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Saturday, March 21, 2009

how to have a good marriage

WHY I HAVE SUCH A GOOD MARRIAGE .....The Lord will show you how to be a repairer of breeches, and a blessed peacemaker!

WHY I HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL MARRIAGE AFTER 13 (23) YEARS OF LIFE WITH MY HUSBAND...............I HAVE A SMALL
VISION FOR WHERE JESUS WANTS TO TAKE THE CHURCH!!

How does passion and unity continue to get better? Well I had some thoughts on the subject today! I got a letter from a friend this morning, which made me start thinking of Ps.133. "Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It's like precious ointment.....it's like
the dew on the mountains.....there has the Lord commanded the blessing! It made me start thinking of my good marriage, and why other's aren't so good, and why there is such dis-unity in the church.

Then I read part of David Wilkerson's newest letter to the church called "Satan seeks to devour you." He specifically addresses marriages under attack! Lives under attack. I thought of the scripture in Ecc. "The little foxes spoil the vine." It made me realize why love and passion is ever increasing in my own marriage..........BECAUSE WE GO AFTER, AND DEAL WITH THE "LITTLE FOXES!" Many married people don't even see the whiles
of the devil to destroy them and their relationships. I know that after years of marriage, the offences, criticisms, accusations, divisions
(demiliatrized zones) cause people to build walls against one another. So instead of becoming closer, they become worlds apart....I want to say
DEMONS APART.....DEMONIC STRONGHOLDS set in, and passion and love are out the window! We need to learn to put on love rather than pride.
To put on honesty, sincerity, and have the law of kindness in our mouths.

Rm. 12:5 "So we being many are one body in Christ, and everyone members of one another". 1 Cor.10:17 "for we being many are ONE BREAD, and
one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread." 1Cor.1:10 "Now I beseech you , brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be NO DIVISIONS AMONG YOU, but that you be perfectly joined together......in the same mind, and in the same judgment! THIS MAY BE EXTREMELY HARD FOR YOU TO BELIEVE, BUT I ACTUALLY LIVE WITH A MAN IN A "SPIRIT OF UNITY!" We fight for unity,
and to make sure there are no divisions between us! We deal with, kill, the "little foxes" that come to spoil our
relationship! Rather than being offended, we look to feed each other with understanding when there are problems. We seek the Lord, and humble ourselves to one another in the fear of the Lord. And we walk in this same spirit with the christians we relate to.

2 Co.13:11 "Finally, brethren, Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Ep. 4:3 "Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Ph.1:27 "only let you conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ,
that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel." 1Pet.3:8 "Be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous." In Phil. 4:2 Paul beseeches two of his loved ones to be of the same mind. Col. 2:2 "That their hearts might BE COMFORTED, being knit together in LOVE, and
unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the MYSTERY OF GOD, and of the Father, and of Christ."

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE MET, WHO DON'T EVEN BELIEVE UNITY IS EVEN POSSIBLE? They don't even have faith in what God say's
in His word or what He promises to do for those who love Him. He stands behind women who are looking to love and do God's will in their husbands lives. And a woman of God has faith that God will deal with her husband if he refuses her kind words. She doesn't look to beat him into submission,
she knows and trusts in God's love and intentions for their marriage. Many marriages get familiar with.........DISUNITY, STRIFE and they take on an unbelieving spirit that refuses to think unity is possible! When you loose a bad spirit into your marriage, contrary to love and faith, do you think it will sprout? If you loose love and faith, and have hope against hope, don't you think the God of all the Heaven's and earth is able to stand behind His Sprit? That's the spirit, the food you should be feeding your family. You need to think about what table you are eating from, the devils or God's?
For the bread, your words are life or death. If your mouth is an open grave, and everyone that EATS of the bread, the reaping will not be good! If
you fling forth evil things how can you hope good to come from it?

