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Every
Word ~ Thought ~ Deed

   Before we jump in, I want to tell you now that we are going to jump around your Bible. I make no apologies as we navigate this subject.

• Every ~ Word

   So gather your scraps of paper as we begin. I’m starting with these couple of questions . .

1. When someone cuts up on the road, do you either say .. ‘bleep bleep – swearing like a trooper’, Or, you say ‘oh you silly been, careful as you go now?’.
2. When hitting you hand with a hammer, Or, drop something heavy onto your toes, do you swear, Or, manage to control what you say in that moment?’

… If by doing so controlling the smallest member of the body, managing what most people have not done so, down through time.
[GW]James 3:2&3 “All of us make a lot of mistakes. If someone doesn’t make any mistakes when he speaks, he would be perfect. He would be able to control everything he does. 3 We put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and we have control over everything they do”

   I was once told of a businessman, whom would count to 15 seconds before ever replying to what was asked of him. He would do this as to always to be in control of what he response was, and never to be angry and loose control of what he said. I have to say this is very difficult, as I have tried, and failed. Never have I heard of anyone else like this?

[NIV] Colossians 3:17 “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him”

   As we seek God’s utterance to help us, metaphorically – with a horses bit, to control our mouths and words. May be one way, could be, to think of our words as seeds. I reckon many would remember things they said to others during their school days, some I’m sure some were once good, and some were hurtful words uttered. The truth being both have landed, and have taken root. Just as in the parable of the sower … [NIV] Matthew 13:1-9 ...Even if this parable is one you know very, or at least you think you do, might I suggest you now read it again, only before you do, ask God to show you something new.

   Before moving on, let me say one more thing on this matter . . .[NIV] Matthew 12: 36/7 “I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned”. . . as kids, most of us have uttered at sometime .. ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me’.. sadly some of these words, even today, have left wounds that will never heal. When speaking, we must, think of every word as a seed. Will they help to flourish or will they grow into a brier patch and hold this person back.

• Every ~ Thought

[NIV] Psalms 139:23 “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts”
   May be you didn’t ‘say anything’, but you still thought it. God still counts these words as spoken. What we must still remember to do is .. STOP .. and ask for God to help, but, honestly just repent and mean it . . “God, know my heart” . . Doing this which is very hard, means turning your ‘whole’ life completely over to God. Only then will our lives be totally turned around, leading to a closer walk with Jesus. This will mean less . .”Anxious thoughts”

   If your thinking your worthy, chase these thoughts away in Jesus name. You may feel that all He has ever given, I have never deserved, but, He still gives to us day after day. He does this through His good graces ~ mercies & love. For this every morning we must thank Him. Acknowledging Him is just the right thing to do, thanking Him for what He did yesterday, and for those He will do in the day coming.

   I do wonder how many times in the past I have fretted about silly things, instead of turning my worries over to Jesus . .
[NIV] Philippians 4:6 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God” . . Did you see that ..”Do not be anxious”.. How many times in the OT* & NT*, do we see God ~ Jesus or even Paul, tells us not to worry .. “about anything” .. so, STOP fretting, remember, we live by faith not by sight .. “but in every situation” ..I don’t care if it’s taking the dog for a walk; travelling to work; needing green traffic lights, an easy parking space; or the rent is due; an over draft that seems to be getting out of control; or your expecting your first child. All bar of the last I have experienced at some time or another since coming home to Christ. We need to seek Gods face daily, yes daily, more than once as well, and not on your phone, it needs to be face to face, one on one, with NO distractions. OK, God knows what we need before we ask for it. But He still wants us to come to Him daily.

• Our .. Deeds

 In this the last ..‘Our Deeds’ .. I want to show that even by doing ‘nothing’ it will still be counted as a ‘Deed’. Example: You may gather with old~Earthly friends, when something happens where you receive a tug on your heart, but all your old friends are laughing, but you say/do nothing to help, this is a non-deed, which will still count. You can stand there are try to argue that you did not laugh or mock, it is still counted.

[NKJ] Ezekiel 24:14 “I, the Lord, have spoken it; It shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not hold back, Nor will I spare, Nor will I relent; According to your ways And according to your deeds They will judge you, Says the Lord God”

You see there is no way around this .. “According to your ways” .. see that .. “your ways” .. I know I have swung this wet fish around a lot. Don’t you see we are held to account to every .. Word ~ Thought ~ Deed .. and “They will judge you”. There is no age limit to this, there is no saying ‘I didn’t know better’.

[NKJ] Proverbs 20:11 “Even a child is known by his deeds, Whether what he does is pure and right”
[NKJ] John 3: 20 “For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed”
21 “But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God”

   God wants us to live in the light, so that we may be held to our actions, because God wants us to have life more abundantly.
[NKJ] John 10:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly”
[NKJ] Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you”

   Lets stop and look at these 2 verses. I have not come to share where our short comings are. But, also to show how not to break Gods heart for saving us, but also to show what happens to those who walk by faith and not by sight, (or by the flesh/World).

