Heb 11:1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, faith is the substance of things hoped for.”
I have a better understanding of this scripture since I have heard it from the Jewish perspective. The substance that gives faith is the vision you have for your future. You must form a clear picture of what you want. God is the energy that is forever bringing into being the things you envision with a thankful heart.
The Jewish people encourage others to ask God for visions and dreams in the same way the Heroes of faith did in the Old Testament. Abraham envisioned himself as the father of many nations by counting the stars. It was God who said that he should count them. Jacob had a dream that heaven was a real place, and God’s angels were moving down to earth to help people and go back again. Joseph, the dreamer, saved the world of his time by interpreting the king’s dream. Although we lead an earthly life, our minds should be filled with things that are above. Ask God to give you visions and dreams, then fill your mind with them, and then begin to obey the first Jewish financial law: Be thankful! Begin to write down things you are thankful for, even the things you are expectantly waiting for.
The second financial law is to have wisdom. I thought that the wisdom Solomon had was a gift. I thought he woke up one morning and was wise. Apparently not. If you want wisdom, go study, read the Bible, and learn from wise people. The third law is to give. The idea is that we should be a conduit for others in the same way I am writing to you, about what I have learnt, so that others may partake of the prosperity God has in mind for all people.
We have all been created in the image of God. We have an imagination. Our task is to fill our imagination in the same way an artist paints a canvas. This is the substance that faith will bring forth. The imaginations and thoughts of the heart should be pure, sanctified, and washed with the blood of Christ. This place where we imagine is spiritually high. The book of Ephesians teaches this high place that is in Christ. Ephesians 2:6 says we are seated with Christ in heavenly places.
The idea is that we must focus our thoughts on the things we want and not the things we fear. Once you are sure that your vision and dream are from God, you become so filled with thanks that joy makes you live the thing you want before it happens in the physical. You become consumed with your future substance, and there is no room for doubt. As far as you are concerned, it has already come to pass. The heart soil is now properly planted, and the seed is growing as you give constant thanks and praise.
2 Cor 4:18: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
The last thought I would like to leave with you is that you must read the Bible, keeping in view the fact that you are living a heavenly life while on earth. In the book of Hebrews, we are described as being citizens of heaven. For instance, the fullness of God is pleased to live in Christ; we are in Christ, Christ is in us. Paul says, “It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me”. Jesus said, “Let thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven”. Don’t think about the physical earth, God created that; it is perfect. The Bible teaches that God is recreating us to be like Jesus. Think about your mind being the Kingdom of heaven, and the way you think will give you a heavenly life here on earth that is heavenly.
I remember a friend who asked me to make a sculpture for him out of a weathered, lead wood stump. I did it with a lot of loving care, but he told me that since that sculpture arrived in his house, a lot of bad things had happened to him. I felt really bad about it and prayed about it until I received assurance from the Holy Spirit that what God had blessed cannot be cursed. Everything eventually worked out for my friend, and I must say that he gained a lot of spiritual wisdom and maturity after that season of his life.
I believe that we must realise that even finances have seasons when we are working for ourselves. It is especially during these times that we do a lot of introspection and grow in our understanding of who God is. Through the ages, the Jews have proven that they are very good with finances, so much so that it was one of the main reasons that German Riegh hated the Jews because they were so wealthy. I have been trying to understand the Jewish perspective on money. They do have great confidence in the word of God and rely heavily on God’s blessing. Rabbi David uses scripture to prove that we should never beg God for money. The Afrikaans version of the Bible specifically teaches “gebed en smeking” (Prayer and begging). This is a translation error.
Phil 4:6: “Be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
The English versions never beg God. The word “Supplications” is translated as begging in the English dictionary. However, the Greek Translations (G1162) says it is Prayer, Petition, or Request. NEVER BEG GOD because we are sons of God. We are joint heirs with Christ. I would never allow my children to beg me; all I have also belongs to them. It is also a great mistake to be jealous of others who are doing better than we are. The Kabbalah teaches that we should be glad with others who prosper and be expectant for our prosperity, next time it is my turn. We know these things from the teachings of the Bible, but it was interesting to see it from a Jewish perspective. They have set prayers that are said to align oneself with the overflowing blessings. To open yourself to God’s abundant supply. It is interesting that they also teach you not to wait for God to give you money to start a business, but to make a start and do the things you can, while waiting for the business to take off. The Kabbalah uses the instance of Moses, who asked God what he should do when they came to the Red Sea. God answered, “Why are you asking me? Tell the people to go forward.” While we are waiting for God to do things in our lives, God is waiting for us to move forward by Faith.
