What Fruit?

...nevertheless the LORD'S counsel will stand..

Proverbs 14:12 Amp. Bible 12 There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death. Truly God is good, but adding flesh to something will only add up to more flesh, the pig wallowing in the mire…………Jesus spoke in John 4:24, "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit & truth," meaning we must worship to the fullest of God's intent as revealed in His Word!

In applying God’s word to our daily life takes action on our part. And every decision we make in regard to our life in care and responsible attitude toward other family members requires us to include each with truth. Every action taken is to be guided & determined by God’s revealed truth. Yet, how many corners do we cut when we feel it serves us better? 

It sounds like this: “I have this God” and then find yourself in a bigger mess that when you started. I remember us buying a house one time, but I think I was the only one who really loved it, since I was the only one home most of the time! So when other are involved in the decision making it is best to consider all those participating in that major decision: like buying a house, buying a car, moving to another city or when one might pull back from some work to do what God really asked us to do.

The Book of Proverbs is a good place to start and there is one chapter for each day of the month. Can you imagine how much wisdom you would acquire in a year by daily reading God’s wisdom into your heart?

Proverbs 8:36   But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those that hate  me love death. Neglecting God is one seeking death and by forsaking His wisdom which is His Word  then we live by our own wisdom!  Choosing God ‘s wisdom is choosing to live and live the way He purposed for our lives.

  If we remember Proverbs 14:12 reveals this: there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Anything outside of God’s way is reaping death. It can appear as mass murders, suicides and all kinds of life-taking, life-ending destructive paths.

We are told in 1 Corinthians 2:6 we are to speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this who are coming to nothing….no, anything outside of God and His ways and truths is a casualty looking for a place to happen!

Proverbs 21:30  there is no wisdom or understanding or counsel against the LORD. Deliberately determined to do what is wrong is death to those who do it; We have seen this come from Adam and Eve and it is happening in the streets of America today. Deliberately choosing to one’s own agenda is death indeed! Anything outside what God purposed is one choosing to themselves the world’s ways. To me that is just dangerous and so wrong to take yourself and your loved ones down the one-way path to hell and destruction!

In applying God’s word to our lives, we seek to place His will over our own will. Like Jesus, not our will but yours Father be done on earth as it is in Heaven.  In applying that word, we find that which is building us in strength.  Like from Proverbs 19:21 that there are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the LORD’S counsel---that will stand.  That we reject the counsel of the ungodly and hear the LORD’S counsel above all others. We also confess that we are instructed even as when we are sleeping and in the morning, that we pray to do what is right rather than follow the leading of our own flesh. We also speak out that the wisdom of this world is foolishness with You, Lord (1 Corinthians 3:19)  and may we not buy into it, but keep our eyes on You and have ears to hear Your voice.

May we not be presumptuous in any step we take, we must know our steps to be ordered of the Lord and not to make adjustments to His word as we see fit. HE is the healer, the ONE worthy to receive honor and praise for the great sacrifice to see us get not death, but life everlasting.

Romans 6:21-23 …….What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin,  & having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, & the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

A changed heart is a seeking heart, not of worldly things that are passing away, but a seeking Heart is transparent, it is one that reflects life in Christ Jesus.  Jesus must not only be Savior , He must also be our Lord. Not being obedient to His word brings unwelcome consequences.  We are not saved by the admission of guilt, nor are we saved because we attend church every week. In God’s kindness and mercy, salvation that is true comes from accurately understanding the cost to save and the cost required to be saved. May our lives truly exhibit change that is of a holy life abounding in God’s grace not to sin but to really live a life in Him. Amen.

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Depressive or the Merry Heart Mode

Proverbs 9:11 For by me your days will be multiplied, and years of life will be added to you.

Seems simple, right? By paying attention to the instruction of God's wisdom our days are multiplied and years are added to us. The wisdom of God is worthwhile to living longer on planet earth!
Had opportunity for some years to work at a gym. People worked out there during the day and evening hours, and some appeared to benefit from that daily workout from machines to weights.
Still I remember reading of this article of those living longer lives in Japan. In their search for that "one thing" they the ones who wanted to have long life focused on the Japanese people having access to much omega -3 oils. And much was written about the omega-3's and much was given on how to gain them from the natural sources.
But in truth if one really looks to the whole package of the Japanese person, they are those who care and give honor to their parents. Was reading an article recently how the Japanese family will build another home on their property to have a home for their aging parents. Now that is love, and care in action of family members for their parents.
Eating properly is important for each of us. You spend too much time eating cake you will look like that slice of cake at the end of a year. You love eating fresh vegetables, then you your face will give a glow of health that your organs are getting that much needed nutrition for life.
Exercise again is good and to the extreme can like jogging, bring wear and tear to your knees. Moderation is a good thing in anything we do. But we must also pay attention to the spiritual or the moral things that pertain to us as well.
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good like a medicine; but a broken spirit dries the bones. Our heart plays a big role in our life expectancy. Next time pay attention to that "older person" walking passed you on the sidewalk or in a store. Their body posture will give a "loud voice"  if they are in a depressive state or merry heart mode!
Food can help or harm depending on what kind it is and what amount of it one will take in of that kind. You certainly would not want to eat ice cream everyday, yet there are those who will drink that exotic coffee everyday to their enjoyment and to future heartache. I know from experience and give details on why not to do that even though  I love coffee and I love the "double shot" black and white mocha , please!
Yet it was not good for me after awhile. I could tell my "nerves " were being affected.
I still drink in moderation a black coffee please, but on occasion I will have the exotic coffee. Our son-in-law makes a really good mocha if you happen along his pathway.

