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This is behind me as I play piano. Who can hear with that beautiful view. lol
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Is the Holy Spirit :
* Guiding you?
* Directing you?
* Walking with you?
How can you tell? Do you recognize His voice?
Abram was told by the Lord to: “Walk before me and be ye perfect.”
Moses: “Walked in the Ways of The Lord.
David: ” walked before me.”
We have quite a bit of information of Davids walk:
” David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:”
“the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.”
” if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, ”
” the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, ”
” he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.”
David was a man after Gods own heart, yet he walked before, or in uprightness and integrity of heart to do all The Lord commanded.
We have a different calling:
” walk in the steps of faith, walk in newness of life, Walk in the Spirit, walk in love, Walk in wisdom, walk in the light, walk in truth.
This is our New Testament calling. We are no longer walking before or in the ways of.
We are now called to:
Matthew 11:28-30
King James Version (KJV)
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Have you learned to walk in His yoke? That means to walk with Him like Enoch, Noah, Levi…not before, in the ways of, but beside, in harmony with, in rest.
In the peace that passes understanding, in joy unspeakable and full of glory. In the Power of the Holy Spirit, healing all that are afflicted. Causing the blind to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear.
Comforting the brokenhearted.
Lord help us to walk with You, to hear and understand Your direction.
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Is the Holy Spirit :
* A figment of our imagination?
* A fairytale?
* A promise not yet received?
A vibrant, living center of you? The Holy Spirit is here, available now, He is at hand, to comfort, lead, guide, direct, teach, empower, heal, raise the dead, give sight to the blind, make the lame walk, the deaf hear, proclaim the year of the Lord.
Do you see His hand in your life? Church? Fellowship?
(Sand Sculpture at Atlantic Beach, NC this year, do not know artist. Facial expression, priceless ).
The Apostles did. Why? They knew the Old Testament and realized exactly what the Lord had delivered them from. Sin and Death, Sacrifice and Mourning, Rituals and False Religion.
Today some of us feel if we are saved we can’t sin. Wrong
Some of us feel we aren’t worthy to do his work. Wrong
We don’t need His Baptism of the Holy Spirit, because we have His Spirit because we’re Saved. Wrongheaded.
We shouldn’t desire Spiritual Gifts. Wrong….”Desire Spiritual Gifts, Desire the best Spiritual Gifts.”
We aren’t worthy, trustworthy, faithful, prayerful, humble, teachable, moldable, flexible, holy……
Herein lies the problem.
We really have not learned to walk in the Spirit. At least I have not learned to be immediately available and obedient. When my sister-in-law was in the hospital in pain, the nurses asked us to leave the room, so they could do their thing. I believe the Lord wanted me to annoint her with oil and pray right then.
I prayed outside her room for a half-hour before I had a piece. Another half hour went by before we could go back in the room….she was still in pain, I finally annointed her with oil and prayed some more.
A half hour later the nurses finally did what was needed to relieve her. If I had been immediately obedient instead of holding back (fear of ?). I believe she would’ve suffered for a much shorter time.
(Picture of a quilt square at The Waterfowl Museum on Harkers Island, NC).
I don’t believe the Lord is upset because of my hesitation, maybe disappointed. He understands the learning curve we must complete. He wasn’t mad at Gideon, He just walked him through.
I get a kick out of the story of Abram, in Genesis 12 it says: ” Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, ”
To me this means. It was said more than once. If our hearts are turned toward the Lord, He will walk us through the learning curve, as He did for Abram, Abram walked before the Lord for 24 years, he believed Gods promise and was counted as Righteous.
We must walk with the Spirit all the way along the learning curve, untill we understand His guidince, obey His directions, see His Power and Love in action.
Do you believe? Will you step out in Faith? Pray for the sick? Believe the Word?
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It is my firm belief, that we can track all the Gifts of the Spirit, through the Old Testament. Except Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues.
The Gifts of Healing, Working of Miracles, Discerning of Spirits, Prophesy are all quite easily found. When we get to Tongues and Interpretation of same, I come up a little short.
We find Tongues easy enough at the building of the Tower of Babel:
Not a tower but a piano took imagination, unity and teamwork to build.
“The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of
men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.”
So we see the Lord used Tongues to scatter the people, because He understood the Power of Unity, teamwork and imagination.
We find Tongues and the Interpretation of Tongues on the Day of Pentecost, to draw all to Him, into one Powerful, United body. Able to Imagine and accomplish anything.
