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Walking With God

In the Garden of Eden, God came down and walked and talked with Adam and Eve.

But when sin came, it separated them from that walk.

The Old Testament records a number of instances where men walked with God.

God said to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect" ( Genesis 17:1 ).

Abraham almost took that phrase as the identifying mark of his life.

When he was blessing his servant to send him after a wife for his son Isaac, he said,

"The Lord before Whom I walk will bless you."

Abraham really walked with God.

The Scriptures speak of him as "The friend of God."

In Genesis 6:9 we read of Noah, Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generation: Noah walked with God.

  What does it mean to have a walk with God?

It is very important for us to know what a walk with God really is, for we often have wrong ideas about it.

Some people think they have a walk with God and yet they do not.

They do not commune with Him; there is none of that real hunger reaching out.

No one can walk with God unless he is tormented by a hunger after God.

If you do not have it, cry out for it until God places that hunger for Himself within your very heart.

There are people who have experiences with God, who have had the Lord answer their prayers, who are dedicated to His service, who work for Him, and who really love Him- but they do not know Him.

They do not really have a walk with Him.


  The Bible speaks of only a few men who walked with God, but those who did were instruments in changing the destiny of the human race.

Abraham walked with God, and God promised him that he would be the father of kings, that through him nations would be moved and blessed.

Noah walked with God, and because of this one man's dedication to walk with God, the whole human race was preserved.

Enoch walked with God, and it is significant what God did for him.

 
  And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters; and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years; and Enoch walked with God ( this is repeated a second time ): and he was not; for God God took him.

And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech seven hundred  eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Genesis 5:21-27.

There is a little rhyme: "The oldest man who ever lived, died before his father did."

That is true.

The oldest man who ever lived was Methuselah.

He lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, but he died before his father did because his father never died.

Enoch was translated when he was three hundred and sixty-five years old.


  Enoch was an amazing man. Hebrews 11:5,6 tells us of his tremendous faith.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he had witness borne to him that before his translation he had witness borne unto God: and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death.

He believed for it with all his heart.


  In Jude 14 and 15 we read, And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgement upon all...

Enoch lived at the dawn of history and he wrote a book, the Book of Enoch, which is a spurious one, written about 100 B.C.

Frankly, I think that there is a true book of Enoch preserved some place and that during the great Kingdom age it will be discovered again.

No doubt other books that are mentioned in the Bible will also be found.


  God always has His perfect word and revelation.

The Old Testament was perfect for the Old Testament times.

It contained all the seed principles and thoughts that were to govern the Church age and Kingdom.

It was complete, even without another revelation.

But aren't you glad we received the New Testament too?

Eventually God will add other words to govern us when the Kingdom comes, but that will be  for another age.

We have everything we need right now.

We have so much that points the way.


  Enoch wrote his book as he was walking with God.

He was listening to what God wanted him to say; he was seeing the things God wanted him to see.

He saw the great visions of the Lord's coming.

The Lord must have taught him many things, and his faith kept growing.

During Enochs life the world became very evil, yet he was more concerned about his walk with God than anything else.

God showed him the things that would come in the end time, when He would bring judgment on all the ungodly.

Enoch was on very close terms with the Lord, but not in a "buddy-buddy" type of relationship.

That is not the relationship you want with God.

If someone says, "My dear sweet Jesus is so real to me," we know that He is not truly real to him.

If you actually met Jesus, He would not be the "dear,sweet Jesus."

He is Lord!

He is Lord indeed, and in awe you would fall at His feet.


  Enoch had the kind of faith that reached in and believed for translation right out of this world.

When you walk with God you have to believe He can do anything; you must have faith.

Because Enoch walked with God, he could believe for anything.

Because Enoch walked with God, he could believe for anything.

And he did believe for the most fantastic thing: to have his mortal body literally transformed.

Doctrinally that was impossible, for man was under the curse from the fall, and he had to adjust and cope with the curse.

True, the world had a lot of vitality, but imagine a man living for almost a thousand years- years filled with energy and force.

In spite of all the vitality the earth had, Enoch was technically a part of the human race that was depraved.

No doubt they were talking about the Adamic nature way back in those times.

There were probably some good theologians around saying, "We don't know how to cope with this situation of the fall, but one thing we do know: we can't believe for anything like they had in the Garden of Eden.

We don't believe that man can talk with God now.
We've been driven out of the Garden.

That age is past.
This is our doctrine."

But Enoch disproved it all by walking and talking with God.


  When it is all decided that something is not scriptural and cannot be done, there is always someone who comes along and does it anyway.

Would you like to be one of those people?

The only qualification you need to do signs and wonders and exploits is to walk with God.

...But the people that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits ( Daniel 11:32 ).

Tremendous things will happen because you know Him, you trust Him, and you draw from Him.


  A number of things were involved in Enoch's walk with God.

He had real faith.

According to our text, without that faith it is impossible to pleas the Lord.

Really walking with God means that you are more concerned about worshiping and communing with the Lord than you are in communing with any other individual on the face of the earth.

It is very easy to let the Lord take a second place.

When you love someone in this world, and you want to be with him all the time, it is very easy to put him ahead of the Lord.

