rule/to judge as umpire; to strive as at law) (#853 AS A SIGN FROM GOD) Oreb ("The Raven" Type of evil spirit & satan going to and fro) and Zeeb, ("The Wolf" type of satan & false ministries and teachers) and they slew (to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand, ruin) (#853 AS A SIGN FROM GOD) Oreb ("The Raven" Type of evil spirit & satan going to and fro)at the rock of Oreb (shut up, shut in, enclose, secure, to bind, besiege, confine, cramp , bind up...the "evil spirit/satan going to and fro") and Zeeb ("The Wolf" type of satan & false ministries and teachers) they slew (to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand, ruin) at the winepress of Zeeb, (to excavate; a trough as dug out; specifically a wine vat, whether the lower one, into which the juice drains; or the upper, in which the grapes are crushed...OF..."The Wolf" type of satan and false ministries and teachers) and pursued (to chase, to put to flight, to pursue ardently, aim eagerly to secure, pursue...+...motion toward) Midian; ("strife"/contention; a contest/quarrel; from: to rule/to judge as umpire; to strive as at law) and they brought the heads (type: thoughts, mind, intelligence; principal ruler; head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning; from: to shake/that which can be shaken) of Oreb ("The Raven" Type of evil spirit & satan going to and fro) and Zeeb ("The Wolf" type of satan & false ministries and teachers) to Gideon ("He that bruises or breaks; a destroyer; "hewer"/feller/warrior; to fell a tree-destroy something; from: to cut off, hew, chop, cut off, hew off, cut in two, shave off) beyond (a part of, off, from, out of, on account of, to apportion...+...opposite side, region beyond or across, side; from: of any transition/change, to pass over or by or through, alienate, to impregnate, to advance, travel)the Jordan. (the river of judgment; "Descender"; literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to fall; causatively to bring down. run down, sink, subdue, to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down; figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down; to lay prostrated)

REWRITE:

Fruitfulness and increase ensnares what separates and divides what dominates strife and contention. (Divides and conquers that which rules over strife and contention) This is a sign from God to us, that He is working with us! The evil of satan, that searches out the places that evil can land, and false ministries and teachers are then destroyed. Satan’s evil searchings are destroyed by being bound up so he can not move (by our authority in Jesus). The ‘wolf’/ false ministries and teachers are destroyed as we dig out the Truth by testing these teachings…pressing and squeezing them to get out their ‘best juices’. We put this ‘evil raven’ and ‘evil wolf’ to flight by perusing them and chasing them out of our lives. (Being the pursuer in authority and not the victim). We pursue after strife and contention to bring it under our submission and authority in Christ. We then bring the ‘dominating thoughts’ that are vulnerable to evil and false teachings (where satan could ‘land’) to Jesus, the ‘Hewer’, Who whittles these thoughts down to just Truth…the OPPOSITE of what satan would try to convince us was Truth.

Capturing negative/evil thoughts, and knowing that those are only from satan is the key. God only gives us GOOD thoughts. Those are the ones we cling to as Truth.

Satan tries to sell us OPPOSITE notions. When these evil things come to us, we are to KNOW that satan is telling on himself. This is our CUE to change our thinking into God’s thinking. We move OPPOSITE of evil, to the place BEYOND THE JORDON!

 

"NOT ONE 'EASILY ACCESSED' WORD, SPOKEN WITH GOD, WILL FALL SHORT"

3-26-13

Joshua 23:14 And behold, (to perceive through sight or apprehension; to gaze upon; to call attention to) this day I am going (go, walk, to die, live, manner of life) the way (way, road, distance, journey, manner; course of life; moral character) of all the earth. Know (wisdom, recognise, to perceive and see, find out and discern, acknowledge) in all your hearts (inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding) and in all your souls (soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion) that not one (to unify, unite, to collect ones thoughts) thing (a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) of thing; a cause) has failed (to lie prostrate; to fall, lie, be cast down, fail) of all the good (a good thing, benefit, welfare, pleasant, agreeable, prosperity, happiness)things (a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) of thing; a cause) which the Lord your God promised (to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing, to lead away, to put to flight) concerning (upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards) you. All have come to pass (to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon) for you; not one thing (a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) of thing; a cause) of them has failed.(to lie prostrate; to fall, lie, be cast down, fail)

REWRITE:

Pay attention to and try to understand by using your 'eyes'/spiritual vision, this FACT: Everyone 'goes through life's experiences until the body dies.

