Accessing Inspired Wisdom....1

Accessing Inspired Wisdom

 

 

Proverbs 20: 27  “. .The spirit of a man is the lamp of

the Lord . .”

 

Luke 11 : 33/36  “. .No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lamp stand, that those who come in may see the light. The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.  Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light. .”

  

   When you see a blind person out, They know when the pavement (sidewalk) ends at the road, yet the for the most part live in perpetual darkness. I have always marveled at them and wondered how many of us could survive a single day in their shoes? How lucky are we that we can light a candle, or, just flip a light switch when darkness falls. Once we light the candle it shines light upon an area you are in and helps you see where to go so as that you don’t stumble thus fall over. It has the power to chase away the darkness, as the darkness can’t stand against it.

 

   How many of you know or have sung the song, “I’m gonna lit this light of mine shine”?

Luke 11 v33  “. .No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it 

in a secret place or under a basket, but on a

lampstand, that those who come in may see the light. .”

 

   God will use this ‘candle’ to guide us, in effect God will use our inner man to guide us. The following are some occurrences of real guides. . .

-        The voice of the Holy Spirit is our conscience

-        Feelings are the voices of our body

-        Reasoning is the voice of our Soul

 

   Because of being ‘born-again’ we have Gods Spirit & graces already within us. This is free for us to tap into as much as we wish, so that we can fully trust our conscience (or our Lord Jesus voice). All we have to do is . . pause . . and listen . . and there it is . . the voice of our Lord Jesus guiding us.

 

   The next time we have a ‘hunch’ or, you a ‘gut feeling’.  STOP, and listen, as Jesus is trying to lead us/help us, only a fool would ignore such clear signs. So don’t stop, thus ending up in a mess or missing out on an opportunity of a life time.

   Trust in our Lord in order to begin to question us so we can receive what He has to freely . . give . . to lead us . . to instruct us. There is a parable which has found its way onto Birthday cards as a joke….

 

A man’s boat capsizes, a short while after he sees someone

on the beach. He starts waving franticly hoping this person

Will see him and get help, which the person dose. After which

a speedboat comes along and asks if they can save him. Only for

the man to decline, and tells them that Jesus is going to save

him, so the boat goes on leaving him behind in the water.

The Sea is getting a little cooler and more choppy as time

moves on, the guys is now calling out to his Lord God to save him. With that a large fishing vessel comes along, again they

call to the man asking if he wants to come on board? Yep

you guessed it, the man declines, again saying that his Lord

God is going to save him, so the fishing vessel leaves him

there. The Sea has now gone very cold and is rough, again he

calls out to Jesus to save him. He is getting weak now when he sees an helicopter looking for him. As they send a man down

to winch him up out of the Sea to safety the man waves

them away saying again the his Lord God is going to save him

and waves them away. With that the man drowns, and goes

up to Heaven, as he approaches the Pearly gates St Paul

is waiting for him. So he asks Paul what happened. To

which Paul says ‘you Were sent 2 boats and an helicopter

to save you, and yet you waved them away. What else was

 He (Jesus) to do?

 

Psalm 95 v7  “. .Today, if you will hear His voice:
Do not harden your hearts. .”

(AMP)1 Kings 3 v9  “. . an understanding mind. . . and an

hearing heart. .”

 

   What our Lord Jesus is trying to tell us is that no matter the bank balance, is that it cannot be bought by good deeds either. Though some may find what, is, needed is too difficult, for our Lord Jesus wants us to stop talking . . shut up . . be quite . . zip it . . say nothing. Simply by doing this we will find the answers to what ails us, when we take time to listen to Him, His grace will start to lead us by the Holy Spirit.

 

   Now moving in the same direction as the Holy Spirit, we start to feel empowered to become better, with more completed questions as we’re not drowning out Gods voice. The more we soften our hearts we can have a more receptive/hearing heart. In fact we will have at last a fully working ‘hear heart’.  

 

   Before we go on I want everyone to STOP, I want you to get the hang of this . . to be linked up to . . wired together . .  Hearts as one with Jesus.

#It’s time to stop whining, about what you

Don’t understand#

 

   There are those who really don’t want to know the truth, about where they are going to end up, as there those among us, that the truth would be too much for them to fathom & accept.

 

John 10 v27 “. .My sheep hear My voice . .”