I have to say here, There were many things that divided my husband and I when I first met him. And the first few years of our relationship were not
really easy, because I doubted God and him, and didn't really know His heart towards me, or the Lord's to help us. He had more faith and trust in
the Lord regarding me, while I was the despairing unbeliever, because I was offended and unhealed regarding men in general. I let the little foxes in
the door all the time and was a bit slow in chasing them back out the door. (contrary thoughts against him, merciless thoughts, where I didn't have much mercy in what I thought he was doing wrong. I hadn't removed the log from my eye to help remove the twig in his. I had gotten to the place in my life, where I was not content to live with DIVISIONS, and in a spirit of DISUNITY. I had lived in pretense too long in my past, and it had cost me
too much. I crossed over a line before I ever met my husband, that I would FIGHT FOR UNITY! There is NO COMFORT, when you have to live in a house divided among itself. When you have to hide, lie and pretend, and play God for someone who doesn't have a grip on their emotions. I decided I wasn't going to play God anymore. I was going to live honestly, and let the chips fall where they may, and let God be God. I got to the place when I met my husband, that I was going to be honest, sincere, speak the truth in love, and I WAS WILLING TO PUT THE RELATIONSHIP ON THE LINE FOR
THE SAKE OF TRUTH! I wasn't going to hide, lie, and,only give "most of my heart", not "ALL OF MY HEART."

I heard a man talking about Ananias and Sapphira, and the principal of "holding back."
Whenever I have chosen to "hold back", a portion of my heart from my husband........not loving him with all my heart, mind and strength, not being open with him about my thoughts and emotions, it has brought DIVISION INTO OUR RELATIONSHIP! I know when I have done this, it's been a reflection of not loving the Lord with all my heart, mind, and strength. When I'm open and honest with Our Father, he helps me to be open and
honest with my husband.

How to keep the devil from getting ground in our lives. 1. By not forsaking the assembling, but exhorting one another. I see that when we do assemble, whether it be with our husband, or fellow Christian's, if we are half-hearted, we lie, are insincere, pretentious, content to be divided and are not hearing from God and speaking the truth in love.......UNITY ISN'T THERE! God is a spirit of truth and His spirit visits those walking in the light. He doesn't fellowship deceit....the father of lies.

2. Forgiveness.....THE BIG TEMPTATION, Jesus refers to in the Lords Prayer. "Forgive us our sins, as we forgive others......lead us not into the temptation of being unforgiving......DELIVER US FROM THIS GREAT EVIL! If we have a forgiving spirit, we can tell the truth in the right spirit, without sounding self-righteous.

3. If you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, GLORY NOT....(how many people get familiar with running on STRIFE GAS). Strife is part of lying, and pretense. .where strife is so familiar, they cant' even tell they are striving? They loose a bad spirit on the earth and don't even care.
DON'T LIE TO YOURSELF....when your in strife. The devil will start talking to you....tickling your senses! It creates all kinds of confusion and evil
work! Blessed are the PEACE MAKERS, NOT THE STRIFE MAKERS!!!!

So......If 1 Cor. 10:17 is REALLY TRUE...."for we being many are ONE BREAD"????? What kind of bread are you?? What kind of bread is your marriage?? How about the Christians you walk with?? I remember speaking to a woman several years ago who was asking me what kind of church she should go
to back in Wisconsin where she lived. I said to her, "what ever you do, look very closely at the pastor and his wife. Ask yourself, do they walk in a spirit of faith, love, and unity? Can they work through their own problems, and do they share testimony about how the Lord helps them work through their divisions, so they can help other's too? See what ingredients are in their bread (spiritually speaking). Are they open, honest, do they lie, hide
and pretend like they have it all together? Are they willing to share the battles of their relationship and how Jesus helps them, in an honest, open transparent spirit? Do you hear the TESTIMONY OF JESUS in how they work through their divisions, evil imaginations, accusations, and how The Lord has helped them fight for unity and love? BECAUSE........if they don't do it with each other......they won't CONTAIN a spirit to help the children of
God do it either! Is there bread full of artificial ingredients?"

One thing many of my friends and I have in common is, "we didn't grow up in Christian families, where we heard and witnessed how Jesus helped our parents work through the battles of life. How they dealt with the "little foxes" that spoiled the vine. Most of us saw people who lived a passionless, pretentious, divided life, where they hid from each other. "Hide not yourself from your own flesh", it says in Isaiah. I
decided early on, I was not going to hide from my husband......I was not going to hide anymore from the Lord. I wasn't going to be a with-holder
and settle for a passionless, dark, deceitful way of life. There are times I wondered if my husband would throw me in the gutter for being honest,
but I knew if I really loved him, how could I hold divisions in my heart against him? I went to him (not always, but I try to) in a spirit of honesty, sincerity, humility, and faith because I love him. When I question his integrity, I tell him, because I love him. Our children....and God's children have gotten to benefit from our divisions, and hear how we dealt with them. WE ENDED UP BE AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS WHO NEVER HAD PARENTS WHO WOULD BE REAL, HONEST, AND FEED THEM WITH UNDERSTANDING TO HOW JESUS HELPED THEM WITH THEIR PROBLEMS.


