5.) However, if we depart from evil, we will be well and dwell forever more. The word for depart is suwr: meaning, leave undone, rebel against and be turned off to. The word for evil is ra: meaning, wretchedness, to feed on and keep company with evil and to live in distress. The word for good is towb: meaning, having favor with God. The word for dwell is shakan: meaning, to reside permanently, to lie down and rest, and to rise every morning with a new awareness. The word for forever is ad: meaning, ordered by God to live forever.

Putting it all together, it reads. “If we will turn off and not yield to evil, we will receive more of God’s favor by living in a state of resting and being renewed by Him daily. This is what God ordained should happen to us from the begging of time.” Now in order to resist and put away evil you have to recognize it operating in your life. Scripture tells us that the Holy Spirit is the one who teaches us and washes our souls from thoughts contrary to God’s ways. This happens when we engage in conversations with Him constantly. When we say soul, we are talking about the real us. This is our intellect, will and emotions. We are to have our souls washed by the water of the God’s word. It cleanses us from all unrighteous thinking.

Too many Christians in the body of Christ look at unrighteousness as behavioral sins or outward manifestations, this meaning lying, stealing, murder, anger, cursing and the like. All of these can be expanded on as the bible talks about many more types of sins. However, these are the results or the fruit that we bear in our behavior. Unless we deal with core of the problem which is us being ignorant of God’s word and living in unrighteous thinking, we end up being God’s own children, living like paupers, being inept and having little power if any to live the true Christian life. The main foundation missing which causes Christians to never be committed and be receiving God’s favor is ignorance of knowing God Himself and the position they hold as His children.

As we have stated word righteousness is, justification= (blameless), innocent= (free from evil) and holy = (set apart as God’s own handy work.) Anything being taught contrary to this interpretation is, unrighteous thinking which represents evil. Righteousness is the personality of the Holy Spirit and as our soul is internally being influenced by Him, our outward behavior changes. Unrighteousness in its many disguises is demonically induced and our souls are manipulated by this spirit. In turn, we produce evil or act contrary to God’s will. An ignorant Christian especially if, they are sitting under traditional church doctrine and hearing conditional love theme teaching, have no chance of ever becoming independent and learn to know their true position in Jesus Christ. This happens when; we do not seek God on our own daily and become independent in thinking for ourselves with God’s thoughts.

Let’s think about what we are being influenced by, in our arena of life. Paul the Apostle reminds the church at Ephesus in Eph. 6:10-12 that, “We are to be strong in the Lord. We cannot do this unless, we know the type of union we have with Him and we need to be constantly drawing our strength from Him because, it is endless. We need to allow God to put His armor on us. This is what a heavy-armed soldier would wear and it can only be supplied by Him. With His armor on us, we will be able to resist evil because; we will know the Devils strategies and deceits. God will constantly be reminding us that, our battles are not with each other but with master spirits that represent darkness. We have strife with one another when; we are ignorant of God’s way of reasoning. Satan’s forces are deployed over strategic places in the atmosphere above us.” When strife comes into play, this is a sign of baby Christians on the milk of the word and living in sibling rivalry. This means they live in an ignorant state of kingdom principles and they have no clue as to their identity in Christ.

At this moment as I am writing this, the Holy Spirit is making me aware that, this is a matter of life and death to God’s children. Playing church in any form is going to end or God is going to remove people from pulpits and replace them with humble people, which will nurture God’s people because they are determined to do His bidding. The Devil is relentless and passionately meditating on his plan in pursuing God’s children to steal, kill and destroy all of us because, he knows that, we have the potential to make a difference for God. There is a great passion in me in writing these articles, to awaken the mighty men and women who God is calling into the field, to restore and save people of all races.

We as God’s children are under attack and unless we become grounded and deep rooted in knowing whom we worship, we will limp our way into heaven with out totally giving ourselves to God for His ultimate sacrifice at the cross. This happens because; we do not redeem the time for the day in which we are living is evil. Church attendance has no meaning if; we are not actively seeking the Lord daily and testifying in the market place of the love of God to others. There must come an independents in the body of Christ where, people begin to recognize that no one else can do their seeking or praying and act as a mediator between God and themselves. Only Jesus is the mediator between God and mankind.

