💥 Unexpected help (and fun!) worked out by God

 

Pam Padgett, member of the body of Christ

 

Thursday morning of last week I was in my back yard and the next-door neighbor's 11-year old son, Josiah, was outside as well. He came to the fence to talk and told me he was on spring break. He asked what I planned to do that day and I told him I would probably rake leaves in the afternoon. He immediately said "I'll help you!" and asked what time to come.

Josiah has come to my mind several times since, tragically, his dad moved from their home last October to be with another woman. When Josiah has come to mind, I've prayed, asking God to help him in whatever he needs. After seeing Josiah that morning, I asked God to please give me wisdom in what to say and do when Josiah came to rake leaves that afternoon.

Josiah came right at 2 o'clock and in less than an hour, we had 6 large bags of leaves. I wasn't led to say anything that seemed important; we mostly just bagged leaves. Before he left he thanked me for letting him come over. I told him I planned to work again the following afternoon and he was welcome to come help if he wanted to do so. He said he'd do that.

Friday afternoon Josiah came and brought his friend to help as well. The 2 boys worked very well together. I simply told them what to do, and they would do it.

At one point the boys found an old table turned upside-down in some leaves. They asked if they could sand and paint it, which was fine with me. I hadn't planned on this and had only black and cranberry colored exterior paint. They painted the table top cranberry with a raspberry-shaped figure, smiling and waving on it. The table legs were painted black ... with cranberry-colored polka dots!

It was such a delight for me to get to watch the boys work together, and they got far more done than I could have gotten done on my own. Incredibly, they wanted to come back and work more the next day.

That evening I was thinking about all of this, thanking God and laughing at little things that had happened along the way.

 
Then the Holy Spirit reminded me of my prayer regarding Josiah. I felt I was being shown that "this", the time working at my house, is what Josiah needed on those afternoons.

And I was reminded of Isaiah 55:8-9, in which God says ...

8 For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and MY thoughts than your thoughts.

I had no idea that just coming to help me with yard work was what Josiah needed at that exact point in time, but it makes me happy to think of how God worked all this out. 

 

And God worked it out not only for Josiah, but for me as well.  I still smile when I think about how much fun it was to watch the boys work. And it's nice to see the yard cleaned up. But I especially enjoy the table with polka-dot legs!

 

 

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Comments by Beth Martin:  

 

I am reminded of :

 

Ephesians 3:20-21

20 Now unto HIM that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

 
21 Unto HIM be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.

 

 

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💥 Podcast: Mini Podcast: Why do people divorce?

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on May 20, 2021) 

Jesus gives one reason people divorce.  Their heart becomes hardened toward their mate.

Mark 10

2 And the Pharisees came to HIM (to Jesus), and asked HIM, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting HIM.

3 And HE answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. (also please see 1 Corinthians 6:15-19)

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.

11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

God hates divorce.

Malachi 2:16   For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that HE hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Please listen to the following Podcast for extensive information and all New Testament scriptures on subject of divorce and remarriage.

"Divorce/remarriage:  What the Bible says.  (click here)

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At the time of sexual intercourse, the two become one flesh.  Even if you have sex with a prostitute you become one flesh, says the Bible.

I Corinthians 6

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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The only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife:  

Matthew 5:32  Jesus says:  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

* If the divorced woman, who has been a faithful wife, remarries, she commits adultery.

* Her husband who divorced a faithful wife is the cause of her adultery.

* The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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I Corinthians 7:10-11  (A commandment of the Lord for the New Testament church)

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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I Corinthians 7:39   The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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Romans 7:2-3   For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

 

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💥 Scriptures:

Proverbs 21:21  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

 

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Romans 8:31  What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

 

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Mathew 11:28-30  Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

 

29 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.

 

30 For MY yoke is easy, and MY burden is light.

 

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Psalm 16:11 THOU wilt shew me the path of life: in THY presence is fulness of joy; at THY right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

 

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Proverbs 8:10-11  God says:   Receive MY instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

 

  

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💥 Romans 12 (Reading through the Bible)

 

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

(Renew your mind to Bible.)


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³ For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

⁴ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: ⁵ So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

⁶ Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, 
whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
⁷ Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering (serving):
or he that teacheth, on teaching;
⁸ Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation:
he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity;
he that ruleth, with diligence;
he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

⁹ Let love be without dissimulation.

