Conduct in Spiritual Terms

 

In Matthew 6 we find in verse 33 to seek first God’s kingdom and His righteousness for when we do this we are told all these things shall be added to you. In a covenant of faithfulness God delivers on His promise.

We must turn to the atmosphere of His word to hear and understand His will. It is the little insignificant things we are to see along the way not in things as great wind, earthquake, or fire. But the still voice of the Lord we are to hear and understand. In the quiet of Him in the midst of chaos, we abide to hear Him speak.

AND Before determining whether we want to imitate or reject how another person acts, we must evaluate—judge—his conduct.

The subject of judging often seems very difficult to grasp. Some use the term "judge" in a generalized way, making assertions such as, "We shouldn't judge one another." Is this true?  There are those who want to judge and justice to rule. But God makes the Justice!  You  can look into any church service and find manipulators.  They want to be the "leader", number 1 and lead you! They can give you some words to flatter you and then use you. Should not be that way but it is truth! That is why prayer is so important in this day and time!

Matthew 7:1  NKJV   "Judge not, that you be not judged.

What is our conduct if others are watching us?

So if we have paid attention to chapter 6, we will seek and be in God’s kingdom, first knowing righteousness, His word to lead us and deliver us into His promise of His added things to us.

Added to you…seeking God’s plan for you the individual

1.   That would entail; living life for the Lord.

2.   Trusting God for your future with an unshakable confidence that he will provide.

3.   Tomorrow can worry about its own things.

4.   Our purpose for being created and converted is to carry His divine image with His eternal values within our heart.

Matthew 7: 2 For with what judgment (condemnation) you judge; you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

1.   We are not to judge another’s motives.

2.   We should not judge by appearance: John 7:24.

3.   Not to judge those who have scruples about matters that are neither right or wrong Romans 14:1-5 Message Bible  Welcome with open arms fellow believers who do not see things the way you do. And do not jump all over them every time they do or say something you do not agree with-----( each person’s walk will be different, but all should know Him & believe Him to be God)

 

Even when it seems that they are strong on opinions but weak in the faith department. Remember, they have their own history to deal with. Treat them gently.   

1.   For instance, a person that has been around for a while might well be convinced that by that he can eat anything on the table, while another, with a different background, might assume all Christians should be vegetarians and eat accordingly.

2.   But since both are guests at Christ’s table, would not it be terribly rude if they fell to criticizing what the other ate or did not eat? God, after all, invited them both to the table. Psalm 23 :5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil.

3.   Our spiritual table is set: within those enemies that is with us from early childhood, from that which causes pain even today as from past generations of rejection or hate, yet our table  is set. It is purchased by the precious blood of Jesus. This table is hospitality and we are the secured guests. Secured in His peace, love and joy we are not to hate another or envy them. We have come to the Table the Lord has set as our Shepherd!

If God is truly our Father and Jesus our Lord then that oil of favor is upon us. As the believer we are given the Holy Spirit and we are guaranteed the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and our guide.  Message Bible continues: do you have any business crossing people off the guest list or interfering with God’s welcome? If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help. Or, say, one person thinks that some days should be set aside as holy and another thinks that each day is pretty much like any other. There are good reasons either way. So each person is free to follow the convictions of conscience. What is important in all this that if you keep a holy day, keep it for God’s sake; if you eat meat, eat it to the glory of God and thank God for prime rib; if you are a vegetarian, eat vegetables to the glory of God and thank God for broccoli. None of us are permitted to insist on our own way in these matters.

It is God that we are answerable to----all the way from life to death & everything in between---not each other. That is why Jesus lived & died & then lived again; so that he could be our Master across the entire range of life & death, & free us from the petty tyrannies of each other.

Eventually, we are all going to end up kneeling side by side in the place of judgment, facing God. Your critical & condescending ways are not going to improve your position there one bit. Read it for yourself in scripture.

A main point though is we should maintain pure language in our speaking.  Acts 2:21 (a quotation of Joel 2:38) foretells that "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." In Zephaniah 3:9 one will see that there is another prerequisite to calling on the name of the Lord: There must be a pure language.   In Zephaniah 3:9 the New Kings James Version uses the word "restore," which can be misleading because it implies that all the peoples—all the nations—had a pure language at some point in the past. The Hebrew, though, shows that is not the case. More correctly, the King James Version reads, "I will turn to the people a pure language," while the English Standard Version renders it, "I will change the speech of the people." This verse is speaking about a coming change rather than a return to something that previously existed.  The word translated as "language" also requires a little analysis. The basic meaning of the Hebrew word is "the termination of something," and it is variously translated as "brim," "brink," "edge," and "shore," which all describe terminations. This word is also translated as "lip," another type of edge or termination point. Building on the idea results in a natural progression to words, speech, and thus to language.

