True Shepherd's lead us to obedience! (2001)
There is a clear difference between "lively" stones, and happiness seekers who go to looking a building once a week to feel good (dead religion)! I have been part of dead religion and grew up in it and have felt the "sting" of religious hypocrisy. I went to church, called myself a Christian, but I would have been one Jesus said, "depart from me, you who work iniquity..... lawlessness, (having no relationship with nor desire to yield to the Holy Ghost), I never knew you." "You didn't talk to me about how you felt, what you thought, and you didn't care about how I felt or what I thought." So he would have said to me, "I don't know you. And you didn't really care about knowing Me." Being lawless, self-willed a governor creating my own kingdom, of control, with satan's help. I just wanted to be happy, I went to church to feel good, IT WAS NOT MY FOOD TO DO HIS WILL. It's not what turned me on.
We should be able to make a clear distinction between what the Remnant
is, and what false religion is. We should be able to know pharisaical
religion the worksof the flesh, and who won't enter the Kingdom of God.
"Those who are the servants of sin, are the slaves of sin, and the slave
won't partake of the inheritance." Who are we really serving in the deep
motivation of our soul. Our song, our legacy is being written each day we live.
I think Eps. 4 is a clear definition of God's Government, established in His
Kingdom, and His Body on the earth. I have seen so many problems, divisions,
schisms, in bodies where the people fail to speak the truth in love, seeing,
believing we are members one of another, and we really keep each other from
growing up. This is threatening to our flesh, our kingdom, our getting the
praise of men. (which is a total illusion, for only a woman who fears the Lord shall be praised.) Women looking to men to feel good, will always feel the sting of it eventually....... it bites like an adder. As a matter of fact, when we withhold truth because we may endure conflict or risk getting our needs and acceptance from men, we end up failing to build the kingdom in others lives.
If we really have entered into His labors, then His labor's are SOULS SAVED
AND SOULS KEPT. His little garden, are the hearts and souls of those that
surround us. And when we don't labor for the Lord in the hearts of those around us, we by DEFAULT, labor for the WRONG KINGDOM. JESUS prayed that we would be one, and do what is right with each other, that the world would see and beleive HE LIVES by THE WAY WE LOVE OUR HUSBANDS, CHILDREN and His friends, our friends. For some reason we think love is hard but the truth is CONTROL IS HARD, and giving up CONTROL takes! We are all called to be seed planters, and weed pullers. I do believe
their is a direct relationship to loving God and each other, and they go
handin hand. A person cannot say he Loves God and hates his
brother......looks down on. THE ONLY WAY WE PASS FROM DEATH UNTO
LIFE......John says, is by loving the brethren! 1John 2
I have come to REDEFINE if you will, the definition of love in my own life!
It's getting out of my little kingdom, and fearing God more than man, and
being willing to give my gift, which is honesty and sincerity. And even if
I'm wrong in my openness, at least I can be corrected. Men still love
darkness more than light, and won't come into the light......we really fear
speaking the truth in love, but lying to each other will never move us into
"lively stones" that are being built together. I may "overemphasize this in
your eyes, but to me it is the cause of much tragedy and darkness......mold
grows in darkness.
Lev.19:17, Ps. 15 and 24, Prvb.24:12, I think there is one in Hosea 4 that
talks about God judging them because they were too fearful to reprove each
other too. Is. 8 in the Amp. Bible gives a clear definition of the fear of
man making The Heart of God sad. And to me if the gospel of the Kingdom is a
real government that rules the hearts of men, then we are bound to follow
the established government of love and faith, being led by the Holy Spirit,
not by fear of man, and being shutup kids so we can get what we need from
each other. (which again is an illusion, we never do get our needs met by being self pleaser's, which is really what a man pleaser is, a self pleaser!) I followed the leading of the wrong government in my soul for many years......and I see how I wasted my gift and really was a wicked, and fearful servant.
I hope this may help you to understand me a little better. It's hard to get
to really know people from words typed in front of them. I have seen "the
fear of man" bring a tremendous snare to many souls. And we end up Jer.17
ourselves. "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes the arm of flesh
it's strength." I lived under a curse because of Pride, which made me a
liar, and I really cared about people accepting me, more than I did about
loving their souls. I have since repented.....changed my mind. And I have
seen God come through for me, and those I love in a powerful way when people
are really willing to take on faith to obey Eps. 4. It took a long time for
me to get deathly honest with my motives, and take a look at why I was
unwilling to put away lying and speak the truth in love. It was a lot easier
for me to be a glutton,(with junk food and eating at the devils table in the
spirit of my mind.) I did stick my head in the sand, and overeat,rather
than take on faith to behonest and sincere, knowing that this is what God
honors. AND THAT GOD WOULD HONOR ME FOR CARING ABOUT GLORIFYING HIM!
Just think about what Jesus said, "those who deny me before men, them will I deny before God in Heaven." THAT'S DEEP. How many times do you deny the Lord by shutting up, not telling the truth, not being open and honest? How many times do you deny the Lord by being PRIDEFUL, rather than humble and truthful? Do you even get it that you are DENYING THE LORD, when you refuse to tell the TRUTH? Jesus is truth, God seeks those who will worship Him in Spirit and Truth. Will you be denied before God, BY JESUS, because of all the times YOU DENIED THE HOLY GHOST, by shutting up, hiding, lying?
I even had a vision one time while I was praying where Jesus was weeping as
He spoke to me, telling me how sad He was that I buried my gift due to fear
of man. It is hard for Him to use lying pretenders, and I think a move of
true repentance in this area, is beginning to happen, to the Glory of God
the Father! There is even a scripture in my Aramaic Bible that says, "When a
man is inactive, he imagines lust and mocks good instruction." I think being
inactive in being honest and sincere with those we love......GOD INCLUDED,
is a big source of the cause of being given over to our lusts!......living in a state of worldly, lust, carnal, drunkenness! (speaking from my own revelation).
Love, Ceci
Saturday, January 23, 2010
AS A WOMAN THINKS
Subject: as a woman thinks, so is she
I got a great revelation the other day about THE LORDS PRAYER. Proverbs 6 talks about what's on God's number one list of things that He hates..... PRIDE. Not murder, lust, lying, drunkenness, smoking, drugs, but PRIDE! In Matthew 5 where Jesus teaches us to pray He said, "forgive us our sins AS we forgive those who sin against us..... lead us not into temptation (maybe unforgivness is the biggest temptation any of us will ever face!) Then He went on to say "deliver us from evil" (the evil of PRIDE). We have been talking much about Luke 18, and "the bottom line about Pride." 9And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' "But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
AS A WOMAN THINKS............ SO IS SHE!
On that day when God, by Jesus Christ will judge men and women in regard to the things which they conceal (their hidden thoughts). Romans 2:16
Are you unchaste in your thoughts? Vs. The word chaste means to be celibate, clean, immaculate, question we should be asking ourselves is "Am I ordering my thoughts aright?? The women who do SHALL see the salvation of God. Do we really believe the Lord knows our works and our thoughts? (Ps.94:11 139:2) Isa.66:18 I Cor.3:20 Ps.139:3 "You Oh Lord understand my thought afar off." "But Jesus knowing (seeing) their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil and harbor malice in your hearts?" "Curse not the King, not even in your thoughts." (Ecc.10:20) "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, (secret thoughts) whether it be good or evil."
"Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord." "My thoughts are not your thoughts ... my thoughts are higher than your thoughts" (Is.55:7-9) Are we sinning against God, or against our brother in our thoughts? "0 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved! How long shall your iniquitous and grossly offensive thoughts lodge within you?" Jer-4:141
"Deliver those who are led away to death, and spare not to redeem those who are held to be slain. If you say behold I did not know it, then know it is God who searches the thought of the heart, and He who keeps your soul knows it, and shall render to every man according to his works?" (Pvb.24:11-12 Pesh.) What we do about what we think will be how God is going to reward us one day. And there is no respect of persons with God.
"For the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit. For out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things, but I tell you on the day of judgment, men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, non-working) word they speak. For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced. (Matt.12:36). Whatever thoughts I allow in my mind, go, into the treasure chest of my heart, and it is from this treasure chest that I speak!
Ps.7:9 (Amp.) For you, who try the hearts and emotions, and thinking powers, are a righteous God. Rev.2:23 Amp ... I am He who searches minds, (the thoughts, feelings, and purposes, and the inmost hearts, and I will give to each of you the reward for what you have done, as your work deserves! Jer-17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it (perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind)? I the Lord search the mind, I try the heart, even to give to every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings??
I have to ask my- self sincerely, "Am I really living to lay down my life for my brother? Do I guard and protect myself through not Loving my brother with all my heart, all my mind, and, all my strength, because of how it might affect me? The truth is my failure to do it with my brother or sister, is a direct reflection of my failure to do it with God. I have had to see my hypocrisy in where I am really at with God, always comes out with His children. When I talk to Him about my problems with His children, He never accuses them, only gives me revelation in what to do with them. Am I really allowing God to speak to me about my private thoughts towards my brother so because I want to do what is right on his behalf? (This is real Christianity.)
Jesus said ... if we love him, we will keep His commandments. "I give you a new commandment that you should love one another! Whoever says he is in the light and yet lightly esteems his brother, is in darkness until now. Whoever loves his brother-abides and lives in the light, there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for err or sin. We know we have passed from death unto life, because- we-love our brother! 1Jn.
Philp.2:2-5 "Complete my joy by being in one accord and one love and one soul and one mind. Do nothing through strife or vainglory, but in humility let every one regard his neighbor better than himself! Let no one be mindful only of his own things, but let everyone be mindful of the things of his neighbor also! Let this same attitude and purpose and humble mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: (let him be your example in humility)!"
