Thoughts Higher Than Mine_Living Word Chronicle

By Moses Hightower

Thelma and Moses Hightower

A Journey Through Time in the Care of Jesus (Part 1)

The light of the spirit has shined into your heart and granted you all the vision needed for the moment. You must learn to live by faith. You say you know how to live by faith, but have you considered how much you have?

If you only had the bare necessities of a wanderer, would you have the same joy?

I have not allowed you to journey into the paths of those who walk by true faith. You have things and friends. Would your walk of faith be the same if you had no things and no friends?

Come to the arena of true faith and behold the beauty of real trust in me. I have dimensions of understanding that have never been explored. I have dimensions of understanding that man has never walked in. What do you desire from me?

Do you want the good things of this life, or do you want the unsearchable riches of Christ?

Look to the Spirit of God and behold the awesomeness of the mind of Christ. I am free from all the entanglements of human reasoning because I am God. I desire you to come into this dimension of my reasoning that you might be free from the entanglements that are fostered by human reasoning and the traditions of men. I have an expression that can only be expressed through vessels that are yielded to my expressions of faithfulness. Only believe that I am faithful. I promised, and I will perform. The spirit of doubt has moved around the walls of salvation.

The spirit of doubt has taken advantage of your lack of trust in me. Move into the spirit of faith, and allow the spirit of faith to become one with you, then will you be able to operate as one confident of true victory and not as one hoping for victory. Consider the work of the spirit already accomplished. Consider the work of the spirit already done.

(The thought came to me to look at the calendar given to me by Barbara Bisang. The calendar was entitled, "Footprints, Journey in Jesus' Care." I picked up the calendar and looked at the cover. As I observed the calendar, these thoughts came to me...,)

FRONT COVER & FIRST PAGE

The sands of time give the appearance of an endless desert of sand. Do not look at the assumed distances across this desert of life and fabricate impossible situations in your life, but look to the Spirit of God and perceive the reality of your new birth where there are no deserts, no sand dunes, no vultures of the night, and no creatures from the nights of uncertainty. Look into the spirit and not into the distances in your mind. These things of your mind are not the things that determine what I am going to do. I will cause every desert in your mind to become a fertile place. I will cause every sand dune that has brought you despair to be a place of hope and fertility. Look into the spirit, and behold the hope of glory in action for you and for my name's sake. Behold the things of the spirit and not the things that are temporal.

You are not a wanderer. You are a creature with purpose. You are a creature that has never existed before. I have fashioned you after my own likeness and in my own image. The things created cannot master you, but you will master the things of the creation. Rise up from your own concepts of things, and behold my concept of things. You behold these things as sands of time with little hope of finding the fulfillment of your dreams, but I behold the fulfilled dreams at the end of your sands. Come for a journey with me, and I will show you the creation of God at the end of these imaginations. Have you trusted your mind long enough?

Have you satisfied yourself with the inspiration from your imaginations?

Then turn from imaginations and give these things to me that I might make them captives. If your thoughts are not in captivity to me, then they will imprison you in the deserts of this life. Do not live any longer in the prison houses of self-created deserts of loneliness, but come and live in the realities of the kingdom of God.

DARKNESS, DOUBT, HUMAN REASONING, IMAGINATIONS, LACK OF UNDERSTANDING, AND TRADITIONS OF MEN

The light of the spirit has shined into my heart and granted me all the vision needed for the moment. I must learn to live by faith. I have said, “I know how to live by faith,” but I have not considered how much I have. If I only had the bare necessities of a wanderer, I would not have the same joy. God has not allowed me to journey into the paths of those who walk by true faith. I have things and friends. I do not believe that my walk of faith would be the same if I had no things and no friends. I have come to the arena of true faith, and I behold the beauty of real trust in God. He has dimensions of understanding that have never been explored. He has dimensions of understanding that man has never walked in. I want the unsearchable riches of Christ; therefore, I look to the Spirit of God, and I behold the awesomeness of the mind of Christ. He is free from all the entanglements of human reasoning because he is God. He desires me to come into this dimension of his reasoning that I might be free from the entanglements that are fostered by human reasoning and the traditions of men. God has an expression that can only be expressed through vessels that are yielded to his expressions of faithfulness. I know that the Lord is faithful. He has promised and will perform.