We FIGHT NOT TO LET THE BREAD (OUR RELATIONSHIP) get moldy. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee's whichis hypocrisy! We don't practice hypocrisy with each other. And because I'm willing, and He's taught me to walk in a spirit of LOVING THE LORD WITH ALL MY HEART, MIND AND STRENGTH, I can love other's the way I have been loved. AND KEEP PRESSING ON TO BE BETTER EACH DAY! The love and passion in our lives is
ever increasing instead of decreasing like the couples in the world. Isn't that how we should live as the body Of Christ too? I pray that the spirit of love, faith, and truth? What Jesus has given my husband and I would is a precious gift we can impart to all our friends. So they will want to follow
our example..... That the world could see Jesus lives by the way they love each other!

Jesus prayed in John 17......that we would be sanctified by the truth of His Word. He SANCTIFIED himself unto the truth, that we might be sanctified
unto the truth.....He prayed for ALL THOSE WHO WOULD BELIEVE ON HIM, BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF OTHERS! DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR HUSBAND COULD COME TO BELIEVE MORE IN JESUS BY THE WORDS YOU SPEAK TO HIM???? Jesus PRAYED THAT WE WOULD ALL BE ONE!! As He is in the Father and the Father IN Him, THAT WE WOULD BE ONE.......IN HIM! That the world would see and believe in Him by the love we have
one for another!

His prayer was that we would all be one in Him......and though we might be far from it, we all will be one in heaven, and we can do our best to fight
for the unity of the faith on the earth! (Why not take on faith to deal with the dis-unity here on the earth.) It's all going to be seen and known for what it is one day anyway, don't you want to be on God's side when the dust settles? YOU ARE CALLED TO BE A PEACE MAKER, so TAKE ON FAITH,
to do God's will in ALL THE LIVES WHICH YOU TOUCH!! Don't be indifferent to the divisions in your heart towards your husband. Life isn't about
you, it's about you making it your food to do God's will. I don't want Jesus to have to straighten out my problems for me when we see Him face to face, because I was a fainting, indifferent, give up, complaining girl. The scripture we had put on our wedding cake said......."We pray that the
world would SEE AND BELIEVE THAT JESUS LIVES BY THE WAY.......WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER!! YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE WORLD, AND ESPECIALLY YOUR CHILDREN SEEING AND BELIEVING THAT JESUS LIVES BECAUSE THE WAY YOU LOVE YOUR HUSBAND AND THEM!

a FAITHFUL MAN, WHO CAN FIND?????

I was thinking today about why the scriptures say that. IT'S TRUE. Most men give themselves to their appetites, passions, emotions and

desires, and are overcome by them. A man full of faith, and self sacrifice who can find, they are rare. Most men WILL NOT DENY THEMSELVES, and pick up their cross and follow Jesus, so they live lives of self indulgence.



Most men are not faithful in relationships, not full of faith, not willing to do God's will in people's lives, so they are overcome by lust and worldliness by DEFAULT. They can't control their lusts and appetites for worldliness, because God gives His Spirit of self control TO THOSE WHO LOVE AND OBEY HIM, those who REALLY CARE for each other with more than lip service.



Many of the men I have known sacrifice relationships with wives, children, friends, and are overcome by their lusts or worldliness,

due to selfishness. Look what the bible says about JOB. "I was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, THE CAUSE I KNEW NOT I SEARCHED OUT"

Many men live slothful lives, void of understanding. They are the greater cause in their lives, not the Lord, God's family, or even their own family.

They live life according to their selfish desires and self gratifications, without a whole lot of contemplation on what they are sowing on the earth!



"When you seek Me with ALL your heart, YOU WILL BE FOUND BY ME." So the problem is a seeking problem. Too much self seeking, and not enough

God seeking. Men who are void of understanding can only be oppressors, they can't be reconcilers!



Usually when I get tempted to fret or worry and I start praying, the scripture comes to me....."let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. If you believe in God,

believe in my also. In my Father's house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you."

