having the right hope helps us be pure

I have no condemnation in my heart when I walk after the Spirit! When I am
spiritually minded I have life and peace! When I am following the dictates
of my flesh, and letting it rule, I know I don't please God. When I live
after the flesh, It produces death in me, but when I kill the deeds of the
flesh, I live and have HIS LIFE! (So I try and be honest with myself, what
kind of life is in me, the life of the Spirit, or the life of the flesh? ) I
know when I let the Spirit of God lead me, I have confidence I am the child
of God, but I don't feel that way when I am disobedient and letting that
spirit work in me, that works in the sons and daughters of disobedience,
REBELLION.

I want to be strong and bear the infirmities of the weak, and not look to
please myself. I give up my ministry when I let
my appetites, passions, emotions and desires dictate policy. Those who are
Christ's will crucify the flesh with it's affections and lusts. I will kill,
mortify, my out of order affection, lusts, covetousness, idolatry, etc.,
because I know the wrath of God is stored up for the CHILDREN of
disobedience! (the club I don't want to belong to)! I know when I give
into the lust of my flesh, it causes me to war against myself and others in
my soul! I don't want to live this way...the way the rest of the world
lives! Lusting after everything and never being satisfied. In Mal. 2 it
says that husbands who hide their sins in their robes, will deal with the
wife of their youth TREACHEROUSLY! Hiding sin eventually will lead you into
dealing with others out of a treacherous spirit.

I want to live unto the WILL OF GOD! I WILL rule my mouth, otherwise my
religion is in vain! I know when I love pleasure it makes me poor. When I
indulge my appetites, I loose the sweet words of my Savior, and I become
filled with dead men's bones, and dead men's words. The devil wants me to be
drunk, asleep. Hell and destruction are never full! NEVER SATISFIED! When
I let my flesh dictate policy, my judgment gets perverted. I don't plea the
cause of the poor and needy, and really help others. I may stroke their
flesh and emotions, but I do not give the counsel of God. I want to be eyes
to the blind, ears to the deaf, and to search out the things I don't
understand. I know He'll reward me one day for what I have done. How much I
really cared for His people, and obeyed what HE TOLD ME TO DO FOR THEM!

Every day I sit in The classroom of God...His Spirit. I try and ask myself,
am I really stirring myself up to seek Him? How is my attention span? Do I
see His test right before my eyes? Am I really believing MY TIMES ARE IN HIS
HANDS? AM I REALLY LOOKING TO SEE WHAT HE IS TEACHING ME IN THE SITUATIONS
AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF MY LIFE TODAY? Do I have a hard heart? Do I see the
"operation of His hands" in my relationships? I will be torn down and not
built up if I stay blind. Those who don't love the truth are sent delusions
by God.....those who have pleasure in unrighteousness. His Spirit is ever
interceding for us, but we must turn, repent, change our mind, acknowledge
and confess our sins. That's our part of the deal of salvation! I want to
remain TEACHABLE, so I know what He wants me to do. What do you want to show
me? How can I Glorify You, and how do You want to use me in this situation?
I incline my heart to meditate on these kind of questions. I want to know
I'm abiding in the right vine, so I'll bear the RIGHT KIND OF FRUIT! I have
to pay attention and really care about Glorifying Him. I know He's
searching, and trying my heart, and cares about what I think and do to HIS
CHILDREN! I want to labor in His vineyard....the hearts and lives of His
people, otherwise my life will be empty and fruitless! I don't want to watch
my works burn up because they came from my self-life! Teach my hands to War
oh Lord, and my fingers to fight. I want to be actively involved in Your
battles, to help Your people, with FAITH THAT WORKS BY LOVE! I WANT TO BE AN
OVERCOMER WHO JESUS SERVES AT HIS HEAVENLY TABLE....CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT
FOOD? I WANT THE PRIVILEGE TO EAT OF YOUR HIDDEN MANNA....BECAUSE I LIVED TO
SERVE YOUR KINGDOM, YOUR PEOPLE, AND not my measly little self! He who has
this hope, will purify himself even as he is pure!

a couple good responses about bitterness

Hi Ceci! I went into the downward spiral again and this time the Lord gave
me some understanding about the wiles of the enemy. Jeanie and I
fellowshipped some and together got some good revelation. I'd like to get
some advice so I can make War! It is difficult for me to concentrate and
write because of the busy mommy, wife ,and home keeping things but I wanted
to write what I've gotten so far. I want to root of bitterness out! Never to
be planted again! I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you! Love,
......

A WISE WOMAN UNDERSTANDS HER WAY......

(AND DEPARTS FROM UNGODLY WAYS!)

Departing from the way of Bitterness which leads to destruction and misery.
Jesus came to redeem our lives from destruction, and He wants us to walk in
and to know His ways. Bitterness is a spirit that bears bad fruit and defiles
others. Hebrews 12:25 says: Looking diligently lest any man (or woman!) fail
the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and
thereby many be defiled......

Bitterness is "grievous sorrow of heart". It is grievous because this sorrow
bears only malice, self pity and hatred. It is not based on truth or fact,
and it refuses to be open to change. Godly sorrow brings repentance and true
change. Bitterness is sorrow due to self-love, godly sorrow is due to love
for God. Bitterness blames, accuses, seeks vengeance and justifies it's own
wickedness. Godly sorrow that comes through conviction takes responsibility
for it's own position and repents; changes it's ways to walk in God's ways!
This grievous sorrow of heart is fed by dissatisfaction and unthankfulness.
We think of ourselves more highly than we ought, then nothing is good enough
for us...we feel we deserve much more. What triggers this in me is looking at
how others are (not) loving me and comparing myself, my lot in life, my
possesions, with those around me. These are all lies. The word gall is used
with bitterness and I saw something interesting. Although gall means a
liquid, a bitter liquid secreted from the liver another definition means:
irritation, vexation, a spot worn bare, a weak spot.

In Romans 3:11 it says: There is none that understandeth, there is none that
seeketh after God. I realized that if we continue to pass over the little
things and don't get understanding , it will wear a sore spot where the seeds
for the root of bitterness can be planted in our heart. "Whose mouth is full
of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood (accusing,
being angry without cause), destruction and misery are in their
ways:"..........and "There is no fear of God before their eyes"! When I start
focusing on how my husband is not loving me the way I think I need to be
loved, I become angry (hatred, malice and accusation!) with him, without
cause! Matthew 5:22 says"... whosoever is angry with his brother without a
cause shall be in danger of the judgment...." Jer.4"18 "Thy way and thy
doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because
it is bitter. Because it reacheth unto thine heart." When we are rebellious
and go our own way, we do become bitter. We open the door to bitterness,
destruction, and misery. Proverbs 23:27-29 says: For a whore {the enemy of
our soul} is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also
lieth in wait, as for a prey {us!} and increaseth the transgressors among
men.{Heb.12:25 defiling others!} "who hath woe? {grievous sorrow of heart,
sorrow over self} Who hath sorrow? Who hath babbling? {How many times have I
babbled on to my husband my wounds and my sorrow...} Who hath wounds without
cause? { So much of what this bitterness feeds on offenses that never get
dealt with or I have never changed my mind about when the truth was reflected
to me.} Who hath redness of eyes? Prv. 23:31 "Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself
aright.."{this is describing a seduction.. The seduction is "any thought of
self other than denying myself for love's sake."} Guard your heart with all
diligence for out of it flow the issues of life!


Dear ...., 9-15-00
Ceci forwarded your letter on bitterness. At least I'm assuming it is yours.
At first
I thought is was Ceci's writing. It was an encouragement to me, to see the
revelation
you are getting and also to help me keep judging my heart and not to faint.
The part
about comparing myself with others really hit me. I had been praying about
that
very thing the morning I received the letter. The comparing comes from the
newgarment I'm taking on to love and take on responsibility for souls. I feel
so
inadequate and get tempted to faint and then get tempted to take on self
strength
and say "I can do it'.

I start comparing myself to you all in Hawaii and thinking what would Ceci do
or
whoever. Relying on past experiences with those with more confidence in the
Lord than
I have had and trying to relive their wisdom and not trusting in the VOICE.
Then I
come to my senses and realize Jesus has what I need. Sometimes I jump to the
other
side of the fence and say OK I can handle this. It's finding the balance
between my
genuine need and my tendency to abdicate and faint in the face of the
responsibility
to love in the all the new relationships. This is truly a walk of faith I
had not
expected but it is definitely bringing me closer to Jesus because I NEED HIM.
I just reread your letter again and it helped me to judge some of my
thoughts
that
could easily become bitterness if I don't judge them in the battle to help
J......with
the enemy of her soul and my soul too. The spirit of Raca is a prevalent
spirit of my
fathers house. I too have gotten angry because I'm not being loved the way I
want to
be. I don't know if you read my letter concerning my position of anger
toward J.......
It scared me and helped me to see the lack of fear of the Lord I have. The
root of
bitterness that J..... refuses to judge is looking to defile me and others and
I am
seeing how easily I faint. I looked up faint and it uses the word coward. I
never
considered fainting to be the result of cowardice, (fear). There are times I
see the
enemy and pass out. Your letter is helping me not to faint,( be seduced by
thewhore). Thank you so much. I really need you all and your input. It
caused me to
think about Jesus's words that how we treat the least is how we really are in
our
hearts. To me the least is the one that I resist the most because of the
conflict
they bring to my soul. I am thankful for the kick in the pants to judge my
love and
see how much Jesus has done for me. Jesus has never fainted toward my life
and will
not give me more than I can handle but will always make a way for me to love.
Your
letter has also given me some wisdom to help give some help to a bitter woman
who
feels rejected by her kids and can only see how it affects her selfishly. It
helps me
get into perspective and ask the Lord how to help be a minster of
reconciliation.
Thanks again. Please pray for me and I will pray for you as we have the same
enemies.
I love you ...... Your sister ....

still small voice

Subject: still small voice


I met a man 21 years ago Gene Sullivan. He's 10 years older than I am, but he took my children and I out of the ashes of our lives, and
RE-FAMILIED us. You know the sick games most people learn to play in the homes of adults that deny the still small voice
inside of them. He wouldn't play my games. I grew up in a world of fear, indifference, self-pity, emotional abuse, and he
didn't play the games most people play. He was alive in his God conscience, unlike any of the men in my past. Including my
sex-addict, alcoholic, PRIEST Father, overcome by all his vices, though he spoke several languages fluently.

