Protesting

Protesting is demanding what, an entitlement or a truth! Protests in the city near here has brought naked people forward. Yikes! Not sure what a naked body has to do with protesting against the leader of this nation, but please put some clothes on now. Some protesting bring weapons to kill another, yet others come dressed like four-footed animals.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man ----and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Most certainly if one removes their outer garments and only skin is revealed what is revealed is a heart with wrong motivations. Certainly we should pay attention to scripture to steer our heart in diligence. As we grow in God's word we become more convicted about sin in our lives. The relationship knowing Christ keeps us strong in our daily walk of life!  We are to hides God's word in our heart: Psalm 119:11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

The heart brings joy: “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22).

Proverbs 15:13  A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance

Proverbs 23:7 For as he things in his heart, so is he.

Heard an actor speak on a podcast how the Constitution has socialism in it. Not! The Constitution speaks of having a social walk in freedom that is brought by God. Another Congressman said what he hears today is troubling. This man a democrat is fearing truth of God and the freedom that word brings to people who walk in faith toward to God.

Proverbs 26:23 Fervent lips with a wicked heart are like earthenware covered with silver dross. 24 He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself.

Proverbs 27:19  As in water face reflects face, so a man's heart reveals the man.

When we have joy in our hearts, it can’t help but spill out to those who are around us. What joy to bring the medicine of cheerfulness to others, not because every situation is great, but because God is greater than any situation. Our joy is renewed as we stay in the presence of God through prayer and Bible study. The key to having a joyful heart is to keep our minds stayed on God and His grace over our lives.

Some prophetic words given in the last few months are pointing to a calendar, and one points as tap, tap, tap on a curtain month, change is coming. The next month for that change is the month of November when, what a million people rely on the snap program! It is out of funds and food pantry's are low of food for those in need. Where is the joy that God can meet us in that need?

The heart leads to salvation: “For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved” (Romans 10:10).

Salvation begins with a believing heart. It’s in our hearts that the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin and beckons us to come to the cross. When we choose to respond in faith, our hearts are changed through the power of the Holy Spirit and we are never the same. The key to salvation in the heart is through accepting the Savior Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for our sins.

 Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people

1.   Righteous behavior is seen

2.   Promoting only wickedness brings reproach & people mourn: It appears when people change the true definition of marriage …that between one man & one woman, it appears when people have affairs outside of marriage, who favor drugs and legalize it, it appears when alcohol is glamorized & showcased as a “good-time” but many fall under its magic & drive influenced by it to either kill someone or die themselves because of it…

3.   Wickedness oppresses & when other things are valued above God, then wickedness will ultimately bring ruin to a people, to a state and to a nation…..I pray that not happen to this nation of the United States…

4. A commercial on television reveals the man getting his drug of Fentanyl from a dealer. He tells how this drug promotes his body to decay and his organs to shut down as to that of an old man. He dies alone with his drug of destruction!

The heart establishes a giving attitude: “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).

No believer should ever need to give in compulsion; rather our hearts are touched by God to give as He prompts us. We give to the kingdom of God not because we hope to get something back—but rather we give out of thankfulness for which the Lord has given to us. The key to giving out of a cheerful heart is to remember all the many blessings that God has showered on us.

The heart is guarded by peace :“And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:7).

One of the best blessings in being a believer in Jesus Christ is the peace that rises above every life situation. We are to understand Jesus has been made peace unto us. ( Ephesians 2:14)  While others are fretting with worry, believers have the power of the Holy Spirit to guard their hearts and minds with peace that has no human explanation. Having peace allows believers to continue to go through hardship and painful situations without regret.  Darkness appears at times in the walk of the believer, but God's word is a lamp unto our feet. The key to having peace in our hearts is surrendering all our prayers to God.

Anxiety is one which causes trouble for many. Anxiety can attack your nerves and change things in your body. We must act on God's speaking and to be still before Him. We are to do His commands and do it without fear of God or man. Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 

That fear opens doors to other things than what we might fear like: riding in elevators, riding an escalator, going up in a hot-air balloon or riding the waves with a kite board! Fear opens up doors to cancer and the such. You might confess cancer, but fear of something you have might open a door to that cancer.

To be set on heaven:“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1).