The desire of a mans heart is his kindness." It came to me that when our desire is selfish and ungodly, we will eventually be showing it by being mean. People get mean

when their selfish desires and interfered with. The fires of life take us either to destruction or to a place where IT'S OUR FOOD TO DO GOD'S WILL. We fall on the stone, or the stone falls on us.



There is another scripture in Pvb.24, 1 and 2 says, "Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction and their lips talk of mischief." I began thinking of the STUDY OF DESTRUCTION. Our hearts are always MEDITATING. Most people meditate on what they think is good for them, not

what IS THE GREATER CAUSE. The Psalmist prayed, "let the words of my mouth and the MEDITATION OF MY HEART, be acceptable in YOUR SIGHT." Our hearts are always studying, mediating. I began remembering back to how depressed I was when I lived with people who were overcome by their lusts, because their hearts studied....longed for worldliness, carnal comforts, etc. Most men are overcome by their lusts.....and the destructive forces in their lives.....because they spend
their lives studying the wrong thing. Loosing the bands of wickedness, undoing heavy burdens, freeing the opressed, giving food to the hungry, is not the sport they

want to play. Pleasing God is not their study.



My youngest daughter put it this way after she read Dante's version of Hell. You basically have the CONSUMERS and the PRODUCERS. Consumers are busy consuming and producers and busy producing. It made me think of a revelation I got yesterday reading Heb.5. I realized the first half of the chapter talks about those who God has raised up, who will care for the weak, poor, afflicted and those bound in chains. They pray for others and they get food from God to feed the hungry. They care about others, and they pray for others. They the last half is about those who scream for milk. They spend their lives looking for others to feed them, they only want to be given care,

they don't become care givers. Have you ever noticed in a room when there is one screaming baby, the baby screaming is OK? You put
another screaming baby in the same room, and the two babies can't handle it. I have come to see some of my friends like this. When they are being
babies, screaming for milk they can't stand being around other demanding babies. It's OK as long as they are the only one screaming, but when another one
comes in who is screaming for milk too.....they get totally offended. It's only OK if they are the ONLY screaming baby, and they hate it when they
have to deal with other screaming babies. Some of my friends have a hard time loving and forgiving one another, when they are living in the CONSUMING
self seeking mode.


I guess Is. 58 sums it all up in talking about the fast God has chosen. To lose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burden, set the oppressed
free, break the yoke. Those willing to intercede by speaking the truth in love to their brother inherit the blessings of God. Those who are self seeking,
and care about blessing their own life above all things never ride on the high places it talks about in Is.58.

If dying and going to heaven were like a big family reunion.....how would you fare? In this big family reunion.....there will be nothing hidden,
everything will be revealed with every secret thought. What we have hid in the dark will be shouted from the house tops.....and will the world have
seen Jesus really lives, BY THE WAY WE HAVE LOVED EACH OTHER.


At this family reunion we won't be able to have a hidden world of thoughts we didn't let Jesus into. It will be plain for all to see if we really
prayed TO BE REPAIRERS of the breeches, restorer's of paths to walk in. Were we like Job, "eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and did we search out the
cause of things we know not? Did we really look to loose the bands of wickedness, and undo the heavy burdens, and to set each other free of
oppression, and to break the yoke of bondage we see one another bound by? It would be great if we all opened up our hidden little worlds of thoughts we have with each other, now before the big family reunion.....so we won't be ashamed. I'm not talking about dumping on each other things the devil whispers in our ears either. I'm talking about giving our talent. Not burying our gift. When we see things in each other we need to know if it's the accuser of the brethren talking to us, or if God wants to use us to
keep our brother or sister from falling into a ditch. When we don't let Jesus in to our secret world of thoughts and deeds, he will shout from the housetops
(the evil we have hid in our hearts), and reveal what we refused to deal with in life, at our death!

We don't need to be among those who work hard at making the outside of the cup clean.....but the inside is filled with accusations, imaginations, EVEN
TRUTH.....BUT that we were too slothful to divide the flesh from the spirit....for ourselves and one another. WHY DO WE SLEEP............and
grieve the Spirit of Christ in our soul? We know when others dirty their feet.........but we refuse to be foot washers. We know when others are
wearing grave clothes.......but we reject the fact that Jesus has called us to peel off each others rags. One day men, women, will be rewarded for what they have done, and REWARDED FOR WHAT THEY FAILED TO DO, OR WERE TOO SLOTHFUL TO DO.