 

   Hearing from our Lord Jesus is just as important as speaking to Him. So much so that once we truly know our Lord then the clearer & louder we will get to hear Him. We don’t always get to pick and choose when and where we hear from Him. You don’t need to be ready to receive when we do. But, just like a dry-sponge that soaks up the water, we do however need to act upon what He has said, for what He says is designed to pick you up and make you feel better about yourself. Or, it could be to deliver a message to someone you don’t know but who needs His words to help them. This is what I mean ‘to ready to act upon them’.

 

   Since being saved since 1998, I can say “ I know Him “ so that it no longer surprises me in the various places He will talk to me. .

-        Driving along in my car

-        On the Train/Bus/Plane

-        Even walking along with friends

. . All these places He has spoken to me and many more besides. Why? “. .When you hear Him, you will know Him. .”. Once you start to “. .Hear Him. .”, He can start to build you character up to with stand attacks.

 

   It would be a miss of me not to you tell you to listen. Have you ever had something important to tell a friend on the telephone? but, was not able to because they would not just shut up. Well the same applies here, we have to remember to be quiet or, your gona miss what God has to tell us.

 

   It has been said that to See & Hear are the most important senses we have but don’t use them properly. And so that many of you have a badly scratched record that keeps playing. .

-        You aint worthy

-        You’re not perfect

-        Look what you did last night

. . here is a sobering thought that will help you move that scratched record on, no matter what you have done or are going to do. You will never stop God from loving you, why? because all your sins Past – Present – Future have been forgotten, washed away with love. This is due because Jesus has bought your sins and so paid the ultimate sacrifice upon the cross, something that gets forgotten by many Christians sadly.

“Jesus Never sinned, even so, he loved us

So much He owned our Sins for us.”

 

   So many green eyed monsters like to try and put you down by saying this of Jesus love & mercies . .

·       You don’t deserve to own His blessings

·       How can you walk freely in His mercies

·       How do I deserve to receive all the revelations He gives?

 

   My paths cross sometimes with those who have back-slid for some reason, because they have beaten down by those who don’t them you to be happy. The worst offenders are those back-slid Christians who love to spout chapter and verse, and then twist the meaning, to make themselves feel good, or so they like to think. Some though I have found are back-slid because they never really knew Him, which is really sad. I once heard this prayer on TV, and so would like to share this in closing.

 

Prayer

Heavenly father I ask for wisdom to live this Life

under this covenant of grace. I ask for wisdom to

recover everything that the devil stole from me, I ask

for wisdom to walk in health and to walk in financial

 wealth. I ask for wisdom to live this life of love,

even with my enemies.

 

I receive this all in Jesus Name.

Amen

In Times of Loneliness....

In Times of Loneliness

   We all look upon loneliness as a very terrifying thought. There is  counselling a friend who will work through it with you. Here’s a kicker, you stand in the middle of your party, with all your friends & family all about you. Yet you can’t shake off the feeling of loneliness there.

   We are creatures that crave companionship, are these yearnings of all our Human desires, yet they are the most painful.

Heb 1 9   “. .You have loved righteousness and hated

lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions. .”

   When our chips are down and we feel that the whole World is against us, it can be hard to see where the hope going to come from. Just as our Lord Jesus must have felt when He spent 40 days & nights alone in the wilderness, when His metal was pushed to breaking point and back.

   His very greatness of character made it impossible to have, let alone form, companionship's in the World. We do know to whom He turned to though for solace and comfort, our Heavenly Farther God.

   When Jesus chose to go up the mountain ‘alone’, it was because by going up ‘alone’, as this was so He could talk to His Heavenly Father alone, face to face without interruptions. In His darkest hour He said that though left alone to Human companionship's, He was not alone, because His Father was always with Him.

   I have been told on many occasions, to many if you ask me, that different ones have been with Family & friends, but have felt so alone. Some have had to argue they were with them; such was their invisibleness they were to the others. You can understand them feeling so alone. The comfort of our Lords heart in His loneliness is for us to, if we walk in His footsteps. But now we to have the blessed companionship that will fill the emptiness that is our loneliness.

“In a certain sense all life is lonely”

   Even with sympathetic-companionship, all about us there is an inner-life within each one of our lives that we are altogether alone. In which we must make our own choices and decisions, where we need to face our own questions, answering them alone.

    Blessed are they who, in this aloneness can say . . . “yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me”  (John 16; 32  ). . .Gods is the only true friendship that can really meet all our souls deepest needs and cravings. Over this coming month you and someone you know will have need to say the following when you wake and when you go to sleep, thus the last thing your eyes see. . .