It took a little over 100 years for man to screw it up and loose it. As in Joshua’s time, Israel followed the Lord as long as some were alive who had seen the signs, wonders and miracles of the Exodus.
Once all had died that had received the original Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the will and knowledge to press on to the high calling dimmed.
(I found this picture on Tumbler, loved it, am not making any money with its use)
It was not Gods will that, the signs, wonders and miracles stopped. But mans ability to be led astray.
Father God, pkease lead us back to the straight and narrow, the place of Power and Might, the Holy of Holies.
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Now I know some of you are thinking that we can’t just find examples of the New Testament Gifts of the Spirit in the Old Testament. Really? Am I sure, a Word of Knowledge is telling us a thing and a Word of Wisdom is what to do with that knowledge? Or is a Word of Wisdom telling us a specific thing and a Word of Knowledge how to us it? Nope, not positive whitch is whitch but one is one and the other is the other, not sure which label to put on either. They are both there for our education.
If we don’t learn from the Old Testament than, where did the writer of Hebrews get his explanation of Faith? What is Faith if not a Gift of the Spirit? (Hint: OT)
What is your measure of Faith? We all have a measure. Hebrews 11 tells us:
” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
(You would really need Faith to launch out into the deep with this crew)
I have never understood what this means. To me the best definition of Faith is in the life of Enoch.
“ By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
Believe God is and a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
We see examples of this in Ables sacrifice, Enochs walk, Noah in building the Ark, Abram, leaving at hearing the Lord, later believing he would become a Father of many nations.
So how about you? Do you know how to hear and act at the prompt of the Spirit? What does your faith look like?
It is interesting to note some ages also. Enoch, 65 – Abram, 75 – becomes Abraham, 99 – Moses led people out of Egypt at 80.
Quit blaming your youth and inexperience, or your age and health…..if you make yourself available and believe God is and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. The Lord has a job for you. You could be the much needed leader for today.
Lord, help us to grab a hold of Your Word, make it come alive help us to understand the Gifts of the Spirit and how to allow them to be powerful in Your Church.
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You are probably wondering why I think we should ask for the Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge before asking for the gift of Tongues.
Even knowing the Lord gave Tongues first on the day on Pentecost. Really? If so, it was because He was dealing with Disciples.
People who had been with Him, studied at His feet, they were Jewish and knew about Ritual Sacrifice and after His death and resurrection, understood.
Paul in 1 Corinthians 12 goes in a completely different order, tells them to desire the best gifts. He starts with the three listen up gifts.
We first need to learn how to understand what the Lord wants. A few Old Testament examples of the Word of Knowledge, then Word of Wisdom :
Adam, you may eat of every tree but that one.
Noah, We are going to destroy the earth and all flesh, build an Ark.
Abram, go out from Ur, look east, west, north and south, I have given the land to you.
How about a few not written down?
Elijah told Ahab. ..it will not rain till I tell it to…
Deborah told Barack the Lord wanted him to go and defeat the enimy…
Daniel, the dream the king had.
These are all Old Testament examples of Words of Knowledge. What is a Word of Wisdom. That is knowing what to do with the Knowledge.
Adam, didn’t have the Wisdom to obey God, so death came into the world.
Noah, with the Knowledge to build the Ark, did it and received a Word of Wisdom, when to enter.
Abram, every place on which your foot shall tread. ..
Elijah, gave his Word of Knowledge, than The Lord spoke a word of Wisdom, “You better go hide”.
Unspoken :
Deborah, How the Lord would cause a women to get the credit for the victory.
Daniel, What the dream meant and how to prepare for the coming Climate Change.
Don’t know about that? It seems to me the Bible is our guide book to life. Doesn’t it stand to reason He would be directing whosoever will, by all His Word.
We too easily say: “That’s a God thing”. Remember when Jesus was on earth, He was just a man tempted every way as we are.
The Power He displayed came from the Father, through the Holy Spirit into and out of Jesus. He told us to go and do the same.
If you will look up these examples and ask the Lord to show you, the Revelation is there, waiting for us to act on it.

Lord open our eyes, that we might understand and go forward to do Your Will in Your Power and Might. The Gift of Faith is next.
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“Have you received the Holy Spirit since you’ve believed?”