It reminds me of something God had Gene bring up. It was in 1 John 5 that said something like, "If your brother sins and it's not a sin unto
death...and you have light to his sin, YOU CAN IMPART LIFE TO HIM WHERE HE IS DEAD IN HIS SIN! Jesus has given us such great power, but we don't tap into
it. That's what I got out of John 1 and 17. We should have a word anointing in our lives. We should HAVE THE WORDS OF JESUS for our problems, and we
can give one another the words that Jesus has given us. That's what Jesus did. He gave us the words of the Father....He gave us THE SPIRIT OF GLORY...LIGHT
AND LIFE....that comes through the spoken word. He sanctified himself unto the truth out of his great love for us, and gave us an example to follow.
Some of us are still ROCK COLLECTOR'S! We don't ask God for bread for one another, and the devil is right there to help us be stone collector's. When
it comes down to it...you can tell who loves the Father, by watching their fruit. Selfish people are mean, and they don't deal God's bread to the
hungry. And they raise selfish children who won't love and deal bread to the hungry either.

If we abide in His Spirit...we will get His words for one another. We won't let the little foxes live...we won't feed them until they are too fat to
deal with, we won't ignore them and pretend like they aren't there and that they won't do any damage. People who love Jesus, don't let the little foxes
live. They Judge them, and the things that divide, because THEY ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR THE UNITY OF FAITH....THE BOND OF PEACE. We need to be willing
to be peace makers, AND GOD GIVES THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION TO ALL THOSE WHO LOVE WHO HE LOVES.....HIS CHILDREN! THESE WILL BE THE OVERCOMERS JESUS INVITES TO SIT DOWN AT HIS TABLE. Selfish, self indulgent men and women cannot be OVERCOMERS!

One day..........WHEN WE ARE AT THE BIG FAMILY REUNION, AFTER THIS LIFE.....we will see the great manifestation of Jesus'
words.........BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.....FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN!

A TWIG MINISTRY................

A TWIG MINISTRY................

Jesus said..... "first take the log out of your eye so you can see clearly
to remove the speck out of your brother's eye." We should all have a
"twig" ministry. And if we get offended with our brother or sister,
bitter, critical, unforgiving, it's a symptom of never removing the log out
of our own eye. I think that's why Jesus also said, if you don't
forgive, Your Father in heaven won't forgive you.

We bind our sins to us when we refuse to forgive others. In Ez. 3 it talks
about showing others the twig in their eye. Those who want to be Holy before a
Holy God, will thank God for eternity for someone who came into their lives who
reflected anything they might be doing that would be an offense to the God they
say they love and serve. They love reproof and correction and see it as a
blessing not a curse! If we are "self-righteous" we will hate anyone
who dare reprove us.

I got a revelation the other night while praying..... Heaven will be full
women (in my case I'm a woman), who NEEDED A SAVIOUR, and turned to JESUS
CHRIST to wash away their sin. In turn they became SO THANKFUL, they became
righteous, BECAUSE THEY LOVED JESUS SO MUCH FOR freeing them from their
wretched, naked, poor, miserable selves! Change is easy for those who love.
And women who have been forgiven much, LOVE MUCH.

Then you have the women who accuse others and excuse themselves. They
don't go to their brother when they are offended with a loving, forgiving,
understanding spirit. They can't feed others what God has shown them about
their own sin, for they haven't looked at their sin. And those who HATE to
look at their sin, will Hate anyone who comes to them even about their
"twig", and who is willing to talk to them about the log they once had
in their eye. They don't care if someone comes to them humble, and
forgiving with understanding because they don't care if they have offended
God. They don't want to look at their sin, their log.

In Lev. 19:17 it actually says if you don't go to others when they have
offended you, YOU WILL LOOK DOWN ON THEM IN YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL INCUR SIN
BECAUSE OF IT.

In Jer. 3 it says if you don't reflect to others their sin, YOU WILL BE
HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR SIN TOO. It also says in Jer.23 that TRUE shepherds
will turn God's people from their sin. False Shepherd tell the sheep they
are ok in their sin. And Rev.3 talks about who Jesus really is...... HE SHOWS
US OUR FAULTS, our sins. The Holy Ghost job is "the spirit of
judgment", to comfort, heal, direct, He's the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, not the
spirit of flattery, pretense and deceit.

