Thoughts Higher Than Mine_Living Word Chronicle

By Moses Hightower

Thelma and Moses Hightower

The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Has Established Foundations and a Springboard of Grace in the House of Our Enemies

The way is already made. I have not brought you to a wilderness of death and bones. I have brought you to a battleground for souls. This is not a place of death and bones, but this is a place of tremendous victory. This victory on this place shall be for a memorial. I have allowed the things that have come that I might show myself strong on your behalf. Show forth fervent praises that this fragrance of praise will become a memory that you will not forget. Do not allow the regretful things to become your memories, or there shall only be the remains from the stagnant fragrances of bitterness and resentment. I have allowed all the pains and hurts that you might be in fellowship with me. You have come to know me in the fellowship of alienation and rejection, yet the glory of God rest upon you and those who follow you. Do not be filled with dismay in this time of discouragement, but rather, be encouraged that you are chosen to suffer with me. The spears and javelins of the enemy cannot prevent you from going through the barrier ahead. I have placed a door in the barriers before you. Keep moving forward, for the door is already opened for you. I have gone before you and established foundations in the house of your enemies. I shall build upon this point of rejection and cause my acceptance to be your springboard of grace. I have given more grace in the time of bewilderment. Remember, I have allowed all the things that have come to you. The day shall not pass before you become fully aware of the meanings behind what I have allowed. I will give you a confirmation of the things that are to come to pass shortly.

You are resting on everlasting arms. There is no falling in this dimension with me. I have undergirded you with the wings of love. I have provided you with a fresh anointing and the expression of the resurrection. Rest in the faithful arms of love and know that I am carrying you. I have not left you in this time of discouragement, but I have enlightened your eyes and given you the freshness of inspiration that comes from me, the Living God. Look unto me and be saved. I have all these things that have troubled you under my feet. Now look to me, the author and the finisher of your faith. I am faithful. I will not fail and nothing is too hard for me. The victory that you have sought is right around the corner. Around the corner of life, the victory shall not spring forth from outside but from within you. The victory shall spring forth from the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Behold the great victory of your Lion. I have sent forth sure victory. Worship and be glad, for I have ordained the victory of my cross as yours.

ALIENATION, BITTERNESS, ENEMIES, REGRETFUL THINGS, REJECTION, AND RESENTMENT

The way is already made. The Lord has not brought me to a wilderness of death and bones. He has brought me to a battleground for souls. This is not a place of death and bones, but this is a place of tremendous victory. This victory on this place shall be for a memorial. God has allowed the things that have come that he might show himself strong on my behalf. I show forth fervent praises that this fragrance of praise will become a memory that I will not forget. I will not allow the regretful things to become my memories, or there shall only be the remains from the stagnant fragrances of bitterness and resentment. God has allowed all the pains and hurts that I might be in fellowship with him. I have come to know Jesus in the fellowship of alienation and rejection, yet the glory of God rest upon me and those who follow me. I will not be filled with dismay in this time of discouragement but rather I will be encouraged that I am chosen to suffer with Christ. The spears and javelins of the enemy cannot prevent me from going through the barrier ahead. He has placed a door in the barriers before me. I will keep moving forward, for the door is already opened for me. God has gone before me and established foundations in the house of my enemies. The Lord shall build upon this point of rejection and cause his acceptance to be my springboard of grace. He has given more grace in the time of bewilderment. The Lord has allowed all the things that have come to me. The day shall not pass before I become fully aware of the meanings behind what he has allowed. God will give me a confirmation of the things that are to come to pass shortly.

I am resting on everlasting arms. There is no falling in this dimension with God. He has undergirded me with the wings of love and provided me with a fresh anointing and the expression of the resurrection. I rest in the faithful arms of love and know that he is carrying me. The Lord has not left me in this time of discouragement, but he has enlightened my eyes and given me the freshness of inspiration that comes from him, the Living God. I will look unto him and be saved. He has all these things that have troubled me under his feet. Now I look to Jesus, the author and the finisher of my faith. He is faithful and will not fail. Nothing is too hard for him. The victory that I have sought is right around the corner. Around the corner of life, the victory shall not spring forth from outside but from within me. The victory shall spring forth from the Lion of the tribe of Judah. I behold the great victory of my Lion. He has sent forth sure victory. I worship and I am glad, for God has ordained the victory of his cross as mine.

By Don Grigsby

Don and Linda Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Has Established Foundations and a Springboard of Grace in the House of Our Enemies

Our journey has not been sidetracked into a wilderness of wild beasts that would devour us. God has rebuked the devourer for our sake. Instead, his victory will totally consume any defeat that our enemy has designed for us. Every design of failure will be destroyed before it can get organized. Our past shortcomings and failures are not the measure that God gives his blessing to us in. Our promises are loaded into the unlimited and infinite measure of his mighty voice that dispels anything that tries to encompass us about with its forces. Our Shepherd will with his gentle hands and strong arms hold us secure in the presence of his assuring presence. Many may fall all around us, but we will proceed into the open doors of his power and understanding that no man can shut. The Lion of the tribe of Judah has leaped from Bashan. He will devour the liars and the seducers of our lives. The Lion has roared who can but continue to prophecy. Every other voice may try to rise above the voice of the King that is among us, but they will be drown out by the rising tide of the praise of the righteous. Calvary opened the doors of the declared dominion over everything in our lives that we had lost in Adam. Now we have the shared sovereignty with God to declare or call the devil a dead snake crushed by the heel of our promise.