Most certainly man has decided to change our language. Not to the pure word but the corrupted word like transgender or to what is real. You calling yourself a cat and wearing a cat uniform does not make it so. But you as man corrupted it! It is in Hebrew thought, the lips are not the only mere edge of the mouth but is also the termination point of the heart. From a small baby to adult, one can use the lips to making sounds.  In this, the real engine of speech is the heart.  

 Man should consider Proverbs 10:32...."The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse."  Only ones heart would have the intelligence of what is either acceptable or the perverse! Proverbs 16:23 states "The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds learning to his lips. We know that what is given to us in Proverbs 24:2 is truth...speaking that the hearts of the wicked devise violence, and their lips stir up trouble. The lips are the instrument, but the instigator is the heart!  Jesus told us that "OUT of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 

(Matthew 12:34)  In this, we are to see this prophecy of a pure language.  As a believer, your words should continue to speak truth in what is pure and not corrupted language.  Some examples of the play on words: gay, queer, many types of letters as LGBTQ, and as marrying from the Bible , the man and the woman is not listed. It is hate written as graffiti on walls and sidewalks.  When your culturing is degrading, so will your pure language.

We must keep to the word of God.  You will find you and your family profaning reality if not daily in the word of God . You should not accept the corrupted but keep to what God has spoken. This language should be the dominant. The pure language will always reflect the better reality because it will include God! Without Him, we can do nothing!    Is this nation coming to the brink of disaster due to the arrogant disregard for His Word and His principles? May we not be silent in speaking truth of God's word and be active to pray for the one nation under God. For the flag that flies over this nation was born out of conflict and much war. But she stood in God that which was not divided that with liberty and justice all would live in peace because God was in their midst!

 

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Potty Training

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Yikes! Potty Training....what has that got to do with godly things?
In scripture, we were told that God created the heavens and the earth. We are also told that He created them Adam and Eve, male and female.

Proverbs 3:3-4  ..Let not mercy and truth forsake …you;…Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of …….your heart,

4 And so find favor and high esteem

In the sight of God and man.

God thought it important enough to remind us from these verses to not letting mercy and truth forsake us. We are to bind them around our neck, see that they are written on the tablet of our heart and in doing so, we would find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man!

Yet these very important words have been abandoned either by neglect or by choosing a "new pathway" that is against (out of alignment) from God established for us in His word of truth.

In training a child, you start early (like when they are mastering their walk) and introduce them to the potty chair. For some, this is a continual work in progress. For others though it flows quickly and smoothly. In regards to children we have had or seen within our families, our own seemed to take to the potty chair quickly. Always regarding her care as the utmost in bringing her up, we always mentioned the words: modesty, discreet, remembering modesty was the best policy and quality for a young girl or woman to maintain.

In regards of morals, we continued to seek encouraging her of the importance of being respectful to her body and to keep an appropriate behavior in the use of the "potty".

Now some may think this is absurd or something other than useful, but if our mouth is the "potty" mouth, then we are not useful except to someone else who has that "potty" mouth!

In training someone up to be virtuous, we remind them that God planned for them. He spoke of their coming and with our own, the Lord had me speak specific things to her on the day she was born. If GOD thought that important, then we viewed her knowing who she was and what she was to do for Him would come from Him.

Not sure where people got off on their thinking that what you were born with according to being male or female played no role in who you would be later in life. I am not certain how people who were educated could get into a whole world of hurt by thinking of you change your hormones, have some medical procedures or two that you will be "normal". WRONG!

In the rules of conduct: we are to conduct our lives with the respect that God planned us and He knows who we are and what the plan is for each of us. Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Psalm 139:13 For YOU formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Yes, can you imagine it right now, what some have had sex changes will be telling God has they stand before Him, and telling Him "you made a mistake"! Yikes!

For the God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth does not make mistakes and scripture tells us that He knew us in the depths being formed and He has a book that is written about my life, your life, your children's lives and your grand-children's lives!

In what God fashioned for each of us is written. What He planned, He noted it to show us. Yet there will be many tears, many denials and certain heartache beyond what anyone could stand when confronting truth in the FACE of God's TRUTH!

In the closing verses of Psalm 139, the author wrote Search me O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxieties;  24 and if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Lord God, see if there is any wicked way in my heart...search me O God.