God's wisdom will direct us into a peaceful state. And if you notice His wisdom will direct us into the right jobs for us, the right people to rally around in speaking His word of truth and will guides us into super health when following what He has written for us to adhere to for life.
I remember my husband would run in the evening to not only exercise but also to leave a load of tension from work on the roadway while he whittled miles and some weight from his body. Still, that running has some affects on the knees and ankle joints of your body. And while he looked really trim, he was having other issues.
We can have strong opinions of not eating something and be very rigid about it but be very lax in things like strife, having some form of fear, depression or even criticizing others. For me I love to run and did it for some time, but I always had our daughter to go along with me. She was in school and would ride her bike along while I ran. It was something to do to exercise for  a bit and have time with our daughter. Although she would ride along for the first mile, after that she would go several blocks and come back to where I was pounding the asphalt.

I love the Proverb 10:22 wisdom. The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich and he adds no sorrow with it.
The blessing of the LORD is the spoken favor of the LORD God. When we cooperate with God and His wisdom first each day, then His word will make us rich: that is in every way financially, emotionally, socially and every other way. If we have any kind of sorrow with what has come to us then it was not from God. For that which is of God and from God will not bring sorrow.
Just ask any movie star, any rock star, or athlete when it is not of God! Some movie stars died early by use of drugs and alcohol. Some athletes and singers go by way of the world's standard and gain big SORROW! Some have lost their lives, they sought after careers to be in the list of the hopefuls who failed.
God directs us into truth. He leads us in the way we are to go. Proverbs 4:14-15 tells us to enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it and pass away.
Binding ourselves to His truth will mean we shut off the T. V. set to hear the quiet and hear the Lord speak in His voice of power and peace to us.
We must flee from what the world exhibits as the fun thing, the next great thing, or we are to be found as His children, the followers who will flee those lusts of the body. When we allow Him to direct us, then we come to the place that truly is a garden prepared for us to live. It is days multiplied to us for us to live in health, abiding in His words that strengthen us to look forward to tomorrow and praise Him that He is forever with us. We see that His blessings to us is bringing us favor and not sorrow. May we heed His voice and cleave to His beating heart of life and presents a life that only God can give to each of us! Amen!

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Leading Us Home

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Was working on a teaching this week and was captivated by the meanings of some of the words of Psalm 46.

Psalm 46:1-11  NKJV God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;  3 though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. 

4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High,  5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, just at the break of dawn. 6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

8 Come, behold the works of the LORD. Who has made desolations in the earth. 9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariot in the fire. 10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.

I read over the Psalm 46 a number of times and went to look at the Hebrew meaning of the words. Of course the meaning of some words are evident while you read over it. Like God is our refuge and He is our strength and He is to be our resent help in trouble. That trouble has the meaning of a "tight place". 

Is there a time when it seems you are down to a certain amount of money in the budget and something goes awry, something goes terribly wrong and you must buy an appliance like the stove or refrigerator or did one of the kids get the measles that was eradicated from this country, but a someone from a third world country has introduced it again here in the U.S. and toward those never have been inoculated for the terrible disease!  We should know that measles, if not treated right will cause blindness!

Then moving on to verse 2, the earth being removed, and though mountains being carried into the sea you might remember the movie 2012 where California went into the sea by a strong earthquake. And then verse 3 here mentions of the waters that roar and are troubled and the mountains shake with its swelling....and I thought of the volcanic eruptions where the mountains swell with the magma hot and rising to the top to spill over in the man-made communities built so close to the explosive mountain. I then read on about that water that is troubled within the meanings and found it looks a lot like RED TIDE....yeah, the meaning of troubled is "chamar" ( which pronounced Khaw-mar) and means to glow red! It ferments with scum...like dead things! Wow and this was written how many thousands of years ago?


But in all this commotion, there is a living place of prosperity of peace and safety. That is found in the city of God, the holy place of His very presence. Although things may appear as trouble, desolation, and chaos, still God is here. He is help to us and He is for us. He is the very God who knows all things and created the heavens and earth in Genesis 1.
We should be meditating on the beauty of the Lord and how He went to the Cross for us that we might be set be free, yes to be free...... no longer held as the captives to sin but free to be the person God planned for us to be.

Our focus should be upon not the Red Tide or the explosive volcanoes set for destruction but on the God Who is more than enough for us. He is our victory, not someday but right now. Because there will be commotions, and rumors of war, but we are to hold that focus on Him who gave His all to see us become the sons of God.