For what man knows the mind (thoughts) of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the mind (thoughts) of God, except the spirit of God. I Cor. 2- 11 vs-14 ... but the natural, non-spiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts, teachings and revelations of the spirit of God, for they are meaningless nonsense to him: he is incapable of knowing them, because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated! But the spiritual man tries, examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things. For who has known or understood the mind, the counsels and purposes of the Lord, so as to guide and instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ and do hold the thoughts, feelings and purposes of his heart! Jesus lived a life of constantly laying down his life for his brother, the greater purpose, and for the benefit of God and His Kingdom .... as the perfect example ... that we would be in the world as He was in the world! Do not worry over things, but always by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and kinds in Christ Jesus! Whatever is true, whatever is honest, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of the things (fix your minds on them)! Philp.4:6-8 amp.
Heb.5:11-14 " Since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and sluggish even slothful in achieving spiritual insight! For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and un- skilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action), for he is a mere infant (not able to talk-yet)l but solid food.Full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between good and evil (the law of the Spirit) of God and love ... or the mind of the flesh, which leads to death! God does not want us to be wimps in the spirit of our ,minds we need to exercise our senses, develop our mental faculties, practice and train them to resist the devil. Submit to god .... not the father of lies.
We need to be as professionally trained athletes, being renewed in the spirit of our mind! Eph. .4:23 Be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind (having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude). Put on the new nature, created in God's image, in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, rejecting all falsity, let everyone express the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one body-and members one of another! We are the ones who must choose which cup we will drink from, which table we will partake of! Will we sit at the table of lies and accusations, or truth and love. Are we in our mind accusing others and excusing ourselves, or do we pray, getting revelation and instruction for how we may love and help one another?? Are our thoughts patterned after defending ourselves, or are we allowing the spirit of God (love) to teach us how to wash one another's feet and serve one another? The mind set on the flesh is death the mind set on the spirit (of benevolent love and truth) is life and peace!
Let us be careful not to faint in our minds! Heb-12:3 "think of him who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting -in your minds. If we suffer with him, so shall we reign with him! For to us it has been granted the privilege, for Christ's sake not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for his sake. You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he commits himself, leans on, and confidently hopes in you!" Is.26-3 For God did not give us (but the devil would like to give us) a spirit of fear (timidity, cowardice, craven, cringing, panic), but He has given us a spirit of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self- Control.
2Tim-1:7....2Cor.10:5 for the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are mighty before god for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds. Inasmuch as we refute: contradict, disagree, deny, negate, rebuff, reject, veto, renounce, disagree, object, opposes protest, refuse, scorn, shunt arguments and theories and reasoning’s and every proud and lofty thing, that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God; and we lead every thought captive to the obedience of Christ! 2Cor-10:4-5. 11:3 But now I am fearful, lest that even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted and seduced from whole-hearted and sincere and pure devotion to Christ! So brace up your minds: be sober, circumspect, morally alert set your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace that is coming when Jesus is revealed. Live as children of obedience.
l Pet.1:13 The battlefield is in the mind! You are called to be a soldier, it's fight the good fight of faith or be overcome! Allow the Holy Spirit to direct and influence you, for the mind of the flesh with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God. Don't cater to the appetites and impulses of the carnal nature. Live according to the Spirit, controlled by the desires of the Spirit, set your mind and seek those things which gratify, The Holy Spirit! Rm-8:5-9 Forsake all human reasoning and thought. Let God’s thoughts become your thoughts. Hide His word in your heart that you won't be found sinning against Him!
Is. 58:13 If you turn away from doing your own pleasure on My Holy day, not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking your own idle words (which we will if we are thinking our own thoughts!) It was said of the children of Israel, that God was not in all their thoughts!
Not everyone who says to Him Lord, Lord, will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do the will of God! As we obey in thought, word, and deed, we can lead others in obedience to God in thought, word and deed! May we not give into obeying lies & lying spirits~ Let us become the children of OBEDIENCE~ that we may bear fruit after our own kind. (Gen. 1:11-12) And thus Glorify Our Father in Heaven! We have to choose the FATHER we will glorify. We have to decide if we are for Him or against Him.
I got a great revelation the other day about THE LORDS PRAYER. Proverbs 6 talks about what's on God's number one list of things that He hates..... PRIDE. Not murder, lust, lying, drunkenness, smoking, drugs, but PRIDE! In Matthew 5 where Jesus teaches us to pray He said, "forgive us our sins AS we forgive those who sin against us..... lead us not into temptation (maybe unforgivness is the biggest temptation any of us will ever face!) Then He went on to say "deliver us from evil" (the evil of PRIDE). We have been talking much about Luke 18, and "the bottom line about Pride." 9And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' "But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
AS A WOMAN THINKS............ SO IS SHE!
On that day when God, by Jesus Christ will judge men and women in regard to the things which they conceal (their hidden thoughts). Romans 2:16
Are you unchaste in your thoughts? Vs. The word chaste means to be celibate, clean, immaculate, question we should be asking ourselves is "Am I ordering my thoughts aright?? The women who do SHALL see the salvation of God. Do we really believe the Lord knows our works and our thoughts? (Ps.94:11 139:2) Isa.66:18 I Cor.3:20 Ps.139:3 "You Oh Lord understand my thought afar off." "But Jesus knowing (seeing) their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil and harbor malice in your hearts?" "Curse not the King, not even in your thoughts." (Ecc.10:20) "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, (secret thoughts) whether it be good or evil."
"Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord." "My thoughts are not your thoughts ... my thoughts are higher than your thoughts" (Is.55:7-9) Are we sinning against God, or against our brother in our thoughts? "0 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved! How long shall your iniquitous and grossly offensive thoughts lodge within you?" Jer-4:141
"Deliver those who are led away to death, and spare not to redeem those who are held to be slain. If you say behold I did not know it, then know it is God who searches the thought of the heart, and He who keeps your soul knows it, and shall render to every man according to his works?" (Pvb.24:11-12 Pesh.) What we do about what we think will be how God is going to reward us one day. And there is no respect of persons with God.
"For the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit. For out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things, but I tell you on the day of judgment, men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, non-working) word they speak. For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced. (Matt.12:36). Whatever thoughts I allow in my mind, go, into the treasure chest of my heart, and it is from this treasure chest that I speak!
Ps.7:9 (Amp.) For you, who try the hearts and emotions, and thinking powers, are a righteous God. Rev.2:23 Amp ... I am He who searches minds, (the thoughts, feelings, and purposes, and the inmost hearts, and I will give to each of you the reward for what you have done, as your work deserves! Jer-17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it (perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind)? I the Lord search the mind, I try the heart, even to give to every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings??
I have to ask my- self sincerely, "Am I really living to lay down my life for my brother? Do I guard and protect myself through not Loving my brother with all my heart, all my mind, and, all my strength, because of how it might affect me? The truth is my failure to do it with my brother or sister, is a direct reflection of my failure to do it with God. I have had to see my hypocrisy in where I am really at with God, always comes out with His children. When I talk to Him about my problems with His children, He never accuses them, only gives me revelation in what to do with them. Am I really allowing God to speak to me about my private thoughts towards my brother so because I want to do what is right on his behalf? (This is real Christianity.)
Jesus said ... if we love him, we will keep His commandments. "I give you a new commandment that you should love one another! Whoever says he is in the light and yet lightly esteems his brother, is in darkness until now. Whoever loves his brother-abides and lives in the light, there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for err or sin. We know we have passed from death unto life, because- we-love our brother! 1Jn.
Philp.2:2-5 "Complete my joy by being in one accord and one love and one soul and one mind. Do nothing through strife or vainglory, but in humility let every one regard his neighbor better than himself! Let no one be mindful only of his own things, but let everyone be mindful of the things of his neighbor also! Let this same attitude and purpose and humble mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: (let him be your example in humility)!"
For what man knows the mind (thoughts) of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the mind (thoughts) of God, except the spirit of God. I Cor. 2- 11 vs-14 ... but the natural, non-spiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts, teachings and revelations of the spirit of God, for they are meaningless nonsense to him: he is incapable of knowing them, because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated! But the spiritual man tries, examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things. For who has known or understood the mind, the counsels and purposes of the Lord, so as to guide and instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ and do hold the thoughts, feelings and purposes of his heart! Jesus lived a life of constantly laying down his life for his brother, the greater purpose, and for the benefit of God and His Kingdom .... as the perfect example ... that we would be in the world as He was in the world! Do not worry over things, but always by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and kinds in Christ Jesus! Whatever is true, whatever is honest, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of the things (fix your minds on them)! Philp.4:6-8 amp.
Heb.5:11-14 " Since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and sluggish even slothful in achieving spiritual insight! For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and un- skilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action), for he is a mere infant (not able to talk-yet)l but solid food.Full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between good and evil (the law of the Spirit) of God and love ... or the mind of the flesh, which leads to death! God does not want us to be wimps in the spirit of our ,minds we need to exercise our senses, develop our mental faculties, practice and train them to resist the devil. Submit to god .... not the father of lies.
We need to be as professionally trained athletes, being renewed in the spirit of our mind! Eph. .4:23 Be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind (having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude). Put on the new nature, created in God's image, in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, rejecting all falsity, let everyone express the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one body-and members one of another! We are the ones who must choose which cup we will drink from, which table we will partake of! Will we sit at the table of lies and accusations, or truth and love. Are we in our mind accusing others and excusing ourselves, or do we pray, getting revelation and instruction for how we may love and help one another?? Are our thoughts patterned after defending ourselves, or are we allowing the spirit of God (love) to teach us how to wash one another's feet and serve one another? The mind set on the flesh is death the mind set on the spirit (of benevolent love and truth) is life and peace!
