Burning Down The House

It's late.. or later than I want to be up anyway. I went to bed reflecting on the day... and the LORD showed me a picture of Smokey The Bear while going to sleep and I knew it was time to get back up and write what He's dropping into my spirit.

Earlier He said.. " No one can drop a lit match in the Corner of My House and expect it NOT to burn down the Whole House"... It goes back to His Words.. "A House divided cannot stand" and "One day we will all come to the knowledge of the Truth."

He's right you know.. as usual. It's hard for even the children of God to communicate because of the places in each of us that are broken and because of the sin that still lay in the part of us yet.. undone.

It should be the heart of all of us in the Body to build up the Body of Christ. What does that look like? Well.. I think it means to focus on the gifts and strengths of one another and to call them out.. to be the cane that each of us needs to support the other... to take up another's cross as the man in the crowd did for Jesus. It means to love one another and serve one another... and sometimes it means to wound... but not for any reason but faithfulness and as if 'snatching their white robes from the flame'.

I have a few friends that do this for me.. and they ARE my friends. One is here on Facebook and He always faces me head on and calls it like he sees it. He is spirit filled and led.. not perfect and sometimes he doesn't get it right.. but I know his heart and it is good! I have another friend in New England whom I see whenever I  go home. It always seems we are learning the same 'lessons' but in different circumstances. She is always face to face with me too.. nothing flowery.. nothing covert.. She loves me and sometimes it's all sunshine and flowers and sometimes she's just straight.. but as the Word of God states.. she "is pouring HOT COALS" on my wound.

Sounds terrible.. doesn't it? Hot Coals on a hurting and painful area of a person's life... I thought so too when a pastor told me that.. I got so upset with him I was almost standing beside myself! lol.. but.. he explained it. The woman with an issue of Blood for 12 years knows ALL about this stuff.. because she hurt... and no physician could cure her..But Jesus DID. Heaven's power flowed from Him to her and cauterized that wound.. that is what HOT COALS do. We can mistake them for cruelty and for pride.. but if we know the heart of a true friend .. we let them be the Hand of the Great Physician who comes only to HEAL.. and you and I know that it 'Dunt feel so good' sometimes...

The boys on the Emaeus Road.. talked together about all they saw and heard.. the disciples in the Upper Room did as well.. they talked among themselves.. some saw things from one 'angle' and some from another..

The KEY is to throw things out there and share the angles..keeping Love and Unity and Peace in mind.. the Oneness of the Body. To BUILD up the Body of Christ. None of us are perfect.. but we need to be about the work of Living the Unity in the bond of peace part at all times. We have to keep watch on the Atmosphere.. even in the rooms here.. when it begins to change we need to escort that unclean spirit OUT.

Patience.. toleration, love.. bearing with.. long-suffering.. and at times when there are Sparks that can FLY into the corner of a House.. being able to get in there and put the Fires out  before they catch and wound and/ or destroy the children living there. We have to know the hearts of one another and that we are Family.. Safe.. and that our hearts are Good! That we have each others backs!

We have His Heart.

Jesus said.."offenses will come" and to "forgive  the trespasses of another we are forgiven ours.. We ALL stumble in many things. It is discretion to over look a matter.. blessed are the peacemakers."  ( He's downloading..lol..) We are Poor in Spirit but He love us and we ought to Love one another.. <3

Remember.. Phoenix.. and Friends.. ONLY WE CAN PREVENT A FIRE. <3

The Wrong Use Of A Right Thing

I cannot think of anything that is Evil in and of itself. I can only think of the Author of Evil and those who follow him. Satan, the fallen Angels or Demons, and people. NOT that these were MADE that way.. this is a FREE-WILL CHOICE made to 'Give themselves over to a WRONG USE or PURPOSE.' GOD did not make them this way.

So.. what happened?

Well.. my best guess is you have this B E A U T I F U L Archangel that was GOD's right hand.. so to speak.. If you read his description in Isaiah.. oh my... He WAS perfect in Beauty...WOW! And Lucifer was MADE for a GOOD PURPOSE.. For right Relationship and to be used by GOD in Mighty ways.. He displayed GOD's Glory!

The thing was.. and this happens to ALL of us.. is that Lucifer had what could have been a moment of temporary INsanity... He saw in the spirit.. 'his own beauty'. Uh oh. The thing we have to focus on is this: Lucifer HAD NO BEAUTY OF HIS OWN. Nada.. none. zip. But, in his insanity he forgot that part and acted as if HE had made himself who he was. Oops. We do that too. Now his temporary FIX on himself became PERMANENT.. Could that happen to US? You betcha!!!

The Anointing of GOD can come on us SO strong at times that we look and see in the spirit what we think... is.. 'our OWN beauty too." PRIDE comes in faster than waters from a Dam Break... and we are OVERCOME with Self-Admiration.. the number one ticket to a FALL.  Lucifer..  (now AKA Satan)..his FALL was and is Permanent.. I guess because he never could 'get over himself' and SEE the TRUTH.. that without the Spirit of the Living GOD on his life.. he was just a Glove with no HAND inside. He lied to himself and has remained IN THAT Deception ever since! Satan.. now known as Adversary of GOD!

