Thoughts Higher Than Mine_Living Word Chronicle

I have given you a relationship with me. I have chastened you many times. I chasten those that I love. Because of my mercy, I have helped you in times of misery. When you have been pitiful, I have lifted you. I am full of compassion. My abundant grace has reached you when sin tripped you. If guilt did not turn off my compassion and unbelief did not cause me to abandon you, why doubt my love now?

You have not deserved the mercy shown you. Hell would have been your lot if my compassion had turned off. It is on and flowing unto you. You should have been confused, but you have peace. To me, belong mercies and forgivenesses; therefore, I have given to you what I have.

(RHEMA: Ministries with Charity and Compassion Are Led Into Areas of Profitable Spiritual Returns)

The Lord has given me a relationship with him. He has chastened me many times. He chastens those that he loves. Because of his mercy, he has helped me in times of misery. When I have been pitiful, he has lifted me. The Lord is full of compassion. His abundant grace has reached me when sin tripped me. If guilt did not turn off his compassion and unbelief did not cause him to abandon me, I will not doubt his love now. I have not deserved the mercy shown me. Hell would have been my lot if his compassion had turned off. It is on and flowing unto me. I should have been confused, but I have peace. To God, belongs mercies and forgiveness; therefore, he has given to me what he has.

(Confession of a Sound Mind: Words of Light Upon the Face of Impossibility and Indebtedness)

By Moses Hightower

Thelma and Moses Hightower

A Refuge from the Searching Eyes and the Searching Hands of the Darkness

My Rock shall not be moved. I am the immovable Rock of the ages. In me, the immovable Rock, there is a refuge from the searching eyes and hands of the darkness. The spirits of damnation and degradation have felt around for you and did not find you. You had been hidden by salvation, the Rock who followed Israel. Do not leave the hiding place of holiness, neither masquerade yourself as a friend of the world thinking that you shall be accepted by the world's system of religion. Those who seek a sanctuary among those of another name and not those called by my name shall find themselves trapped by the conspiring spirits and the prince of worldliness. Do not be a friend of the world and then will you remain my friend. You cannot serve two masters. Call me Lord and Master, but do the things I say. Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. Do you love the world?

Do you love me, your Father?

You cannot romance two. Choose me, your Father or the spirit of the world. I will not share you with that spirit. In vain, do the spirits of the world rejoice against me, for I shall snatch their apparel from their vessels and expose the emptiness and the corruption within them. Do not make the vessels of worldliness your counsel, or you will be deceived by the spirit that deceived Eve. Run to the shelter of grace, and hide behind the angel of deliverance at the gate of holiness and righteousness. Hide behind him. His flaming sword drives away the strange fellows and idolaters. Come into the garden of life, and eat from its trees. Be content. You have godliness and a word in due season. You are blessed with faithful Abraham. Rejoice.

By Don Grigsby

Don and Linda Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - A Refuge from the Searching Eyes and the Searching Hands of the Darkness

God is our refuge and strength and a hiding place from the winds of opposition. When it was dark in Egypt it was light in Goshen. When the Egyptians were in confusion in the darkness at the Red sea, the children were going across in the light of God's power. Out of the Rock of our salvation came not only water but strength and power. The New Testament said that Christ was that Rock that followed them. If this is true, then he was a rock like wall all around them. God is a wall of fire and safety around about those who trust in him. We must determine to not leave the confines of safety as Abner did and was slain. Our safety is in the hands of the Lord who made heaven and earth. Just outside of the protection stands the phantoms of the night. They are predatory spirits that will rip away our holiness and devour us with error. We cannot listen to and obey these false lovers that call us outside the city of refuge that we have found. We must let the sword of the spirit be lifted up against all attackers. As we worship him in the beauty of holiness, the fires of the Spirit will burn brighter and push away the attackers of the night.

THE SEARCHING HANDS OF THE DARKNESS AND UNHOLINESS

God’s Rock shall not be moved. He is the immovable Rock of the ages. In him, the immovable Rock, there is a refuge from the searching eyes and hands of the darkness. The spirits of damnation and degradation have felt around for me and did not find me. I have been hidden by salvation, the Rock who followed Israel. I will not leave the hiding place of holiness, neither masquerade myself as a friend of the world thinking that I shall be accepted by the world’s system of religion. Those who seek a sanctuary among those of another name and not those called by Jesus’ name shall find themselves trapped by the conspiring spirits and the prince of worldliness. I will not be a friend of the world, and then will I remain his friend. I cannot serve two masters. I call Jesus Lord and Master, and by grace, I do what he says. By the same grace, I will not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. I love God, my Father. I cannot romance two. I choose God, my Father, and I reject the spirit of the world. The Lord will not share me with that spirit. In vain, the spirits of the world rejoice against him. He shall snatch their apparel from their vessels and expose the emptiness and the corruption within them. I will not make the vessels of worldliness my counsel. If I do, I will be deceived by the spirit that deceived Eve. I will run to the shelter of grace and hide behind the angel of deliverance at the gate of holiness and righteousness. I will hide behind Jesus. His flaming sword will drive away the strange fellows and idolaters. I will go into the garden of life, and eat from its trees. I will be content, for I have godliness and a word in due season. I am blessed with faithful Abraham; therefore, I rejoice.

RHEMA

By Don Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - Oftentimes, Impossibility Is the Womb For the Fulfillment of God's Promises

Job was shaken to spiritual reality when God gave him a first hand account of creation from his perspective. In summarizing what God was telling Job, he said, in essence to Job, that everything in the universe was running fine before Job was born and when he was no longer there, it would still be running fine. He then understood that God could do anything. To Mary, the angel said that, “With God, nothing is impossible.” Even though we do not see it in the King James version, the Greek is nothing but Rhema, so with the true meaning being that, with God no Rhema shall be without power or impossible, then we know that the impossibility in the mind is just the frame of the portrait of the miracle that God is about to place in the gallery of his power. Logic and reason are the gravediggers with shovels that would like to bury our inspiration and faith, but the same one that stepped to the mouth of Lazarus' resting place has called us forth to take the napkin off our mouth, and declare his miracles done.

Men that follow the literal and mundane expectation of what they call realism are the bleached bones we pass in the spiritual wilderness. We will always have an oasis of food and water that has allowed the wells of inspiration to flow from our lips. God has shined the light of revelation just beyond us to beckon us to follow into the places he has already created for us but we have never seen.

A voice from the throne is saying, “Do not behold the valleys and graves that the liar has tried to sketch into your life. I will take the eraser of grace and cause them to vanish. I will take the permanent brushes of grace and the oils of indelible faith and paint a super highway of the miraculous to my throne. Impossible is not in the vocabulary of heaven."

(Continued)

The Lord, who is strong, mighty, and valiant in battle, is among you with a host of angels geared for the fight of the last days. Fight the good fight of faith and lift up the banner of love one for another. This is my example. Go and do as I have done unto you. I have not rendered evil for evil, neither have I withheld my love from you because you have displeased me.

357. Then why do you withhold your love one from another and hide yourselves from your own flesh?

Lift your eyes unto the hills, but lift your hearts unto righteousness and true holiness. Follow peace and holiness. Follow peace with all men. Follow holiness unto the Lord. Without following peace with all men and holiness, seeing me is impossible.

358. Will you seek such impossibility when you are not able to believe me to do the impossible for you?

(To Be Continued)

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