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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.

Yesterday the Holy Spirit gave me “Barnacle Faith” as the title to my newspaper article.  Here is the first part.

Deuteronomy 30:20 says, “That you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for Hie is your life and length of days…”  Like a barnacle, we must cling to the Rock.  It is our key to persevering faith.

Hebrews 10:23 says, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”  We cling to Him through His word with refusal to let go.

I just wrote something in my journal that I want to share with you.  Last night I meditated on “Your words were found and I did eat them” from Jeremiah 15:16.  What we eat, we chew and digest.  The nutrients from our food feeds our cells and nourishes them.  The same thing happens when we mediate on His word.  It feeds and nourishes our spirit, soul, and body.

Psalm 16:7 says, “I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; my heart also instructs me in the night seasons.”  Night seasons: the dark times in our lives, the hard trials, the waiting in the unknown.  The things we have meditated on in the light will be illuminated in the dark.  Our meditation becomes the reservoir we draw from in troubled times.

Last night I was meditating on “of His fullness” from John 1 :16.

I have to share this with you from the Amplified.  It says, “For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received (all had a share and we were all supplied with) one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift (heaped) upon gift.”

Let us rejoice in His wondrous supply of grace and spiritual blessings and favor and gifts, continually stacked upon one another.

Here is a new song He gave me yesterday:

Gazing

I gaze into Your eyes of grace, pooled with love for me

I marvel and I wonder of the love You have for me

You loved me first, before I even knew

You died to set me free from sin to give me life anew

If I would but believe and trust You with my heart

Then Your love, that wondrous love, would flood into my life

My life is consecrated Lord to You and You alone

You continue to enfold me and renew my love for You

I serve You Lord, and worship at Your feet

Your word is my sustainer, and director of my thoughts

Again, again I marvel and wonder at Your pure love for me

                                                     September 1, 2015

Waiting on the Lord.  John 15:5 says, “I am the vine, you are the branches.  He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

I looked up this verse in Andrew Murray’s little book on John 15.  “As Son, He did not receive His life from the Father once and for all, but moment by moment.  His life was a continual waiting on the Father for all He was to do.  Abiding in Me is indispensable, for, of yourselves, you can do nothing to maintain or act out the heavenly life.  Lord!  I am nothing, ever waiting on Your fullness.”

Isaiah 64 4 – Who acts for those who wait for Him.