Let us be careful not to faint in our minds! Heb-12:3 "think of him who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting -in your minds. If we suffer with him, so shall we reign with him! For to us it has been granted the privilege, for Christ's sake not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for his sake. You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he commits himself, leans on, and confidently hopes in you!" Is.26-3 For God did not give us (but the devil would like to give us) a spirit of fear (timidity, cowardice, craven, cringing, panic), but He has given us a spirit of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self- Control.
2Tim-1:7....2Cor.10:5 for the weapons of our warfare are not physical, but are mighty before god for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds. Inasmuch as we refute: contradict, disagree, deny, negate, rebuff, reject, veto, renounce, disagree, object, opposes protest, refuse, scorn, shunt arguments and theories and reasoning’s and every proud and lofty thing, that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God; and we lead every thought captive to the obedience of Christ! 2Cor-10:4-5. 11:3 But now I am fearful, lest that even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted and seduced from whole-hearted and sincere and pure devotion to Christ! So brace up your minds: be sober, circumspect, morally alert set your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace that is coming when Jesus is revealed. Live as children of obedience.
l Pet.1:13 The battlefield is in the mind! You are called to be a soldier, it's fight the good fight of faith or be overcome! Allow the Holy Spirit to direct and influence you, for the mind of the flesh with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God. Don't cater to the appetites and impulses of the carnal nature. Live according to the Spirit, controlled by the desires of the Spirit, set your mind and seek those things which gratify, The Holy Spirit! Rm-8:5-9 Forsake all human reasoning and thought. Let God’s thoughts become your thoughts. Hide His word in your heart that you won't be found sinning against Him!
Is. 58:13 If you turn away from doing your own pleasure on My Holy day, not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking your own idle words (which we will if we are thinking our own thoughts!) It was said of the children of Israel, that God was not in all their thoughts!
Not everyone who says to Him Lord, Lord, will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do the will of God! As we obey in thought, word, and deed, we can lead others in obedience to God in thought, word and deed! May we not give into obeying lies & lying spirits~ Let us become the children of OBEDIENCE~ that we may bear fruit after our own kind. (Gen. 1:11-12) And thus Glorify Our Father in Heaven! We have to choose the FATHER we will glorify. We have to decide if we are for Him or against Him.
MESSAGE FROM JANEL
(Ceci could you send this on to the women...thx) We could have an online revival!!!!
Hi all,
Janel here...just wanted to get my voice out there on the
continuing communications. First of all, I was so pleased to receive
the email Rachel wrote to her mom. I thought of how "bursting with
joy" I would be to hear my daughter communicating in spirit and in
truth. Her resolve to walk in faith, as a woman of faith, even as she
has had an example to follow in her mother, that she would be an
example to follow....this is my resolve as well....we are called to be
daughters of faith! I thought of how the Lord must feel (III John 4
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth")
I had the opportunity to read several communications yesterday.
It meant alot to me to be able to read the words written by all of
you....the scriptures and revelations that came forth are most
valuable to our spiritual lives...I think it robbery to read, read,
read, and not respond. This is why I am responding.
I can't help but think of the "coaching" principle....getting
counsel, understanding, wisdom, because we care to please the Lord.
Many of us have participated in organized sports and although rough at
times and humiliating at times....It was the most honored and
priviledged time when we were getting "coached" maybe we didn't
recognize it until we came through, but it was for our benefit. And
YET, the Lord's ways are HIGHER...I couldn't find the scripture that
talks about how our parents disciplined us after their own pleasure,
but the Lord, for our benefit that we might be partakers with him.
His death on the cross should be all the witness we need that he loves
us, yet he continues to show His Love toward us in little ways.
This little cluster of letters is a witness and a testimony of
Jesus' love for us. Rick had me buy a copy of Demos Shakarian's story
for the kids to read. The book is called The Happiest People on
Earth. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. He says when we
use the gift God has given us for His will and purpose, it is then
that we are the happiest people on earth. He found his gift as a
"helper". To serve in bringing forth the gospel to his community,
across the states, and eventually around the world. He saw his place
in the Body of Christ. One thing that really stood out to me (and
I've heard Gene talk about this) was how he saw branches, or
chapters, of the fellowship (he started the organization "Full Gospel
Business Men's Fellowship International")
I gotta share this: Rick was invited to attend a meeting while
working the fish business in Hawaii, long before he and I met, and
before he had really met Gene. Rick went, it was a free breakfast,
and he thought, what the heck, maybe he'd meet a businessman that
would want to put some money into his fish business. He walked away
from that meeting delivered from demons, committed to Jesus, filled
with the Holy Ghost....he told Jesus how much he loved him, his heart
overflowing...the Spirit said "sell your business and come follow
Me". We all have a story to tell....hopefully we will write it
down...me included.
Anyway, Demos talked about each chapter having a flavor and
emphasis of their own, yet all under one fellowship, being a witness
for Jesus.
I think of this in terms of households within our own
Fellowship....each having a different flavor and giftings to
contribute to the body of Christ (like a spiritual potluck) I think of
us all going out into other towns with our Jump for Jesus t-
shirts....yet it starts here....and if an email communication is
necessary to fill the gaps between our meetings...then I'll jump in,
too.
Love you all, Janel
I forgot, I wanted to add these verses:
HEB. 10:23-25
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for he
is faithful that promised) and let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works:not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so
much more, as you see the day approaching.
this is where the life of the Spirit is at!!! and where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is liberty!!!
Hi all,
Janel here...just wanted to get my voice out there on the
continuing communications. First of all, I was so pleased to receive
the email Rachel wrote to her mom. I thought of how "bursting with
joy" I would be to hear my daughter communicating in spirit and in
truth. Her resolve to walk in faith, as a woman of faith, even as she
has had an example to follow in her mother, that she would be an
example to follow....this is my resolve as well....we are called to be
daughters of faith! I thought of how the Lord must feel (III John 4
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth")
I had the opportunity to read several communications yesterday.
It meant alot to me to be able to read the words written by all of
you....the scriptures and revelations that came forth are most
valuable to our spiritual lives...I think it robbery to read, read,
read, and not respond. This is why I am responding.
I can't help but think of the "coaching" principle....getting
counsel, understanding, wisdom, because we care to please the Lord.
Many of us have participated in organized sports and although rough at
times and humiliating at times....It was the most honored and
priviledged time when we were getting "coached" maybe we didn't
recognize it until we came through, but it was for our benefit. And
YET, the Lord's ways are HIGHER...I couldn't find the scripture that
talks about how our parents disciplined us after their own pleasure,
but the Lord, for our benefit that we might be partakers with him.
His death on the cross should be all the witness we need that he loves
us, yet he continues to show His Love toward us in little ways.
This little cluster of letters is a witness and a testimony of
Jesus' love for us. Rick had me buy a copy of Demos Shakarian's story
for the kids to read. The book is called The Happiest People on
Earth. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. He says when we
use the gift God has given us for His will and purpose, it is then
that we are the happiest people on earth. He found his gift as a
"helper". To serve in bringing forth the gospel to his community,
across the states, and eventually around the world. He saw his place
in the Body of Christ. One thing that really stood out to me (and
I've heard Gene talk about this) was how he saw branches, or
chapters, of the fellowship (he started the organization "Full Gospel
Business Men's Fellowship International")
I gotta share this: Rick was invited to attend a meeting while
working the fish business in Hawaii, long before he and I met, and
before he had really met Gene. Rick went, it was a free breakfast,
and he thought, what the heck, maybe he'd meet a businessman that
would want to put some money into his fish business. He walked away
from that meeting delivered from demons, committed to Jesus, filled
with the Holy Ghost....he told Jesus how much he loved him, his heart
overflowing...the Spirit said "sell your business and come follow
Me". We all have a story to tell....hopefully we will write it
down...me included.
Anyway, Demos talked about each chapter having a flavor and
emphasis of their own, yet all under one fellowship, being a witness
for Jesus.
I think of this in terms of households within our own
Fellowship....each having a different flavor and giftings to
contribute to the body of Christ (like a spiritual potluck) I think of
us all going out into other towns with our Jump for Jesus t-
shirts....yet it starts here....and if an email communication is
necessary to fill the gaps between our meetings...then I'll jump in,
too.
Love you all, Janel
I forgot, I wanted to add these verses:
HEB. 10:23-25
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for he
is faithful that promised) and let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works:not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so
much more, as you see the day approaching.
this is where the life of the Spirit is at!!! and where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is liberty!!!
RACH TO ELLIE
Thanks for sharing the scripture you did Ellie. It was so great. It spoke to me so much about how the lord blots are sins out, when we have a true spirit of repentance. I think things really started to change in my life when I decided to stop being Jades victim, Ben's too. That was the turning point, I think for me, to be able to overcome the other mountains in my life. I stopped caring about how damn "right" I thought I was, and started caring about if my heart was clean towards her because of my love for her. And I think before I could really walk in that, I had to get a revelation of how wretched I really was. It is so hard for us to see our self- "right" - iousness when all we focus on is our position in a matter. But anyway, I think some of us have expected a miracle to just happen, and "poof, " the Lord will just instantly change us. But it doesn't work that way. When we truly see our "nakedness" then we will have the spirit of repentance. It is like uprooting the bad soil, so that we can begin to grow a new tree. If we still find ourselves offended, and not sincerely humble, then we know that we do not see our nakedness. It is such a thankful thing that He shakes everything that can be shaken, so that we may come to know Him more and more. Love Rach
Friday, October 9, 2009
Great letters Debbie
Wow................ this is what everyone has done that is gone.......... you just happen to be able to fess up to it. Running from loves obligation, not caring about God's will, thinking we can escape. The Lord showed me if I didn't deal with my own heart, I would be a Judizer.......... and when you don't deal with your own problems ALL YOU CAN DO, is blame others. We are either FOR the right cause OR AGAINST it! We either examine ourselves, and see if we are in the REAL FAITH and love spirit, or slay our brother Able. I was tempted also........... I knew I couldn't live with myself if I did it, I would do what Judas did to himself. I knew too much, to not face my own fears and my own unbeleif. Do you mind if I share these 2 letters you sent????? Love, Ceci
Subject: RE: just read this one, and delete others...... FW: Thanks for your thoughts Linda....RE: Are you bearing a grudge against your OWN HUSBAND?