(real, without pretense)


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Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

¹⁰ Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

¹¹ Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

¹² Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

¹³ Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

¹⁴ Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

¹⁶ Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

¹⁷ Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

¹⁸ If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

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¹⁹ Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

²⁰ Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

²¹ Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

 

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💥 Podcast: Hereby we do know that we know God, if we keep HIS commandments (1 Jn. 2:3)

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on May 9, 2021)

As we read the New Testament Bible, we see the Word of God which shows us how we, who belong to God, are to live on this present earth.

I John 3:24   And he that keepeth HIS commandments dwelleth in HIM, and HE in him. And hereby we know that HE abideth in us, by the Spirit which HE hath given us.

When we belong to God, HE gives us HIS Holy Spirit to live in us and to teach us and to guide us.

We follow the Spirit of God, walking in HIM as we do HIS instructions.

We no longer follow the will of our own flesh as we once did.  Now we follow that which the Spirit of God shows us, walking in the Word of God and walking in the will of God.

We keep our flesh crucified with Christ, the Word, as we do the Word, refusing to obey that which our flesh desires.

2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Now we are born again by God by HIS Spirit and HIS Spirit lives in us.

1 Corinthians 3:16   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

It is not that we go to church.  Now we are the church, for God is in us by HIS Spirit and we now follow HIM.

Therefore Jesus says to us:

John 10:27-30   MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME:  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of MY hand. MY Father, which gave them ME, is greater than all; and no (none) is able to pluck them out of MY Father's hand. I and MY Father are one.

After we are born again by God and have HIS Spirit, we want to read the Bible.  We want to hear things of God.  We are new creations, created by God by HIS Spirit who speaks God's word to us.

I Corinthians 6:9-11  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

We no longer live the way we once lived.  We no longer desire to do and to say those things we once did and said.  We are now new creatures, created by God by HIS Spirit Who now lives in us.

Now we serve God instead of serving ourselves as we once did.

We abide in God's Word and we walk in HIS Word, obeying HIM.

God changed us.  It is not that we changed ourselves.  God changed us!  Now we are born again by God by HIS Spirit.

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After we are born again and have God's Spirit living in us, we do the works of the Spirit of God.

Galatians 5

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

(For the Spirit fulfills the law, for the Spirit does not hate as does the flesh.)

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft (superstitions), hatred, variance (arguing: to vary against), emulations (trying to outdo others), wrath (desiring vengeance against others), strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Instead of beating people as we once did, now, because of the Spirit that is in us, we want to help other people.  The Holy Spirit would never seek adultery or fornication for that would hurt other people.  Now because of the Spirit that is in us, we walk in love toward others.  

 

It is not that we try to love.  We love them because of that Spirit Who loves and lives in us.  Now love and all the fruits of the Spirit are inside of us because the Holy Spirit lives inside of us.  

 

It is not that we try to do the works of the Spirit.  We do godliness because that Spirit in us is godly.  And we walk in that Holy Spirit as we follow that which HE shows us to do.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Proverbs 21:5  The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

 

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Psalm 73:26  My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

 

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John 14:1-3  Jesus says:  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in ME. (the Word)

 

2 In MY Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

 

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto MYSELF; that where I am, there ye may be also.

 

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Jeremiah 17:7-8  Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

 

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

 

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Psalm 138:8  The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: THY mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of THINE own hands.

 

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💥 Romans 11(Reading through the Bible)

 

I say then, Hath God cast away His people?

God forbid.

For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

² God hath not cast away His people which He foreknew.

Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying, ³ Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, and digged down Thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴ But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

(Even if we feel alone, we are not alone.  There are others who believe and follow God, although we may not know them.)

⁵ Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

⁶ And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

⁷ What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

⁸ (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

⁹ And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

¹¹ I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

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¹² Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

¹³ For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
¹⁴ If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

¹⁵ For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

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¹⁶ For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; ¹⁸ Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹ Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

²⁰ Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. 

Be not highminded, but fear:

²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee.

²² Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²³ And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴ For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵ For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

²⁷ For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

²⁸ As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.

²⁹ For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

³⁰ For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: ³¹ Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

³² For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that HE might have mercy upon all.

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³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counsellor?

³⁵ Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

³⁶ For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

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💥 Podcast: Mini Podcast: HE (Jesus) maketh me to lie down in green pastures: HE leadeth me beside the still waters. (Psa. 23:2)

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on May 22, 2021)

 

The shepherd watches over the flock of sheep.  He sees the sheep eating away at the grass of the pasture and the shepherd knows they will consume the pasture in a short time and the shepherd begins to look for new grasslands where there will be plenty of food and water for the sheep.

God watches over us this way and makes provision for us.

God provided for Elisha the prophet. 