Over the years I have known Gene, he has re-familied many people........ gotten them out of the ruts that they were familiar.
Helped them stop playing all the games their parents played....... These men are few and far between. It's kind of getting
to live with Dr Phil for a year or two. Can you imagine how many peoples lives would change if they had that opportunity?
Well, this man has drastically changed the lives of many!

I think I need to write a book about how most people need to be RE-FAMILIED!

Here's a little I wrote about my past before I knew Gene Sullivan. It's a story about another man, Michael Davis.



THE CRAZY THINGS WOMEN DO..... I DID FOR LOVE!



For me, it was not listening TO THE STILL SMALL VOICE....... and I have learned a lot

about what women will close their eyes to in the name of love, or getting their needs met.

In my case, the cost was very high......... "the end of human life." Do I have regrets,

yes, wish I could take it back, just like John Coffee says in THE GREEN MILE!

But I can't, so I moved on, Knowing how much I needed to forgive myself, and know God's

forgiveness. I began realizing how the curse of indifference has affected many

women, and all I could do was "wake up" to the still small voice and go on a mission to save

lives.



I met a man a bit like Ted Bundy, as a matter of fact, years later he was referred to as The Ted

Bundy of Colorado. He was a mix between Ted and OJ Simpson. He was a outward beauty, successful,

but little did I know what was lurking inside. The sad part is "the still small voice of God" was trying to

talk to me all along, I had just shut God out of my conscience and ignored His still small voice all my life.



The first date I went on with Michael Davis, he took me to a drive inn. The movie was TAXI, about a

murderer and rapist. In my heart that night I felt like he had derived some sick pleasure out of the movie,

but I shut that right out of my conscience. After all Michael looked like a mix between Burt Reynolds and

Chris Christopherson. Surely a package on the outside looking that nice, couldn't have such ill intent on the inside.



Then there was the time I worked at a huge apt. complex, where a woman was nearly beat to death. The FBI

thought they had the crime solved, little did I know Michael could possibly have been the man who went to rape

one woman, and ended up with another who barely lived through the horror of her life. I was sick to my stomach over the whole

thing not knowing he had anything to do with it. At one point (thinking the investigation was solved), I heard

an agent mention hairy arms. I thought of Michael, I thought of telling them his name. But I leaned on my own

understanding, (lived from my head, not my heart). After all how could my attractive night in shining amour be involved

in such a heinous crime.



That's what came to haunt me years later. I had shut out the still small voice of God speaking to me, I didn't

have ears to hear. My desire and need overrode that small voice. I had to face my own crimes of the heart

years later, when I realized I had spent a lifetime shutting out that still small voice to make sure I got my needs

met. I have met many women who will sell their soul to a man with a vexed conscience to try and get the love they

think they need. Even if the cost is injury to others or their own children.



After I married Michael and had a child with him, he ended up confessing to 3 Priests his hidden life of murder and

rape. They shipped us off for all kinds of treatment for alcoholism. Thirty to Forty Priests and Pastors later, even a Bishop

was involved along with secular counselor's, the still small voice of God was telling me there was still something wrong.

What about the mothers, fathers, and family of the women he had murdered and raped? How could he move on without really

trying to make amends with those he had harmed? Why didn't he go talk to his brother who treats sexual offenders

and was a clinical psychologists for these kind of criminals? Yes, the still small voice of God was screaming at me,

but it took 3 more children, and God only knows how many people I talked to, to finally realize, this is man who was

not sorry for what he did. Nor did he rape due to drinking. Nor did he get the monkey of guilt off his shoulders, because

he needed to confess to those he had offended, not therapists. I did hear God's still small voice one day. That interrupting

thought. And the thought was this. "If I had raped and murdered women, and was TRULY SORRY, I would confess, and

face the music, pay whatever I had to pay, even if it meant with my life." He only confessed because I told him I wasn't

going to talk to him anymore unless he did. (I was the voice of his conscience all along, and he obeyed me, to get his

needs met.) He confessed to stay in control, and he is spending the rest of his natural life in prison.



My grandmother had closed her eyes to the abusers in her past, my mother likewise. I knew I had to wake up from the

sleep and curse of generations, so my daughters wouldn't do the same thing. Now I live to help women wake up to that

still small voice inside us all, trying to help us not sell our souls to get our needs met from men. Having integrity towards that

inner voice, not only led the murderer and rapist to finally confess, (he's spending the rest of his natural life in prison), but it

saved the lives of my four children. And I met a man who lives to help men wake up in their conscience to God's still small

voice, and the curse of many generations has finally been broken. He took those fatherless children and made them his own,

and LIVED A LIFE OF BEING AWAKE TO THE STILL SMALL VOICE. So sad every child doesn't have a father like that!



Me feeling forgiven meant facing my guilt towards not hearing that still small voice all along. I desperately needed God's forgiveness,

Michael took human life, when who knows what would have happened if I had just mentioned his name, months before I even married

him. I ignored God's still small voice with that too..... married him to get my needs met, to be loved, because I hated myself. And why

did I hate myself? I had a lack of integrity towards "hearing" and "doing" something about that still small voice inside of me ALL MY LIFE.

No man could fix that, stuffing myself with food couldn't either. I had to "do" something about the inner voice that had been crying out in

my heart, listen to the still small voice that had been trying to lead, guide and bless me, that I had shut out!



Waking up to listen to the still small voice of God has kept me from literal suicide, and suicide via, knife and fork. Now my life is spent

helping fat women lose weight, and deal with their own lack of integrity, due to overriding the still small voice of God!

connecting the dots

Subject: CONNECTING THE DOTS.........THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU EVER READ



THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD....................





Wisdom is like a woman in the street; and shouts at the city gate;

YOU FOOLS, how long will you be foolish? How long will you make fun of wisdom, and hate knowledge? If only you had listened when I corrected you

I would have told you what's in my heart. I would have told you what I am thinking. Proverbs 1:20-23



WHEN YOU FEAR GOD AND NOTHING ELSE, YOU DISCOVER THE FREEDOM TO PURSUE GREAT ADVENTURE!

God calls you to a life that cannot be lived without wisdom. While many of us long for God to give us a map that we can simply follow,, He instead gives us a compass that points the way. What we continually ask for is to know God's will for our lives; what God continually offers us is His wisdom for our lives. So critical is wisdom to the journey that God offers it as a gift to all who would desire it. James 1:5



THE HEART OF A FOOL IS MOTIVATED BY PERSONAL GAIN! The heart of wisdom is motivated by the good of others. While wisdom does not always guarantee a life of riches and honor, WISDOM ALWAYS PRODUCES A RICH AND HONORABLE LIFE.



WISDOM CREATES AND PRODUCES GOOD. Wisdom not only sees the good that must be done now, but it catalyzes such events that result in a good future. Wherever wisdom flows, good follows. Not everything that happens to a person who lives wisely is good, but everything that happens from a person who lives wisely is good. This doesn't mean that walking in wisdom is painless, but the ultimate results of wisdom are health, freedom and creativity.



One can be highly educated and also be wise, but it is not a given. You can be uneducated from a conventional standard and still be a person of great wisdom. The converse is also true. You can accomplish great things in the academic world and live a life of foolishness.



Wisdom always finds a way through the mess we make of life. It doesn't find the easiest way, but the way marked by the footprints of God. Wisdom is the Divine Nature of God. Wisdom knows the way to freedom. Where there is wisdom, there is always HOPE. Wisdom unshackles. Wisdom Illuminates. Wisdom LIBERATES. In the end, wisdom enlightens us to live lives of nobility. Wisdom is found in the person of Jesus Christ!



Wisdom is more than simply the ability to see beyond ourselves, but even perhaps more profoundly, to see, to see within ourselves. (Fools have no desire to see within themselves.) Wisdom is the ability to cut to the core of complex issues. Wisdom not only allows us to move beyond living a senseless life; it helps us begin to MAKE SENSE OF LIFE. The fool acts WITHOUT REFLECTION.

The wise man reflects on his actions.



Wisdom becomes the ability to see choice as cause and consequence and benefit as effect. When we see our circumstances as isolated from our actions, we abdicate personal responsibility for our lives. Taken to an extreme, we hold God accountable for the consequences of our actions and become embittered toward Him. It's as if we want the freedom to make choices but expect God to make sure that we don't have to live with the consequences. Then we fret when our children end up just like us!



