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The Covenant

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I am Loved
I am Accepted
I am Cherished, by my Heavenly Father, through the name of Jesus!
I am Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb, so
I am Not My Own, for I’ve been
Bought with a price, therefore
I will Not do the things that I please, but I will Live to please Him, and
I will Obey Him completely, with
All of My heart, and
I will Seek Him diligently, and
I will Fill my lamp  with Him – the Oil
of the Holy Spirit Daily, and
I will seek to Do His will First every day
I will Seek out the Lost, and
Show the Light of His Love every where and
In all I Do, every Day, every Hour

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“When once a Covenant has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it”

The Covenant, New and Old, is built with Promises.  These promises are based on Conditions, which must be fulfilled by both parties.  To not fulfill these conditions is to set the Covenant aside, dismissing it, and so the Promises for good are rejected, and all that remains for us from this Covenant is the promise of severe judgment as we have then made ourselves enemies of the Anointing, enemies of Christ.

Hebrews 10:26-31
For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.
Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.”
It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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By God’s mercy we come to Him.  When we come to Him repenting from our sin.  We come to Him based on His mercy that comes through His grace.

He then gives us Salvation.
To us who have received Mercy, He then gives us Life.  He gives us His Life Power to live new lives.  He has the “Look of Favor” toward us who come to Him as servants, we who have humbled ourselves as servants and so have taken upon ourselves the purpose of serving God and not ourselves.  And through His Grace, His Look of favor, comes to us the Life Power of the Holy Spirit, empowering us to Live righteous lives.

Let me say that Grace is not the mercy of God.  Rather it is the Favor of God.  And it is through this Favor, that the Power and Authority of God flows to us.  It is this look of favor, God’s Grace, that God pours His Love power out to us, and comes into us through our faith.  And it is this Power that enables us to live Godly lives.

God looks at us with favor.  We look to Him with faith.  As these two connect, we are then filled with His Power, His Spirit.

It’s like connecting to garden hoses together.  His reaches out to us from His vast supply of the Fullness of His Love.  Our hose reaches toward Him coming from our emptiness love.  For our love, is actually an empty desire.  It’s a desire “to be” loved.  That desire “to be” loved is our empty temple, our God shaped vacuum.  Our wanting, desiring Love, is our hope.  It’s the hope “to be” Loved.

When we humble ourselves and admit our love is not really an agape Love, we then point our hope hose up to Him.  This is the beauty of humility He’s been waiting for.  This is what looks good to Him, and He connects His Favor to our faith, and He turns on the faucet, and floods us with His Love, His Spirit, His Life.  Three words for the same thing.

God out of His kind Mercy, forgives us of our sin by washing us clean and casting our sin as far as the east is from the west.  What God has cleansed, let no man call unclean.  Are we, who have been cleansed by God; then by God’s mercy not made deserving of good?  Or was Christ’s sacrifice not really sufficient to make us actually worthy of God’s Grace?  Is Christ’s Blood which now flows through our veins, of which we partake of while drinking the wine of the New Covenant, is this His blood, that flows in our very own veins not worthy to be filled by the Life of the Fathers Spirit?  As we breathe Him in daily our spiritual lungs “oxygenate” our spiritual blood with His Spirit, and this is enables us to Live by the Power of God’s Spirit.

Not only is the Holy Spirit new Life to us, but He also shows us, convicts us of sin, so we can repent of it.  For where ever sin dwells in us, that place in our heart is unregenerate and is a place our old man of sin prompts us to corruption.  The Holy Spirit then, shows us, bit by bit, area’s of our heart where we were unaware the enemy of our New Life Spirit man has a stronghold.  If we will arm ourselves with faith in God’s power, and are willing to admit our weaknesses before God and man, we then can overwhelmingly conquer, as did David with Goliath, and also Samson the Philistines.  Especially Samson’s last victory where he brought the house down on himself, crucifying his own flesh, making a habitation fit for a Holy God to Live and reign in and from.