*”If I didn’t have the Spirit I couldn’t have believed. ”
“How about the 120 believers on the day of Pentecost or the others Paul met and asked?
*”Well I don’t know but I know without the Spirit, I couldn’t have gotten saved”
All of that is true we receive a measure of faith and the Spirit, when we are saved but there is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit available to whosoever will.
Are you a whosoever will? Do you want all the the Lord has for you? Do you long to see signs and wonders following? Do you think Jesus wants to heal the affected, comfort the brokenhearted, give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, make the lame walk?
(Without the Spirit we are like these boats in dry dock…not providing the. Service we were meant to).
I believe Jesus is disappointed in His Church, His representatives on earth. His words once again in:
John 14:12-18
” Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”
(He wants us prepared and ready to launch out into the deep, to collect His harvest ).
He promised those who believe. …(is that you?), that they would do greater works, then He, whatsoever we ask He will do. If we love Him… (do you? ), we need to keep His Commands. (Love God, Love each other). Jesus will pray the Father to give us the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth. We should know Him for He dwells within us.
So what happened? Why is today’s Church so weak? We have misunderstood Matthew 25.
The Master in the story left money (Talents ) according to their abilities. They were to invest (or use) these Talents to increase their Masters wealth. They received praise or scorn.
Jesus went to a far Country, and left us something, The Holy Spirit. He expects us to invest or use it to increase His wealth.
(Save Souls).
He gave us the tools to use. The Gifts…the 9 in 1 Corinthians 12 and others. What have we done with them?
Excess and abuse mostly, just like the Corinthians. What should we do now?
Ask forgiveness, for our lack of Faith. Ask to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Ask for the gift of the the Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge.
He gave out the gift of Tongues first because that is the easiest to use….it is the one that scares people the most. (” I don’t think we should have to speak gibberish.”) When the Lord tells us it is our spirit talking directly to Him. (1 Corinthians 14 :4,28).
That’s filling your lamp with oil, finding the Faith to do His will.
That is where I’m restarting. I expect The Lord to bless any that come to Him in obedience and Faithfulness.
Thank You Jesus for filling us with Your Spirit of Love.
Watch for third installment,
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Is the Holy Spirit
* Alive in your heart?
* Alive in your Church?
* Healing the Sick?
* Making the blind to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear?
I believe if we do not see theses signs wonders and miracles, the Lord is disappointed.
He said in John 14:12-18
” Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”
Was Jesus telling tales?
No, we are a people who have failed to recognize and employ the Talents our Master left for us. Some of us have even buried the Talents and claim they are not for today. It’s like the experation date has passed.
Matthew 25 is a chapter about the Holy Spirit:
Wise and foolish virgins: Oil for there lamps.
Those who had no oil are like the Church today…No Spiritual power, because we don’t really believe. We want to, even pray to, but don’t know how to fill our lamps.
The Master and the talents :
Jesus told the story using money for the simplicity of understanding.
Everone knows some who invest, and others, that hoard. The ones who invested were blesed the ones that hid the talent were sent to outer darkness.
The sheep and goats.
The sheep understood the Commandment to Love one another…they fed the hungry, gave clothes to the needy, water to the thirsty.
So how do we fill our lamps, invest out Talents, Love one another?
It is all as plain on the nose on our face. It is Revelation Knowledge. ..will you see and believe or hide in your bed?
Watch this space….The Holy Spirit is alive and begging to to allowed to proclaim the good news.
Lord, open our hearts and minds to see, to act, to glorify Jesus.
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All through the Bible the Lord has been trying to make us realize one simple thing. HE WANTS A PERSONAL, RELATIONSHIP with Each One Of Us.
Religion, is sometimes a problem, look at Paul:
” Galatians 1:13-14
King James Version (KJV)
For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.”
Paul was Zealously serving God as a Pharisee, exterminating Deciples of our Lord. Until the Lord struck him down, blinded to get his attention.
Zeal is what we need but it must be Godly Zeal, Phinious killed sinners, his zeal rewarded, Paul killing Saints, he needed direction.
For today we need Relationship, James explains Religion :
James 1:25-27
King James Version (KJV)
:But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
Please quit talking about your “Religion ” I ‘m a Baptist, I ‘m a Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian. …No you are not. If you are a true follower of Christ, you must put the Word of God above your Church Doctrine.
You need to be a Desiple. Stufy to
show yourself aproved. Present yout bodies a living Sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. This is our reasonable service.