Find out and discern in your inner man and in your mind that not one thought or spoken word lies down or lays prostrate (bows or 'gives up/in') of all the pleasant, agreeable and beneficial spoken words which God has spoken and declared together with us (doing it together with Him).

(We have to declare the same words over ourselves that God has said over us to activate it. Believe it, understand it, when saying these words...believe it and understand it, in the inner man and with the mind.)

(Everything has been brought near and is close to us. Not one spoken word or spoken cause that has been spoken will bow down, or fall or be cast down or fail. (These 'spoken words from God' are right in front of us for easy access. Not one of these 'easily accesses words' will fall short when we speak them together with Father God.)

 

S. Deut. 30:9 And the Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in every work of your hand, in the fruit (reward) of your body (to be hollow/seat of hunger/mental faculties), of your cattle (to be mute; dumb beast), of your land (to show blood/redness/soil), for good (welfare, prosperity, happiness); for the Lord will again delight in prospering you, as He took delight in your fathers, 

10 If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep (attend to/guard/protect/hedge about) His commandments and His statutes which are written (prescribed) in this Book of the Law, and if you turn (bring to mind/to restore, refresh, repair) to the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart (to transport, 'get a mind' (MAKE CAKES) or unheart the inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding) and with all your being. (soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion, vitality)

11For this commandment (constitute, give charge over) which I command (put in order) you this day is not too difficult (be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action) for you, nor is it far off. (remote, precious, be extended)

12It is not [a secret laid up] in heaven, (atmosphere, lofty:dominant, dominating, eminent, prominent; elevated, lifted, raised, uplifted, upswept; high-rise, statuesque) that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?

13Neither is it beyond the sea, ('west'=the end of something; symbol: masses of humanity) that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?

14But the word (speech, word, speaking; business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner; a matter (as spoken of) of thing; adverbially a cause; to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing) is very near you, in your mouth (to cleave in pieces, break into pieces, shatter; to blow away) and in your mind and in your heart (to transport, 'get a mind' (MAKE CAKES) or unheart the inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding) so that you can do it. (to do, fashion, accomplish, make)

Our CHANGE/TRANSITION & Limits to our Territory

3-18-13

Joshua 1:

2Moses My servant is dead. So now arise [take his place], go over this Jordan, (die to self) you and all this people, into the land (Kingdom territory)which I am giving to them, the Israelites.(those who prevail/contend with God) 

3Every place upon which the sole (power) of your foot (walking through life) shall tread, that have I given to you, as I promised Moses.

4From the wilderness (place of wandering/dry place/a place driven to/a pasture)and this Lebanon (pure)to the great river Euphrates   (that makes fruitful)--all the land of the Hittites [Canaan]-- (trembling/fear) and to the Great [Mediterranean] Sea (masses of humanity) on the west ("toward the going down of the sun" or place or act of battlement) shall be your territory. ("coast"=border, territory, space, limit)

11Pass through (transition/change + the midst, among, inner part, middle) the camp (army/church) and command (set in order) (#853 from God as a sign/signal) the people, Prepare (stedfast; restored; to be firm, be stable, be established) your provisions, (meat, provision, venison, victuals; from: that which he took in hunting/lunch especially for a journey) for within three days (completed appointed time) you shall pass over (transition/change)(#853 from God as a sign/signal) this Jordan (humility/dying to self) to go in (enter/attain to) to take possession (to occupy be driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place; to inherit)(#853 from God as a sign/signal) of the land (country, world, ground, wilderness; Kingdom Territory) which the Lord your God is giving you to possess. (to occupy be driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place; to inherit)

