Be Careful to What You Are Hearing.

Mark 3:24

Jesus said, be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the truth you hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you and more besides will be given to you who hear.

Notice that this scripture did not say only the good things or only the bad things that you hear. It applies to both. When we see and hear things that are contrary to God's Word we begin the process of writing on our hearts. Once something is in your heart, it then becomes your reality. If we begin to ponder, meditate and focus our thoughts on those things, we get more of those things good or bad.

We all have areas in our lives where we don't always meditate on the good things. We easily meditate on good things in many areas, but then there are those areas that we just can't seem to break free off. I have this same issues. But in those areas of weakness we must first come before God and let His grace work in us. Grace is God's ability to work changes in us that we can not do ourselves. Then find scriptures that are related to whatever issue and think, ponder and meditate on them. The first place to start is to write them down. No computer, just hand write them out. Why? Because it has been proven that if you write something down you remember it. It makes it personal and begins the process of writing on our hearts.

Let's make an example of healing. 2 Peter 2:24 is a great place to start. It states that by the stripes of Jesus we are healed. Begin by writing this down, along with other healing scriptures and then speak them throughout the day. Meditate one them, begin seeing yourself healed. Then feel yourself healed. This is the process of healing and what you hear and meditate on you get more of it. This can work for any area of life. So try, you won't be disappointed. But remember that you are not trying to get God to do something or that it is a formula, then it will not work. You also can not make it about your own effort.

What? God has tatoos?

Isaiah 49:15-16
Even if a mother forgets her child, my Father will not forget me. See, He has tattooed my name on the palm of His hand.

This is one of the coolest scriptures. It also contradicts those who would not allow people with tatoos in their church. God puts your name on the palm of His hand so that He can look at your name. He also speaks blessing over us continually. So I can see Him looking at the names on His hands and speaking blessing over us at the same time.

So the next time a Christian wants to tell you how bad it is to have tatoos, just repeat this scripture and walk away. Most of these Christians forget that Jesus went into the sinners home, that He was not to good for them. He never talked down to them or insulted them. There are a lot of Christians who could learn from Jesus' example, but are to caught up in their own misbeliefs and religion to see how we are really suppost to treat people.

Jesus only showed love and acceptance and that is the example we are to follow.

Don't Be Afraid!

Isaiah 41:10
I will not be afraid, for my Father is with me. I will not be dismayed for He is my God. He will strengthen me, He will help me. He will uphold me with His victorious right hand (Jesus).

This is talking about God's grace. When we are afraid, dismayed and in our weakness, God's grace comes and rescues us. The Bible mentions Jesus as the right hand of God. So because of what Jesus has done for us at the cross we receive the full benefit of what He did through God's grace.

There are days I'm discouraged, stressed, have fear and just need help. I have to meditate on what my Father has done for me. I enter into His rest and gain peace over the situation. Once we have peace with whatever problem we are going through, God's grace can come in and work in us what we can not do for ourselves.

Find some of the promises of God, which I have listed under one of my messages, and meditate on them daily.

Nothing Can Come Between You and God!

Romans 8:39
Absolutely nothing can get between me and God's (My Father's) love because of the way that Jesus my Master has embraced me.

If nothing can get between us and our Father's love, then is there anything that would cause Him not to love us.

NO!

There is nothing that ever has, or ever will keep our Father from loving us. Most of Christianity teaches that if you don't act a certain way, do things in a certain formula that God won't love you. Some say that He gets angry with us and sends natural disasters to kill homosexuals. This was televised by a national preacher during Katrina. Well there are several problems with this, one being what about the people who weren't gay. That would mean innocent people were killed if we believe what this preacher was saying. Second of all, all was forgiven at the cross of Jesus. God doesn't take back his Word like a man would.

There isn't a sin that we have committed, are committing or going to commit that can take God's love away from us. God sees us through Jesus and His perfect life. So then we are perfect in the eyes of God.

Promises of God!

These are wonderful scriptures to meditate on daily. I always read scripture in the first person. This gives scripture a more personal touch.

Promises of God

Deut. 30:9 – The Lord my God has made me abundantly prosperous in every work of my hand, for the Lord delights in prospering me!

Ephesians 1:6 – Now all praise to God for His wonderful kindness to me and His favor that he has poured out upon me because I belong to Jesus!

Hebrews 1:9 – God loves me and has set me above my companions by anointing me with the oil of joy!

Romans 8:39 – Absolutely nothing can get between me and God’s love because of the way that Jesus my Master has embraced me.

