Cleansing, Healing, Words

'The Power of the Blood' by HA Maxwell Whyte

Cleansing, Healing, Words pg 114-116

Wise King Solomon wrote, "There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health" proverbs 12:1. The words that proceed from our tongues will give clear evidence of the state of our health. Dr William Standish Reed MD of the Christian Medical Foundation Medford Oregon informed us that such terribly destructive things as criticisim, grumbling, self pity, hatred, cursing and bearing grudges are the cause of much physical sickness, and all these things are manifest through the tongue.

Solomon again wrote, "Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth" Proverbs 6:2. It is we ourselves who destroy ourselves. Satan puts into our heart all these evil thoughts, wich find their almost inevitable expression as words in our mouths. As we speak them, we ensnare ourselves so that Satan has perfect right to come along and tell s there is no hope for us, for He is the angel of death, and the wages of sin is death.

No wonder Solomon warned that negative words, sush as those of hate, envy and criticisim, are as "piercings of a sword". There is always a positive for a negative, a day for night, light for darkness. Thank God, there is another sword than that of Satan- the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

The same tongue that spewed out vile, evil things that corrupted and destroyed us can be tamed, not by ourselves, but only by a true work of the Spirit of God in transforming our spirits. Our whole nature is changed and now the heart that was a cesspool of every foul thought becomes cleansed by the blood of Jesus.

Instead of unclean water spilling out of our mouths, now the Holy Spirit will give us words of truth, of life and of health. "The tongue of the wise is health".

Harry Potter Revisited

I have been thinking a bit more about this whole Harry Potter thing and I had a momentary flash of brilliance. I thought that rather than just stick up the regurgitated thoughts of other people (as I have done previously) I might try to dig deep and write down some of the thoughts down.

Genius (as young Annabelle would say).

I am a person who tends to think in point form so I might set out my thoughts here like that if that is ok.

The war that is in disguise:

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

These verses tell us that our war is not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities in the spiritual realm. It is against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

For there to be a war going on in the spiritual realm there needs to be 'sides' or 'teams'. Simply put you are either for God or you are against Him, and all that is not for Him is against Him.

This applies in the natural and is mirrored in the spiritual.

Some would argue that my stance is some what simplistic, and perhaps it is, but I am a simple kind of gal. You are either for God or you are against Him, you are either going to heaven or going to hell.

Harry Potter, whether fictional witchcraft or modelled from the real thing still focus's on a 'spiritual battle', but now it becomes a war between the 'good witches and the bad witches'. I do not believe this is a true reflection of the Spiritual warfare that Ephesians 6 is talking about. The battle in the heavenlies isn't about two divisions of witchcraft fighting it out, it is between the agents of hell and the agents of heaven and it involves US. We know this because we are asked to take an active stand in the ongoing verses of Ephesians 6.

I really dislike the personification of witchcraft as being 'good'- even if it is only in a fairy tale or within fantasy literature. I have the same dilemna with that old classic movie 'The Wizard of Oz'. The fact that we now have the Wicked Witch of the West, warring the White Witch is spiritually subtle to say the least.

I 'personally' don't have the same feelings towards CS Lewis Chronicles of Narnia as I do towards Harry Potter. The reason for this being that there are obviously two sides in Narnia. The Witch who represents evil, and Aslan who is considered the 'Christ' figure. For me it does not hold the spiritual ambiguity I see in Potter.

The Coat Hanger

Many people secular and Christian alike, talk about the virtues, values, character and issues of life that the young boy Potter deals with on his way to becoming a man.

While I have no doubt that many deep issues are explored within the pages of these novels, I don't personally 'feel' I need to learn those lessons myself clothed in the garments of witchcraft whether it be 'real or fantasy' in content.

I believe there is enough other literature around that would be values, virtues or moral character based without glorifying wizardry, that may 'even' glorify God!

To debate or not to debate?

While I believe that there are many Christians around who have legitimate minstries to those in the occult, paganisim, satanism and yes even the New Age, who believe they need to read the Rowlings books in order to be well informed. I do not really 'buy' the argument that as Christians we need to read the books or watch the movies in order to be able to engage people or debate about it.