John 3:16-17
King James Version (KJV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
We don’t need programs to teach us how to share the Word. We need the Holy Spirit to be allowed to work through us. We cannot change people, make people love and serve the Lord. Let the Spirit lead us to share the love of the Lord.
Father God, please help us to let Your Spirit flow.
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God is looking for Love.
There are 3 kinds of Love: Agape : This is Gods love for us. A love like I have for my child and you for your children. You would jump in front of a train to save their life. “No greater love is there, than a man giving his life for another.”
Then there is Phillio love : or brotherly love, a love we have for those we care for, brotherly love.
Eros love: Lust, our favorite, which eventually wares off and we end up with devorce.
Gods love is such that He kept trying to find a people who would love and obey Him.
Many years later, we find Abram, who becomes Abraham because he believed the promise of God, At 100 years old he would Father many nations.
He did and the Old Testament is full of the stories of the Hebrews or Jews, The Lords chosen people. They loved the Lord, fell into sin, began to be enslaved by this sin. Cried out to the Lord.
The Lord forgives them and sends Moses, Joshua then Judges to save them: Best known are Gideon, Samson and 10 others, this goes on for hundreds of years. Love God, fall away, troubles, cry out to God, God saves, Love God….repeat …….again and again.
Then the people want to be like all the other Nations and have a king. Saul, David (a man after Gods own heart), a sinner who knew how to repent. Solomon and many more, love God, fall away, (repeat over and over) untill He sent His Son.
John 3:16-17
King James Version (KJV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
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God had created man to walk with, have fellowship with. They had only one rule. Don’t eat the fruit of a certain tree. They broke the rule.
Adam had disappointed God because of His disobedience. Many years pass, people are multiplying on earth and God finally finds what He is looking for.
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis 5:21-24
King James Version (KJV)
“And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:” (who lived 900+ years)
“And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”
All we know of Enoch we find in Hebrews 11 and Jude.
Hebrews 11:4-5
“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
Jude 1:23-24
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Enoch pleased God, walked with God, believed that God is and that God rewards those who are diligent in seeking Him.
In Jude we learn of the Lords second comming and judgment.
To me Enoch is one of the most interesting Bible figures….to please God and to walk right up to heaven. He is alive in heaven with God today.
Here we have one who walked with God. Many years pass, man becomes vial, sexual sin, greed, murder, the Lord desides to destroy the earth. Yet again, one man stands out:
“And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
Genesis 6:7-9
“And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.”
Noah built the Ark and his family repopulated the earth. God was still seeking a people who would walk with Him. To truly, love trust and depend on Him.
This new group of folks were not any better then the last group.
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The early followers of Jesus were only called Christians, in derision by the heathens.
They were called by Jesus, Desiples.
A Desiple is someone who studies Gods Word and attempts to follow His precepts, a person who comes to a love relationship with Jesus.
Who have one thing they absolutely know: GOD IS LOVE.
To explain this love it is really best to go back to creation. To put it simply God made man in His image to have some sort of relationship. He would walk in the garden in the cool of the day,with Adam and Eve.
I know you have heard this but I feel I must elaborate. At that time thete was no death, no work, no pain, just fellowship with God.
Man could do anything and eat anything except the fruit of the tree of knowledge. They knew no sin, shame or guilt until they ate of tree of knowledge of good and evil.
At that point death came into the world. For that one little, stupid act.
Disobedience of God. Now people lived almost a thousand years before physical death but Spiritual death was immediate. No more relationship with God.
God didn’t give up.
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Why was man created? How do we explain Gods love for us? How do we make people understand Gods plan of Salvation and love?
I have been asking this question to myself for years. I have seen many ministries try to teach people how to lead folks to the Lord. The Roman Road…is one I’ve got on this sight under the “Salvation Way”.
Unless people are halfway to belief, this is really useless. What’s wrong with my life? Who are you to say I’m a sinner? Who made you God?
If they don’t know why man was created, I believe they will have a hard time accepting our “Judgement ” of their lives.
So, why did God create man?
I believe the answer is: To walk with Him, in the cool of the day. God simply wanted a people with a Freewill to choose to Love, Honer and Obey Him. Adam failed.
Enoch chose the way we need to follow. “Enoch walked with God and was not, because God took him.”
The thing The Lord requires of us is to learn to Love, Honer and Obey, to walk with Him.
A more lengthy explanation to follow.
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