At times we would rather believe in luck than in responsibility, but superstition is nothing more than improper connection between cause and effect. When we think of ourselves as being unlucky, we accuse God of being a respecter of persons. We abdicate responsibility for the CAUSE AND EFFECT OF our own choices.



When we disconnect our circumstances from our choices, we choose to live powerless lives, pitiful lives. When we embrace the interconnection between our present decisions and our future opportunities, we regain the power to set our course and to shape our journey. A proper view of cause and effect grows us in wisdom, and brings greater freedom to our lives.



WISDOM REFUSES TO SURRENDER THE FREEDOM OF THE FUTURE FOR A TEMPORARY INDULGENCE! Wisdom recognizes that while some opportunities are captivating, beneath the surface they are ready to take you captive! Wisdom recognizes that the inseparable relationship between cause and effect is more than a natural phenomenon; it is a spiritual reality!



6:7

Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others - ignoring God! -
6:7

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

6:8

harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.
6:8

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

6:9

So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit.
6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

6:10

Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.
6:10

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.




Whether the language is sowing and reaping, cause and effect,, bad karma, what goes around comes around, THE WISDOM OF GOD BEGINS AT CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN THE QUALITY OF OUR DECISIONS AND THE QUALITY OF OUR LIVES.



The future is the sum total of all the choices that are made in the present and past! Fortunately, that sum total includes the choices made by God. A significant aspect of wisdom is having a future orientation. Wisdom gives us a perspective that always looks toward the future from the present and always looks toward the future from the present and always looks from the future to the present.



From the vantage point of the fool the world appears to exist in isolated units. The rebellious mothers don't connect her rebellion against God to her children's rebellion. Or the absentee father to the promiscuous daughter goes undetected. The relationship between bitterness towards your parents and spouse and coldness towards your children goes unperceived. The repercussions of marital infidelity aren't linked to premarital sex. Debt remains unconnected to greed; violence remains unconnected to hate; the loss of hope remains disconnected from the loss of faith. The loss of faith due to rebellion towards God. Sickness and disease being related to ones diet.



WISDOM SEES EVERYTHING IN LIFE AS INTERCONNECTED. Wisdom does not allow us to stand apart from the rest of the world. WISDOM SEES ALL LIFE THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS, Our relationship to God, to others, to nature and more. It is recognizing that our best selves can only be discovered when we consider others ABOVE OURSELVES.



Over the generations, wisdom has become more about ideas THAN LIVING. Philosophy is literally the love of wisdom, but little of wisdom's original essence is left in that discipline. It is so much easier to escape to Walden Pond and contemplate life than it is to RETURN AND REALLY LIVE! Wisdom frees us from living disconnected lives. Wisdom frees us from superstitions that constrain us and broken relationships that cripple us.



WISDOM TRANSFORMS the way we see reality. It sees no distinction between the physical and the spiritual. God created the material universe, and He declared it good. Even in a fallen world, wisdom sees the good that will come through choices made. This distinct view of reality known as wisdom is nothing less than seeing life from God's vantage point. THE EPICENTER OF ALL WISDOM IS GOD HIMSELF.



THE SCRIPTURES REMIND US THAT THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL WISDOM. Then what exactly does this mean? WHEN WE FEAR God, we fear nothing else. It is only in the fear of the lord that we find ourselves free from the fear of death, of failure, and all the other fears that bind us.



When the fear of God is absent from our lives, we become slaves to lesser fears, and your fears define the boundaries of your life. When you fear God, you are subject only to Him. You align yourself to love and truth. You are never afraid to love or forgive when you fear God. You are never afraid to do good when you fear God. You are neve4r afraid to face the truth or speak the truth when you fear God. You live with a clam assurance that in al these things God finds great pleasure! The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, for only in this place are we forced to face ourselves and see ourselves for who we really are. When you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you are committed to follow the truth where it leads you. This fear of God frees you to risk, to fail, to dream, to attempt great things.



When you fear God, you understand that you have come to Him in a condition of sinfulness. You know God as not only a God of holiness but also a God of infinite compassion. You live with the knowledge of His grace. You bask in the promise that if you confess you sin, He is faithful and just to forgive you of all your sin and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. 1Jn. 1:19



It is only in the fear of God that we are truly free. We see God for who He really is. We see ourselves for who we really are. And we are enlightened to see a world of should I say kingdom, that waits to come. Wisdom understands the heart of God. The woman of wisdom, the man who is wise, and such people embrace that heart and live by it. Only here are we truly free!

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FOOL

PROVERBS

Lesson 2: What it Means to be a Fool

"Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly" --Prov.17:12

Categories of Fools:

"How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?" (1:22)

Simple ones – naïve, gullible, enter into things with little forethought. "The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going" (14:15). "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished" (22:3).

Scorners (scoffers) - those convinced that they need no advice from God or man and who create contention with their mockery of wisdom. "A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke" (13:1). "Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly" (3:34). "A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise" (15:12). "Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath" (21:24).

Fools - pursues foolish and vain things, stupid, silly. "Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly" (15:21). "Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth" (17:24). "A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident" (14:16).

General Observations About Fools:

No respect for God's wisdom. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction" (1:7). "The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD" (19:3).

Mocks at sin. "It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom" (10:23). "Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour" (14:9). "The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil" (13:19).

Conceited and egotistical. "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise" (12:15). "A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth" (14:6). "A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident" (14:16). "Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth" (17:24).

Will not change. "A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool" (17:10). "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly" (26:11). "Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him" (27:22).

Bad temper. "A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame" (12:16). "He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly" (14:29). "It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling" (20:3). "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease" (22:10). "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both" (27:3). "A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards" (29:11).

No control over tongue. "The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool (the foolish in lips) shall fall" (10:8). "Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction" (10:14). "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool" (10:18). "A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing" (9:13). "In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them" (14:3). "The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness" (15:2). "Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince" (17:7).

Destined for trouble. "Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools" (19:29). "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother" (10:1). "He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy" (17:21; also note 17:25;19:13). "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart" (11:29). "Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands" (14:1). "There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up" (21:20). "A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back" (26:1,3).

Their teaching and advice is worthless. "The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools" (26:7,9).

Our Obligation to Foolish People

Flee from him. "He that followeth vain persons is void of understanding" (12:11b). "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed" (13:20). "Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge" (14:7). "Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath" (29:8).

Do not entrust him with responsibility. "He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage" (26:6).

Do not honor him. "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool" (26:1,8).

Worthless to teach him. "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee" (9:8). "Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words" (23:9). "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." (26:4,5). "If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest" (29:9). Remember Matt. 7:6.

PURGING OUR CONSCIENCE FROM DEAD WORKS

We had a really good meeting on Sunday. It was about the Covenant of
Conscience. The question was asked, How is your conscience purged from dead
works, familiar spirits, carnality, and the works of the flesh?

Joe shared about how he had a life filled with dead works, doing his own
thing, his own way. I thought of the scripture in Ecc. that says, "I know
whatsoever The Lord does, it shall be forever, nothing can be added to it or
taken away from it." The problem is what we do, it doesn't last forever!
Whatever is not of faith is sin. Nathan talked about "the integrity of the
upright shall guide them." It is a guiding force we have to protect. No
integrity, or lack of integrity, (the little white lies, the little violation
of conscience) leads to no guidance.

THE MAIN MESSAGE WAS ABOUT HOLDING FAITH IN A GOOD CONSCIENCE! When our
conscience isn't good, pure.....it doesn't hold faith! (the right faith).
Gene talked to us about being "living epistles"....that are being read by all
men. He talked about the scripture in the Proverbs that says, "Those who
heed reproof and instruction are not only in the path of life BUT ARE THE
PATH OF LIFE FOR OTHERS. And those who refuse reproof and instruction, not
only go astray, but are the path of ruin for others. So where are you
taking others? How much rebellion do you excuse yourself for in your own
conscience?

So how is the blood of Jesus applied to our evil conscience? Seeing that the
mystery of faith is only held in a PURE CONSCIENCE? This means when we are
whining, complaining, and not seeing the operation of God in our lives, we
are being destroyed and not built up. We think if people, situations and
circumstances were different we would be happy.....so people....therefore God
must be our problem. WE GIVE OURSELVES PERMISSION TO BE UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY!
We tell ourselves we don't have to give thanks in everything, and we loose
the peace of God which passes all understanding. We make supplication to the
whiner, the liar, the goats voice........when we should be giving thanks to
God, and making supplication unto Him. Gene talked about faith to go into
the fire in relationships last week with the women. WE DON'T AND WE GET
CONTROLLING BECAUSE WE EXPECT TO FIND SATAN THERE, INSTEAD OF GOD. We need
to be like Daniel and His friends.....and go into the fiery furnace in a
spirit of faith and prayer. The heat relationships bring, and expect to see
God come through for us! We end up refusing the cup God has given us to
drink when we refuse one another. We look down on one another when we fail
to reprove each other. We judge to condemn others when we fail to remove the
log from our own eye.

We have to guard our hearts with all diligence, and quit fretting, whining
and complaining. When Jesus comes back, will He find faith on the earth in
us? Did we hold on to faith in a good conscience with Our Lord, and people?

How much do we pass over the little things, like washing the dishes instead
of leaving them for others? Or checking out of meetings when we should check
in? How much do we grieve, deny and resist the Holy Ghost in all the little
things each day, hardening our hearts, vexing our spirits?