It is very easy to put something that you are vitally interested in ahead of the Lord.

A person can even take a blessing from the Lord and give it precedence over the Lord.

That is why God had to say to Abraham, "Offer up your only son; put a knife in his heart."

He had to demand that of Abraham to see if he loved and worshiped the blessing of God more than he loved and worshiped God.


  A walk with God involves your faith, your communion, your worship, and your obedience.

It involves the fear of the Lord and submission to God- that no matter what God does or what He requires, you are absolutely submissive.

It requires a great deal of discipline.

Daniel was a very busy man, an executive with many responsibilities, yet he managed to walk with God.

It takes time to walk with God, to pray and read the Word, and it is so easy to place more importance on other activities and interests.

God cannot have any rivals.


  A walk with God takes a great deal of dedication, because it is something that is very illusive.

When you write a book, there is always the satisfaction of seeing the finished product.

If you make some pottery or build a house, you can see the finished product.

You can go out and earn money, and see the result of your labor.

But you can spend endless days and years walking with God, while Satan torments you, saying it is all worthless, that it is worthwhile, because it is so illusive.

A walk with God- who can even define it, let alone know whether he has it or not?

But you will know!

It is a very real thing and it is worth the effort.


  Isaiah 40:31 is a familiar Scripture.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.

That is great- mounting up with wings as eagles, in those soaring experiences in God, when you exclaim, "Oh, I soared into the third heaven; I saw wonderful things."

They shall run, and not be weary.

It is marvelous to be dedicated and to work at the job with endurance.

But the last is the greatest of all- they shall walk, and not faint- to walk with God with a heart that will not faint, with a spirit that will not judge, without letting anything get in the way.

Then you will say, "I am not going to let anything trip me up or push me in a corner.

I have set my course.

I'm going to walk with God."

There will be people in this generation who will walk with God during this time of judgment in the earth.


  If you seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, the other things will be added.

People are often disappointment because God cannot give them what He wants to give them.

But when you put God first and seek Him first, it will be the one time of your life when you will not be disappointed and disillusioned.


  A walk with God is based upon wholehearted love and service.

Abraham walked with God, and God rained money upon him like dew from heaven.

Here was a man after God's own heart, who loved God and walked with him; and God blessed him and made him exceedingly rich.

Job was a man perfect in all his ways before the Lord, and God made him a very rich man too.

There cannot be any restriction of finances, any restriction of health, any spiritual limitation, any inadequacy whatsoever, there cannot be anything but happiness and real joy and fulfillment in life for anyone who is walking in the perfect will of God.

To walk with God can open the door to fantastic blessings, as it has in every instance in Scripture.


  Is a walk with God something that you want?

Do you want to discipline yourself to get up in the morning and seek God?

Get away from the practice of saying prayers and reading the Bible as a ritual.

Read it until it lives.

Read it until you eat it.

Read it until you feel the Author breathe down your neck as He whispers into your ears what it is all about, what He really meant when He wrote it.

Read it until the fire that burns in the prophet's heart burns in your heart as the Word is transferred from a cold page to the tablets of the heart.

Love His Word.

Love Him.

Trust Him.


  Repentance is a good practice.

Repent of every time you have displeased the Lord.

Repent in depth, until you see the awfulness of even the most insignificant thing, if it kept you from breaking through to that communion with God.

Be obedient.

If you promised the Lord something, do it.

Be submissive.

In your heart, come to the full submission of all that He has said.

Hold everything else loosely; lay it all on the altar.

Be ready to turn your back and walk away from everything in the world- if that is the price required to walk with God.

Do not let anything rival God!

Come to the place where you want Him above everything, even your own life.

Oh, how God blesses those who yearn after Him!


  What is the most profitable thing you can do?

Micah 6:8: He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; ad what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Your Spirit

A Right Spirit

Pastor's Thought For Today: Maintain A Right Spirit

David said, "Renew a right spirit within me.  Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which You have broken may rejoice" (Psalm 51:10,8 )

Today's message is rather lengthy because I am becoming aware of a need for this teaching lately. I want to shed some light upon some issues that I am seeing.

There is a simplicity in all that God does. God has a way of speaking a simple Word over your life that gives you something in your heart that you know is your destiny to fulfill. What a wonderful blessing this truth is!

When you have read the life of Paul, you realize that God's first words to Ananias concerning Paul were fulfilled. when God told Ananias to lay hands on Paul, He said, "I will show you what great things he must suffer for My name's sake" (Acts 9:16 ). Then a whole life of suffering followed; yet how beautifully Paul related to the Lord Jesus Christ in it. Christ came forth in his life through it.

And so we realize that God was not concerned about how many things a man could suffer; He was concerned about manifesting Himself through all of that suffering and about deepening that man's relationship to Himself.

The apostle Paul indeed suffered many things, but through all his suffering, the presence of the Lord was demonstrated in his life. God would never have permitted the sufferings in Paul's life to any occasion of grumbling and complaining.