The other thing I found interesting is that we should never be competitive, as it causes a fearful mind. I stopped doing sports when I was young because I thought What am I doing? Am I trying to prove that I am better than other people?
Gratitude is the key that keeps you connected to the God supply. Always pay a tenth of your income to whatever cause you deem worthy. You must form a definite, clear picture of what you want to achieve. Think of what you want, how you can help others, and create things that have never been made before.
The most important thing that I would like to add is to base all of your thought life on the promises of God. God is not a man that He should lie. Find the promises in the Bible and write them on the walls of your house in any place you might have a moment to meditate, so that faith can come for healing, finances, and prosperity, and all your needs. And then God will get the glory. Fill your mind with what it will look like when you receive what you are believing for. Begin to act as if it has already come to pass.
Heb 11:1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Faith is the substance of things hoped for. I have a better understanding of this scripture since I have heard it from the Jewish perspective. The substance that gives faith something to do is the vision you have for your future. You must form a clear picture of what you want. God is the energy that is forever bringing into being the things you envision with a thankful heart. They encourage people to ask God for visions and dreams in the same way all the faith heroes of the Old Testament had. Abraham envisioned that he was the father of many nations by counting the stars. It was God who said that he should. Jacob had a dream that heaven was a real place and God’s angels were moving down to earth to help people and go back again. Joseph, the dreamer, saved the world of his time by interpreting the king’s dream. Although we lead an earthly life, our minds should be filled with things that are above.
Ask God to give you visions and dreams, then fill your mind with them and begin to obey the first Jewish financial law. Be thankful! Begin to write down things you are thankful for, even the things you are expectantly waiting for. The second financial law is to have wisdom. I thought that the wisdom Solomon had was a gift. I thought he woke up one morning and was wise. Apparently not. If you want wisdom, go study, read the Bible, and learn from wise people. The third law is to give. The idea is that we should be a conduit for others in the same way I am writing to you about what I have learnt so that others may partake of the prosperity God has in mind for all people.
We have all been created in the image of God. We have an imagination. Our task is to fill our imagination in the same way an artist paints a canvas. This is the substance that faith will bring forth. The imaginations and thoughts of the heart should be pure, sanctified, and washed with the blood of Christ. This place where we imagine is spiritually high. The book of Ephesians teaches about this high place that is in Christ.
Eph 2:6: “We are seated with Christ in heavenly places.”
Eph 4:8: “Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.”
The idea is that we must focus our thoughts on the things we want and not the things we fear will happen. Once you are sure that your vision and dream are from God, you become so filled with thanks that joy makes you live the thing you want before it has happened in the physical. You become consumed with your future substance, and there is no room for doubt. As far as you are concerned, it has already come to pass. The heart soil is now properly planted, and the seed is growing as you give constant thanks and praise. The Image in your imagination is the substance!
2 Cor 4:18: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
The last thought I would like to leave you with is that you must read the Bible from the standpoint that you are living a heavenly life while on the earth. For instance, the fullness of God is pleased to live in Christ; we are in Christ, Christ is in us. Paul says, “it is not I who lives but Christ lives in me.” Jesus said, “Let thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven”. Don’t think about the physical earth; God created it, and it is perfect. The Bible teaches that God is recreating us to be like Jesus. Think about your mind being the Kingdom of Heaven, and the way you think will give you a heavenly life, right here on earth.
