💥 Podcast: Did God tell me to do this? or was it another spirit?

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on April 17, 2021)

 

Before we do anything, we must evaluate:  Did God tell me to do this?

As a new Christian, I owned a small business in Dallas, Texas.  A young woman filed a charge against me in US Courts.  

I heard:  "Don't testify."

I believed it was God telling me this word.  Since I believed that, I told my lawyer I would not be testifying.  

A woman who worked for me witnessed the situation that happened with the young woman at my shop.

My lawyer said he thought with Flo's testimony, we would win the case.  But he said, "I know we will win if you testify."

But I told my lawyer I thought God told me, "Don't testify."

The case went to court.  Flo testified but my lawyer wasn't satisfied with her testimony and he said to me:  "But if you will testify, I know we will win."

I told my lawyer I would check.  

I went into the ladies room at the courthouse.  I prayed, "God ... what do YOU want me to do?"

I heard, "Don't testify."

I returned to the court room.  The lawyer looked at me and I just shook my head, "NO."

The trial continued for two days.

I was acquitted of all charges.

The only thing that matters is:  What does God want me to do?

Was that God who gave me that word?

If we are persuaded it was God who told us to do that, then that is what we do.

The only way we can endure is if we have fully established that what we are doing is what God wants done and we have God's word on the matter.

Are you able to recognize the thoughts brought by the Holy Spirit?

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Are you able to recognize when ideas are from devils, or from your own flesh?

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Was that thought from God?  or another spirit?

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In 1980, a young couple were attending Word of Faith church, which I also attended at that time. They said God had called them to go to Israel "to minister".

They quit their secular jobs and headed out to Israel.  

A week later, they were back at church.

"What happened?'  we asked.

They said it was completely impossible for them to work in Israel because they did not know the language.

People often want to do a "big" work for God.

But is that really God leading you, or is it your own desire?

Without a strong word from God, it is impossible to do an act of "faith", for first you must have that Word upon which to build your faith, and that word must come from the Spirit that is of God.

Jesus said:  

Matthew 7:21-23   Not every one that saith unto ME, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of MY Father which is in heaven.

22 Many will say to ME in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from ME, ye that work iniquity.

The devil tempted Jesus:

Matthew 4:5-7   Then the devil taketh HIM (Jesus) up into the holy city, and setteth HIM on a pinnacle of the temple,  And saith unto HIM, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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I've had many times I have heard from the Holy Spirit of God concerning what to do. Sometimes I will be reminded of a scripture and other times I will have a concept brought to my mind.

* I was driving along the road when a truck loaded with firewood pulled up beside me.  I looked at the wood and thought how much I would like to have a wood burning fireplace instead of gas logs.  To my mind came the following from the Holy Spirit:  "You can have this."

* I fell at my house in Texas and was very badly injured.  I began trying to crawl to an area where there was a phone, but the pain was so severe I could only manage about an inch at a time before having to quit.  I lived alone and it was a week before someone was due to come to my house.  If I couldn't get to the phone, I felt I would die.  And as I considered this, I heard the following from the Holy Spirit.  "You can do this."  Because of that Word which I knew was from God, I continued inching my way toward the phone. 

* After an accident at my house in Texas, the ambulance workers were rolling me past the front door of my house and I heard this from the Holy Spirit. "You'll never see this house again."  I put that house up for sale while I was still in the hospital in Texas.

John 16:13   Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.

* I moved to Colorado in 2019.  My house in Texas was still for sale when the Coronavirus struck in March 2020.  I was very concerned.  I asked God if there was anything I should do about that house in Texas.  I heard this immediately by the Holy Spirit:  "Lower the price of the house and put it on a special sale for one week."  I did that and the house sold in 2 days after it had been on the market for 1-1/2 years.

* I was considering having my 25-year-old car seats reupholstered.  As I thought about this, the Holy Spirit said:  "Or you could just buy a new car."  I'd never thought of doing that.  But I could do that, for I had just sold my house in Texas and the money was sitting in the bank.

* One day some concerns came to my mind in the form of "What if this happens."  I began praying and the Holy Spirit said to me, "God will provide all your needs."  That is a scripture in Philippians 4:19,  I believed that and immediately I was in complete peace again.

