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1 Corinthians 10:23, 24
1 Corinthians 11:24,25
1 Corinthians 11:33, 34
1 Corinthians 12: 29-31
1 Corinthians 12:7
1 Corinthians 13:12
1 Corinthians 14:1
1 Corinthians 14:20
1 Corinthians 2: 9,10
1 Corinthians 2:16
1 Corinthians 4:9
1 Corinthians 6:11,12
1 Corinthians 7:6,7
1 Corinthians 8:10, 11
1 Thessalonians 1:6,7
1 Thessalonians 3:12
1 Thessalonians 4:12
1 Timothy 1:13
1 Timothy 4:14, 15 (AMP)
1 Timothy 6:6
1Corinthians 9:1
2 Corinthians 10:3,4
2 Corinthians 12:7
2 Corinthians 13:5,8
2 Corinthians 2:16
2 Corinthians 2:6-7
2 Corinthians 3:17
2 Corinthians 3:3,6 (MSG)
2 Corinthians 4:16
2 Corinthians 7:10,11
2 Thessalonians 1:11
2 Thessalonians 3:5
2 Timothy 1:
2 Timothy 2:15
2 Timothy 3:15
Acts 10:40, 41
Acts 13:51, 52
Acts 14:2, 3
Acts 15:38, 39
Acts 16:37-39
Acts 17: 8,9
Acts 17:16
Acts 18:14, 15
Acts 1:1
Acts 20:7, 8
Acts 22:1, 2
Acts 24:15, 16
Acts 25:16
Acts 27:34, 38
Acts 27:41
Acts 28:1, 2
Acts 3:16
Acts 4:11, 12
Acts 5: 38, 39
Acts 7:34
Acts 9:13, 14
Colossians 1:15,16
Colossians 2:3
Colossians 3:15
Colossians 4:16
Ephesians 1:17,18
Ephesians 2:15
Ephesians 5:15,16
Ephesians 6:16
Ex. 7:20,22,24 & 8:22,23
Exodus 12:22
Exodus 15:8,25 & 16:21
Exodus 20:24
Exodus 23:28-30
Exodus 2:16-18
Exodus 5:13
Exodus 7:20, 22, 24
Galations 1:4
Galations 3:13
Galations 4:6, 7
Galations 4:9
Galations 5:24, 25
Galations 6: 2, 3
Galations 6:4, 8
Genesis 4:26
Hebrews 10:32
Hebrews 11:1,3
Hebrews 12:13
Hebrews 2:3b
Hebrews 3:19
Hebrews 4:12
Hebrews 5:14
Hebrews 6:19,20
Hebrews 7:14, 17
Hebrews 8:10
John 18:1
John 19:41
Maark 16:17, 18
Mark 10:8, 9
Mark 11:8-10
Mark 11:8-20
Mark 12:14-17
Mark 13:14-16
Mark 14:3
Mark 15:15
Mark 16:17, 18
Mark 16:7
Mark 1:28, 33, 38
Mark 1:44
Mark 2: 2, 4
Mark 3:9, 10
Mark 4:11, 12, 34
Mark 4:24, 34
Mark 5:2, 3
Mark 5:37 & 40
Mark 6:1
Mark 7:24
Mark 8:33
Mark 9:24-27
Mark 9:50
Matthew 11:4-6
Matthew 12:33
Matthew 14:24,25
Matthew 15:6
Matthew 16:19
Matthew 16:24-26
Matthew 17:1,2
Matthew 17:6-8
Matthew 21:12
Matthew 21:19-21
Matthew 23:11,12
Matthew 23:38,39
Matthew 24:2
Matthew 24:32,33
Matthew 26:32
Matthew 26:7
Matthew 28:7, 20
Matthew 2:13-15
Matthew 3:8
Matthew 5:8
Matthew 7:20
Matthew 8:10 (MSG)
Matthew 8:22, 23
Matthew 8:8
Numbers 22:20-34
Numbers 25:11, 12
Philippians 1:11 (MSG)
Philippians 2:5
Philippians 3:10,11
Philippians 4:7
Phillipians 1:6
Psalm 104:9-11
Psalm 106:4,5
Psalm 10:7
Psalm 119:57, 58 (MSG)
Psalm 12:6, 7
Psalm 132:6,7
Psalm 135:10-12
Psalm 136:25
Psalm 15:1, 2
Psalm 20:7,8
Psalm 22:3
Psalm 24:6, 7
Psalm 2:12
Psalm 30:11,12
Psalm 34:7
Psalm 37:4-6
Psalm 38:12-15
Psalm 40:1-3
Psalm 42:6,7
Psalm 50:11
Psalm 55:6-8
Psalm 56:8
Psalm 59:16
Psalm 64:8,10
Psalm 69:5,6
Psalm 77:19
Psalm 78:1-3
Psalm 83:17,18
Psalm 91:1
Psalm 95:6-8
Psalms 149:1-4 (MSG)
Romans 10:4
Romans 11:29, 36
Romans 12: 1, 2
Romans 13:12
Romans 14:18
Romans 14:19, 20
Romans 15:2,3
Romans 16:19,20
Romans 1:19,20
Romans 2:2
Romans 2:29
Romans 3:3,4
Romans 6:7,8
Romans 7:24,25
Romans 8:19-23
Romans 8:5,6
Romans 9:31,32
Titus 1:15,16

