Thoughts Higher Than Mine_Living Word Chronicle

By Moses Hightower

Thelma and Moses Hightower

A Journey Through Time in the Care of Jesus (Part 7)

SCENE 11

Some have chosen to live in the caves that were supplied for a season. I have given caves as a shelter from the things which chased you in the past, but now you must come out of your caves of temporal dwelling places. Must I dry up the waters nearby to create a new thirst for righteousness?

If you remain inside of the caves of past secret places where you hid from your enemies, then you will only view the work of the spirit from afar. I have beckoned you to come out of your seemingly secure places, which were only temporary dwelling places. Come out now before the drought of security brings you to the stature of another fugitive.

SCENE 12

The enemy has cast his coldness over the earth. He has sought you to live under the blanket of his coldness. You must choose to live in the house of your first love to escape the casting off of the blanket of coldness and indifference. Your heart cannot become the place of covetousness. If your heart is inhabited by covetousness, then you will worship the idols of the age. Night shall fall and find you in the places of idolatry if you continue your journey along the paths of unrighteousness and carnality. Look to the path of righteousness that has come to you. Turn from your seemingly right path, and walk with me along the paths of righteousness for my name's sake. I have beckoned with the finger of love. Now walk with me and avoid the destiny of a fool. Walk according to the lust of your own flesh and your pride of this life, and then you will inherit the reward reserved for fools. I have set a light in the midst of the earth. The consuming fire of my love is waiting on your arrival to the door of your first love. Come. It is near and not very far from any who feel after the door of your first love. Give me your hand, and I will lead you to the door of life again. Come and live in the light as I am the light, and my blood will continually cleanse you from all sin.

CONCLUSION

Do not walk any longer along the empty desert places in life. These paths do not end. They are endless paths in the sands of time. I have placed the highway of holiness in the desert of time. You have come to the highway of life. Will you simply observe the peculiar construction in the sands of time?

Or will you hear the call from this peculiar place and join the priesthood of the holy in the royal place built in your path?

Many have come by this holy place and observed these peculiar people and their strange worship, which is in spirit and in truth. Will you enter in and join the holy, or will you pass on into your deserts of dryness and death?

CARNALITY, COLDNESS, COVETOUSNESS, DESERT PLACES, ENEMIES, IDOLATRY, PRIDE, FALSE SECURITY, AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS

SCENE 11

Some have chosen to live in the caves that were supplied for a season. The Lord has given caves as a shelter from the things which chased me in the past, but now I must come out of my caves of temporal dwelling places. He does not have to dry up the waters nearby to create a new thirst for righteousness. If I remain inside of the caves of past secret places where I hid from my enemies, then I will only view the work of the spirit from afar. God has beckoned me to come out of my seemingly secure places, which were only temporary dwelling places. I come out now before the drought of security brings me to the stature of another fugitive.

SCENE 12

The enemy has cast his coldness over the earth. He has sought me to live under the blanket of his coldness. I must choose to live in the house of my first love to escape the casting off of the blanket of coldness and indifference. My heart cannot become the place of covetousness. If my heart is inhabited by covetousness, then I will worship the idols of the age. Night shall fall and find me in the places of idolatry if I continue my journey along the paths of unrighteousness and carnality. I look to the path of righteousness that has come to me. I turn from my seemingly right path and walk with God along the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. He has beckoned with the finger of love. Now I walk with him and avoid the destiny of a fool. If I walk according to the lust of my own flesh and my pride of this life, then I will inherit the reward reserved for fools. God has set a light in the midst of the earth. The consuming fire of his love is waiting on my arrival to the door of my first love. It is near and not very far from any who feel after the door of my first love. I give the Lord my hand, and he will lead me to the door of life again. I will live in the light as Jesus is the light, and his blood will continually cleanse me from all sin.

CONCLUSION

I will not walk any longer along the empty desert places in life. These paths do not end. They are endless paths in the sands of time. God has placed the highway of holiness in the desert of time. I have come to the highway of life. I will not simply observe the peculiar construction in the sands of time. I have heard the call from this peculiar place, and I have joined the priesthood of the holy in the royal place built in my path. Many have come by this holy place and observed these peculiar people and their strange worship, which is in spirit and in truth. I have entered in and joined the holy; therefore, I will not pass on into the deserts of dryness and death.