When our hearts are set on heaven, we can rise above the problems of the world and in our own life. We are not set on entitlements nor riding someone's coat tails into any luxury or extra wealth. You and I can look to the heavens and know that our God lives and moves all around us. Setting our hearts on things above releases us from the bondage's of materialism and seeking after " that " selfish gain. We are moved to live with a heavenly destination in mind at all times. The key to having a heart set on heaven is stepping back and realigning all of our desires with "that" heavenly gain in mind.

Is heaven on our mind:Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!   Heaven is seen when there is a submission and teachable spirit within us. There is not growth in the kingdom without obedience to Jesus' commandments and one with a childlike responsiveness to the teaching of the word of God. There is no lifelong increase of fruit as a citizen of the kingdom without a willingness to accept Holy Spirit's correction and guidance.

Heart is motivated to work: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters” (Colossians 3:23).

There is a greater desire to work if the focus remains on God and not on man. The key to a heart that is motivated at work is grounded in the knowledge that God is in control.

 So in that walk of protesting......... Do we protest to get things we think we are entitled to in this life.  Like is there a heritage where you think people have been forsaken to get more land, more wealth, and more entitlements? I have seen in the state next to Wyoming where Indigenous folks tear down new homes they were given. They took off the front doors and then removed the appliances. Every window and every thing not nailed down was removed. By winter less than two years later, no one could stay there because of the cold and snow on the ground. I have some Cherokee in me, but not enough to say I am entitled. My parents would tell me to work and not expect hand-outs.  And I cannot see how giving one something they have never worked for to be a people who will never keep what is given them. 

Just as the body can’t function well without a healthy heart, neither can the Christian with a spiritual heart—we will be sluggish in our work, hard at hearing God’s word, and slow to recognize His presence. The consistent disciplines of the Christian faith of prayer, Bible study, and fellowship will keep our spiritual heart's pumping strong towards our eternal destination.

Purity of heart is a work in progress in which both God and man share responsibility. Many scriptures show that God will cleanse by pardoning sin. But our responsibility in cleansing is very important and frequently mentioned along with what we must do to be cleansed. Notice how clearly James shows purifying is our responsibility: "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded" (James 4:8). So how is this purifying done? Well in 1 Peter 1:22 makes a summary statement: "Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart." Obedience to the truth through the Spirit purifies our character by inculcating right habits within it.

So what if we do not do that? Take those who smoke, they are trying to fight their addiction to cigarettes when they should fight rebellion first. My mother was a smoker for many decades and did not quite till she was like 82 years old. She was in rebellion because she was told not to do that thing. She had other issues from her young life and rebellion showed up! Was hearing about those who have things like schizophrenia and they too are to take a fight against their rebellion first before the other thing. Likely one had childhood trauma, and possible drug use. So knowing the cause will help fight the thing.

 Protest taking anything you should not. Likewise protest those who are stealing from you. Money put back for children and grandchildren is being set aside for illegals. In recent days we had Columbus Day. He Christopher Columbus was born-again. He kept a journal as he traveled over the many waves of water to reach a new land. He was an immigrant seeking to find people, create cities and plans for a future. 

It was Christopher Columbus who discovered America in 1492. He wrote one book and it was called “Book of Prophecies”…..he said he could not have reached America without prayer and guidance of the Holy Spirit.   Like Columbus, we can choose to ask the Holy Spirit to guide us. In every opportunity, He will use that language of Tongues to pray for our calling, to pray out the plan of God, to edify us, and to charge us with HOLY power. He will lend Himself to us as our faith allows Him to be activated within our spirit. He will pull us out of everything Jesus set us free from and into everything Jesus says that we are in HIM.  People who choose not to do as much as Christopher Columbus will blame him for something. We see that going on in cities of these United States. Naked does nothing for you. We are to be clothing ourselves with the new man every time we give ourselves to the Word of God and to prayer. Praying in the Spirit will edify our spirit man, purge us and develop our character until everything we do and everything we say is “governed by the love of God”.

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Have You Named it Decayed and Polluted?

Isaiah 1:5-6   NKJV  5 Why should you be stricken again?                                                                       

You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick,

And the whole heart faints. 6  From the sole of the foot even to the head,

There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;

They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.