12And to the Reubenites,(vision of the son) the Gadites,(band/troop type:church) and the half-tribe (to cut/split in two/middle/partial/incomplete/one of two equal parts/shorten/curtail...church) of Manasseh, (forgetfulness) Joshua (type: Jesus) said,

13 Remember (#853 from God as a sign/signal)(mark) what Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God is giving you (#853 from God as a sign/signal)[of these two (witness/testimony; division/separation) and a half (to cut/split in two/middle/partial/incomplete/one of two equal parts/shorten/curtail) tribes (church) a place of] rest  (quiet, repose, open space, to alight) and will give you this land [east of the Jordan] (before/precedes humility/dying to self).

14Your wives, (extended mortal) your little ones, (to trip with short steps) and your cattle (possession, purchase, substance) shall dwell in the land which Moses gave you on this side (opposite side of transition/change) of the Jordan, (humility/dying to self) but all your mighty men (prevail/exceed/powerful/warrior) of valor (ability/sufficantcy/ strength, might, efficiency, wealth, army) shall pass (transition/change) on before  (to turn) your brethren (resemblance/relative, kinship, same tribe) [of the other tribes] armed, (in battle array, arrayed for battle by fives, armed; from: the 5th rib='grace' in 'conviction of sin/the intimate part of man's makeup; abdomen/) and help them (to surround, that is, protect or aid/secure)[possess their land]

15Until the Lord gives your brethren rest, (to settle down/let fall/place) as He has given you, and they also possess (to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir) (#853 from God as a sign/signal)the land the Lord your God is giving (to give, put, set) them. Then you shall return (to return, turn back; restore/refresh/repair)to the land of your possession (be driving out previous tenants and possessing in their place;  inheritance) and possess it, (to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir) the land Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on the sunrise side (east; hide self/hiding place/refuge; to hide as if in the bosom/to cherish) of the Jordan. (transition/change; region beyond or across)

 

 

 

"TESTING THE ROD'S"

2-25-13

S. Numbers 17:8 And the next day Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony (the place inside of us where God dwells), and behold, the rod (correction/support of life) of Aaron (Light Bringer) for the house of Levi  had sprouted (to break out of leprosy/a skin or flesh disease) and brought forth buds and produced blossoms and yielded [ripe] almonds.

0. Each of the twelve tribes tested the 'rods of their tribes'. The test was to put the 'symbol' of what was leading their lives (the rod) into the Ark (where God's presence dwelt) to see if there was life there. The only rod that ended up having any life was Aaron's..."The Light Bringer's" life.

A. I need to test the things in my life that either make my spirit alive, or make it decay. I need to test 'the rods' of so-called 'spirit increasers' in my personal 'ark/spirit'. I thought, at one time, that New Age meditation helped my spirit to grow in truth. But it was the WRONG 'ROD'! THIS kind of meditation left my spirit empty...without substance. But, when I found Jesus and inserted His Truth, My spirit was actually budding because the "Light Bringer's" 'rod' was in my 'spirit'! 

P. Father, You tell us to test what is Truth. You have opened my spiritual eyes to see what IS TRUTH! I thank You that YOU are the TRUTH and none other can bring life to my spirit but YOU!

YOUR PERSONAL SPIRITUAL GARDEN

3-16-13

S. Galations 6:8 For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

O. Scatter seed, what can grow, into the ungodly part of yourself, and it will cause you to decay and die. Scatter seed, what can grow, toward what makes you alive in God (Holy Spirit), and Holy Spirit will increase your 'alive-ness'...forever.

A. Nothing I can do can make me more 'alive' inside. And even if I tried to make my inside happy, it wouldn't last long. But Holy Spirit knows how to make things full of life...He is spirit, and that IS life/aliveness. When I sew into HIM, He sews life back into my spirit...making me full of:

life, aliveness, vital principle by which the body is animated , mental disposition, rational spirit, the power by which the human being feels, thinks, decides; the soul; a simple essence, devoid of all or at least all grosser matter and possessed of the power of knowing, desiring, deciding, and acting; a life giving spirit; a spirit higher than man but lower than God, i.e. an angel;the spiritual nature of Christ, higher than the highest angels and equal to God, the divine nature of Christ; the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of any one; the efficient source of any power, affection, emotion, desire, etc.