It is this Baptism by the Spirit of God, whereby as the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin that we were unaware we were doing, that we then thank Him for showing us another area that we can, By His Grace, reject living under this sins power.

Power and Authority is granted to us by His Favor toward us, as we commit ourselves to live Holy Lives subject to Him!  We are crucifying our fleshly ways under this Holy Spirit Baptism, as we willingly drown our old man under the water of the truth of scripture that the Holy Spirit brings to life in our hearts, minds and deeds.

This is the Holy Spirit Baptism that lifts us up out of the waters of the curse of death that is in the Word of God, to a New Life now empowered by the same Holy Spirit.  There we are saved from the curse of death that is in the Law, that is a curse for those who don’t obey the Law of Life.  And we are Made Alive by the Spirit and we then receive all of the Blessings that the Law Promises to those, who Live out the requirements of the Law by walking by the Spirit of Power, thereby we are blessed by the same Law – Rom 8:4. This same Law that brought a curse on all those who disobey it’s commands, yes this same Law, the Holy Spirit has turned into a source of Blessing to us who believe by the faith that walks by the Spirit.

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is more than receiving the miraculous gifts promised to those who believe.  It is the power given us to overcome the deeds of the flesh by choosing to live lives empowered by the same Holy Spirit.  For there is One Baptism, One Spirit, One Hope, all received by Faith that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God, through which we are reconciled to The Father, whereby we who believe are then all made into One New Man, the Body of Christ, who is our head.

But if we reject this putting to death of our flesh, we also reject the infilling of the Spirit, and while knowing the truth, but rejecting it, we then have no excuse for our sin.  While then being without excuse, we are also without hope of escaping it and we will receive of the severer punishment for trampling under foot the Son of God, through whom we Were sanctified, and we have then insulted the Spirit of Grace, thereby rejecting the promises for good.

That is the New Covenant!

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The Perfecting Failure

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It’s not the man who doesn’t fail or doesn’t make mistakes who is Godly,
For he is just a liar.
But the Godly man is the man who learns from his mistakes and failures.
He is learning obedience and growing in endurance, and is on the narrow road:
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and so, He is happy now – “to be” being made perfect through trials – so in the end, he can – “not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming”, and so stand, with the great “I Am”

But the man who out of fear of shame, shrinks back in fear from the call to crucifying his own prideful flesh?
Well, “The cowardly will not be found in heaven.” Rev 21:8 and in Hebrews it says: “So let us fear, lest while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of us should be found having come short of it!”  😮  😉

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Love the Unlovable

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I have called you and appointed you, Oh My People, to be my hands and feet in this world. Your eyes are for others to look into and see me. Your ears, to listen to others and respond from my heart with your mouth.

The world loves the lovable with human love.

But I have called you to Love those who do not have the ability to give back to you. For you are to be like me in the earth. And I send good things on the thankful and the unthankful.

Men curse me, and yet I bless them with good. So you, when men despitefully use you – Bless them! When they return that good you did for them with evil – Turn the other cheek and Bless them again!

And see if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour good into your lap, pressed down and shaken together. Try me in this. For it is written. It is my promise to you!

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My word will not return to me void, without accomplishing my desire, my purpose. If you do not give it life through you, the birds will steal it away and redeposit it with fertilizer elsewhere into other soil, who will be faithful and give it life; and in so doing bring a return to me on my investment. This seed of Faith/Truth, links you to me and is the way through which my righteousness, my love, flows into your heart. This righteousness, this love, is the money in the parable of the talents, and is given to you with the intention of you giving it to others.

If you refuse to use this greatest gift I have given to you. One day, it will be taken from you and given to someone who will give me a return. And you will be left out in the cold.

This is both a promise for blessing and a warning against lukewarm, negligence to my word!

Take heed!

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When He Corrects

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Have you ever had to hold your flesh down, hold your entire being down while being corrected?  Our pride wants to get up and flee or fight back.  But then you realize it’s from God and then decide to receive the correction.