 The commentary on this reads as a nation with festering wounds. The festering wound will stink. It has its own odors and oozing of sickness. There is no healthy place to land. As Judah, we have people here today in this nation which choose their agenda and not God’s. They pursue their sin, and teach their enemies to do the same. They bring the wound, the putrefying sore with nothing to soothe it. And they produce it over and over again!

 From the outhouse to the white-house, decay is seen in our culture. The demand is chaos indeed. The society is at large very sick. A political landscape gives no life to he who sees. In Jesus, we see Him delivering “good” to the people. But the Pharisees chose to give routine. No life was found in their doing!

We look over the land, especially where we live. We look for life of God, but nothing is seen but sin leading to sickness and to more disease.

 No, our beginnings are in God no matter your age or position in life today. A verse I love to keep before my eyes is Psalm 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. I like what the Tony Evans Bible Commentary speaks on this: David waits on God to act in His integrity. He petitions God to guard him. (As he continues he wants the benefits to be for others not just himself) David did not go in his integrity, he sought God’s integrity to be done in his life!

 Immersed in Holy Spirit to live in truth today is so important. And for those who have not received Jesus, by the time anti-christ gets here, his charismatic voice will draw the unbeliever and it will be too late for his safety, salvation and spiritual life. Scripture tells us that Holy Spirit is sent to those obedient: Acts 2:38 NKJV 38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

 When we read Isaiah in the beginning of this passage, he is not speaking, of course, of physical bruises and disease but of spiritual and thus of cultural decay at work. He sees the nation as a body made up of many individuals (much as Paul describes Christ's body, the church, in 1 Corinthians 12), but because so many of the individuals are spiritually weak and sick, the nation itself is diseased throughout.

If no one has seen that which goes on at capitol hill in this new year of 2023, in the voting and drama, one finds those seen as the hard headed or just plain weak. They falter, cannot make a decision, and therefore critical care is required for each of them. Only Jesus can save!

Being spiritual is so critical, as to the word of God to give us right thinking and speaking and prayer in relationship to Him.  THAT prayer to Him, communicating our commitment to Him, to know Him and to hear Him speak to our hearts is so vital. We can see Him, engage Him and when we continue speaking what He spoke while He walked in Nazareth to Jerusalem, we are aware we are not alone ever! Spiritual death can occur to those who want free stuff, and think they are entitled to that free thing as to government checks or other things!

Certainly we are to be givers to the poor and aid the needy. ( Matthew 19:21, Luke 14:13, Galatians 2:10) God wants us to be responsible people. That is: be responsible to feed your children, clothe your children and give them God’s word because charity ends and personal responsibility begins when you the rugged individual should get a job. Provide for you and yours, get on your feet and move out of your house to make a difference for many! Spiritual danger will appear in the long haul when one seeks free things. Even though many feel some amount of shame for their extended hand, they also can develop an attitude of entitlement called the welfare mentality. They become offended when they get nothing from someone. So too, true Christianity is not give your heart to the Lord and be saved. No that true Christianity is “Repent and believe in the gospel found in Mark 1:15! Christianity is not lazy. It is outgoing, esteeming others where manifested itself, you and I will see the blessings of God.

 So back to that which is seen today, while it is true that the politicians may be constantly in the public eye, and their indiscretions thus become front page news, they are not altogether unlike their constituents.  Can one claim that no voter in this nation has ever had a homosexual thrust? Or is it possible that no voter ever took some money under the table to smooth the way for a “sweet”  deal for themselves?  And speaking of those hiring the illegal alien, have we not seen it in their community as to those who are hired to pick cherries, or apples from that orchard across the river? They close their businesses to pick their cherries on certain days in the summer. Do you know them?

What about the guy you met who never pays his taxes or how about that person you met some years ago who admitted they smoked pot. They spoke of their knack to be outdoors at 3 a.m. to smell that of illegal drugs smoked to give the fresh air a scent of sin in the gorge. Have you voiced an ethnic slur or know someone who has?  Just saw a lady who lives in the next state across the river from us who has taken paint to voice her heart on her house over Christmas holiday. Yes, it was a slur! She used dark paint to paint a dark slur against someone.  How about the people who dumped their trash and yes, with some of their own mail on that dirt road outside of Dog Mountain? The officials found them indeed. I read it in our paper. Yes, those elected, are they like those who elected them?

