In petitioning the Lord their first statement was defining how they felt about who they were praying to. The mountain of Zion to them was a high guiding and very visible pillar of strength where God sat supreme in their understanding as a sign post that directed their lives. However; they had become spiritually stupefied and not thinking clearly because; they had come to the conclusion that; God's attitude was that these foxes were like jackals. A jackal is an animal that feeds on the carcasses of dead animals and somebody who works with accomplices to deceive people, especially to swindle them in some way. This is how the Hebrew text defines these statements and I was amazed that a person could become that deceived to even have thoughts like this. I can't help wondering; how many of God's kids might be going through this thinking process and are not even aware of how they are reasoning and feeling about God.

They were caught between two alternatives and had become double minded. On the one hand they were afraid that the God they once knew and had experienced had lied to them however; they were remembering back to the assurances that they had of how God had been consistently faithful for all generations. And how they could always curl up in a safe dwelling place and be protected from the storms of life.

Through these growing pains they came to realize that their restoration was totally dependent on God's mercy and power and they knew that; they had no strength or ingenuity to deliver them self from this debilitating condition. Here is the key to security and growth in Christ Jesus. We need to let go and let God direct or life's path and rest in Him. It sounds easy however; children of God learn this with sure stability through trial and err. That is why we must have a disciplined life style of being a diligent God seeker so we can experience His loving kindness to over come the fears that come against us daily.

A diligent God seeker has the word of God written on the fleshy table of his heart where as I said the Holy Ghost wants to be enthroned and at any given moment he will give you a word from God to remind you of how secure you are as God's child. A hungry person whose purpose and destination in life is to be going about doing his heavenly Father's business in the earth knows the warfare between good and evil and is being trained to do spiritual warfare at all times. As I said earlier; he is God faced focused and storing up a testimony that he will be able share with God and others when he goes on into eternity with the Lord Christ Jesus. Now where does all this power that we need come from and what scripture can we focus on in our endeavor to love as God loves?

John in 1John 4:15-19 tells it like it is and how it must be when he says; " Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him.

Love has been perfected (past tense) among us in this: that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment; because as He is, so are we (already my emphasis) in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us."

John starts out when he says that; we must confess the one and only truth that determines our permanent eternity with God and also the amount of quality abundant life we can have while still in our mortal physical body here on earth.

Now listen very closely; we need to know what we must be confessing if; we do not want to be dominated by a fearful spirit and spend our lives on trivial pursuits. We must have the power of God's perfect word written on the fleshy tables of our heart where the issues of life are formed so we can speak a word of Holy Ghost rebuke when the devil shows up to intimidate us and makes us think that God is a liar and He is fed up with us. This takes place in our thinking because; we have judged our self as being guilty of breaking one of God's laws and we don't believe God's forgiving spirit of love covers a multitude of sins. I have stated this a few times already and it needs to be repeated.

A confession must be an act of faith that gives us a personal spiritual Holy Ghost witness from with in. We our defining faith as scripture defines it. It is; "the substance of things hoped for and the physical evidence of things not yet seen." There is no other guaranteed substance other then hearing the Holy Ghost telling us about something we need to receive or do that to our natural mind makes no sense. Therefore; we must learn to identify His inner voice when he speaks to us for He is the living substance with power that should be motivating the different seasons of our life.

It is a supernatural coming into agreement with God that makes us interact with God's power to create a healing or greater manifestation of his glory by speaking out of our mouth what He told us in our inner man. Our initial confession that got us to enter and interact with this spiritual world with God was on what Paul said in Romans 10:8-11 and all the continuing confessions in our Christian life are based and empowered by the same confession. Paul states; "For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."

When we have any type of gospel being motivated or preached by any thing other then God's forgiving grace; the born again believer lives with a scared shame based concept of them self and they do not recognize their true righteous condition in Christ that as I again said earlier represents us being blameless; free from evil and set apart unto the Lord from the contamination of the unsaved worlds influences. The scripture tells us that; we mature through receiving the knowledge of God's ways only by it being made real to our heart through His forgiving spirit of His grace. No grace influence by God; no maturity as his child.

Out first confession was believing and accepting the fact that; Jesus died for our sins and when we ask Him to come into our heart and believe and make a public confession that He did; we should have received an inner spiritual witness of this miracle taking place. Now once we are a member of God's family; we must be educated in the scriptures and be enlightened by the Holy Ghost to all the perks we also inherited from God who is now our Heavenly Father. And as the Holy Ghost informs us of what our inheritance from God entitles us to and we confess it out of our mouth this is all motivated by as inner witness from the Holy Ghost that becomes physical evidence that we can see with our natural eye.