I have noticed that more and more people understand what the flesh is here in South Africa. I remember how it changed my life to know that the devil is not my problem, but I am my own problem because I allowed impatience to rule my life. The Lord taught me how to crucify anger and impatience and to be saved from it, to live a life in the saved Christ-mind. It was a matter of doing daily introspection, crucifying fleshly thoughts, and living a peaceful, calm life as my thoughts were being transformed. I learnt to become a living sacrifice and follow Jesus daily. (Romans 12)
I am thankful today for our readers who have taken this message to heart and learnt to guard the heart against the things of the flesh. I know that many of you have taken part in guarding the heart and are now teaching others to live a saved life in Christ. You have all become disciplined in your thinking and learned to have an organised mind. I have lately met some people who have this knowledge, they learnt in cell groups or by listening to leaders preach the truth. Once again, thank you for what you are doing for Jesus! We intend to put out some posts on the knowledge of the cross and hope that it will be of use to those of you who live the truth and preach the message of the peace of God to all mankind.
Nevertheless, I also know that you have endured some suffering as we all have. Unfortunately, there comes a time when we all look down into that deep, dark hole and find scriptures like “it is through suffering that Christ learned obedience”. It has become my daily meditation to follow Jesus to the cross. One translation said that Jesus saw the horror of the suffering that lay before him in the garden of Gethsemane. He was deeply distressed and filled with anqiush as He overcame the thoughts of the flesh and perspired great drops of blood. The part that I would like you to remember is that an angel of the Lord appeared to strengthen him. My wife, Yvonne, had a hip transplant, and she took it badly. It was hard to watch her suffer, and when I read this scripture of the angel that strengthened Jesus, I anointed Yvonne with oil and asked the Lord to send His angel to strengthen her. Truly, since that day, she started to recover more speedily. I believe that Jesus was completely revived by the angel and was so strong that when the temple guards and Roman soldiers came to arrest him, they fell over backward when He identified himself.
It comforts me to know that he was strong in the spirit to face what lay ahead as they bound him to beat and torture him. He was falsely accused! Do you know that nothing is worse than being falsely accused, and no matter what you do or say, they will not believe you. So he just stayed quiet and allowed everyone to do their very worst. In this way, I believe he was setting a trap for all the evil that is in man. They flogged him with a lead-tipped whip that was certainly not sterilised, but I know that lead in itself is poisonous, so I think this was the way he took all sickness into himself. After this, a battalion of Roman soldiers mocked him. Between four hundred and a thousand two hundred men were called out to mock the only man who never sinned. They pushed a thorn crown into his head and beat him with a reed, put his clothes back on, only to take them off to crucify him. He was naked as they nailed him to the cross; the loneliest man in the world was ministering to the woman there. He saved the soul of a man, and then he forgave everybody. No one understood that he had trapped all sickness and all sin inside that body that was stinking and pouring pus. He hung there for six hours from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. If you study this out, I believe you will agree he was in hell. Finally, the earth could not stand it any more, and it became dark at twelve, and the earth began to shake, and the rocks split apart around Jerusalem. The one thing all four gospels mention is that the temple veil was split in two. I can’t help but wonder what kind of fear must have come upon the temple priests when this happened. Finally, he gave up his spirit. That life-giving spirit just slid out and left the old, sick body weighted down by sin; it was dead! And so was everything he trapped inside it. On Sunday morning, the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead slipped back into that old body and glorified it. It could now walk through walls, sit down, and eat with them, a new creation. The first one who rose from the dead, this is why we follow him daily. We partake of the death of the flesh, but we rise in the spirit.
I would like to refer to a foundational scripture that describes that firstly, our thoughts determine what will happen in all of our lives. Secondly that thoughts are in the imagination of the heart.
Gen 6:5-6: And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
This is why he told Noah to build the ark to save himself and his family from the flood
In this case, the thoughts of the people’s hearts were evil.
Although God did not create us to think evil continually, we still have the option to think whatever we like.
I’m thinking about the two thieves who were crucified with Jesus. They both knew that He was God, but only one chose to be with Him forever. The other thief chose to curse him.
Thoughts present themselves in our mind, and it is for us to decide if we will take them to heart and allow them to grow in our imaginations to cause toxic feelings. Feelings eventually become emotions, and dark emotions are the true powers of darkness. Gal 5:19
We can nurture feelings of hate, which are toxic thoughts, for instance, and allow it to grow and become a cancer that kills the body and causes death in all things we do. This is the curse. These emotions are called the flesh or carnality in the Bible.
