The Holy Spirit just showed me the progression of self-sabotage.  Always satan is looking for ways to defeat us.  Confidence is our victory that overcomes!!

Hebrews 10:23 says, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”  Verse 35 says, “Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.”

The moment satan causes something in our unconscious to rise up, it is a road block set to defeat our faith.  In that moment we might waver, but it is just the temptation to waver.  We are at a crossroad.  If we DON’T dialogue with it, there will be no battle.  If we confess the hidden and RELEASE it right then to the Lord, it will strengthen and purify our faith.  Abraham did not waver because his confidence was in the Lord.  Romans 4:21 says, “And being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.”

Ephesians 4:2 Amplified says, “Living as becomes you with complete lowliness of mind (humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentleness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another.”

Speaking of love in I Corinthians 13:5 the Amplified says, “….it takes no account of the evil done to it (it pays no attention to a suffered wrong).”

Making allowances: letting go of wrongs done, in order to maintain a right relationship.

This morning I was driving to my doctor appointment in Anderson (1/2 hr. from my house) when my car smelled hot.  I saw the yellow “check” light and took the closest exit.  He intercepted my way to redirect me into His way.

I was talking to my tow truck driver about the fire on our road.  Near the end I told him that I totally believed that it was God who protected me, then asked if he knew Jesus.  He said that he didn’t and that he was an atheist.  He also said that when he died he would just die.  We were on my road with all the oak trees and beautiful sky.  I asked him how he thought they were all created.  He said “The big bang theory?”  When I asked him how he could believe in a hypothesis rather than fact, he couldn’t answer me.

I told him that I had written for our newspaper and one of the articles was in a tract form.  He agreed to read it.  So when he got me home I brought him my little tract “Absolute Truth.”  He said that he wanted to believe but he just didn’t.  I pointed to the magnetic sign on my garage door “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.”  He said that he would be sure and read it.  His name is Tony if you want to pray for his salvation.

Last night I had a great time meditating on stories in the Bible where the Lord redirected the lives of the people involved.  Think of Saul of Tarsus, Cornelius, the two widows in 1 & 2 Kings.  I often refer to Acts 16:6-10 and the Macedonia call when I’m seeking His direction.  He is the One Who opens and shuts doors.

Years ago the Lord gave me a new definition for frustration: God intercepting my way to redirect me into His way.

Last night I was meditating on “lay aside” from Hebrews 12:1.  To me, to lay aside something is rather nonchalant and passive.  However, this verse is talking about aggressive action.  Words like cast off, fling away, or throw off.  It is a picture of seizing something and violently throwing it away from  me.

Hebrews 12:1 says that it is the sin that so easily ensnares us.  The Amplified uses the sin that clings to and entangles us.  One day I was walking across the lawn and was just about to put my foot down on the patio sidewalk when a snake appeared.  I high stepped it, but we got entangled for a few moments before we both fled.  It’s a great picture of a stronghold.  It entangles us.  It unexpectedly rises up to impede our walk with the Lord.  We need to do whatever it takes to violently cast it off!

Gmail is blocking my group emails.  I will be posting my Inner Truth notes on this blog.

Inner Truth~The Effective Messenger

EMBEDDED THOUGHTS

We become what we think.  Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he…”  Our thoughts govern our lives.  Embedded lies will hold us captive.  Embedded truth will set us free.

Meditating on God’s word will embed truth in our inner man, and help us walk as Jesus walked.  James 1:21 calls it the implanted word.  Every thought that Jesus thought was in alignment with God’s thoughts.  He always did the things that pleased the Father.  John 8:29 says, “And He who sent Me is with Me.  The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”

Colossians 1:10 says, “That you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”  This is a great prayer to adopt for ourselves. 

Negative embedded thoughts not only do not please the Lord but they oppose Him.  Does what you believe about yourself align with God’s thoughts towards you?  Any thought against yourself opposes God’s thoughts and ways.  Embedded thoughts against yourself are internally waging war against God’s thoughts towards you.  Psalm 139:17 says, “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!  How great is the sum of them!”  Anything opposing God’s will creates warfare in our minds.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 Amplified says, “For the weapons of our warfare are not physical (weapons of flesh and blood), but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, (inasmuch as we) refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the (true) knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ…”  Lying strongholds are overthrown, and new citadels of truth are erected through meditating on God’s words of truth.

