After reading the title for this week’s blog, I challenge you to surmise why I labeled God’s penchant as being those 4 words. Can you list the names of Bible characters who just might fit the bill? I want you to THINK! THINK! THINK!

RULES: There Are 10 Biblical Character Names Hidden In The Word Find Puzzle Below:
(Identify each Bible name by the Bible clues from 1 to 10.)

1. Appointed by God to be 2nd in command (JOSHUA)
2. Only female Judge named in the Bible (DEBRA)
3. Those pillars were no match for him. (SAMSON)
4. He had the power to turn back time (HEZEKIAH)
5. Though in prison he was rewarded for day dreaming (DANIEL)
6. Destined to become a mother. (MARY)
7. First homo Sapiens to receive Responsibility (ADAM. EVE
8. Who holds The key to the bottomless pit? (ANGEL)
9. He can only receives power from his adversary (SATAN) God is Satan’s adversary
10. He received a personal message from God (JOHN THE BAPTIST)

B	A	P	T	I	S	T	H	O	A
X	D	L	Z	X	A	V	E	K	E
D	T	A	G	B	M	C	Z	V	G
N	E	O	M	Q	S	X	E	F	D
M	D	B	M	V	O	X	K	T	F
Q	A	V	R	T	N	S	I	K	J
Y	N	D	Z	A	E	C	A	O	C
F	I	M	A	F	J	O	H	U	E
B	E	E	P	M	D	N	T	V	L
J	L	Q	H	S	R	L	E	D	G
E	X	S	U	T	U	G	J	E	O
S	W	B	Y	V	N	I	G	H	N
U	Q	R	J	O	S	H	U	A	A
S	A	I	W	J	V	K	O	D	T
M	N	L	E	G	N	A	H	J	A
A	O	P	R	E	T	E	p	L	S

My Prayer for you…………

Dear Lord………Only You know just how much I want to spread Your life-giving messages to Your people. For, only You know how whimsically You sometimes allow the Holy Spirit to speak to me. Oh, how I love our times together and desire to share it with all those sisters and brothers you gather to have me share it with. You pleasure me in so many spirit-filled ways and for that I feel blessed and highly favored.

I feel certain that many will enjoy searching out the answers to the Cross Word Puzzle above. Why? Because Your Spirit has taught me so much about Your personality through various means of entertaining modes of operations. I trust You will be pleased with their test scores. (Readers. you are encouraged to post a comment.)

Continue to please bless and keep all of us in your loving care. And we will be careful to give Your Name all the honor and all the glory and all the praise. Amen and Amen.

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(1.) Man from the beginning was disobedient a robber, and a betrayer

(2.) Man from the beginning broke God’s heart and caused his Son to

enroll in workers compensation

(3.) Man from the beginning has failed to honor God and

expected payback form the disfortunant

(4) Man from the beginning has a desire to build bigger barns

and to rule himself

Perhaps a much better question for the 4 pictures above would be, “Would you rather be more right than righteous?”

Before you can answer the dual questions posed in this week’s blog title and the caption written beneath these pictures, you must correctly make an assertion as to which bible scripture references best reference them. Hopefully, what you will spiritually discover is that God, too, has a spiritual discerning heart that is capable of being broken.

To assist you on this ‘fact-finding’ mission, Google informed me that ‘scriptural bankruptcy‘ signifies a human being’s inability to earn salvation through one’s own merit or righteousness. This area is exclusively and utterly God’s department. So, to encourage you that Google has collected numerous scriptures for you to apply to the 4 points above, give that resource a try. Or, better yet, use a Strong’s Concordance.

Here is the way I embrace this blessing to be chosen: I see it as the Lord giving me an additional opportunity to be a blessing to one of His beloved souls. Please forgive me, My Lord, when I may have turned a blind eye to someone in dire need. Stand beside me and guide me when I stray off the straight and narrow paths. Allow me to be strong, faithful and true when comforting your precious ones. Direct my overflowing ambitions and take control of my latter days here on this side of Glory. Amen,

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Next, some photogenic visional illusions danced in my head and finally a swell of reassuring notions began to form in my head and in my heart. Finally, my Blogger’s block was lifted and my soul was released. I’m at peace, now! I can finally concentrate on writing my blog for this week. Why. Because suddenly the Holy Spirit gave me complete assurance that He was with me in this endeavor and was already forming my thoughts on the messaging that God wanted me to present to his readers. And the Spirit added these words; “NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

The Holy Spirit cautioned me to be sure I knew the definition for the word explicitly(1).