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:22:38 +0000
Hi Ceci, The letter starts out with.. Thou shalt not bear a grudge against the children of my people. That is why I would go to Joe with my complaints in the first place. I was already holding a grudge against someone. I didn't have enough love to go to that person, so I went to Joe to complain. This happened about twice before he caught on to what I was doing. It came back to bite me in the butt also.
Joe, not being one to sit on things would try and take care of the problem, assuming that I had already talked to the person. When he found out that I hadn't he then came back to me. So, I stopped doing that, and handled things my own loveless way. I stopped talking to anyone and just held on to my opinions about people. It is very shameful, but that is what I did.
So, Satan always had a "door" into my thoughts because of these offenses. The end of the story is this...I started believing that I was the victim and the lies that I heard from Satan became my truths, and, well, we all know the rest of the story. It seemed easier to be offended than face my fears and talk to someone. Boy, was that a lie!! it was not easier. It was hell on earth. Love, Debbie
Hi Gene, THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I just watched the TBN video with my grandma. It may be the only thing that she will ever watch of Jesus. She has wanted nothing to do with anything that I have tried to give her. But, she watched this and payed attention. She always works a puzzle book while watching anything on TV. But, she actually stopped working her book and paid attention. You don't know what a miracle that is!!!
So, I just wanted to send you a thank you and this little song that came to my mind as I was watching the TBN video. The simplicity and sincerity (and sanity) that you showed forth in the video is SO moving. I pray something in it will stick with Grandma. As for me, I have been crying since I watched it. Oh, that I might have such a heart as you. Thank you again, and my love to you. Debbie
You talked to me so many times about integrity. When I think back to how I lived with Joe and who I let myself become it turns my stomach. I feel really ashamed that Joe had to see me that way. The begging for attention through despair and self pity that I did is really shameful. Joe thought he was marrying a woman of integrity. But, I was a thief and I would take on any spirit to try and get what I needed from him. IT NEVER WORKED!!!
I remember Lincoln telling me once after he had grown up that when he would beg me for something until I gave in he never enjoyed the thing that he begged for after he go it because he knew that he got it through begging. That is how begging for attention feels. Even when I had Joes' attention I wasn't fulfilled because I knew that I was a beggar. I knew that I didn't have Joes' best because of being a beggar. It left me feeling even more lonely. We spent time together but we couldn't really enjoy each other because we were not of the same spirit. Oil and vinegar do not mix. They can be shaken up and come together, but it doesn't last, they sepearte again. They are not made of the same substance.
Yesterday when I talked to Joe on the phone I didn't hang up feeling like I had just sold myslef by begging. I kept my integrity. In fact, when I went to bed I was thinking about how I would have responded back when we were first dating. Had we talked on the phone for the first time in a long time back then I would be floating in the clouds. Yesterday, I was still grounded, even after a long conversation with him. I realized that the Lord had helped me to change some. I don't have to beg anymore. Because I have chosen to believe that my times are in His hands. It may not always be easy to stand back and let Him have His way. In fact, it has been very hard for me here. But, one thing I have learned to do is look to the Lord everyday. Somehow He has helped me through this tme. JESUS has!!! No man has been there to help me for the first time in my life!!
I have always been afraid to let the Lord have my life fully. But, I threw my life in the trash and I know that He can ressurect anything He wants to. I have learned that to have any kind of minnistry I have to be able to lay down my life and my constant schemeing and begging to get my needs met. I look over my life and I see a big selfish wasteland. Sad to say I can only count one year of my life that I was trying somewhat to look to the Lord and that was the year that I lived in your house, and for a short time after I married Joe. The rest of my life I have only cared about begging, lying and stealing to get what I want from men. That is one year out of 50. That is not a very good ratio.
I have come to realize that the reason that I was such a beggar was because I had never really thrown my life in the trash and looked to the Lord to build it. Well, my life ended up in the trash anyway by ME trying to build it. It would probably have been much easier to let it go in the first place. It was a slow, painful death doing it my way.
Gene told me one time not too long ago in Jackson Hole that I needed to get saved. What is salvation? But, to know Him and the power of His resurection. I have trusted in the power of my own hand and and its ability to resurect my life and I have done nothing but hurt people and shipwreck my own faith.
I was given a husband by God in the VERY SHORT time that I was trusting in Him and I single handedly destroyed my relationship with him through my own POWER of hopelessness, no vision, no unction to read the bible, no purpose. Just like the woman on the phone. But, I was making deals with the devil to try and resurect my life. Please ask her for me to stop now before she loses what she has. Linda warned me many times that I could lose what I had. Now I am warning her.
Her husband may still stay with her. But, what a miserable existence to live knowing that your husbands heart is far from you. The REALLY SCARY thing is that I became blind to the fact that my husbands responses to me were because of me. It was SO easy to excuse myself and to blame him. This gave me another reason to pity myself and satan saw to it that I found reasons to blame. It really doesn't take long to become blind. I could've turned things around sooner if only I would've had a desire for salvation, which is, again, to know Him and the power of His resurection. But, I had a desire for me and the furtherence of my kingdom. So, please tell her to get off that viscous ride now before it costs her more than she wants to pay. My love to you, Debbie
No, I do not mind if you share them. You want to know something crazy? Sometimes when I write stuff down I think that for sure it sounds dumb and will not be recieved very well. I get shocked when I get a WOW! back. This was one of those letters. Anyway, feel free to share them.
I am thanking God every day that I am able to take a look at these things. I am thanking HIm every day that it all still means something to me. I am thanking Him every day that I didn't come here and get lost in building a life. I thank Him every day that minnistry still meant something to me. I wasn't sure what I was going to find in my own heart when I got here. I wasn't sure myself if I was twice dead. The scripture rings true...,train a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Thanks for the training.
When I first got here Linda gave me the scripture in Deuteronomy about the Lord leading us through the wilderness to try us and to see what is in our hearts. I am SO thankful to find that there is love for Him in there. I was a little afraid of what I was going to find when I got here, but I knew that I had to take a look. So, every day I am thanking Him. I feel like I missed the boat to hell by the skin of my teeth. I have become thankful. What a miracle, huh?
Subject: thinking about familiars today............
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:03:08 -0700
There is a woman who has been coming to our meetings who last week interrupted several people with questions, and I'm sure she didn't intend to have an anti Christ spirit, that is truly what it is. A spirit that goes against the anointing.
I was talking to some of the girls about divining, and how it relates to pity. The woman who cried out when Paul was preaching, really drew attention to herself. That's what pity is. I'll bow down at your thrown and stroke you, so you need me, and I become the divine one in your life, and I expect you to pity me back and I'll make you the divine one. Rebellion, Control, witchcraft.............. putting a spell on others, diving. All the spirits at work in the sons of disobedience.
Then another woman on the phone called and talked about being hopeless, no vision, no unction to read the bible, no purpose. What came to me is she is giving voice to a diving spirit, that is dying to have it's way.
I told her we have to shut up the voice of Satan, that little girl voice, that comes to steal, kill and destroy. The devils all about stealing God's glory, getting us to look to the hill of man for our help, wanting others to put us on a pedestal. "My sheep hear My voice, the voice a stranger they won't follow." It's all a strange voice. And we can listen to God the still small voice of integrity, or the voice that comes to steal life, God's Glory and keep us demanding little babies. Our choice who we will give honor and glory to.
Love, Ceci
Subject: RE: just read this one, and delete others...... FW: Thanks for your thoughts Linda....RE: Are you bearing a grudge against your OWN HUSBAND?
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:22:38 +0000
Hi Ceci, The letter starts out with.. Thou shalt not bear a grudge against the children of my people. That is why I would go to Joe with my complaints in the first place. I was already holding a grudge against someone. I didn't have enough love to go to that person, so I went to Joe to complain. This happened about twice before he caught on to what I was doing. It came back to bite me in the butt also.
Joe, not being one to sit on things would try and take care of the problem, assuming that I had already talked to the person. When he found out that I hadn't he then came back to me. So, I stopped doing that, and handled things my own loveless way. I stopped talking to anyone and just held on to my opinions about people. It is very shameful, but that is what I did.
So, Satan always had a "door" into my thoughts because of these offenses. The end of the story is this...I started believing that I was the victim and the lies that I heard from Satan became my truths, and, well, we all know the rest of the story. It seemed easier to be offended than face my fears and talk to someone. Boy, was that a lie!! it was not easier. It was hell on earth. Love, Debbie
Hi Gene, THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I just watched the TBN video with my grandma. It may be the only thing that she will ever watch of Jesus. She has wanted nothing to do with anything that I have tried to give her. But, she watched this and payed attention. She always works a puzzle book while watching anything on TV. But, she actually stopped working her book and paid attention. You don't know what a miracle that is!!!