Judgment, and personal confrontation IS OUR ANSWER! Even if we are wronged
and can't take it patiently, instructing others with all long-suffering, WE
HAVE JUST FOUND THE REFINERS FIRE AND THE FULLERS SOAP! MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO
PRAY AND NOT FAINT! So how much fainting, and how much fretting, and
whining, and seducing others to meet your needs because you don't walk in
faith and pray......AND KEEP THE FLOOD GATES OF HEAVEN FROM OPENING UP TO YOU
DUE TO YOUR UNBELIEF......are you walking in today! If you have to whine,
b....and complain to get your needs met.....IT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO.......AND
YOU KEEP BLESSING from YOURSELF.....YOU KEEP LOOSING GOD'S BLESSING AND
ANOINTING IN YOUR LIFE when others must bare the burden of your evil
conscience! You ask and have not, because you lust and don't admit it. You
lust after praise, things, possessions, you serve money not God, and your
conscience tries to talk to you, but you ignore it.

The measure of our judgment towards others is what we will be judged in. IF
WE FAIL TO TAKE THE EXCUSES OUT OF OUR HANDS......FOR WALKING AFTER THE
FLESH......WE WON'T BE ABLE TO HELP OTHERS WITH THEIR LAME EXCUSES! How much
do we "ACCUSE OTHERS AND EXCUSE OURSELVES" in our private little thought
world?
We talked about having "another life," building "another world" in our head!
Margie said the theme song for our private little world should be, "I DID IT
MY WAY!" I lived in my thoughts and imaginations and didn't open them up to
God or man.

We only have "one life to live," so why live in the vanity of our
minds....like the gentiles, having their understanding darkened be alienated
from the life of God......LIVING IN A STATE OF QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, because
we lie to ourselves about our evil conscience, TOWARDS GOD AND MAN? Philp.3
says to do all things without complaining, THAT WE MAY BE BLAMELESS AND
HARMLESS, CHILDREN WITHOUT FAULT IN A CROOKED GENERATION! And why are they
so crooked? They violate their conscience......AND SPEND ALL THEIR TIME
EXCUSING THEMSELVES FOR what they allow themselves to do....

Col.3 says, "Do not lie to one another." But we lie to ourselves in allowing
ourselves to do that which we shouldn't. We don't believe that others
contain the Holy Ghost some of the time too! We are like Annanias and
Sappihra. I bet they were shocked when Paul said after they had lied TO HIM,
"Why has Satan filled your hearts to lie against the Holy Ghost." Bet most
Christians don't really consider that when they lie to other Christians they
are letting Satan fill their hearts to lie to the Holy Ghost! We don't see
this for the "spiritual aids" it is that will do to us and more what the aids
virus is doing right now to millions! We have to back up, confess, repent.
When we say something we shouldn't, we have to stop lying and humble
ourselves. When we get up and walk out of a meeting, a room, a relationship,
and we are hardhearted.....knowing "I did it my way," but are too proud and
calloused to just say, I missed it, I'm sorry, forgive me.....help me
Lord.....our conscience won't be carved with His invisible hands.

HOW LONG WILL WE SPEAK OUR OWN WORDS....THINK OUR OWN THOUGHTS......DO OUR
OWN THING? God wants us to ride the HIGH PLACES. He's waiting to pour out
His blessings from heaven for those who HOLD FAITH IN A PURE CONSCIENCE.
Those who really confess and repent for their pretentious, half hearted love,
and look to Jesus to give them the unfeigned love for the brethren. God
pours out grace for those who speak when they should, those who say their
sorry when they said something wrong. For those who don't condemn themselves
in what they allow. For those who give when they know they should give. For
those who go to meetings when they know they should, and stay there and not
leave when they know they shouldn't. HOW MUCH CAN WE AFFORD TO VEX OUR
SPIRIT? How much blindness do we incur because we do ignore the dictates of
our conscience? We think we'll do it later, tomorrow, but we are the frog in
the pot not realizing the water underneath us is coming to a boil. How much
does our violation of conscience taint our view towards God and others?

Proverbs 1 says.....THOSE WHO LISTEN AND HEED THE STILL SMALL VOICE IN THEIR
LIVES......LIVE IN HOPE....NOT HOPELESSNESS! So what's really your problem
if your struggling with hopelessness! Stop lying to yourselves and blaming
others for YOUR REBELLION, your failure to respond to the COVENANT OF
CONSCIENCE in your own soul! This means being faithful in the small things.
Exercising when you know you should. Eating what's right. Going where you
go in faith, and staying in touch with caring about pleasing God and
fulfilling HIS WILL IN YOUR LIFE! If you don't do His will........WHAT KIND
OF EPISTLE ARE OTHERS READING? The pages of your conscience are recorded
every day! How much of your lame excuses will pass with Jesus, and "WHAT ARE
YOU LOOSING TO OTHERS, by refusing to TAKE CAPTIVE YOUR EXCUSES?

Only when our obedience is fulfilled......WHEN WE DEAL WITH THE LAME EXCUSES
FOR OUR OWN REBELLION, can we avenge all disobedience......help take the
excuses out of the hands of others....so they won't be stuck with a bunch of
lame excuses in their hands for why doing things their way were better than
doing things Gods way! THE VOICE OF PRIDE SAYS...."MY WAYS ARE GOD'S WAYS"!
That same voice of pride wouldn't dare to bring it's ways into the light to
see if it needs corrections though. GOD HEARS THE PRAYERS OF THOSE WHO HOLD
THE TRUTH, AND FAITH IN A GOOD CONSCIENCE! His eyes and ears are open and
waiting to act upon those who don't live in a contradiction against
themselves. HE STORES UP HOPE for those who are upright in their conscience.
For those who deal with their fretting, whining, complaining and unbelief.
Those who are willing to resist Satan, the father of rebellion and submit to
God.

We have to be honest when we are making provision for our flesh to fulfill
it's lust.....OUR COMPROMISE....IS OUR BLINDNESS! HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND
EVERY DAY BEING UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, AND LOOKING TO FORCE OTHERS TO MEET YOUR
NEEDS THROUGH ALL YOUR BAD ATTITUDES? Ahab whined and Jezebel came
running.....(she wasn't much help to him, and more than willing to play God).
So he whined over land. How much whining about money do you do, in your
unbelief, seducing others into playing God to meet your needs because you
don't pray always, and give thanks always in all things? Why don't you see if
God has a will for you on any given day, He'll make a way to fulfill it? Your
blind for a reason.

SO WHAT ARE YOU JUDGING YOURSELF IN.....so you won't be judged? And how
about that independent, me and Jesus....world of fantasy and
imagination....do you spend time in everyday? The world of MAKING YOURSELF
SPIRITUALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND PHYSICALLY UNAVAILABLE TO DO GOD'S WILL AND GET
INVOLVED IN WHAT IS STRAIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE! Your "Another
World"......and world of imagination.....IS REALLY THE THIEF COMING TO STEAL,
KILL AND DESTROY YOU....AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD! How much time do you spend
everyday in the vanity of your mind? How much in your daily activity....and
words and deeds, do you grieve, deny, resist and quench the Holy Ghost? What
do you have to be so proud about that you would shut out the blessings of
heaven in your life by "hiding yourself from your own flesh"? GOD'S OWN
FLESH? How many days go by when the angels in heaven have to sing......."he
did it his way.....she did it her way"?

If your asleep in your conscience today is the day you can wake from your
sleep, arise from your death, and CHRIST WILL GIVE YOU LIGHT! MEN, WOMEN
OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND not FAINT. FAINT or PRAY! ......EVERYDAY YOU
CHOOSE.....EVERYDAY SPENT FAINTING, IS ANOTHER DAY SPENT STORING UP
HOPELESSNESS......choose life not death, the blessing not the curse. Put
away the pointing of the finger. Ride the high places, be a restorer of the
breech, a repairer of the path to walk in! LET JESUS FREE YOUR CONSCIENCE
FROM dead works.......YOU CAN'T CONTAIN FAITH WITHOUT A GOOD CONSCIENCE
TOWARDS GOD AND MAN......SO IF YOU HAVE A BAD ONE.....LOOK TO JESUS, WHO IS
ABLE TO KEEP YOU, WHEN YOU DON'T LIE TO HIM, and His people. If your only
interested in pleasing yourself.....your prayers are a stench in His
nostrils. What are your prayers smelling like these days? If you WANT TO
PLEASE HIM.......HE'S ONLY A PRAYER AWAY, ready to pour out His grace to the
humble!

the voice a stranger they do not follow

HAS YOUR PERFECT LOVE CAST OUT YOUR FEAR??? OR HAS YOUR PERFECT FEAR CAST
OUT YOUR LOVE??

When the meditation of our hearts are not right towards God and man, the fruit of that
is FEAR. Fear is the fruit of grieving, denying and resisting the Holy Ghost. It's the lot
in life for those who sow to the flesh, and don't confess to God and change. There is
an abundance of God's people who have not been delivered from the kingdom of accusing
and excusing themselves, to live in the kingdom of love and faith. "My sheep hear my voice
and they follow it, the VOICE OF A STRANGER they do not follow. But how many people
do follow the VOICE of fear, rather than the voice of faith and love? Not even being honest
with themselves that they are OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE WRONG FATHER, and wonder
why they are tormented. That's what obeying the devil's, (the liars) voice does, it gives
you over to the tormentor's. And they only way out of it, is to listen to the right voice!