No abominable thing shall enter into the prepared place for the faithful. Only those who work righteousness shall enter in. Shall you work abominations and enter in when I have told you that no abominable thing shall enter in?

Where do you want to spend eternity?

Where will you spend eternity?

Then show forth the works of a heavenly creation. The works of righteousness are the currency of eternity. Only those who do the will of the Father shall inherit eternal life, not those who work lies and abominations. Do not drink from the cup of the whore who pours out fornications and abominations, but drink from the wine of the church. I have poured into my body the wine of the last days. This wine is a result of the grapes of wrath that I have trodden. My garments were dyed red in the winepress that I have trodden alone. There was no intercessor worthy. There was no one to help. There was no mediator without sin. I came and walked in the winepress of the grapes of wrath for your eternal life. Now drink from the cup of eternal life, and abhor the cup of lust and pride offered by the religions of the world. Come out from among them and be separate, and I will receive you. I will be your God, and you shall be my child. Do not regret the lost pleasures and treasures of the world, but rejoice that your name is written in the Lamb's book of life. I have written down your name in my book. Will you remove your name from my list to write your name in the hall of fools?

No abominable thing shall enter into the prepared place for the faithful. Only those who work righteousness shall enter in. I shall not work abominations and enter in when God has told me that no abominable thing shall enter in. I want to spend eternity with Jesus. By faith, I will spend eternity with him. By grace, I will show forth the works of a heavenly creation. The works of righteousness are the currency of eternity. Only those who do the will of the Father shall inherit eternal life, not those who work lies and abominations. I will not drink from the cup of the whore who pours out fornications and abominations, but I will drink from the wine of the church. The Lord has poured into his body the wine of the last days. This wine is a result of the grapes of wrath that he has trodden. His garments were dyed red in the winepress that he has trodden alone. There was no intercessor worthy. There was no one to help. There was no mediator without sin. Jesus came and walked in the winepress of the grapes of wrath for my eternal life. I drink from the cup of eternal life. I abhor the cup of lust and pride offered by the religions of the world. I come out from among them, and I will be separate. God will receive me. He will be my God, and I shall be his child. I regret not the lost pleasures and treasures of the world, but I rejoice that my name is written in the Lamb’s book of life. God has written down my name in his book. I will not remove my name from his list to write my name in the hall of fools. I choose according to truth and righteousness, and now my name will not be blotted out of his book.

By Don Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - Fashioned To Overcome

Satan would like for us to dance to the drumbeat of defeat. Our destiny, however, is in the hands of the designer of the universe. It is interesting that if you take the word overcome and turn it into come over, we are promised not only to be overcomers, but we can come on over every mountain and obstacle that is in our pathway. Spirits of darkness and fear may try to rise up before the children of God, but the Lord, God Mighty in Battle, has promised to demolish every force that sets itself in array against us. Howling voices of fear and distraction may fill the air around the camp of the saints, but the Lord will disperse them with one Word of his mighty voice. Our mouth should continually pour forth the declarations of our faith into the atmosphere until it is saturated with the dew of heaven.

In our prison service the Lord spoke to us and said,

“Storms of difficulty and trial will come to your mind and try to paralyze your thoughts of faith and confidence within you. It may seem so strong that you are struggling to think the thoughts that I have given you, but my thoughts for you are more in number than the sands of the sea. I have planned for you to succeed and not to fail. I have planned your celebration over every obstacle. My thoughts are higher than yours. Your fleshly thoughts are too close to the source of the problem. Mine are above the gravity of your location. Mine are higher than the heavens above the earth from which I have already sent your victory. Rejoice and dance in the celebration that my cross has already provided for you.”

By Moses Hightower

(Continued)

I am your King, your Everlasting Father. The princes of the world are no match for the love that I am. I am love. I am light. I am your righteousness, and I have justified you. Believe on me as the scriptures have declared of me and the rivers of living water will flow in you and through you. Allow true faith to work. True faith is in you. True faith has not come to the threshold of revival and turned back. True faith has no reverse, for true faith overcomes all things. If you believe, then all things are possible if you truly believe.

193. With men, things are impossible, but with me, all things are possible. Is anything too hard for me?

You have heard my voice from within, not out of heaven. The new covenant has guaranteed you a relationship with me. The might that I demonstrated when I brought the children of Israel out of Egypt will be demonstrated in you. Know of a truth that I am the Lord and that I am God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath. There is none else. Keep my commandments that it may go well with you and with your children, and then shall your days be prolonged upon the earth.

