Fellowship with CindyisHis (5)

peacechild4 · #21 27th August 2008, 10:37 PM

This was written on the KCM newsletter that comes to my home..

My heart is fixed..
Trusting God..

How many have broken hearts.. YES we can have fixed hearts through Jesus and believing in His promises to us.. Halleujah..

Fixed as in stable.. but I like to think as fixed as in .. not broken!

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings, his heart is fixed trusting in the LORD!
Psalm 112:7

Can I just as far as my keyboard goes.. my fingers type and my heart longs to do so..
Just give you all a lovely big hug..

Thank YOU LORD for this beautiful fellowship.. each special special person here.. and thank YOU for Jesus blood which makes us blood brothers and sisters through Christ!!

CindyisHis · #22 28th August 2008, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by peacechild4

Just give you all a lovely big hug..

Thank YOU LORD for this beautiful fellowship.. each special special person here.. and thank YOU for Jesus blood which makes us blood brothers and sisters through Christ!!

Amen. Hugs to you too.

I had a dream a few days ago....I went out for my morning walk, I crossed a surreal line, and I met you, then your husband and oldest son. We had conversations. It was amazing how close you were.

To me, it means you're very near to me, though continents and oceans away.

Yesterday, J, remember her? J4Jesus? She kept coming up before me, and this morning I see she was here on the forum last night.

Spirit things, the natural mind can't discern it.

CindyisHis · #23 28th August 2008, 08:23 AM

God is merciful and gracious to us. He blesses us and causes His face to shine upon us.

Be blessed today as you praise Him and sing for joy. Even in a great trial of affliction, bless Him. He is the God who brought the walls of Jericho down as His people shouted. The people shouted while the walls were still standing, foreboding as they were. The people obeyed, acting on the Lord's command. Then they saw the walls come down and gained the victory.

Give the Lord a shout of praise!

peacechild4 · #24 28th August 2008, 10:12 AM

I have been singing praise.. is that okay.. LOL.. and laughing loud and singing in the spirit when driving.. LOL.. The joy of the LORD is our strength!!

CindyisHis · #25 28th August 2008, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by peacechild4

I have been singing praise.. is that okay.. LOL.. and laughing loud and singing in the spirit when driving.. LOL.. The joy of the LORD is our strength!!

Singing praise is certainly scriptural.

Make melody in your heart to the Lord.

irenemcg · #26 28th August 2008, 11:05 AM

With my husband and I starting a Ministry the Lord has had me look at holiness afresh

1Th 4:1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;
1Th 4:2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
1Th 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
1Th 4:4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
1Th 4:5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1Th 4:6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
1Th 4:7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
1Th 4:8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
1Th 4:9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
1Th 4:10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
1Th 4:11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
1Th 4:12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

This passage calls us to holiness and calls us to walk in the Spirit, to love one another, to be watchful and sober, we are to flee from the temptations of this world. The Thessalonian church were already walking with the Lord but Paul’s prayer was that they might abound more and more, that their revelation knowledge might increase. In the previous verse (1 Th. 3:13) Paul had spoken about the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And in verse 13 of this chapter, he continues speaking about the return of Christ. The verses which are in between (v. 1-12) are not disconnected from that subject.
Rev 19:6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:
"Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
Rev 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)
Rev 19:9 Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!' " And he added, "These are the true words of God."
Rev 19:10 At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
Jesus is coming back for a pure spotless bride, who has prepared herself for Him, who have walked in righteousness, who have walked in holiness serving a holy God. Notice the kind of authority that Paul has in verse 2 In verse 3 we see there is a warning against sexual immorality. The lust of the flesh is one of the main ways that the enemy attacks believers and stops them from walking in righteousness, disturbs their walk with God. The Lord wants us to keep ourselves pure and we cannot hear from God properly if we allow those things or other things to come in the way. Adultery can take many shapes and forms, spiritual adultery is anything we obsess over that takes our focus away from Jesus. It could be even our own self importance, our ministry that gets in the way, our business for Christ that gets in the way and very few of us are able to say it doesn’t happen to us, I know I certainly can’t.
Holiness is not just for some in the body of Chris it is for every all in the body of Christ. We are to "possess" our "vessel." We are to walk in our Spirit Man not in the flesh. It is the spiritual part of a person, which is the Christian's true self, that has been made new through the new birth. Our body is just allows us to function in this physical world. Our body is just a "vessel" for our regenerate spirits which. Our bodies are just a temporary home for our spirits.
Our lifestyle should be as different from the world's lifestyle as the difference between God and the devil. We are new creations in Christ, and our flesh life needs to disappear.
Paul states that we should be honest in our dealings with others. We should not defraud a brother or sister. Those who are truly born again have a covenant with God which ensures them that He will never hold their sins against them. Our sins-past, present, and future were placed on Jesus.
Rom 4:7 “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
Rom 4:8 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.

