Take your rags off.........

I was thinking of this thing I wrote for you years ago............ after talking with you.
You make people talk to you with your rags on. There is a principal with Queen Ester in the bible.
The King raised his sepulture because she took great care to make sure she was adorned properly.
Gene doesn't raise his sepulture (matter of speaking) when I go to him in a bad spirit. And
this is why people reject you, and don't want to (commune with your filthy soul). And it's as simple
as "putting off, your vagabond spirit, and putting on a spirit of integrity." What still gets me is
you really must not care how you affect other people with the song of your heart. I pray one day you will care.

Subject: take your rags off




WHY WON'T YOU TAKE OFF YOUR RAGS...THERE NOT DOING A THING FOR YOU!!!
Yes, we are not saved by works, but our obedience to the Holy Spirit
exposes much about our love and thankfulness to God and His Son Jesus Christ. If we are
thankful for God the Father and God the Son, we will obey the voice of the Holy
Ghost. Love is seen in obedience. Would we think our child loved us if
they always disobeyed and rebelled against our will? How much time do we
have TO CHANGE OUR CLOTHES, and to get our grave clothes off? I've been
thinking a lot about what I'll be wearing AT THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB. I
wonder if I'll have on the appropriate clothes for the wedding feast?

I've also been thinking a lot about THE SEDUCTION OF WOMEN. (Not to say that
men aren't seductive too!) There are so many spiritual "clothes" we can
wear TO MEET OUR OWN NEEDS OUR OWN WAY! Did you ever wonder if your having
fellowship with unholy spirits? Do you know the difference between
fellowshipping the THE HOLY SPIRIT, vs. having communion with devils?

The whore in Proverbs dressed a certain way to get what she wanted from
men, but I think there are many ways, many spirits, many "clothes" we can wear to get
our needs met. Like whining and complaining, or self-pity clothes or
misery clothes! Frankly many women need to go through their closets and BURN
their clothes. Those fear and unbelief grave clothes. When we don't take our
thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ and don't dig for truth to
overcome the voice of the liar, we end up pointing our finger at God in
accusation. The devil wants to use us to indict God by failing to
believed in His Goodness. He always accuse God of being a liar That's why we need
God¹s word and must live by it, or we abdicate though listening to the
father of lies, and believing him.

Isaiah put it this way...You cover yourself with a covering....but not
of MY SPIRIT! Even in the new testament when it talks about the weapons of our
warfare, it speaks of outer adornment. The helmet, the breast plate,
the shoes. 1 Peter 5:5 says to be "clothed" with humility. 2 Chron.6 says
to be clothed with salvation. Job 29:14 "I put on righteousness, and it
clothed me." In the Thompson Chain reference, there is actually a reference to
"the clothing of sin." In Zec.3:3 it says "he stood before the Angle of the
Lord in filthy garments...Take away the filthy garments from him, And to him
he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass form you, and I will
clothe you with good raiment...clothes."

So, are you honest with yourself, do you know what your spiritual
clothes look like? Why do wear them? Some women I know like those rags, because
it gets them attention (or whatever they think they can get on their own
that God will deprive them of), and they don't want to have to look to
Jesus, and they don't obey the voice of God, and have the fulfillment of
righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. They ignore the Holy Ghost,
they don't obey His voice often enough to experience the fruit of peace. When we lean on our own understanding
and fail to trust in The Lord with all our hearts.....THE RAGS WE WEAR SHOW
IT!

When we trust in OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, WE PUT ON FILTHY RAGS! When we have
faith in THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST, AND KNOW OUR ACCEPTANCE
WITH GOD IS BASED ON HIS SACRIFICE, we will BE THANKFUL, and we will HEAR HIS
VOICE AND OBEY IT, not to establish our own righteousness, but because Jesus
is worthy of our praise, thanksgiving, obedience, and adoration.