 Have you been in a vehicle that had no brakes? Well, we are in a vehicle of this nation running sharply downhill too fast! The societal behavior runs steeply downhill toward degeneration and immorality at every turn. They appear with no brakes to stop. They are set for an agenda of immoral behavior. One gentleman ( I use very loosely) just drove his family on a dangerous cliff in California driving a Tesla. He wanted them dead. They are alive but he is in the hospital. And how far was the drop for the family in that car? Well, I am surprised anyone survived?

What is remembered on days gone by? My mother went without sugar for several years because of the World War 2. They had a victory garden to raise food and freeze some when they could. One man was loyal to one wife. They secured children in their family, had a good job, and made sure all was good on every need required. When the Cuban Missile Crises occurred, a nation prayed for God and He answered.

 But when one would share to a group of those born in 2001 there might appear a blur to the mainstay of today! Today, if you spoke of those days, like of the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma, California greed for money in the 1930 and 1940’s or the Depression started by the stock market falling to nothing,  Christian values have to light to what they were about 75 years ago, then yes, America may be beyond America's own ability to achieve those early years in God!

Are we so different than those born in the last decade? Is there a Dust bowl somewhere, or how about that greed to get people to work for cents and not greenbacks? What about that stock market and what people look for today to see the market fall like October 1929. And in truth, the dust bowl was already in affect  when the stock market fell in 1929! People were already leaving Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas for green pastures anywhere to be found.

No pornography was found seen or talked about where a family lived and breathed. Yes, decency and civility was within a home, the heart of a family and integrity ruled the heart.  Every family member that went out from the home was he or she who represented truth and honesty. There was no violence nor shouts against others. And whatever was heard was stopped immediately by those to enforce the law of this nation.

Is anyone aware of God’s standards today seen in Matthew 19:17 Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Jesus spoke “If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Test day it was for this man Jesus spoke to that moment. To test him on the way of salvation: Jesus was good for He is, was and will always be God! The commandments should convict man of his sinful nature before God. No man cannot inherit God or heaven when he chooses to doing his way through life.

 The justice people want is not the justice of the Bible. We hear it daily on the news and in the street and yet the justice they want is their own “justice”.

Honor is given those who honor truth and integrity.  The love of God is known. It is experienced and freedom is lived through the Lord of glory. It was that true freedom that was once seen in people who kept God at the center of their focus. They kept Him in their hearts, kept Him on their mind and focused on that peace that had come to them daily in Him and through Him to others.

People back in those days, regarded God as the way of life. They were deliberate to know Him. They were deliberate to act as He did when He walked in Nazareth giving truth, whether they chose Him for life or not. What will be said of us? Will we always choose life, truth of God and not live a lie in our lives?

I like what this gentleman wrote once: he said that politics is dirty and it always involves more movement for temporal power. Down and dirty would mean a hundred years ago to get down and clean the garden space, clean the toilet or even clean your bedroom or vehicle.

Today, to me dirty is turning on your television and hearing the people who give the news have embraced those who give their parties involving men dressed as women. It is those who choose to side with illicit. It is men and women in decay, a distasteful walk in life by the truth they desire to influence  by immoral acts.

Want to be honored, but one should not want to malign others while they themselves roll in the dirt, and stink as rotted flesh! Jesus spoke to the Pharisees and Sadducees and mentioned them being adders. In this respect if you will, Jesus spoke their new born babes would eat their way out of the bodies who gave them life. Have you time with a scorpion and irritate him till he curled his tail at you, or do they cause you to run in another direction? What about those who speak of change to the bodies but God gave you one? Will their sound be like that of horror and smell like the sulfur of hell? How about the stench of the “dump ground” where your trash is taken? Is that our political system now? Does the sounds of the political mouth sound like more like him who laughs in derision and has attitude?

Proverbs 26:18-19 NKJV 18 Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, 19 Is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, “I was only joking!”