It hurts like hell, but there’s a speck inside, a mustard seed size of faith, that this correction is for my best.  Then even though the correction is not exactly right and contains error and your whole entire being, everything else inside you is reeling, and trying to rise up and argue against the one bringing correction – with that one speck of faith that this is good you decide you are going to hold down the whole man of flesh who’s roaring inside you.  And you are going to hold it down until it’s dead.

That is the dying with Christ, the crucifying the flesh, our pride, it’s the baptism, where we die daily.  Holding it under the water until it’s dead.  Like “Water-boarding” only not letting it ever get a breath.  So you wait, letting the person kill you with their words.  “Keep it coming brother, my pride’s still kick’n a bit.”

It hurts, but it’s a “good hurt”.
I hate it, but it’s a “cleansing hate”.
I despise it!  I am ashamed because I know I’m guilty and I should be ashamed.
Hold it down, hold it under the cleansing flow of Jesus Blood.
So kill it again because that holding it under the water till it’s dead, is the baptism, that brings me freedom.

Finally, dead.  It is Finished.
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Now something is lifting me!
A Hand!
A sweet Hand!
I humbled myself, but now there’s a sweet, gentle but strong Hand, lifting me up out of the waters of death, out of the ashes!
Oh the Joy of it!
My Soul is gaining a New Life!
Love Lifted Me!

I was humbled, and because I accepted it,
I’m lifted up on a sweet, gentle wind.
First the Strong Breaking Wind, tore me apart.
God was not in it, not His sweet presence.
But He brought it.  He ordered it.
It was a gift given to me, a perfect gift intended for me to hold myself under it’s power, to bring an end to the tyrannical power my flesh had over me.  My flesh wanted to rule me, but I must master it.  God helped me by “Sending” a mighty blasting wind that broke up my mountain of rocks, that was my hard ground.  That “hard ground” heart, couldn’t drink in His sweet presence.  So He “sent” the blasting wind, the shaking earthquake, the burning fire.  He wasn’t in these, but He sent them, sent them for my good.  Now I’m cleansed and the gentle breeze of His presence renews my heart!  He is in the cool breeze of the day that restores my soul!

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Who’s In Charge?

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I am in charge of my mind and I choose to subject it before the Lord, taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ!  Christ in us is the Holy Spirit in us, the Anointing, the Christ.  This is being Subject to the Holy Spirit.

The word subject began as a Verb, it’s an action and means to throw down under.

Sub – meaning under + Ject – to throw.

When we Subject ourselves before the Lord, we then – throw ourselves down – under His authority.

One who does this, humbles himself under God’s authority and is then, Subjective.  When we add the “ive” to the verb subject, we describe someone, and turn the word into an adjective.  So one who is Subjective is one who subjects himself.

When a King passes by everyone is supposed to bow their head, or kneel before Him until He leaves or tells you to rise.  If you leave His Presence, you back out in a bowed position, you do not turn your back to the King.

We can take this word – Subject – and make it into a noun.  People who subject themselves under the Kings authority are the King’s Subjects.  Because they are subjective in the Kings presence.

Object, begins as a verb and means – to Throw Up Against.  Ob – means “Up Against” and Ject –  still means “To Throw”.

So if a person Objects to someone or something someone says, he is rejecting that person’s reasoning.  He raises an Objection to something the person says and replies, “I Object”
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When a person calls himself objective, or says he is using his objective reasoning, he considers himself to see from a perspective that is irrefutable.  Because in his own mind he sees without error and is in himself a solid rock.  He thinks he sees from a vantage point that cannot be challenged.  That he sees clearly and must be high enough to see all, so that he doesn’t miss anything.  And at the same time see everything microscopically, or there may be error there also.  Because if he doesn’t see everything, and see everything clearly, what he doesn’t see might alter the final judgement of a matter.  This man is not merely interpreting God’s word but is judging it.  To interpret something means you are taking what you “know” to be true and putting it into words someone else can understand.  But first you have to “Know” what the author was meaning, what His thoughts were, when He said them.  When we know what He was thinking when He stated something we then can look for words to say so another person can also understand.  “No one knows the thoughts of God but the Spirit of God.”  And the only way we can be sure we have understood God’s word correctly is, not by trusting in our inept ability to judge the meaning of God’s word, but we must hear and see from God’s Spirit directly or we are unknowingly building our house of faith on the sand of man’s thoughts produced by his finite mind that is subject to man’s limited ability.  That there’s some purty Shaky Ground!

