2 Timothy 4:3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth
Have We Lost the Fear of God?
August 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dear Child,
If you truly fear Me it will set you free! not punish you, because that fear will give you the courage to let go, the motivation to walk away from that which holds you in bondage. It is sin that is the slave master, not the fear of my presence and facing me as you come to fellowship with me.
As you reverently fear me, child, you will walk uprightly and have no reason to lack boldness and confidence to come into my presence.
Thus saith Papa
Surely the fear of God is the motivation to cause us to change our ways, not only for our own good but for the good of our children!
Jer 32:39-40 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
2 Corinthians 7:1 Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Where we find a lack of the fear of God we also find a lack of holiness.
CHALLENGE: Have we lost a reverent fear and respect for God’s holiness in our lives and churches? Has society lost respect and fear of all earthly authority because the church has lost respect and fear for God’s authority? If the church is God’s light in the world surely we lead the way for the world!
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My Audience of One
August 9, 2016 by Leave a Comment
On a sunny day in June, I was sitting in my garden of prayer, where I daily converse with the Lord. I admit I had a discouraged heart that morning, and found myself wondering if all my hours of labor on my website was in vain, not knowing if it was bringing life to others. God used this moment to speak this word of exhortation to my heart.
Dear Child,
Listen to the birds, look at the beauty of the roses! The birds sing unto Me regardless if man appreciates them or applauds them! The roses bloom and scent the air, regardless if man appreciates them or applauds them! They fulfill the purpose of their creation, regardless of appreciation or applause from man.
They bring glory to My Name, by naturally without reasoning or questioning, doing that which, I, the Creator planned for them. They do it just to bring Me joy!
Child, may your life continue to blossom,
May your life continue to give fragrance,
Regardless of appreciation or applause from man!
The birds don’t reason, nobody is appreciating my song, so I won’t sing today!
Nor do the roses reason, nobody is admiring me today, so I will stop blooming and giving fragrance!
Child, do not reason or question, simply sing, bloom and gave fragrance through your writing just for Me!
Thus saith Papa
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Rev. 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
CHALLENGE: May this word of exhortation encourage your heart as it did mine, and remind you of “Your Audience of One” who sees and knows all your labor of love.
There is Beauty in the Thorns
July 31, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dear Child,
Can’t you see and understand with your heart that when you are admitting your weaknesses in trials and testings, you are humbling yourself. When you humble yourself before Me, My grace is available to you. That is how My strength is made perfect in weakness. So, child, glory in that weakness and need of Me, that My power may rest upon you.
Thus saith Papa
2Cor.12: 7-9…there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
“Paul recognizes not merely God’s strength but also his own weakness. Countless saints have been carried through trial and testings by means of this revelation of God to Paul. Oh, if we ourselves only knew how weak we are! For as soon as the weakness leaves us, POWER likewise departs! But what we go through perfects the words we utter. As we then rise up and admitting our own weaknesses, speak words that are tempered through trial, our brothers and sisters, themselves under testing, are given by God the grace and the strength to carry them through also.” Watchman Nee
Hebrews 2:18 Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.
“The thorns Christ wore for us, with which He was crowned, sanctify and make easy all the thorns in the flesh we may at any time be afflicted with. Temptations and trials are most grievous thorns; they are messengers of Satan to buffet us. The design was to keep Paul humble. Paul gloried in his infirmities… this does not mean sinful infirmities (those we have reason to be ashamed of and grieved at) but he means his afflictions, his reproaches, persecutions and distresses for Christ’s sake. These were opportunities for Christ to manifest His power and sufficiency of His grace upon Paul.” Henry Matthew Commentary
The Lord not only took upon Himself my sin and bore my sickness, He also wore my thorns! Surely those thorns were a part of our Lord humbling Himself even to His death on the cross! After Adam’s fall the earth was cursed with thorns and when the Lord Jesus wore that crown of thorns He was actually bearing the curse of the sins of the world.
Phil 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Even as a beautiful rose is displayed on the branches bearing thorns, even so the beautiful love of our savior is displayed beneath a crown of thorns.
The beauty of our lives is displayed when buffeted by those thorns of the flesh!
Those thorns buffet us to shine because they humble us in our weakness that His grace may shine through us.
CHALLENGE: Pray this prayer “Dear Father, Help me by your power to truly digest this truth, that you may be glorified in my life. That others will not see me, but rather your grace and power manifested. That your glory will shine through the cracks of my brokeness.”
Abiding in Him
June 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dear Father,
How do I abide in You?
Dear Child
Abiding in Me is abiding in the Word for I am the Word, and if you do not abide in the Word, you can do nothing. Abiding is living with, you must live with and by the Word. Abiding is not just visiting BUT living with continually.
Abiding in Me is abiding in My Body. You can’t stay connected to the Head unless you are in the Body. Parts of the Body cannot operate in the Spirit apart from the Head.
Abiding in Me is talking with Me. If you live and abide with Me you will converse with Me.
Without these you are not abiding, you are only occasionally visiting.
Thus saith Papa
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Challenge: Are you abiding or only occasionally visiting?
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