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Inner Truth~The Effective Messenger

UNIQUELY YOU

Psalm 119:73 says, “Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.”

There is no one else like you.  The population of the world in 2013 was 7.125 billion.  That is a staggering number to me, considering that NO two people are alike.  Fingerprints are used to identify us because each is unique in its markings.

Unique means being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.  We are not only unique in our design, but in our relationship with the Lord as well.  Psalm 8 was written by David.  He asks a question in verses 3-4.  “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?”

Your relationship with the Lord is individual.  It is not a duplication.  The Lord relates with you through your spiritual individuality.  He meets you where you are.  He will never put expectations on you because He knows your heart.  He knows everything about you from before your conception until you take your last breath.

Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you…”  Psalm 139:1-6 are David’s words about the Lord’s personal knowledge of us.  He knows when we sit down and rise up, He understands every thought, He is acquainted with all our ways, He knows our words before we speak them, and His hand is always on us.  Then verses 17-18 say, “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!  How great is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand.”

You may ask, “Why would the Holy Lord want a relationship with sinful me?”  He redeemed you for His own.  It is a great wonder for you to contemplate.  He can create anything He wants, yet He specifically created you to relate to Him personally. 

Colossians 1:16 says that all things were created through Him and for Him.  Connect that with Psalm 65:4.  It says, “Blessed is the man You choose, and cause to approach You, that he may dwell in Your courts…”  Please read Hosea 11:4.  Personalized it is saying that He drew you with His cords of love, and bound you to Himself forever! 

Ephesians 1:4 says, “Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.”  Your relationship with the Lord was divinely orchestrated.  Verse 11 says, “In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will.”

Everything in your relationship with the Lord is purposeful.  He loves you and desires intimate communion with you.  He longs to reveal Himself to you through His word.  1 Corinthians 2:9 says that our eyes have not seen, nor our ears heard, nor our heart has comprehended the things that are prepared for those who love Him.  Verse 10 Amplified says, “Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the (Holy) Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny).”

Psalm 25:14 Amplified says, “The secret (of the sweet, satisfying companionship) of the Lord have they who fear (revere and worship) Him, and He will show them His covenant and reveal to them its (deep, inner) meaning.”  The Lord so desires you to enter into a deeper place of intimacy with Him.  He is wooing you and drawing you to Himself that He may share His heart with you.  There is nothing to compare on this earth with intimate Heart-to-heart communion with Him.

I like to read Song of Solomon 2:14 like this as my heart’s response to the Lord’s wooing.  “O my Dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff, let me see Your face, let me hear Your voice; for Your voice is sweet, and Your face is lovely.” 

The Lord only shares His heart with His redeemed ones.  You are His chosen one, bought with the precious spilled blood of the Lord Jesus.  It is amazingly wonderful that He would want us for fellowship.  He created us with hearts that can respond.

Psalm 73:25 says, “Whom have I in heaven but You?  And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.”  May this be your confession.  May the Lord draw you deeper into intimate communion, that you may drink of the nectar of His love and be satisfied in Him.

Jeremiah 31:14 says, “I will satiate (fill to the full) the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord.”  Psalm 107:9 says, “For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.”

j marilyn adams ~ May 26, 2016

I have to tell you this marvelous orchestrated conversation.  I will use the initial for the other person.  I got a phone call from N the other evening.  She says: is this Marilyn Adams?  I said: yes in a hesitant way because I didn’t recognize the voice.  N said: I just got a phone call from your dad.  I said: well he is in a rest home and I don’t think he has your number.  N said: but the call came from your phone.  So I gave her my dad’s cell number and encouraged her to call him.  Obviously the Lord was up to something.

N called me dad.  He asked her why she called.  The only thing she could think of was to thank him for the way he had spoken into her life through the years.  He then told her how much he loved the rest home.  He said that some people hate it but he just loved it.  He told her how he was able to share the Lord with others now more than ever in his life.

The next morning N went to church.  She noticed that the pastor’s wife was really down.  N said to to M: you seem really burdened.  M said: yes, I am.  It is time to put my mother-in-law in a rest home.  She needs that kind of help.  I just feel so bad.  So N was able to share with M how she had just talked to a friend and how he loved the rest home.  M also like to share the Lord so she was really encouraged.

I just had to share this with you because I had puzzled over how N got a call from my home phone seeing my dad’s name.  There was no possible way.  Then this morning I saw N’s mom at the grocery store and she told me the “rest of the story” leaving both of us with tears in our eyes.  Only the Lord!!  He truly knows our thoughts before we think them, and He answers before we call.

Inner Truth~The Effective Messenger

EMBEDDED WORD

John 1:14 says, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”  How does His Word become our flesh and dwell in us?

John 15:7 Amplified says, “If you live in Me (abide vitally united to Me) and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.”  This verse is talking about embedding His Word in our hearts.  Embed means to fix an object firmly and deeply into a surrounding mass. 

Psalm 119:11 says, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”  We embed His word in our heart to ward off the temptation to sin.

Joshua 1:8 tells us to meditate to observe to do.  Apply the truths of His word through practical application.  1 John 1:6 says, “If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”

How do we practice the truth?  Let’s take the sin of anger for example.  Anger is a giant that has to be slain or it will slay you.  Proverbs 4:23 says, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”  Let me paraphrase.  “If you don’t resolve issues from your past hurts, present situations that remind you of your past, will erupt and spew when you least expect it.”