6.) For the Lord loves judgment and does not forsake His saints. When I first read this verse many years ago, I thought, I don’t want to get on God’s wrong side or He will wipe me out. Then I thought how does God judge me with that kind of sternness and still say that, I won’t feel like He has forsaken me. This idea of God’s judgment is the most misunderstood doctrines with in the Christian community. Let’s now try to get a true picture of God’s way of judging. The word for love is Ahab: meaning, to have affection for as a friend. The word for judgment is mispat: meaning, a verdict, favorable or unfavorable, or a right or a privilege, to be vindicated or to punish. The word for forsake is azab: meaning, to be loosed or to be left destitute. The word for Saint is chaciyd: meaning, having a reverence and by His grace we are considered to be an equal, or to kneel and humble one self in blessing God.

Putting it all together, it reads. “The Lord has great affection for us and wants to be our friend. He is trying to make us realize that we have to give Him the right to approve or disapprove of our hearts condition. His total commitment to us is to never let go of us or to leave us destitute. The reason why we can experience this relationship is because; we are staying in a place of bowing our hearts and bending our knee in submission to his Fatherly authority. As this takes place we become aware that, there is an equality of common authority and special privilege at his side.” Let me give you a simple example from scripture and there are many I could use of God’s attitude in chastising us as a loving Father. This one comes from the Book of Revelations, where John the Apostle had words of praise and words of chastisement to the seven churches mentioned. In Revelations chapter three, he was reprimanding the church that was at Laodicica on their self-sufficiency and telling them that God wanted to correct them in some areas.

In Rev. 3:18-20 it reads, “ I counsel you to A. buy from Me B. gold C. refined and tested by fire, that you may be truly wealthy and D. white clothes to clothe you so that, you can E. keep the shame of you nudity from being seen. The clothes that I want to put on you will not make you feel ashamed of your self any longer because, I will anoint you eyes with an F. eye salve so that you will really see my love and purposes for your lives. Those that I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore, be zealous and repent. I stand at the door of your heart and knock: if you will open the door and let me into your life, we will have dinner together.”

God always stands at our hearts door and knocks, but we must give him permission to come in because, He is A JEALOUS LOVER. We will now define these underlined terms from the Greek.

A.) Buy:

To repossess something we have lost and awake from a slumber we have been in and become active again in our relationship with him.

This is the power God gives us to change our attitude to comply with doing what He just said. This gold is His grace.

C.) Gold refined and tried by fire:

Grace, which is the power that He gives us, will be tested and tried in the process we will be going through to change. God’s grace not only heals, but it also destroys the spiritual decease, behavior and strongholds in our lives that keep God’s abundance from us. There are things in our lives that have to be shaken loose, so the only thing left standing is His perfect will. He goes on to say, if we allow this process to take place, it will make us truly rich in God’s sight. Why? It opens up our spirit to receive everything and more that God wants to give us for our every need. God is more then enough.

D.) White clothes to clothe:

We need to look at ourselves the same way God sees us. When He looks at us, He sees Jesus. Remember we are the righteous of God in Christ. God sees us as blameless, free from evil and set apart, as God’s own handy work. This concept has to be reinforced in us by the Holy Spirit, because of the negative influences bombarding our minds daily. 11 Peter 3:14 tells us that, “Jesus is coming back for a church without spot and wrinkle and for people that have a serene confidence in their relationship with Him.” When we live in this healthy concept and it dominates our mind and hearts, it keeps us free from fears, agitating passions and moral conflict.

All evil or sin falls into these three categories. It is fear in one form or another that causes agitating passion and moral conflicts. The opposite of this is found in Romans 14:17 where Paul the Apostle says, “The Kingdom of God is not meat or drink but, righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Unrighteous thinking or evil produces fear, agitating passions and moral conflicts. Righteous thinking produces, righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

E.) Our nudity or shame from being seen.

The nudity or shame talked about here is a thought pattern that causes us painful feelings because of a sense of guilt and unworthiness that can plague us at times. It is the same shame based nature that Jesus came to deliver us from by giving up His life at the cross. Just as Adam and Eve hid from God in the Garden because of their shame, we do the same because we run from God rather then approaching Him for his mercy to receive His grace and healing power. When we do not receive God’s grace our minds or thinking process’s keep us focused on our outward behavior. This keeps us with a sin conscious mentality and we focus on the lack in our lives.

F.) Eye salve on your eyes so you may really see.