I have no doubt that it would help to engage or debate people about it if we read it. But my deeper question is 'SHOULD' we engage or debate people about 'spiritual things' without giving them them the gospel to hang it on, or before they are ready to receive them?

1 Corinthians 2 says;

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.[c] 14The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: 16"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"[d] But we have the mind of Christ.

Without having the Holy Spirit impart wisdom, we are told in the above passage that the man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the spirit of God for they are FOOLISHNESS to him.. he simply can not understand them, because they are spiritual discerned.

This is not to say that I believe we should never talk to the unsaved about Spiritual matters, I just believe we need to be listening very closely to the heartbeat of God for how we should address those we are engaging.

Jesus when talking to the woman at the well started in the natural and moved on to the spiritual. The same as when he was brought the woman caught in adultery. Each time he discerned the Father's heart for these women and how to go about 'unlocking' the door to their hearts to the gospel.

He didnt need to engage them about the latest fad or trend in their world. He went straight for the issues of the heart, he showed them their need for a saviour and then opened the door for them to receieve Him.

We may have many enjoyable conversations with people, or spiritual debates, but do we really need to fill up on every new fad or fettish that comes along in order to do it?

OR should we be so full of the word of God, full of His presence, renewed and transformed in our mind that when we meet the unsaved along the way, we can easily discern the beat of the Father's heart at that minute like Jesus did and get to the very crux of what it is that we are meant to be doing... leading people to Jesus for their salvation, eternal security and an intimate ongoing relationship with their Father- God... as they were created to have.

Do we need things like Harry Potter, the DaVinci Code or whatever the flash in the pan trend seems to be at the moment to hang the gospel on? Or does the gospel stand alone?

I suppose that is the deeper question I am asking here!

In finishing for now... I am aware that Jesus spoke in parable's from life, and perhaps as our modern day existence seems to take on more and more fantasy than ever before, literature such as Potter could be legitimate forms of parable telling, I just think I am going to need a lot more convincing about the need to use wizardy/witchcraft to expound the gospel of Christ Jesus.

~ S E L A H ~

Another grasshopper stops by...

Did you read the post about my grasshopper visitors?

It was posted on Sunday, June 24, 2007 if you want to go back and have a look. Anyway... to be honest I thought I had seen the end of my grasshopper visitors. But alas that was not to be the case.

Yesterday I was having a look for various things that would help us when we got to the UK. I was looking up property sites, furniture stores, reseaching the history of the various townships around Manchester and looking at church websites trying to get a feel for the area.

Then out of the corner of my left eye I saw something moving across my lounge room floor. It was too small to be Joey (our 9 month old) and it wasn't a cockroach (as would be the normal creature I might see scurrying here in Sydney). And it certainly wouldn't have been a mouse, because we have Eastwood's BEST mouser in residence here (a handy thing living near a park).

Instead it was another 'little' grasshopper'.

I laughed!

Then I checked myself to see if I had been thinking small. While I had been looking at sites, I didn't feel worried, or stressed or negative about any of these things. So I was very surpised to see my little friend because I didn't feel like I had grasshopper thinking at all!

This morning I feel the Lord is telling me that He really 'does' have it all in His hands and to stop trying to do it all in the natural, because He has done it ALL already in the spiritual!

~ S E L A H ~

Harry Potter

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows"

Spiritual Warfare of the Highest Degree

Cutting Edge Harry Potter Section

I. Over 300 million people worldwide breathlessly awaited their copy of the seventh and supposedly final Harry Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

NEWS BRIEF: "For Harry Potter, Good Old-Fashioned Closure", New York Times, July 18, 2007

"So, here it is at last: the final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the “symbol of hope” for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the nefarious leader of the Death Eaters and would-be ruler of all. Good versus Evil. Love versus Hate. The Seeker versus the Dark Lord."