Anything of the false that is contrary to God and His truth is spoken in this short prayer. The author needed to offer that which he knew could keep his heart from hate and from the practices that men tend to do by their human nature. The author wanted to be led in that way that is holy toward God…that is in spirit and truth. For in truth, we are to walk following the way the Lord is directing and not by human standards, human reasoning and human wrongs. For we know that the way that is right in a man’s own eyes is seldom the way to God but for their own satisfaction and desires.

News alert: what you were born with is who you are, whom God created with a plan in mind! Don't shipwreck your life for a moment in the flesh.

 Basing our decisions on our senses is folly. So when we see something, feel something, hear something, based without true knowledge is detrimental to you and me. When confronted with fear, confusion takes over to cover us in darkness and hide us from the very knowledge we need and that is God’s word. As fear is cloaked in darkness of confusion, then pressure will take over to be the driver to move one to act out of fear. This pressure looks much like selfishness and strife! It is a wanting to protect oneself from the thing fear has created. Words spoken from the natural man using these five senses can cause a lot of unneeded problems birthed through the false evidence.

We must have true knowledge to make right decisions. That knowledge of the heart is that we gain from the Lord and His Word. Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge. But he who hates corrections is stupid. (NKJV)

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.(NKJV)

Proverbs 18:15…………15 The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge,

And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.  NKJV

His Counsel. His eye is of favor on those who regard His counsel. It is the knowledge of who He is and all that comes with friendship of that with a great King. (Proverbs 22:11)……

Proverbs 22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.

To maintain the walk God planned for each of us, is to stay within the boundary of His word of truth. To do anything else would be sin and far from God!

Psalm 1: Blessed is the man who walks not in counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scornful; 2 but his delight in is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in season, whose leaf  shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. 

If one is due for potty training, may they know God has a plan for their good and not evil to give them a hope in their final outcome. May we be found in faith knowing God is for us and not against us! Amen.

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The Crowd was Put Outside

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Matthew 9:18-19 While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live." 19 So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His disciples.

Matthew 9:23-26  When Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crows wailing, 24 He said to them, "Make room for the girl is not dead, but sleeping." And they ridiculed Him.  25 But when they crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. 26 And the report of this went out into all the land.

Yes, an unbelieving crowd was put outside. I wonder if Jesus walked into some churches today, if He would put them outside. The girl was going to rise by faith in God. Unbelief kills!

What is God trying to do through us today, but can not because we have a "will", remember?

Speaking the Language of Faith: Are we actively speaking faith?  Is our life speaking a language of faith or one that speaks out those faulty experiences? 

Back on Friday,  5.05.17 , it was Joyce Meyer who gave this quote but did not name who the credit went to: Nobody needs to be afraid of failure, what we need to be more afraid of is ,….that we might succeed at doing something useless. From Ecclesiastes 8:10

In the book of Hebrews we are told to come forward with honest hearts.

Hebrews 10:22-25  Amp Bible    22 Let us all come forward & draw near with true ( honest & sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance & absolute conviction engendered by faith ( by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust & confidence in His power, wisdom, & goodness) having our hearts sprinkled & purified from a guilty(evil) conscience & our bodies cleansed with pure water.

From pure:  Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.  & Psalm 12: 6-7  NKJV   6 the words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall preserve them from this generation forever.

So for us not to be the "crowd who is put outside" we are to be those who  ..(Heb. 10: 23)    seize & hold fast & retain without wavering the hope we cherish & confess & our acknowledgement of it, for HE Who promised is reliable (sure) & faithful to His word.  24 & let us consider & give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate & incite) to love & helpful deeds & noble activities. 25 Not forsaking or neglecting to assemble together [as believers], as is the habit of some people, but admonishing (warning, urging, & encouraging) one another, & all the more faithfully as you see the day approaching. Noble activities that God has approved.

The Crowd put outside were having the Faulty Experience!

 Faulty is that which is: the incorrect, is the defective, or the misleading, …. IN Faulty thinking many mistakes are made. And wrong decisions can produce wrong actions, wrong teachings and wrong attitudes!

Faulty Experience comes when we Forget What God spoke! Faulty is following what is right in our own eyes. What we teach, or if we are to lead others…is it by the Holy Spirit of God?

1.Proverbs 21:2 Amp Bible.  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs & tries the hearts.

