It is our words that build up great organizations and institutions.  It is our words that destroy or build.  It is words that are filled with faith or unbelief.  Faith words are always constructive.  The believer is a faith person.  He or she does not walk by reason.   He does not walk by Sense Knowledge.  He or she lives and walks in the realm of faith!

The man or woman who inspires unbelief is an enemy of progress.  They are poisonous and self-serving.  They walk outside of love.  They have chosen to side with the enemy.

Faith is giving substance to the Word of God.  It is giving substance to things we have hoped for.  Faith makes man God-like, just as love makes him God-like.  God is a faith God, and when a man or woman links up with God, he or she becomes a faith person.  He or she and God work together, and walk together.  (2 Cor. 5:17) ”We walk by faith, and not by sight.”

Our whole struggle in the faith life is to take the Word of God instead of the word of man–to rest in God’s Word rather than in man’s word.

After my questioning, I heard the Lord say, “I chose you , because I looked into the depths of you and I saw the depths of Me.”

(Those words were so beautiful and unexpected!  God’s love is always too good to be true!)  We get good things because Jesus took all the bad!  Nothing is based on our merits, but on the merits of Another.  God is good!  We can know Him!

Now, do You know how much He loves, protects and vindicates you?  Do you understand identification?  As He is so are you in this world.  (See:  I John 4:17; Col. 3:3; and II Cor. 5:17)

So, this Valentine’s Day–I am completely rejoicing that my first love is and will always be my Jesus!  People can think I am completely crazy and they can talk all they want.  But, I have brushed upon heaven enough to positively tell you that it is possible to access it from this realm and in various ways!

There is nothing I would rather do than go away and be all alone with Him!  Time stands still.  Nothing matters.  In this realm or atmosphere, that only the presence of Christ can create, there is peace; it is heaven on Earth!  He renews me and the world around me shifts…to only Him!

If you have always had people pray for you, then all you have is sense knowledge.  You have trusted in other people’s faith.  You have been a spiritual hitchhiker!

You need to trust the Word for yourself.  Otherwise, you have been a leaner rather than a burden-bearer.  You have leaned on other people.  Get to know your authority over sickness and disease through the Name of Jesus.

You have never taken your place in Christ, and the hour will come when their faith can’t carry you any longer.  You must take your own place as a son/daughter in Christ.  This is living in the realm of just being Born Again without any spiritual growth and renewing of your mind.  You are living in the sense realm.

Once you realize your authority people will seek you out because of your faith and confidence in Christ Jesus and His Word.  You will be a force to be reckoned with.  You will have awakened to the faith reality!

The other day I was happily waiting on a friend, while seated in a restaurant.  An unaccompanied, elderly man and I started a brief conversation, which lead to him vividly explaining to me the state of his previous marriage.  He said (with many four letter words,) “I can’t stand my wife!  She and I don’t get along!  We never have and we never will!  She doesn’t go to church and I DO!”  (I thought…Sir; I don’t blame her for not wanting to be at church with you!)  I quickly prayed, “Lord reveal to me exactly what I need to see, hear and learn from this man and his situation…and Lord, spare me NO details!”  (Hint:  this is an effective prayer for those who are willing to grow in understanding!  Be ready though, you will “see” and…typically, way beyond what you hoped for!)  I intently listened past his words, but to his heart as he went on and on.  Then, of course, the other shoe dropped…

He leaned my direction and I watched his countenance change.  He told me with glassy eyes and in a wishful tone, “There’s this woman at church that I have known for many, many years and her husband doesn’t go to church, either.  He aint no kind of Christian man!  But, she and I get along real well!”  (I thought…You poor, deceived man!  That is because YOU aren’t married to her!  Because, if you were married to her, you would probably dismantle her in 2 years or less!  She would become just like your current wife!  (I am sure he would be the common denominator or play a huge part in the whole equation.)

I felt zero leading to talk or even imply to him about how he needs Grace in his marriage and life.  (Why?)  (Prov. 23:9)  “Speak not into the ears of a fool:  for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.”  I had a “sense” within me saying, “He can’t hear Me–Wisdom!  This is why people’s lives are so messed up!”