Good evening, my devoted Bearers of the Cross.  Partakers of a Heavenly Calling to become Followers down here on earth and precisely in the likeness of the Apostle and High Priest of our Profession, our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus.  I greet you in harmony in knowing that there is a Better Way; that faith without works is dead; and that faith without hope is like a hot coal being removed from the fire, placed on the hearth and watching its glow go out.  For we cannot continue to grow in this Christian life alone.  We need the warmth and fellowship of each other.

So let us allow our Profession in Christ to be exercised, WHICH IS OUR FAITH, and begin to receive our compensation and fringe benefits as well as Bonuses that God has in store for many of us.

HOW CAN THIS BE ACCOMPLISHED?

1. First off, know your job description.

2. Know who your Supervisor is.

3. Know what company policies are.

4. Know what the consequences are if you do not perform.

5.  Know what your limits are and be willing 
     and ready to accept change.

ANALYSIS

1.  Moses received the Law, a Blueprint of what to do.

2.  He and all the people knew who wrote those laws
     and who was their "Boss".

3.  But the Company of God, Inc., began to realize that 
     the people could not follow the rules and regulations
     on a consistent basis.   The Company also
     realized that the consequences and penalties
     were too sever.                                                                                                                                                     
     
4. So, a new policy was initiated -- A BETTER WAY -- and 
   the only requirement printed in the job description was .... 
   YOU MUST HAVE FAITH! and keep it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   






NOTES: (1) Explicitly: to state something in a clear, direct, and detailed manner, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

Because some of the Ole Timers were so set in their ways and thought that the “Better Way” policy was so easy that there must be a fly in the ointment somewhere, they resigned and went to work in their same capacity at another firm.

But the younger people accepted the challenge based on the promises of the Employer….That He would put His Son in Charge. And all that the people had to do was to accept Him as the Supervisor, form a union (the Church) and begin to study the By-Laws (The Holy Bible).

You know the rest of the story. How Jesus has set an example that no man can top. How He did not just sit in His father’s Office, but came down among the workers. How he demonstrated His love by giving of Himself.

Nothing less is expected of us, Dear Partakers of this Heavenly Calling, if we are to continue to be in the employ of this Company. We must begin to exercise our Faith by releasing it to others and depending upon our Faithful Father to keep His promise and making everything alright.

REREAD THIS CLARION CALL AND WEEP FOR GLORIOUS STEADFASTNESS IN THE SERVICE OF THE ALMIGHTY!

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WHERE ARE ALL MY PEOPLE, God wanted to know! Who knew? I certainly did not know. Did you? So, I had a prayerful conversation with God. The atmosphere all around me began to change. And in my quiet spirit, Acts 1:8 welled up in my mind: “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Now, I had been set free. The shackles that prevented me from composing this week’s blog was subsiding. Ideas were now flowing and uplifting subjects were coming to light. The answer to God’s question concerning the whereabouts of His witnesses could now be found. While searching through my files I came across something I had written for a Bible Study group in August 2017 entitled “Overflowing Fruit”.

As young and new Christians grow and develop into mature Christians, God expects us to communicate periodically and prayerfully with his Son, Christ Jesus, and report on the progress of those saints placed in our charge. And our grade point average is based on how successfully we have introduced new converts into the workings of the Fruit of the Spirit which is found in Galatians 5:22-24.

There is a reason for God being a tuff Task Master in this situation. Hopefully, you have gleaned from the study of Gal. 5:22-24 that man’s true compelling desires of the flesh (Satin’s modes of operation) are detrimental to how the Fruit of the Spirit is to perform in the life of a Believer. Those to whom Jesus Christ has entrusted the Holy Spirit, He has also given the power via the Fruit of the Spirit.