2.Proverbs 24:12  Amp Bible 12 If you [profess ignorance &] say, Behold, we did not know this, does not He Who weighs & ponders the heart perceive & consider it? & He Who guards your life, does not He know it? & shall not He render to [you &] every man according to his works? Ecc. 8:8-13

3It is  God Who ponders or meditates our hearts….to examine us in our thought life…

4.We have an opponent!  Luke 10:19 reminds “behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents & scorpions & over all the power of the enemy & nothing shall by any means hurt you.

The enemy is the devil.    Following him is following out of pride, by the lust of the flesh or lust of the eyes….    Yikes!

   That  "Approved Character or Conduct" is found in John 15.

 John 15:7 Amp Bible 7 If you abide in Me, & My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, & it shall be done for you.

                                    

Abiding in truth, will bring truth into our lives, extend them and make them fruitful. I desire to be "on the inside crowd" where the children are healed and made whole. I desire to see families restored to their purpose God has for them. I desire for His will to be done on earth, in me as it is in Heaven! 

How about you?

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Same Page, Same Glory, Same God

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Psalm 34:11-14    NKJV     (11) Come, you children, listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

(12) Who is the man who desires life,

And loves many days, that he may see good?

(13) Keep your tongue from evil,

And your lips from speaking deceit.

(14) Depart from evil and do good;

Seek peace and pursue it.

Now we know this is an interesting thing to speak, "come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD."

And David made it regarding that fear.

Living out of a good conduct appears as the one who is taught about the Lord, is for the one who desires life that is of an abundance of good days. Within that boundary we see one is to keep their tongue from evil , and their lips from speaking deceit. Departing from evil and to do good is the "one who seeks peace and pursues that peace"!

That peace is with God. It is Who He is!

David also wrote Psalm 12! I will place it here and we will look at what he had desired of God as he prayed!

Psalm 12:1-8    nkjv       Help! LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. 2 They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. (inconsistent mind: speaking that which is the false, that which gives no life….they are speaking with insincere words or arrogance…..). 3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things, 4 Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?” ( once godly now they are self-willed)

5 “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now, I will arise,”    says the LORD; “ I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”    

6 The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall preserve them from this generation forever. 8 The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

*From verse 1 prayer is given out to God for help because the godly man ceases to exist. David refers to those who speak idle words who flatter with their tongues and lips bring the false, that which has no life in it and possible destruction even to death. Godly men cease to exist when they speak insincere or arrogant speech. When those in leadership disrespect authority, they use their self-will to excess resulting in oppressing others.

*From verse 5 the LORD hears the cry of those who seek His safety. God hears the words He gave them. That word which is tried in fire shall keep them, to preserve them forever. But of the wicked they prowl on every side as vileness is exalted among them. Where immorality is promoted by elected officials, those civic leaders or media personalities, crime is increased.

* God is absolutely trustworthy. Amen!

Our mouths are to speak the good things God gave us in His word. From cover to cover that is the measure of faith. What we have placed in our hearts is that by which we abide and then ask in His name, when we pray.

Learning of God, is learning how He speaks, how He operates by the spirit.

 Romans 3:18 is just as true now as it always has been: "There is no fear of God before their eyes." The reason it must be taught becomes obvious once we understand that it arises and grows from one's relationship with God.

Of the passage above, we found in Psalm 12 those who were godly at one time, but now have become non-existent. They are now those who oppress others, and God answers those who cry out for help from those who now oppress! 

Our speaking must always line up with God's word. Our speaking is to be that which is true and follows that thread through the Old Testament all the way through the New Testament to the book of Revelation. That thread is of Jesus, the Son of God's love who was sent and do what God asked. Our relationship is to be much like Jesus'. Oh no you do not need to be crucified, but we must remember of what was done for us through Him.

The Apostle Paul wrote this in 2 Timothy 2 and verses 1-2. In the Amplified Bible it reads like this: So you, my son be strong (strengthened inwardly) in the grace ( spiritual blessing) that is [to be found only] in Christ Jesus. 2 and the [instructions] which you have heard from me along with many witnesses, transmit and entrust [as a deposit] to reliable and faithful men who will be competent and qualified to teach others also.

Our learning of God is so that we can teach others, not only by the example but by God's Word taught. If we speak only idle words, they flatter but fall to the ground. They accomplish nothing.

And in that thought, one who has known God and chooses to speak empty talk, that which is useless and vain, will find themselves moving into ungodliness.

Placing value on God and that relationship with Him ensures we are strengthened inwardly. We are found in Christ Jesus and the instructions we have embraced, we speak to others.