When I was about nine, I remember playing ball with my sister and some friends who lived in our neighborhood. It was a time of rolling in the dirt. We played baseball indeed, stealing second base, and that was awhile ago, and today it has the very meaning of the immoral and the influence of being that way.  Sports has changed to put men who chose being a woman to turn to woman sports. Or how about that electric thing? Have you seen how the semi including truck and trailer required more time to be charged and when used it only went half way to get its load? Thinking of when we lived in Wyoming for it was many decades now, and you could not rely on an electric anything to get you through a blizzard. Have you seen those electric cars stalled on I-5 or I-84 for how many hours and their charge went to zero. Vehicles were stopped for many reasons but two were too many accidents in the ice and snow and the other was there was a death or two on that roadway due to bad weather. So wait in their electric car indeed but it was too cold: 28 degrees with a 50 mile an hour wind blowing to add to the pot of stupid! We had wood burning in our fireplace for warmth while snow piled up to over five feet outside.

As Solomon says, "By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked" (Proverbs 11:11).

 A Polluted National Landscape was once the beautiful is now horrific indeed. And if I were to speak on that food we get now, it is nowhere the stuff of champions . You will find plastic shaped “things” looking like grass for your basket in hunting eggs  for that holiday that is not holy unto the Lord and is found in your frozen food you just purchased and cooked .  But that is another story indeed! Believe it has to do integrity too!

Will we wait for God? Will we wait to hear Him? David did when he wrote such a thing as this. He was believing and you should when we ask for God’s integrity in our lives for it is His righteousness that will rule us indeed and bring God of peace into that place we desire Him to be. Amen.

 

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Not Running After Evil but Pursuing Peace

 

Psalm 1: 1-3  Amplified Bible  1 Blessed (Happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purpose], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest], where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. 2 But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].

 Avoiding the Path of Wicked brings blessings from God.: Romans 6:23 Amplified Bible 23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through ( in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

  Loving Life and Happiness: 1 Peter 3:10-12 Amplified Bible 10 For let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days [good---whether apparent or not] keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile ( treachery, deceit).11 Let him turn away from wickedness and shun it, and let him do right. Let him search for peace (harmony; un-disturbedness from fears; agitating passion and moral conflicts) and seek it eagerly. [Do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, and with yourself, but pursue, go after them! 12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), and His ears are attentive to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who practice evil [ to oppress them, to frustrate them, and defeat them].

We are so well-connected yet people are lonely…From verse 11: “do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, & with yourself, but pursue, go after them!” You and I are to have peace with ourselves.

1.   Philippians 4:4 reminds us to rejoice in the Lord: Philippians 4:4 in the Amp. Bible 4 Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice!

2.   Happiness is being in the blessed state given by God: Jeremiah 17:7-8 Blessed is the man who trust in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear (see) when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the ear of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.

3.   Jeremiah 17:7-8 Amplified Bible 7 [Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, not shall it cease yielding fruit.

Isaiah 59:7-9  Amplified Bible  7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths and highways. 8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice or right in their goings. They have made them into crooked paths; whoever goes in them does not know peace. 9 Therefore are justice and right far from us, and righteousness and salvation do not overtake us. We expectantly wait for light, but [only] see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity and gloom.

1.   Mischief , those evil deeds will keep God’s blessings from coming to us

2.   Their actions, those running to evil, prove out what they are speaking

3.   In verse 8…..Truth is opposed, and there is not any that pleads for it,…people bent toward destruction with no peace…all their paths are crooked

4.     The way of peace is as little regarded as the way of truth; they know it not, that is, they never study the things that make for peace, no care is taken to prevent or punish the breaches of the peace and to accommodate matters in difference among neighbors;

5.   Being strangers to quiet and peaceable, their lives dictate and affect that which amounts to the blustering and turbulent.

6.   In their ambitious drives, whether for protesting or riots… usually some kind of  hurt comes  to others as to breaking up other people’s businesses or livelihood, robbing from them and breaking out windows or doorways,  but can never do any real service or kindness to themselves by them.

7.   In the walk of their life, they present sin

 

Proverbs 1:15-16 Amp. Bible 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them; restrain your foot from their path; 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

 Remember Our Salvation:  Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV 13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. NKJV

1.   Narrow 2346 means thlibo…… thlee-bo …to crowd with tribulation or trouble

2.   So the gate has obstacles

3.   Saved by grace through faith :Ephesians 2:8 Amplified Bible 8 For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s. salvation ) through [your]faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving]. But it is the gift of God.