John 14:26   Jesus says:  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The Holy Spirit of Truth is the Comforter and HE brings us scriptures and concepts so we can live in peace when we have concerns come upon us on this present earth.

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Jesus says:  John 10:10

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

When I encounter a problem, ideas often come to my mind concerning how I can deal with that problem.

If the idea is very complex, expensive, difficult to do, I always know it is not an idea from God.  Therefore I pray again asking God what I should do.

Also if what I am about to do is going to bring hurt to another person, I need to reevaluate my plan, for we do not want to needlessly cause injury to another person.

I know this:  God's yoke is easy, and God's burden is light.  (Matthew 11:30)

James 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

I know the ideas that are from God because they are easy, simple, not complex ... full of mercy,  joy, peace ... without any hypocrisy.

Romans 8:14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

Matthew 22:32  I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

 

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Philippians 3:20,21  For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

21 WHO shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto HIS glorious body, according to the working whereby HE is able even to subdue all things unto HIMSELF.

 

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Hebrews 10:35-36  Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 

 

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

 

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Psalm 48:14  For this God is our God for ever and ever: HE will be our guide even unto death.

 

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 John 15:16  Jesus says ... Ye have not chosen ME, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in MY name, HE may give it you.

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💥 Acts 8 (Reading through the Bible)

 

And Saul was consenting unto his (Stephen's) death.

And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

² And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

³ As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

(Saul is "the apostle Paul" of the NT.  He persecuted the church before God revealed HIMSELF to him.  Acts 9)

⁴ Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

(We see how even this persecution of the early church accomplished the purpose of God for they preached the word wherever they were.)


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⁵ Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ (The Word) unto them.

⁶ And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. ⁷ For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

⁸ And there was great joy in that city.

(With The Word comes great joy to those who believe The Word.)

⁹ But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: ¹⁰ To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

¹¹ And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

¹² But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

¹³ Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

¹⁴ Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:  ¹⁵ Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:

¹⁶ (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

¹⁷ Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸ And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, ¹⁹ Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

²⁰ But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

²¹ Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

²² Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

²³ For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

²⁴ Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.


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²⁵ And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

²⁶ And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

²⁷ And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

(Notice what a religious man this man was.)

²⁸ Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

²⁹ Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

³⁰ And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

³¹ And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

³² The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: ³³ In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

³⁴ And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?

³⁵ Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

³⁶ And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

³⁷ And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.

And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

³⁸ And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

³⁹ And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

⁴⁰ But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

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💥 Podcast: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Phil. 2:12

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on April 12, 2021) 

 

Philippians 2:12-14 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

16 Holding forth the word of life;

James 1:22   But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Many church people do deceive themselves.  They think they are doing well when they are actually causing disruption in the church and troubling people needlessly.  

We must be led by God in that which we say and in that which we do, otherwise we can hurt other people rather than help them.

Many church goers are "dull of hearing."

Hebrews 5

11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

If a person cannot hear from the Spirit of God that person can be deadly to the church, trying to follow God by the letter of the law rather than the Spirit of the law.

First, we must have the Holy Spirit to witness to the word of God.  And we learn to hear what the Spirit tells us and that is what we speak and do.

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💥 Scriptures:

 

1 Corinthians 4:19-20  (Paul said)  But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
 

20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

 

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Psalm 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth ME: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

 

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Lamentations 3:24-26 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in HIM.

25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for HIM, to the soul that seeketh HIM.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

 

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Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to HIS riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

 

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Psalm 85:8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for HE will speak peace unto HIS people, and to HIS saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

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1Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

 

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Luke 3:5,6  Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

 

 

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💥 Acts 7 (Reading through the Bible)

 

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

² And he (Stephen) said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
³ And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

(Faith is hearing God when HE speaks and doing what God tells you because you believe it was God who told you.)

⁴ Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

⁵ And HE gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet He (God) promised that HE would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

(And he, Abraham, was 99-years-old and had no child of the promise.)

⁶ And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

⁷ And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve Me in this place.

(This is so much like us today.  We dwell in a strange land.  God will judge this world.  And God will deliver us from this world and we will "come forth" from this world to the new Jerusalem wherein dwelleth righteousness and serve God in total righteousness forever.)


