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Thursday, May 1,
2008
Knowing the Answer
Proverbs 16:1-3 The
preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the
LORD. (2) All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD
weigheth the spirits. (3) Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts
shall be established. (KJV)
Are you absolutely positively
sure the answer you are giving today, right now, is from the Lord? Have you
committed yourself unto the Lord and are you established upon the
foundation of God this day, Jesus Christ being in control of everything in
your walk including your tongue? The Lord has an answer for every man and
He expects His people to be ready to give it, anytime, anywhere the
opportunity presents itself. The question is are you prepared, have you
done what is necessary today to give His response, an answer that has
eternal consequences? Although mankind judges things according to the
outward appearance, thus thinking He is clean, the Lord looks to the inward
motives of the heart and that is what He wishes to address. Are you one of
His vessels today, fit and ready for the Master’s use so that He can speak
and work through you to address the spiritual needs of others, or are you
like many others that have scripted answers that are more appealing to the
outward man than the inward one? Someday we will all have to stand before
God Himself and answer for our own lives the things we did and the things
we spoke; so if the answer you give today is of our Father then you will
have no need to be ashamed today, as well as the day of judgment. It’s much
easier to give the Lord’s answer to mankind when it is something you have
put into practice and know firsthand for yourself how it works. However, if
you are just reading from someone else’s script of how they perceive the
Lord and how they think people should be witnessing to others, then you are
just giving a second hand account of someone else’s experience and not your
own, thus the term novice.
Proverbs 19:20-21 Hear
counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter
end. (21) There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel
of the LORD, that shall stand. (KJV)
Here is a reminder, how about
giving a simple straight forward answer to anyone that would ask of you a
reason of the hope within you and how they too can partake of this heavenly
gift? Mankind keeps coming up with a bunch of gimmicks on how to win people
to the Lord, when the Lord Himself said that the truth and only the truth
would set them free. First and foremost you need to hear the Lord’s counsel
for yourself, knowing who He is and how to be an example of the believers,
not just words but conduct also. Only the counsel of the Lord will stand,
and only those that receive His word will be able to stand as well; while
the rest may have had good intentions in the beginning of their walk they
will eventually fall away, returning to the realm they were once delivered
from.
I will tell you one that
really stands out to me when I think of the many devices of man is some of
this so called Christian rock music, people that stoop to the lower fallen
nature of mankind thinking that will win souls over. Having watched some of
these so called artists and listening to some of this nonsense on the
radio, the only thing different between them and the world is that they
just change a few words and then think it has the Lord’s approval. Somehow
I just can’t see my Lord on a stage jumping around with a guitar in hand
acting like some out of control lunatic. For those that do attempt to
portray my Lord and Savior that way obviously don’t have a clue who He
truly is and how He desires His kingdom to be represented here on earth.
You go stand before my God someday with this song and dance and see how far
you get; then try explaining to a spiritual being how something that began
in the Spirit was being so misrepresented by a bunch of lame brains in the
flesh. We are the ones that should be transformed and different from the
world and its way of thinking; imitators of Christ and not conforming to
this world and its fallen realm.
Galatians 1:6-7 I marvel that
ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ
unto another gospel: (7) Which is not another; but there be some that
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. (KJV)
These false doctrines of man,
these winds of doctrines that blow around us, Paul marveled at how quickly
God’s people had given in and were being deceived into some perversion of
the gospel. The Bible says we should fight the good fight of faith; but how
much of a fight do we put up, are we like the lion on the Wizard of Oz who
made a lot of noise until someone tapped him in the snout and he gave up
crying? These gospels that man claims will win the people to the Lord have
nothing to do with the Lord; they are nothing more than a cheap hoax that
appeals to the flesh and not the Spirit. No matter what form it manifests
in, it is up to you to exercise your spiritual senses so that you can
rightly discern what is of God and what isn’t. I marvel at how spiritually
illiterate many people who claim to be of God really are; when the time
they need to be teachers they are truly the ones that need to be taught all
over from the beginning, having missed the simple first principles of God and
how His kingdom truly operates. While many may read and search through the
scriptures to find the answer they miss the spiritual implications and
meaning of them because they still only see a man named Jesus, but never
come to an understanding of who Christ within Him is and how to be led by
His spirit. If any man has not the spirit of Christ and an understanding of
how to operate by faith in His message, then He is not of God and will not
be able to give the answer God intended for that man to give, which can
only be given by those that truly know the doctrine of Christ.
Proverbs 18:12-13 Before
destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. (13)
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto
him. (KJV)
That answer you gave to
someone, was is really from the Lord or was it something you gave to
impress them? Have you taken the time to hear the message of Christ
firsthand for yourself so that you know and are not just guessing that what
you are speaking came from the Father through Him? If you don’t know or are
not sure, then it would do you good not to say anything rather than mislead
someone to another gospel that is not of our Lord. I don’t care personally
what others think or say about me or my walk as long as I seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness concerning how to answer a man; then I
know God is answering my prayers when I speak to Him as well as seeking my
own personal requests.
Psalms 145:18-21 The LORD is
nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
(19) He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear
their cry, and will save them. (20) The LORD preserveth all them that love
him: but all the wicked will he destroy. (21) My mouth shall speak the
praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and
ever. (KJV)
Do you wish to be near and
dear to our Lord? Then it can only be accomplished in truth, being open and
honest with Him, not trying to hide things but letting Him show you how to
be an overcomer in these things so that you can speak boldly with
confidence on His behalf when asked. If you call on Him in truth then you
can expect an honest response in truth; however, if you try to lie then
don’t expect His response. Your mouth will truly speak the praises of the
Lord when you truly make Him the Lord in your life and allow Him to have
His way in and through you; sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that
even those that are outside the kingdom of God won’t have anything they can
pin on you.
John 4:23-24 But the hour
cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in
spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (24) God
is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth. (KJV)
You know people, worshipping
God is not standing in some building with your hands in the air looking up
to the ceiling like you’re in some kind of trance or hallucinating like
your having a flashback to Woodstock, rather true worship, reverence for
God and His word is done in a lifestyle that is in Spirit and according to
His truth. Truly worshipping God is presenting yourself to Him as a living
sacrifice, alive spiritually and dead to your own desires of the flesh; ready,
willing and able to give His answer to any that would be seeking. How fit
and prepared are you to walk in the Spirit and know that you are speaking
words of life, giving the only answer our Father approves of today?
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