Toning Down our Actions

What is the actual "intent of our heart"?
Is it really for the God-thing that is His life, love, peace, joy and power? Or do we still have some heart issues that will be revealed in the next blow on the emotions. People are all around you. People can and will bring problems to another. What amount of control do we still desire to have over others? Do we check ourselves on that issue of the heart?

From 1 Thessalonians we find the Apostle talking from chapter 2 of no hidden agendas.
1 Thessalonians 2 3-20       Message Bible
God tested us thoroughly to make sure we were qualified to be trusted with this Message. Be assured that when we speak to you we're not after crowd approval-----only God approval. since we've been put through that battery of tests, you're guaranteed that both we and the Message are free of error, mixed motives, or hidden agendas. We never used words to butter you up. And God knows we never used words as a smoke screen to take advantage of you. Even though we had some standing as Christ's apostles, we never threw our weight around or tried to come across as important, with you or anyone else. We weren't aloof with you. We took you just as you were. We were never  patronizing, never condescending, but we cared for you the way another cares for her children. We loved you dearly. Not content to just pass on the Message, we wanted to give you our hearts. And we did.

You remember us in those days, friends, working our fingers to the bone, up half the night, moonlighting so you wouldn't have the burden of supporting us while we proclaimed God's Message. You saw with your own eyes how discreet and courteous we were among you, with keen sensitivity to you as fellow believers. And God knows we weren't freeloaders! You experienced it all firsthand. With each of you we were like a father with his child, holding your hand, whispering encouragement, showing you step-by-step how to live well before God, who called us into his own kingdom, into this delightful life. And now we look back on all this and thank God, an Artesian Well of thanks! When you got the the Message of God we preached, you didn't pass it off as just one more human opinion, but you took it to heart as God's true word to you, which it is, God himself at work in you believers!

Friends do you realize that you followed in the exact footsteps of the churches of God in Judea, those who are the first to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ? You got the same bad treatment from you countrymen as they did from theirs, the Jews who killed the Master Jesus (to say nothing of the prophets) and followed it up by running us out of town. They make themselves offensive to God and everyone else by trying to keep us from telling people who've never heard of our God how to be saved. They've made a career of opposing God, and have gotten mighty good at it. But God is fed up, ready to put an end to it.
Do you have any idea how very homesick we became for you, dear friends? Even though it hadn't been that long and it was only our bodies that were separated from you, not our hearts, we tried our very best to get back to see you. You can't imagine how much we missed you! I, Paul, tried over and over to get back, but Satan stymied us each time. Who do you think we're going to be proud of when our Master Jesus appears if it's not you? Your're our pride and joy!

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Paul wrote from his heart. His heart intent was to this group of believer's as the father with his children. His heart was fixed on their good, not to their demise, not their eternal hurt, but was tuned into their life with God.

What attitudes do we carry against another? What action presents itself when "said" person you have attitude against walks in the room?

If they caused some friction within us, then that is "our" character that is rising up in featuring or giving that appearance to the thing we do not like about "said person". So a heart issue remains in the heart, and it is given a nice room to "exist".  In that room of our heart, is it given the accommodation of a standard room, or maybe the executive room or how about the Deluxe?

We have character! That is: we can be loving and the loyal. Or we can be the unloving and disloyal. We can be kind or down right rude! We can be disrespectful, impatient, the angry, showing no mercy, and grumpy.
Saw recently of driver on an interstate highway, driving a couple off the road in a road rage, because they were not going as fast "as he wanted to travel" on that interstate highway! Yes, they are still looking for the perpetrator who would do such a thing to another. Heart Issues???

Met any grumpy people lately? Or how about some controlling folks?

The heart can house the most amazing things. And people may not know "they exist" till they come across that trigger from another person who sets it off, even with alarm sounds. 

God's Message, is the Message of Love. And to receive it, we must have an open heart to it. AND HE WILL CORRECT WHEN CORRECTION IS NEEDED!

We are to make room in our hearts for the Holy Spirit. It is surely that anointing which empowers us to be like Christ and to do good works. It is the Holy Spirit HIMSELF, and He is passionate to accomplish something very specific in us-------------to conform us to the image of Jesus Christ. The more room we make for HIM in our lives, the more He puts His power and revelation to work for that purpose. He is the One who reveals what the Father is doing and saying and then equips us to do and say it.