Those sufferings were to glorify Himself. God would never have allowed Paul to suffer so that he could say, "See how much I am suffering." In one instance in his letter to the Corinthians where he spoke about all the things he had suffered, he said, "I speak as a fool" ( II Corinthians 11:23 ). To him it seemed foolish even to recount what he had gone through in his sufferings.

The references to Paul's life, as well as other references in the Scriptures, reveal a very important truth. You will find that having a right spirit is related to the fulfillment of God's will in your life. God will never let you fulfill the things that He has promised for your life until you are prepared to do them with a right Spirit. Some people receive prophecies over their lives, and the next day they start walking in them. Other people with the same words for their lives, and with the same anointing and the same confirmation, cannot move; they cannot fulfill God's will. Year after year goes by and that Word is unfulfilled. Finally, after utter disaster in their lives, they come to the place where they begin to do the will of the Lord.

What keeps us from instant fulfillment? What keeps us from doing the will of the Lord with all our heart? The answer is within our own spirit. It is not really a matter of how many words God has spoken over a church, or what Word He has brought forth in the earth, or what people He has anointed and commissioned to fulfill His Word. What really counts is how each person is walking with God. How are you walking with God? How is your spirit?

We all may come to the place where instead of saying to a prophet, "How do you do," we will ask, "How do I do?" We will be more concerned about the things that are wrought in our own spirit. More than anything else, we will be concerned about our having a right spirit.

Faith has a way of bringing everything within our spirit to focus in submission and aggressive faith to do the will of the Lord. When a man's ministry does not work, look closely and you will see that his spirit was not actually right. It was not really the leading and the anointing of the Lord to fulfill the prophecy at that time because his spirit was not ready. The Word spoken over him was true; and when his spirit becomes right, he will have a glorious fulfillment.

There are many components of a right spirit. There must be an aggressive faith; there must be no withdrawal; there must be a willingness to sacrifice; there must be pure motivation; there must be a release from human ambition. To have a right spirit, there cannot be any bitterness in your spirit. A right spirit means that we have a broken and a contrite heart that God does not despise ( Psalm 51:17 ). David prayed, "Renew a right spirit within me. then I will teach transgressors Thy ways" ( verses 10, 13). The fulfillment of your ministry, the effectiveness and the fruitfulness that God wants to bring forth in your life, all begin with that renewal of a right spirit within your heart.

This truth may seem to be over-simplified in context with other truths that God has given; but we must deal with this need and pray, "Lord, what is in my spirit that hinders? What hinders me Lord? What is it in my spirit that is wrong?" It is very important to have a right spirit. The man who serves God in this hour must persistently keep his spirit open to God.

A right spirit has a focus on God and never alters its focus from God. If you have a wrong spirit, your spirit has been distracted and you are focused on something else. A person who has a wrong spirit focuses on a problem, or something someone said, or something that happened to him; his focus is not on the Lord. A right spirit focuses on God; a wrong spirit on something else.

Is something bothering you? Has something crippled you so that you are not functioning, you are not worshiping or moving ahead? Look to your spirit to see what is there. A right spirit focuses on God, but a wrong spirit focuses on circumstances, problems, and a number of other things.

The children of Israel murmured and complained. They did not like manna or anything else that God provided for them. Never once do we read that they were excited because of the pillar of fire, for the Shekinah glory of God that was actually leading them. They did not focus on that- they focused on something else because their spirits were wrong.

Renew a right spirit in us O God.

Have A Right Spirit

Avoid carefully becoming stalemated in your life. Do not be so frustrated that you say, "I can't understand why God doesn't do what He said. He prophesied it; it is long overdue!" It is long overdue, but it is not God who is overdue; your own spirit has to be right first.

This truth may seem to be over-simplified in context with other truths that God has given; but we must deal with this need and pray. "Lord, what is in my spirit that hinders? What hinders me, Lord? What is it in my spirit that is wrong?"

James and John, the disciples wanted to bring down fire from heaven and burn people up. But the Lord said, "You do not know of what spirit you are." Luke 9:54-55.

It is very important to have a right spirit. The man who serves God in this hour must persistently keep his spirit open to God.

When you start opening up your spirit to the Lord and to everyone else around you more than you have before, then the enemy of the Lord will come against you. It seems that Satan is allowed to test you when, before the Lord, you say, "I want to be perfect in my way before the Lord. I want my spirit to really be right."

God allows you to be tested on it. And if you can come through the testing with a right spirit, you will be walking in the days of miracles again. It seems to be such a simple formula, but it becomes effective in everything you pray for. It opens the door. You will learn that when you say you are going to keep your spirit open, you have made a big statement. When you are going to have a right spirit, you have made a declaration.

During the testing , you may find yourself shouting, "I do too have a right spirit!" You will realize that half the problems and limitations that you have are in your head.

Of all the things that frustrate us, that limit us, that lock us in a state of limitation, at least half of them come because we tolerate things in our spirit that are wrong. Yes,we tolerate them! Do you say, "Oh, it is just a little sin. It is not too bad. I have a little bit of a bad temper. I have a bad feeling about so-and-so, but I just put it aside." If you do, you are petting a tiger that will rise up at the wrong moment and keep you from doing the thing that God wants.

