Are You Living in Spiritual Survival Mode?

August 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Several summers ago we suffered a severe drought and I noticed the effect on my rose garden. The roses appeared to be healthy with deep glossy leaves but to my disappointment, there were only a few blooms, and those blooms were smaller than normal and lacked their normal heavy fragrance. This circumstance was a window to my soul and the Lord spoke this parable to my heart.

Dear Child,

“Look at your rose garden! They look healthy enough yet no blossom and therefore no fragrance! Because of the lack of water and the scorch of the sun they are in survival mode, doing all they can just to stay alive.

Likewise My people stay too long in survival mode, and there is no fruit from their lives. Yes, they are spiritually alive and look and appear to be healthy, but where is the blossom and fragrance from their lives? They are not drawing near and supping with Me where I can give them rivers of living water to sustain them during the scorching heat of  the trials of life.

Many will spend their lives at the Brazen Altar in survival mode, where, yes they are believers but they are not disciples and priests ministering unto Me at the Golden Altar of Incense.”

Thus saith Papa 

(Excerpt from “DEVELOPING A SECRET HISTORY WITH GOD” Page 83)

Mark 11:12 -14 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:  And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.  And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.; Mark 11:20-21  And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

CHALLENGE:  Does the fruit of our lives satisfy His need or does He just find leaves?

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Freedom From the Bondage of Pride

August 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Dear Child,  

Pride is a terrible slave master! If you are meek and lowly, then you are humble, and will not have to carry the burden, which pride causes by having to prove oneself. You won’t need to prove anything and therefore no stressful burden trying to prove it.

Just know who you are in Me! Walk in it, don’t be anxious or concerned about proving who you are. Let your confidence in Our Relationship be sufficient.

Learn of Me for I am meek and lowly.

                                                    Thus saith the Lord Jesus 

(Excerpt from “Developing a Secret History with God” Page 163)

Mat 11:29-30  Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

CHALLENGE: Unload that subtle yoke of pride and take His yoke upon you! Jesus didn’t try or need to prove who He was, because He was so confident in His relationship to the Father.

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Are You in a Spiritual Drought ?

July 29, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Dear Child,

Study what drought and the scorch of the sun has done to your garden and learn a parable.

See your roses, the root is striving to produce, that is its purpose, but see how small the roses are and how they lack their normal fragrance? It is almost as if the potential bud does not fully develop and therefore dies on the vine.

See how the trees that do not have deep roots wither? When a drought comes the trees with deep roots survive from the hidden water deep in the earth.

Spiritually this is how you will survive during a time of spiritual drought and heat of trials. You will be nourished from the hidden manna of your deep roots and secret history with Me. Then the fruit which your life will bear will be everlasting and a sweet fragrance to Me.

As you dedicate this intimate time with Me, the flower that will be produced from your life will not be a disappointment . It will not die on the vine, because you are nourishing it daily with your time spent with Me.

                                       Thus saith Papa (Excerpt from “Developing a Secret History with God” page 178)

Jer 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

CHALLENGE: Is your spiritual life drying up and dying on the vine due to a lack of intimate time with Papa that He may nourish your roots?

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I Really Want to Change But I Need Your Help, Lord!

June 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Dear Father,

Help me, Papa, to overcome, deny and not to feed that which is not of You in my temple!

I cannot, in myself, overcome attitudes that are of my fallen soulish nature. Help me! I can’t change my own attitudes; only you can! Do whatever it takes to conform me to the image of Christ.

Dear Child,

You lay it down, by not trying to preserve it and save it. Don’t even try to use attitudes of the old soulish nature to try and uphold the spirit, the spirit doesn’t need the fleshly soul to uphold it. In fact the fleshly soul will grieve the spirit and stunt the growth of your spirit.

Lay it down and lose it, that*old fleshly soul life; and you shall gain** spiritual life everlasting.

If you are feeding the soul and ego, you are starving the spirit! 

How often have I told you that your frustrations and attitudes are out of a desire to be pleasing and acceptable to man, be content with doing all things as unto Me, and these attitudes will have nothing to feed on! Do not feed attitudes that are not of my Spirit, starve them and do not dwell on them or give them life and they will wither and fall away like dead leaves on a tree. Without those leaves there will never be a manifestation of the fruit of the flesh.

                                                          Thus saith Papa

John 12:25  He that loveth his (psuche) life shall lose it; and he that hateth his (psuche) life in this world shall keep it unto (zoe) life 

This almost reads like an oxymoron “If I lose my life I will find my life” ??? until we look at these Greek words for “life”.

* “PSUCHE” is the Greek word used for our fleshly soul life

** “ZOE” is the Greek word for spiritual everlasting life 

1 Cor 5:7-8  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Challenge: Remember that to have a victory in the Spirit in this Great War you must have a defeat in the Flesh. Spend a few moments reflecting, with your heart totally naked before God, and list the attitudes that you need to put on a starvation diet!

Find inspiration and help from “DEVELOPING A SECRET HISTORY WITH GOD” as you daily visit the Potters’ House Jeremiah 18:2

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Alert! Alert! A Red Flag of Warning!

June 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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When we feel pain in our body it is a warning to alert us that something is not right with us physically and can drain our strength robbing us of quality of life. We should listen to our bodies and not ignore it for the pain is only a symptom and not the root of the problem. We need to visit a doctor to search and diagnose the root of the problem. Even then he can’t help us if we are not totally honest with him. He will give us a prescription for us to swallow or may recommend some form of surgery.

Likewise when we feel guilty our conscience is sending a warning to alert us that something is wrong with us spiritually robbing us of the joy of our salvation. We should listen to our conscience and not ignore that nagging conviction for it is only a symptom of a deeper root problem. We need to visit the Great Physician that He may search our totally open honest hearts to diagnosis the root of the guilt. He can then cleanse it out even if it may take spiritual surgery followed by a prescription signed by the Hand of God which may include swallowing a pill called pride which is the root of most of our spiritual ailments.There is nothing in this world that can replace the total joy of a guiltless relationship with God and with others.

Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

CHALLENGE: Why live any longer with the nagging pain of a guilty conscience when you can visit the Great Physician?

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