By Don Grigsby

Don and Linda Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - A Journey Through Time in the Care of Jesus (Part 7)

SCENE 11

God has not given us a bunker mentality. We are not held captive by the terrorist factions of the past. We have real living promises of power that will protect us from every insurgency of the enemy. We will come out of the caves of our uncertainty and drink deeply of the pools of power and the fresh grass of grace in the planes of God’s refuge.

SCENE 12

Self-centeredness will implode our lives. Self-love is a cannibal eating on itself. We can be devoured by a love that is introverted, or we can be obsessed with the intense love of God that will consume all our hindrances on the altar of dedication. God’s love will take us past ourselves and into the light of life. We can journey wrapped in the arms of his warm embrace that will melt every icicle that hell would try to form in our hearts.

CONCLUSION

Our enemy will try to sell us the empty desert as he advertises it as paradise. We have seen beyond the horizon of this life and tasted of the powers of the world to come. We have been called as a generation of priests into the Holy of Holies. This place of intense and fervent love is the residence that God desires for us. In the temple, the priests had chambers on winding stairs that were above the Holy of Holies. God has provided a place to meet us and for us to reside. No wonder David ended his epoch Psalm with the statement, “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

Look again to Adam and Eve, and behold their lack of knowledge. You can make a choice today having much knowledge available to you. Will you choose as they did with the vast knowledge of the consequences of disobedience?

Do you think that Adam would make the same choice if he were choosing on this side of time?

What will you do today on this side of time?

I once winked at ignorance, but now I command everyone to repent. Repent and enjoy the fruit of the tree of life. The tree of damnation is an unwanted experience with the taste of all the sorrow, grief, and pain in the life to come multiplied by infinity. Repent and experience the joy of obedience.

I look again to Adam and Eve, and I behold their lack of knowledge. I can make a choice today having much knowledge available to me. I will not choose as they did with the vast knowledge of the consequences of disobedience. I do not believe that Adam would make the same choice if he were choosing on this side of time. I will take heed today on this side of time. God once winked at ignorance, but now he commands everyone to repent. I repent and enjoy the fruit of the tree of life. The tree of damnation is an unwanted experience with the taste of all the sorrow, grief, and pain in the life to come multiplied by infinity. I repent and experience the joy of obedience.

By Don Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - Up the King's Highway to the Celebration Center of Heaven

Joyous praise will build the avenues and streets of access into the superhighways of his presence. Roads of fear will always be washed out. The road beds of praise will always be built on the Rock. Gates of praise are the entrance to his city. Celebration is going on in his presence 24 hours a day. We spend only a few minutes in his presence, and we are so out of breath that we nearly pass out. Miles and miles of revelation are the pavement that we are destined and designed to run on. The forerunner has already run and won the race for us. If we will put on the shoes of the gospel and declare his greatness over every hill and valley that we pass through, we will be part of the continuous celebration. In one sense, we have arrived at the arena of great and joyous festivals of victory, but when we do finally get to that city, we will not be able to contain the eternal praise that will explode in our beings. Praise will become the fiery chariots and whirlwinds that will catch us up to the Lord.

By Moses Hightower

(Continued)

My kingdom has come and now it abides in you. Men attempt to conquer kingdoms, but I have placed an unconquerable kingdom within you. This kingdom is invincible and unyielding to the kingdoms of this world. I will take all the kingdoms of the world from the prince of the power of the air.