Food for the Spirit
Saturday, 12 May 2012
A Sample of Jesus
Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: 1 Thessalonians 1:6,7

S.

1 Thessalonians 1:6,7 (NKJ)And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became examples to all in Macedonia and Achaia who believe.

O.

You, who have triumphed over lies and untruths (Thessalonians/"Victory over Falsity"), have become 'imitators' of:

1. 'restraint and humility' (Paul/"small, little"),

2. 'love of the growth of life' and 'love of God's Word' (Silvanus/ "lover of the forest and words")

3. the 'honoring of God' (Timothy/'honor of God')

4. Jesus, the Master, Anointed One, Savior (Lord)

You have taken hold of this thinking and teaching under much pressure and trouble, amid exceeding joy and gladness from Holy Spirit. The result is that you have become 'examples'...a 'print' or 'type' that comes from many 'blows', your conscience being offended and disquieted, over and over, resulting in a 'print/imprint/stamp'...a 'mark' or an 'example'. You have become an 'example/print/mark' to all the 'extended land' (Macedonia), to those in 'grief and trouble' (Achaia)...and to those who have faith and are persuaded that you hold the TRUTH!

A.

A frequent question that I've been asking myself is 'why do Unbelievers not gravitate to Believers'? What is it that we are doing wrong to be so shunned by the world instead of drawing them to us...WE WHO HAVE THE ANSWER?

This scripture holds part of the answer to this disturbing question and raise up the next question: ARE WE BEING EXAMPLES?

I am to be an example to an 'extended land'. I am to hold all the traits of Jesus, Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, as examples of a 'one' who holds the TRUE ANSWER! That is what is supposed to set me apart from the 'world' along with the joy and gladness from Holy Spirit. 

I need to 'soak' in Holy Spirit so as to completely change from the inside out. Holy Spirit can not be contained...He has to ooze out of me and draw others. Light should shine out of me as if, without speaking one word, I shine with THE 'secret of Life'. If this is a Believers goal, than ALL Believers, together, WOULD be that GLOWING SECRET that would draw others. Where can we START....what has to happen to us Believers to draw others to the Secret? Where have we failed? 

P.

Father, forgive me for failing You. Forgive me for not being the shining example of Your Son. Show me, fully and completely, how I can change that. Fill me with Your Spirit, who changes from the inside out...with His supernatural revelation of the ANSWER....JESUS!


Posted by umma23 at 7:19 AM PDT
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Friday, 11 May 2012
Deeper...Spiritual Boarders...and BEYOND!
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Psalm 55:6-8

S.

Psalm 55:6-8 (NKJ) So I (David/'Beloved') said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove (Holy Spirit)! I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off, And remain in the wilderness. Selah. I would hasten my escape From the windy storm and tempest.

O.

God's Beloved One (US) says, "I wish that I could soar high in the Spirit without effort, just as Holy Spirit does, exhibiting feelings of joy that cannot be expressed! I would fly away, covered in God's protection and be at permanent rest. SEE! I would be restless to move into further, distant and extended spiritual places, extending my spiritual boarders. I would stay permanently in pastureland...GOD'S pastureland. THINK ABOUT IT! I would be eager with excitement to come to deliverance and safety and FREEDOM from out of mental and spiritual sudden attacks and trials.

A.

Oh how my spirit desires these deeper and higher places! ESPECIALLY during times of testing! To soar with Holy Spirit would be a dream come true...deeper and more extended spiritual places! A place of total FREEDOM! To see and experience God's supernatural things and then to just SIT there...soaking everything in so as to never loose them...oh, what a place and time to be in! The best thing of all this? I CAN! For my God has given me the gift of Holy Spirit! All I have to do is TAKE Him, by faith! And TRUST in Him! I can sit right there...the more I submit, the more I receive! WOW!