On the other hand, God has given us His Word, and His Word is Spirit and it is life. His Word is full of life, that is life and life and life abundantly. The Word is the blessing. Meditating on the Word brings feelings of peace to the heart. Jesus is called the Prince of Peace. What could be better than having peace in the thought life? After all, this is the reason for drug abuse and alcoholism. All people want peace! They will go to great lengths to make up all kinds of religious rules and traditions, but peace is a lot closer than that. We can’t work or do things to get peace. Peace is a free gift from God. Jesus saves! What does He save us from? From chaos in our minds. He saves us from deadly thoughts that make us sick and destroy our lives, and cause wars because we listen to all our feelings. We think that because we felt goose bumps when someone said or did something, the feeling must be from God. We do not listen to feelings, we tell feelings how they should feel.
When we become believers, we are to become disciplined in our thinking. Jesus made disciples. We must take thoughts captive and decide if they come out of our own will or if they are the will of God. We know what God’s will is, when we read the word. As the Word fills our heart, it causes life.
God is not out to get us for sinful thoughts, God so dearly wants us to have His thoughts that he gave His only begotten son to die on the terrible cross. Jesus took all the evil wickedness that is caused by thoughts into himself and nailed it to the cross. All we have to do is follow Jesus daily. Simply do what he did, die to the flesh and rise in the spirit, where there is only peace.
Today I read Hebrews 2:14 [Jesus] only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil who had the power of death.
I am thinking about negative thoughts and that Jesus died to remove the effect and power the negative thoughts of death have on us.
These opposing thoughts that are in the minds of all people were crucified. Jesus took death into himself. Thoughts of death were killing Israel.
We were entertaining a guest who had visited with us many times. He usually keeps to himself but he decided to join us this night and started telling us about his life. Everything that came out of him was death, thoughts of death consumed him. He told us about everything he did that failed and how he was trying to stop the downward trend in his life. He is one of those people who knows everything and doesn’t accept any teaching I try to give. That evening this person affected our lives so much that I felt dirty after listening to him. My wife also experienced it and suggested that we should have communion together. This person spoiled our family evening together with his spirit of darkness. Later I thought that this person was affecting the lives of all the people he came into contact with and everything he touched is affected negatively.
We are naturally dark and we need to be saved so that the light of God can shine into our being. The Word of God is the creative power of light. God spoke everything into existence and so do we by the words of our mouth we create. Just like the scripture says we have life and death in the power of our tongue. We should choose life.
Colossians 2:15: “Having spoiled principalities and powers, he (Jesus) made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” (Please read the previous verses also.)
Paul talks about how Jesus crucified principalities and powers. The commentaries do not all agree. Some say that all the dark powers in the air were crucified. It certainly sounds like a spiritual thing, but reading Adam Clark was an eye-opener. He said the principalities and powers of darkness that were crucified were the religions and traditions of the Sanhedrin and Pharisees. I also spoke about this in last month’s email.
Eph 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (The highest place in man is the mind that should be heavenly-minded.)
Adam Clark says this wickedness in high places is the spiritual wickedness in heavenly places, he thinks false teachers, who endeavored to corrupt Christianity, disguised falsehood in the garb of the truth the Rabbi’s and Jewish rulers intended.
These learned lawmakers who placed heavy burdens on the Jews were the true enemies of Jesus. They were perverting the Word of God. He spoke out against them and said they were full of dead man’s bones and were whitewashed tombs. If you think about it these arrogant, self-righteous people were the only ones who Jesus spoke out against in anger. They made laws to uphold the Law of Moses and bound the people making them captives. In Isaiah 61:1 we see that Jesus was sent to make the Jews free from this captivity of traditions that was death.
Isa 61:1-2: “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn”
If you read this chapter you see how powerless God’s chosen people were. The people were in mourning because they were held captive not only in religious traditions but also by the Romans. There was not one person in Israel who had spiritual authority like Elijah for instance or David who could lead them to repossess the land God gave to the children of Abraham. If you think about it, it was death thoughts that bound them.
Furthermore, it was traditions and religions that crucified Jesus. The power of religious thinking is death and Jesus crucified that death and took the keys away. Now we can follow Jesus daily, crucify death thoughts, and live in freedom in heavenly places because of the cross and the blood. As we say the Word and do the Word the mind transforms and causes life-giving thoughts so that everything we do will prosper. (Josh.1:8, Ps 1, Jn 1:1-5)
I encourage the reader to think about this and study it because it causes freedom in our thinking if we know who the real enemy is.