The spirit of doubt has moved around the walls of salvation. The spirit of doubt has taken advantage of my lack of trust in God, so I will move into the spirit of faith and allow the spirit of faith to become one with me. Now I will be able to operate as one confident of true victory and not as one hoping for victory. I consider the work of the spirit already accomplished and regard it as already done.

FRONT COVER & FIRST PAGE

The sands of time give the appearance of an endless desert of sand. I will not look at the assumed distances across this desert of life and fabricate impossible situations in my life, but I look to the Spirit of God and perceive the reality of my new birth where there are no deserts, no sand dunes, no vultures of the night, and no creatures from the nights of uncertainty. I look into the spirit and not into the distances in my mind. These things of my mind are not the things that determine what God is going to do. The Lord will cause every desert in my mind to become a fertile place. He will cause every sand dune that has brought me despair to be a place of hope and fertility. I look into the spirit, and I behold the hope of glory in action for me and for the Lord’s name sake. I behold the things of the spirit and not the things that are temporal.

I am not a wanderer. I am a creature with purpose. I am a creature that has never existed before. God has fashioned me after his own likeness and in his own image. The things created cannot master me, but I will master the things of the creation. I rise up from my own concepts of things, and I behold the Lord’s concept of things. I have beheld these things as sands of time with little hope of finding the fulfillment of my dreams, but God beholds the fulfilled dreams at the end of my sands. I have come for a journey with him, and he will show me the creation of God at the end of these imaginations. I have trusted my mind long enough. In times past, I have not satisfied myself with the inspiration from my imaginations; accordingly, I will turn from imaginations and give these things to God that he might make them captives. If my thoughts are not in captivity to him, then they will imprison me in the deserts of this life. I will not live any longer in the prison houses of self-created deserts of loneliness, but I have come to live in the realities of the kingdom of God.

By Don Grigsby

Don and Linda Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - A Journey Through Time in the Care of Jesus (Part 1)

Faith is seeing the promise coming. Faith is one of the purest forms of foreknowledge. Distractions and voids will never neutralize or minimize the promises of God. Promises are not given just to tease us but to bolster our flagging faith. They are emblazoned on our hearts and spirits to give us a solid foundation to stand upon. Faith worketh by love. God’s love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. Faith cannot be derived from the symmetry of human wisdom. Faith reaches beyond the sunset of the day of reason and logic and stands on the shores of the sunrise of the day of eternal power. It uses the trampoline of inspiration of the spirit to leap into the heavenly places of excitement and assurance. Doubt is dismissed by the deluge of the declarations of deity. What God has done is the foundation of what he will continue to do.

FRONT COVER AND FIRST PAGE

Horizons are the curtains of limitation that were rent in two at the cross. Human inability and finite understanding wraps us in its thick insulation from the fear of things in the night. Revelation is the visible light of the Shekinah of glory that banishes the shadows that stretch across the sands of time. Measurement and distance are the tools of time. Eternity never uses such devices. God’s multiplied power will turn deserts of fear and loneliness into the broad vistas of a fertile plane. Not only will the desert blossom as a rose but also the trees of the forest of faith will flourish instead of thorny plants of a wilderness. Rivers that gush with refreshing waters of life will flow from the Rock of a dry and thirsty land. We will cast down false imaginations and view life in the mirrors of miracles. Our determination will be to refuse the chains of littleness and lies.

I am the Lord, and I change not. Trust me and I will show you my glory. Trust me and I will show you that you have not believed in an idol, but you have believed in the only Lord God. I am Jesus who called Paul of the early church. Now I have called you. Allow the fashioning of my grace to complete its work, then will you be pleased with the result that I have planned by my mind. You cannot add one inch to your stature. Then why struggle to become what you are going to be?

Allow me to continue my molding process of your life, then you will be a vessel that I am pleased to dwell within. I have a word for the people. Allow me to give them what has been sent from eternal wisdom and understanding and not from your own plans, then will you behold the victory planned for today. Only believe.