For guidance in your role and nurturing of those new saints the Lord has placed in your sphere of biblical maturing take a close look at the guiding material you may find helpful. Hopefully, with the incorporation of the Holy Spirit becoming your wings, your prayerful reports to our Father may cause you to seek more earnestly the Fruit of the Spirit as your Cornerstone. Who knows. You may be the cornerstone that the builders accepted!

OUR DAILY BREAD BIBLE STUDY AUGUST 29, 2017 ‘OVERFLOWING FRUIT’ Bible Verse and Definitions for The Fruit of the Spirit (GAL. 5:22-23a)

Act 4:32a Self-control	All the believers were one in heart and mind.	Restraint exercised over one’s own impulses, emotions or desires.
Acts 4:32b Love	No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.	Unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another.
Acts 4:33a Peace	With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.	Freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions.
Acts 4:33b Kindness	And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all…	The quality or state of being kind; affection.
Acts 4:34a Forbearance	…that there were no needy persons among them.	The refraining from the enforcement of something as a debt, right or obligation that is due.
Acts 4:34b Faithfulness	For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales…	Faithful implies unswerving adherence to a person or thing or to the oath or promise by which a tie was contracted.
Acts 4:35a Gentleness	…and put it at the apostles’ feet,	The quality or state of being gentle’ honorable’ mildness of manner; or disposition.
Acts 4:35b Joy John 15:16 Goodness	…and it was distributed to anyone who had need. “…but I chose you…so that you might go and bear (good) fruit–fruit that will last…”	Delight; the expression or exhibition of such emotion. The quality or state of being good. (Only GOD is Good. He alone enables us to bear fruit, not we ourselves.)

My prayer for you…………..

Dear Heavenly Father: You truly light up my life! You know just how to get my attention in so many ways. I am truly blessed and divinely enlightened each time you lift me higher and higher in my understanding of the blessed way you function. Lord You Rock!!! YES, and I claim You as my Source, my Inspiration and my Joy.

Now I have a better understanding as to why you chose those 9 character traits to serve as guide lines for your people to live by as we all strive to be more and more like You! You realized from the get-go that Satin would be out-matched if the people who were called by Your Name would humble them selves and pray as well as put on Your whole armor and clothe themselves in the Fruit of the Spirit..(hot diggity dog)…then Ole slew-foot would find himself unemployed, broken and defeated.

HELP US, HOLY FATHER. TRY US ONCE AGAIN AS WE FOCUS ON DOING THINGS THAT NOT ONLY MAKE US HAPPY, BUT THAT BRINGS HAPPINESS TO OTHERS YOU SEND OUR WAY.

AMEN AND AMEN

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Question: Dear Readers: Has God ever imparted to you any general, special or divine revelation? In other words, has He ever allowed you to ‘peep His hold card’? (Meaning: to receive an awe-inspiring revelation concerning things.)

Who am I and what is my real name according to the Almighty?

Many, many eons ago, I was in the habit of inquiring about many, many subjects that my family, friends and professionals could not answer. During that stage of my life, I even acquired a nickname….’My friend, Irma.’ Irma was depicted as a scattered-brain radio personality character that constantly asked her boss several off-based questions. Her questions always solicited a prolonged and robust stream of laughter from the piped-in radio audience and also stay-at-home listeners.

I never liked my nick-name and more times than not, actually, I was ashamed of it. But now that I am older and wiser, and have learned to appreciate other people’s idiosyncrasies (unique, peculiar habits, behaviors, or mannerisms specific to people), I feel blessed to have possessed this characteristic trait.

This awakening came about recently one evening as I was searching my file cabinet, looking for a subject matter to blog about. And guess what(?). I found it!

(The Title For This Blog Was Recently Added) 
"GOD KNEW WHAT WAS BEST FOR ME"

God knew Jesus before He was born, and Jesus knew himself and God before he (Jesus) was born.
"I and My Father are one.  Before Abraham was, I AM. "(John 10:30)

When you know who you are and where you are before you are born, that is called your divine,
eternal preexistence, or having omnipresence.