Like last month my prayer this month is still the same. Lord help me see and identify the death thoughts in my mind and let me be set free from the captivity of my own dark thinking. Let my thoughts be in line with your Word and let my life-giving thoughts create the good things in my life that YOU have planned for me.
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Because so many people are hopeless and powerless to change their circumstances I am writing to inspire and empower you to rule in the way Adam should have. Because Adam failed to rule with authority, Jesus came to show us how to rule. The masses were amazed at Jesus’ authority. He spoke and the lame walked. He raised the dead and healed everyone who wanted to be healed. He also displayed that he had authority over the weather. In Matthew 17:20 He said that nothing will be impossible to us. Above all, he said we would do greater work than he did. I challenge you to meditate and see yourselves doing greater works than he did.
We cannot do these things on our own. The idea is that we can do these things IN Christ!
In Genesis 6:5 God saw that the imaginations and thoughts of the hearts of men were continually evil. These words place man’s heart in the head (mind) and not the chest. Furthermore, it shows us how powerful the imaginations and thoughts of the heart are, because in Genesis God confused people’s languages because nothing would be impossible to them if they could imagine it.
The next thing I would like the reader to understand is that the Kingdom of God is in the heart of man. God does things on earth through people. God made everything and then created man to rule over it. The only priority is that we should enthrone God in our hearts. If we place the first and second commandments at the top of our list of things to do, God lives in us and works through us by Christ being in us.
God already created all things we must rule over by speaking the Word of God. We tell the clouds that God created them to suck up water and bring the rain in season. It’s part of the blessing, God gives us rain in season. (Deuteronomy 28) If our bodies are ill, we speak to that part of the body and quote Proverbs 4:22. We tell it that Jesus bore all our sicknesses in 1 Peter 2:22. Remember Jesus is the Word! God gave us the power to get wealth. The power is the Word, in your heart, spoken with faith. If you live this way you are pleasing God.
Jesus created all things by speaking it. When He cursed the fig tree, he spoke to it but they only saw that it was dead the next day because it died from the roots up. (Read Mark 11:22-24.) If you are a farmer speak to your animals and plants, tell them what God says about them. Speak to the clouds, don’t be afraid to speak God’s word.
I have recently noticed a discoloration in my leg getting larger. When I spoke to it, it started hurting immediately and the next week it started looking like a dried raisin and took a while to go away. My point is that when we begin to rule, things normally get worse before it gets better. Don’t be discouraged.
Get up early in the morning and fill your mind with scriptures like Psalm 1 and Joshua 1:8. Meditate on every word of God and read about how the old Bible people lived. Learn never to say the negative things that come into your thoughts. Never obey negative feelings. We tell feelings how they should feel. Tell your family what you are doing and get them to agree with you as in Mathew 18:19. Tell your finances what God says about it. Read the blessings in Deuteronomy out load to your business. Search for the promises, write them down, and speak them all the time. In this way, you fill your mind with heaven.
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Proverbs 4:20-23: “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."
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The Lord told us that he uses physical things to explain the spiritual. We live in the earth with physical bodies but our minds should be heavenly. God’s will must be done in earth as it is done in heaven. When we have the Christ-mind, we have a heavenly mind. To be saved into Christ is to be hidden in Christ. As Paul says in Galatians 2:20: It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. (Gal 2:20) The things of this world can’t touch us if we remain in Christ.
Before Jesus was crucified he was called Jesus of Nazareth. After the cross,He became Jesus Christ. He is the Christ! He now has a Spiritual body and sits on the right hand of God waiting for His enemies to become His footstool. Note, that he will not make the enemy his footstool, we are the ones who should do it. We do this by following Jesus daily and laying down our lives. We have given our lives to Christ and His Spirit lives in us, however, we live in a physical body and the FLESH lusts after the things of the Flesh.
Gal 5:17: “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
In Galatians 19 Paul lists the fruits of the Flesh. I am saying that the flesh is the enemy that must become the footstool of Christ.
