Category: wisdom

Life Construction

Every day you choose a stone, and you select a place to use it. It is difficult, once the stone is placed, to go back later to correct an improper placement. Therefore, keep the power of the Spirit operating constantly in order to place each stone where it will enhance the completed building of your life.

Meditation Thought: “Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected,
    which has become the cornerstone.'” (Acts 4:11)

Just as a builder chooses a stone and its placement in the building being constructed, so we, too, choose the ‘stones’ (decisions, choices, relationships, etc.) we use to build our lives.

“If you will yield your will to Me, I will inspire in your mind and in your heart the knowledge of the Spirit concerning the worldly. The stones you view through only your human eyes will never appear as they truly are, and therefore you will misuse them. It is only when you, through obedience to Me in seeking My will, are enlightened by the x-ray power of the Spirit to know that is inside of the stones, that you can place each stone in its proper place and proper perspective in the building of your life.

Every day you choose a stone, and you select a place to use it. It is difficult, once the stone is placed, to go back later to correct an improper placement. Therefore, keep the power of the Spirit operating constantly in order to place each stone where it will enhance the completed building of your life. The tools of the Kingdom are available for your asking, but if you insist on using the inferior tools of your human judgment and will, they will do you no good.

Do not judge your construction in progress by others’ buildings for each building for each building has a unique function to serve only the requirements of the one who builds it.

Each ideally would be a beautiful monument to the Father, but only by the yielding of free will is this possible. You can yield, you want to yield, and I will help you to yield: consult the plans for your life-building as contained in My Word before you choose a stone. Then pray for the penetration of the Spirit to reveal the particular characteristics of that stone. Observe the circumstances in your life to determine the placement of the stone. Give thanks to Me that it is in place and trust that, whether it appears right to you, that it will be right when your building is complete.”

An Avalanche of Love, Mercy & Blessing

I do not raise My hand to strike, but to bless.

Meditation Thought: “…what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” (Acts 3:6)

We ask for what we think is possible – and God gives us the “impossible” gift that we desire from the depth of our souls. Praise His Holy Name!

Message perceived as from the Father:

“I have the joys and the riches of love, mercy and blessing ready to pour out in an avalanche to My people: My dear children who know Me and My dear children who do not yet know that they are Mine.

You – yes, you, as My obedient child, must release the plug that is holding back this avalanche. You must chip away at this plug of evil embraced, willfulness pursued, My commandments ignored – you are guilty of these acts, but you know how to expiate your guilt through confession and a plea for forgiveness. Practice this more diligently, and teach those who are ignorant.

The more surely you follow the path of your Savior, the more surely you learn all that He knows: the more completely you will be obedient to Me, and the more quickly My avalanche of love, mercy and blessing may be released. Tarry not, for the time is short to do My work, and My beloved children must be brought to the realization that they are Mine, and being Mine, they are free from sin, and the pain of sin.

I do not raise My hand to strike, but to bless, and they must come to know this truth to replace Satan’s lie. Thus all can come confidently within the reach of My hand, seeking love, unafraid of reproof. For all who confess on Jesus’ Name come to Me as pure, as obedient, and as pleasing to Me as My Son himself.”

Wow!

To be Successful: Follow

Without truth you will live in fear.

Meditation Thought:  “Follow me.” (John 21:19)

Message perceived as coming from Jesus:

“I came that you might have hope and not despair. Look up from the disappointment, the hurt, the confusion, to see My loving Presence to take you with Me to the revelation of the Father’s goodness and mercy. No person can stand alone, for people were created for fellowship with their Father and their brothers and sisters. Only through the exercise of interaction with all of the family can each person grow into the pure image of the Father. For the Father reveals through the Spirit, and the Spirit reveals through believers, and believers receive the power of the Spirit by following Me.

If you do not follow Me, I cannot reveal the truth to you. Without truth you will live in fear, with truth you live in the power of the Living Spirit to overcome fear. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, and death has no power over Me nor over those who follow Me. To Mine is the resurrection and the hope, for the death of the body is the birth of the beauty of the spirit: the spirit released from the sins, the doubts, and the guilts which the body bound around it.