The definition of eye salve means, to keep company with or to be joined and glued to. It also means a “poultice.” A poultice is a warm substance like a plaster that in the physical is put on different parts of the body to heal it. You will notice here that God says that, “we must have the eye salve put on our spiritual eyes if, we are really going to see.” From scripture let me give you an example of this.

In John chapter 9:1-7 as Jesus was walking along He noticed a blind man that was blind from birth. His disciples asked Him, “Master who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” You will notice here that the disciples had a condemning thought rather then a loving thought. Jesus answer was, “Neither was this sin his or his parent’s sin, but he was born blind so that I can manifest my mercy and healing power. I must be about my Father’s business while I am in the world, because I am the light or life of the world.” He then spit on the ground and made mud (poultice) with His saliva, and spread it as an ointment His (Anointing) on the man’s eyes.

He then told him to go wash at the pool of Siloam. Therefore, he went and came back seeing. In the Hebrew concordance, the word for Siloam where he told him to go and wash represents an attitude of (putting away one condition and embracing another condition.) Now pertaining to the blind man, his latter condition was a lot more favorable then his former condition. As born again believers it is a positive command form God that, we allow Him to (anoint our spiritual eyes with the eye salve of… (! Himself! )…. It is then that, we begin to interpret His thoughts and purposes clearly without distortions of the truth. We know from scripture that the word Christ means, the anointed one. The anointing that is in Him is now in us. It is a permanent gift given to us by God. It is the power of God working in our thought life, and being, that arouses those heart-felt feelings that God wants to impart to us, to supply our needs and the needs of others. It is the power of the Holy Spirit, and we need to interact with him daily to understand life and how to be kingdom kids walking with our heads up in the spirit.

This whole concept of judgment by God is nothing more then, us not recognizing the difference between a condemning spirits verses us being chastised by the Spirit of God.

1Corinthians 2:16 says, “Since we have been born from above, we have received the mind of Christ and hold His (thoughts, feelings and purposes) of His heart.” Our lives can now be directed by the Holy Spirit speaking into the new spiritual ears we have received. We now have the ability to correctly communicate with God. There are too many Christians still functioning under a spirit of condemnation and believe that, this is the Spirit of God. Therefore, their spiritual walk with the Lord has become hindered. The spirit of condemnation makes you feel like, your always being punished. You feel like you always have to defend yourself and your decision-making is always being questioned. It becomes frustrating to do right. You would just as soon go and watch a movie or do something that makes you feel good. In turn, a spirit of hopelessness comes over you and you just don’t think anybody cares. Now there are degrees of these kinds of feelings.

In John 3:18-19 Jesus says, “He who believes on me, trusts and relies on me, never comes up for judgment. For him there is no rejection, condemnation or damnation. But he who will not accept Jesus, who wants to live his life in darkness and not come into the light, or allow God to show them their immature ways and allow Him to change them. He has already been judged and convicted. He is condemned for refusing to let his trust, rest in Christ’s finished work at the cross (alone.)” This condemnation and being judged is not God judging us, but us judging ourselves because of the guilt we feel toward ourselves. Jesus was not only talking about the unsaved, but also about the sick heart condition of a born again believer. A religious spirit at work with in a born again believer hinders the Holy Spirit from searching our hearts, where the issues of life are formed. This terribly grieves the Holy Spirit when we do not give Him permission to heal our hearts from dead works, which is unrighteousness.

Remember anything unrighteous is evil. This spirit of us needing to help God out to keep ourselves free from sin and hell is running ramped with in the body of Christ. 1John 3:20 says “In all situations whenever our hearts in (tormenting) self accusation makes us feel guilty and condemns us. God is forever holding on to us, is more loving, and knows how we feel and is understanding in all things. Nothing is hidden from Him.”

As long as we allow the spirit of condemnation to govern our lives, the power we need to love God, others, and ourselves cannot take place. We make the cross of Jesus Christ of non-effect in our lives. Condemnation is the enemy that stops us from experiencing God’s love and hugs that we need daily. It is only us growing in a deep love relationship with Him that really changes countenance to be like Him. When we allow the spirit of condemnation to control our thinking processes, it affects our soul and it’s like us committing spiritual suicide. When we put condemnation on each other, we actually are committing murder. This is one of the most damaging and serious things we can do in offending God and one another.