(If all of this sounds confusing, don't worry.  You will understand it better in the "hereafter".)

Since John the Baptist knew before hand that Jesus already possessed a divine nature, John did not want to
baptize Jesus a 'second' time.  John the Baptist also knew that he, himself, possessed a divine nature, too. 
Scripture tells us that they were both cognizant of spiritual things.  (John 1:4; and 1:23)

God knew Jeremiah before he was born, but Jeremiah did not know anything before he was born;
not himself, not God, not anything.  (Jer. 1:5)  Jeremiah did not have a divine nature when he was first 
born.  He had to be 'born again' to receive it. You read about him receiving his new birth in Jeremiah 1:5-10.  
Being 'born again' means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

A person's first birth is a water birth.  The second or new birth (regeneration) is called a spiritual
re-birth or a spiritual awakening...your divine nature.

Abraham received his second birth in Genesis 15:6.  When it happened, Abraham understood
it fully and because he was willing to 'believe' God to the max, God accounted it unto him as
righteousness.  (Abe was around 75 years old at that time.)

HOW TO RECOGNIZE A GENERAL REVELATION VS A SPECIAL REVELATION:

1. Identify your situation by specifically naming it. Put it on the alter. Ask the Holy Spirit to also include anyone else that might be in the same boat. Return often to your prayer closet.
2. Keep notes on your progress. Try to gather specific spiritual advice from on High.
3. Remember in order to conquer your watery dilemmas you first have to step out of the boat.
4. Begin matching Scripture with your notes. This will lead to identifying general from special revelations.
5. Your general prayer concerns will soon turn into specific special prayers of thanksgiving.

My daily prayer (sample) for all those who are carrying heavy burdens:

Dear Heavenly Father, Your holy word is truly like a sledge hammer that is able to crush rocky boulders in pieces. Therefore will You please clarify the holy Bible scriptures to me so that I can clearly distinguish between the commands of God and my own interpretations. Help me to carry out the message of Your Word with great responsibility and deliberation. As one of your children, I ask these blessings in the Precious Name of Your Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, my Lord and my Savior. Amen

What do you see as you gaze upon the above picture. Or perhaps I should ask, what do you hear. I’m at a loss to what that kid in front of the line is asking that young girl. And what type of tree is that? Are there more people in line, but just out of sight. What’s going on???

As you know, the title of this WP blog is “Conversations With God Using Scripture.” And the majority of my submissions to this blog post reveal my encounters with the Holy Spirit while ministering on International missionary trips and serving on many other biblical assignment duties I have held in various Christian churches.

However, for the past few months, my Christian duties have seemingly been directed towards participating in the services of a prayer warrior. An array of several seasonal sicknesses attacking members of my immediate family; dear and beloved friends seeking solace, advice and comfort; news worthy and tragic public events demanding words of comfort and constant prayer,.

HELP! HELP! HOLY SPIRIT! PLEASE INSTRUCT ME ON MY MINISTRIAL ROLE IN THESE MATTERS!

It was at that moment as I cried out when I felt a warm breeze flow through my office. Seemingly, a deafening hush came over me and the entire atmosphere in the room. Strangely, even the clock stopped ticking. And the light bulb in my office desk’s lamp grew brighter. I sat very still and waited.

THE ANSWER TO ALL YOUR QUESTIONS, MY FRIEND, IS IN THE ABOVE PICTURE OF THE CHILDREN WALKING UNDER THE TREE.

THE PERSON WHO IS MOST TROUBLING ON YOUR HEART IS NAMED JASON.  AND THE MEANING OF HIS NAME PROVIDES THE EXPLANATION OF YOUR MISERY.

THE NAME 'JASON' IS THE GREEK FORM OF JOSHUA.  IT MEANS HELPER; DELIVERER; HEALER;                          HE WHO SUCCORS; (He who runs to or is in a hurry to get God's message out);                                                                             HE WHO CURES; JEHOVAH DELIVERS.