Not a title I would want.. but it is true that anytime I am out of Sync with GOD and His Word I am.. just that.. an Adversary... and am SUNK!

To become and remain IN SYNC with GOD we have to know.. not only the TOOL of GOD.. (HIS WORD).. but the PERSON of GOD.. (HIS HOLY SPIRIT). To have both is to have the right tools for relationship and to minister.. any time we have one or think we have the other.. we open ourselves up to LEGALISM, LAW, become a Henchman and develop the wrong use of the right Tool. 

Anytime we spend more time with whom we may think is the Holy Spirit but we neglect the WORD of GOD.. we can be deceived and may be dealing with evil spirits having a hey-day with us and those around us.. THROUGH us. Look at all of those who in the past have named Christ and have led others into awful deeds or death.

Let's look at this Wrong use of a Right Thing in other aspects of life... A gun. A gun is NOT an evil thing. It helps those who living in remote places hunt for food when they are hungry.. or maybe they use a Bow. None the less it is a right use for a right purpose.

How about anger? Anger has a good purpose to it.. GOD has it as an emotion and He gave it to us. It tells us when something is WRONG or a boundary line has been crossed.. it is a SIGNAL to us that there is a problem. The right use of it is to 'recognize' what the problem truly is and to deal with it in a GODLY manner. That is the right use of a right thing. When it goes HAYWIRE is when the person responsible for their emotions uses a RIGHT thing in a WRONG WAY.. like beating a child.. or a wife or husband.. or taking the gun and using it to maim or kill.

Are you getting this?

My late husband was a sheet metal mechanic.. he built engine cylinders for planes. He had some of his tools in the garage and well... I was a bit younger than he. One day I am outside working in the yard and I wanted to trim a branch off a tree.. prune it... I went into his toolbox and got out a tool of his Box.(GOOD TOOL and WRONG PURPOSE)... lol.. oops. It worked.. (lucky I didn't break it.. that's another thing that can happen).. but I listened to him tell me most of the afternoon about how there can be Wrong Uses of Right Things. (Blush).

Now..let's drive this puppy home....

The Word of GOD is a TOOL. A GOOD TOOL for a GOOD PURPOSE and USE.. but it CAN and HAS been used for the WRONG THINGS.

Case in point: The Pharisees and their buddies. I don't even have to expound here... we know what they did (Used HIS WORD for WRONG PURPOSES and BROKE PEOPLE) and we KNOW exactly how JESUS felt about their words and actions! 

I have a friend who studies the Word of GOD. I admire that. But the fact is this person does not attend services at Church on a regular basis, does not seem to spend time with the LORD and does not live much at all what is read. When this person wants to debate .. because that seems to be why they read.. to gain knowledge.. I leave. Sometimes they get upset with me and I have tried to explain that to me.. it is the RIGHT TOOL put to the WRONG USE. If they end up cultivating their relationship with JESUS as well.... WATCH OUT! This person will be an amazing tool for GOD to minister.

If we study 'to show ourselves approved, a workman unto GOD' to bring LOVE, Salvation, Deliverance, healing and LIFE to all who seek HIM that is the RIGHT USE of a RIGHT THING or TOOL. But if we gain knowledge for the sake of SEEING OUR OWN BEAUTY.. that makes Christ Nauseated.. we can hurt and wound people.. and our hearts are not right toward them.

OK.. so.. we need to be IN the RIGHT RELATIONSHIP.. and KNOW the PERSON of JESUS CHRIST by HIS SPIRIT and KNOW HIS WORD to have the CORRECT BALANCE so that we can have the RIGHT TOOLS for the RIGHT PURPOSE and MOTIVES to MINISTER. 

If we don't do this the right way.. we BREAK HEARTS instead of healing them.

How do I know this.. because I, in the past, have done ALL MY OWN STUNTS...AND crashed and Burned.. Not only I.. but the people around me. The wrong use of the Word can stick, hammer, punch, deflate, and wound... and no good comes from it. The right use can sever off the old, cauterize a wound, give LIFE, lift up, encourage, inspire, teach, and the like!

Today.. I am a GLOVE. That's it. Lifeless without my Best Friend Jesus and HIS SPIRIT that enters this SKIN. He brings me to LIFE! And I spend time with Him in His Word.. so I can know His Mind and His Person.

Sure.. there are days when I get into the Flesh.. and can wound.. but more and more those days are getting behind me. I've seen what my 'Seeing my own beauty can do... BARF!' so, I'd rather do HIS EXPLOITS than pull anymore stunts on my own.

RIGHT USE OF THE RIGHT TOOLS in the RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST. Ahh.. <3