Proverbs 3:11-13 says, “My son do not despise the chastening of the Lord. Neither get weary of His correction. For whom the Lord loves, He corrects. Because, God as a Father delights in His children. Happy is the man that finds wisdom and the man that gets understanding.” As we are being influenced by God’s Righteous Spirit, we begin to understand that, God’s Spirit of chastisement is a protective hedge or a safety net that He puts around us, His children. He did the same for Adam as He walked with him in the Garden of Eden. The word for garden means a protective hedge. God’s way of instructing us is that of a visionary. His chastisement is He showing us how much He loves us and how much more we can become in Him. This is what should be motivating us to walk in obedience to His will. His unconditional love and promises cannot be obtained by us living in fear that, He is going to beat us up or condemn us. He wants to set us free from all of the things in our life style that hinders us from having a healthy relationship with Him.

We have to look at chastisement as a spirit that we walk in, just as we breathe air ever day. This is what walking in the Spirit is all about. Let’s remember it was Jesus who fought the fight against sin for the world and as He died, He said, “It is finished.” We need to be constantly looking at the cross and be reminded that, it is not our struggle for perfection that motivates God to move on our behalf, but it is His mercy and grace.

Scripture tells us that if we do not allow God to protect and discipline us, we are illegitimate off springs and not true sons and daughters. There will be times when God will be disciplining us and we will not be feeling joyful, and we will think, this really stinks. However, after we go through these seasons of growth, we will reap a greater understanding of how to walk in God’s Righteous Spirit. This meaning, we will be better able to understand God’s purposes, thoughts and actions. Unless we begin to have a fellow feeling with the Holy Spirit, we will never know God’s true feelings for us.

7.) They are preserved forever; however, the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. The word for preserved is shamar: meaning, hedged about, guarded and attentive in all situations. The word for forever is olam: meaning, hidden, never out of mind (past or future) and without end. The word for seed again is zera: meaning, to sow, to yield, to bear fruit or to conceive by receiving an inheritance. The word for wicked is rasha: meaning, to be morally wrong, be condemned and guilty and un-god like. The word for cut is karath: meaning, be destroyed or consumed and to make covenant with a loser. The word for off is al: meaning, against in all aspects. Putting it all together, it reads.

In 1John 3:1-10 John the Apostle talks about the difference of us being righteous or unrighteous. I will paraphrase. “Do we see what an incredible quality of love the Father has given us, that we are called His children? The reason why the world system doesn’t recognize us is because; they didn’t recognize Him when He walked the earth. We are now the children of God and a work in progress and are becoming more like Him every day. When we see Him, face to face we will be just like Him. Every one who understands their righteous position in Christ is constantly being purified from their dead works of unrighteousness. This meaning, they stop living in guilt in any form. Everyone that commits sin is breaking the law and is not flowing in His righteous position. Jesus became a man to die on the cross so He could take away our sinful nature. Their was no sin in Him and He was without blemish of any kind.

Many of you reading this and me saying that, God does not look at us as a sinner will think that this is blasphemous. Now here is the core problem with in the born again believer. Just looking at this from a simple physical example is very revealing. Let’s say your last name is Jones. You are the offspring of Mary and Joe Jones. You were made with your father’s sperm and the egg from your mother’s womb. As an offspring from these two people, no matter where they roam and how long they live, will always be a Jones child. As they grow up, they will take on your parent’s characteristics and general appearance.

They could eventually go to court, change their name, and have nothing to do with their parents but, no one on this plant can remove the D.N.A. with in them and make them an illegitimate child. When the born again believer does not walk in their permanent position in Christ, they have been persuaded that, they are illegitimate in their own minds. This is what happens when we function as I said in a sin conscious mentality. Sin conscious people are those that live by rules, regulation and denominational traditions. When this happens, they never grow to become independent and they cannot make free will choices, because they are afraid of God in some form.

We see her that God’s seed is Himself. He wants to sow life experiences after experiences with and through us as, we flow in our heritage. What is it going to take for us to really believe this? If Jesus went to the cross as an unblemished sacrifice or with out spot or wrinkle as we have said, then when we accepted Jesus sacrifice at the cross and were adopted into the family, we are looked at by God as unblemished too.

Scripture tells us that Jesus was the first born again believer among many other born again believers. Jesus is our brother and God the Father is His Father as well as our Father. When unrighteous thinking prevails in our heart and mind, we cut our self off from participating in our right standing with God the Father. Therefore, I hope we are beginning to see that we have to understand the core of the problem and allow God to show us who we really are. You cannot hang out with the Holy Spirit and not have your outward behavior change.