P.

Father, Thank You for the gift of Holy Spirit! Take me deeper in Him, Lord...show me my extended spiritual boarders...and beyond! Thank You for that safe and secure place...in YOUR Spirit, Father!


Posted by umma23 at 7:32 AM PDT
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Thursday, 10 May 2012
Juicing the Hurts
Mood:  special
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Psalm 56:8

S.

Psalm 56:8

You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?

tears=juice, essence, spirit....produced by squeezing

bottle=a 'containter' for holding liquid and made of skin (the human body)

book=to remember, recount, enumerate

O.

God keeps an account of our 'waverings'...the times we had compassion and pity on others and the times we didn't. Our 'tears of compassion' come from our 'hurts' inside. These 'hurts' are squeezed out of our spirit, when we have compassion on someone, and become a new part of our spiritual character; a new attribute/trait for our spirit. These 'hurts' are the 'juice' of a new spiritual character trait, adding to our spirit more goodness and righteousness. These spiritual traits are placed into our human body (God's 'bottle made of skin'). God then writes them on His memory...in His 'book'...so that there is evidence of our 'deed of compassion'. (I'm thinking this is 'evidence' for us when the 'Accuser/Satan' comes against us with accusations)

A.

I love this thought; God uses my hurtings to give me new spiritual traits and new personal character features! What remains of my hurtings (the juice) is turned into something that ADDS to my spiritual character. Then God uses these  as evidence against the Accuser! God uses my 'hurtings' in so many ways! He has a plan for my total life...each and every step I take is used to bring me into a life like Jesus'. Each pace I take is used to bring my transformation into who Jesus is.

WOW! What a God I have!

P.

Father, how amazing Your plan is for each of our lives. Give each Believer eyes to see and understand the WHY'S of each hurt, Father. Help us to know Your evidence from these hurts...that we would SEE them as evidence and NOT as hurts. Build my character and understanding, Lord, on the juice of all my hurts!...and THANK YOU!


Posted by umma23 at 7:41 AM PDT
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
JESUS: Our Circle of Life
Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Matthew 26:32

S.

 Matthew 26:32

"But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee".(circle, circuit, revolution)

O.

Jesus tells us that after His Spirit had been awakened, and his Spirit made alive without His earthly body, that He would precede us and lead us forward into 'Galilee'; the eternal place of a complete 360 degree turning back to what was our original state before the fall of man.

Galilee=circuit, revolving, circle.

CIRCUIT:. A path or route the complete traversal of which without local change of direction requires returning to the starting point.

REVOLUTION: the act of revolving or turning completely around, so as to bring every point of the turning body back to its first position; a complete rotation through 360 degrees.

A turning or rotational motion about an axis. (The AXIS= Jesus)

CIRCLE: Symbol of never ending, eternal.

A.

Following Jesus and His Spirit leads me back to the start...the original position of which man was created to have a relatonship with God. I follow Jesus to 'Galilee', the eternal place that circles around His life and His freedom and leads me right to the place and time of the original creation of man...right back to walking with God in the Garden of Eden. I am to revolve around HIM! Wherever I journey to in this life, I am ALWAYS to return to HIM...for He is the STARTING LINE and the FINISH LINE of life itself...the ALPHA AND THE OMEGA...the BEGINNING AND THE ENDING to Life itself!

P.

Father, I thank You again for Your Son! Thank You that He is the CIRCLE OF LIFE! I want to always be in Your circle, Father! From start to finish...for eternity....to be in an intimate relationship with YOU!


Posted by umma23 at 8:09 AM PDT
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Tuesday, 8 May 2012
We are GOLD FOR GOD!
Mood:  amorous
Now Playing: Umma23

S. Matthew 24:2 (NKJ) And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? (the Temple buildings) Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

O.

Do you not have the power inside of yourself to understand or comprehend that the place that God 's presence dwells is in you? I'm telling you now in spoken words...not even the position you have, the position in which I have surrounded You, won't be permitted to stay in that same position. Your character will be disolved and brought to nothing; overthrown and humbled.

A.