"Well how can God use me if I am angry all the time? I am under a cloud! I am defeated!" That is His way. He must show you what has to change. When the Lord finds a sore spot in your life, He begins to rub it, just like a chiropractor. He makes it hurt worse so that it will feel better later. That is the way the Lord deals with you. It is the way that He gets at your problems.

We have such a spirit of self-sympathy and understanding for ourselves that rarely do we believe we are really wrong. We always wish that the Lord would teach us discipline some other way.

It takes a very personal dealing of the Lord for you to come into fulfillment of all that God wants to do in your life. He wants to be glorified in you!

 II Thessalonians 1:10.
 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed...

 People will see Jesus revealed in your life. You will become a barer of His presence to others. There will be miracles, there will be souls saved.

Have a right spirit!


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WordWise Meat  "Bitterness Of Spirit"

 There is an aspect of the Word of God that can go deeper than what most Christians are currently getting from their Bible teaching schools. Paul the apostle once made the proclamation:
1 Corinthians 3:2
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

Let us see if you are now at the point in your walk with God to assimilate a diet that is not just milk, a diet that has some fillet Mignon...Some of you will be able to eat meat, while others will feel as if this just flew over the tops of their heads. We will begin slowly and simply enough...

Let us begin with some teaching about your human spirit. 

Once in a while, some people seem to be ready to give up. Actually, they reached a place where fatigue and pressure have caused them to either go on a crying jag or eat a gallon of ice cream or do something even a little more foolish. But they tend to pull out of that state because it has not deeply affected their spirit. It was usually an isolated incident that did not have much permanent significance. It was a safety valve. They blew off a little steam and repented, "Lord, I'm sorry that I was ready to run the other way!" Then they usually press on.

It is not easy to help Christians who have experienced difficulties which have deeply affected their spirit. The serious problems occur when difficulties reach a person's spirit. I am always amazed to read in the Scriptures that the disciples were able to penetrate down into a person's spirit. An incident such as this occurred in the eight chapter of the book of Acts.

Philip had gone down to Samaria because of the persecutions which scattered the Christians after the stoning of Stephen. Philip performed great miracles and signs there, and he preached and won the whole city to the Lord (Verse 6). In Acts 8:14-17 we read, Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.


Peter and John were ministering to the believers in Samaria when something unusual happened. Verses 17 through 24 tell a story which illustrates how the apostles penetrated into the spirits of the people to whom they ministered.

The apostles conclusions were not occasioned by what they saw or by the actions of an individual. Rather, they penetrated into his spirit, which was and is the determining factor.

This is important and of interest to us, because today people are generally evaluated by their actions. We might automatically assume that a person has a bad spirit if he hits someone. We tend to reason by the physical action that he commits, rather than to discern what was in his spirit. If we could reach his spirit, we could help him before he starts hitting someone.

Let us see what happened when Peter and John began laying their hands on the believers and they were receiving the Holy Spirit. Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands, he offered them money, saying, "Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

We cannot blame Simon too much for offering them money; he was not familiar with the grace of God. He recognized their authority, and he thought this was great; he had never seen anything like it. But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God."

Peter exposed what was in Simon's heart, rather than judging him by his actions.

Notice how Peter dealt with Simon's spirit. "Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity." But Simon answered and said, "Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me." Acts 8:18-24.

Peter gave us a good example of how to deal with someones spirit. People ask questions about everything; and when you listen to them, you know that something is not right. They do not want information; they are trying to put you in a corner. Others ask questions; and you perceive immediately, "This person's spirit is open to the Lord. There is no gall of bitterness here. This is an honest seeker."

If we were to go up and down the highways and byways and try to talk to people about things of the Lord, many would say, "I can't be bothered." Among those who would talk, we might be rather amazed that although some would ask the same questions as others, they would have an entirely different attitude of heart. Some would have a bitter spirit.

Talk to some people about religious Babylon, and they may say, "You don't need to talk to me about Babylon! I don't know about Babylon, but I will tell you what my church did to me and what our church was like and what they are doing. It was terrible!"

There is bitterness in their spirits. That bitterness keeps coming out by their lashing at everything. Talk to another man and you may find that he is not bitter in his spirit. He may have gone through similar experiences and could be bitter, but he is not. In his spirit, in his heart, he has a deep overriding hunger for God. and because he has a right spirit, he has not been embittered by the difficulties he experienced. Although he may have been very upset at the time, he did not retain any bitterness in his heart.

Simon the magician was rightly discerned by Peter, though he seemed to be an honest inquirer: "I want to lay my hands on people and see them receive the Holy Spirit, too. What a neat trick!" However, behind his inquiry was not just the motivation to buy a gift of God with money. Even more than that, he was in the gall of bitterness. Deep in his heart he had no part or lot with God. Peter said, "Your heart is not right with God. You have no part or portion in this matter." Not one thing was right because bitterness had cut him off.

Bitterness can be a great deceiver. It is surprising how many people hide their bitterness so well that it is difficult to detect. Sometimes this happens in a marriage. A wife may act pious in church, but be very bitter at home over the way her life has turned out. At times, we see this also in husbands. Colossians 3:19 says, Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Bitterness can build up, until after a while a veneer of toleration exists, while actually that bitterness goes down deep.