8.) The righteous shall inherit the land and live therein forever. We have already stated two times that, the word righteous means, God looks at us as blameless, free from evil and set apart as His own handy work. Now we need to come into agreement with God on how He sees us. This will cause us to rightly interpret the scriptures with the mind of Christ that we received, the day we became born again. The word for inherits is yaresh: meaning, to occupy by driving out previous tenants or to seize and take possession absolutely and completely. The word for land is erets: meaning wilderness world.

We said the word live means, to reside permanently, to lie down and rest, and to rise every morning with a new awareness. The word therein is al: meaning, in all aspects of a spiritual walk with the Lord. We said earlier that the word forever meant ordered by God to live forever.

Putting it all together, it reads. “If we look at our selves as God sees us being blameless, free from evil and set apart as His own handy work, we will be able to turn back or defeat the Devil’s tactics who’s spirit occupies the atmosphere in the arenas of our lives and, we will have the power to drive him out. We can do this because; we are resting in God’s accomplishments and not in our own accomplishments. This takes place as we allow the Holy Spirit access to totally weave His Spirit in and out of us at His will. This is our inheritance from God that allows us to live forever tied to Him.”

Matthew 4:1-10 roll models for us the Christian walk by Jesus Himself. I will define as we go along. “Jesus was led into the (wilderness by the Holy Spirit) to be tempted by the Devil.” This word wilderness means a solitary place of habitation in the seasons of our lives here on earth. You will also notice that, Jesus was being lead by the Holy Spirit. You see it was Jesus plan to get alone with His Heavenly Father to get away from the distractions of life and find out what his Fathers perfect will was for His life. “When Jesus had fasted and prayed for forty day and nights, He became hungry.” Then the tempter (the Devil) came and said, “If you believe yourself to be the son of God, make a miracle and command these stones on the ground to become loaves of bread to satisfy your hunger.”

The devil who has studied human nature from the beginning of time knows how to manipulate our fleshly appetites by getting us to get our needs met by our own initiatives or our own efforts. You notice that, he tried to influence Jesus by questioning Him to doubt His position as God’s son. When we act on the Devils temptations, we operate in unrighteousness and disobedience, which we said is evil.

Jesus answered, as He was directed by the Holy Spirit. “Man must not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God” This word for bread in the Greek is artos: meaning, the implication of how a loaf of bread rises. The Greek says it means to expiate sin or the power of atoning for our sins as a weight being lifted off our souls. We received the bread of life the day we received Jesus into our hearts. We must now go on, develop a symbiotic relationship with the Holy Spirit, and walk in obedience of ever word that comes out of His mouth.

Jesus was put on trial by the Devil and was trying to get him to focus on the word of God in right and wrong concepts rather then His righteous unblemished position in the sight of His heavenly Father. The devil will also put us on trial in our temptations to focus on right and wrong thinking and lean towards our own understanding in our own minds rather then listing to the Holy Spirit and understand our righteous position in Christ. This happens because we truly do not recognize our position as God sons and daughters. Because the majority in the body of Christ is in the baby stage and are ignorant of God’s ways, it causes them to try to help God out by doing things in His service of unrighteous endeavors that have no eternal purposes. Jesus said that, “we do not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the Holy Spirits mouth.”

This is not a difficult concept to understand if, we have our spiritual ears are opens and we have a healthy right interpretation of what I am saying here. My discernment tells me as I reason with the scriptures that, there is a great spiritual stupor on people and they have to be set free to finally interpret the word of God as the Holy Spirit only as He teaches it

This concept of understanding is found in Romans 3:19- it states, “We know that what ever the law says it speaks to only to those who are under the law. = (The Ten Commandments). Therefore, now that we know the law, no man or woman can make an excuse for his or her behavior and the whole world will be judged by God’s written word. Where there is no written law the people have their own value system that they live by with in themselves. Now no man will be justified or made righteous, acquitted and judged acceptable in God’s sight by observing the works proscribed by the law.”

The real purpose of the law was to make man conscious of breaking them. Not only conscious of sin, but they will have a more acquit awareness because of their participation in their physical behavior of sin. It is this process of our awareness of sinning that makes man aware that he needs to repent and believe on Jesus, which causes our outward character to change.

