Thoughts Higher Than Mine_Living Word Chronicle

By Moses Hightower

Thelma and Moses Hightower

Look Up To Love and Focus On Loving God, Then Will You Access God’s Higher Thoughts and Ways

I have sought you continually. I have beckoned you when you strayed. My love for you is the same love that caused me to go to Calvary for you. I am the same yesterday, today, and forever. I am the Lord, and I do not change. The desire for prayer today was supplied by my grace. You can do nothing of yourself. I am your sufficiency, your power, and I give you right desires, right motives, and right thoughts. My thoughts are higher than yours, and my ways are higher than yours. Yield to the higher thoughts and ways that have come to you. If you keep your mind stayed on me, perfect peace will always be yours. Perfect peace is not elusive. It targets the minds of those whose mind is stayed on their Lord. When your mind is stayed on me, your mind will also be at peace with others. Follow peace with all men and holiness. Without peace with all men and holiness, it is impossible to see me. I will only be seen by those who hold the banner of peace and holiness. Be holy, for I am holy.

I am purifying the hearts of my people in this hour. Hatred is rampant. Lying is extensive. Deception is widespread. Covetousness is at an epidemic state. Idolatry has lured many into the chambers of damnation, for those whose hearts have been turned unto covetousness are worshipping another Jesus. I offer the bridle of love today. I will restrain those who love me and want to be kept. Listen no longer to the many voices of the age. These voices are significant. Your losses will be substantial if you continue to follow the voices of these strangers. My sheep hear my voice. Are you my sheep?

Then turn from listening to the voices of the strangers of the hour. These strangers have been sent among you. Their devouring minds will consume you if you listen to them. I desire to purify your hearts. How can you claim a pure heart if you listen to the voice of impurity?

Look up to love again. Focus your heart on love for me, and then will your senses be tuned to that which is right and holy. I am not double-minded. Look out of the window of love. I am everywhere. I have come to consume those who love me with a pure heart. I touch your eyes and make them clean with my eye-salve. Now behold me, your Lord and Savior.

CONFUSION, COVETOUSNESS, DECEPTION, HATRED, LYING, AND UNHOLINESS

God has sought me continually. He has beckoned me when I strayed. His love for me is the same love that caused him to go to Calvary for me. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the Lord, and he does not change. The desire for prayer today was supplied by his grace. I can do nothing of myself. He is my sufficiency, my power, and he gives me right desires, right motives, and right thoughts. His thoughts are higher than mine, and his ways are higher than mine. I yield to the higher thoughts and ways that have come to me. If I keep my mind stayed on him, perfect peace will always be mine. Perfect peace is not elusive. It targets the minds of those whose mind is stayed on their Lord. When my mind is stayed on him, my mind will also be at peace with others. I will follow peace with all men and holiness. Without peace with all men and holiness, it is impossible to see God. He will only be seen by those who hold the banner of peace and holiness. I will be holy, for he is holy.

The Lord is purifying the hearts of his people in this hour. Hatred is rampant. Lying is extensive. Deception is widespread. Covetousness is at an epidemic state. Idolatry has lured many into the chambers of damnation, for those whose hearts have been turned unto covetousness are worshipping another Jesus. He offers the bridle of love and will restrain those who love him and want to be kept. I do not listen any longer to the many voices of the age. These voices are significant; however, my losses will be substantial if I continue to follow the voices of these strangers. God’s sheep hear his voice. I am his sheep; therefore, I turn from listening to the voices of the strangers of the hour. These strangers have been sent among us by Satan. Their devouring minds will consume me if I listen to them. God desires to purify my heart. I cannot claim a pure heart if I listen to the voice of impurity.

I look up to love again. I focus my heart on love for God, and now will my senses be tuned to that which is right and holy. The Lord is not double-minded. I look out of the window of love. God is everywhere, and he has come to consume those who love him with a pure heart. He has touched my eyes and made them clean with his eye-salve. I now behold my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

By Don Grigsby

Don and Linda Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - Look Up To Love and Focus On Loving God, Then Will You Access God's Higher Thoughts and Ways

Love is the most powerful force in the universe. When we say and know that God is summed up in love, we know that the dynamo of the cosmos is whirling by the power of the fires of love. Grace supplies the desire for us to live righteously and to pursue the greater things of God that our flesh would not on its own seek. Our minds are constantly under the siege of the sensual and sinful images of this hour. Love will illuminate the media center of the heavens. We will behold the love that will never stop loving us in all its beauty. Hatred and animosity is rampant on the tongue multitudes of voices in this hour. One version of the book of Romans says that in the last days men will be loveless, merciless, and heartless. We must as lovers of God reach out into the dimensions of love's power that take us beyond the gravity of this hatred. Strange voices are trying to get us to justify other options beside love. When love is the choice, it does not matter how many other choices are available. The only choice is to love God and others as ourselves. This is the only path that will lead us beyond the mundane and the average.