David slew his giant.  The smooth stone he chose went right to his target, embedding itself in Goliath’s forehead.  Goliath dropped dead in his tracks. 

1 Samuel 17:49 says, “Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.”

Only the word of God has the power to slay your giants.  You cannot fight flesh-giants with impotent flesh.  I would encourage you to write down or type out five verses, “stones” that deal specifically with anger.  Then meditatively read them twice a day out loud.  During the day, meditate on them, and embed them in your heart.

Proverbs 29:11 Amplified says, “A (self-confident) fool utters all his anger, but a wise man holds it back and stills it.”  When you are tempted to be angry, grab one of the stone verses.  Immediately put the verse into your mind and keep it there.  As you rehearse the verse, you will still your anger.  Then execute judgment on your angry thought.  Wrestle it down until you conquer it.  Acknowledge your sin and receive His cleansing.

Proverbs 15:1 says, “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”  This is a key.  You come in the opposite spirit.  Angry people clash with angry people because they goad one another.  Don’t retaliate.  Stop the exchange.  It takes two to tango.

Proverbs 15:2 says, “The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.”  A fool retaliates.  Proverbs 12:16 Amplified says, “A fool’s wrath is quickly and openly known, but a prudent man ignores an insult.”  Proverbs 25:15 Amplified says, “By long forbearance and calmness of spirit a judge or ruler is persuaded, and soft speech breaks down the most bonelike resistance.”

James gives us specific instruction about anger.  James 1:19-20 says, “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”  Anger is often rooted in self-righteousness.  The Lord calls us to walk in His righteousness.

Romans 1:18 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all  ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”  To suppress truth is the opposite of practicing it.  Do you use people’s actions or circumstances as an excuse for your anger?  Excuse is the skin of reason wrapped in a lie.  Acknowledgement is the first step in confession.  1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

The Lord uses strong words to expose anger and its minions.  Ephesians 4:31 Amplified says, “Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil-speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will or baseness of any kind).”

Romans 13:14 says, “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make NO provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”  Slay your giant of anger and be free from it’s dominion!

j marilyn adams ~ May 12, 2016

More news: Reviving Burned Stones is now published. This is the title the Lord gave me in 2002 for healing from rejection. First it was a newsletter (some of you might remember) and now an ebook!

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Trophies of Grace, Power of Thoughts, and Watermarks.

I wanted to tell you my exciting news.  I just published the first two of my five ebooks.  They are very short with a single subject, but with powerful timeless truths.  They will be on Amazon in 48 hours and available world wide.  I also took the option to give them away for a short time period.  I will let you know about that when I figure it out 🙂

Here are the two covers:

Inner Truth~The Effective Messenger

THE BITE OF THE BACKBITTER

2 Corinthians 4:2 says, “But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling he word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.” 

Sins behind the back compromise our conscience.  Our conscience helps us discern right from wrong.  To quench it, causes us to lose spiritual sensitivity.  Psalm 66:18 says, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.”  Proverbs 28:13 says, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”

Bitebitting is verbal rejection spoken behind someone’s back.  Proverbs 15:4 says, “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.”  Backbitting words spoken to the face would crush the spirit. 

Paul addressed the Corinthians church in 2 Corinthians 12:20 about their negative behavior.  It says, “For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults.”

Luke 6:31 says, “And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.”  If you would not want others to malign your character to your face, then do not malign other’s behind their back.  Malign means to speak about someone in a spitefully critical manner.  Bitebiting words affect not only the speaker but the hearers.  They defile everyone involved by sowing seeds of distrust.  Have you ever listened to the words of a backbiter?  You are defiled.  If you judged them, then you will do the same thing.  Backbiting is a grievous sin.

A backbitter is double minded.  James 3:2-12 talks about the tongue.  Verses 9-10 says, “With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.  Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brethren, these things out not to be so.”  Backbite and worship are like oil and water.  They do not mix.  James 1:8 says, “He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”  A backbitter lacks the character of consistency.  To be double-minded is to be drawn in two opposite directions.

If you have been caught up in backbiting, James has the antidote.  James 4:8 says, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”  The Amplified says, “…(realize that you have been disloyal) wavering individual with divided interests, and purifying your hearts (of your spiritual adultery).”  We cannot backbite and walk in intimate communion with the Lord at the same time. 

Inner defilement contaminates our temple.  1 Corinthians 6:20 says, “For you were bought at a price; there glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

Backbiting is sin against God.  David helps us understand that all sin is against God.  Psalm 51:4 says, “Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight–that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge.”

Choose words that will build up and strengthen.  Proverbs 16:24 says, “Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.”  David penned words that can be our prayer.  Psalm 19:14 says, “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.”

Our words are first thoughts.  If you find yourself entertaining negative thoughts about another, change your thoughts.  If you don’t they will come out of your mouth when you least expect them.  After satan had tempted the Lord Jesus in the garden, he left with a hidden agenda.  Luke 4:13 says, “Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed form Him until an opportune time.”

John 13:3 says, “And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him.”  Verse 27 says, “Now after the piece of bread, satan entered him…”

Do not give the devil any ground in your life through your thoughts.  Don’t set up those opportunities.  Ephesians 4:27 says, “Nor give place to the devil.”  The Amplified says, “Leave no (such) room or foothold for the devil (give no opportunity to him).”  He will put fiery dart thoughts into our minds.  We must quench them through our faith.  Ephesians 6:16 says, “Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. j marilyn adams ~ April 14, 2016