However, the Old and New Testament goes hand and hand to bring God’s perfection to its full maturity in our lives. To be righteous as God sees us, we have to put our trust in the finished work of Jesus, at the cross-alone. Since all have sinned and fallen short of walking in God’s glory, all people who are saved are looked at by God now as being blameless and guiltless and in right standing. This happens when we become born again and we continue to experience it as we live in His grace. The law was a school master or a tool God used to make us aware that we had broken a God given law. When God gave Moses the law, it was never given to be kept in the first place. It was given to minister death to those who were kept under it until the Christ would come to reveal the true heart of His Heavenly Father, who also is our Father. The law said the soul that sins will surely die! We had no strength in ourselves to over come temptations when it pricked our souls or inner emotions to violate God’s decrees. That was why Jesus died so we could

When we become born again, we received His grace or unmerited favor and now, we have to learn how to walk in it. This has to happen if we are going to be people functioning in God’s Kingdom. Where sin or un-righteous thinking is flourishing in our lives, God gives more of His grace to offset this tendency. His grace is His Righteous Spirit.

Lets get some spiritual discernment working here and finally recognize that, you can only sin if you are still thinking you need to be measuring up to religious traditions and following rules of obligation and garbage doctrines being influenced by the Devil. Since we are born again believers, we are no longer to live under laws. Therefore, we only sin when we go back under a law mentality. Being a Christian in the process of maturing is not a sinner, just because they are still messing their dippers in some area of life.

What happens when we sit under influences of right and wrong teachings of behavior, ingest in our minds and think in these terms? We come back under the law and we fall under God’s judgments of breaking laws. This is a concept that non-saved people live under and at one time, we used to live under, but we are no longer since, we are born again believers. God’s decrees of healthy thinking were set down by Him from the beginning of time. If we are ignorant of His plan of righteous thinking, our trust in Him is unstable. If you’re in a church teaching this right and wrong concepts of life, run for your life and walk in the freedom God’s gave you when you became His son or daughter.

9.) The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom and his tongue talks of judgment. The word for mouth is peh: meaning, as a means of blowing, to take sides with, two edged and to be spoken. We said righteous was the blameless condition God sees in us. The word for speaks is hagah: meaning to ponder, imagine, to meditate or study. The word for wisdom is chokmah: meaning, being constantly learning and skilful in using wisdom. The word for tongue: is shonah: meaning an ingot, a fork or flame, a cove of water or a wedge. The word for talk is dabar: meaning, to appoint command, name, teach or subdue. The word for judgment is misrah: meaning, an empire and to govern and prevail as a prince.

Putting it all together and it is a mouthful to ingest, it reads. “We the righteous if we know how to function in our position in Christ. Will be studying and meditating on God’s word day and night. Our understanding of God will increase and we will know how to function in God’s authority as a prince because, we are being trained by the Holy Spirit and are becoming molded into a vassal that can stand the heat of battle in our role to take back what the Devil has stolen.”

It is my hope that you are beginning to see that when we vacillate between looking at our self with a judgment eye verses our spotless condition as God sees us, it will be impossible to take our authority and do the works of Jesus on this earth. It is that old love limerick. He loves me; He loves me not that causes us to live in double mindedness.

In James 1:5-8 He states, “If any of you is lacking in Godly wisdom, let Him ask God who gives to everyone generously and without fault finding and we will receive it from Him.” Unless we allow the Holy Spirit to deliver us from this faultfinding mentality with in our selves, we will continue to lack Godly wisdom because, we don’t accept ourselves in our God righteous position. As I said, we are eternally righteous after being born again. However, we have to believe that we are, if we are going to function with God’s power. It is us speaking and testifying the Holy Spirits thoughts that creates a protected hedge around us as we travel in a Devil ordained atmosphere of being influenced by unrighteous thinking. God’s thoughts and ways have to become our thoughts and ways.

An ignorant Christian is unstable and in bondage to their fleshly desires. They constantly lean toward their own understanding in living the Christian life. In John 5:24 Jesus states with great emphases “I most solemnly tell you, the person whose ears are open to my words, who listens to my message and believes and trusts on Him who sent me (possess now) eternal life. Because of this, he does not come into judgment and come under condemnation because; he has passed over out of death into life.” Unless we, who are called to pass judgment, as a prince of God, on this planet and are proclaiming God’s way of judging, we will be doing more cursing and bringing more death than life to others and ourselves.