The enemy is my sinful nature that must be dealt with daily, at the cross. Worry is fearfulness and it is the enemy. So is pride, anger, gossip, judgment greed—the list goes on and on. All people have this inherent problem called ‘The Flesh’. The problem is not demons that float around in the air and jump into me at will. There is no point in blaming the Devil when we step over the line. We are the ones who must guard our hearts against sin. We do this by doing introspection daily and dealing with sin at the cross while using communion.
Jesus said we should pick up our cross and follow him. We follow Jesus and deal with the flesh in the same way he did. He crucified the flesh. This is why we eat the flesh of Christ. Remember how offended the disciples were when he said they must eat His flesh? This is because they did not understand what the flesh was, and most people I meet have the same problem.
The life we live in Christ is the life of dying to the flesh. As we allow the Holy Spirit to show us which sins we must die too, our minds slowly begin to transform, as we become a living sacrifice. (Rom 12:1-2) Use your imagination and see what you look like when you are angry, then take it to Jesus at the cross and he will crucify it in the same way he was crucified. In this way we become a new creation, no longer living after the flesh we will begin to live in the Spirit.
Gal 5:22-26: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
This is the way the enemy becomes the footstool of Christ.
We rule with Christ when we rule over the enemy of our own lower self.
Eph 2:5-6: “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
When we use the cross to die to the sinful nature we follow Jesus into his death and also into his resurrection, to live and rule in the Spirit with Him!
Over what do we rule in Christ? We rule over the flesh! Now Romans 14:11 says: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
All people have free will and this is the reason why some may choose to be as evil as they like and God allows it. Some people are senselessly killing maiming and slaughtering the animals of the earth, yet God allows it. With the present-day Russian-Ukrainian war, we see this same kind of cruelty, yet God allows it. We see how women and children are mistreated and left for dead and many other cruelties too numerous to name. These things cause intellectual people to ask: why does God not stop it?
The reason why God does not intervene is because God has given the earth to man, and man has a free will to do with it what he likes.
Jer 17:9; “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is the conscience which is that place in us where God has written His laws, we all have a knowing of right and wrong. But whether we will choose to obey God’s laws is our own business
People who are stealing are not listening to the rules of the heart, they are not asking God for money they are making their own money regardless of who they are harming as in the case of the ANC government. The Russians are making money by killing and maiming just like the poachers are killing animals mercilessly.
The subject of Jeremiah 17 is that God wants to prosper man, He wants man to be like a tree.
Jer 17:8: “For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:8
Because God wants to prosper us, he is always searching our hearts to see if we are guarding our hearts against inner evil. He wants us to trust Him, He wants to care for us but we have to love Him with all our hearts –all our souls and everything in us. While we are trusting Him it may be that bad things happen to us but this is how He can see if we truly trust Him and believe He will help us. The story of Job in the Bible is our story. God is always searching our hearts and finding ways to test us because he knows how deceitful the heart of man is.
Jer 17:10: “I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”
Jeremiah 17:10
We must not be discouraged by what we see happening in the world. Never think that God has forgotten about you. Wicked worldly people have always been trashing the earth.
Isa 60:2 “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.”
Isaiah 60:2
I have been living by faith for 45 years and I have seen how true this is. This scripture above is for today.
Terrible things are happening on the earth but the glory of the Lord is rising on the Lord’s people. We will always be provided for. God will always make a way for his people; He will always provide for you if you prove that you trust Him.
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Many years ago when my wife and I came to the Ohrigstad valley in 1974, there was no electricity.
The generators were the only sound that broke the silence and night. We used to sleep outside because the houses were so hot, we had no fans. When we bought our diesel generator it would stand there shuddering belching smoke and making an earth-shattering noise. It was a blessing when we could shut it down and let the calm return at night. Later when solar panels came on the market we were amazed at how this panel would lay there in the sun producing power without a sound.
It reminded me of when I had no clue about the conscience that I was very much like that old generator—making a lot of noise trying to be a provider for my family making unnecessary mistakes, and expending too much energy to fix everything with my own power.
When I learned about the conscience I became like a solar panel. When the sun rises in the morning it soaks up the light and life of God and charges the batteries without any effort at all.
The conscience can be compared to the solar panel, always ready to energize the batteries.
