Saturday, August 24, 2013

Scripture: Shared by body of Christ

Proverbs 21:3 ... To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Exhortation:  (Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet)


James 1:27 ... 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.

To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction means to "judge" their situation.  If they need comfort we comfort.  If there is a physical need which we can provide, we provide it.  This is what it means to "visit".

And we keep ourselves unspotted from the world, going instead in the way the Spirit of God shows us.

Recnetly I was speaking with a man about a secular matter.  I almost spoke a lie.  But I stopped and held my tongue and ceased to speak.  The devil is the father of lies.  My father is God the creator of heaven and earth and the Father of Jesus Christ.

To do justice and judgment is to do that which is right in the sight of God in the situation.  We know that which is right because the Holy Spirit reveals the heart of God to us in the issue of this life.

I Cor. 2 ... Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.   16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.