194. If you serve yourself now, will self deliver you in your time of tribulation?

(To Be Continued)

RE: PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING - January 3, 2007

Calvary's work and impact in our lives is eternal. It was finished before the foundation of the world. If God so loved that he gave himself as a lamb before there was a man on this planet, then his love is still the same today in my life. This means that my past and all its failures and mistakes are not my master. Our master is the One who has buried all our mistakes and failures where they will never come to haunt us again. His love from before time promised us grace that is fresh today and will bring tomorrow's sunrise of joy to us as sure as God is alive. We live in the narrow constrictions of a day that we allow the regrets of the past and the concerns and dreads of tomorrow to order us into. We should rearrange that order of living with thanksgiving. Yesterday should be the closed door of the past. Tomorrow's fears have been swept away with the broom of grace's thanksgiving. We now live, rejoice, and dance in the huge ballroom of an eternal today that the Lord has made. We allow time and its events to rob us of the eternity of now. God is able to make everything that has never ceased in our lives cease right now! He is able to bring about, create, and start everything that has never been started in our lives right now. This is because he is the Beginning and Ending simultaneously. If we ever grasp the greatness of his ETERNAL POWER, we will have the floods of yesterday's unfulfilled potential, today's undiscovered promises, and the treasures of tomorrow come flooding into the sea of today. As in 2 Samuel 5, every enemy and foe will be washed away as they were for David at Baalperazim before the sound of the going in the tops of the mulberry trees. We need to loose the fresh fusion of intense praise with his fresh promises, and the explosion will destroy every weapon that comes against us.

By Thelma Hightower

January 3 , 2007

Lord, I praise and thank you because my way is already made. You have not brought me to a wilderness of death and bones, but you have brought me to a battleground for souls. I thank you that you have preserved me from the place of death and bones and given me a place of tremendous victory. Thank you that this victory shall be for a memorial for me. You have allowed the things that have come that you might show yourself strong on my behalf. I am thankful that I can show forth fervent praises that this fragrance of praise will become a memory that I will not forget. By grace, I will not allow the regretful things to become my memories, or there shall only be the remains from the stagnant fragrances of bitterness and resentment. You have allowed all the pains and hurts that I might be in fellowship with you. Thank you that you have allowed me to know you in the fellowship of alienation and rejection. I praise you because you have allowed your glory to rest upon me and those who follow me. I am thankful that I am not filled with dismay in this time of discouragement, but I am encouraged because I have been chosen to suffer with you. I know that the spears and javelins of the enemy cannot prevent me from going through the barrier ahead. You have placed a door in the barriers before me. I purpose to keep moving forward, for the door is already opened for me. I praise you because you have gone before me and established foundations in the house of my enemies. I am thankful that you shall build upon this point of rejection and cause your acceptance to be my springboard of grace. You have given me more grace in my time of bewilderment. You have allowed all the things that have come to me. I have confidence that the day shall not pass before I become fully aware of the meanings behind what you have allowed. I am persuaded that you will give me a confirmation of the things that are to come to pass shortly.

Lord, I rest on your everlasting arms, and I know that there is no falling in this dimension with you. I am thankful that you have undergirded me with the wings of love and provided me with a fresh anointing and the expression of the resurrection. I praise you because I can rest in your faithful arms of love and know that you are carrying me. You have not left me in this time of discouragement, but you have enlightened my eyes and given me hope. I will continue to look unto you and be saved. You have all these things that have troubled me under your feet. I am thankful that I can look to you, the author and the finisher of my faith. You are faithful and will not fail me. Nothing is too hard for you. I am thankful that the victory that I have sought is right around the corner. I am confident that around the corner of life, my victory shall not spring forth from outside but from within me. I know that my victory shall spring forth from you, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. You have sent forth sure victory. I thank you and worship you because you have ordained the victory of your cross as mine. I thank you that my journey has not been sidetracked into a wilderness of wild beasts that would devour me. I praise you because you have rebuked the devourer for my sake. I know that your victory will totally consume any defeat that my enemy has designed for me. I praise you because I know that every design of failure will be destroyed before it can get organized. Thank you Lord that my past shortcomings and failures are not the measure that you give your blessing to me in. I am persuaded that my promises are loaded into the unlimited and infinite measure of your mighty voice that dispels anything that encompasses me about with its forces. I am confident that you, my Good Shepherd, will with your gentle hands and strong arms hold me secure in the presence of your assuring presence. Although many may fall all around me, I know that by grace, I will proceed into the open doors of power and understanding that no man can shut. Thank you for devouring the liars and the seducers of my life. I am thankful to know that the rising tide of the praises of the righteous shall drown out every other voice that tries to rise above your voice. I am thankful that Calvary opened the doors of the declared dominion over everything in my life that I had lost in Adam. Thank you that I now have the shared sovereignty with you to declare or call the devil a dead snake crushed by the heel of my promise.