There should be no fear that would separate us from showing and extending
the love of God to anyone, saved or unsaved. The voice of,
"I'm glad I'm not like him." We can't be used by God to give anyone understanding to the error
of their way. If we have no understanding to the operation of God in our lives or the works
of His hands, the accuser of the brethren will come in like a flood, and keep us from laboring in the field
(lives and hearts) of those He has sent to us.

How can we give an account of the hope that is in us, if we become fearful
and unbelieving, and have no faith and confidence in God and His ability to
use us in the lives of the ones He brings our way? Do we even understand the operation of
God in our lives everyday? In those lives with whom we have to do this day? Have
we really put away the pointing of the finger when we get shaken and lose
our confidence in God, and fail to believe that our times are really in His
hands as far as the people He has put in our lives?


Ez. 16:45You are your [spiritual] mother's daughter who loathed her husband and her children,
and you are the sister of your sisters who loathed their husbands and their children.
I have seen women who never did what was right in their own little church (with their children)
and when they get older, they don't do what's right with God's children.
If we can't relate to our children's sin and feed them with understanding, will we do it
with God's children? No, we end up "loathing" God's children too, rather than leading
them in the path of righteousness for His names sake.


Many Christians today fail to see that the Lord of their lives is the author
of all the shakings that go on in their hearts and lives. He is the one who
shakes all things that can be shaken! If we point our finger and blame
people for shaking us, we enter into a blindness of heart that keeps us from
learning from the testings God has brought our way! He uses people to expose
our spiritual weakness and to expose our perfect fear that is keeping us
from extending the love of God to those He has brought before us. If we point our
finger at our brother (in body, mind or spirit), how can the Lord use us to
"loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens set free from
oppression and break the yoke", in the lives of others?

When we have taken the log out of our eye, we should be able to remove the twig
from our brother or sisters eye. If we have sound reasoning in how we turned from
our sin, we can overcome Satan in the lives of others by THE WORD OF OUR OWN
TESTIMONY.

Fear, that creates division in our hearts towards others, will always keep
us from dealing His bread to the hungry, healing the poor, covering the naked,
and we will always hide ourselves from our own flesh. Isaiah 58:5-14 Can we
honestly tell if light has risen in our obscurity, and our
darkness is as the noonday? Are we truly being satisfied in the drought? Do
we seem like a watered garden, whose waters are not failing? Can we truly
say we are building up the waste places in the lives of others?? Raising up the
foundations of many generations? Is anyone calling us the repairer of the
breach, the restorer of paths to dwell? Are we honoring God by not doing our
own way, thinking our own thoughts towards Him and His people?? (or are our
thoughts accusing others and excusing ourselves!!) Are we hearing from His voice, or
the Accuser of the Brethren? Do we love His sheep enough to feed them God's
truth, or do we feed others with the silent spirit of accusation, and evil
imaginations we refuse to do anything about? Do we live in a state of
spiritual death that is familiar to us, because we fail to really love our
brother in spirit and truth? Is the meditation of our heart towards God and
our brother acceptable In the sight of Jesus? Do we even care about the
uncaptivated thoughts we allow to go on in our mind ... sowing evil in the
spirit of our mind towards others, hoping they are not doing to us as we do
unto others!

We need to be shaken ... we need to wake up, and judge our fears, unbelief,
Insecurities, lest we be like Cain who slew righteous Able that God sent to
help him! Everything happens by faith, and if we will be honest with the
Lord when our brother shakes us, we can be God-made people rather than self-made
people. Cain would not receive Able, because he was a self-made man. Why
does our countenance fall? it is directly related to what we think and do towards
our brothers Have you examined yourself lately to see if you have faith that
is working by love, or fear working by unbelief towards others??


Jesus wants us to receive His kingdom in our lives that no man has the power
to shake. He has to shake everything in us that can be shaken, so what
remains is Him (and our confidence is in him not us!) ... He does that by sending
people into our lives! There are several scriptures in the Word about the shakings of God.
Do you blame others when your little kingdom gets shaken, blaming them for having power over you
while you fail to see the work of the one who shakes all things? How easily
can others offend you? ... Maybe it's in direct relationship to how deep your
love isl Do evil imaginations towards others keep you from being an
ambassador of God's kingdom to those you're critical in your heart towards?
Do you even miss the absence of God's presence due to your carelessness in
rebuking, reproving, and exhorting those with whom you have to do? God will
always Rend people into our lives, to reveal the hidden things we need to
face -- the thing we put our trust in that we shouldn't We think we are so
wise until someone comes and searches us out! All the loge in our eyes we
have failed to judge ... will seem so large in our brother's eye! The pride
and control we have refused to see, will overwhelm us and make us afraid
when we observe it in others. We would never be afraid of someone else¹s sin if
we ever truly estimated our own. We would have the ministry of helps rather
than the ministry of "accusing our brother!!

The angel of the Lord will bring us face to face with the enemies of our
soul, but most think their brother is the enemy! Ex. 23 Our lack of godly
character in revealed by our weak love towards our brother. Fear abounds
rather than love, because we refuse to ask Jesus to change our heart of
stone (fear and unbelief), to a heart of faith that works by love! God gives men
the power to shake the hell out of us, so He can insert Heaven into us with
His invisible hands,-as we apply our active faith! When we blame man for
shaking us we are already in spiritual blindness!

Will you even admit when your confidence in God is failing because of how
you
fail to love others (flattering and lying to your brother because you're too
afraid to tell the truth)? You cannot stand with clean hands and a pure
heart, and look your brother in the eye, when you speak evil of him behind
his back -- When you have a problem with him and you do not fulfill God's
order by going to him first, rather than others. When you listen to the
voices of suspicion out of the mouths of others, you fail to qualify if they
are out of order, you partake of the frog that has come out of their mouth
and have defiled yourself. If you are used to living in a toxic state, you
barely notice a little more poison to your soul!


Isaiah 58:7 says, "hide not yourself from your own flesh! " Mal. 3 says,
"Those who spoke the truth to one another caused the Lord to hearken to them,
and in the day He makes up His jewels ... they would be among His jewels!"
When we hide and lie, we should be insecure, because we fail to have the
ministry of reconciliation for our brother! Unjudged suspicions, evil
imaginations ... keep us from loosing the bands of wickedness we think we
see our brother held by. This will we be recompensed by the lord for; don't be
deceived -- God sees us talking behind our brothers back to defend our
measly lives, and our compromising Christianity that won't get involved in the
lives of others.


If you have the faith to slander others behind their back, you have wicked
faith! Chaos runs rampant in the church today, unclean spirits have their
way, because God's people fail to come into the order of His kingdom in how
they are truly relating to one another! Talebearers go up and down bearing a
grudge against the children of His people. (Lev. 19:15-17) Do you want to be
bitten, devoured , and consumed in the end?? If you don't REPENT! (change
your mind about what you do and allow others to do in your presence). May
God help us stop biting, devouring and consuming one another. We fail to see
that God will not be mocked -- what we sow, this will we reap!! Ask yourself one
question, Are you part of a body of Christians that go to one another when
offences occur? And if one does not receive another, is the Word of God
being established OUT OF THE MOUTH OF 2 OR 3 WITNESSES? Those who fail to do
what's right with their brother....namely going to them, in love, honesty,
sincerity, to establish God's word in their life; and those who don't get
other's involved, should be afraid, because God gave us an order to fulfill
in relationships..........His government and Kingdom we pray to come on
earth..........is it coming through you? If you FEAR.........REVERENCE THE
LORD, nothing will make you afraid, you'll lie down in peace!

being a naughty fig??????????

We went to a Nicky Cruze dinner last night which was wonderful. He still has so much passion and vision for souls saved and souls kept. We had the blessed opportunity to sit with him, and talk with him. He shared about his hatred (lightly esteeming) David Wilkerson. His temptations to murder him, and when David said to him, even if you cut me into pieces you can't kill love. Wow, that really stuck with me. I thought of a pastor who was sitting behind us who has cut not only my husband into little pieces but has served him up on a little platter to others. I wondered who he might have in his life to talk with him about his slander, gossip, his hands that shed innocent blood. "They eat up my children as one eats bread and call not upon the Lord" the psalm says. He has "served" my husband to others too, and who is there to convict him, to lead him to repentance.

I wonder if he even knows how many people now know him as a gossip, slanderer, backbiter, one who can't control his evil imaginations. (It's unbelievable what he spreads in gossip about us). When people hear what he is saying about another man of God in town who lives to help God's children repent, turn, from their sins, they think what went wrong in this mans life that he doesn't understand "slaying the ones who are sent to you", but what he says? Doesn't he realize Jesus will have an opinion about the gossip, slander, backbiting, and the nature of these problems? Has anyone ever taught him the story of Cain and Able? He's going to be so sad one day for crucifying one of God's elect with the spirit of his mouth.

Jer.23 talks about the TRUE SHEPHERDS that bring you face to face with your sin. (so you will be cleaned up for the marriage supper of the Lamb.) Ex. 21 talks about that too, Job 6 says, "the things my soul refused to touch became my sorrowful meat." I think it's human nature to do just about ANYTHING we can to wash our hands, and avoid looking at the inside of the cup.