So, I just wanted to send you a thank you and this little song that came to my mind as I was watching the TBN video. The simplicity and sincerity (and sanity) that you showed forth in the video is SO moving. I pray something in it will stick with Grandma. As for me, I have been crying since I watched it. Oh, that I might have such a heart as you. Thank you again, and my love to you. Debbie
You talked to me so many times about integrity. When I think back to how I lived with Joe and who I let myself become it turns my stomach. I feel really ashamed that Joe had to see me that way. The begging for attention through despair and self pity that I did is really shameful. Joe thought he was marrying a woman of integrity. But, I was a thief and I would take on any spirit to try and get what I needed from him. IT NEVER WORKED!!!
I remember Lincoln telling me once after he had grown up that when he would beg me for something until I gave in he never enjoyed the thing that he begged for after he go it because he knew that he got it through begging. That is how begging for attention feels. Even when I had Joes' attention I wasn't fulfilled because I knew that I was a beggar. I knew that I didn't have Joes' best because of being a beggar. It left me feeling even more lonely. We spent time together but we couldn't really enjoy each other because we were not of the same spirit. Oil and vinegar do not mix. They can be shaken up and come together, but it doesn't last, they sepearte again. They are not made of the same substance.
Yesterday when I talked to Joe on the phone I didn't hang up feeling like I had just sold myslef by begging. I kept my integrity. In fact, when I went to bed I was thinking about how I would have responded back when we were first dating. Had we talked on the phone for the first time in a long time back then I would be floating in the clouds. Yesterday, I was still grounded, even after a long conversation with him. I realized that the Lord had helped me to change some. I don't have to beg anymore. Because I have chosen to believe that my times are in His hands. It may not always be easy to stand back and let Him have His way. In fact, it has been very hard for me here. But, one thing I have learned to do is look to the Lord everyday. Somehow He has helped me through this tme. JESUS has!!! No man has been there to help me for the first time in my life!!
I have always been afraid to let the Lord have my life fully. But, I threw my life in the trash and I know that He can ressurect anything He wants to. I have learned that to have any kind of minnistry I have to be able to lay down my life and my constant schemeing and begging to get my needs met. I look over my life and I see a big selfish wasteland. Sad to say I can only count one year of my life that I was trying somewhat to look to the Lord and that was the year that I lived in your house, and for a short time after I married Joe. The rest of my life I have only cared about begging, lying and stealing to get what I want from men. That is one year out of 50. That is not a very good ratio.
I have come to realize that the reason that I was such a beggar was because I had never really thrown my life in the trash and looked to the Lord to build it. Well, my life ended up in the trash anyway by ME trying to build it. It would probably have been much easier to let it go in the first place. It was a slow, painful death doing it my way.
Gene told me one time not too long ago in Jackson Hole that I needed to get saved. What is salvation? But, to know Him and the power of His resurection. I have trusted in the power of my own hand and and its ability to resurect my life and I have done nothing but hurt people and shipwreck my own faith.
I was given a husband by God in the VERY SHORT time that I was trusting in Him and I single handedly destroyed my relationship with him through my own POWER of hopelessness, no vision, no unction to read the bible, no purpose. Just like the woman on the phone. But, I was making deals with the devil to try and resurect my life. Please ask her for me to stop now before she loses what she has. Linda warned me many times that I could lose what I had. Now I am warning her.
Her husband may still stay with her. But, what a miserable existence to live knowing that your husbands heart is far from you. The REALLY SCARY thing is that I became blind to the fact that my husbands responses to me were because of me. It was SO easy to excuse myself and to blame him. This gave me another reason to pity myself and satan saw to it that I found reasons to blame. It really doesn't take long to become blind. I could've turned things around sooner if only I would've had a desire for salvation, which is, again, to know Him and the power of His resurection. But, I had a desire for me and the furtherence of my kingdom. So, please tell her to get off that viscous ride now before it costs her more than she wants to pay. My love to you, Debbie
No, I do not mind if you share them. You want to know something crazy? Sometimes when I write stuff down I think that for sure it sounds dumb and will not be recieved very well. I get shocked when I get a WOW! back. This was one of those letters. Anyway, feel free to share them.
I am thanking God every day that I am able to take a look at these things. I am thanking HIm every day that it all still means something to me. I am thanking Him every day that I didn't come here and get lost in building a life. I thank Him every day that minnistry still meant something to me. I wasn't sure what I was going to find in my own heart when I got here. I wasn't sure myself if I was twice dead. The scripture rings true...,train a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Thanks for the training.
When I first got here Linda gave me the scripture in Deuteronomy about the Lord leading us through the wilderness to try us and to see what is in our hearts. I am SO thankful to find that there is love for Him in there. I was a little afraid of what I was going to find when I got here, but I knew that I had to take a look. So, every day I am thanking Him. I feel like I missed the boat to hell by the skin of my teeth. I have become thankful. What a miracle, huh?
Subject: thinking about familiars today............
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:03:08 -0700
There is a woman who has been coming to our meetings who last week interrupted several people with questions, and I'm sure she didn't intend to have an anti Christ spirit, that is truly what it is. A spirit that goes against the anointing.
I was talking to some of the girls about divining, and how it relates to pity. The woman who cried out when Paul was preaching, really drew attention to herself. That's what pity is. I'll bow down at your thrown and stroke you, so you need me, and I become the divine one in your life, and I expect you to pity me back and I'll make you the divine one. Rebellion, Control, witchcraft.............. putting a spell on others, diving. All the spirits at work in the sons of disobedience.
Then another woman on the phone called and talked about being hopeless, no vision, no unction to read the bible, no purpose. What came to me is she is giving voice to a diving spirit, that is dying to have it's way.
I told her we have to shut up the voice of Satan, that little girl voice, that comes to steal, kill and destroy. The devils all about stealing God's glory, getting us to look to the hill of man for our help, wanting others to put us on a pedestal. "My sheep hear My voice, the voice a stranger they won't follow." It's all a strange voice. And we can listen to God the still small voice of integrity, or the voice that comes to steal life, God's Glory and keep us demanding little babies. Our choice who we will give honor and glory to.
Love, Ceci
another good one on Lying
The Sin of Lying
L. R. Shelton, Jr.
THERE is a sin that has brought our nation to the brink of judgment and damnation: The Sin of
Lying. I am deeply impressed to lay before our hearts the words of the 9th commandment: “Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” I know that the sins condemned in this
commandment do not seem as gross or as carnal as the ones forbidden in the 6th commandment:
“Thou shalt not kill,” nor the ones forbidden in the 7th commandment: “Thou shalt not commit
adultery,” nor those forbidden by the 8th commandment: “Thou shalt not steal;” but dear friend, a
man can go to hell for lying just as sure as he can go to hell for murdering, stealing or committing
adultery! In fact, the Word of God tells us in Rev. 21:8 that the one who violates this 9th
commandment shall have his place in the lake of fire—which is the second death—along with the
murderer and the whoremonger. Listen to Rev. 21:8! “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and murderers and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have
their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
All we have to do is see with whom this sin is associated to know something of how vile and
abominable it is in the sight of God. You see, it is a sin that makes a person more like the devil
seemingly than any other sin. For the devil is a spirit, and therefore gross, carnal sins do not so
much correspond to his nature. His sins are more refined and intellectual, such as pride and malice,
deception and falsehood. Therefore we read in John 8:44: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and
the father of it.” The more malice that enters into the composition of any lie, the more nearly it
resembles the devil: so lying then is associated as never before with the devil.
Lying is a sin most contrary to the nature and character of God, for He is the Lord God of truth
according to Psalm 31:5; therefore we are told that lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord. As
Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and as God is the Lord God of truth; so God’s children
resemble Him therein: “Surely they are my people, children that will not lie” as He tells us in Isa.
63:8.
But according to Isa. 59:l4, “Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” The breaking of this 9th commandment is a sin
that is committed 10,000 times a day from the seat of government to the hovel along the road. It is a
sin that God hates!
I understand that preaching on the commandments is not popular; it never has been and never will
be. But this is God’s Word, and my Bible tells me that it is by the knowledge of the law that a man
comes to acknowledge he is a sinner before God; and unless the law is preached, and the law in the
hands of the Holy Spirit is used as a schoolmaster to bring you to Christ, you will never know Him!
Each one of us has sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) and by the law is the
knowledge of sin (Rom. 3:20). We need to know this!
There is no sin today that is committed so much and thought so little of as this sin of the tongue,
this sin of the heart, this sin of lying, this sin of bearing false witness against our neighbor. Surely
Prov. l8:21 describes fully this little member of our body, the tongue, that brings so much sin, grief
and sorrow into the world. It says: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” What a word!
Death and life are in the power of the tongue! It can kill and make alive! Then our Lord says in
Matt. l2:37: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
Listen to how it is described in James 3:5-8: “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of
iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the
course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,
and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man
tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
By this little member of our body—the tongue—this commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour,” is broken, as this sin proceeds from an evil heart. By it more lives
have been wrecked, more souls damned, more families set at variance against each other, more
friendships have been broken, more churches torn asunder and more discord sown than by any
other sin! This sin of lying is committed by this little member of our body, the tongue, because that
tongue is like a fire which spreads and burns away everything before it. You and I know this to be
true.
Let us bring this matter down to a practical understanding of all its ramifications—its depths, its
cruelty, its damning effect, its hellishness—by laying out before you the sins of the tongue which
cause a man to break this commandment. May the Lord take this home to our hearts!
First, there is the SLANDEROUS TONGUE, and what a tongue this is! A slanderer wounds
another’s name, character and reputation in such a way that no physician can heal them. These
wounds lie deep, and sometimes are never healed in a lifetime. God’s Word says in Prov. 10:18:
“He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool!“ Listen: “Whoso
privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off!“ (Psalm 101:5). O Lord, how we all stand guilty
before Thy face and before Thy throne today of breaking this commandment by slandering friend
and foe! There’s not one of us under the sound of my voice, including your speaker, who is not
guilty of breaking this 9th commandment, especially that aspect of slandering with our tongues.