As long as the panel is connected in the correct way, it will provide light. However when storm clouds appear the solar panel can not produce. This is what happens when we worry and become afraid for our children’s future in this dark country. God is like the sun shining all the time, but we cause the storms and clouds that block out His light and life.
Where do the storm clouds come from? They come out of our own deep thoughts to become clouds in our sky that block out the light. If I am not connected to God through a clear conscience there is no power to generate light, to be God’s light in this dark world. The clear conscience, when it is clear and peaceful absorbs the power of God to be God’s power in the world. It receives the Knowledge of the power we possess in Christ Jesus. Eph. 1;17. These are scriptures we should pray daily when we wake up. We should always be ready receptor to hear God and to understand when He is causing circumstances and situations that will cause us to always be in a position to bring His power into the earth.
As we are facing dark times without electricity I would like to encourage everyone to start by being a light where you are. Everything that is physical is also spiritual. As God’s light shines in us, we become receptors that will have the knowledge to fix all problems. The Bible teaches that nothing will be impossible for us and that God is able to supply all our needs in Christ Jesus. Obey the rules of the conscience and prepare to be amazed as God is supplying exceedingly abundantly above all that we could think or ask for: ACCORDING TO THE POWER THAT IS WITHIN US! (Eph 3:20)
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One of the most informative scriptures in the Bible is Genesis 6:5.
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
God came down to earth to see the state of the heart of man, and He saw that the imaginations and thoughts of the heart of man were always evil. The result was that he ordered Noah to build the ark because He was going to wipe all evil from the face of the earth through a flood. This is how strong God feels about the conscience of man.
In the New Testament, God lives in the heart of man. We must love God with all our hearts, mind, soul and everything that is within us. In Psalm 21:2 God gives us the desire of our hearts. In Proverbs 4:23 we must guard our hearts above all else because all the issues of life come from it.
The miraculous part that is within all mankind is the imagination and thoughts of the heart. God provides for us according to the way we keep our hearts sin-free so that the heart is only His dwelling.
Many times in my life I have thought that we cannot pay the salaries this month because of a lack of funds, yet we have not even once not paid salaries on time. God has always provided. It is miraculous! It reminds me of the way Jesus held a hand full of fish and bread up to heaven, thanking the Father for the provision and the food multiplied in His hands as He gave it to five thousand people to eat their fill. Nothing is impossible to God! Here is a scripture that says that nothing shall be impossible to us.
Mat 17:20: “For truly I say to you, If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Move from here to there. And it shall move. And nothing shall be impossible to you.”
When we hear of wars famine and souring petrol prices it could be that the slightest bit of worry comes into us. I would like to remind our readers that fear comes into the heart. The same heart that we gave to God becomes the dwelling of the stench of fear, after which follows all the other works of the flesh. Fear defiles the imaginations and thoughts of the heart. It is thorns in the garden of the heart that chokes the good harvest.
God provides for us according to the way we think.
Eph 3:20: “Now unto him, that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”
But what power is within us?
In the case of Job, we see that the thing he feared happened to him. Fear in the heart takes over the power of the heart to bring forth the things we fear.
Seen in this light we can see the importance of sanctification of the heart. We are all sinners, but we have a great high priest, Christ Jesus who sprinkles our hearts from an evil conscience. He cleanses our hearts when we use communion and washes it in pure water. Heb.10:22. This is when we can approach the throne of God with confidence and be sure that God will surely supply all your needs, exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think because He is the power present in the heart when we guard it above all else.
If it may be that you the reader are in desperate need. First, do introspection and ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart for sin. Now take communion and, crucify those negative things. When you are sure you have dealt with everything that is not of God, go and stand before the Almighty God and call the things you have need of as a son of God. Mark 11:23-25. Now remain in thanksgiving, receiving in the imagination and thoughts of the heart the things you need and give God the glory. You will have whatsoever you say you will have!
To help you along we have the Twelve Room Prayer. This free prayer booklet will help you organize your thoughts so you can be more productive in your prayer life.
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In my own spiritual growth, the greatest breakthrough was when I learned that negative emotions caused God could not to bless me. Because God taught us this truth we spend our lives teaching people about it.
When we draw a horizontal line through the middle of a page we can write good emotions in the top half. Things like those written in Gal 5:22: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.”