Negative, disparaging, or caustic thoughts against ourselves undermine our health.  They create chemical imbalances, toxic emotions, and acidic conditions.  They weaken our immune systems, making our bodies defenseless against germs, virus, bacteria, and infections.  They break the natural rhythm He created to give us health and vitality to serve Him all the days of our lives.

Embedded lies suppress the truth.  Romans 1:18 says, “…who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”  Unrighteousness opposes God’s will.  The ground we give over to satan, allows him to rule through our thoughts.  Paul instructed Timothy how to deal with those who opposed truth.  2 Timothy 2:25-26 says, “In humility correct those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”

Isaiah 5:13 says, “Therefore My people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge…”  Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…”  Luke 4:18 Amplified says, “…He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity).”  Jesus came to set the captives free!

He sets us free through the truth that we know.  The Greek word for know means: to perceive, understand, recognize, gain knowledge, realize, come to know.  It is the recognition of truth by personal experience.  Meditating on truth embeds truth in our inner man.  That personal truth will metamorphose our unrighteous thoughts.  It will override the lies that we have believed and have been controlled by.  If satan can get us to believe a lie, he can use it to control our lives.  Who controls you?  Is it satan’s lies or God’s truth?  Romans 12:2 says, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed (metamorphosis) by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable (pleasing) and perfect will of God.”

We are children of God.  Through salvation we are adopted.  Romans 8:15-16 says, “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out ‘Abba, Father.’  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”  1 John 3:1 says, “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!…”

What manner of love has He lavished on us?  His love is unconditional.  It is not conditioned because of our past.  He has called us to be witnesses of His love through the message of our lives.  Ephesians 4:1-2 says, “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love.”

j marilyn adams ~ October 8, 2015

Last night I was meditating on standing in truth.  To stand means that we are being opposed.  We are always being opposed when we walk in the Spirit.  When we walk in our flesh, we won’t be opposed by satan because he is influencing it.  Our trials purify our faith.  They make it strong so that we can stand.  1 John 5:4 says that our victory to overcome is our faith!

Last night I was meditating on invisible.  The Lord is always at work.  We don’t see that work from beginning to end.  He allows us though to see the end of His marvelous orchestration.  Yes, I’m thinking again about His deliverance with the fire.  The fire skirted in a half circle before the huge oak.  Oaks combust and it would have been really serious.  It is as though the Lord drew a line that the fire could not cross.

Pharaoh’s magicians recognized God’s power and called it the finger of God.  Psalm 8:3 says, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of You fingers…”  I love Job 26:14.  It says, “Indeed these are the mere edges of His way, and how small a whisper we hear of Him!  But the thunder of His power who can understand?”

There is a hymn with these words: Every joy or trial falleth from above, traced upon our dial by the Son of love.  We may trust Him fully all for us to do; they who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.”

Last night I was meditating on being fearfully and wonderfully made.  Psalm 139:14 says, “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”

This morning I looked this up in Clarke’s commentary.  He says the word “fearfully” means: reverence with a sense of awe.  This is a great healing perspective for those who have struggled with self-rejection or self-hatred.  We are intricately shaped, fashioned, and designed by our Masterful Designer.

Psalm 119:73 says, “Your hands have made me and fashioned me…”

Here is an interesting connection the Holy Spirit just made for me.  Deuteronomy 33:27 says, “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms…”  There was no intercessor for the Lord.  Isaiah 59:16 says, “…therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; and His own righteousness, it sustained Him.”

He is our Sustainer in our trials through His righteousness.  Hebrews 12:11 Amplified says, “For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it (a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness — in conformity to God’s will in purpose, thought, and action…)”

Isaiah 32:17 says that the work of and effect of righteousness is peace, quietness, and confidence.  He in our Intercessor.  He undergirds and sustains us in His righteousness.