This gentleman was (I am guessing) at least 75-80 years old.  (What a life…what a shame!  He is so hard, judgmental and sadly, set in his ways.)  I pray for him and everyone in his story.  (I can’t cram Jesus down people’s throats…at least not intentionally!  But, I know someone who softens the hardest of hearts–His name is the Holy Spirit!)

I turn this all over to You, Holy Spirit and I know that Wisdom is crying out!–Amen

I must go to sit with Him in the Council Room; I am no longer walking in the darkness of sense knowledge.  I am no longer crippled by my inferiority complex or my sense of unworthiness; I have found that Light of Life.  I know that I am a beloved son/daughter; that I have my place in the Father’s presence.

When we come to understand love’s intimacy, love’s privileges, love’s right to the Father’s ear, we may rush into His presence at any time without an apology and lay our needs before Him–not only our personal needs, but the needs of those about us.  We can enjoy the ability and wisdom of our Father, and we will go out with that strange, sweet fragrance that is found only in the Throne Room, it is a fragrance that will cling to us!

Our very words will have in them Love’s own sweet fragrance.  Men will know that we have been with Jesus, have been in fellowship with Him!

Someone came to me awhile back explaining the painful state of their marriage.  (I just listened…always trying to be sure to not pass a quick judgment on a one-sided story.)

I am pretty sure many people end up marrying for the wrong reasons.  Here is my marriage and dessert theory:  A hasty marriage is kind of like the last piece of cake.  People don’t WANT the last piece; unless they think someone  else might beat them to it.  They certainly don’t WANT anyone else to get it; so, even though they don’t really WANT (or need it,) they eat it anyway.  After all, it looks good, smells good and will taste good.  Yet, it is full of fat and calories.  So, it finds its way to their waistline and then discouragement is inevitable.

I have seen too many times, people get in such a hurry with their relationships or stay connected to the wrong ones.  I think why?  Is this God?  Or, are they afraid that someone else might come along and beat them to that man/woman?  Providing the one they want (the last one…the last piece of cake on the entire Earth,) gets taken by someone else, it can be a “let down.”  I just hope they have paused to consider that the man/woman (those who look good, sound good and on and on) can be void of [spiritual] nutrition.  I am talking about the ones, who seem to stare at you from an almost empty cake-plate beckoning; they could add many unwanted problems and a lot of work.

This was my analysis of this person’s marriage.  It was a marriage based on–I will “get” you before someone else does.  It wasn’t God who necessarily wanted them to marry that particular person.  THEY just couldn’t let that “deliciously bad” person go!  Don’t people know that if they do not say, ”No thanks; I will pass” to that lonely, last piece of cake (that wrong man/woman)…they will regret it!?

(Let not any of us get mad at God for our lustful mistakes!)  Rom. 1 says that if we continue in sin, we are eventually given over to it.  This is called a reprobate mind:  the inability to discern between good and evil.  God (who is always good) doesn’t just take away our problems…we have always chosen them by not formerly saying, “No” and avoiding temptation!  (It is that “play with fire and you will get burned” advice.)

Remember, you have the power to overcome anything, if Christ is in you!

Heb. 4:14:  “Let us hold fast to our confession.”  Our confession has not one physical thing in it.  It hasn’t anything that can be seen, or felt or heard, outside the Word of God.  Faith is not based upon reason nor upon things that men can see unless the thing they see is the Word of God.

1 Cor. 2:5:  “That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the ability of God.”  The wisdom of which He is speaking is Sense Knowledge wisdom.

Remember:  No man turns philosopher until he has the sense of utter failure, and he is writing an excuse for that failure.  Philosophy has never given anything of any value to the church.  What we call our Christian philosophers are often men/women who denied the miraculous and the supernatural.  They denied that God could hear prayer and would heal men today.  Philosophy is the swan song of human failure; it is born of the senses!

We are to be inspired by the Word of God rather than by the word of man!