Follow Me – not at a distance, but taking My hand, that you may feel Me surely, guiding every step, to bring you surely and quickly to the joy of the Father’s glory shining over you.

Follow Me to your rightful home, for only I know the way: let us move together as one in purpose, eager to take each step in harmony and love knowing that the Father awaits our arrival with open arms and open heart.”

Insider Information

The Word in your mind, the love in your heart, and the Presence in your soul will carry you through the world on wings of peace and joy.

Meditation Thought: “For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled” (John 19:36)

“The Word precedes the deed, and the spiritual shall evolve into the physical. Look to the realm of the spirit through the ingesting of the Word of Life that you may be blessed by being in harmony with the creation of the physical from the spiritual – you will have ‘insider information’.

It is the duty of my children to learn the laws of the land in order that they may obey them, and thus be protected by them rather than imprisoned by them. The law in your mind, the love in your heart, and the Presence in your soul will carry you through the world on wings of peace and joy.”

Power Source

“Can you work miracles in the physical? Can you understand mysteries? Can you provide all resources you need, regardless of circumstances? Can you overcome ego, greed, desire to free yourself to love wholly? If you cannot do all of these works in your own strength, then may I do them with Mine?”

Meditation Thought:  “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

“If you cannot stand alone, then it is obvious that something outside of you holds you erect. Delight that this is so, for My upholding strength shall be of far more value to you than you relying on your own strength.

Your adversity is turned into opportunity,
Your mistakes into healing ministries,
Your frustrations into peace,
Your guilt into righteousness,
Your inadequacies into works,
And all of your weaknesses into My glory.

Out of humility shall you call upon Me – and in love do I rescue you, bless you, help you. I shall not force Myself upon your claims – therefore, whatever you claim for yourself is what you will manage by yourself – but whatever you yield up to be consecrated, devoted, dedicated to Me, and used by Me, shall be under My jurisdiction and My influence, and my direction. What area is better handled you yourself? Physical? Spiritual? Financial? Relationships?

Do you understand? By choosing to trust every area of your life to Me, you ‘modernize’, you ‘improve’, you are dealing with the ‘new and improved’: the new creature in Christ, and, the workings of the Holy Spirit.

Can you work miracles in the physical? Can you understand mysteries? Can you provide all resources you need, regardless of circumstances? Can you overcome ego, greed, desire to free yourself to love wholly? If you cannot do all of these works in your own strength, then may I do them with Mine?”

The Lord’s Prayer

You have touched me, softened me – yet strengthened me.

Meditation Thought: “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:9-10)

My Prayer: My Father, who art in heaven – and in me – and in my family, my neighbor, and my enemy – enable me to perceive Thy will, obey Thy will, and rejoice in obeying it to the point of being numbed to all pain that once could have kept me from having the courage to do it – for my life now has meaning only through you. You have touched me, softened me – yet strengthened me, when I can do Your will, I know that You re-shape me into whatever you need at that given moment, at that given time, and that given place to be the perfect expression of Your ministering, healing Love. And so I pray – earnestly, by as act of my will – that Your will be done in my life here on earth and in heaven too. In Jesus Precious Name, I pray. Amen.

The Constitution of the Kingdom

To know the love and power of God in my life is wonderful for me, but only if I pass along the grandeur of it in the living out of my days will it bring glory to the Father and fulfillment of the purpose of the Holy Spirit.

Meditation Thought: “The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but the one who prophesies edifies the church.” 1 Corinthians 14:4)

There is no limit on the love of God or the knowledge of God. There is no limit on the variety of ways of God expressing His love and His knowledge.

We are to be so in tune with the will of God that we can know, moment by moment, the manner in which He desires to express His love and His knowledge to us and through us. For He desires to edify (instruct and improve) us and the church, not one or the other, for one is part of the other, as both are part of God.

The kingdom of God is not divided – the Kingdom is unified – unified, but always in a state of flux – as each part is changed as it opens itself to new revelation of love and knowledge, so it affects another part, and the Kingdom, though still the same, is also changed. The original constitution of the Kingdom remains constant, but the living out of the expression of that constitution is unique for every creature and for every moment of time and for every place and for every situation.