We need to be mindful of walking by flesh/world, as this is what the evil one wants. Look .. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” .. This is Gods warning to us as the evil one wants to .. “ steal” .. any good thoughts you may have to help someone, he’ll tell you that ‘they don’t need you help’ or see ‘they’ll not even thank you’. “kill”.. any thoughts of kindness, I stand against this, in as much, in my local shop I need to use a trolley, the one I have to pay to use. Now after putting my shopping into the car, I look to see if there is a parent with a child, I ask them if their child can return my trolley and keep the coin for doing so. If so, I say ‘God bless you’. This was to say thank you to God for letting me bless them, and sow some seeds of kindness.

[NKJ] 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom"

   Jesus came that we should have “they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” .. surely this has to be crystal clear to us, at least I hope so. The next time we have ..Words ~ Thoughts ~ Deeds .. stop for a second and think ‘Do I want to sow weeds ..that are only going to choke any good, that this person will do because they will forever be there preventing forever achieving their goals. Instead lets help them, even when we don’t want to, by planting seeds of greatness, Gods greatness that is. . . .
[NKJ] Romans 15:18 “For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed ...19 in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God”
. . . You see all things are possible with God, that is why He wants to be continuously on our lips. Our Lord God can help us navigate this treacherous ~ wicked & perverse World. Lets be that light in Christ, with our Words ~ Thoughts ~ Deeds. Lets show what that looks like in the light of Christ Jesus.

   I have one more verse to leave you with, to show you how to be a winner in life through our Lord God ..
[NKJ] Matthew 19:26 “But Jesus looked at them and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”
… This verse should always be on your lips & embedded in your heart.

Prayer

Thank you Heavenly Father for saving us and be that lamp unto our feet, I may we be given the fortitude to have the stength to control  our words thoughts and deeds, in our Lord Christ Jesus name/ Amen

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(PT1 of 2)

All is Well

   When you hear the cry .. All is well .. would you think of an Army Century at his post letting everyone know there are no new attacks, also letting others know your approaching the Century your a friend. Or, telling your family that you have no new illnesses, like Covid19 or Cancer. There is no taste quite like fresh food (even Vegetables), especially if have grown them yourself ..
Psalm 128:2 “When you eat the labour of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.”
… if you have ever grown your own produce or herbs, youy’ll know how better they taste than shop bought. The thing is you don’t need a farm or garden, just need a box and a kitchen window.

Ecclesiastes 8:12 “Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him”

v13 “But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God”

   Illness is surly one of humanity’s greatest robbers of fun ~ Energy ~ Happiness, and so much more, even to loosing loved one’s. But stop, it does not have to be, Christ gave us life .. “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” .. (John 10:10) .. come on now who would not want that? I know what I’m going to tell you next, many may argue against me for putting this. . . If Jesus, like myself who 20yrs in of broken my spine, and yet still not healed, don’t tell me God does not care, as He does. Try to think of as I try to do, ‘may be your not healed because He wants to use us as we are to witness to others’.
   

   As Christians we would have read/heard of the story where this father leave his sick son to go in search of Jesus, as he is told our Lord was near his home. . . .
John 4:47/53 “When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.” 49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!” 52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household”
… Jesus must have been very frustrated, just by the language .. “you people” .. Jesus must have thought to himself ‘my message is not getting across here’, ‘do they think I’m a court jester, performing tricks & illusions for their entertainment’? Was all that God did for nought? He must have been pulling His hair out by now, I know I would have. 
   God is only asking us to have ‘Faith and Believe or Believe because you have Faith’. That is as simple as it is. In the morning let God know that He is Believed, because He has kept you and your loved ones safe over night, so tell Him …

# All is Well #

   Our Lord God will keep you safe, I was unable to find a better portion of Gods word that shows us to ‘Believe & have Faith’ than that of Psalms 37. The language there is so simple a child of 5yrs old could grasp. From the getgo .. V1”Donot fret” .. The Apostle John wrote in 1 John 4:4 4 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” .. with God in us all things are possible.

# All is Well #

Psalms 37: 2 “For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb”

   Surly after reading this who could not help to feel more safe; secure and happier. When understand and fully grasp this, fully believe this, NO one can stand against us, so hold you head up high.

   The greatest thing is to have Faith in God guidance. He will always equip us with all the tools needed to over come any hurdles we are faced with .. Never look to anyone else .. I want for you to read this next portion of scripture a couple of time over, so that it goes in and sticks ...
37:3&4 “Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.”

WOW WOW WOW

… who would not want to do this. On this scripture alone, should have you running around with a smile as wide as the English Channel. I was once asked how in your darkest hours I seemed to find the good out of such a dark place? But it was not me, but Christ’s light, His strength is my strength, of which I give thanks for daily, He is the lamp unto my feet.

# All is Well #

   When we fret we start to our eyes off of Jesus. Then start to burn wasteful energy, instead of giving our worries over to Him. . .
37:12&13 “The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth. 13 The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.”

   If you have ever watched a War movie, you would have heard them being told to .. ‘watch your six’ .. In other words .. ‘make sure there is no one sneaking up from behind’. God has us covered on ‘ALL’ sides, so “fret not”

Deuteronomy 8:1 “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers.”

# All is Well #

Prayer

We worship Him in the highest, because we know the truth, let you soul sing for joy, because your free and in whom the Son sets free is free indeed. May His word be planted in your heart and produce fruit in abundance.