We must be found on the same page with God. For when we watch and seek, we find what we are looking for, our eyes opened and our hearts receptive, and in that time with Him we draw forth more life, more favor of Him and gain strength to move forward in our lives.

Note at the end of Psalm 12, David wrote this: 8 The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men. Notice whatever news media you watch, or take note of one who leads maybe as governor from your state. If they move toward that kind of talk, violence will be in their streets. Ungodliness leads to more ungodliness and then one sees the "blame game" begin!

Let's really take the time to abide in Him, and find that beauty that was planned not only for me but you as well. For in seeking Him in His words, we dwell in His presence, active in hearing Him speak, to see His peace manifest in our lives and our children's lives as well. Demonstrate His glory today! BE found with Him and abide everyday so that you can ask what you will in His name and see it done for you, for His glory! Amen!

(John 15:6-9.....6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.  

7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 

9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. KJV)

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Being Trained in Godliness is Walking with God

Do we learn from church service, that which strengthens to know the Lord and His ways? If we are instructed in the Word, do we seek to follow that path set before us?
Do we expect to come away from the church service and return home to resume the "business as usual" or actually follow God?

Do we hear the Word, but shun the obedient part of doing it? It is when we submit to God as we read in James 4:7-17......
7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?

13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. (NKJV)

YIKES! IF WE KNOW TO DO GOOD....and do not......follow the Word to do it........it is sin.

Another question: Do we change by being a part of a wonderful worship service or do we change when we witness miracles? The worship services are wonderful. It is such joy to worship our God in song and in the lifting of our hands, but that does not bring the needed Word for change. For me, I certainly have seen miracles and know them to occur frequently, but that does not bring the needed change I need on a daily basis.

No, it it the "secret place" encounter with God that brings the needed change. It is the time of study and knowing what He has spoken and done!

From my own experiences with the Lord, the more I study and confess scripture, the more I see HIM and the more I enjoy knowing He is with me! A relationship is the give and take, but do we find ourselves more of the taking side of things than of the giving to someone else?
I have to ask myself that question a lot and remind myself, that all this is not about me. It is important for us to know the Lord and understand His purpose for our lives.
No, it should not be the "business as usual" for the Lord has the plan that brings us into knowing Him more fully and will propel us into what He planned for us to do here on earth.
Our going to a church service does not make us any more a Christian than us going to the hamburger place makes us a hamburger.
What makes you and me a "Christian" is that we know the Lord intimately, and that WE follow closely to what He has said and done. We are to set our course, much as Jesus did, and that was to follow and have THE intimate time with the Father.

I like the recent  teachings on " hearing God speak" and yet in all of these I hear nothing on PEOPLE being obedient to the Word taught. Are we discarding the truth, to walk in the worldliness and gratify our senses with the foolish things of the world?
Are we resounding brass and just making noise, or are we making a difference for the kingdom of God? Are we really practicing what we "preach and teach" others?

Time is over for  "religion and THE religious thing" and now is time for those who consistently seek God and His ways. It is not how cute and sweet, but how powerful is the Word of God that sets the captive free. Even Timothy was warned to "hold fast to the pattern of sound words which you have learned .........in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Have we set up the "secret place" to have time with God or we just building an altar that collects dust, no worship, no Word from scripture and with NO POWER!


 WE are reminded in 1 Timothy 4:6-7.....If  you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. 7 But reject profane and old wive's fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness.

So, if the one teaching us is nourished in the words of faith and they follow it faithfully, should we  be those who are nourished in the same words of faith to follow too?
If we ask God what He desires for us, I am certain that He would state for us to know His Son, the Son of His Love, whom He sent for our benefit.

If I spend time with my husband, I learn all his likes and dislikes. I can learn what brings him heartache and laughter. If I spend quality time with him, I can learn what he likes to do and does not like to do whether when he is puttering around the house, on a long trip, or when we just go for a long walk together. My husband is not to be a distraction to me, but my companion in this life! If I value him, then I will want to find more quality time to spend with him and know him even better than I do today.

If I run today to catch up with the Lord, it is well worth it to me that He will know that I have come to fellowship and to ask Him some questions. Not all my questions are for something, but to know something about Him. "Lord, how can I deliver the word of truth in all godliness so others will know You as I do?" "How can I touch someone's heart today with YOUR love and let them know YOU sent me to speak with them?" "Lord, how may we bear witness for You when we have no zeal in our hearts?" "Lord, how may we apply Your word to our lives today, so that we submit ourselves, to be humble before You, and how to show others that being submitted to Your plan prospers us?"