If we are communing with devils...... (having a common union with them
accusing God) you can be sure your sin will find you out if you refuse
to look at it. Then we need to decide if we will be thankful we got
³busted² submitting to the power of the lie and the father of all lies, or we
will defend the devils cause, if someone approaches us with God¹s cause!
God loves us and he may use someone under the influence of the Holy Spirit
to get our attention when we are under the influence of an "unholy"
spirit! If we get offended it's to our shame, and our failure to see Gods love to
help us become holy!

So do your spiritual clothes look like filthy rags? Jesus told the
people to take Lazurus' grave clothes off. Our problem is we get comfortable
wearing them, and get offended when Jesus sends people to tug on our nasty
grave clothes. If we are humble God will clothe us..... Jesus died to give
us a new wardrobe!!!!

Proverbs 23:21 "For the glutton and the drunkard [those that drink the
cup of devils) shall come to poverty, AND SLEEP, DROWSINESS, SHALL CLOTHE A
MAN, WOMAN, WITH RAGS. Drinking from the cup of devils will put us in a
spiritual STUPOR. A state of sleep, where we are adorned with
spiritual glutton rags. People who are comfortable in their smelly grave clothes
will get offended when Jesus speaks to someone to help them off with their
grave clothes. They snap at you in their "mean" rags..... to keep you at a
distance, and DEFEND WHAT THEY DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT. The whiner's and
complainers, with no faith, wear their "whiny" rags........SO PEOPLE
WILL MEET THEIR NEEDS. They are already under the Jer.17 curse...."cursed is
the man who trust in man, they can't see when good comes." They don't look
to Jesus to be adorned in faith and love clothes, their filthy rags
protect them they think, THE GRAVE CLOTHES OF DEFENDING their LIFE. We have
to be willing to loose our life, what are we lying to ourselves about that
causing us to be defensive.... Our clothes, to find new ones! Humble people
who acknowledge they have rags on will be lifted up by God to get new
clothes and will rejoice in the truth!

When we are hearkening to God's voice, and obeying it, because we love
Him and have faith in Him, we have works that will not burn. The works of
faith and love, in Revelations, It says that "these works" will clothe us! So obeying God's voice, can be likened
unto being a seamstress, a weaver. Our acts of faith and love, and
hearkening to God's voice, can be seen as WEAVING CLOTHES. Maybe this has something
to do with us not appearing naked and ashamed, when we stand before Jesus.

The saints that overcome are talked about as being dressed in fine linen,
clean and white, which is the righteousness, acts of faith and love and
obedience So.....how much of a garment will you have on? How much weaving have
you been doing? Will you be naked and ashamed before Jesus? Will you be
asked to leave the wedding ceremony because you don't have the right clothes on?

What do you think the benefits are to hanging onto your RAGS TO MEET
YOUR NEEDS? I know some women who put on "witch clothes," mean, haughty,
brutish, scorning clothes, because they like what they get from doing it. They
think by wearing some of the spirits, they put on........they'll get what
they need, but they never really do.

PUT ON LOVE!!!! What if love was like a dress that you could go put on?
What if faith was like a dress that you could go put on? What if it really
is that simple? What if we really get to CHOOSE WHAT WE WEAR.....God is
not mocked, if we put on spirits BECAUSE WE ARE AFRAID WE WON'T GET OUR
NEEDS MET IF WE DON'T....OUR FEARS WILL COME UPON US! That which we try and
gain through insincerity and deceit, will make itself wings and fly away.

WHATEVER THE LORD DOES.....because we have chosen to put on faith and
love clothes...IT WILL BE FOREVER....NOTHING CAN BE ADDED TO IT OR TAKEN
FROM IT!

Take off your rags! Stop trying to meet your needs through WEARING THE
WRONG "CLOTHES," SPIRITS! It's not really doing anything for you but bringing
you dishonor and disrespect, and who wants to live their lives, with
everyone around you trying to strip off the grave clothes your clinging onto
with all your might? It's a total waste of your calling, and you don't want to
GET CAUGHT WITH YOUR FAITH AND LOVE CLOTHES OFF, (naked and ashamed)! We
can buy gold tried in the fire of relationships, with God's people, overcoming
our trials and tribulations!

"And the bride has made, ready HERSELF, with fine linen, clean and
bright!"