So this is the answer to inner tranquility. The next question would be...HOW?

P. Father, You alone know what my spirit craves. Help me to find all that will fill me up with You...show me HOW! How do I 'sew into Holy Spirit'? Time? Prayer? Listening? CHANGING MY THINKING? Submitting? Please show me the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE STONES & PLASTER

3-14-13

S. Deut. 27:2-7
2And on the day when you pass over the Jordan (judgement/subduer;humility) to the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall set up great stones (to build/rebuild/establish) and cover them with plaster. (made from 'burning bones')
3And you shall write on (inscribe/engrave;remember,memorial) them all the words of this law when you have passed over, (transition/change) that you may go into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
4And when you have gone over the Jordan, you shall set up (stand up/arise/fulfill/confirm/establish/carry out) these stones, as I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, (stone/bare mountain/bald/bare) and coat them with plaster.
5And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not lift up any iron (harshness/strength/oppression/pierce/holes/"in leanness:choice olives") tool upon them.
6You shall build the altar of the Lord your God of whole (complete/peaceful/to be safe) stones and offer burnt offerings on it to Him
7And you shall offer peace offerings, and eat there and rejoice before the Lord your God. 8And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law (prescription) very plainly.

The Stones & Plaster

Personally Rewritten: And on the day when you 'change' because of 'judgement' and are 'humbled' into God's Kingdom here on earth, you are to build and establish this 'kingdom' with what has been 'burned up' in your life and made 'dead'. (The learning experiences that you went through and learned from...that which wasn't needed and is dead in your life is DEAD (bones). That which has LIFE) Remember what God has prescribed for you, through these 'tests'/'trials' in your PERSONAL life. Remember them! You are heading to a VERY blessed and full future...GOD HAS PROMISED YOU THIS! And when you have 'changed' and are 'humbled before God', you are to stand these 'perscribe' things up over your life...not what YOU have done, but what GOD has done in YOUR LIFE. Build your thankfulness to God on these lessons/prescriptions and dedicate them to Him alone. They are SAFE, COMPLETE and full of all things PEACEFUL...as His prescribed lessons for you alone...personal. You are to offer these lessons back to God TOTALLY that You would absorb them, devour them, learn from them because of HIS teaching you...and then you are to praise and rejoice for them...thanking God! These lessons should be remembered and plainly seen by yourself (maybe others, too).




JESUS FREED US...STAY THAT WAY!

1.) Jesus completely freed us
2.) Do not be ensnared by slavery again.
3.) Through Holy Spirit's help
4.) Through faith, anticipate and wait
5.) Through Holy Spirit, hope!

Galations 5:1IN [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off].
5For we, [not relying on the Law but] through the [Holy] Spirit’s [help], by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God [our conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action, causes us] to hope.
6For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

WHO STOPPED YOU FROM THE CORRECT WAY?

1.) Evil persuasion, interference and hindrance that stops you from heeding and following the Truth, doesn't come from God. God INVITED you into His freedom!
2.)God INVITED you into His freedom!

Galations 5:7You were running the race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from) your heeding and following the Truth?
8This [evil] persuasion is not from Him Who called you [Who invited you to freedom in Christ].

HOW TO STAY ON TRACK...THE RIGHT PATH:

1.) through love, serve one another & love your neighbor as yourself

13For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another. 14For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.

2.) walk in and live habitually in Holy Spirit & be guided by the Holy Spirit

16But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God). 17For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do. 18But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.

THE RESULT OF OBEDIENCE...THE RESULTING FRUIT:
1.) Love
2.) Joy/gladness
3.) Peace
4.) Patience (an even temper, forbearance)
5.) Kindness
6.) Goodness
7.) Faithfulness
8.) Gentleness (meekness, humility)
9.) Self-control (self-restraint, continence)
10.) Crucifixion of the godless human nature (human passions, appetites, desires)

22But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, 23Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge]. 24And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires.