It is what a man believes and what has been written or stored in his understanding of what life represents which is described in the bible as "what has been written on the fleshy tables of His heart where the issues of life are formed and acted on" this is what he will confess out of his mouth and he will reap the consequences of his confession. Confess life and get life. Confess death and get death.

A child of God that really meditates on the scriptures daily and is a passionate God seeker; goes through a transformation caused by God's supernatural powers of persuasion giving them the opportunity to walk in an inner circle with Him. There is an inner circle understanding that most of God's born again children do not understand. Paul describes God's wisdom as a hidden mystery that has to be mind like gold.

God tells us that; "His ways and thoughts are higher then ours." However; since we have become born again and are His children; we have become His friends and not servants and we have inherited the freedom to walk in His courts with complete forgiveness knowing that; we are exempt from prosecution for any crime we have committed or will commit in the future." Are you living with this understanding of your righteous position in Christ?

A person who is not truly experiencing God's forgiving grace is a still a slave to their fleshly desires because; the nature of our undisciplined carnal self; lives with a morality standard of self judgment. Let's remember again; God does not judge our behavior but the condition of our heart. A healthy child of God who allows God their Father to love them with His forgiving spirit; will automatically bring their behavior in line to God their Father's will. I have some serious concerns when I see born again believers still planning to do evil.

Again it is by us experiencing the Spirit of God's perfect love and the stabilizing power that it has that fuels our maturity. A born again child of God who has His heavenly Father's sperm in him; has a true spiritual witness from with in them that; they are already like Him and they do not have to be doing any obligated works of obligation. By truly having a witness of this; it insulates them from the spirit of fear which is the main spirit that gives the devil power over people. Our maturing process in Christ is going through a persuasion process of getting our daily dosage of God's love and forgiving spirit of grace so; we can live as over comers from the onslaught of the enemy who comes to steal, kill and destroy through his beguiling lies. Now let me attempt to finalize and put this all together.

All the wisdom and power that Jesus had and what he gave to the world in His thirty three years on this planet was being motivated by Christ who lived in Him. He was the first Christian who walked the planet as God's Son free from sin and uncontaminated from the fallen nature we were born with because; Mary was impregnated by the Holy Ghost who is perfect love and with out spot or wrinkle. We had earthly father's who were born with the sinful nature of the curse that we inherited and therefore; we had to be born over again spiritually and be impregnated by the Holy Ghost and became a new creation in Christ Jesus to enter into God's family.

That is why He could offer Him self up as an unblemished lamb and take on the sin of the world and die and pay for the penalty for the curse that mankind was born with. When we became born again; God the Father looks at us the same way he looks at Jesus because; we now have Christ living in us. With much regret; I do not believe that the whole born again family of God believe it this way from what I have heard for years. The two church assemblies that I once belonged didn't teach it this way.

The devil is at work constantly trying to influence the world and God's kids that there is no way they can be like Jesus and have the same influence He had with His Heavenly Father and also do the same miraculous works that he did when he walked the earth. It is us constantly being influenced by God love and forgiving grace that persuades us of the privileges and the influence we have to approach the throne room of his habitation and truly rest in His presence.

The only way I can say this is like painting a picture. The spirit of demonic activity has increased to such proportions that; it's like working in a coal mind and at the end of the day you come out of the mine with black coal dust on and in your body and you need to wash and have you lungs cleaned out. You can't be alive today and not be infected with the blatant immorality and changing value system that is running ramped in these last days. One of the characteristics of the curse we were born with causes us to forget or never knows that all life starts and finish with Christ Jesus.

Paul tells us in Romans 12:1-2 "I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's kindness and forgiving spirit, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God-this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is (His good, pleasing and perfect will.)"

There isn't enough ways for me to say this and I have said this countless times in this article already. It is only allowing God's kindness and forgiving grace that transforms us as we have the mind of Christ that we received the day we became a new creature in Christ Jesus influencing and renewing us moment by moment by the Holy Ghost's constant encouragement. Experiencing God's forgiving love; acts as a force field so the lies of the enemy can not penetrate and plant ideas in our mind of gloom, doom and death. Jesus atonement that he did and us accepting that spirit of forgiveness empowers and acts as an every moment of the day or night spiritual cure to our soul of life as oxygen that keeps our physical body alive. Experiencing God's forgiveness keeps God's love alive with in us and in turn; we can interact it with others. So be it; Amen.