"With each installment, the Potter series has grown increasingly dark, and this volume .... is no exception. While Ms. Rowling’s astonishingly limber voice still moves effortlessly between Ron’s adolescent sarcasm and Harry’s growing solemnity, from youthful exuberance to more philosophical gravity, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' is, for the most part, a somber book that marks Harry’s final initiation into the complexities and sadnesses of adulthood."
Cutting Edge noted, in our book review of the sixth book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Is The Final Secret of the Seventh Book Revealed?", that it is highly possible that Harry will be named the Messiah of the World of Wizardry at the end of the seventh book. We can only wait to see how this plot works out, but I believe that this is a distinct possibility.

If Harry is declared the Messiah, wouldn't that be a kicker, as the world seems poised on the edge of the World War III which will produce the real Antichrist? For this reason, I am anxious to get my copy and begin reading. We shall have a Book Review for you on Monday morning.
Interestingly, this next news article asks the question, "Is Harry Potter a Christ figure?"
NEWS BRIEF: "Christian elements lurk in Potter books: "Is Harry Potter a Christ figure?", by Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune, July 20, 2007

"Is Harry Potter a Christ figure? ... As Potter fans await the release of the seventh and final installment at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, it's a question worth considering."

"Do you think Harry Potter has an agenda?"

Yes, I think Harry Potter has an agenda. From the beginning, when kids were so encouraged to draw a lightening bolt in the middle of their foreheads, I believed Potter was conditioning children and adults to accept the final mark of Antichrist.

As far as whether Christians should read Potter, the answer is Biblical. God forbids His people from having anything to do with witches and familiar spirits and the "peeping and muttering" that witches go through to stage their rituals.

Furthermore, Potter novels describe real witchcraft in great detail. No Christian should allow himself to be so completely subjected to such powers of Satan. God's Word admonishes His people to avoid even watching evil. Listen:

"He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises gain from fraud and from oppression, who shakes his hand free from the taking of bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes to avoid looking upon evil." (Isaiah 33:15, Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)

Did you catch that last phrase? "... shuts his eyes to avoid looking upon evil."

A Christian simply cannot fill his mind with words and images of witches, wizards, familiar spirits, shape-shifting witches, and REAL witchcraft descriptions and still think he or she is in right standing with Jesus Christ!

Do not be deceived on this point! Jesus' warnings in Matthew 24 against being spiritually deceived at the End of the Age are so strong and are repeated three times, you must understand that unprecedented deception -- both spiritually and politically -- is one of THE End of the Age characteristics. Listen:

* Verse 4 -- "Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you, deceiving you and leading you into error."

* Verse 11 -- "And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error."

* Verse 24 -- "For false Christs and false prophets will arise ... so as to deceive and lead astray, if possible, even the elect (God's chosen ones)."

Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)

Since the Christian Church has fallen into such spiritual apostasy over the past 50 years, I should not be surprised when I hear of a known apostate leader espouse the ridiculous notion that J.K. Rowling has woven the Gospel of Jesus Christ through her novels.
But, I must confess, I was shocked when I read these very sad remarks, thinking of the millions of trusting Anglican people who will believe these lying words.

NEWS BRIEF: "Anglican Bishop praises ‘Gospel according to Potter’ ", by Sally Williams, Western Mail, I.C. Wales, July 20, 2007

"THE Anglican communion should learn lessons from Harry Potter ... The Bishop of St Davids, Carl Cooper, said the Christian virtues of humility, respect and love portrayed in the stories about the teenage wizard should be replicated within the church."
"JK Rowling’s books are no strangers to controversy among the religious establishment, with previous installments being burned by Christian groups, and one Catholic Church official last year denouncing Harry Potter as the 'devil. But the Anglican church has shown an increasing willingness to embrace the popularity of the Hogwarts pupil. Bishop Cooper said that although the story is cloaked in magic and wizardry, it has strong Christian messages and themes are at its heart. He said, 'The reader is in no doubt that love and friendship need to be acts of the will as well as acts of the heart'."