⁸ And He gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

⁹ And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
¹⁰ And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹ Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

¹² But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

¹³ And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

¹⁴ Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

¹⁵ So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, ¹⁶ And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

¹⁷ But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
¹⁹ The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

²⁰ In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: ²¹ And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

(God has a plan which HE will execute.  God raises up people to do HIS plan.  God had a plan whereby HIS people would go into bondage 400-years and Egypt would rule over them.  At the time appointed by God for deliverance, God raised up Moses to execute HIS plan.  God has a plan and HE will do it.)

²² And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

²³ And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

²⁴ And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

²⁵ For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

²⁶ And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

²⁷ But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

(In fact God had done that very thing.  Making Moses a ruler and a judge over them.  In God's time that is exactly what would happen.  God has HIS plan and God will do all that HE wills in HIS time.)

²⁸ Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

²⁹ Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

³⁰ And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

³¹ When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, ³² Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 

Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

³³ Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

³⁴ I have seen, I have seen the affliction of My people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

³⁵ This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

³⁶ HE brought them out, after that HE had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

(God brought HIS plagues upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians and with each plague until the last plague, God hardened Pharaoh heart so the next "wonder", plague could be sent upon Egypt.  These plagues were part of the glory of God and showed the might of God.)

³⁷ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; Him shall ye hear.

³⁸ This is HE, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

³⁹ To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

⁴⁰ Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

⁴² Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
⁴³ Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

⁴⁴ Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as HE had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

⁴⁵ Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; ⁴⁶ Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
⁴⁷ But Solomon built Him an house.

⁴⁸ Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build ME? saith the Lord: or what is the place of MY rest?
⁵⁰ Hath not MY hand made all these things?

⁵¹ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
⁵³ Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

⁵⁴ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
⁵⁶ And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

(When you see Jesus, even your own death doesn't mean a lot.  Jesus, The Word, is all in all.)

⁵⁷ Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
⁵⁸ And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

⁶⁰ And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.  And when he had said this, he fell asleep (died).

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💥 Podcast: Causing the Word of God to be fruitful in us

 

 

(This podcast was previously published on April 15, 2021)

 

God brings the Word to us by HIS Spirit, but sometimes that Word is stolen by the devil.  We can stop that from happening.

Jesus teaches:

Mark 4

And HE (Jesus) began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto HIM a great multitude, so that HE entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

2 And HE taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in HIS doctrine,

3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

9 And HE said unto them, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

We can make the word become fruitful by doing a few simple things, explained in this Podcast.

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Mark 4

The sower soweth the word.

15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;

17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,

19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

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We must continually keep ourselves in peace through prayer over all concerns, settling with God everything that troubles us.

Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

For that which allows the Word to become unfruitful is the following:

Mark 4:19  And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. 

So we take all cares to God in prayer when the trouble surfaces.

By doing this diligently, we keep ourselves in a state of peace through prayer.

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The devil brings thoughts to us to trouble us.  But we pray over that concern and God brings the antidote to the poisonous thoughts of the devil.

Recently I became concerned.  I prayed. And immediately the following scripture came to my mind.

Philippians 4:19   But my God shall supply all your need according to HIS riches in glory by Christ Jesus (The Word).

I believed that word brought by the Holy Spirit, and instantly my mind was at peace again, resting in that word which God brought to me by HIS Spirit.

When a need surfaces in my life, God will supply that need.

God is totally faithful and totally adequate and will never fall short!

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We deepen the root system of the Word through thinking on the word and then acting in an appropriate way concerning that Word which we have heard from God.

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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Philemon v. 6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Given the opportunity, we share that good thing that God has done for us, with other people.

 

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💥 Scriptures:

 

2 Corinthians 9:6,7 But this I (Paul) say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

 

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Psalms 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for HE shall receive me.

 

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Isaiah 65:17-18 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 

 

18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

 

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Lamentations 3:22-23 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because HIS compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is THY faithfulness.

 

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Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

 

 

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💥 Acts 6 (Reading through the Bible)

1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring (complaining) of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

² Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. ³ Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. ⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: ⁶ Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

⁷ And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

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⁸ And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

⁹ Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

¹⁰ And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

¹¹ Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

Suborned:  to bribe or otherwise induce someone to commit perjury against another person

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

¹³ And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
¹⁴ For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

¹⁵ And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

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