Now we sometimes take words and  divest them of some of their actual meaning.  We strip them down, cut off part of their meaning and make them into Terms.  The word term means to Limit or cut off, shorten, or to make boundaries, as in terminate, or Term Limits.

When we do this we change the meaning of the word.  We cause confusion, by hiding the full or real meaning of the word, and retain only a portion of it’s meaning.

We need to look at the motive behind our doing so.  Such as in the case of using the word Objective to mean we have the ability to see things correctly because we so trust in our own ability we don’t need to Subject ourselves under, say the Holy Spirit,  thereby calling ourselves by this Term – Objective, this then, enables us to  hide from the Holy Spirits ultimate authority in our lives making it easier for us to maintain our own autonomy.

We  ruin the actual meaning of the word.

The words in the Bible represent God’s thoughts.  God is solid and sure as a rock.  Immovable solid bedrock.  All of the words in the bible fit together to give us a picture of God and give us His perspective on His creation.  The words, truths in the bible are like stones that are each shaped by God’s design.

An Altar is  where God and man meet.  God’s word instructs us that if we build an altar out of stones, we are not to cut the stones to our liking, we are to use them as they are.  God has designed them to  fit together perfectly.  However when man tries to assemble them trusting in his own intellectual ability, he will not be able to get them to fit together correctly, because his mind is finite and God’s word is infinite as it  describes an infinite, eternal God.  So His word is too wonderful for us to interpret correctly.  So what man will do is try to cut the stones of truth, and alter the meaning of the words, by terminating them, cutting them so they fit his understanding.  When man does this, God says, we only ruin His Holy word.  If you build an altar of faith, a meeting place of faith, to connect with Me, and you build it out of stones, my word, do not cut the stones you will only ruin them!  Man in his arrogance has so ruined God’s Word through the ages, so that when Jesus returns many won’t recognize Him, and He will say to them, “who are you?”  Just like when He came the first time, all the educated, who thought they were Objective, and so would not humble themselves, would not subject themselves  to the Christ as He walked in His one physical body, so now people try to “interpret scripture as if they are “Objective” and will  not “Subject” themselves to the Anointing of the Holy Spirit as being the Only Wise God, the only Objective One!

So man has subjected God’s word and His Spirit to himself as if he is God.

Certainly we should use our understanding when reading God’s word, but we are not to trust in our understanding to correctly interpret scripture, don’t even lean on it.  Rather trust in the  Father of Spirits, subject yourselves to Him, put your faith in His ability to lead you out of bondage to the term limits of your own thinking and trust in the cloud and fire, learn to lean on Him.  Subject yourselves, it is your only, private and corporate hope, to be founded on Solid Rock Truth.  Do Not believe the lie that says your mind has the ability to objectively interpret scripture.  You are always subject under someone or something.  If not to God then you have elevated either your limited brain or other men to the infallible position only God has.  You subject yourself under man’s feeble brain.  Idolatry!  Foolish Idolatry at that!

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Trials part 1: Trials Have Purpose?

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Are you walking in the confidence of the Lord through this time concerning the situation, the trial you’re in?

I understand, I’ve gone through some very difficult trials of my own.  I’ve had to quench my anxiety, still my mind, quiet my heart and blast through fear like Samson did the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.  Course I don’t have any ass jawbones handy so my own jaw will have to suffice.