TESTING THE PROPHET AND DREAMER

S. Deut. 13:1-5

1 IF A prophet (spokesman) arises among you, or a dreamer (to restore to health/be healthy/be strong)of dreams, and gives you a sign (consent that appears as evidence/proof in the form of a sign/signal/miracle/mark) or a wonder (conspicuous and beautiful wonder, sign, miracle, portent),

2 And the sign or the wonder he foretells to you comes to pass, and if he says, Let us go after other gods--gods you have not known--and let us serve them,

3 You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing (adventure/attempt, try, prove, tempt, assay, put to the proof or test) you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being.

4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and [reverently] fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and cling to Him.

 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death,(to die prematurely by neglect of wise moral conduct) because he has talked rebellion and turning away from the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; that man has tried to draw you aside (to push off, to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.) from the way (journey, course of life, of moral character) in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So shall you put the evil away from your midst. (from out of the center)

14:

1YOU ARE the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut (to invade, attack, penetrate/to gather in troops or crowds) yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads (of mental and spiritual faculties) for the dead (to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct), 2For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar (to be shut up as God's valued property, peculiar treasure) people to Himself, above all the nations on the earth.

 

 

"CLOSING THE 'GAP' OF STRIFE IN OUR LIVES''

3-2-13

S. Numbers 31:6-9 & 14-17 

6. And Moses (type of Jesus) sent them to the war, 1,000 (eternal) from each tribe, together with Phinehas (spiritual incantations/whispers/prayers) son of Eleazar, (Helper of God; type of Holy Spirit) the priest , with the [sacred] vessels of the sanctuary (type of Believer; prepared utensils/full grown Believers) and the trumpets (shouts of war/joy/voices) to blow the alarm in his hand. (strength/power)

7 They fought with Midian,(strife) as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew every male, (remembrance/memorial/'call to mind')

8 Including the five (#of God's grace to man/man's responsibility) kings of Midian (strife): Evi (unjust/to wish for/my desire), Rekem, (vain pictures) Zur (sharp rock as compresses), Hur (the crevice of a serpant/a prison cell), and Reba (the fourth/a square=religious/that lies or stoops down); also Balaam (the destruction of the people) son of Beor (foolish, mad, burning) they slew with the sword.(type of the WORD OF GOD; to waste/be in ruin/be desolate/dried up/attack/smite down/fight/to parch with drought).

9 And the Israelites took captive the women of Midian (the extent/spirit of 'strife') and their little ones,(stripping steps) and all their cattle, (obedience and docility to higher rule) their flocks,(that which was purchased) and their goods as booty (strength/might/efficiency/wealth/army/a force).

14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, who served in the war.

15 And Moses said to them, Have you let all the women (the extent of a man/spirit of 'strife') live?

16 Behold, these caused the Israelites by the counsel of Balaam (counsel of destroying the people) to trespass and act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor, (hole/opening/gap) and so a [smiting] plague came among the congregation of the Lord.

17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who is not a virgin. (has been intimate with 'strife')

O. REWRITE: 6. Jesus sent God's people to war for eternity, all those who had the love of God in common. Together, with the seed and voices of prayer, Holy Spirit, and the Believers are to shout, showing their combined strength and power through their words.

7. They fought strife, as Jesus had commanded them to do, and killed every reminder of 'strife' in their lives.

8. This included the remembering of their own responsibility in bringing 'strife'; their unjust actions and desires for strife; the pride that bringing 'strife' to others has; the way 'strife' compresses or slows others from moving; the binding prison cell of strife; the 'religiousosity' of strife that causes one to 'stoop down'. This also caused the Believer to forget what he had done to bring strife in order to 'bring destruction' to God's people, which is 'maddness'. ALL THIS 'REMEMBERING' WAS STOPPED BY USING GOD'S WORDS, AND SPEAKING THEM ALOUD...SHOUTING! God's Word brings waste, ruin and drought to 'strife'.