Facing our fears and insecurities is a road many don't travel. Ps.112 says God will deliver us from our fears and destructions, but how many people will really face up to their fears and destructions TO GET DELIVERED. Maybe that's why Jesus said, wide is the gate that leads to destruction and many are on it. Most people spend their life running from their fears and destructions, not facing them. I have to wonder if the pastor of this large church can spread such vicious lies and gossip because he's running from something inside himself. Who will tell him JESUS LOVES HIM, and he needs to "repent" for being a Cain who is killing his brother Able with the spirit of his mouth? I wonder if he will have time to repent before he faces Jesus, and finds out the truth, and has to face the shame of murdering one God loved with the spirit of his mouth!

Oh how many people are willing to scrub, scrub, scrub, the outside of cup with strife and religious works, but deep in their soul, they are filled with dead mens bones, and their mouth is an open grave. Their empty chatter is just a reflection of their empty heart. If you talk to them long enough, you can hear the dead bones, those thoughts lodged in their heart that aren't right towards the Lord. Life and death is in the power of our tongue. Jesus said "every idle word a man speaks will be held against him in the day of judgment." What he means is that our words operate, they are either the source of life or death, and it all depends on the motives of the heart of the one speaking the words. He told the wicked and slothful servant......"out of your mouth, you have condemned yourself." The proverbs say that the words of a mans heart are "deep" waters. And some people have a cesspool of demonic thoughts that reside deep in their soul that they don't talk to the Lord about. But these lies lodged in our soul we haven't taken captive to the obedience of Christ will seep out eventually. When the enemy comes in like a flood, THE LORD LIFTS UP A STANDARD. When the devil is speaking to us through someone's mouth we love, we shouldn't be indifferent, but look pray to hear the right voice! And give them "good food," for the bad food they gave us. That's really what Jesus did for Peter.

Some people say spiritual things, even quote scriptures and talk about the things of God, but THE MOTIVE OF their HEART IS SELF SERVING. They speak because they love the praise of men. This is a heart filled with SELF INTEREST! These words are not motivated by any BENEVOLENT LOVE. These are people so selfish, they care little about the arsenic, boric acid, self serving, self seeking words that come out of their mouths because they have no peace with God. Some love the praise of men, they seek the approval of men, they fear man much more than God, and they really couldn't care less about the death they let float out of their mouths regularly and how it's affecting others. They don't even judge most of the time if the words they speak are really for the benefit, the well being, the edifying, the building up of others. They only care about getting their needs met, and they don't care if the meditation of their heart is right. (Just like Peter wasn't caring when he spoke to Jesus.) They care about getting the approval they need from others, they only look for acceptance from man, they don't care to if THE WORDS OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE MEDITATION OF THEIR HEARTS ARE ACCEPTABLE IN GODS SIGHT. They wouldn't consider any obligation to be honest, sincere, and help others judge the spirit of their words, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE TO JUDGE THEIR SELF SEEKING WORDS.

I was also thinking about "suffering that woman Jezebel." Suffering meaning.......being indifferent to someone who is controlled by Satan in their thoughts, and words. Controlled because they love their life and they won't loose it for the greater cause. Controlled because of being weak minded because they love their life and their thoughts and don't take the time to make Gods thoughts their thoughts. They don't really care if their thoughts are coming from hell, their words are coming from hell, because they love themselves and only care about getting what they need from others, not in what they serve to others. Being a servant isn't part of their thoughts most of the time. Laboring in God's Kingdom, and loving the saving and keeping of souls, is not what makes these people tic. They serve God for their own pleasure and happiness. They haven't taken on Jesus' burden, which is easy and light......the loving and keeping of souls. They live under the lie THAT really doing GOD'S WILL IS TOO BIG OF A BURDEN. They feel sorry for themselves, and the thought of their heart is the way of the Lord is too hard. Most of their thoughts are MAKING EXCUSES for their flesh, and accusing others. So they throw their talent away. Getting their own needs met is the meditation of their heart. They don't have the love or faith, to speak the truth in love for we are members of one another. They don't care about really helping others grow up........only in getting their own needs met. They don't even consider that one day it will all be exposed and they will be REWARDED for how they have really been involved in the saving and keeping of souls. (You know the souls they think they will live with through eternity?) What came to me the other day is that most women get married to have their flesh gratified, and to be taken care of. And how many people come to Jesus for the same reason. I haven't met too many women that came to Jesus to be involved in His pleasure, who have passion for thinking His thoughts and speaking His words, and helping other to do the same! But isn't this truly what a Proverbs 31 woman would do?

HOW MUCH DO WE CAUSE OTHER'S TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRES OF THE SPIRIT'S WE DON'T JUDGE IN OURSELVES?

The end of self indulgence, and sin IS DEATH. Self serving people filled with lust and addiction don't care about how they are affecting, loving others. One thing I have observed about many women is how they love their husbands gifts. They love the pleasures of the relationship, and what their husbands can give to them and provide for them, but they don't love their husbands souls. They don't think about being honest, sincere, praying, spending time in the word. They are content to have accusations, divisions, evil imaginations, and little foxes live in their relationships with their husbands. They don't even see how their failure to judge how they really love the men in their lives, is how they love Jesus, God, too! OH THEY LOVE THE GIFTS.......just not the Giver. If they loved the giver, they would love the givers children. But they don't, they lie, and are insincere, and insecure with the Givers children. They are too wrapped up in getting what they need from the givers children to love them. Honesty and sincerity are a threat to them, because then they would really have to examine their faith to get their needs met. They would rather be controlling. Love is a threat, and withholding their heart and thoughts is their power and control. They suffer the spirit of control in themselves, so they suffer it in others too! They are blind to the fact that they have blood on their hands. They don't care if someone around them is starting a Forrest fire with their mouth, because they are too busy getting their own needs met. They wouldn't think too long about putting the Forrest fires around them out, and they don't consider the fact that God will judge them as much as the one who is using their mouth to start the fire!

IF WE FAIL TO SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE, WE DEPRIVE THOSE AROUND US FROM BEING ABLE TO GROW UP! We are guilty of burring our talent, and perhaps denying the Holy Ghost. How will we become the bride of Christ, perfect, complete, without division, if we love our precious life so much, we don't care if someone around us is being robbed and by our indifference......WE CONSENT WITH THE THIEF! Having eyes to see, they see not, having ears to hear, they hear not, lest the glorious light of the gospel should come and heal them. Some people just don't want the glorious light of the gospel to heal them, they want to be sick and TAKEN CARE OF. They are comfortable with their "unholy" spirits.

The truth is, we all HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL NOT COMING AND HEALING us. The only reason for our lack of healing is because deep in our hearts we LOVE THE PRAISE OF MEN, MORE THAN GOD. We are content to live life without Jesus. Are your words self seeking? Do you listen to the self seeking words of others who love the praise of men? How much do you suffer the spirit of Jezebel, control, in your life. Some men's sins go before them, others follow after them. You'll never have peace if you lie to yourself about the content of your own words, and the content of the words of those around you. WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP, ARISE FROM YOUR DEATH, AND God will give you light!

eating spiritual junk food lately?????

BRUTISHNESS....HOW YOU GET IT AND HOW TO AVOID IT!

The definition of brutishness is: brutal, qualities of an animal

(without the reasoning of love). If you have never "put away lying" you are brutish! Have you let your love wax cold? If you are dominated or controlled by appetite or desire, gross, sensual, cruel, violent, unable to control sexual passions, your brutish to God's Spirit. If you are without natural affection, one who is rude without compassion on how you affect others, your brutish! If you are.Resisting being loved and giving love and you are Harsh, pitiless, indifferent, stingy, stubborn and Damning others for what your guilty of, your brutish. It's an unwillingness to be merciful. Inflicting sorrow, pain, discomfort, and poverty on others. Given to shrewdness, crookedness. No heart to BUILD OTHER'S UP or wash their feet!



Jesus defined the end times as the days when people will be very cold

in their love. Not only will they not love the truth and each other, but they will be very hard hearted, brutish. We become brutish by yielding our will to that which we know is wrong. It's the PRACTICE of denying THE LAW OF GOD, LOVE, IN OUR CONSCIENCE. When we deny the voice, the governing force of love, and God in our hearts, we become evil and one who is waxing worse and worse. We get worse every time we REFUSE TO RETAIN THE KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF GOD IN OUR HEARTS. We lie to ourselves about what comes out of our mouths and we lie to others about how we feel about WHAT IS coming out of their mouth. When we are out of touch with what is going on inside us, our thoughts are accusing others and excusing ourselves, our love will grow colder, and colder. It's one thing to HEAR the words of love and truth, it's a whole different thing to be a DOER OF LOVE AND TRUTH. That's why people accuse and excuse, because they are not hearing and obeying.

Civil law is needed for those who refuse to obey the law of love and

the law of the spirit of life in Jesus. When we refuse to be honest with ourselves, God and others, and deny THE GOD OF ALL TRUTH, we are given over to another kingdom, the kingdom of the world and physical law. Our failure to respond and agree with God, and yield to His chastening turns us over to the chastening of the worlds system. It even affects our physical health.