Understandably so, you also may have an anxious heart in you.

but, but you don’t understand…

oh yes I do understand.

But as for you, don’t waste this trial, get out of it what God has Intended it for.

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But remember Joseph?  Out of evil hearts, Joseph’s brothers, and here in your situation, the devil, may have intended the trial for evil, but the correct quoting of the scripture does not say; but God turned it into good”, but rather, that, “God Meant it for good”.  Meant it “means”, planned it,  God Himself purposed it, premeditated it for our good.  People misquote scripture, subconsciously trying to make it fit their own understanding.  And many misquote this as Joseph saying, “but God turned it into good.” That little change takes such great truth and glory away from God!

So remember, “but God MEANT IT, for my good.”

Couple this scripture concerning Joseph with Job 2:3 where, after the Devil had afflicted Job the first time, God calls Satan over to Himself and says to him: “Have you considered my servant Job?  He maintains his integrity even after you Incited (Provoked) Me against Him, to bring evil upon Job without cause.”  So here God takes the credit for Job’s first hard, testing, trial!  Here we see that the author and the finisher of the testing, is really God.  The devil is just a tool.  God planned that trial specifically for Job!  So look past the tool, and see the hand of God, holding that hard, cold blue steal chisel, and be at ease, and rest, knowing that you are ultimately in God’s hands.

Like sitting in the chair of a better dentist than is in all the world.  There is still the poke of the needle, still the grinding whirring of the drill, but know that it’s God who holds all things in His hands.  He holds the needle, the drill, even that angry cold steel chisel (Satan), and His intention for the trial is the finished product.  The re-fined us, the bride made beautiful!  So, as the Holy Spirit led Jesus out to be tested by d’evil… So you too, use this to let go, and trust God, yes even in this situation.

Nothing else could have challenged your faith better than this trial.  This trial was designed specifically just for you, designed long before the earth was created or even before Lucifer/Satan was created.  It was a perfect gift and came down from the Father of Lights, without even a shadow of variation in it’s descent from the mind of God, a perfect design.  James 1:17  “Every situation bestowed – Good!  Every gift – Perfect!”  That’s the way that verse is written in Greek.  And the purpose of this trial was, and is, to make you perfect, complete, lacking in nothing.  So laugh in the face of this trial to kick-start your endurance!  From James 1:17 and 1:2-4

 

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Trials part 2: Ask God Why?

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Most are afraid to say why something is happening, or even to presume to ask God why.

But,
…Why?  Why is the best question ever asked, when asked with the right motive.  In spite of what most others teach, the question “Why”, brings the revelation of wisdom from God.  And reveals God’s nature, his intentions.  It reveals God’s Love.  Why does God bring trials on His children?  It’s always the same answer, and is very simple, it’s always to conform us into the image of His Son.  It wouldn’t hurt as much if we would just remain pliable in His hands, and that’s the faith He’s looking to build in us.  But for many, instead of pliable we have already fired our lump in the kiln of our own mind, and out of our stubbornness, we fearfully hold on to our frame of mind, thinking we have it figured out and don’t need correction.  And we fight away, not realizing that we’re fighting against God.  We force God to pull out of His tool belt “Old Blue” the tempered, hard headed, cold steel chisel, to chip away at our bone-head, hard-skulled flesh; and His intention is to chip away everything that doesn’t look like His Son.

God thinks you’re ready for this challenge, and the purpose of this trial is to make you ready to lead the Church through her trials.  This readied Church, God is preparing to use to lead the world through it’s trials, so a few will turn to God in the midst of this worlds woe’s.

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If you don’t have this wisdom, of how the trials are perfectly designed for our good; well then ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to you, if you ask in faith, without acting on any doubts which may come across your mind.

So consider this trial all joy, for in so doing you will persevere in Godly confidence and not only will you go through it joyfully, but God will bless you in the end more than you were before the trial.