Also under this heading comes backbiting—speaking evil of another behind his back, defaming
one’s good name by absolute or implied censure. Secret whisperings and all other ways by which
the tongue wounds and injures the name and reputation of another are included. As surely as the
devil is the father of lies, everyone who gives his tongue to slander and belies his neighbor or utters
words of falsehood comes under the group of false accusers, and stands guilty before God of
breaking this 9th commandment. And if we have broken this one, surely we know that according to
James 2, we have broken them all!
Second, there is the CENSORIOUS TONGUE. This is a cruel tongue which, as a fire, destroys
everyone and everything that comes under its lashings. It is a sin of which we are all guilty. How
my heart has been smitten as I have studied and prepared for this message! I have been made to cry:
“O Lord, I stand guilty; I am guilty, O Lord, of breaking this commandment. Will you have mercy
upon my soul?” I don’t know about you, but I have had to cry out over this sin more than any
other— the censuring or judging of other people before I have all the facts in the case. Listen to
what Rom. 14:4 says: “Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he
standeth or falleth.” And dear friend, I ask the question: “Do we keep ourselves from the things for
which we judge others?”
Listen to Rom. 2:1-3: “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for
wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things...And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?” No! We shall not, unless there is repentance and a
broken heart! Then listen! “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit
adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?” (v.
21,22). Here in Rom. 2 God is speaking to every witness, every teacher and every preacher, asking
us: “Do we do the same things that we preach against or condemn in others?” “Guilty Lord,” we
must cry, “have mercy upon us!” And my friend, this censorious tongue which breaks this 9th
commandment is an abomination in the sight of God!
Third , there is the LYING TONGUE. We are told in Prov. 6:16: “These six things doth the LORD
hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed
innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to
mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” Because
God hates lying, He will show it by punishing every liar in hell unless this sin is repented of and
washed in the blood of Christ. Dear friend, there is nothing that is more contrary to God than a lie,
for you see, God is truth; all lying is of the devil and flows from a wicked heart.
To me, there is no sin as prominent today as lying. A man’s word is no longer his bond. Honesty is
a blessed virtue that has been trampled in the streets. There is lying among nations; treaties mean
nothing! There is lying among our elected officials: the truth seems to be something hard to come
by because the natural heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. All my life I’ve
said that a man would rather climb a pine tree and tell a lie than to stand on the ground and tell the
truth. And you and I know how hard it is to climb a pine tree!
Men are liars by nature; they lie everyday and think it a light thing, but God hates it! Listen to what
Psa. 58:3 says: “The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born,
speaking lies.” You and I both know that we don’t have to teach a child to lie. It is in his nature to
lie. But God hates this sin because it is against His law and His holy nature; unless it is repented of
and washed by faith in the blood of Christ, it will be punished in hell as Rev. 21:8 declares: “All
liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second
death.”
Fourth, there is the SWEARING TONGUE that breaks this 9th commandment. Some think it the
way of life to swear and curse, seemingly with every breath, but God thinks differently. If they only
knew that every idle word shall be brought into judgment (Matt.12:36), and how much more
punishment awaits them for the sin of sinful oaths! Oh, the judgment that awaits the swearing,
cursing tongue! “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned” (v.37).
Fifth, there is the CRUEL TONGUE. This tongue speaks to the wounding of the hearts of others.
Healing words are the best for a broken heart, but the cruel tongue unmercifully speaks such words
to the afflicted as to cut them to the heart. The Bible says that a soft answer turns away wrath, but
grievous words stir up anger (Prov. 15:1). You see, dear friend, one with a cruel tongue must give
forth all his venom and hatred; he must get it off his chest; he must pour it all out unto friend and
foe. He must tell it all, no matter who it hurts. He knows nothing about II Timothy 2:25 which says,
“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” A vicious-tongued individual doesn’t possess the
Balm of Gilead to pour into wounded hearts and spirits. All he knows is cruelty, beating down his
helpless victim a little further. This cruel tongue breaks the 9th commandment and comes under the
judgment of God unless it is repented of, confessed and turned from. May God give you a new
heart to love instead of hate!
Sixth , there is the MURMURING TONGUE. This is a tongue that breaks the 9th commandment,
for when we murmur and complain about our lot in life, we are definitely bearing false witness
against God! We are in effect saying that God is not treating us right by allowing these things to
come into our lives.
Dear friend, God does not look lightly upon this sin; He leaves us many examples of His dealings
with men in judgment who brought railing accusations against Him. We read in 1 Cor. 10:10 these
words: “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.”
You see, the children of Israel had murmured and complained over and over again about their lot in
the wilderness, and finally God brought judgment down upon them. Therefore the apostle used this
to warn us in I Cor. 10:11—“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” We had better look well
to our souls before we accuse God of dealing unjustly with us!
Murmuring is discontent: the breaking out at the lips that which comes from a rebellious heart
against God. Why should anyone murmur or be discontented with his condition? Does God owe us
anything? Do we deserve anything at the hands of God? No! A thousand times No We deserve only
justice in hell! Dear friend, do you not know that all we receive from God is out of free and pure
grace? Therefore, let us give thanks in all things, and having food and clothing, let us be content (I
Tim. 6:8).
Oh how sinful it is to murmur and complain at God’s providence! This indeed is a breaking of this
9th commandment, which brings those guilty of it under God’s wrath and judgment. Are you
listening? I cannot speak too hard against this sin of murmuring which is breaking out everywhere
you turn today! Seemingly it is in every heart, and therefore is a sin that we need to fight against,
cry out against and turn from with all of our might because it is such a vile sin against God’s
goodness, God’s mercy and God’s grace.
My dear friend, don’t you know that God has been good to us as a nation? He has been good to us
as individuals. His mercies are new every morning, great is His faithfulness! (Lam. 3:23). How we
need to repent of this sin that charges God with cruelty, harshness, unkindness, and a lack of love
and understanding! This sin that’s laid at God’s door should be laid at our door! This is a grave sin.
It is our prayerlessness, our unbelief, our laziness, our selfishness, our lack of compassion, our
discontent that is to blame for our state of things today! For you see, we have taken God’s money
and used it on ourselves; we have taken God’s day and spent it as we pleased; we have taken God’s
Word and used only its promises, having nothing to do with its precepts and commandments. We
have turned the truth of God into a lie and have worshipped the creature more than the Creator. We
have worshipped the gods of pleasure, of sports, of science, of education; we have worshipped the
gods of gold and silver, yea, the god of self more than the true and living God as He is revealed
unto us in the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a nation we have bowed down to the gods of meat and drink, and have made our bellies our
gods. And on top of that, we have made our government our god by appealing to Washington to
take care of all our needs; instead of depending upon the true and living God, and pouring out our
hearts before Him. We get mad at our little god in Washington, don’t we? We whip him, we curse
him, we get mad at him, we write articles against him in the newspapers and magazines, we call
him all kinds of names. But then we want him to bail us out of all our difficulties—after every
disaster, after every crop failure—don’t we?
Isn’t this nation guilty of this today? Of course we are! But God tells us that these things have been
brought on us because of our sins. And yet we go on in our blind unbelief, murmuring against the
living God and saying, “A loving God would not treat us like this!” And all the time the blame lies
at our door because we have turned from the River of Living Water, God Himself, and have put our
faith in broken cisterns, in the little god in Washington!
It is amazing to me that God has not already dumped us all into hell. And dear friend, it is only
because of His great grace and longsuffering that He still bears with us today. “It is of the LORD’s
mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not” (Lam. 3:22). And because He
is still holding out the sceptre of grace and mercy, I call upon each one of us to fall at His feet
saying: “Lord, I have sinned against Thee and against Thy throne; I have broken this 9th
commandment. I come in repentance, I come in confession, and I cry unto Thee for mercy on the
basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“HE FRANKLY FORGAVE THEM BOTH”
Mercy is welcome news indeed
To those that guilty stand;
Wretches that feel what help they need
Will bless the helping hand.
Who rightly would his alms dispose
Must give them to the poor.
None but the wounded patient knows
The comforts of his cure.
We all have sinned against our God;
Exception none can boast;
But he that feels the heaviest load
Will prize forgiveness most.
No reckoning can we rightly keep,
For who the sum can know?
Some souls are fifty pieces deep,
And some five hundred owe.
But let our debts be what they may,
However great or small,
As soon as we have nought to pay,
Our Lord forgives us all.
‘Tis perfect poverty alone
That sets the soul at large;
While we can call one mite our own
We have no full discharge. —Hart
L. R. Shelton, Jr.
THERE is a sin that has brought our nation to the brink of judgment and damnation: The Sin of
Lying. I am deeply impressed to lay before our hearts the words of the 9th commandment: “Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” I know that the sins condemned in this
commandment do not seem as gross or as carnal as the ones forbidden in the 6th commandment:
“Thou shalt not kill,” nor the ones forbidden in the 7th commandment: “Thou shalt not commit
adultery,” nor those forbidden by the 8th commandment: “Thou shalt not steal;” but dear friend, a
man can go to hell for lying just as sure as he can go to hell for murdering, stealing or committing
adultery! In fact, the Word of God tells us in Rev. 21:8 that the one who violates this 9th
commandment shall have his place in the lake of fire—which is the second death—along with the
murderer and the whoremonger. Listen to Rev. 21:8! “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and murderers and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have
their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
All we have to do is see with whom this sin is associated to know something of how vile and
abominable it is in the sight of God. You see, it is a sin that makes a person more like the devil
seemingly than any other sin. For the devil is a spirit, and therefore gross, carnal sins do not so
much correspond to his nature. His sins are more refined and intellectual, such as pride and malice,
deception and falsehood. Therefore we read in John 8:44: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and
the father of it.” The more malice that enters into the composition of any lie, the more nearly it
resembles the devil: so lying then is associated as never before with the devil.