One of the biggest things I've seen recently is those who lie about how

they feel about what they say, or what someone else says tend towards being hard hearted, brutish. If our words are SPIRIT AND LIFE, then if something is wrong with the spirit of our words or someone else's words, and we ignore it, brutishness is the reason. If we are indifferent, and eat the defiling words of others or our own, and lie to ourselves about how they really tasted, we are still affected! We may be feeding on ashes so much of the time we can't tell that other's are dishing out ashes to us. When we hear words of corruption from those close to us, the ones we relate to, and we fail to "feed Gods sheep," we partake of their corruption. Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where no vision is the people parish, rot from the inside out. And they feed rottenness to those around them. Some people hear rotten words and speak rotten words, with little thought. If we have pride and lying in our heart, it will come out of our mouth. Jesus said "out of the heart proceeds evil......and it comes out by the food people serve in THE SPIRIT OF THEIR WORDS.

The bible says we are to let our conversation be without covetousness.

Is yours? How about those around you? If we are renewed in THE SPIRIT OF OUR

MIND, we'll be renewed in THE SPIRIT OF OUR MOUTH. If we love Jesus, the food....words that come out of our mouth will be Spirit and Life, not death. Jesus went to great lengths to help John see, if he really loved HIM, He would care about what he said, and "fed" to others. Three times Jesus asked him if he loved him and Jesus said 3 times, I'm sure each time with much more emotion...If you do, YOU WILL FEED MY SHEEP! Love should constrain us to care enough to speak words of life, not death to those you love. When we were born again, we tapped into God, we had the ability to connect to Him. But it is up to us to be renewed in THE SPIRIT OF OUR MIND!! WE HAVE TO CHOOSE TO SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. We have to respond rightly to the GOVERNING POWER OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT. It is always our choice to grieve, deny, or resist God, the spirit of Truth, or to YIELD TO THE TRUTH. We are always proving if our interests are SELF SERVING, if we seek only our own good and gain, OR if we are BENEVOLENT towards God and others. You can tell if it's people's FOOD to do God's will by the FOOD that comes out of their mouth. It either makes you healthy or sick.

JUST BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEE THE ARSENIC IN FOOD (or someone's words),

DOESN'T MEAN WERE NOT BEING POISONED BY IT! Without Jesus, and the Spirit of truth we will not be able to tell we are being defiled. OUT OF THE MOUTH COMES LIFE AND DEATH.........SO WE HAVE TO BE IN JUDGMENT OF WHAT WE ARE PARTAKING OF (when people speak) It is, LIFE OR DEATH and if it's death, and we say nothing, we end up "consenting with the theif." We know some demonic spirit that comes to steal is present but we say nothing! HARD HEARTEDNESS is apparent in those who will not tell the truth to themselves or others or God when they loose their peace. These people will eventually be the brute beasts the bible speaks of that are made to be destroyed......because of their utter failure to care about the death coming out of their own mouth and the death coming out of the mouths of others. If we love Him who begets we will love His children, and wash them with the water of right words. WHEN WE ARE PRIDEFUL LIARS, AND WE DON'T WANT OUR BOAT SHAKEN, OR TO SHAKE ANYONE else's, we really have no value, and won't fulfill our purpose in the KINGDOM. We will be guilty of being LIARS WHICH WON'T ENTER THE KINGDOM, because we weren't honest with ourselves about the life and death that came out of our mouth, and we closed our eyes and ears to the life and death that came out of the mouths of others! The end of Is.58 makes GREAT promises to those who PUT AWAY their own thoughts and their own words! Jesus said about the hypocrites. "THEIR MOUTH WAS AN OPEN GRAVE"!!

Jesus said, out of a mans mouth he'll be justified or condemned! So,

are we careful how we hear? What if we fail to even pray and be honest with the fact about the words coming out of the mouths of others are not going down like tasty morsels, but sickening mold? Do you lie to yourself when you eat something that tastes bad, but keep on eating it anyway? What if we are justified by Jesus or condemned by how we responded to those closest to us, to help them not pollute and corrupt other's with words of death? If we are satisfied by the words of our mouth......where is our satisfaction level REALLY AT??? Do we roll over, shut our eyes and close our ears when corruption comes from the mouths of those we listen to? Do we quietly sit by and listen to others poison themselves, with no heart to help them get the toxins out of their words? I have heard so many women slander God, by being willfully ignorant to the spirit of their words. Through fearful, unbelieving, self-pity words. I knew the Lord wanted me to rebuke them so they would be SOUND IN THEIR FAITH! I didn't want to face Jesus one day being sad with me due to not having enough faith to REALLY LOVE HIS CHILDREN!

So in many ways, I would define brutish people as PRIDEFUL LIARS. Or prideful strivers. Strife can be an ugly mask for slothfulness, and that's a whole other matter in itself. BRUTES only condemn, accuse, and stone other's, they have no answers to help!

Don't lie to yourself if your words grieve you. This is the biggest

ERROR of the brutish! They speak words of death with NO THOUGHT OF CONSEQUENCE. The seeds, Weeds, that pour out of their mouth are tares that will one day be dealt with, but they don't believe that. Don't lie to yourself if someone else's words grieve you. If words are spirit and life, pray and ask Jesus to help you see the truth about the spirit of words so you can repent and fulfill your calling in the lives of those around you! YOU won't be JESUS HELPER, if you consent with the thief......you know something's wrong but you wont say anything Pvb.29. Psalm 95 tells us not to harden our hearts, as the children of Israel did. They could not discern Gods voice or the devils voice. They had hard hearts and did not know Gods ways. They erred in their hearts. They lied and listen to the father of lies that accused God and man by their fearful, unbelieving words. They were deaf to lies in each other. The Lord is coming to Judge the earth with righteousness and HIS TRUTH! David said he would come before the Lord with a perfect heart. He wouldn't listen to those who practice evil, speak evil. He said he wouldn't even eat with those who had a proud heart and a high look. He said those who work deceit shall not dwell in his house, those who speak lies wouldn't tarry in his sight. Psalm 101

We can have years of theological training but if we fail to hear and obey the VOICE OF GOD, what have we gained? Faith comes through hearing and hearing through the word. That is what the bible IS....GOD SPEAKING THROUGH MEN. So can WE HEAR GOD SPEAKING THROUGH MEN AND WOMEN TODAY? If we don't have His words in us, we won't hear His words when other's speak them. Can we tell when the devil is speaking through someone, or when the wrong spirit is coming out of someone's mouth? And how much are we willing to GET INVOLVED, MAKE DISCIPLES, DISCIPLINED ONES THAT CAN HEAR THE RIGHT VOICE AND RESPOND ACCORDINGLY? How much do YOU REALLY LOVE???? How much will you really get involved in making sure THE WORDS THAT COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE, NOT DEATH? HOW MUCH DO YOU CARE TO FEED GODS SHEEP THE RIGHT SPIRIT OUT OF YOUR MOUTH THAT CAN SAVE AND KEEP SOULS. I TRULY BELIEVE THIS IS THE PROOF OF ALL THOSE WHO REALLY LOVE JESUS! THEY CARE ABOUT WHAT COMES OUT OF THEIR MOUTH AND THEY HELP THOSE AROUND not speak words that will condemn them one day!

The controller, who practiced witchcraft in Acts 13, the one who interfered with the work of God, perverted the right ways of the Lord. He was full of subtlety and evil, Paul called him the son of the devil. He lied to himself and to others. (Had a hard heart) He went blind. How many blind Christians do you know, who lie to themselves, and lie to others. They control their lives by their failure to be honest about the spirit of their words and the spirit in the words of others, for all kinds of reasons, but nevertheless, they don't tell themselves the truth or others, they use deceit as a weapon of CONTROL, the bible calls this witchcraft and rebellion. Jesus has called us to be a light to the gentiles, that we should be for salvation to the ends of the earth. We can't be that if we Lie, we must put away lying. We must wake up and be honest about OUR WORDS GRIEVING US, AND OTHER PEOPLES WORDS GRIEVING US! That's why Paul could deal with the controller who practiced witchcraft, rebellion! God used Him everywhere he turned because He walked in the light, he didn't lie to himself or others. He put away

lying. He could judge between life and death that came out of the

mouth! Can you? If you can't, why not?

To hold the truth in unrighteousness, is to deep down know the truth,

but not be willing to confirm it. Every time we speak dead words we

CALLOUS OUR HEARTS, we become BRUTISH. When we speak RIGHT WORDS, and we don't listen to the wrong words of others, we become more and more sensitive. God has visited people throughout history.........because of their words. I'm sure the devil visits people because of their words too. We never invite demons in, but they always have to be kicked out. And we have to deal with them when our friends are entertaining them unaware, beckoning them by what we say. You know how some have entertained angels UNAWARE? Well, at times people entertain demons unaware, and they might need a little help dealing with the enemy of their soul. If they love Jesus, they'll be thankful we got involved. If they love their friends (that are really their enemies) they will hate us for our help, but we have our integrity, and the light of the upright, Jesus... that guides us. What can be done against love? The psalmist said "when I kept silent my bones WAXED OLD, COLD! If you want to die spiritually SHUT UP! It proves you void of love and faith, and shows how IN CONTROL of your own life you are, and how unable God is to use you as a vessel to speak words of life! That's why JESUS defined the fearful as wicked! It's wicked to starve Gods sheep!

Jesus did know what was in the hearts of men and the bible says He didn't give himself to them. I'm not talking about rebuking fools, or giving pearls to swine who will only hate you for your love. I'm talking about those you hope to go to heaven with. We all need to know if fear or love is leading us.