Hebrews 10:34  For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

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Perfect Love That Casts Out Fear

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Perfect, means to fulfill, to complete, to live out and finish. So in the case of being perfect in one’s life it’s to live out, or fulfill the purpose God placed us here for. Just as Paul said, “I have run the race, I have completed the course.” And Jesus also, when He was on the cross, uttered the well known declaration, “It is finished.” Where He proclaimed the finishing of His course, the very purpose, the call, that God His Father had begotten Him on this earth for.

Jesus took Heaven from within Himself, He took the will of God, the Love, Spirit, the very Life of God, and Lived that Life. He Lived that Love, the Will and Spirit of His Father, He lived in this world. Doing so, He was bringing the Kingdom of God to this world.

This is the meaning of the word Perfect. To “Carry Out”. When we are born again, we get a deposit of God’s righteousness, his Love in our heart. He then expects us to take this righteousness from within our heart and “carry it out,” to this world. Taking it from within us and “carrying it out” to this world, is making the unseen God, visable, real, to this world, and is the biblical meaning of the word perfect.

In Hebrew grammar there are 2 verb tenses, Perfect and Imperfect. The Perfect Tense tells of what has been done. While the Imperfect Tense speaks of the Future, that which has not yet been done.

What is not perfect is that which has not been done. That which has not been lived out yet.

What is perfect is that which has been done. That which has been completed. Perfect!

As the purpose of a fig tree is to bear figs, if it bears figs, it has lived-out its purpose. The idea of perfect is not emphasizing a specific number of figs, in order to be perfect. But rather that the tree bore fruit. Nor does perfect mean that each piece of fruit is “ideal” in texture, size, flavor or color. But perfect means, that the tree lived the purpose it was meant for and bore figs.

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So what is “Perfect Love?” The idea of Perfect Love is not just that God’s Love is a better love than ours, it surely is, But that’s not what God is telling us here. The message of the epistle of 1st John, is the message – that what you put into practice comes from the heart and so what you do then, shows what you are. Perfect Love, is love that has been lived out.

God’s promises for eternal security is for those who continue to the end, to live their lives motivated by His Love. It is for those who fulfill the desire of God’s Love with their living. When we bring out to this world the treasure of His Love from within us, we then fulfill, complete, carry out of our house, “our purpose.” And just like Jesus fulfilled the law, we are followers of Jesus when we then live out, fulfill the law of love, and when we walk by the Spirit we automatically live out the 10 commandments. The word perfect, in “Perfect Love” doesn’t mean we never miss, but it means that we do it, we “Carry it Out”. We take it from the “unfinished” box, to the “finished,” “completed,” “perfect” box.

If we are living our lives by this love of God, this righteousness, we will then have no fear, because fear involves punishment. Punishment is for those who disobey. So why would we fear punishment if we are living by God’s Love and fulfilling what He calls us to do?

So if we live by God’s Love, then this is the “Perfect Love” that displaces fear.

However if we are cowardly, and in fear of what people will do if we show or mention God, then we “should be” fearing God. We should be afraid because of the punishment He promises to give to those who are disobedient. But instead of fearing God like we should, our propensity may be to cowardly fear man.

The Bible says – the cowardly will not be found in heaven. Rev 21:8

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A Practical guide to Overcoming Fear and Anxiety

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The ability to Fear, in and of itself is not bad. Like the ability to feel pain, the ability to fear, is actually a gift given to us from The All Wise Creator.

Who and What is good and not good to fear, as well as when it is good and not good to fear, is a subject worth understanding.

All things and times are in God’s hands, and God is in control of our circumstances. So why is it we fear our circumstances.? It is God we should fear, as He is the one who holds all things together by the power of His hand. He is the one who holds the power of the sea, and He alone sets it’s boundaries. He gives and takes away authority and power to men and places them in and removes them from authority over others. So why fear the authority of man? Instead fear the one who gives and takes away power and authority of men.

Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is right in God’s eyes, and you will not fear their authority. But even if you should suffer from some unjust decision’s of men, know that your faith is being tested by God, for it is He who is trying your heart. And even if man should punish you or even kill you when you are innocent of wrong doing, remember your times here are in His hands, just as eternity is in His hands. Man cannot kill your eternal soul. So do not fear man or circumstances, whatever they may be!

The purpose of fear is to give us an initial response to danger that our brain warns us of, without having to take the time to think about it. It’s an early response mechanism that bypasses the thinking part of our brain to give us an instantaneous response. This instantaneous response mechanism is designed to keep us from harming ourselves or the people or things we care about.

This fear is purposeful. So when a child touches a hot oven and brings pain to his hand, it is natural and appropriate for the child to remember this pain and to automatically avoid the oven from then on, or until he can understand and treat it with a deserved respect. He doesn’t have to think about it first, it’s an automatic response to perceived danger. This ability to fear is a gift given by God to help keep the child safe.

But say a child did not have this ability to fear. And he is running toward the hot oven that just yesterday caused him pain. Without that instant and direct reaction of fear, he would need to think about it first, and if the child is distracted, he may, without thinking first, go right back and put his hand on that same hot oven again. Owieee!

But as we grow and our brains take on enough learning, we come to understand that the oven is not always to be feared. We need not always veer away from it.

Fear is an initial reaction to a circumstance we encounter. If we are continuing to experience fear around a specific circumstance, to the point that we always avoid anything that even looks like it; we have not properly dealt with that fear and it has become an anxiety, a phobia.

One of the factors concerning the amount of anxiety a person feels over an issue can be related to how much pain was associated with his experience with the incident or incidents that he perceives as related to the fear.

Anxiety is an emotional response to a fear that a person dwells on and holds onto, past the intended time that God has for the initial fear.

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We can grow out of our fears by:
1 – Gaining an understanding how and why this hurt us.
This will give us some grounds to accomplish the 2nd step.
2 – Learn how to handle the person, thing, animal or circumstance, without getting hurt again.
3 – Determine whether or not the worst it can do is truly a cause for us to avoid it. Or to what level of avoidance is most appropriate to it’s actual impact on our lives. (Reality Check)

An example: We may have had a traumatic experience as a child with a dog. If we don’t face this fear and learn how to test dogs to see if they also are dangerous, we may hold this anxiety throughout our lives and be afraid of all dogs. Or if we had good experiences with other breeds of dogs but our bad experience was only with this one breed of dog, we may only be afraid of that breed of dog.

Say this was the case, where we are afraid only of dogs that look like this dog that caused the trauma. But we have a love for all other dogs except we have a hard time with this one type. Say also that we find out that this particular dog that caused us trauma was abused by a child that looked like us. Suddenly instead of having fear and anger over that dog, now through our understanding, we feel sorry for that dog, because we know that it was afraid of us and it was only reacting to us out of it’s own trauma. The impact of that wound on us is then superceded by our love for dogs. Love that is applied to the specified situation, displaces the fear that resides there. Applied love is “perfect love.” So, when we apply this understanding, our heart that loves dogs, goes out to that dog who hurt us. This initiates creative reasoning in our minds that wants to find a way to free that dog from it’s prison of fear. Maybe that dog is facing the death penalty for it’s attacking us. And so we begin a project of helping that dog to learn that we are not it’s enemy and it has nothing to fear from us. We begin a program of winning it over by acts of love towards it. All the while looking to keep ourselves reasonably safe from it being able to re-attack us.

We have now learned to be set free from our prison of fear, anxiety and hate. And we may want to teach others to be able to do the same. Applied love is the perfect love that casts out fear.

At this point we can actually say:
Thank you God for the lesson you taught me here.
This is another step in our healing. As anxiety and thankfulness operate out of the same area of the brain. And they can’t both operate at the same time.

