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Relationships and God-Appointments

MARTY—God had spoken to David years before he met those guys in 1Chron.12. But relationship with them played a major role in bringing him to the throne. David was not able to get into his God-appointed position without those important relationships. Rom.12:4-5 shows us that we cannot prove the will of God by ourselves but only in relationship. Rom.12:4-5, Amp — “For just as in one [physical] body we have many parts, and these parts do not all have the same function or special use, 5 so we, who are many, are [nevertheless just] one body in Christ, and individually [we are] parts one of another [mutually dependent on each other].”

Self-Sabotage

KATHY—Yes, the devil and self-sabotage are two different things.  However, the devil LOVES stoking the flames of self-sabotage! All we have to do is let our fears and concerns fall out of our mouths like kindling for the enemy’s threatening bonfire.  So many times we make the devil’s job so easy.

When the Enemy Defends the Threshold

KATHY—When harassment and affliction and irritations and attacks reach their peak, the enemy is defending the threshold of promise. He fights dirty and he is persistent. He will start fires and battles just to distract us and delay us, hoping we will get exhausted or lose direction or miss God’s timing. May we remember these wars are about character issues even though evil and circumstances seem to be the problems. The key to prevailing is to agree with God and His word. The strategy to prevail is to submit ourselves to God and trust Him. That breaks down to our daily behavior. We cannot ignore godly counsel. We cannot make our decisions based on how we feel instead of what we know to be true. We cannot mouth our discouragements and frustrations and fears, (thereby giving them strength through agreement). We cannot forget His principles and try to survive by our zeal or stubbornness. We dare not exchange the promise of God for a bowl of relief as Esau did.

Forming and Shaping Us

As the people of God assemble today, may awesome God more fully and completely do His work of forming and shaping so He may use each of us as a building block to form a well-built dwelling for His mighty Holy Spirit to abide in and work out of. “In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.” (Eph.2:22, ESV)

Your Thoughts and Musings

MARTY—May the Lord bless your thoughts and your musings so that you receive insight for victories in every area. ”I will also muse on all your work, and meditate on your deeds.” (Ps.77:12, LEB)

Bloodline Iniquities

MELISSA—The Kingdom is within our grasp but there is something that can hinder us from grasping it fully and that is bloodline iniquity. Our bloodline affects our lives and our future and we need to purify it so that we can grasp the Kingdom and be the increase of it in the days ahead. I heard it put this way, ”Iniquity is not just a sin that we ask forgiveness for and that solves the problem. Iniquity is an entire body of sin and evil that gets rooted. Iniquity corrupts the whole structure of our thoughts and behaviors and it infiltrates bones and organs.” Sin and evil really stuck out to me in this quote and helped me understand the depths of iniquity. It‘s not just sin because not all sin is wicked. It‘s sin and evil compounded with intention. We are talking about decisions, actions and agreements in our lineage, in our family history that gave the enemy a foothold in our lives.

God’s Hand Moving

KATHY—I have been seeing God’s hand moving behind a curtain on a stage.  That has kept me anticipating the curtain rising in my understanding.  Little by little an expectation has grown in me that we are about to see many things the Holy Spirit has been adjusting, rearranging, developing, redeeming, restoring and maturing.  I don’t think there will be some colorful, feel good, fairytale play behind those curtains, rather a stage set with details that bring clarity and a God-perspective that equips us, literally showing us another way to think and perceive and prevail.  I have a feeling the curtain will rise on insights that adjust our mode of operation and strategies and change our outcomes.

Holy Spirit Rewires Us

MPG—We are dealing with a major problem: We are wired wrong! The enemy evidently has caught many of us with our theological hands tied up in the chains of unbelief and the cords of emotion. While he caught us bound up (We did it to ourselves spinning around in perplexity and anguish.) he rewired us.
He connected a heavy duty wire on one end to our emotions and connected the other end to our tongue. Now every time our mouth opens, our destiny is determined by our emotions.
BUT there is a Master Craftsman called Holy Spirit who loves to tackle rewiring jobs. He was dispatched by the Home Office with 2,000 years of quality service to “lead and guide us into all truth” and to make known to us what we have in Christ Jesus.
BUT the only place He does rewiring jobs is in His workshop: Word of God Rewiring, Inc. He is continually advertising: Come to the Word. You don’t even have to do the calling. He is calling YOU: Come on in and get rewired.
(Marty will be speaking at Grace Church Willis 8-11-24.)

Going Back to God’s Original Intent

MELISSA—Radical is a much stronger word than I thought it was. Basically, what I see in its definitions is that radical means going back to God’s original intent. So, when the Holy Spirit says “radical” He fully intends to take the current situation and put that person, family, business, region, etc. back on track with His original intent. With one word He intends to align what has been out of line. With one word He intends to right the wrongs. With one word he intends to do what He had in mind all along.

Anxiety and Timing

KATHY— Remember those restless nights before an important day when you were afraid you would not hear the alarm so you tossed and turned? I think we are sometimes driven to anxiousness by the possibility of missing God’s timing. But if we learn to think of His timing as a process rather than an hour, some of the anxiety subsides. Phil.4:6-7, Msg — “Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.”

Kathy will be speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2024 
on Sept.14. NO FEE. Grace Church Willis,TX.
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