People who are serving themselves and not the Lord, don't want to get
involved with the "washing of the feet of others." They also
don't have a care for removing any grave clothes. They don't pray, they
don't look for Jesus to help them with others to feed them the word of
God....... "He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from all
their destructions." They don't really believe in God or His word, so
they can't give it freely knowing God will do the rest.

Proverbs 31 talks about wise women who get their bread from afar. These are
the women who love God, who pray for others out of sincere love for God and
others, who get "food" for their children and God's children.
These are the ones with "oil" in their lamp.

Their is a principal that Gene gave Michael Davis one time. Jesus said,
"agree with your adversary quickly while you are in the way with him, lest
you be cast into prison, and pay to the last penny." He already was in
prison, but he was a man who always had to get "caught" in sin. He
wouldn't judge himself, so he was always judged. And fighting against the
truth put him in spiritual prison too.

That's why Jesus told us to judge ourselves. Gene calls this "damage
control" Christianity. Wait until your caught then deal with things. But
you live to clean up your mess, rather than take on true change. I can have
confidence that when I speak God's word in love and faith to someone and
they choose to reject it, they are headed for spiritual prison. It has nothing
to do with me and everything to do with God. What I have seen sadly to say is,
some women love to live in prison. They are like real prisoners. They are
prisoners of their sin. They are told what to do, where to go, they get their 3
square meals and they are as addicted to their prison as someone who keeps
getting locked up due to being familiar with it. A life of taking and usury,
all in the name of Christianity. A wasted life, fruitless, only seeking their
own comfort and gain, hoping their "salvation" ticket will get them in
those pearly gates! Many people in prison are sorry for how they have messed up
their lives, but they have never been sorry for how they affected God and His
Kingdom, or His Children. It's a selfish sorrow they have, not a godly
sorrow.

I wonder if it's "hell insurance" Christianity. All about what
Jesus can do for me, nothing to do with DOING HIS WILL. So many Christians
think they can escape, looking to get, take, have, and be benefactors in
God's kingdom, all the while caring very little if they are living to please
Him or do His will. That should be what "feeds" us, to do His will,
just like it fed Jesus!

Just like I said when I spoke in a church yesterday, " I know the Lord
knows what I think about others and He will reward me according to what I did
about what I thought about others." Many people never even get to that
place. They have hope and faith that the Lord doesn't know what they are
thinking about others, and He won't care about what they did about what they
thought. I was revealing what I thought about a Pastor's wife I had just
met. I said, "I believe Jesus' words, what we do in the dark will be
shouted from the housetops. What we hide will be revealed one day. So many
people don't even believe that." I didn't either until Gene came
into my life.

I realized we (some of the women I have known for years) have a strength. We
go after the little foxes, divisions, schisms, evil imaginations, and there is a
unity we have that most Christian groups don't really have. Ps.133 says,
"Oh how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, that's
where the anointing is, that's where the Lord commands the blessing.

That's the kind of marriage I have, an anointed, blessed marriage because
Gene and I know who the "accuser of the brethren is". The one who
divides us, so we go after the little foxes, divisions, schisms, evil
imaginations that come our way. We pray for and hear from God for our problems
with each other, and "wisdom is seen in her children." Our blood
children and spiritual children are catching on, and having more and more
anointed and blessed lives due to that! They are getting to the place they care
more about doing God's will than pleasing themselves. They are turning from
pleasing themselves by not shutting their eyes and hearts to each other.......
being indifferent. If you want what I wrote about indifference and what a sin
it is, please let me know. Most of us came from indifferent families...........
and their was a "famine in the land for the word of the Lord."

LYING

Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

GOD KNOWS WHO'S LYING: 2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.

Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.
Hosea 4:2
There is only cursing, [ That is, to pronounce a curse upon ] lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.