Anyone who takes the position in Jesus, has a character change. When we position ourselves in a 'salvation-position', we can not stay the same. Jesus takes over, changing us to HIS character. We are positioned BETWEEN the 'Stone'. We are like the 'space' that is between the stones that were used to build the Temple...crushed and presured to stay in place in order to build the WHOLE church. We cannot stay the same but need to be transformed/crushed into the same character as Jesus.

My husband studies all Jewish teachings. In his studies he was telling me that the Temple was distroyed by the Romans after Jesus had said, "Not one stone will be left standing in the Temple". The Romans burned the Temple, causing all the gold that lined the walls and etc. to melt and ooze between the stones. In order to get to the gold, the Romans had to 'tear down the walls' and 'leave nothing standing'.

This is exactly how WE are built into God's Temple. We have to be 'burned' in order to get all impurities out....as in purging gold. The 'gold' is then extracted out of our flesh...the crushing done by our day to day lives in order that we could become pure for God. Each of us has to be 'crushed' in order for the 'gold' to be extracted. And what is the coolest thing about all of this is that God cares enough about us to GET THAT GOLD OUT...each one of us hold GOLD!

In our characters, we hold gold. That gold is what keeps us in intimacy with God. Jesus puts that gold inside of us, to be extracted as we go through our lives. It hurts, yes, but it brings us closer to God; the way He created us to be in the first place...as GOLD FOR GOD!

P.

Father, I pray that Your Son would change my character into His gold for YOU! I want Your presence inside of me, day by day. I want to be the golden Temple that holds You, Father...and reveals to the world all of Your beauty!


Posted by umma23 at 8:23 AM PDT
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Am I a Sheep or a Goat?
Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Matthew 24:32,33

S. Matthew 25: 32,33 (NKJ)

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

O.

Jesus will collect all the Non-Jews (Gentiles), and He will set apart for a purpose each one, as different, just as a shepherd sets apart for a purpose, specifically for completion, the ones with a superior 'walk of life' and are 'out in front' (the sheep) from the ones that are 'marked by human works and pride'(the goats).

Jesus will establish the ones that are 'out in front' in their 'walk of life' to receive honor and authority. (the sheep)

But those who are 'marked by human works and pride' will be revealed by their name and character...what is thought of when their name is spoken...in order to understand their true identity. (that they are of human-character and not of a godly-character).

A.

Do I go through my life showing 'supernatural strength and character' as a godly woman? Do I walk through this life as a 'chosen sheep'? Or do I live my life as a goat...a 'do it myself' kind of woman. Do I allow Jesus to lead me, or do I try to 'do it myself'? Jesus will put me to His right or His left...to the place of honor and authority or to the place of being known as 'merely human without God'...chosen by the way I live my life.  

P.

Father, help me to follow Jesus in my walk of life, showing Him as my Leader and not myself as leader. Help me to show YOU in all that I do and in how I live my life. Help me to live under the name and character of Jesus!


Posted by umma23 at 7:52 AM PDT
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Sunday, 6 May 2012
An Empty House, Until.....
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Matthew 23:38,39

S.

Matthew 23:38,39 (NKJ)  See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

O.

LOOK! You, as the place that holds My presence, are allowed to be lonely, uninhabited and wasted. For I, Jesus Christ, am telling you that you won't discover or understand Me and who I am until you know in your mind and heart that I am to be celebrated in praises and am favored by God. When you know in your mind and heart that I hold all the charactistics and authority of God, then you will know ME!

A.

I was a wasted, lonely person...my spirit and soul was empty...until I KNEW who Jesus Christ was in my heart and my mind. When I knew with understanding that Jesus IS God, and holds the authority and characteristics of God and then spoke these understandings outloud...gave my thoughts a voice...then He came and filled my empty spirit and soul. He came to live inside of me and to change me from the inside-out in order to please His Father, and my Father....God, so that I could have a personal relationship with the Creator of the Universe!

P.

Thank You, Father, for sending Your Son, to bring me into knowing You! Thank You, Jesus, that because of You and all You did for me, I can know who YOU are...You are GOD! I am so glad that I know God because of YOU, Jesus!


Posted by umma23 at 6:12 AM PDT
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Saturday, 5 May 2012
Hitch-hiker or Free-Rider
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Psalm 20:7,8

S.

Psalm 20:7,8 (NKJ) Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stand upright.

O.

Some trust in 'riding on the backs of others' while they fight. Some trust in those same 'horses' for their ability and speed. But we call to mind the reputation and character of the Lord our God! They have sunk lower and failed. But we become powerful and endure to the point of being restored like new, that we may testify of our God.

A.