Jesus is the Lord, and he does not change. I trust him, and he will show me his glory. I trust him, and he will show me that I have not believed in an idol, but I have believed in the only Lord God. The Lord is Jesus who called Paul of the early church. Now he has called me. I allow the fashioning of his grace to complete its work. Now will I be pleased with the result that God has planned by his mind. I cannot add one inch to my stature. There is no need for me to struggle to become what I am going to be. I allow God to continue his molding process of my life. Now I will be a vessel that he is pleased to dwell within. He has a word for the people. I allow him to give them what has been sent from eternal wisdom and understanding and not from my own plans. Now will I behold the victory planned for today. I believe.

By Don Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - The Day Star Who Painted a New Dimension of Living

We exist in and see the three dimensions of the earth. Ephesians adds the dimension of the depth or the profundity of God. This dimension goes deeper than hell and higher than heaven. It is the dimension of the infinite. Every parable, enigma, and conundrum may be the glass we look through darkly, but this dimension hands us the lens of prophecy and instructs us to look and wonder greatly. In all the majesty that is hidden from the view of earthly probes, he stands before our eyes in the unlimited dimension that he has invited us to live in with him. Entropic galaxies called supernovas can release all the energy of 9 billion years of our suns history in one tenth of a second. Entropy is creation running backward as destruction. Creation will always take us into at least one dimension beyond our reach. The day star has arisen in our hearts, and the prophecy that it has given us is more certain than the Old Testament prophets because the real prophet is living on the inside of our lives. Darkness will never cast out the dimensions of power that the heavens declare that exist in the Creator. Our Creator will always swallow up all the attacks of the darkness and send it away stripped of its power. In Psalms, we are told that the lines of the stars have gone throughout the earth. They are the same lines as the word in the 28th chapter of Isaiah. We should never cease to write upon the lines of power the words that will detail the portrait that light has painted before us.

By Moses Hightower

(Continued)

I am in you to preach the gospel by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Unless you preach by the Holy Ghost, you will make the cross of Christ of none effect. If you preach with the wisdom of words, a false Christ will be the result of your ministry. You must preach Christ crucified. You must preach Christ, the power and the wisdom of God. Enticing spirits roam the earth inspiring people to preach another Jesus. Submit yourself unto me, deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow me daily, then shall the offense of the cross escalate in your life. Reckon yourself crucified with Christ, yet living because Christ lives in you. Reckon yourself crucified with Christ, yet living in the flesh by the faith of the Christ who loved you and gave himself for you.

168. How will you decrease if you live by human faith and not the faith of the Son of God?

You have attempted to figure out the meanings for your deep hurts and pains. These pains were sent to keep you from exchanging the bloodline of a prince for the bloodline of a pauper. I must pass this royal bloodline on to others in the womb of faith. Inside of each of you, there is the promise of this bloodline that is to be passed on to someone in this life.

169. If you exchange this royal bloodline for that of the bloodline of a pauper, then what profit is that to a pauper desiring to escape his destination of death?

(To Be Continued)

RE: PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING - December 25, 2006

David said in the Psalms that the thoughts of the Lord toward us are more in number than the sands of the earth. His thoughts toward us are promises that are ours as we embrace his faithfulness. Our journey is not an obstacle course to test our ability, but it is a clear path that assures us of his providence in our lives. Our logic and reasoning are the traps of the carnal mind and the schemes of the enemy. Reason explains the supernatural away and eliminates God from every equation. Our natural man will never receive the things of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually understood. We have been given the spirit of understanding and revelation. Doubt and fear will always be like some terrorist group that will try to invent new ways to attack and terrorize us. We have been given the walls of salvation and the shield of faith to protect us from the fiery darts of the wicked one. Our enemy would like to ignite the reservations of our carnal mind into a bonfire of paranoid fear. God is our trust and habitation. Psalms 91 has promised that no attack will come into our lives as we trust in the Lord and make him our habitation. Habitation in the original Hebrew is defined as the watchful eye of a farmer and land owner over his crop who builds a covering over it to protect it from any attack. Eden's Gardner has brought forth a new creation in our lives, and he will finish the work of faith and power in our lives. As God fulfills our dreams and releases us from every anxiety, we are free to see the promises of God as real and not just some illusion on the horizon of our thinking. His sacrifice at the cross was the stake in the heart of the enemy. God's love was limitless and free when we did not even ask for a cross and its great salvation in our lives. How much more will he give to those who ask in faith and wait with worshipful anticipation.