To edify oneself through prayer – either in known language or language of the spirit, through words or through deeds, through ministering or being the recipient of ministering – whatever the expression of the edification of the individual, it must be translated into the edification of the whole Kingdom, in one form or another, at some time, if it is to fulfill its total purpose and meaning.

To know the love and power of God in my life is wonderful for me, but only if I pass along the grandeur of it in the living out of my days will it bring glory to the Father and fulfillment of the purpose of the Holy Spirit. And only when the translation is made by the power of the indwelling Spirit, from individual to corporate, is my environment changed into what I need to fulfill the purpose for which the Father created me: both for the fulfillment of my own purpose, and for the goal of the church as the Body: the reconciling of the world to the Father.

Love Is… and Is Not

Love is delight in giving, discipline, reaching out, accepting love from another, trusting God.

Meditation Thought: “Love is patient and kind… rejoices in right… bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4,6,7 paraphrased)

Love is taking delight in giving, not receiving. Love is discipline to do as you know you aught to do – even when you don’t want to. Love is reaching out to offer help despite knowing that you may get your hand bitten instead of shaken. Love is acting according to God’s will, not self-will. The resulting clear conscience is a catalyst which makes it easier to express even more love, in more ways.

Love is accepting love from another – not ignoring it if it isn’t from someone you don’t really care about, not rejecting it because of a previous hurt, not questioning it if you are puzzled by it, and not being fearful of it because you have feelings of shame and guilt and these might have to be put out in the open.

Love is trusting God, who created us and who is Love, to overcome any problems (as we see the situation) that might result from our stepping out in faith to love.

Constantly & Enthusiastically

To be humble is to become teachable. If we are teachable, God will teach us gently, thoroughly, and swiftly.

Meditation Thought: “But if we indeed judge ourselves truly, we should not be judged.” (1 Corinthians 11:31)

“Judge truly”. This is possible only in light of God’s revelation of Truth to us, that we may compare ourselves to the Pure Eternal Truth: the image of the Father, as exhibited by the Son, taught by the Holy Spirit, and revealed through the Word.

If we are willing to risk comparing ourselves to this Truth, we become humble – and to be humble is to become teachable. If we are teachable, God will teach us gently, thoroughly, and swiftly, thus fulfilling His purposes for us more readily.

However, if we deceive ourselves, either by comparing ourselves to something other than Pure, Complete Truth, or by mis-evaluating our own selves as we compare ourselves to the Truth, this constitutes rebellion in the refusing to humble ourselves enough to seek a true evaluation. And rebellion against God is the – willingly or unwillingly – with knowledge or in ignorance – to join in Satan’s plans to make us allies and to alienate us from the Father.

Thus we must constantly, and enthusiastically ingest the Word, pray for the Father’s will and guidance, seek to know every facet of Jesus Christ, and prepare ourselves to be worthy containers for holding the Spirit if we are to be competent judges of ourselves.

Am I Willing?

You can trust Him to re-make you more beautifully and completely in His image.

Meditation Thought: “…let each person lead the life (or walk in the way) that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him.” (1 Corinthians 7:17)

If you do not lead the life needed to complete the Plan of God, the Plan will not reach the perfection of God’s image. This is the crux: will you be willing to subject your total self to His total Plan? For you will feel the pinch of others being crowded against you as movement takes place to do cleansing, and building, and rearranging in order to undo the mischief done by self-will and Satan’s exploitation of that self-will.

If you can be soft, pliable, yielding – then God can re-shape you, move you and energize you to conform to whatever He needs you to be. If you can trust Him to re-work you – not only from what you were some time ago – but what you are at any given moment, you will have peace and joy in any circumstances, you will know the delight of being a light in the darkness, leaven in the bread, salt of the earth, the Father’s child not only made – but more beautifully and completely re-made in His image.

As a child can grow to look like, think like, and act like his father as time goes by, so you, by the willingness of your heart and the power of the Spirit released fully by Jesus’ obedience unto death, will bit by bit become more like your Father.

Do not tarry, but keep the conscious thought at all times to yield, to seek through diligence in pursuit of Word and Spirit – that the life-saving surgery, the surgery needed for improved health, and the cosmetic surgery all may be performed and completed to God’s glory and your joy.