Some of the seemingly religious and spiritual homes should be analyzed for bitterness. Though entire families go through the right motions, at times there are uprisings of insidious criticism. They talk sweetly; their terminology is just right; their inflections of voice are just right. but look a little closer. Within these families there is bitterness. There is not the deep love. Tension and edginess come out. There is that gall of bitterness beneath the surface.

Do you realize where bitterness really is? Proverbs 14:10 says, "The heart knoweth  his own bitterness." Doesn't this seem true? We have a way of detecting the bitterness that we accumulate within our own spirit. When you think back on the people who have stopped walking with God, you cannot point to any specific problem that was too much for them to bear. The reactions in their spirits, more than anything else, caused some to lose out.

Others, who went through the same problems stayed on. Maybe you excuse a brother for losing out because he seemed to have so much to put up with. Maybe you thank God for the work he did, and you think, "He was a good man at heart." Take another look. All the way along the bitterness of his spirit may have been constantly building up a reaction in him to the testings that were taking place.

When someone else went through the same testings, God used them as a catalyst to prepare his spirit to go on into deeper things of the Lord and to seek Him with all of his heart.

In Hebrews 12:5-6 we read, "Do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him; for those whom the Lord loves He disciplines... Any time you go through a testing which seems to cloud your walk with God, be aware that the problem is not the testing; the real problem is your reaction to it in your spirit.

Walking with God in the Body of Christ is deeply personal. It is between you and the Lord. It is not based on the way the Body of Christ treats you. It is not based upon the way that your brother treats you. Good strong ministries, who should walk on with the Lord and be on top of every situation, sometimes begin to blame their circumstances and other people for the fact that they are not moving in the Lord.

Passivity and bitterness build up in their spirits. Their bitterness builds up while everyone else is breaking through. In the same worship services, we see some breaking forth to become prophets of God and others losing out because of their own bitter spirits.

People react differently, and the difference in their reactions often is based upon the bitterness or the brokenness of their spirits. What is in your spirit? A broken, contrite heart before God? or bitterness? Look back and analyze a time when you were in trouble. It was not necessarily the severity of the circumstance that caused the problem as much as it was your own spirit reacting to it.

Bitterness of spirit does not always result in people becoming vicious and leaving the church and criticizing it. they do not always react that way. Some keep going to services without ever becoming active. Meanwhile bitterness is in their spirits. Then in a difficult situation they become champions to criticize everyone else. Their bitterness may manifest itself in numerous ways. Sometimes they become aggressively defensive to a point of blaming someone else. But more than blaming someone else, they may even pose as being very spiritual.

In the New Testament churches that are coming forth today, there are people with beautiful, hungry, tender spirits who wholeheartedly press on with the lord. There are others with beautiful spirits who love the lord with all their heart, but they cannot seem to adjust to intense expressions of music and intercession. Still they worship and pray in their own way and keep a right spirit. At the other end of the spectrum are some people with bitterness! They may be critical and withdraw, or they may become aggressive to a point of berating everyone else.

How are we to deal with this? how can we deal with the varying responses of the human spirit to the things that happen? It would be marvelous if we would all bow down broken before the Lord. then He could give us an overall vision of the Kingdom and of the people who are ready to be brought in. With a right spirit coming forth, we could forget ourselves and bring other people in.

What kind of spirit should we have? We should not be self defensive or self assertive, but in our spirit we should be dedicated to bring forth the will of God in people's lives. If our dedication does not lead to this, we are not motivated in the right direction. A wrong spirit always dead ends before the true issues arise.

A wrong spirit stops at an impasse without seeing the great issues of the Lordship of Christ and His Kingdom coming all over the world. A wrong spirit always stops one at the local, personal level. It can ground you.

Do you realize the amazingly simple wisdom there is in this message? You can apply it to a thousand situations; to what you have experienced and what you are in now; to what other people have gone through and what they are in now. You will see how to best assist and help others.

Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Waking Your Spirit ( A most important teaching for spirituality)

 This teaching will help you to understand how you can start getting more results in your prayer life and how to become more tuned into the Lord as well.
How many of us just pray every now and then and really have no prayer life per say?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could become more focused and start to see things that we thought were impossible take place as a result of our prayers?
Here is a little guidance in starting us out on a good path towards obtaining a healthy prayer life.

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Have you noticed that the biggest factor in your walk with God is that you fail to wait on the Lord, you fail to read the Word and you fail to pray?

It is those three things that really bother you, and if you could have something that could start you on track- if somebody in the morning could give you a little push so that at least you got started, you know that the day would be all right.

But as it is, you get to hurrying around and the first thing you know, it's the middle of the afternoon and you think, "I haven't prayed."

Evening comes, and before you go to bed, you read the Word and pray, feeling a guilty conscience, "I should have been praying; I should have waited on the Lord.

All day long I didn't do what I should have done."

This is very common.

But I can give you a key so that each day can be lived in the Spirit, and that day will see you walking along in at least a measure, if not all, of what God has for you.


  Take five minutes- five minutes as soon as you're wide awake.

