Question from Sally: Hi. I am just wondering if a demon can speak to a person while that person is delivering a prophetic word. Would God not protect the individual who is serving Him at the time of sharing a word?
Do you think growth is only positive and beneficial? Anything that is diminishing is not growing, but evil can grow as well as good. Growth can be negative in this sense. Do you allow yourself small indulgences that you consider harmless? Big things grow from small things, for better or for worse. This is the principle of escalation. You see growth in the natural world in the absence of limits or intervention and the same thing occurs within you. Guard your heart, mind, eyes, and ears with regard to what influences you allow. Be intentional, active, and deliberate in directing your focus towards me that you may have positive and beneficial growth in righteousness.
Early in my word I said that it was not good for man to be alone, so I created a companion for him. In so doing I set in motion the means for procreation of more men and women to populate, replenish, and subdue the earth throughout history. This created many opportunities for companionship according to the same principle, but not all are married. Even so it is not good for anyone to be alone. Do you understand that I am your first companion; that I created you in my image for fellowship with me? Let this be the foundation for all your relationships and you will have a multitude of brothers and sisters in this world and the world to come.
I have promised you peace. Yet have you ever experienced an unsettled state, in which your familiar moorings or landmarks are pulled up, and you feel adrift until you get back to them? But in some cases you do not get back to them, but rather move on to establish new ones. You should not look on these as disasters or even intrusions, for to think that way assumes that life is meant to be static and unchanging. Growth and change are normal parts of life and you should expect them. If you understand and expect this then you can have peace when it occurs. Consider your life to be a sojourn even if you stay in one place.
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Lord, Jesus, what is Your word today for Your beloved children?
Yes, My beloved, you are all My children! Oh that you would learn to come to
Me in child-like faith so that I can bless you with all of My blessings. You have
made life so complicated while a walk with Me is not that way. Look past your
religious trappings and simply look to Me for all of your answers, both great
and small. Think about how a child reacts - simply, joyfully, full of eager anticipation.
So there I was standing on a balcony overlooking an almost empty street in Madison Wisconsin, a microphone in my hand with instructions to share a testimony. A few college kids were milling about not really paying much attention to the strange guy clearing his throat.
What goal do Christians have in presenting the gospel to those walking in darkness? The final objective usually stated is that of getting them saved and involved in a church. Yet how much appeal does a church hold for them? What was it that drew you to me? Didn’t the Christlike behavior of believers play a stronger role in your own conversion than the appeal of the church as an organization? The same thing that worked for you works for others too, even as the apostle said, you are our epistle, read by all men. Let your life be an open book and let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and come to me.
Male and female I created them. There is neither male nor female in Christ, but in this world the distinctions between the sexes are recognized and rightly so. Each is in turn subject to typical behaviors common to men or women respectively. Each may smile at the traits of the other or be more openly critical of things they regard as weaknesses and failings that they themselves are not as subject to. My word tells you to give honor to the weaker vessel. This is stated as an admonition toward men regarding women but it could be considered to go both directions. I want everyone to give honor and grace to everyone else that you may live as brothers and sisters together in one body.