Communication with the Spirit was the secret to Christ’s ministry and it is the secret to ours. The testimonies of God teach us what the Holy Spirit is like and how to move with Him. They keep us aware of God. They teach us how He invades the impossible when the perspectives of those around us are focused only on the temporary, and the physical circumstances.

Without a constant awareness of God and the testimonies that speak of His nature, we will inevitably reduce our vision! Not only that we can reduce a ministry down to what we can accomplish with our gifts and our own strength is amounts to very little of anything. 

It is not by might nor by power but is by the Spirit of God we accomplish all He purposed for us to do.
What we start with flesh will have to be worked out in the flesh. But with God all things are possible to them who believe!

The Holy Spirit can show us where or when we overload with an emotion in one or maybe several areas. He can show us the answer and how to cancel out the humanness of it and stay within the Spirit of the Living God to see the needed RESULT come for us!

GOD IS THE COMMUNICATOR!

COMMUNICATOR:

Matthew10:27-28….27 "Whatever I tell you in the dark,

speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on

the housetops. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body

 but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able

 to destroy both soul and body in hell. NKJV

Matthew 10:18-20

18 You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake,

as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they

deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should

speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should

speak; 20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your

Father who speaks in you. NKJV

  

John 10:27-28…...27 My sheep hear My voice,

and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them

 eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone

 snatch them out of My hand.   NKJV

GOD IS MERCIFUL!

MERCIFUL:

Luke 6::35-36……...35 But love your enemies, do good,

and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your

reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High.

For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father

also is merciful.

NKJV

 Romans 9:14-16………..14 What shall we say then? Is there

unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15 For He

says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will

 have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever

 I will have compassion."  16 So then it is not of him

 who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

NKJV

 GOD IS TRUTH!

TRUTH:

Psalm 119:160………...160 The entirety of

Your word is truth,

And every one of Your righteous

judgments endures forever.

NKJV

 John 1:17……17 For the law was given through Moses,

 but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

NKJV

 GOD IS LIFE!

 LIFE:

John 5:21……. 21 For as the Father raises the dead

and gives  life to them, even so the Son gives life

to whom He will.

NKJV

  

John 6:35, 47-51……….35 And Jesus said to them,

"I am the bread of life.   He who comes to Me shall never

 hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me

 has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life.

 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven,

 that one may eat of it and not die.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

 If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever;

 and the bread that I shall give is My flesh,

which I shall give for the life of the world." NKJV

  

John 11:25-27….25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection

 and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die,

he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me

 shall never die. Do you believe this?" 27 She said to Him,

"Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God,

 who is to come into the world."

NKJV

GOD IS VICTORIOUS!

VICTOR:

  

Proverbs 21:30-31...30 There is no wisdom or understanding

Or counsel against the LORD.      31 The horse is prepared

for the day of battle,    But deliverance is of the LORD.   NKJV

 HE IS OUR HOPE!

 HOPE:

Isaiah 40:28-31……..28 Have you not known?  

Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD,

The Creator of the ends of the earth,  

Neither faints nor is weary. 

 His understanding is unsearchable.  29 He gives

power to the weak,   and to those who have no might

 He increases strength.  30 Even the youths shall faint

And be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,

31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings like eagles, 

They shall run & not be weary, They shall walk

And  not faint.  NKJV

1 Peter 1:3…...3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord

Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy

 has begotten us again to a living hope through the

resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, NKJV

The intent of our heart will be seen. YOU can hide it for awhile, but in the end it will show itself very much alive, housed in a very nice compartment of the heart. When we apply God's mercy, His love, His faithfulness, His truth and life into our speaking, it cleans up that heart issue or issues. Decorating our heart with HIS Word, will change our lives dramatically.  It can take some time, but God is in no hurry. He cares for you much like we saw with Paul in those in Thessalonia. You can know God has your best interest at heart.  Then those triggers will no longer be there. The more we apply HIM into our hearts and speaking we are truly the NEW MAN IN CHRIST JESUS!

WE do not come with our own opinions, we come to deliver the Message, the Word of God that will prevail in your life. Amen.

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