I have learned my husband loves to prepare breakfast, and he desires to have dessert more often than I do. I know he likes to mow the grass and cook steaks on the grill. But I also know, that the best part of his day of work is coming home! He has this excitement of just being at home and to relax with the wife and the little dog.

I believe the best part of our Father God's day is when we run to catch up HIM while He walks in the cool of the day. I believe He likes the smell of roses in bloom and see dew in the early morning while the birds gather to sing their festive songs. I believe He delights to see us notice the moon He put in the sky or to see His word fulfilled in our lives when it speaks, "that himself bear our sins in His body on the tree, that we being dead to sin, might live unto righteous and by His stripes we are healed."
He is delighted when we speak what He speaks and declares what He declares about us.

 Do we value the Lord and show Him how much we want to be with Him? Do we declare how important He is in our lives and that we earnestly love Him for all that He did for us even before we knew HIM?

So if I go to church, say, Saturday evening and  truly go expecting to receive the Word that is taught at that time, then on Sunday morning will I understand and know that I am being sanctified in the Word of God?  Our walk of faith walk is in acknowledging God's nature and His heart. When receiving those teachings on Saturday evening, we should know that we are being nourished and strengthened to having a reverence and fear of God.! When the word is spoken, we are to be obedient about following that Word. Just like seeing speed limit signs on the roadway will do us no good if we fail to acknowledge that they are there are our benefit. Taking a curve with a posted sign of 25 miles an hour and taking it at 90 miles an hour will certainly bring destruction and death to the one driving the extreme speed above and beyond the speed of 25 mile an hour on that particular curve.

Today, I remember when I was a child, and when visiting the elder members of our family and seeing the "old" family Bible on the coffee table or on some shelf in their homes, the BIG BIBLE WHICH TOOK BOTH OF MY HANDS TO HOLD IT, seemed to hold all the written information for weddings, births and deaths in that particular family we were visiting.  Yet much of the time that I saw these big Bibles, they appeared more as a "show piece" and looked like they had not been opened for anyone's benefit. It just seemed to be a book to add the dates of the weddings,of the births and of the deaths of those who owned the Bible!
Does my life or your life resemble just a "showpiece" or when we open our mouths, is the Word of God coming out of it? When we speak, are we bringing a refreshing to others, giving them God's Word that will bring support and strengthen those we will speak to when they need it most? Or is it about how good we look, and is it more about that new outfit we just got to wear to the church, BUT does nothing to help the body of Christ? If we should need encouragement ourselves, would it not make a difference to encourage someone else? Would it not be important to encourage someone and plant those seeds into other people's lives? Are we put off because someone did not give us a hug or speak to us today? The possibility is great then that we lose out on the all important word given that evening that is to nourish us and strengthen us! Because of our taking on the defense of "poor me" then we are not receptive to receiving the Word of God that will bring change to our lives!

Today, we can choose what our character and conduct will be. It will either be that of the world or that which follows closely after righteousness and godliness. Our adhering to the Word of God reconciles us to His way of doing and thinking. We can clothe ourselves in His Word, and we can saturate our hearts with that same word day in and day out!
Each week, we have the choice to choose the Word or the world.

Will we choose.........

• to "be trained for godliness...1 Timothy 4:7.....7   but reject profane and old wive's fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness.

• act "according to the new nature...2 Corinthians 5:17,21......17   Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new 21  For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

• become imitators of God.....Ephesians 5:1-2........therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

• ambassadors for Christ....2 Corinthians 5:20.....20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us; we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

Father, in Jesus' name, we make a commitment to YOU. We sing praise to You and give thanks at the remembrance of Your holy name. We worship today in the beauty of holiness. We desire to be trained in godliness. We want to walk the faith walk and acknowledge YOUR nature and heart. Today we desire our character to be like your character.
Lord, we believe and expect our bodies to be whole and healed for Jesus took and bore Himself on the tree, that we being dead unto sin might live for righteousness and by whose stripes we were healed.

Today we hold the word of truth and know our lives are sanctified by the Word of truth. We expect to have the reverence and fear of God as we adhere to the Word that sets us free. Today we choose to have YOUR character and conduct.

Father, how may we please you today in our lives? How may we bring joy and laughter to YOU? We thank You for hearing us as we pray. We also expect to have the new and adventurous life that is new everyday and not "the business as usual thing". We release You Holy Spirit into our lives this day. Expand and increase our knowledge of YOU. We want to ENCOUNTER GOD IN ALL HIS FULLNESS FIRST HAND. WE WILL BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD. AMEN

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