Beware lest you sell the truth for empty rewards and the praises of man. You have taken up your spiritual weapons by the hands of trust. Now continue to trust in me that the weapons of your warfare may be swung with accuracy and confidence and not stilled by doubt and fear. In the hearts of those who have allowed love to abide, there is peace in the face of judgment by the courts of the enemy. In the hearts of those who truly believe, life is not viewed by eyes that seek to save their lives.

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

I will beware lest I sell the truth for empty rewards and the praises of man. I have taken up my spiritual weapons by the hands of trust. Now I will continue to trust in God that the weapons of my warfare may be swung with accuracy and confidence and not stilled by doubt and fear. In the hearts of those who have allowed love to abide, there is peace in the face of judgment by the courts of the enemy. In the hearts of those who truly believe, life is not viewed by eyes that seek to save their lives.

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

By Don Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - The Power of Mercy In the Face of Unrelenting Pressure

Mercy seats are always the best seats in the house. Since the mercy seat is a figure of God's throne, it is also the greatest seat of power. If we sit, let it not be in judgment but in mercy. Mercy will bring to us more windows of opportunity than the judgment of others. In the prison at the Livingston unit where death row is, one of our ministers began to threaten the chaplain, and they removed him from the unit. We have had a growing group of apostolic men on that unit. I have been contacted over and over again in the last two months for someone to come. We prayed, and God put a new chaplain that I had been friends with on another unit. He has already set up a baptism service for the truth and preaching time as well! This did not happen by condemning the chaplain. God spoke to me earlier about this year in the prison. You must speak to them by revelation and not by condemnation. You do not know where I have led them from and how I have spoken to them that they will never admit to any of their own friends or family. I am leading many out of darkness. It is difficult for men to turn loose of error when they have believed it was truth for years. What would you do if someone began to ridicule the truth that you were convinced was light?

I am the truth. Let me embrace them with my love and they will embrace you. Point them to my throne of mercy and not a seat before the court of your thoughts. I am convinced that there would not have been any opportunity to minister to one in that unit if God had not worked in mercy.

Every closed door and hurt will be overturned by the hands of mercy. Every wounded spirit cries for the balm of grace and the oils of mercy to be applied by gentle spirits and tender hearts. As we dedicate ourselves to the ministry of the cross, mercy will testify of the only true God. Worship and commitment to him will exclude all the false images of jealousy that we are capable of hiding in the high places of our hearts. We play right into the hands of the accuser of the brethren when we cannot worship in the presence of mercy. We can fill the windows of opportunity of mercy with shades of unresolved issues of the past and the untenable problems of the present. We must determine to remove the shades and coverings of the windows of new dimensions so that we are able to respond to the light and opening that has come out of the shadows. Complacency and no commitment will cause us to ignore the venues of opportunity that God will open to us daily.

We are surrounded by many things that would sweep us away and entangle us in our own emotions and personal agendas. We must shred and burn any personal lists that we have and ask God for a fresh sheet with daily revaluation to work in this hour when mercy will do a quick work. Many pitfalls and traps of selfishness are along the path, but his directives will instruct us clearly how to avoid the entanglement of the enemy. He will make our feet like hind's feet and put them on our dancing places of victory because mercy has already designed the victory. We must not be ignorant of the false love that will attack us in this hour. We can let it become introverted and destroy us, or we can be overwhelming in our response and view the grand vistas of power through the windows of mercy and doors of grace. We have been given doors of utterance to walk through in this hour. We will do well to walk through them anointed by mercy and shouting life instead of death