Isaiah 49:15-16 – Even if a mother forgets her child, My Father will not forget me, He has tattooed my name upon His palm!

Isaiah 41:10 – I will not be afraid, for My Father is with me. I will not be dismayed, for He is my Father, God. He will strengthen me. He will help me. He will uphold me with His victorious right hand (Jesus)!

Titus 3:4-5 – But when Jesus, my kind and loving Savior, stepped in, He saved me from all that. It was all His doing; I had nothing to do with it. He gave me a good bath, and I came out of it a new person, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit!

Mark 4:24 – Jesus said, be careful what I am hearing. The measure of thought and study I give to the truth I hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to me and more besides will be given to me who hears!

Psalms 119:161 – Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of Your Word!

Psalms 1:2 – My delight is in the law of the LORD and in His law (Word) I meditate day and night!

Ephesians 2:10 – For I am my Father’s masterpiece. He has created me anew in Christ Jesus, so that I can do the good things He planned for me long ago.

2 Corinthians 5:21 – My Father took the sinless Christ and poured into Him my sins. Then, in exchange, He poured God’s goodness into me!

1 John 4:16 – I know how much my Father loves me because I have felt His love and because I believe Him when He tells me that He loves me dearly!

Romans 5:6 – When I was utterly helpless, with no way of escape, Christ came at just the right time and died for me a sinner who had no use for Him.

Colossians 3:23-24 – Whatever may be my task, work at it heartily from the soul, as something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing with all certainty that it is from the Lord and not from men that I will receive the inheritance which is my real reward!

Psalms 104:34 – My meditation of You shall be sweet, for You are the source of all my Joy!

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 – Jesus is the source of every mercy and the God who comforts me. He comforts me in all my troubles so that I can comfort others. When others are troubled, I will be able to give them the same comfort God has given me.

2 Timothy 1:7 – For My Father has not given me a spirit of fear and timidity, but [He has given me] a spirit of power, love, and self-discipline.

Psalms 57:2 – I will cry to my Father Most High, to my Father who performs all things for me.

Colossians 1:13-14 – My Father rescued me from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set me up in the kingdom of the Son He loves so much, the Son who got me out of the pit I was in, got rid of the sins I was doomed to keep repeating.

Romans 5:1 – Since I have been made right in my Father’s sight by faith in His promises, I can have real peace with Him because of what Jesus Christ my Lord has done for me.

Romans 5:2 – I throw open my doors to my Father and discover at the same moment that He has already thrown open His door to me. I find myself standing where I always hoped I might stand – out in the wide open spaces of my Father’s grace and glory, standing tall and shouting my praise!

Isaiah 50:4 – The Lord God has given me His words of wisdom so that I may know what I should say to all these weary ones. Morning by morning He wakens me and opens my understanding to His will.

Isaiah 51:12 – My God, my Father is He who comforts me and gives me all this joy. So what right have I to fear mere mortal men, who wither like the grass and disappear?

Isaiah 51:15-16 – He is the Lord my God, the Lord Almighty, who dried a path for me right through the sea, between the roaring waves and He has put His Words in my mouth and hidden me safe within His hand.

2 Peter 5:7 – I can throw the whole weight of my anxieties upon my Father for I am His personal concern.

John 15:16 – I didn’t choose Him! He chose me! He appointed me to go and produce lovely fruit always, so that no matter what I ask for from my Father, using His name, He will give it to me.

Luke 12:6-7 – Jesus said, “What is the price of five sparrows? A couple of pennies? Yet my Father does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on my head are all numbered. Never fear, I am far more valuable to my Father than a whole flock of sparrows.”

2 Peter 1:4 - My Father has given me all of His rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that I will escape the decadence all around me caused by evil desires and that I will share in His divine nature.

Psalms 103:12 – My Father has removed my sins as far away from me as the east is from the west.

Luke 10:20 – Jesus said, “The great triumph is not in my authority over evil, but in my Father’s authority over me and presence in me. Not what I do for my Father but what He does for me – that’s the agenda for rejoicing!”

John 10:10 – Jesus said, “A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. He came so I can have real and eternal life, more and better life than I ever dreamed of.”

John 15:7 – Jesus said, “But if I make myself at home with Him and His Words are at home in my, I can be sure that whatever I ask will be listened to and acted upon.”

Romans 10:9-10 – If I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart that my Father raised Him from the dead, I will be saved. For it is by believing in my heart that I am made right with my Father, and it is by confessing with my mouth that I am saved.

Jeremiah 31:3 – My FATHER says, “He’s never quit loving me and never will. Expect love, love and more love!”

Isaiah 32:17 – The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.