Five minutes won't hurt you: you can brush your teeth in that time, but in five minutes you could do something that would help you all through that day.

Suppose you start out with a verse of Scripture, maybe something predetermined the night before, or planned for a whole week, so you don't go leafing through the Bible.

The verse that you are going to use is priming the pump, so that you get the water started in the morning.

One verse of Scripture, then you pray and open your heart to the Lord very simple.

Just a couple of minutes of prayer, and then you pause, and open your heart, "Lord, I open my heart to You to lead me today."

This is the way you start.

Now you may know that in the next ten minutes you're going to come back and read the Word for half an hour.

You may be prepared to spend two hours in prayer; but on the other hand, the unexpected may come to wipe you out.

Or, you may find that there's a schedule to keep.

If you have an appointment in the morning, you've got to move.

But you've started something: now you won't be going to the appointment or to school with self-condemnation, thinking, "I didn't start right: I didn't get to pray this morning. I didn't wait on the Lord," approaching the day with something less than faith.

You've taken five minutes and stirred your self into the realm of the spirit.

You have opened your spirit to God.

You will do your exercises to get yourself in shape, eat your morning oats or rice, swallow your wheat germ oil or something- you feel like you've got to get yourself going- but you fail to remember that your spirit has to wake up too, and your spirit has to be activated for the day.

Some people wake up physically, right away.

Other people are slow to do it.

But whether you wake up quick or late physically and mentally, you still can awaken your spirit to God and you've given your spirit something of the Word of God to reach into.

Then it's very easy the rest of the day to develop a hunger.


  you can take your Bible, a little sermon- something that you are going to read- with you to work, or wherever you are.

Put it in your lunch, if you take a lunch.

Remember now, it is just as necessary to sustain your spirit as your body, so you take something to feed your spirit.

Make always that opportunity when you get the coffee break, a little rest period, the rest room, or when you get any time during the day where you can stop.

It is surprising how you can meditate at a stop light.

nothing in the world can interrupt you until they start honking behind you!


  It's almost like a thing of spiritual isometrics, because already you have started; you are beginning to look for places to make that contact with God, times in which you can almost dial out the conscious level and reach through to that sweet fellowship with the Lord.

Isometrics is motionless exercise- you strain against an immovable object and it is beneficial for the muscle tone of your whole body.

Suppose you do the same thing spiritually?

Would you like to know how to let your faith grow?

Would you like to know how to begin to exercise yourself spiritually and really grow?

Spirit's don't have muscles; they move entirely through authority, not through your muscles.

The physical man moves through muscles, but the spiritual man moves through the authority and as he submits to the Lord, he moves into greater authority.

Everybody should have their little isometric spiritual list.

Would you like to know how to make a list of spiritual isometrics, so that through the day you can begin to test yourself or exercise on them and find that spiritually you begin to grow?

It's very simple: only one little principle to follow.

Make a list ahead of time, carry it in a notebook, write it on a little three by five inch card: or, if you have a good memory, remember it.

(With all of the aerial sprayed  aluminum powders being released in the sky through chemtrails today, most people find that their  memories are being impaired.)

But on this list, if you list the impossible things, things that you have not been able to believe for- for the church, for the pastor, for yourself- some circumstances or problem that to you seems impossible.

You could list something that you want for yourself, in this walk with God, that you've never been able to have.

All of these are possibilities.

It would even be better to stay away from yourself and stop and think, "Now who is the most impossible character in the church?

Who is the most difficult one to help?"

Then you write down what they need, as far as you can understand it.

You may have five or six things, maybe more.

But don't get too many; just tackle the hard ones.

And every time you have a break, worship the Lord and then get some Scripture, some promise ( do it originally each time), and say, "Lord, I'm going to believe for this."

You set your heart to believe it and exercise it, and you're claiming it.

You're straining at the immovable object according to your spirit, and it's surprising how your spirit keeps drawing from the Lord, appropriating it, and the impossible is done.


  I'm giving you keys on how to walk with the Lord, how to be a spiritual individual.

Write down the Scripture that you started out with in the morning on a three by five inch filing card, with the reference on the other side.

You're going to memorize both of them during the course of the day.

You have started out to open your spirit up to God through that verse.

All day long stand on that promise and pray over it and meditate on it.


  Paul wrote to Timothy and told him to remember the prophecies over him that by them he might war a good warfare.

( Does your church or fellowship exercise prophecy?)

If you'd like to war a really good warfare, make a little capsule summary of what God has said about you.

Sometimes just a few words will remind you: "I'm going to be a handmaiden of the Lord."

"I'm going to be a prophet ( or a prophetess) of the Lord."

"I'm going to have a discerning of spirits," "I'm going to prophesy", or just write " prophecy," or whatever it is you are to do or be.

Jot down also the prophecies.

Then whenever you have a free minute, do what Paul told Timothy, "Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them and your profiting will appear to all."

Make a business of being spiritual, and every time you get the chance, turn your eye away from the passing parade.

Look back to that which is important, the prophecy over you, the Scripture, the verse of Scripture, and reach into the Lord.

Don't say, "Forget that! I pray when ever I feel like it."