9. And so, God's people took control of the 'spirit of strife', and the way it 'trips' people up. But they didn't destroy it.

14 & 15. The Lord was angry that His soldiers/Believers who did not DESTROY 'strife' by using their WORDS, AUTHORITY and STRENGTH. (God's Word) 

16. Jesus then says, "The 'spirit of strife' caused God's people, through the listening to the 'spirit of strife', to sin and act on that sin. 'The spirit of strife' leaves a 'gap' or 'door' open to sinning and causing God's people to sin."

17. "As a result, all memories of causing others to 'trip up' (and HOW to 'trip up others' by using strife) must be destroyed.  Also, any intimacy with 'the spirit of strife' must be destroyed." 

A. 'The spirit of 'strife' is strong, and can leave 'gates and doors' opened to sin. The 'spirit of strife' has to be DESTROYED...completely...so that NO gaps remain for it to get back in to my life. I can only do this through God's word. I am to put the combined power into that word, in partnership with Holy Spirit, by SPEAKING IT OUT LOUD with the authority that Jesus gave me.

P. Jesus, thank You for the power You have brought here to earth, that we may use our Father's Words to destroy strife. I speak Your Word, Father, and say, "STRIFE, YOU ARE POWERLESS IN MY LIFE, I SLAM SHUT THE GAP YOU HAVE MADE IN MY LIFE, IN THE NAME AND AUTHORITY OF JESUS CHRIST!" amen!

Romans_13:13

(ASV) Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

 

"RETURN TO YOUR TENTS"

3-7-13

S. Deut. 5:30 Go and say to them, Return (turn back, restore, repair) to your tents (dwelling/tabernacle from: to shine, be clear; as seen clearly from afar; type: human spirit). 31But you [Moses], stand here by Me, and I will tell you all the commandments and the statutes and the precepts which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess

O. God told Moses to tell His people to return to their tents. Then He told Moses to 'stand by Me'. Through Moses, God told Israel the 'perscriptions' to follow to take what God was giving to them; the land.

A. God speaks to me 'in my tent' through Jesus, who Moses represented. In my 'spirit', the 'tent' that God dwells in, I am to LISTEN to Jesus. He tells me HOW, WHAT, WHERE and WHEN in order to possess my inheritance in the Kingdom.

P. Father, Thank You for Jesus, my Way into Your Kingdom. Help me to have a softened heart, mind and will to all You tell me to do.

 

"One on One Love"

3-6-13

 

S. Psalm 36:5-7(Message)

5-6 God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.

7 How exquisite your love, O God!

O. God's love is HUGE! And yet, not one of us is hidden from Him. He knows, sees and loves us, no matter how small...lost among the crowd...we think we are.

A.  In this huge world and with all the things going on, I sometimes feel lost in it all. But I know my God is right here, holding me in His arms. He'll never let me go. He loves me as if I'm the only one left on earth. That's the kind of God I love and serve. One on one.

P. No one can love me like You, Jesus. I praise You for that One on one love...the only One that can love me so completely. Thank You!

 

'FOLLOWING OR WAITING ON GOD'S CLOUD'

3-5-13

S. Deut. 1:32Yet in spite of this word you did not believe (trust, rely on, and remain steadfast to) the Lord your God, 33Who went in the way before you to search out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

O. How many times did the Israelites not do what God said, or believe what He told them? God chose them and would lead them, provide for them, protect them. All they had to do is listen, obey and believe. He told them when, where and what to do. It would have been so much quicker and easier for them if they had done all these things.

A. What I hear in this for me is that I need to listen to God's voice. Go when He says GO...TIMING. Follow when He says FOLLOW...OBEY. And ALWAYS BELIEVE IN HIS PLANS FOR ME.

P. Father, above all other voices help me to know YOURS. I pray for a heart of obedience to only Your voice, patience to wait until You say GO, and to wait in faith in You. Help me to know when and where to move and speak. And while I wait on You, help me to have faith in what only YOU are doing.