So, once again I cried out to the Holy Spirit to enlighten my darkened mind as to which biblical scriptures I needed to discern His truths about these troubling matters. Suddenly, I was reminded about the Bible Study Class I had attended earlier that day at church. It was from 2 Corinthians chapters 5, 6, 7. The invisible messages from these 3 chapters are Become Repentant, Be Reconciled, and Be Resurrected.

Please, look at the above picture again through Apple blossom God-fearing eyes. The beautifully created strong green tree represents God the Father, standing above his creation. The ‘Born-again’ sinless/people/children of God are descendants of God’s Son, Jesus Christ (instead of Adam and Eve). Everyone is marching in step with Christ who died and rose again for them. And the child marching backwards at the front of the line represents the HOLY SPIRIT who is keeping a sharp eye on everything. AMEN and AMEN.

I guess all God wants me to do is to keep praying…keep trusting…and keep it REAL

PRAYER DON’T FAIL ME NOW!

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News Flash! Before a person comes to God, he or she is poor in spirit. WHO KNEW? You knew! But perhaps you failed to connect the dots. Remember the initial sin committed by Adam and Eve as recorded in Genesis of the Holy Bible. Well, whether you believe that story or not, every person born after that couple inherited their sinful nature. What this means is that all people are wandering around in life, doing their own thing. Confused. Wasting time, money, resources, strength, and health.

Thus every person is extremely poor in spirit. BUT WAIT! Will they eventually ‘see God’?

Now, I’m no biblical graduate nor Biblical Scholar, I’m just say’n. I prayerfully read God’s Word, I study, I communicate with the Holy Spirit, I am born again and I’m a witness that God answers prayer. So, as much as I could understand about this subject, God allowed me to receive and blog about it.

In my research, I learned that it helps if you think on this subject in three parts: (1) The Israelites Exodus from slavery in Egypt led by Moses through the wilderness. (2) The Believer’s Exodus from sin led by Jesus Christ and His death, burial and resurrection on the Cross. (3) And the Promise Land (Heaven) that flows with milk and honey.

So, I repeat…Before a person comes to God, he or she is poor in spirit. And again I ask the question…Will he or she eventually see God?

……….THE COME TO JESUS MOMENT………AND THE ANSWER IS………

YES! because in all of thy getting, (and if they live long enough by the grace of God), and through all of their setbacks, one day they will surrender. That will be their day of reckoning. That day is when they will be receptive to the Word of God. So far, they have been in the wilderness of life. Now, they are ready to come out of their wilderness or thought pattern.

But first, they must realize just who was always in the wilderness with them anonymously. God was always with that person, but God did not show himself. However, now that the person is ready (has come to himself), God will show himself. For God blesses the meek by attending his ear towards them.

Now the question is, HOW will God show himself! God will surely show himself within a Burning Bush. The burning bush represents all the troubles and riotous living and bad mistakes that person has endured. The Fire within the bush is the Mighty God. Burning brightly…but not consuming it.

God is going to require the sinner man (or woman) to approach him, but first the person must take off their shoes. Take off Satan. Get off following the path of error. WHY?

Because now they are standing before God…standing on his path called Holy Ground. God instantly changes the person’s name to Moses which means he has been drawn out of the waters of confusion. (In scripture, water represents trouble. Jesus conquered water by walking on it…putting it under His feet.

God is in that wilderness that we all go through, but we just don’s see him. We cannot see him as long as we allow ourselves to be slaves to the devil (darkness). We must come to realize that when the scales fall from our eyes and we see God, we become somebody. We can say, “I AM somebody in/with Christ Jesus!

Since God and Jesus are ONE, all God has to say to Moses (us) is ‘I AM who I AM. (I Am the Father and I Am the Son.)

So now that the sinner man is barefooted (has put off error) and standing on holy ground (God) before a bush (his troubles) that is on fire (the 3rd Person of the Trinity), but not being destroyed (the bush is not consumed because trouble will always be with us ), now the sinner man who has been brought into the Light is ready to receive his assignment and to begin to work for God/Jesus/ the Holy Spirit instead of Satan.

YOU ARE NOW HEAVEN BOUND! THAT PLACE WHERE JESUS IS PREPARING FOR YOU AND ME

AMEN AND AMEN!

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