10.) The law of God is in his heart and none of his steps shall slide.” The word for law is torah: meaning, a precept, to teach or to inform. The word for heart is leb: meaning the center of everything, our intellect, will and emotions, or our mind. The word for steps as we have said is, companionship on a daily basis. The word for slide is maad: meaning, made to not shake, slip or waver. Putting it all together, it reads. “If God’s attitudes and feelings are being followed as we are having fellowship with Him on a daily basis. We will have the inspired confidence that we can succeed because, we know that God is true and someone that we can totally trust.”

You will notice here that, this verse points out that what really counts is our relationship with Him. The word step is not us planning our own security and out-word manifestations of unrighteousness or righteousness works. Real security in one self with total independent thinking comes by, us hanging out with the Holy Spirit, letting Him point out to us how important, and favored we are as God’s children.

Our total focus is us knowing God, not from the benefits of knowing God. This for me at times has become a trial that has me wrestling with myself of dying to self from taking care of my own needs rather then focusing on allowing God to love and take care of me. If any thing is desperately needed with in the body of Christ, it is us learning how to let go and let God love us. I have become convinced that God set a plan in order in the Universe that, as we go through seasons of our lives, these seasons are there for us to discover His mercy and grace. Every thing in life has His mark on it and leads us to Him.

In Psalms 38: David the King, who was a man after God’s own heart, cries out to God from the depth of his own heart for His mercy and grace and God heard him.

I will paraphrase King David’s heart from the Hebrew interpretation as we go along. He states, “Lord don’t let me feel like, you are disappointment and angry at me. Don’t inflict physical or physiological pain on me but, keep a reasonable time limit on your discipline and temper your displeasure on me for what I have done. There is no soundness in my flesh because, I feel that you think I am worthless and I have no peace of mind with in me. My thoughts of my sinful behavior have become a heavy weight upon my mind and I cannot carry this load any more. I have become spell bound and am focusing on my black and blue marks of me beating myself up and hating my self because, I am depraved and have acted like a man who has no understanding of your ways.

David was a man after God’s own heart because; he had learned how to be honest and transparent with his thoughts in his conversations with the Lord. What we had here was a man vacillating between his struggles with his flesh verses his righteous position in God. This trial as human beings on this planet is for us to finally come to the end of us trying to measure up to some standard of perfection and recognize that God has a higher opinion of us then we have of ourselves as His children. David said that he was spell bound. This is demonic in nature to deceive and stop us from receiving God’s love.

These trials of life are common to all men and women. There was no judgment by God on David for him feeling he had failed in life because, he was putting judgment on himself and was being influenced to believe these were God’s judgments. The conditions that David was living in are the trials of maturity. All of us are being conditioned by God through these seasons of growth. If you can’t say that to yourself, I need to tell you that you are living in prideful denial and unrighteous thinking. This condition is not having a heart that functions like God’s heart. In turn, your steps cannot be ordered by the Lord. It is a matter of life or death to live constantly throwing our selves on the mercy of the court for independent thinking and continually looking to God for a higher wisdom then our own.

Independent thinking people know that, they are not obligated to love God, themselves or anyone else. They willingly want to.

In John 14:23, Jesus says, “If a person really loves me, he will keep my commandments.” Blind obedience without love will maintain order, (but does nothing to enhance a loving relationship.) Blind obedience without recognizing its value is destined for failure.

In closing and I am having difficulty doing this. Walking in the spirit is not obeying doctrines of right and wrong. If scripture tells us that we have become a new creature in Christ the day we received Him into our heart, we must be taught how this new creature thinks and operates. Our behavior changes as we experience the symbiotic relationship with the Holy Spirit. Unless you come to realize the difference between the chastisements of the Holy Spirit verses you judging yourself by a standard of living with a spirit of obligation, you will continue being ashamed of your self and grabble before God not knowing your position as a kingdom person. A healthy person is like David the King, who had freedom to come before God and state his case of doubt. This is a man who was hungering and thirsting after his righteous position in Christ. David by confessing his doubts and pain qualified him for greatness. David had no defense mechanisms or fig leaf mentality. His passion and hunger drove him to vent his feelings and allow God to wash him clean. Let’s remember Jesus said “I can’t help the ones who are self sufficient, but I have come to help the sick and needy.”

In Matthew 6:33, Jesus tells us, “those that hunger and thirst after righteousness will come to completion and wholeness.” It is as we walk in obedience to this command that will cause our steps to be ordered by the Lord.