When you don't have a plan or have a simple course, you say it, but you don't do it.


  Anybody, for a few bucks, can buy a set of dumb-bells or a bar-bell set and a few exercises to do.

Thousands upon thousands of people buy those sets, and they sit in the garages or attics or wherever they've been stored, and they're not growing muscles on anybody.

But if a man pays for a years membership in a gym and he's going to get specialized training, he is taking on an extra load.

He has to come home, get whatever he's going to work out in, make a trip to the gym through the traffic.

He has to change, he has to work out, then take a shower, redress and drive back home.

It's a lot more complicated than coming home and going out into the garage and running through a few exercises.

But he'll do that, rather than work out with something simple.

Why?

Because he'll think, "well, I'll work out tomorrow."

But something is demanded: "This is my gym day; this is my day to work out."

It's the same way with school; anybody can get a good book and sit down and read it and probably get more out of t than they'll get out of a college course, using the same book as a text.

But because it's required to be there at a certain hour and certain days and they have to pass the examination, they bone up on it.

An average high school graduate in a year's time could have a college education, if they were a good reader and had nothing to impede their progress.

Four years of college could be cut to less than twenty-five percent of the time , with lasting benefits and knowledge that could be applied, because much of that is just wasted time when they're in college.

But they won't, because they don't discipline themselves.

Now the same thing is true in the spirit.

If you say, "Well, I'll do it when the mood hits me," you'll never do it.

But set yourself to do certain little things systematically.

You have your promises, you've started yourself off for the day, you have a prophecy, you have a little resume', you have some spiritual isometrics, impossible things that you're testing your faith on.

Let yourself come into a full focus.

A good way is to get mad about something.

Write down something that your really angry about.

Tackle something that stirs you up- something that you can get your teeth into.

Is there something in the church that is irritating you?

Would you say, "There's something in my home that aggravates me?

There's something in my family that aggravates me.

There are some things in me personally that aggravate."

Those are the things that you write down for your isometrics.

Lose your temper over losing your temper.

Do something like that.

These are the things that you are putting your faith to.

Find the thing that has wiped you out the most often, where you've been defeated so often.

That's where your going to put your isometrics.

Every day you're going to believe on that thing.

This is the wisdom of Solomon.

It is practical teaching.


  Now this will help you to develop one deep underlying feeling in your spirit that will get you away from the deadliness of saying, "Well, I'm going to start walking with the Lord tomorrow.

Next week, things are going to change, I'm going to work some things around and I'm going to start walking  with God."

Isn't that what people feel?

Instead of that, think, "Oh, I contacted the Lord! I'm started."

It took only five minutes, you've started and your working at it all day.

All day long, you've got the good little feeling "I am walking with God!

I am a part of this church, a part of the thing that's functioning and moving."

And in that little prayer in the morning, you could say one thing, "This day, today, Lord, I open my spirit up that I'll be a participating member.

Whatever is happening in the whole place- if there's anybody under a burden, Lord, just lay it on me and let me pray with them, too."

Suddenly, you will sense the Body.

You'll come to church, to the house of God and look around thinking, "Isn't it wonderful?

This is what I'm part of.

I'm living in it, I'm walking in it, every single day.

Oh, how delightful!"


  You can be out in the business world so much, that before you realize it, you've adjusted yourself to it's thinking.

If you're in a world of red, after a while you are not aware of red.

If you're in a world of blue, after a while  you're not aware of blue.

But if you keep coming back to the spiritual world you will always see the contrast.

Your discernment will be ten times sharper; you'll quickly sense what is wrong.

If you don't, you get swallowed up with the thing that it has overwhelmed you and you miss seeing; you don't have the sense of contrast between the spiritual things and the things that are not of God.

It will keep a business woman or man really sharp, if they keep going to the Spirit.

This will help anyone who might be snowed under in their 0desire to conform to the business world.

They get trapped.

They get taken in, they become oppressed.

Constantly going back and forth through the realm of  spirit keeps you from becoming a business man during the day and a man of God and a family man at night.

It keeps the whole thing in balance.


  As you are praying and remembering promises that have come over people, write them down and your faith becomes definite.

 God didn't say, "Keep on praying and lots of things are just bound to happen."

He said, "whatsoever you ask."

Writing out, "this is what I believe for that person; this is what God said," makes it definite.



Writing out, "this is what I believe for that person; this is what God said, " makes it definite.

"Whosoever" boils down to a specific individual.

"Whatsoever you shall ask" boils it down to a specific promises.

Sometimes it's good not to be praying about everything.

You can be bogged down in tedious detail.

Did you ever notice that a service becomes nonspiritual where you throw it open to a lot of prayer requests?

Why?

The people have lost their focus.

They're not tackling the things that count, but are just praying about little things that count, but are just praying about little things here and there.

It's just like buck shot, scattered all over everywhere and it isn't doing anything.

But when you get right down in your prayers, aim at something that is really important.

Ask yourself, "What's the most important prayer that I could make in this church?

What's the impossible thing to believe for?

And stay with it.

It's like the old kingpin, you hit that and everything else falls.


  Write this down: "First thing in the morning, take a little step."