When I read the Harry Potter novels, I was repeatedly almost overwhelmed by the intense hatred and occultism which simply covers the entire series like a heavy blanket. Only the bond between Harry, Ron, and Hermione can be thought of as having "love and friendship", and even that bond was extremely mild compared to the love Jesus showed for His disciples.
At best, Harry Potter is a mixture of intense hatred and evil, and the mild bonds of friendship between Harry, Ron, and Hermione. In other words, Christians will be subjected to the hatred of Belial and a mild love. Do you remember what the Apostle Paul said, "...what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?" (2 Cor 6:14-15)

CFR member, Rick Warren, of the Purpose Driven Church, loves Harry Potter and encourages his members to read the novels. (Read Warren bragging about his Council of Foreign Relations membership, Paragraph VI, November 25, 2006, Newsletter)

"Though the seventh and final installment is yet to be released (July 21, to be exact), when it does, it will be well-worth reading. Though some would disagree, I am one to put Rowling's work in the camp of fantasy literature, along with Lewis and Tolkien, with her use of magic more mechanical than occultic. I found her earlier six volumes instant classics of the genre, and the final book will undoubtedly cement this series as among the best written." (Rick Warren's "Ministry Toolbox")

This kind of nonsense from church leaders is so very deplorable, and will not go unnoticed by the One Who will sit on the White Throne Judgment.

This next news story illustrates how deeply Harry Potter has penetrated into the hearts and minds of his legions of followers. Read it and weep.

NEWS BRIEF: "Kids' Grief Counselors Wait By Phones in Case Harry Potter Dies", By Mark Herlihy, Bloomberg News, July 20, 2007

"A U.K. children's charity has brought in extra staff to man its phone lines in expectation of a deluge of calls from distraught youngsters if Harry Potter dies ... 'For many children, Harry Potter and his friends have become a major part of their childhood', said Kate Trench, a spokeswoman for ChildLine, based in London, which provides telephone support services for children. 'Excitement could give way to sadness for those caught up in the huge build-up to the seventh and final book'.''

How sad, for so many children to be this devoted to this Satanic character, Harry Potter! This kind of devotion is exactly the kind of devotion Jesus Christ demands of His people. Listen:
"He who loves and takes more pleasure in father or mother more than in Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves and takes more pleasure in son or daughter more than in Me is not worthy of Me." (Matthew 10:37, Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)

Can you just hear the application of this verse to Harry Potter?

"He who loves and takes more pleasure in Harry Potter is not worthy of Me." This last statement might be the bottom line in this entire Harry Potter controversy.

What do you think?

Leave a comment................

Giving birth in the jungle......

This is a portion of an update from missionaries I grew up praying for. The Jennings have worked long term (27 years) with the Higaunon people translating the bible, establishing a church and training and discipling converts/teachers to work with their own people. They serve with New Tribes Mission.

Read more about the Higaunon people

Dear Friends in Christ,


... We had an interesting night a few nights ago. We were woken up around 2am with someone outside calling us. This hasn't happened in a long while and the first thing we both thought was, "Oh no, a possible political problem" because we had heard that there had been some problems in an area about 10km from here with some killings. I think the guy outside must have realized that was our first thought, because once he knew Ron was on the other side of the door and hesitating to open it, he proceeded to tell us that his wife was having her baby (her 8th!) and there was a problem with the birth.

So Ron opened up and he told us what was going on. It seemed like although the head was present the baby just wouldn't deliver. The midwife helping with the delivery has delivered a number of babies here, so I guess what she was experiencing concerned her and thought we might have some advice.

Now childbirth is something I usually don't get involved in having only delivered one baby since we have been here. The midwives here seem to do a pretty good job considering their circumstances. We have been here 27 years and only know of one death of the mother during childbirth and very few babies dying at the time of birth. I really didn't know what help I could be other than moral support but we went over anyway. Thankfully they live close by so getting there wasn't a problem.

After talking to the midwife, it was clear that she was really concerned that things were not progressing as they should be. For the past two hours or more she had been trying to deliver the baby to no avail. She had physically tried to get the baby out but it seemed stuck fast. I felt like I was somewhat thrown in the deep end and needed to try and help too. So for the next 2 hours, with each contraction we both tried to get the baby out. There definitely seemed something wrong and an obstruction preventing the head from coming out. Eventually we encouraged them to consider taking her out to the hospital on the coast. Calling in the plane did not seem a good option as it would still be a number of hours before it was light enough to call in the plane and plus there was also the possibility that it wouldn't make it in here anyway due to a current typhoon off of the coast that had been getting worse. So rather than wait, they organized some guys to help carry her out in hammock and sent someone on ahead to try and organize a vehicle once they got her to the top of the mountain.

