Of course, in the atmosphere of those words spoken, straw was removed from them and they had to find other means of brick making! Those words choose the atmosphere. They can be words to delight, to bring questions, to see something never seen before, and they can be words to destruct and bring harm! ( Exodus 5-6) And remember the plagues began to fall on Pharaoh and all that lived in that region when he refused God. He would not allow them to go meet God in the wilderness and to worship Him there. Even here we note when straw is removed as in : officers de-funded and less officers on the job more violence occurs, nurses removed who will not vaccinate to be replaced with those not qualified to be a registered nurse, schools where substitute teaches no longer need a degree to teach your children (Oregon) just as long as you graduated High School you can apply to teach! Truckers removed from delivering goods to grocery markets and stores. (seen in the teaching: No Negative Thoughts or Feelings)
And ultimately, Pharaoh continued to speak in words of hate and violence, so much so that he followed the Hebrews with his best chariots and men. ( Exodus 12:31-51) He was determined to bring them back. But the sacrifice of praise to God in the wilderness led the Hebrews to the safe area to cross the Red Sea, to cross over for God's glory and to His praise. And they went through but the Egyptians died in their pursuit to attack the Hebrews to bring them back and to make them pay for their attitude! (Exodus 14:1-31)
Here we speak God! Here we lay down our morning, noon and night! Here we speak:
"LORD
God of Abraham, Isaac, & Israel, let it be known this day that You are God
in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your
word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the
LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again." ( and we know God hears His born again believers)
Today,
we speak these names of Jehovah God, over the people of these United States. ( You can speak over your
nation here) You are God Alone. You have
prepared us for the day of Battle. And we speak as YOU have spoken…. Elohim, the Creator of the heaven and earth,
Who was in the Beginning…….You are in the Beginning of their new life and of this new day! May the men and women of this country meet and know.............
Adonai,
our Lord and our Master---the Completely Self-existing One, always present, revealed
in Jesus Who is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Jehovah
Jireh, the One Who sees our needs and provides for them……….May they know….
Jehovah-Rapha, Our HEALER and the One Who makes bitter experiences sweet. YOU sent YOUR word and healed us . YOU forgave all our iniquities and YOU healed all
my diseases
Jehovah-Nissi
….Our Victory, our Banner and our STANDARD. …and it is Your BANNER over us that …… is LOVE. When the
enemy comes in like a flood….Jehovah-Nissi lifts up a STANDARD against him.
Jehovah-Shalom,
WE bless Your Name. YOU are the PEACE….THE PEACE which transcends all
understanding, which garrisons and mounts guard over every man, woman and child
in the communities and the nation(s) we have asked for. May
their atmosphere be changed here and now in an instant….
Jehovah-Tsidkenu,
Our Righteousness.YOU became sin FOR US THAT WE would become the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus. AND in that….we have
Jehovah-Rohi,
Our SHEPHERD….We shall not be in want for any good or beneficial thing. We give
thanks for …..
Jehovah
Shammah, Who will never leave us nor forsake us… “The Lord is my HELPER, WE
will not be seized with alarm-----WE will not fear or dread or be terrified.
What can man do to me (us)?
God our Father: It is Your NAME that is to be exalted. It is YOU Who
has given us all we need. It is the
sacrifice of Jesus lifted up and it is
our voices that must be resounding all to YOU for You are our Father Who has given all good things through YOUR Son Jesus. The sound of justice is present in You. The rain falls
on the just and unjust just as the sun shines on the just and the unjust!
Today, we call the OPEN Door from John 10:9-10 NKJV…9 I (Jesus) am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus) have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. We have spirit and truth in the Lord. We have His light and we have no more condemnation in the truth of God’s word.
It is so sad that many people today delight in removing God so they can do more sinning, do more in man’s ideas of which he views as right in his own eyes. ( Judges 21:25, Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 21:2) But destruction is not far behind that thinking and doing. We must call God Who He is in our lives and what we expect. Like in the reading of Elijah and the false prophets of Jezebel found in 1 Kings 18, they expected nothing. They had seen nothing except by their own hands. But here Elijah called down fire to a corrupt group of nonbelievers. Elijah had a belief in God that He could do what was asked of Him!
We are to expect when we speak with the voice of right words that fills the atmosphere for God’s good in our lives. We fill the atmosphere with good:
Philippians
4:6-9 NKJV 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to
God; 7 and the peace of God, which
surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any
virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and
heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
We need to pay careful attention to this sequence of instructions because it contains much that can help us attain both good spiritual and physical health.
It has been in the last 60 years, men have come to understand how deteriorating and destructive stress is to life. Paul's counsel, written nearly two thousand years ago, tells us not to be driven by anxiety or fearfulness about life. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus admonishes us to "take no anxious thought." The stress of anxiety is wearying, setting us up for multiple afflictions. If we really "see" God, we should know that He is with us.
Even then Jesus gave us this assurance to take no anxious thought, should we not feel great assurance in His promise that never allows us to be tempted above what we can bear? Faith is a prime solution for anxiety. So is Faith operating in us?
Paul continues, urging us to let God know our needs in every matter of life. God likes to converse with us. He sent His Holy Spirit to be in the daily walk with us here and now. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, He already knows our needs, but He wants us to recognize, evaluate, and communicate them to Him, accompanied by thoughtful expressions of thanksgiving for what He has already given, as well as His promises of blessings in the future. Do we see what this process achieves? It disciplines us to think within certain well-defined parameters that have Him and His way at the center of our life.
A benefit of this is tranquility Paul reveals is that of the mind, respite from the restlessness so common to the carnal mind, which is constantly searching for new stimulation to satisfy its insatiable longings that this peace of God will stand guard over our minds like a sentinel, allowing us to meet and cope with the problems of life.
And "finally" from verse 8 Paul closes the thought. In that relation to anxiety, the peace of God and coping with problems, our minds are to stay focused and thoughtful on or occupied with things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy. Through this discipline, we program our minds with the right things; what goes into the mind determines what comes out in words, actions, and attitudes.
So if one puts in his day by way of his mouth garbage. then it will be garbage in and garbage out, but wholesome in and wholesome out is what Jesus expanded on in Matthew 12:34.
"For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". We could take this further and say that out of the abundance of the heart the mind thinks and feels, and the body acts upon that which is the spoken!
What words will you choose today? What will you speak over yourself, your family, your son or daughter, over your community and nation? We speak words that will fill the atmosphere with good! Will your words invite death or bring life? In the garden of Eden, Eve listened to a voice not with life giving advice. She adhered to that voice and she acted on it. She invites her husband Adam to participate with her in this action. He knowing, she is now in the spiral downward death scenario, experiencing spiritual death and he hating to lose her altogether, he joins her in that atmosphere of death. He leaves God to adhere to death and its death throws.
We have a "woke" society doing that very thing today! They choose to leave the right way, the things of God and join the world in their doing. There are people who choose to keep their friends, a boyfriend, or a neighbor but their way is changed from the godly to the worldly way. They have taken vaccines and died. They did not want to make waves and they changed in their thinking. They took on the fearful heart and choose to live at peace with the enemy as peacekeepers, but God has called us to be peacemakers. We have seen it in family members who live miles away from us. You cannot join the world and expect to live in Christ!
Oh choose your words wisely this day, your day counts on where you will be and what you will experience: life or death!
New teaching at: Voice of Prayer
No Negative Thoughts or Feelings
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