Mood:  caffeinated

S.

1 Thessalonians 4:12(NKJ) ...that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

O.

Paul tells the Thessalonians (those who are 'Victorious over falsity/lies') to love each other (vs. 8,9) and all those in Macedonia ("extended lands")(vs 10)...and to love these more and more. Those 'Victorious over falsity/lies' are to lead a quiet life/to hold peace in our lives and to 'mind our own business'(vs. 11).

We, as the 'Holders of THE Truth', are to do all these things in order that we make due use of these opportunities to conducting ourselves and our lives OUTSIDE THE FOUR WALLS OF THE 'CHURCH'...towards the PRE-chosen...so as to make it known that WE HOLD ALL THAT IS NEEDED IN THIS LIFE...and we LACK NOTHING!

A.

I am alive and living! And the conduct of my living is seen by others; the 'chosen' and the 'pre-chosen'. HOW I live my life is the proof of what is inside of me. My words mean nothing without action to back them up. If I want others to know that I hold THE ANSWER/JESUS...that I hold all that is needed to get through this life with fulfillment and hope, then I have to live out that TRUTH in front of others. If it isn't true, if my life is full of lies and falsity, then THAT is what will be seen. But if I am full of Jesus...THE TRUTH...then all will see that I truly HAVE the Answer, the Hope, the True Reason for Life and LIVE by and in Him! HE IS LIFE...MY Life! I have to walk in and with Him everywhere I go...inside and outside of 'the church'! Wherever Life is, wherever there is living, Jesus is THERE! He is LIFE...there is no other life...no other way for our spirits to find life...except in the Life and Truth that HE gives!

P.

Jesus, live fully IN and THROUGH me! Remove all fake things inside of me and replace them with only REAL things...YOU and all You are! Live in me Lord, fill me up and overflow Yourself through my life!

Mood:  amorous

S.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 (NKJ) And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you,...

O.

Paul, "humility", asks God to make the Thessalonians, the "Victory over Falsity" to be extravgent and more than sufficent in their brotherly love and good will to each other, including all types of people.

A.

We, as God's people, are to be REAL! And the evidence of BEING REAL is HOW we love each other. We are to love each other, including every single type of person (color, personality, etc.) with extravagant love and good will...above and beyond measure....and IN HUMILITY!

These are supernatural qualities that a human being can't do without God. I can not love like this by myself. I have to have God, who IS Love, as the Supreme Quality in my life...and to ooze Him out of me, from the inside out. I, as a human, can not love like Him by myself.

LOVE IS THE EVIDENCE THAT I AM A CHILD OF GOD!

P.

Father, I don't know how to love. YOU know how to love! I pray that YOUR love would saturate me from the inside out so that I can see, hear, touch, smell and taste through YOUR eyes, ears, hands, nose and mouth! Use ALL my senses, Father, to ooze out Your love onto others....make ME Your EVIDENCE!

Song Lyrics by Sidewalk Prophets from the album Live Like That

Sometimes I think
What will people say of me
When I'm only just a memory
When I'm home where my soul belongs
Was I love
When no one else would show up
Was I Jesus to the least of those
Was my worship more than just a song
(Chorus) I want to live like that
And give it all I have
So that everything I say and do
Points to You
If love is who I am
Then this is where I stand
Recklessly abandoned
Never holding back
I want to live like that
I want to live like that
Am I proof
That You are who you say You are
That grace can really change a heart
Do I live like Your love is true
People pass
And even if they don't know my name
Is there evidence that I've been changed
When they see me, do they see You
Chorus) I want to live like that
I want to live like that
I want to show the world the love You gave for me
(I want to live like that)
I'm longing for the world to know the glory of the King

Mood:  happy

S.

Psalm 30:11,12 (NKJ) You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;(twist, turn) You have put off my sackcloth (a mesh/ a net) and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.(dumb, silent, to be ashamed) O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

O.

God, You have transformed, for me, with the ability to 'twist and turn' in order to escape from 'entrapments and snares'. Yuo have loosened the 'net' and equipped me with happiness, joy, and pleasure. And Your purpose for this? To brighten me up and give me a merry heart. Your purpose and intent for me is to celebrate YOU...Your reputation, splendor, honor and abundance...so as to testify of You, revere You, and worship You...for all time!

A.

How can a person worship a god they don't know? God WANTS to know us. God tries to make it easy for us to know Him...if we only watch for Him and listen to Him.

He 'loosens' the 'nets' that ensnare us...the traps of life that could cause us to sin and prevent us from getting close to Him (God HATES sin). He then gives us the ability to 'twist and turn' to get out of those 'sin-snares'. FREEDOM!

BUT....God doesn't stop there...He then gives us His joy...His evidence of freedom! This 'joy' is to give us a merry heart...from the inside-out, causeing thanksgiving and praise to overflow into worship and testimony to Him. He gives us a voice through His joy, gladness and happiness!

We have reached our purpose....and His intentions for us....to PRAISE AND WORSHIP OUR GOD, A GOD IN WHO WE KNOW PERSONALLY!

P.

Dance with me Jesus! Forever dance with me! In every single thing I do, help Your dance with me to be a testimony of praise to You, revealing Your joy and peace in every step I take. Thank You for Your dance of Freedom, Lord....I praise and worship You with all I have in me...and it's all the joy of YOU! YOU, Lord, are my ARMOR OF JOY!

Mood:  quizzical

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!

Mood:  spacey

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!

Mood:  special

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!

Mood:  lyrical

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.

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!

Mood:  amorous

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!

Mood:  quizzical

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!

Mood:  incredulous

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!