In the bottom half, we write those negative things that are Gal 5:19-21: “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
These are the works of the flesh. If I allow these lower emotions like impatiens, fear, or worry into my heart then the lower emotions have come into the above.
The top half, above the line, is where my spirit is present, it is also my heart. It is also where we hope and imagine. Our hearts belong to God and we should love God with all our hearts. In other words; keep the below from coming above.
Proverbs 4:23: “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” NIV.
Strictly speaking, when the below come above, we have a sinful state in the heart, which God does not bless. God is a good God who wants to bless us with all the good things we can imagine. When the below comes above, our imaginations are not life-giving.
The above is the kingdom of God within us. It can be described as a garden in which seeds must be sown into. If we allow the below into the above it will be compared to corrupted seeds that are being planted and it brings forth thorns and thistles. We are now like Adam, we are not guarding the garden; not guarding the heart.
However, who can Guard the heart completely? Who can keep the below out of the above by themselves? There is no other way than to follow Jesus.
Luk 9:23: “And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
We take up our cross and we nail to the cross those sinful thoughts like worry, fear, and shame. We do this in the same way that Jesus was crucified, we also crucify the sinful man. We do this while using communion. When we crucify the flesh we eat the flesh of Christ. Then we drink the blood of Jesus which is a seal for our hearts and provides us with a blood-washed conscience. Heb.12:22.
The below can no longer come above, we are sealed with the blood of Jesus, now you can go ahead and have a great day while giving God thanks and praise.
This is the only way to stay above.
Deuteronomy 28:1-8 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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Dear Reader. This is a monthly e-mail letter that was sent out to our subscribers on the date indicated in the header. You can find an archive of previous letters on our Monthly E-mails tab.
Usually, we only send these emails to persons who have visited us and have been into our Man-Made Cave: The Alpha Omega Cave, to whom we have shared our revelation about The Line. If you have not visited us in person you can watch a video of our Cave tour. In doing so you will be able to understand our letters much better.
The imaginations and thoughts of the heart are meant to be in use. It is not meant to lay dormant for emergencies only. If it is not in use we are limiting God in the things He wishes us to bring forth by faith. We should be continually growing in all areas and should be living exiting lives where we believe for things we would have thought impossible in the past. The present political situation in our country, challenges in our health and family should be a challenge to overcome in our minds to not live in it but above it.
Deut 30:19: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live:”
I believe that all our readers have the understanding that the imagination can bring forth the things we really desire. God has given each one of us imaginations and thoughts of the heart. He has made a way for man to be supernaturally provided for. In Gen 6:5 God destroyed the earth because the above mentioned thoughts and imaginations of the heart was continually evil . The imaginations were not in use to bring forth good but evil.
As we can see the place inside of us, is the heart of man which has also been identified as the conscience. For the sake of understanding this letter let us call it the “IMAGERY”. This is of course the kingdom of God in us.
This is the place in us we used to play in as children, in our imagination.
I am sure that each one of our readers have managed to bring things out of the imagery. Anything we really have need of can be seen in the imagery, and if we can do this continually those desires of the heart will come because God promises it. This place inside us is like soil that when it has been properly prepared we can sow a seed in it and expect the power of the soil of the imagery to bring forth whatever we have imagined. Eph 3:22
Some of our readers are still struggling to understand the practicality of the kingdom of God.
Is it really the way God supplies all our needs?
As explained many times before the natural man is a carnal man driven by the fruits of the flesh, living by pride or for itself. This natural state in the heart of man is as Genesis 6:5 describes.
Gen 6:5: “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
God caused the flood because of this heart that is wicket, ignorant and evil and chaotic. This is described as being the kingdom of darkness, deep and dark. Some people choose to give their kingdom of the mind to the beasts of Revelation 17:17. If the Holy Spirit chooses, He moves upon the face of our deep and calls light into being. This is when we give our hearts to God. Gradually we grow into being the Kingdom of God. Revelation 12:10 and the old kingdom which is called Babylon (Rev 17:5) begins to fall. Slowly the Holy Spirit finds more and more room in our hearts until the imaginations and thoughts of the heart becomes the dwelling of the Holy Spirit.