I was reminded once again after that experience how much we have to be thankful for with the medical help we have in Aussie. Here I was in a small wooden hut with no light other than our spotlight and their tribal lamp which is just some diesel in a bottle with some cardboard as a wick, so every few minutes it needed to be turned upside down to re-wet the cardboard which rejuvenates the flame after initially giving off black bellowing smoke. At one point I nearly got burned by the oil lamp. I only realized that I was standing right over it when I felt the heat.
The mother, Yom-pot, was laying on the grubby wooden floor on a sheet of plastic with her husband Bah-lat, at her head trying to encourage her. All they had to use was a bowl of warm water and some old rags. The whole situation was as far from sterile as you could possibly imagine and basically I had nothing to add to their conclusions about the problem. Behind us were their other 7 children all huddled together on a sleeping mat, half a dozen people were hanging in the open window and different ones were coming in and out seeing what was going on. The Lord gave strength though, especially to Yom-pot who amazed me how well she was doing in spite of the pain she was in and the pain I am sure we were inflicting on her as well in our trying to help.

It was also encouraging to hear the discussion that went back and forth about the Lord being in control and the exhortations from the elderly folks to not be afraid but trust the Lord. Before the Gospel came here they would have been pushing on the mothers stomach to try and push the baby out and sacrificing chickens to their ancestral spirits and wiping the blood on the woman’s stomach, but now they are depending on the Lord and eager to follow His leading.

By 4.30am they had everything organized and ready to hike her out up the mountain. When they left I felt so helpless, wishing we could have done more, but realizing that there really wasn't anything more we could do. My prayer was that she would have the baby on the way so that she wouldn't have to make that horrible trip for hours over the unbelievably bumpy mountain roads out to the coast.

Four hours later I heard that that is indeed what happened. When they reached the closest village along the road to here, there was a trained government midwife there who apparently was able to help her deliver the baby. Thank you Lord!!

The following day I felt like I had been run over by a truck. Every muscle in my body ached, due to the fact that I had to get into positions that I haven't been in for a long time and with the problem I have with my back, it was just made worse. Oh well, at least I know this will wear off in a few days.

I guess that even though we were unable to help physically, we were able to observe something far more important than our physical help and that was their faith in Christ in the midst of a real life trial. That is something we can rejoice in having had a part in delivering to them that which will carry them through every trial no matter how much we lack the ability to help them physically.

As you know we are looking forward to a translation check beginning on the 17th July. Ron is finishing up a 'guest room' that we have put together so that Ginny (our checker) can have a bit of privacy whilst here. We used to have a small spare room next to our bedroom but decided a little while ago to just pull down the dividing wall to make our bedroom a bit bigger to fit in our exercise bike.

This left us with no where to put any visitors other than just setting up a mattress in our living area. The 'guest room' is just outside of the main house but shares the same roof area. It is something we have been wanting to do for ages but just never got around to it. I guess the need pushed us to get on with it. So if you come visit us, you can stay in the white house. Were calling it that because we painted it white inside and it is the only place in our house that is actually painted. Additional features are 24/7 WiFi and bug proofing. No gaps and holes for the bugs to get through.

Well, this is getting long so will close for now. Once again we want to thank you for your partnership with us in prayer. What an encouragement it is to us to know that so many are praying for us and the work. We trust that as we keep you updated, you too are encouraged to hear what the Lord is doing amongst your Higaunon brothers and sisters.

With Christian love
Ron and Michelle

One of the learning curves I am on at the moment is not doing things to please man, which is very different to doing things to 'edify' man or glorify the Lord. This is not so easy to discern all the time and comes down to being aware of the motives of my heart.

