To get to the Monday morning thinking of God before all else, where are you this morning. I simply ask this simple question to arouse your heart and your mind towards Heaven. Pastor John brought up some solid reasoning we should all be thinking about on the largest of scales. Who is teaching you (us)? What things are you listening too not just now but since you were born. what are you listening to in your thinking, in you reasoning, in your logic? What are the saying that we lean towards to comfort you to give you guidance to give you direction or to make you sound righteous to those around you? Are you lifting the world around you or are you judging it and tearing it down? Are you lifting people in your mind and saying I'm just showing them God's love and loving on them and not actually helping the situation or the person? What part of Jesus are you showing the world around you? Is your dismissiveness biblical when you see the homeless guy or the hotel clerk or the fast-food worker who needs to bathe? I think on the the things people say in life "let go and let God" "the love of money is evil" "hate the sin, love the sinner" and so on and so on. These are only a couple of many WE SPEAK, WE HEAR AND WE BELIEVE WHOLLY. These are not scripture. the context can align with scripture sure but these words alone as a fix all or lean too isn't the Word of God. There is only one fix for this and that's actually knowing the Word of God personally. There is life and death in the Tonge: Proverbs 18:21 - 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. We all are guilty of speaking wrong scripture and wrong teaching when we have relied on the words of others and not the Word itself. I say this to get you to thinking about the loving conviction of Holy Spirit in your life as you listen, are you listening well? Are you hearing His Words are you paying attention, or are you simply relying on what YOU think or what OTHERS said, even your most trusted Spiritual leader? I leave with this a loving conviction is from your comforter and friend, a condemnation is wholly from the enemy. There is no condemnation in the Lord. How are you speaking and treating and even thinking about others you encounter in your daily walk? Listen and be in the Word. I love you all and pray this is an inspiration not a weight, lift others and be lifted.
Father in Heaven We come to you now in the blessed name above all names Christ Jesus. We simply ask you to help us to be in the Word more and to listen more intently with a focus strictly on you and you alone. Help us to lift others just as you have lifted us. In the Holy Humble Gracious Wonderful Amazing Name of Christ Jesus, Amen!
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