Lying is a sin most contrary to the nature and character of God, for He is the Lord God of truth
according to Psalm 31:5; therefore we are told that lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord. As
Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and as God is the Lord God of truth; so God’s children
resemble Him therein: “Surely they are my people, children that will not lie” as He tells us in Isa.
63:8.
But according to Isa. 59:l4, “Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” The breaking of this 9th commandment is a sin
that is committed 10,000 times a day from the seat of government to the hovel along the road. It is a
sin that God hates!
I understand that preaching on the commandments is not popular; it never has been and never will
be. But this is God’s Word, and my Bible tells me that it is by the knowledge of the law that a man
comes to acknowledge he is a sinner before God; and unless the law is preached, and the law in the
hands of the Holy Spirit is used as a schoolmaster to bring you to Christ, you will never know Him!
Each one of us has sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) and by the law is the
knowledge of sin (Rom. 3:20). We need to know this!
There is no sin today that is committed so much and thought so little of as this sin of the tongue,
this sin of the heart, this sin of lying, this sin of bearing false witness against our neighbor. Surely
Prov. l8:21 describes fully this little member of our body, the tongue, that brings so much sin, grief
and sorrow into the world. It says: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” What a word!
Death and life are in the power of the tongue! It can kill and make alive! Then our Lord says in
Matt. l2:37: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
Listen to how it is described in James 3:5-8: “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of
iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the
course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,
and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man
tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
By this little member of our body—the tongue—this commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour,” is broken, as this sin proceeds from an evil heart. By it more lives
have been wrecked, more souls damned, more families set at variance against each other, more
friendships have been broken, more churches torn asunder and more discord sown than by any
other sin! This sin of lying is committed by this little member of our body, the tongue, because that
tongue is like a fire which spreads and burns away everything before it. You and I know this to be
true.
Let us bring this matter down to a practical understanding of all its ramifications—its depths, its
cruelty, its damning effect, its hellishness—by laying out before you the sins of the tongue which
cause a man to break this commandment. May the Lord take this home to our hearts!
First, there is the SLANDEROUS TONGUE, and what a tongue this is! A slanderer wounds
another’s name, character and reputation in such a way that no physician can heal them. These
wounds lie deep, and sometimes are never healed in a lifetime. God’s Word says in Prov. 10:18:
“He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool!“ Listen: “Whoso
privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off!“ (Psalm 101:5). O Lord, how we all stand guilty
before Thy face and before Thy throne today of breaking this commandment by slandering friend
and foe! There’s not one of us under the sound of my voice, including your speaker, who is not
guilty of breaking this 9th commandment, especially that aspect of slandering with our tongues.
Also under this heading comes backbiting—speaking evil of another behind his back, defaming
one’s good name by absolute or implied censure. Secret whisperings and all other ways by which
the tongue wounds and injures the name and reputation of another are included. As surely as the
devil is the father of lies, everyone who gives his tongue to slander and belies his neighbor or utters
words of falsehood comes under the group of false accusers, and stands guilty before God of
breaking this 9th commandment. And if we have broken this one, surely we know that according to
James 2, we have broken them all!
Second, there is the CENSORIOUS TONGUE. This is a cruel tongue which, as a fire, destroys
everyone and everything that comes under its lashings. It is a sin of which we are all guilty. How
my heart has been smitten as I have studied and prepared for this message! I have been made to cry:
“O Lord, I stand guilty; I am guilty, O Lord, of breaking this commandment. Will you have mercy
upon my soul?” I don’t know about you, but I have had to cry out over this sin more than any
other— the censuring or judging of other people before I have all the facts in the case. Listen to
what Rom. 14:4 says: “Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he
standeth or falleth.” And dear friend, I ask the question: “Do we keep ourselves from the things for
which we judge others?”
Listen to Rom. 2:1-3: “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for
wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things...And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?” No! We shall not, unless there is repentance and a
broken heart! Then listen! “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit
adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?” (v.
21,22). Here in Rom. 2 God is speaking to every witness, every teacher and every preacher, asking
us: “Do we do the same things that we preach against or condemn in others?” “Guilty Lord,” we
must cry, “have mercy upon us!” And my friend, this censorious tongue which breaks this 9th
commandment is an abomination in the sight of God!
Third , there is the LYING TONGUE. We are told in Prov. 6:16: “These six things doth the LORD
hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed
innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to
mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” Because
God hates lying, He will show it by punishing every liar in hell unless this sin is repented of and
washed in the blood of Christ. Dear friend, there is nothing that is more contrary to God than a lie,
for you see, God is truth; all lying is of the devil and flows from a wicked heart.
To me, there is no sin as prominent today as lying. A man’s word is no longer his bond. Honesty is
a blessed virtue that has been trampled in the streets. There is lying among nations; treaties mean
nothing! There is lying among our elected officials: the truth seems to be something hard to come
by because the natural heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. All my life I’ve
said that a man would rather climb a pine tree and tell a lie than to stand on the ground and tell the
truth. And you and I know how hard it is to climb a pine tree!
Men are liars by nature; they lie everyday and think it a light thing, but God hates it! Listen to what
Psa. 58:3 says: “The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born,
speaking lies.” You and I both know that we don’t have to teach a child to lie. It is in his nature to
lie. But God hates this sin because it is against His law and His holy nature; unless it is repented of
and washed by faith in the blood of Christ, it will be punished in hell as Rev. 21:8 declares: “All
liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second
death.”
Fourth, there is the SWEARING TONGUE that breaks this 9th commandment. Some think it the
way of life to swear and curse, seemingly with every breath, but God thinks differently. If they only
knew that every idle word shall be brought into judgment (Matt.12:36), and how much more
punishment awaits them for the sin of sinful oaths! Oh, the judgment that awaits the swearing,
cursing tongue! “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned” (v.37).
Fifth, there is the CRUEL TONGUE. This tongue speaks to the wounding of the hearts of others.
Healing words are the best for a broken heart, but the cruel tongue unmercifully speaks such words
to the afflicted as to cut them to the heart. The Bible says that a soft answer turns away wrath, but
grievous words stir up anger (Prov. 15:1). You see, dear friend, one with a cruel tongue must give
forth all his venom and hatred; he must get it off his chest; he must pour it all out unto friend and
foe. He must tell it all, no matter who it hurts. He knows nothing about II Timothy 2:25 which says,
“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” A vicious-tongued individual doesn’t possess the
Balm of Gilead to pour into wounded hearts and spirits. All he knows is cruelty, beating down his
helpless victim a little further. This cruel tongue breaks the 9th commandment and comes under the
judgment of God unless it is repented of, confessed and turned from. May God give you a new
heart to love instead of hate!
Sixth , there is the MURMURING TONGUE. This is a tongue that breaks the 9th commandment,
for when we murmur and complain about our lot in life, we are definitely bearing false witness
against God! We are in effect saying that God is not treating us right by allowing these things to
come into our lives.
Dear friend, God does not look lightly upon this sin; He leaves us many examples of His dealings
with men in judgment who brought railing accusations against Him. We read in 1 Cor. 10:10 these
words: “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.”
You see, the children of Israel had murmured and complained over and over again about their lot in
the wilderness, and finally God brought judgment down upon them. Therefore the apostle used this
to warn us in I Cor. 10:11—“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” We had better look well
to our souls before we accuse God of dealing unjustly with us!
Murmuring is discontent: the breaking out at the lips that which comes from a rebellious heart
against God. Why should anyone murmur or be discontented with his condition? Does God owe us
anything? Do we deserve anything at the hands of God? No! A thousand times No We deserve only
justice in hell! Dear friend, do you not know that all we receive from God is out of free and pure
grace? Therefore, let us give thanks in all things, and having food and clothing, let us be content (I
Tim. 6:8).
Oh how sinful it is to murmur and complain at God’s providence! This indeed is a breaking of this
9th commandment, which brings those guilty of it under God’s wrath and judgment. Are you
listening? I cannot speak too hard against this sin of murmuring which is breaking out everywhere
you turn today! Seemingly it is in every heart, and therefore is a sin that we need to fight against,
cry out against and turn from with all of our might because it is such a vile sin against God’s
goodness, God’s mercy and God’s grace.
My dear friend, don’t you know that God has been good to us as a nation? He has been good to us
as individuals. His mercies are new every morning, great is His faithfulness! (Lam. 3:23). How we
need to repent of this sin that charges God with cruelty, harshness, unkindness, and a lack of love
and understanding! This sin that’s laid at God’s door should be laid at our door! This is a grave sin.
It is our prayerlessness, our unbelief, our laziness, our selfishness, our lack of compassion, our
discontent that is to blame for our state of things today! For you see, we have taken God’s money
and used it on ourselves; we have taken God’s day and spent it as we pleased; we have taken God’s
Word and used only its promises, having nothing to do with its precepts and commandments. We
have turned the truth of God into a lie and have worshipped the creature more than the Creator. We
have worshipped the gods of pleasure, of sports, of science, of education; we have worshipped the
gods of gold and silver, yea, the god of self more than the true and living God as He is revealed
unto us in the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a nation we have bowed down to the gods of meat and drink, and have made our bellies our
gods. And on top of that, we have made our government our god by appealing to Washington to
take care of all our needs; instead of depending upon the true and living God, and pouring out our
hearts before Him. We get mad at our little god in Washington, don’t we? We whip him, we curse
him, we get mad at him, we write articles against him in the newspapers and magazines, we call
him all kinds of names. But then we want him to bail us out of all our difficulties—after every
disaster, after every crop failure—don’t we?