186. Why seek kingdoms that will be mine and not seek me, the heir to all things now?

187. Don't you know that the kingdoms of this world shall become the property of the Lord and his Christ?

188. Have you not read the truth?

(To Be Continued)

RE: PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING - December 31, 2006

During the time of Gideon, Israel was living in caves of fear and deprivation. Fear of the enemy had driven them into these places and within themselves. God sent an angel to explain that they were still his chosen people and that he only needed one man to speak the word and defeat the enemy. We are living in an hour when the enemy would like to form the icicles of fear in our soul. Satan would be pleased for us to live in the ice caves of isolation. Together we can march forth with a fresh anointing and fire in our spirit and boldly declare the words of the Lord. Although the love and the intensity of many have waxed cold, I can still be fervent and intense in my spirit toward the Lord. We can clothe ourselves in the priestly garments of praise and salvation and go forth to praise before the army of God. As we go forth, the warmth of the presence of God will wrap itself around us. We are not residents of the houses of terror and the bars of fear. We have been brought out into the dwellings of power in the sunlight of powerful revelation. God will send forth his powerful word and melt the icy expressions that may swirl around us.

By Rashall Sanchez

December 31 , 2006

Thank you Lord that you died to set me free from the fear and dominion of death. I know that I am hidden from the winds of fear and the terror of the night. You, the Holy Ghost within me, are greater than any force without. You are the treasure within me. I am thankful for the opportunity to seek you fervently on a daily basis. My focus is to run after you and to seek you fervently to the exclusion of all other lovers. I have distractions that shout their dissenting opinions in my ears, but they are of no circumstance whatsoever. Eternity is calling me to a glory and power that will not fade away. I know that everything here will perish and vanish away. I treasure your holiness and righteousness. I will seek these daily at your gates. Thank you for your daily promises and provision that are my diet when I hunger after your word. Your fresh words contain fresh promises for my soul. I know that I will be washed of my doubts and fears as I sit at your feet and diligently hearken to the voice of creation. You will share all the details of the great things that you have for me if I hunger for them. You have not come that death might rule over me, but you came that I might have life and that more abundantly. I rejoice and I am glad that death does not rule over me because you came and destroyed the workings of the devil. You placed me in yourself by the gospel and brought me into heavenly places. I am thankful that I reside in the peaceful places with you. You have settled the issues that I have entertained in my ears. I purpose not to listen any longer to the echoes of fallen angels who speak daily in my ears when I fear and do not have faith, but I will listen unto your voice, the greater one inside of me. You have given me your Spirit, the Holy Ghost. You live in me. You are my hope of glory. The Lord of Hosts is your name.

Thank you for giving me the revelation of who you are. Thank you for giving me all things freely. By grace, I end my search for things and I search for you with all my heart. I will search for the one treasure inside of me. I choose to win you, so that no one else in my life is worthier than you. I have chosen you to be the Lord in my heart. You are a jealous God. Your name is jealous. I look away from the idols passed on to me because of my traditions and seek you, the Living God. I know that when I have sought you with all my heart, then will I find that you are the true God of Abraham. I believe that this is the hour of revelation. Thank you for revealing yourself unto me. I give thanks that your grace has allowed me to come out from among the prostitutes of truth and be separate, and then you will receive me. I will not follow the spiritual diseases fostered by idolaters, but I will seek holiness and righteousness. I will seek you first and your kingdom. Thank you for placing the kingdom within me. I have no reason to search without for anything else. You have promised to add all the other things unto me. I look beyond the veil of human reasoning and look unto you, the author and the finisher of my faith. You did not bring me to this point in my life to abandon me, but you have brought me here that you might be glorified in me. I am not my own. You bought me. Now that you are my owner, you will demonstrate authority in me. I will simply be patient and not seek my own way. Jesus, you are my owner. I give thanks for your leading of my life. I relinquish the leading of my life unto you and not myself. You know the beginning and the ending. I trust your divine knowledge and wisdom.

Thank you for creating me. You know what specifications are within me. I know very little about myself. I know very little in comparison to what you know about me. Before you fashioned me, you had a design for me. I am rejoicing that you have placed perfect love within me; therefore, I allow perfect love to cast out this spirit that has invaded the house of the redeemed. I am thankful that I do not have to allow tormenting spirits to hinder me. I will bind these things on the earth, and then shall they be bound in heaven. I know that I am called to rule over all these things, and I rule will with the authority given to me by your Spirit and through your name. I have not seen the good things that you have prepared for me. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man the good things that you have prepared for me. I will not stop here, but by grace, I will continue in your word, and I will see the good things prepared for me. I will make my calling and election sure. I thank you for your goodness and mercy unto me.