Psalm 4:2
O you sons of men, how long will you turn my honor and glory into

shame? How long will you love vanity and futility and seek after

lies? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
Psalm 4:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 4 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 5:6
You will destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors [and rejects]

the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psalm 5:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 5 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 7:14
Behold, [the wicked man] conceives iniquity and is pregnant with

mischief and gives birth to lies.
Psalm 7:13-15 (in Context) Psalm 7

Psalm 58:3
The ungodly are perverse and estranged from the womb; they go astray

as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalm 58:2-4 (in Context) Psalm 58 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out [insults] with their mouths; swords [of

sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips, for who,

they think, hears us?
Psalm 59:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 59 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 62:4
They only consult to cast him down from his height [to dishonor him];

they delight in lies. They bless with their mouths, but they curse

inwardly

Psalm 101:7
He who works deceit shall not dwell in my house; he who tells lies

shall not continue in my presence.
Psalm 101:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 101 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who

sows discord among his brethren.
Proverbs 6:18-20 (in Context) Proverbs 6 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 14:25
A truthful witness saves lives, but a deceitful witness speaks lies

[and endangers lives].
Proverbs 14:24-26 (in Context) Proverbs 14 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who breathes out lies

shall not escape. [Exod 23:1; Deut 19:16-19; Prov 6:19; 21:28 ]
Proverbs 19:4-6 (in Context) Proverbs 19 (Whole Chapter)
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who breathes forth

lies shall perish

Proverbs 23:28
She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she

increases the treacherous among men.

Ecclesiastes 8:6
For every purpose and matter has its [right] time and judgment,

although the misery and wickedness of man lies heavily upon him [who

rebels against the king].

Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity;

your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 59:4
None sues or calls in righteousness [but for the sake of doing injury

to others--to take some undue advantage]; no one goes to law honestly

and pleads [his case] in truth; they trust in emptiness,

worthlessness and futility, and speaking lies! They conceive mischief

and bring forth evil!
Isaiah 59:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 59 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue, [which is] their bow for the lies [they

shoot]. And not according to faithfulness do they rule and become

strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do

not know and understand and acknowledge Me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:2-4 (in Context) Jeremiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:5
And they deceive and mock every one his neighbor and do not speak the

truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they weary

themselves committing iniquity

Jeremiah 16:19
[Then said Jeremiah] O Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold, and my

Refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the nations come from

the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have

inherited nothing but lies, emptiness, and futility, worthless things

in which there is no profit!
Jeremiah 16:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 16 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they

commit adultery and walk in lies; they encourage and strengthen the

hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They

have all of them become to Me like Sodom, and her inhabitants like

Gomorrah

Ezekiel 13:8
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken empty,

false, and delusive words and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am

against you, says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 13:7-9 (in Context) Ezekiel 13 (Whole Chapter)
Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned Me among My people [in payment] for handfuls of

barley and for pieces of bread, slaying persons who should not die

and giving [a guaranty of] life to those who should not live, by your

lying to My people, who give heed to lies.
Ezekiel 13:18-20

Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies you have made the righteous sad and disheartened,

whom I have not made sad or disheartened, and because you have

encouraged and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should

not return from his wicked way and be saved [in that you falsely

promised him life],
Ezekiel 13:21-23

Daniel 11:27
And as for both of these kings, their hearts and minds shall be set

on doing mischief; they shall speak lies over the same table, but it

will not succeed, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.
Daniel 11:26-28 (in Context) Daniel 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with

their lies.
Hosea 7:2-4 (in Context) Hosea 7 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them, for they have wandered from Me! Destruction to them,

because they have rebelled and trespassed against Me! Though I would

redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Hosea 7:12-14

Hosea 10:13
You have plowed and plotted wickedness, you have reaped the [willful]

injustice [of oppressors], you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because

you have trusted in your [own] way and your chariots, in the

multitude of your mighty men,
Hosea 10:12-14 (in Context) Hosea 10 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies and the house of Israel with deceit,

and Judah is not yet steadfast with God, with the faithful Holy One.
Hosea 11:11-13 (in Context) Hosea 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hosea 12:1
EPHRAIM HERDS and feeds on the wind and pursues the [parching] east

wind; every day he increases lies and violence, and a covenant is

made with Assyria and oil is carried to Egypt. [Isa 30:6, 7 ]
Hosea 12:1-3 (in Context) Hosea 12 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 2:4
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah and for four

[for multiplied delinquencies], I will not reverse the punishment of

it or revoke My word concerning it, because they have despised and

rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept His commandments, but

their lies, after which their fathers have walked, caused them to err

and go astray.

Zephaniah 3:13
What is left of Israel shall not do iniquity or speak lies, neither

shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall feed

and lie down and none shall make them afraid

John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice

the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your

father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in

the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a

falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar

[himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.