 

2 Kings 4:8-11 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.

Everything was provided for him.

In 2018, my heart changed on several things.  I had a big house in Texas and I no longer wanted a big house.  I wanted one room with all my stuff around me.

(God was preparing me for a change that was coming very soon.)

Also I realized I was not going to be able to live alone as I had done before.  (I was 81.)

On December 6, 2018, I fell at my house in Texas.  As the ambulance workers rolled me past my front door to take me to hospital, I heard from God:  "You'll never see this house again." 

God had prepared everything for me to move to another pasture where I would be cared for.

All I had to do is to go through each door as it opened for me!

God cares for us as that good shepherd cares for his own sheep.

 

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Proverbs 21:2  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

 

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James 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love HIM.

 

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Psalm 101:6  Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with ME: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve ME. 

  

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James 5:7-8  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 

 

patient: persevering; calmly diligent; constant in pursuit or exertion

 

(Comments by Pam Padgett - We are patient, persevering in the faith, not becoming discouraged or pulled away from the faith and love of God by iniquity in the world.  And we remain diligent to live in peace, without spot and blameless, as Peter exhorted us to do:  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of  HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.  2Peter 3:14)

 

 

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💥 Romans 10 (Reading through the Bible)

 

 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

² For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

³ For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

⁵ For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
⁷ Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
⁸ But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus (The Word), and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

¹¹ For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him (on The Word) shall not be ashamed.

(So it is with all scripture.  If we believe what the scripture says, we believe on Jesus, the Word.)

¹² For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.

¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord (The Word) shall be saved.

¹⁴ How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
¹⁵ And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

¹⁶ But they have not all obeyed the gospel.

For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

¹⁷ So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

(God speaks through scripture.  God speaks through thoughts.  God speaks through dreams.  It doesn't matter what form God uses to speak to us.  After we hear the word, we have a foundation for faith. We believe that Word given us by God and by believing we are saved.)

¹⁸ But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

¹⁹ But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

²⁰ But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought Me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after Me.

(Some of us were not seeking Jesus when HE revealed Himself to us. Others were very religious and try to be saved by their own works.)

²¹ But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth My hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

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💥 Podcast: As we walk in the Spirit of God, following God, we produce the fruits of the Spirit of God

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on May 13, 2021)

 

When we are born through our parents, we are born in the flesh of man.

When we are born again by God by HIS Spirit, we are born in the Spirit of God.

The flesh produces the works of the flesh which are these:    Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)

Our flesh leads us to do these things when we follow the desires and will of our flesh.

But when we are born of the Spirit of God, we have God living in us, so we can be godly and follow God by HIS Spirit, keeping our flesh under control by choosing to go in the way of the Spirit of God.

Galatians 5:22-23   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

When we follow the Spirit of God we automatically bear the fruits of the Spirit for He is in us and we follow HIM doing HIS works.

God gives us "another spirit", changing us from within.  We simply follow HIS SPIRIT, doing what the Spirit brings to our mind.

The Holy Spirit of God will never lead us to go in the way of the flesh of man for that is opposite to the Spirit of God and would be destructive for us and for those in our path.

As we follow the Spirit of God we are blessings to all persons who come across our path.

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Romans 8

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending HIS own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of HIS.

10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11 But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, HE that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by HIS Spirit that dwelleth in you.

12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Proverbs 21:16  The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

 

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Hebrews 7:25  Wherefore HE (Jesus) is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by HIM, seeing HE ever liveth to make intercession for them.

 

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Romans 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

 

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Proverbs 18:10  The name of the Lord (the Word) is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

 

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Malachi 3:16-18  Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before HIM for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon HIS name (the Word). 

 

17 And they shall be MINE, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up MY jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

 

18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth HIM not.

 

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Hebrews 13:5-6  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for HE hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

 

6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

 

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💥 Romans 9 (Reading through the Bible)

 

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
² That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. ³ For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: ⁴ Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; ⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶ Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

⁷ Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁸ That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

⁹ For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

¹⁰ And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

¹¹ (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth;)

¹² It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³ As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

¹⁵ For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

¹⁶ So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

¹⁷ For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew My power in thee, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth.

¹⁸ Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth.

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¹⁹ Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth HE yet find fault? For who hath resisted His will?

²⁰ Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?

Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

²² What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

²³ And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory,

²⁴ Even us, whom HE hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

²⁵ As He saith also in Osee, I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

²⁶ And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not MY people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

²⁷ Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

²⁸ For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

²⁹ And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

³⁰ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

³¹ But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

³² Wherefore? 

Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

³³ As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.

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