If you are encountering a "tight place" understand God already knew and He has a plan. For we all have people around us daily making not so good choices, but we have the mighty One and He is standing by to deliver us out of harm. Delight in Him today and know His ways for His word is truth and His Holy Spirit is ready to lead you not only out of trouble and harm but to lead you home!

Psalm 121 I will lift up my eyes to the hills----from whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is your keeper (protector); the LORD is your shade at your right hand. 6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The LORD shall preserve you

from all evil; 8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.

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Godly Sorrow

I enjoy the Old Testament and find wonderful testimonies of those who followed God and those who chose not to follow Him. In one is this of King Saul.

1 Samuel 15: 10-35 NKJV 10 Now the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, 11 “ I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night.

12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went t Carmel and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by and gone down to Gilgal.” 13 Then Samuel went to Saul, & Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD.” 14 But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, & the lowing of the oxen which I hear?” 15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and th rest we have utterly destroyed.”

16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be quiet!” And I will tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” And he said to him, “Speak on.” 17 so Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king over Israel? 18”Now the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites & fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 ‘Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did yo swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the LORD?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me & brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.”  21 “But the people took of the plunder, sheep & oxen , the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”

Yes, Saul has his answers ready. He accuses the people he was to serve as the ones who chose to take the plunder when Saul was told differently!

22 So Samuel said: ‘Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, & to heed better than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king.”

Yes, rebellion is not a good thing. Now Saul is in witchcraft. He was choosing his own way.

24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD & your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, & return with me, that I may worship the LORD.“  26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected  you from being king over Israel.”

From verse 24, Saul is revealing he had sinned and on top of that he did it because he feared the people! Many leaders end up in that destructive place when they rather follow man than God. In verse 25 he asking Samuel to pardon his sin and return with him so that he Saul may worship the LORD. Would that be collusion? Terrible!

Then Samuel spoke that he would not return with Saul for he Saul had rejected the word of the LORD and the LORD had rejected Saul from being king over Israel. 

Yeah, not a good place to be when it was God who placed Saul in the position!

27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, & it tore. 28 So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today & has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 29 “and also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent. 

The kingdom in an instant was torn from Saul!

30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now, please before the elders of my people and before Israel, & return with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.” 31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, & Saul worshiped the LORD. 32 Then Samuel said, “ Bring Agag king of the Amalekites here to me.” So Agag came to him cautiously. And Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” 33 But Samuel said, “As our sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. 34 Then Samuel went up to Ramah & Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul. 35 And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul & for the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

Still within his whining Saul is desiring to keep this good standard with the people not fearing God. Saul wanted to look good among his peers. Samuel goes with Saul only to do the thing that Saul was to do. He was to kill Agag so that he would not bring disasters on the Jewish people.

Samuel did not see Saul again till Saul had died.

This gives details of the mournful heart Samuel held for Saul. Every true believer in God will carry his heart for the lost. Those failing to see or hear God's heed for safety through salvation brings them at the end of their days in utter ruin and death.

If Saul had had a godly sorrow and not wanting to move from following God, his life might have been different. Still God desires a man after His own heart. And that is one who will worship Him in the darkest hour, will pray when no words come, and continue to seek when He seems not to be present. Still God is with us. He will never leave us nor abandon us. Ours is to seek with a whole heart to fervently see with the light of His word truths that set us free and keep us free never to be entangled in the snares of wrong words.

For Saul was snared by his words and it was those to please man and he thought he could use them on Samuel. No, that did not work for him and it will not work for us!

May we truly hold a godly sorrow that we will not want to hurt our Father's heart by continuing to seek our plans instead of obeying His plans.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

For that wall that was built to keep God out is to come down when we truly have a godly sorrow of repentance. It is turning away from bad behavior that keeps the wall up between us. God desires us to come to Him and tell the sorrows of our heart and repent for the mistakes we have made that has separated us from Him.

Receiving Jesus as Lord turns us away from our past not to do the past again. OUR lives are new in God with the heart conversion. Those who desire to dwell in their past,  desire to live in those past  sins , and to revisit those "old haunts" will find the wrong road to travel. If you or I sorrow for lost goods, lost friends, the death of relatives, then our heart is in that place. Choosing to have friends over God is sad. I would rather have God for He is my life. But I am certain He has godly friends for me just like He has them for you.

Reveling in that past thing can cause disease and increases the risk of more complaints in that thing. We are to put away evil thinking and evil speaking! Saul blamed the people but truly Saul's heart was to please the people of his kingdom and not God!

A true godly sorrow will produce reform in our thinking and our action. 

Pleasing God is looking toward tomorrow and relishing the pain of yesterday. We have all lost someone but I would hope that the best that Jesus gave is not forgotten or hidden of all the past hurts, the past losses, or the past homes we might have had. Our best day is to live in today, be thankful and expect tomorrow to be better by the hand of a great God who is for us and not against us!

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