By Thelma Hightower

December 25 , 2006

Lord, I am thankful that the light of your Spirit has shined into my heart and granted me all the vision needed for the moment. I know that I must learn to live by faith. Although I have said, “I know how to live by faith,” I did not consider how much faith I have. I know that if I only had the bare necessities of a wanderer, I would not have the same joy. Thank you for bringing me to the arena of true faith, and I behold the beauty of real trust in you. You have dimensions of understanding that have never been explored. Thank you for your dimensions of understanding that man has never walked in. I want your unsearchable riches therefore, I give thanks as I look to your Spirit and I behold the awesomeness of your mind. You desire me to come into this dimension of your reasoning that I might be free from the entanglements that are fostered by human reasoning and the traditions of men. You have an expression that can only be expressed through vessels that are yielded to your expressions of faithfulness. I know that you are faithful. You have promised and you will perform.

By your grace, I am now moving in the spirit of faith and I will no longer allow the spirit of doubt to take advantage of my previous lack of trust in you. I thank you for the renewal of trust in you Lord, and I am now allowing the spirit of faith to become one with me. I am thankful that now I will be able to operate as one confident of true victory and not as one hoping for victory. I consider the work of your Spirit already accomplished and regard it as already done. I realize that the sands of time have given the appearance of an endless desert of sand, but I will not look at the assumed distances across this desert of life and fabricate impossible situations in my life. I am thankful that I can look to your Spirit and perceive the reality of my new birth where there are no deserts, no sand dunes, no vultures of the night, and no creatures from the nights of uncertainty. I look into your Spirit and not into the distances in my mind. I know that these things of my mind are not the things that determine what you are going to do. You will cause every desert in my mind to become a fertile place. You will cause every sand dune that has brought me despair to be a place of hope and fertility. I look into your Spirit, and I behold the hope of glory in action for me and for your name's sake. I am thankful to behold the things of the spirit and not the things that are temporal.

I am thankful that I am not a wanderer, but I am a creature with purpose. I am a creature that has never existed before. I praise you for fashioning me after your own likeness and in your own image. I know that the things created cannot master me, but by your grace I will master the things of the creation. I am thankful that I can rise up from my own concepts of things and behold your concept of things. I have beheld these things as sands of time with little hope of finding the fulfillment of my dreams, but you behold the fulfilled dreams at the end of my sands. Lord, I have come for a journey with you, and I rejoice that you will show me your creation at the end of these imaginations. I have trusted my mind long enough. In times past, I have satisfied myself with the inspiration from my imaginations, therefore I will turn from imaginations and give these things to you that you might make them captives. I know that if my thoughts are not in captivity to you, then they will imprison me in the deserts of this life. I am determined not live any longer in the prison houses of self-created deserts of loneliness, but I am determined to live in the realities of your kingdom.

I know that faith is seeing the promise coming and that faith is one of the purest forms of foreknowledge. I know that distractions and voids will never neutralize or minimize your promises. Your promises are not given just to tease me, but they are given to bolster my flagging faith. Your promises are emblazoned on my heart and spirit to give me a solid foundation to stand upon. I know that faith worketh by love. I am thankful that your love is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost. I know that faith cannot be derived from the symmetry of human wisdom, but faith reaches beyond the sunset of the day of reason and logic and stands on the shores of the sunrise of the day of eternal power. The faith that you give uses the trampoline of inspiration of your Spirit to leap into the heavenly places of excitement and assurance. I give you thanks that doubt is dismissed by the deluge of the declarations of deity and what you have done is the foundation of what you will continue to do.

I am thankful that horizons were the curtains of limitation that were rent in two at the cross. My human inability and finite understanding wraps me in its thick insulation from the fear of things in the night. I know that revelation is the visible light of the Shekinah of glory that banishes the shadows that stretch across the sands of time. Although measurement and distance are the tools of time, eternity never uses such devices. I am thankful that your multiplied power will turn deserts of fear and loneliness into the broad vistas of a fertile plane. You will not only cause the desert to blossom as a rose, but you will also cause the trees of the forest of faith to flourish instead of thorny plants of a wilderness. I know that rivers that gush with refreshing waters of life will flow from the Rock of a dry and thirsty land. I will cast down false imaginations and view life in the mirrors of miracles. I thank you O Lord for new determination that will refuse the chains of littleness and lies.