The enemy has come to offer you his rewards on the platters of compromise. Remember that I have sent you to be a testimony of my power and my glory. Remember that you are my witnesses and not the witnesses of the enemy. Compromise is a deadly tactic of the enemy. It is aligned against my warriors to distract them from my goodness and mercy in order to smite from the back. Remember that compromise is a deadly enemy, not a harmless game or entertainment. Every spirit of the darkness is armed with the weapons of compromise.

(RHEMA: Saved from the Distractions and Entertainment In the World by the Love of God)

The enemy has come to offer me his rewards on the platters of compromise. I keep in mind that God has sent me to be a testimony of his power and his glory. I remember that I am his witness and not the witness of the enemy. Compromise is a deadly tactic of the enemy. It is aligned against God's warriors to distract them from his goodness and mercy in order to smite from the back. I know that compromise is a deadly enemy, not a harmless game or entertainment. Every spirit of the darkness is armed with the weapons of compromise.

(Confessions of a Sound Mind: Words of Light Upon the Face of Distraction, Entertainment, Fame, Pride, and Unbelief)

By Don Grigsby

RHEMA: The Staff of Righteousness In the Strong City of Truth

Judges rise and fall, but the Judge of righteousness took on flesh like the children to taste the bitter taste of death for all of us. He swallowed up death in victory so we would not choke on the distasteful behavior of a crowd that “know not what they do.” He will speedily avenge his elect that cry to him, and he will defend their cause before all accusers. Faith is not only our justification that says, “We are not guilty,” but God will vindicate us before all those who seek our downfall. He was justified in the spirit so that we would have every false charge dropped on our behalf. Our poor ability and merits do not register on the scale that he has already measured our inheritance and promises upon. He has accepted us and qualified us by his grace and not in the light of our shortcomings. We may seem like children, but we are already owners of the whole property. We must grow up into him in this dimension also. We try to establish a base of operation in our lives by our own works when he has finished the works from the foundation of the world. We cannot bring anything to the table that has not already had the transaction that we try to make finished by the blood of the cross. Our voices should clearly indicate and be heard in all the chief places of the city that the riches of a King is being disbursed for anyone who is thirsty and hungry. Our avenues of address have been opened before us. They will ask and call for a report for the evil and negative reports that have made men's souls lean and starving. Our world starves for the good report that is in our mouth.

We are not as the beggars of the street. We are the family of the royalty of heaven. By supernatural birth, we have been made partakers of the wealth that will never pass away or be stolen by the thieves of unbelief. We are the children of mercy. Haughty spirits will always be an open pit. Arrogance will leave us open to the den of lions that we may wish upon others. The heart and tongue of the just is of choice silver. We will redeem our brother who is fallen into decay with. We will restore the faltering and the failing. We are instructed to have compassion upon those who have fallen into disarray. We are instructed to forgive the debts of others as we have been forgiven our debts. Grace and mercy are the two doors of access into the temple of the kingdom of this hour. My language may want to lash out at the one who has so hurt me or others, but have I ever hurt or disappointed anyone?

I know that I have. Failures are not final but failure to forgive and have mercy can be the final blow to my relationship with the God whose mercy endureth forever. Mercy sees the tremendous potential that vengeance will crush and throw away. God never came to destroy us in this world but to save us in this world that is full of every kind of deterrent to forgiveness and left us at the seeming mercy of all the weakness of our own flesh. Let us behold the potential in all we meet that mirrors the actions of mercy in our own lives that God established as a foundation for us to stand on.

(Continued)

Do not fear. The devil is on a leash. Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto me and the peace of God, which passes all understanding shall keep your heart and mind by Christ Jesus, your Lord. I made today for you to rejoice in. Do not allow regret, sorrow, and distrust to rule your day. I have placed all these things beneath your feet. Dance on these feelings and intimidating expressions that come out of the darkness.

38. Do you have more confidence in what the devil plans on doing to you than you have in the Living God and what he will do for you?

Examine your faith again, and do not be detoured from following me, the Living God. There is work to be accomplished. The devil’s plans are distractions that lead away from my purpose. Do not fear. I am the head of the devil and all things are under my feet. Fear has been cast out.

39. Why fear a foe that is on the outside looking in?

(To Be Continued)