Anxiety’s motive is fear. While the motive of thankfulness is love. Love drives out fear. So also thankfulness, when activated by the will of our choosing to do so, will drive out anxiety and not give fear a pathway through our minds.

Sometimes, the reason people can’t forgive, is because they are unwilling to see the good hand of God behind the hurtfulness of the wound they carry. So when we understand that the wound was really meant for our good, even though the one who actually hurt us didn’t have good intentions, we then regard them as but a tool, or scalpel in God’s hands. They don’t get the credit for the good. And if they intentionally tried to hurt us, they “deserve” punishment. But it was God who brought us in connection to the one who hurt us; yes, God’s intention was for us to learn something invaluable for our good. So when we thank Him for that experience, and see Him as a Great Surgeon and don’t merely focus on the scalpel; our thanking Him for that experience will set us free from anxiety. And then Loving the person that harmed us, will set us free from fear. If we can do these, we can accomplish anything in life! See why He is called the Only Wise God!

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Facing My Fears

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Facing what we fear, is the hardest thing for us to do. But, it is also the most needed, healing, freeing and rewarding of anything we can do in our lives.

Nothing else even comes close.

Throughout my life I’ve had a recurring dream.  A Grizzly Bear is chasing me and I have nothing in my hand to aid me. All I have is my wit.  It takes place in the woods, his territory.

He can run 30 – 35 mph, I keep trying, but I cannot outrun him.  And I never find anything else that works. So my “wits” are useless.

The Lord has shown me, that with my faith looking to, and trusting in, Him, that I must turn and face my fears head on. This I have been doing fear by fear, for a little over 2 years now.

Shame is a big Grizzly, and this one is out to kill and destroy.

It’s purpose is fueled by anger, it’s tools are it’s teeth and claws and are ready to shred and devour.

I found this advice:

Note this advice is only, for when a bear is making a predatory attack on you and is different for when a bear is acting in self defense out of fear of you:
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If any bear makes a predatory attack or you receive any attack from a black bear: Fight back. Fight a black bear attack or any predatory attack. If the bear is a black bear, or if you have determined that the bear sees you as food, your only chance of escape is to fight it or scare it away. Hit the bear with rocks, pots, pans, sticks or fists—anything handy. The odds may seem against you in a fight, but bears generally do not see humans as prey, and a bear that makes a predatory attacks is usually immature, starving, or wounded, and may easily be scared away if you hit it.

Remember King David saying he struck the bear and the lion and killed them when they attacked his lambs?

I was ashamed of what I was at birth.  I came out of my mother’s womb, a boy.  An unwanted boy.  I was immediately rejected.  We build up callouses to shield our sensitive hearts from pain.  We build walls, locking a portion of our true hearts away behind doors.

For me my greatest pain came from the closest person in my life.  I found through my life, it was safer to be close to people who are strangers.  If they reject me the pain isn’t unbearable.  Trying to go through life in isolation, but still having the need for intimacy, these don’t work together.  So I lived in a dream world.  And satisfied myself with that.  But the need for intimacy with a real person doesn’t quit.

It’s the baby within us that is the motivation in our hearts which compels us to do things to try to fill that need for affection, or will stimulate the fleshly desires enough to take our minds off of the pain of lonely emptiness.  The limbic system in our brain is the seat of our emotions, it is our heart.  This is the baby within us, when a person is acting out of this, all reason may be out of reach and unseen.  All the person knows at that point, is fulfilling whatever the desire is that is within its focus.

Hence – compulsive addictive behaviors will develop.  Controlled by the baby within us.  Self centered, and has to have it’s own way.  And very hard to break.

The answer?

Heal the baby’s wound, so it can come out of hiding and grow up.  Bit by bit, letting go of fear after fear.  Then growth will naturally happen.  But you have to be willing to encounter and feel, and then deal with the pain in your heart.  And to forgive the one who hurt or disappointed you is a necessary part of the healing.  Without forgiveness, you will be hanging on to the wound, and it will continue to effect you.