I can not trust in the doctrine that someone else believes in, just by hear-say. I can't ride on their 'horse' or trust in their 'horse'. I have to know for myself what the Truth is and trust in that Truth, personally. I can not get through this life on the beliefs (horse) of others. I have to have my own knowledge of what truth is; my own personal wisdom and revelation of what God is to me.

Those who trust and rely on the 'horse/beliefs' of others and ride on their 'backs/beliefs' don't know the 'horse/belief' for their selves. They are relying on the person who knows that 'horse/belief' to get them where they want to go. Riding THE OTHER'S beliefs for what THEY know will only cause that 'hitchhiker' to fail in life. There is not PERSONAL knowledge and they can never stand alone. But those who know their 'horse/beliefs' personally will be completed (restored like new) and be able to show and tell others what God has done for them, personally. 

P.

Father, I want to know all about You and what You stand for. Teach me to ride my own horse, Lord. Teach me personally, so that I can be completed and testify about You!


Posted by umma23 at 6:29 AM PDT
Updated: Saturday, 5 May 2012 6:34 AM PDT
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Friday, 4 May 2012
MIND-SALVE
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Matthew 21:12

S.

Matthew 21:12 Then Jesus went (#G1525 "of thoughts that come into the mind ") into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers (outside influences) and the seats (immovable) of those who sold doves. (spirit)

O.

Jesus enters into the thoughts that come into our minds (the place of thinking that is set apart only for Him...a 'set apart' and sacred place; His Temple) and He banishes and expels, by force, the thoughts that we have 'bought into' and 'bartered' for, exchanging the Truth for what is false. Here, He 'changes our mind' and changes the way we had desired to walk through this life. Here He uproots the influence of the 'moneychangers' that tried to sell us what 'felt good' in our comprehension of life. Here He reveals the Truth so we can see and understand it clearly. The 'moneychangers', the outside/fleshly influences in our lives, had tried to sell us another 'spirit/soul' than Holy Spirit had for us. But Jesus reveals to our mind about the Truth of Spirit. We come into true understanding about walking through this life with what is real. Jesus has changed our thinking to HIS thinking...HIGHER THINKING! And TRUE THOUGHTS! We now understand about His Spirit (Dove) and how Holy Spirit effects our life. We SEE clearly in our mind.

A.

Many times I've 'bought into' the thoughts of outside influences, trading lies for Truth. But Jesus uproots those false thoughts for me when I think on Higher Things! When I dedicate my thinking as a 'consecrated and set apart place' (Temple) ONLY to HIS teachings and HIS way of thinking, then those lies are dispelled and shown to me clearly for what they are; LIES! Jesus then gives me clear understanding of what is true, trustworthy and reliable; the Truth of His Spirit! The mind is the soul. And my mind needs to CLEAVE to HIS! This gives my mind 'eyesalve' ('Money changers' #G2854) that of which the 'money changers' (outside influences) have tried to sell me the FALSE version. But Jesus has the TRUE version of 'mind-eyeslave' and clears up my understanding and what I can truly cling to in my mind as Truth!

P.

Jesus, I'd like to buy YOUR 'mind-salve'. I'll trade my thoughts for YOURS! I'll trade the lies I've believed in for Your truth! Thank You for Your Truth, Lord! Smother my mind with Your Truth....Your 'mind-salve'! And Thank You for healing my mind, Lord. You thought of everything! (little pun there, Lord...)


Posted by umma23 at 8:01 AM PDT
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Thursday, 3 May 2012
Keeping Close
Mood:  amorous
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Psalm 2:12

S.

Psalm 2:12 (NKJ) Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

O.

In order to keep from displeasing Jesus and getting lost and giving up in this 'course of life' (all the 'bending and pressing'), I am to bind myself, decorate myself, ignite and inflame myself and make myself perminatedly attatched to Him so that He doesn't become a little unreceptive to me. I will lose my way and not progress forward in my 'walk of life' with Him if I don't trust, confide, seek refuge and hope in Him.

A.

In trusting Jesus and seeking refuge and hope in Him, I become ATTATCHED to Him. Attatching to Jesus as my Guide through this course of life is the only way not to get lost in this life. He shows me the way to go and ignites the passion I need to stay on that path. With Him beside me, I can't go wrong. But it's all in being ATTATCHED to and INTIMATE with Him.

P.

Jesus, keep close to me. Kiss me and keep close to me, Lord.


Posted by umma23 at 6:53 AM PDT
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