Often we use words like laying down your life, sacrifice, pouring yourself out and having a servant heart, but these things can become just as legalistic if we do them for the wrong reasons as any religious dogma we may find elsewhere.

Jesus certainly WANTS those thing from us, but as an act of love and perfect sacrifice to HIM and under HIS anointing and HIS equipping and HIS empowering... it is all about HIM!

So firstly we need to make sure we HEAR from HIM and arent just doing things which are 'good ideas'.

While in one sense we do forget ourselves, because it is all about Him, we actually do need some awareness of self because without it we can not really be honest about WHERE we need his help. It is really great when we can use our gifts and talents to serve the Lord, but if we are doing it without the Lord we may as well be doing it out in the work place and getting payed for it because the spiritual significance may be totally lost without intimacy and relationship with Jesus.

Romans 12 says;

1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship.

It then goes on to tell us about using our spiritual gifts to edify the 'body'. But our first port of call is to offer ourselves to GOD! So often we get this the wrong way around. We use our spiritual gifts/talents to 'serve' the body (or is self really disguised as such?), and hope that God is ok with that.

It's a bit like that verse in James that talks about the man who looks at himself in the mirror and then goes away forgetting what he looks like. We NEED to know where we are at spiritually, we need to look in the mirror of the word of God and ourselves in Jesus reflection, so we can get a true sense of where we need repentance, forgiveness, reconcillation, redemption and rebuilding.

If we don't take the time to examine the motives our hearts and why we do what we do, then we could spend weeks, months and years doing 'good' things that He never really called us to do, nor equipped us for, or worse still had no anointing for but was a work of our very talented flesh!

~selah~

Let us...

... throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Hebrews 12:1

I am always struck when I read the scripture with how many 'verbs' there are. True christianity is not just some passive religious experience that we let happen to us. Instead it is intentional, directional and requires us to be accountable to each other and the wider Body of Christ.

I was reading this scripture today and the Lord impressed a few things upon me.

In order to 'throw off' something, first we must have an awareness that it is there in the first place. I think of myself running with a coat on and getting hot (lol funny thought really given how unfit I am). In order for me to throw off that coat, I need to know it is there. I may even need to spend some time unbuttoning (undoing it) before I cast it off to the ground.

So it is with our sin. We first need an awareness of the things that keep us hindered and entangled. The Lord is ever faithful in showing us what these things are, when we take the time to seek Him.


We need to spend time asking the Lord to show us the things that hold us back. Then we may need to spend time 'undoing' those things in our live. Sometimes we can manage them on our own (with Jesus), and sometimes we may need the help of a fellow sister or brother in the Lord to pray with us.


Repentance, renouncing and breaking off is paramount to this disentaglement.

The second thing that strikes me about this verse is that we are told to RUN! Now those of you who know me, know that unfortunately running to me is like flying to a pig. In the natural, I don't do it often and I don't do it well! But here in relation to our spiritual walk we are told to RUN! Running requires strength, perseverence, fitness, direction, preperation, training and focus. Do we have those qualities about us everyday, or are we merely taking a meandering stroll in our Christian walk?

The third thing that I see in this verse, is that we are told to run the race set before US! Now that US I believe has a few different dimensions.

There is the corporate us- that is the Body of Christ US. We have clear mandates in scripture about the types of things we should be doing. Things like making disciplies, loving one another, living our lives as acts of worship to God etc.

But there is also the US that has to do with our own life. What is your mandate in life, the vision God has for you? Do you know or are you too busy looking over the spiritual shoulder of someone else, judging, assessing or even envying the the calling of others. I know there are times I have been guilty of this.


Seek God and find out what the race is you are required to run, and then under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and the empowering of our Lord Jesus Christ let's run it with all our might!

~selah~

Burden Bearing

Psalm 68: 19

Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

I was reading this Psalm on the 5th July '07 and it just struck me at how remarkable God is (yet again). Not only does He promise to bear our Burden's but the scripture tells us He does it daily.

I just want to encourage you to once again cast your daily burden's upon Jesus, because He cares for you.

Oh what a mighty God we serve!

~selah~