 

Exercising Faith: we walk, we work throughout the process of our growth within God’s purpose

1.   Our salvation is the finished work of Jesus Christ; If laziness is a part of us, then that we cannot overcome that which Jesus overcame at the Cross. To take it by faith, is we receive it in the spirit and confess and believe till it is manifested in this moment of time of which we exist.

2.   In respect to being the lazy person, and not overcoming in our faith walk, though still in God’s kingdom, yet we will fail to reap the rewards of God’s promises to over-comers!

3.   Revelations 12:10-11 NKJV 10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before or God day and night, has been cast down. 11”And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

 

The Word of Their Testimony: Testimony against Sickness, Testimony Against the label of “special education”, Against the label “Dyslexia”

God’s Word is to be held up against the sickness, the attack against you!

God’s Word directs our steps into His goodness, His peace, and we prosper!

God’s Word is peace to our hearts.  We are to Rejoice and be glad……..not because of the bad report BUT BECAUSE Jesus gave His life to take the ugly thing from my life, that which was sin and death!      

                                              

(Paul speaks of a group of believer’s the Thessalonians)  Salvation and Thanksgiving: 1 Thessalonians 1: 2- 5; 8-9 Amplified Bible  We are ever giving thanks to God for all of you, continually mentioning [you when engaged] in our prayers. 3 Recalling unceasingly before our God and Father your work energized by faith and service motivated by love and unwavering hope in the [return of] our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) 4 [O] brethren beloved by God, we recognize and know that he has selected (chosen )you; 5 For our [preaching of the ] glad tidings (the Gospel) came to you not only in word, but also in [its own inherent] power and in the Holy Spirit and with great conviction and absolute certainty [on our part]. You know what kind of men we proved [ourselves] to be among you for your good.

8 for not only has the Word concerning and from the Lord resounded forth from you unmistakably in Macedonia and Achaia, but everywhere the report has gone forth of your faith in God [ of your leaning of your whole personality on Him in complete trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness]. So we [find that we] never need to tell people anything [further about it].

9For they themselves volunteer testimony concerning us, telling what an entrance we had among you, and how you turned to God from [your] idols to serve a God Who is alive and true and genuine.

 

We are to Grow into what He is: Appear alive--Appear true--Appear the genuine---Appearing in His glory and to His praise!

 Romans 5:1 NKJV Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

God’s grace defines for us His generosity and His love toward us! The sinful man should not return, for we should know the goodness of God and His favor for us. Knowing God is becoming to know who we are in Him and through Him. Love should start in us 1^st and forgiveness should begin within us and our hearts. Not only forgiving those who  have hurt us in some way, shape or form. Someone has broken our hearts when they failed us, but knowing we too as the individual are human and subject to error.

 

 Our salvation is to influence others. Salvation speaks of the things Christ Jesus obtained for us at the Cross! In that salvation we have redemption. We are redeemed from the old man to live out new born again experience that is God, of life, truth and love!

These in 1 Thessalonians 1:8-9 had left behind that which they were educated in of the false and obtained the true inheritance that comes to those who walk after God, receive His instruction and continually seek to look like Him and act like Him!

Unwavering in their love and their hope of Christ’s return, they made the message known to others, declared their loyalty to their Lord God and walked the walk of the one alive unto God! Colossians 2: 13 And you who were dead in trespasses and in the un-circumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought  to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions.

 Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, Rejoice, v. 4.   Our thoughts of God must be delightful thoughts. Delight thyself in the Lord (Psalm 37:4), In the multitude of our thoughts within us (grievous and afflicting thoughts) his comforts delight our souls (Psalm 94:19), Our meditation of him is sweet, Ps 104:34. . We must not think the worse of him or of his ways for the hardships we meet with in his service. There is enough in God to furnish us with joy in the worst circumstance on earth.  We should have the continual feast of God’s word, and if we do not, then it is our fault that we are not in His joy and peace!

To be free of bondage, we must take the word, speak it out by faith, pull it from the spirit and into the present moment and see it manifested for all our days, then we are truly alive unto God and giving others a view to heaven on earth….

 

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