“We shall never be alone when you have

Christ in your life”

. . .If you are alone saying this aloud then substitute We & You with I, and replace Your with My, so it should now read. . .

“I shall never be alone when I have

Christ in my life”

. . .thus making not only more personal, but it now becomes more powerful.

   When all others fail around you, and they will, He will always stand by your side. Over time faces will come and go, He will shine out, showering you with His sweet love, whilst shining His light upon you. Loneliness knows no age confines; youth can seem to on lookers as light hearted, and sadly often a young person feels alone amid such friendships.

Prov 18 24   “. .A man who has friends must himself be friendly,

but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. .”

    As a Youth soul awakens, a thousand x a thousand, questions form and need answered, Now. They are also confronted by a thousand paths of which they must choose one to walk down. Everything is still very much mysterious… There are perils on all sides … All life is a new … Choices must be made … Lessons must learned.

   All is new, and every step is hard … “yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me” … This loneliness of inexperience, comes when a young soul is taking it’s earliest steps in life are one the most painful & trying of all it’s life. But when our Lord Jesus walks alongside the young person in their inexperience all will be well.

   Many of life’s questions would normally be answered by a loving parent. In a Christian home, they would get spiritual guidance through life’s troubles and hard times. There is many-a-young person who find themselves, homeless. Thus they don’t have that personal guidance and love. It is impossible to measure how high the value is and helpfulness of those who freely and willingly give up their time for them.

   Bitter is indeed, is the sense of loneliness when a young person, who was used to a mothers love, for whatever the reason, they are now away from the Mother and miss henceforth the blessings that have been so prevalent till now. Nothing Earthly will compensate for the loss. Other Human friendships may be sweet but, will not get back home with all its shelter & love. Its shelter couple with … Affection … Trust … Love … Guidance … and its soothing serenity.

   With Christ out Lord, who is unseen, yet loved made real to the heart by love and faith. Even a room in a boarding house may become sanctuary like a home, a shelter of divine love. “yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me”

Isaiah 8 14  “. .He will be as a sanctuary. .”

   Yesterday it was 1980, I was going to be this hot photographer. Then, I blinked and it was 2016. So many years in the wilderness lost.

Old age is just an Illustration

 

   Illustration has now become a mirror old life’s achievements and a waste land of missed opportunities. Then come’s a beautiful and a wonderful cleansing that is Christ our Lord.

 

   Blessed is that young person who every … perplexity every mystery … every doubt … every hunger, home is the place of loves sanctuary, and where sympathy can be found, also to be found is council & true guidance. Home will always have heart felt companionship. For many home is the one true place where we are sure of each other and feel we can let our guide down.

 

   Everyone who is homeless has the same cravings like … longing to belong … hungers for a ‘normal’ family. More so said of the youth where in a ‘normal’ home, true homes of their yearnings are met. Those whose home has all these comforts and blessings take for granted these blessed gifts, or, till at least they are gone.

 

   It’s a sad statement …. “Life’s loneliness means far less to them while home shields them and blesses the companionship, and its sweet patient .. Wise .. Helpful ... Nourishing love.  We all know or have heard this saying … But for the grace of God go I … there is nothing sadder to than a youth, or anyone, homeless, because the sanctuary of home has been lost.

 

   Now the old man stands alone, but now the streets are full of homeless. Where have all the faces of 30 – 40 years ago? It is the young faces that fill houses, the streets, and the churches. So many of the older folk are lonely because their friends are gone, yet in Christ even the older generation can say … “yet I am not alone”

 

   Blessed is that life which, when our friends are taken away, they have the friendship of Christ, filling and satisfying and can say …  “yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me” (John 16 32)

   Whilst doing this study, it has led to reading books I may have never had. This piece below is from an old book how to not only become a better person, but also a better Christian called ‘   ‘

“When we are faced with our time to go

It can be the most daunting & scariest,

A journey we must face alone, of cause

I’m talking of death.”

   There comes a time we all must face this journey. Humans love can’t go beyond the start, but we need not be alone, even to that deepest of all loneliness for we Christ waiting to hold our hand, so we can say with confidence … 

John 16 32  “yet I am not alone, because

the Father is with me”

   When the human hands unclasp, He will shine a light above us, in all His glorious brightness. When we must creep out of the bosom of Human affection, it will only be into the clasp of the everlasting arms, into the bosom of Christ. Deaths loneliness is hence filled with divine companionship. From this point on there will never be room for loneliness.

 

The Lord be praised in all His glory