Not a big one, take a little step.

That makes you a self-starter, just a little Scripture that starts you, just a little prayer, "Well, I have to get things going, get the kids off to school, then I'll settle down and I'm going to pray an hour."

How many times has that backfired?

So take a little step and start yourself in the spirit and you can ward off everything else, the inertia, becoming self-centered.

Take one little step.


  Have you ever heard someone say, "Boy, have I had a big Thanksgiving dinner!

I'm not going to eat anything for a week."

Probably before sundown you were back at the table for more, because you started something in motion.

These notes that you have taken down about what you are going to do the first thing in the morning will do that- start everything in motion.


  This is very important: start out with a thought in the conscious mind that opens the spirit.

By repetition of this promise and prophecy through the day, the thought becomes an attitude.

Attitudes are in the subconscious as well as the conscious.

By repetition the thought becomes an attitude.

You want to get to the place where you don't have to stop and think when you are under pressure, "Well, how do I react?"

You react according to the attitude of heart which is one of faith.

You have the Scripture, you have the prophecy.

By constant repetition, that thought becomes an attitude.

You don't work at that very many times until your spirit, in every situation, will respond right.

Is Our God Big Enough To Provide?

To Whom Do We Look To For Our Provision

I Need Not For He Is My Provision. Is He Yours?

David's Art Tshirts? Not Sold Here.

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I drew this picture with pen and ink. It is my art. I have the original along with many other drawings that I have done. You can't buy any of my art here, in fact you can buy nothing here!

This is a non profit noncommercial Web site. Not to many websites are these days. Seems like everyone is out to monetize in one way or another. And just to make sure they even ask for donations along with the other ways men have come up with to tap into our wallets.

Judging by all of the people from around the world who visit this particular website each month, there must be some kind of profit to our visitors. Or they would not come here.

I know of one wonderful Christian man who made the statement that a "Christian website should only be a Christian website." As you can plainly see I strongly disagree with him on that issue. I personally like the mix of interesting links along with Christian oriented postings for this web blog. And apparently others do also or they would not visit this website.

Christian elitism?

"Elitism is the belief or attitude that some individuals, who supposedly form an elite — a select group of people with, intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are those whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously or carry the most weight or those who view their own views as so; whose views and/or actions are most likely to be constructive to society.

Elitism may also refer to situations in which an individual assumes special privileges and responsibilities in the hope that this arrangement will benefit humanity or themselves. At times, elitism is closely related to social class and what sociologists call social stratification. Members of the upper classes are sometimes known as the social elite. The term elitism is also sometimes used to denote situations in which a group of people claiming to possess high abilities or simply an in-group or cadre grant themselves extra privileges at the expense of others. This form of elitism may be described as discrimination as a whole; or whose extraordinary skills, abilities or wisdom render them especially fit to govern."

 No elitism here at the Shekinah Fellowship blog, just average~Joe Christian man doing a web blog type website and having fun while doing it. That is my pay off, my monetization if you will. If you are desirous of nothing but single minded Christian stuff, there are a lot of other websites out there that will deliver as such.

To be totally honest, no one truly cares what I do here. I have a Topic Forum in the right hand side that no one hardly visits, considering how long it has been available. There is reader input stuff and comment ability just under these post that no one ever uses, except for "Mel" who uses Chinese characters that English readers may not be able to read. So it really isn't an issue when it comes to 'Christian elitism,' no one seems to mind.

But I do draw the line at monetization here. Now that is not to say I would not one day have a web site dedicated to monetization. But It would not be a Christian oriented web site, just a Christian owned web site.

I like to draw, you know, pen and ink stuff. Lately I have noticed the trend of  plain Tshirts with art on them. People from all walks of life are wearing them. I even have seen a very wealthy man wearing them as his daily outfit. Most of the art on them is demonic in origin. You just can tell. The fallen angelic overtones and the wicked wings concepts shout out loudly to me of demonic influence. My picture above is weird but it is not of demonic influence. I like the comic book super hero stuff. I like the odd way out outer space stuff.

I think that I might open a cafepress site http://www.cafepress.com/with my art and see if perhaps I could generate some income from it. This is totally ok by me. But I draw the line on anyone using the things of God to put money in their wallets. It is no wonder to me that every single website and person who monetizes anything that comes from the Word of God is honestly without anointing. I mean that! They are boring! They don't lift me into the presence of God! The websites that are just trying to cover the cost incurred of providing their materials without trying to profit beyond those cost are ok.

If your going to be a Christian Elitist the finest model I know of is the one that believes:

"The calling of God is the enabling of God."
"God Guide, God provides."

God needs our help in monetizing His ministry and calling over us?

He says, "I don't need your help in provision...

psalm 50:9-11
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 
10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 
11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

There was a great abundance of fish and loaves after Jesus provided:
Matthew 14:17

And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. 


Jesus (Almighty God) had a need and provided for that need Himself...

Matthew 17:27
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

And Jesus can provide for us:

2 Corinthians 9:8

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Ephesians 3:20 

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,

Jude 1:24

Now unto him that is able...

My God Is Able! And we give Him all our praise. For He is worthy.