This does not give us an excuse for unrighteousness for we are called to be holy as God is Holy. He will put the spotlight on a believer’s sin and convict us of our unrighteousness and bring us back to the foot of the cross where we confess that sin, to cleanse us and when we have hurt someone else be assured He is always on the side of righteousness. It’s not that He turns against us, but like any good Father He disciplines us His children.

God has not called us as believers to live in uncleanness but He wants us to live lives separated unto Him. Anyone who advocates differently is not representing God.

When a minister is truly directed by the Lord, then it is God and not the man who is speaking. We should not be so gullible that we accept every word that men speak. But we should not be so skeptical that we reject God when He speaks through men

1Th 2:13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

There are two different Greek words for love used in verse 9. PHILADELPHIA was translated "brotherly love" in the first part of this verse, and AGAPAO was used at the end of the verse.

φιλαδελφία
philadelphia
fraternal affection: - brotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren.

ἀγαπάω
agapaō
to love (in a social or moral sense): - (be-) love (-ed). ( my own note here i.e. to love like the one who is truly moral , to love with love that comes from being transformed into the nature of God)

The Thessalonians had expressed their love throughout all parts of the province of Macedonia. Paul's admonition was to increase more and more in this Christian virtue. It's impossible to love too much.

In verse 11 we see that the Lord does not want the body of Christ to be lazy, we are to be busy about the secular work or ministry in which our Lord has placed us. Work should never be despised by Christians. God ordained it as a part of life before the fall. "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it" (Gen. 2:15). It is a responsibility given to man. "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest..."

2Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

Our prayer is that we will never be weary of serving our Lord, that all that we do will be done as unto the Lord. May the people out there and reading this see Jesus living in and through us.

1Th 4:12 We want you living in a way that will command the respect of outsiders, not lying around sponging off your friends. (MSG)

It is a great advertisement for Christianity when those who profess Christ are of meek and quiet spirits, diligent to do their own business, and not busy-bodies in other men's matters and not lazy sponging off of others. We are to live in a way that commands respect from those outside the body of Christ. Our lives should be exemplary, in fact people should see Christ living in and through us and be drawn to Him.

2Co 2:14 But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ's victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere,
2Co 2:15 For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:
2Co 2:16 To the latter it is an aroma [wafted] from death to death [a fatal odor, the smell of doom]; to the former it is an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is qualified (fit and sufficient) for these things? [Who is able for such a ministry? We?]
2Co 2:17 For we are not, like so many, [like hucksters making a trade of] peddling God's Word [shortchanging and adulterating the divine message]; but like [men] of sincerity and the purest motive, as [commissioned and sent] by God, we speak [His message] in Christ (the Messiah), in the [very] sight and presence of God. AMP

1. A believer's triumphs are all in Christ. In ourselves we are weak, and have neither joy nor victory; but in Christ we may rejoice and triumph.
2. True believers have constant reason to triumph in Christ, for they are more than conquerors through him who hath loved them, Rom_8:37.
3. God causes them to triumph in Christ. It is God who has given us the victory, and hearts to triumph. To him be given all the praise and all the glory. 4. When we see the results of our labour and people being saved, healed, delivered and going on with the Lord we have good reason for joy and rejoicing.

We should give off the sweet fragrance of Christ, be such carriers of His presence that we breathe life and hope into the world around us and draw others towards the one who died for them, towards our Lord and Saviour, but for this to happen we need to be holy.

CindyisHis · #27 28th August 2008, 05:00 PM

This is very good, Irene. Great teaching, and it goes hand in hand with what my husband and I were discussing just today. This is a rhema word of God. Doesn't surprise me knowing you were praying. Amazing how God ties things together and how all things work together for good. I have been seeing this scripture over and over, of all things working together for good. God using this, leading me here, leading this, directing that. It's amazing how He leads us by His Spirit and how all the little things add up and work together. Maybe this is hard to understand, seeing it is hard to put into words without giving lots of detail. Let me just say this, God is amazing how He is working in every detail. Truly His hand is on our lives and whatever we give to Him He takes over. Whatever we hold back, well, we suffer in that area...eventually, if not now.

irenemcg · #28 28th August 2008, 06:29 PM

God is dealing with me through that study, that's what it's about, He has been speaking to me.

CindyisHis · #29 29th August 2008, 08:01 AM

It blessed me too!

I will be praying for you along these lines knowing the Lord is purifying you and Raymond to be vessels of gold sanctified and ready for His use.

CindyisHis · #30 29th August 2008, 08:34 AM

Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace (shalom - perfect wholeness)
all who trust in you,
all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
4 Trust in the Lord always,
for the Lord God is the eternal Rock. NLT

Isaiah 12:1 You will say in that day:"I will give thanks to you, O LORD.......
2 "Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation." ESV

Walking with God involves our heart - trust with all your heart. Believe Him!

Walking with God involves our thoughts - keep them fixed on the Lord, taking every thought captive.

Walking with God involves the mouth, taking thoughts, His thoughts, by saying what He says. Saying makes a big difference. Read the above scripture to yourself. Now say it with your mouth out loud. See the difference?