Jesus also prayed to the Father, that we would be one as He and the Father are one. If you can't love and forgive sinner's and teach them in the way they should go, your brutish. IF WE SPEAK the truth IN LOVE, and we see we are REALLY MEMBER'S OF EACH OTHER, we will be among those who are GROWING UP, THE ONES BEING PREPARED FOR THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB! If your looking to Jesus, and have faith to wash the feet of others, remove their grave clothes, give them a drink from heaven, you will be rewarded according to what you have done. If you really have served Him, and His children, all will see you one day as He serves you at His table! Want be there???????? Choose this day who you will serve, and you choose who will one day serve you at the marriage supper of the Lamb!

choose wisely the cup you drink from, the table you eat from

WHY ARE SO MANY CHRISTIANS TODAY, SICK, WEAK AND ASLEEP?

We as Christians need to have our spirits perpetually cleansed, just like our flesh. Our bodies are in a state of constant internal cleaning. Maybe this is a disclosure to how the Spiritual body of Christ should be, seeing we are members one of another. When we are having fellowship with the Father, seeing, handling, tasting the word of life, we have regenerated spirits, that work life in each other. This spirit of communion is very holy, that's why when we "don't discern the Lords body".... who He is in our brother or sister, and we fail to examine ourselves, we get sick, weak and go to sleep. The Lord is found today IN HIS PEOPLE. We are His eyes, hands and feet. We are His ambassadors of an invisible Kingdom, this kingdom that should be alive and well in us.

We are in danger when we have the "me and Jesus" mentality. We are obligated to "do it unto the least of these my brethren, that's what we are doing to Jesus." His angels encamp around his people and the bible says they "take notes" on how we are treating each other. Therefore, beware brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart, which refuses to cleave to, trust in and rely on Him. Leading you to turn away and desert of stand aloof from the LIVING GOD. But instead, warn, admonish, urge, and encourage one another every day. (consume and open your hearts to each other, as long as it is called TODAY, that none of you be hardened into settled rebellion, by the deceitfulness of sin.)

Is this not the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every enslaving yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry, and that you cover him, and HIDE NOT YOURSELF FROM YOUR OWN FLESH? What happens to your health when you body parts stop communicating with each other? We are heading down a road of sorrows, creating breeches rather than repairing them. Is 58:6-7

How important is it that we partake of THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN ONE ANOTHER? And to feed each other from God's table, from His cup? It is a matter of life and death. That's why it's so important to make sure our mouth is not an open grave, and dead bones are shooting out of our lips. "All Christ is HE IS WITHIN US, hope of Glory, Living Word. Oh what joy He makes us His dwelling." Jesus said, "if they receive you they will receive me and receive Him who sent me." We are obligated to receive each other. We are also obligated to say, "get behind me Satan" to those who are valuing the things of man above the things of God. As Jesus was in the world, SO ARE WE.

If we are grieving, denying and resisting THE HOLY GHOST, condemning ourselves in what we are allowing, we don't just defile ourselves. There is a spiritual mystery, we do "feed the sheep" from the table of our heart, and if we are living on the devils food, his thoughts, his words, his cup, we will defile those around us. Jesus sanctified Himself for the sake of others. He ate at Gods table, He drank from His cup, He separated Himself unto God's will, because He knew if He didn't it would affect us. This is what we are so blind to. We are always partaking of the life
or death that is in our mouth, and others are partaking too.

Partaking is related to receiving. When we partake of food, we receive it into our bodies. It becomes our flesh. If this food is natural, without chemicals, additives, preservatives, it will build up our bodies. If the food is toxic, unclean, impure, it has a breaking down effect. It degenerates us rather than regenerating us. Regenerate means to refresh, rejuvenate, renew,
restore, resurrect, revive, RECREATE! To degenerate means to: cause decay, disintegrate, mildew or mold, rot, rust, spoil, corrode, crumble and to Breakdown!

The Spirit gives life, when we walk after the flesh it leads to death! If the "lips of the righteous feed many", WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT THE LIPS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS? How about
they poison many! When we are sincere, honest, and pure in motive, without pretense in our thought and words, we are used by the Lord to REGENERATE OTHERS. When we sincerely care about keeping our hearts free of offense towards God and man, and that the words of our mouth, the meditation of our hearts are acceptable in Gods sight, THIS IS PURE FELLOWSHIP.
This is the bread of sincerity and truth that builds up the body. We are always feeding others the BREAD OF HYPOCRISY, or the bread of sincerity and truth........ this is our choice, it'a an act of our will. When we live with an awareness and thankfulness of what the blood of Christ has done for us, it creates a spiritual blood
that runs through the body of Christ on the earth, in the THANKFUL and Holy people of God. It's like the blood in the body that cleanses, creates flow and movement!

When we walk in pretense, if we are among the "unthankful and the unholy"; when we fail to examine ourselves to see if we are in THE FAITH, we live and have our being in the dark. We
become procreators of darkness rather than the light. "Mischief is conceived and it gives birth" as the Psalm says. We are always having fellowship in the meditation of our hearts, with A FATHER. Either the father of darkness, or THE FATHER OF LIGHT. We are "in common- union", communion. Drinking from the cup of devils or the cup of God, eating at the table of devils or the table of God. This is why eating at the table of fear and unbelief is so dangerous.......... we become what we eat, and we feed others who we are. WE ARE DEGENERATES RATHER THAN REGENERATORS. We should be building each other up in our most Holy Faith, not tearing each other down with a most unholy unbelief.

The words of the wise are like nails and building supplies that fit a house together. The words of fools tear down. That's why it is crucial for us to count the cost of who we are serving.
IF WE LOVE JESUS WE WILL FEED THE SHEEP, HIS CHILDREN, WHAT IS GOOD! People will "TASTE, and see that the Lord is good."

If we are grieving, denying, resisting the Holy Ghost in our lives, those who DON'T HAVE A BAD DIET, will know something is wrong with what we are eating, (spiritually speaking).
People who aren't eating at the devils table or drinking his cup, will have a problem with you. THEY SHOULD. They will resist the food they are being fed because they don't eat at the
death table. THE OBEDIENT towards God will always resist the disobedient. The people who are happy because they don't condemn themselves in what they allow, will have problems with the unhappy who are condemning themselves in what they allow. Those justifying eating at the devils table will be offended with and make excuses for not cleaning up their own diet, and look down on those who care about their diet. (Again, I'm speaking spiritually, meaning, spiritual diet.) The one grieving, denying and resisting the Holy Ghost in their lives must come to a
true repentance for REAL FELLOWSHIP to be restored. My sheep, hear my voice (it's their food), the voice of a stranger they will not follow, (they won't eat the devils dainties.)

Rev. 3:19 says, "as many as I love, I chasten, reprove and show them their faults." The problem is so many Christians don't understand chastening, the purpose of affliction, and turn to God to be RENEWED in the spirit of their minds. We must be willing to TELL OURSELVES THE TRUTH. That WE don't have a right spirit, a free spirit, AND BE WILING TO TURN TO THE ONLY
ONE WHO CAN HELP US HAVE A RIGHT SPIRIT, a free spirit. REPROOF AND INSTRUCTION IS A WAY OF LIFE. The Lord will continually be helping us keep our spirit clean, just like our liver
helps keep our blood clean. If we walk in the light with The Lord, we have FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM AND HIS PEOPLE, and His blood PERPETUALLY KEEPS CLEANING US. This is the way
the body of Christ is meant to work. Just like our physical bodies. Being open with the one who KNOWS THE SECRETS OF OUR HEART, and His people is how we are KEPT from a life of deceiving and being deceived.

We are being TRESPASSED AGAINST, when someone is feeding us dainties from the devils table or seducing us to drink from his cup. Luke 17:3 Take heed to yourselves, If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him, and IF he repents, forgive him! Have no FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, but RATHER, reprove them. Them that sin, rebuke before all, that others might also fear. 1 Tit. 5:20

2 Tim. 4:2 Preach the word, be instant in season and out of season, REPROVE, REBUKE, EXHORT, with all longsuffering and doctrine. Tit. 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith.

Through the ages however, men have loved darkness more than the light and would not bring their darkness into the light to see it for what it is. THEY DON'T HAVE PASSION FOR BEING
REPROVED..... LOVING THE LIGHT, the table of God, the drink from His cup. When we trust in our own hearts we are fools. Fools despise instruction. (THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT
THEY EAT, how they affect others, what they feed others, nor do they want to help others clean up their toxic diet.)

If we love Jesus, we will change our mind, our diet. OUR FOOD, will be to do the will of Him who raised us from the dead. We will have zeal to eat at Gods table! We will want to be among those who overcome, and sit and wine and dine with the KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS. We will see out of the self gratification of today, and deny ourselves looking forward to eating from the tree of life one day and never hungering again. We will be unable, unwilling to poison His sheep. Jesus is the bread of life!!!! We will want our common union, communion to be with THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, and we will reject the spirit, bread, of error. We will have PASSION to "get our bread from afar". (Prbs.31)

THE KINGDOM

Hi Mom. I was thinking on Sunday about seeking first the Kingdom, and I had the thought “I wonder what people who are seeking first the Kingdom (of the United States) feel about their new kingdom and their old one”. So I came across this. It is the oath of citizenship that immigrants say when they become citizens of this country,



I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. In acknowledgement whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.



I wonder how many people think this way about being a Christian?



Daniel Sullivan