Isn’t this nation guilty of this today? Of course we are! But God tells us that these things have been
brought on us because of our sins. And yet we go on in our blind unbelief, murmuring against the
living God and saying, “A loving God would not treat us like this!” And all the time the blame lies
at our door because we have turned from the River of Living Water, God Himself, and have put our
faith in broken cisterns, in the little god in Washington!
It is amazing to me that God has not already dumped us all into hell. And dear friend, it is only
because of His great grace and longsuffering that He still bears with us today. “It is of the LORD’s
mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not” (Lam. 3:22). And because He
is still holding out the sceptre of grace and mercy, I call upon each one of us to fall at His feet
saying: “Lord, I have sinned against Thee and against Thy throne; I have broken this 9th
commandment. I come in repentance, I come in confession, and I cry unto Thee for mercy on the
basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“HE FRANKLY FORGAVE THEM BOTH”
Mercy is welcome news indeed
To those that guilty stand;
Wretches that feel what help they need
Will bless the helping hand.
Who rightly would his alms dispose
Must give them to the poor.
None but the wounded patient knows
The comforts of his cure.
We all have sinned against our God;
Exception none can boast;
But he that feels the heaviest load
Will prize forgiveness most.
No reckoning can we rightly keep,
For who the sum can know?
Some souls are fifty pieces deep,
And some five hundred owe.
But let our debts be what they may,
However great or small,
As soon as we have nought to pay,
Our Lord forgives us all.
‘Tis perfect poverty alone
That sets the soul at large;
While we can call one mite our own
We have no full discharge. —Hart
Are you bearing a grudge against your neighbor? Husband?
Thou shall not bear a grudge against the Children of My People", are you looking down on your husband and seeing him as THE LEAST? This is out of Lev. 19:16You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip and scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart;(look down on him and talk to others about him, and not because you have the counsel of God and are looking to establish it to him.")... but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
If you dump your burden about your husband onto others due to YOUR FEAR, you are an idolater. Turning to other Gods to solve your problems. Putting them in the position of playing God because you aren’t looking to Jesus. And you who have ears to hear women turn to you other than God, is that because you still do that too? Turn to others rather than the Lord?
I remember years ago, I was really stirred up in my soul with a particular man we knew, and I was in Fear trying to war against the enemies of his soul. THE LORD SHOWED ME IT WASN'T MY BATTLE. That I needed to first of all PRAY. Get a word from THE WORD to solve my problem, THEN GO TO MY OWN HUSBAND, and if he got involved or didn't, THE BATTLE BELONGED TO THE LORD.
I have had so many women "dump" their burdens on me. I was thinking of a scripture today while talking to a friend, "out of the mouth of 2-3 witnesses THE WORD OF THE LORD IS ESTABLISHED. This tells me if I have a problem with my husband I need to a.) Ask myself if I really love his soul or am I just afraid. Then pray and ask me to love instead of fear. b.) GET FOOD FROM AFAR TO GIVE HIM, like any wise woman should do. Feed her husband, establish the word to him.
Then if he repeatedly won't hear me, I have 2 options. The first is a good one. Tell him I don't want to be divided against him, and I don't want to have a wall, or be insane due to a lack of being able to have just judgment about whatever the problem is. And I want to get someone involved for my own sanity. I'm willing to be wrong, but this is the word I have been getting from the Lord, and I understand the twig in your eye, let me tell you about the log in mine. As a matter of fact let me tell you about the revelation I'm getting and am thankful for.
Or b.) If he refuses the gift in you know that God won't hear Him when He prays. And that in refusing you, He is refusing the Lord AND THE LORD IS BIG ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH HIM, You don't have to spend your time MAKING HIM PAY OR SPANKING OR ABUSING him for not hearing you!!!! HOW ABOUT HAVING FAITH AND LOVE..........
BECUASE IF YOU DON'T SEE THE LORD COME THROUGH FOR YOU IN YOUR MARRIAGE PROBLEMS, how will your children believe the Lord will come through for them?????
YOU PLAY YOUR PART, THE LORD WILL PLAY HIS PART, and stop dumping your burdens on others, love your husband, pray for Him, go to the word about your problems with him. Take a look at the log in your eye, so you can tell him about the twig in him when you are giving him a scripture or 2. Then have faith the Lord will bring it up again, or ask him to love you enough to get someone involved if you have a good spirit and after time goes by there is still a wall in your relationship. Tell him you don't want to be divided in judgment and for loves sake to help you resolve the judgment, and maybe you are the one in the wrong who isn't hearing what the Spirit is trying to say.
"Hide not yourself from your own flesh." We all had parents THAT HID FROM US, GOD AND EACH OTHER, and we had no clue if the Lord even did help them with their problems. How much better if WE HAVE A TESTIMONY for our children of how the Lord helps Godly marriages last!!!
And how the Lord and His body helps us work through our problems, LEST OUR CHILDREN ARE INDEPENDENT.........
Don't let slothful women who don't have a REAL GODLY BURDEN for their husband’s souls, dump their problems on YOU..... Don't be their idol, turn them to the Lord and tell them you won't listen unless a.) They have prayed and have the counsel of God, and 2.) They want to get those who oversee their husbands souls involved.
Would love to hear back from all of you about this........
Think about what your friends are going to think and feel like when you work things out with your husband, and they are carrying around the burden of your slander and having a problem still WITH WHAT YOU DUMPED ON THEM..... That you decided to get right about with your husband, and they are still left to carry your burden. That's why you need to stop the mouth of the woman who speaks out of fear, TRYING TO SEDUCE YOU INTO TAKING CARE OF HER PROBLEMS. Women can be thoughtless, and even though they might not intend to do this consciously, it's still the Spirit at work in the daughter of fear and control.
Love, Ceci
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart;(look down on him and talk to others about him, and not because you have the counsel of God and are looking to establish it to him.")... but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
If you dump your burden about your husband onto others due to YOUR FEAR, you are an idolater. Turning to other Gods to solve your problems. Putting them in the position of playing God because you aren’t looking to Jesus. And you who have ears to hear women turn to you other than God, is that because you still do that too? Turn to others rather than the Lord?
I remember years ago, I was really stirred up in my soul with a particular man we knew, and I was in Fear trying to war against the enemies of his soul. THE LORD SHOWED ME IT WASN'T MY BATTLE. That I needed to first of all PRAY. Get a word from THE WORD to solve my problem, THEN GO TO MY OWN HUSBAND, and if he got involved or didn't, THE BATTLE BELONGED TO THE LORD.
I have had so many women "dump" their burdens on me. I was thinking of a scripture today while talking to a friend, "out of the mouth of 2-3 witnesses THE WORD OF THE LORD IS ESTABLISHED. This tells me if I have a problem with my husband I need to a.) Ask myself if I really love his soul or am I just afraid. Then pray and ask me to love instead of fear. b.) GET FOOD FROM AFAR TO GIVE HIM, like any wise woman should do. Feed her husband, establish the word to him.
Then if he repeatedly won't hear me, I have 2 options. The first is a good one. Tell him I don't want to be divided against him, and I don't want to have a wall, or be insane due to a lack of being able to have just judgment about whatever the problem is. And I want to get someone involved for my own sanity. I'm willing to be wrong, but this is the word I have been getting from the Lord, and I understand the twig in your eye, let me tell you about the log in mine. As a matter of fact let me tell you about the revelation I'm getting and am thankful for.
Or b.) If he refuses the gift in you know that God won't hear Him when He prays. And that in refusing you, He is refusing the Lord AND THE LORD IS BIG ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH HIM, You don't have to spend your time MAKING HIM PAY OR SPANKING OR ABUSING him for not hearing you!!!! HOW ABOUT HAVING FAITH AND LOVE..........
BECUASE IF YOU DON'T SEE THE LORD COME THROUGH FOR YOU IN YOUR MARRIAGE PROBLEMS, how will your children believe the Lord will come through for them?????
YOU PLAY YOUR PART, THE LORD WILL PLAY HIS PART, and stop dumping your burdens on others, love your husband, pray for Him, go to the word about your problems with him. Take a look at the log in your eye, so you can tell him about the twig in him when you are giving him a scripture or 2. Then have faith the Lord will bring it up again, or ask him to love you enough to get someone involved if you have a good spirit and after time goes by there is still a wall in your relationship. Tell him you don't want to be divided in judgment and for loves sake to help you resolve the judgment, and maybe you are the one in the wrong who isn't hearing what the Spirit is trying to say.
"Hide not yourself from your own flesh." We all had parents THAT HID FROM US, GOD AND EACH OTHER, and we had no clue if the Lord even did help them with their problems. How much better if WE HAVE A TESTIMONY for our children of how the Lord helps Godly marriages last!!!
And how the Lord and His body helps us work through our problems, LEST OUR CHILDREN ARE INDEPENDENT.........
Don't let slothful women who don't have a REAL GODLY BURDEN for their husband’s souls, dump their problems on YOU..... Don't be their idol, turn them to the Lord and tell them you won't listen unless a.) They have prayed and have the counsel of God, and 2.) They want to get those who oversee their husbands souls involved.
Would love to hear back from all of you about this........
Think about what your friends are going to think and feel like when you work things out with your husband, and they are carrying around the burden of your slander and having a problem still WITH WHAT YOU DUMPED ON THEM..... That you decided to get right about with your husband, and they are still left to carry your burden. That's why you need to stop the mouth of the woman who speaks out of fear, TRYING TO SEDUCE YOU INTO TAKING CARE OF HER PROBLEMS. Women can be thoughtless, and even though they might not intend to do this consciously, it's still the Spirit at work in the daughter of fear and control.
Love, Ceci
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