Thoughts Higher Than Mine_Living Word Chronicle

The fruit of my word is better than gold. My earnings and my profits are better than the finest silver. Continue in the light of my word, and you will be my disciple and not a disciple of Satan. Remember, many started out in the light but have turned unto the darkness. I am the Light of the world. Those who love darkness rather than light do evil deeds. If your deeds are evil, you hate the light, and you will not come to the light, neither will you follow it. I reprove the deeds of those who hate the light. Do the truth. Do not simply speak it. Do the truth, and you will come to the light, and remain with the light. If your deeds are works that come from me, then you will do the truth. Beware of the lights of Satan, and walk not in the counsel of his lights. Do not jeopardize your relationship with me. Do not lose your prosperity, your health, and my blessings. Walk not in the counsel of the ungodly. Do not stand in the way of sinners, neither sit in the seat of the scornful. Allow your delight to be in the law of the Lord. In my law, continue to meditate day and night. You shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. You will bring forth your fruit in your season. Your leaf shall not wither, and whatsoever you do, shall prosper. Your due season has arrived. Continue in the path of righteousness for my name's sake. Continue to hope in the living word and that which is forever settled in heaven then shall your heart be sound in the word, and you will not be ashamed. Hear these words, and do these words, and you will not explode into the darkness with the wandering stars and clouds without water.

(RHEMA: Durable Riches and Honor Waiting Our Arrival At the End of the Trial)

The fruit of God's word is better than gold. His earnings and his profits are better than the finest silver. I will continue in the light of his word, and I will be his disciple and not a disciple of Satan. I remember that many started out in the light but have turned unto the darkness. Jesus is the Light of the world. Those who love darkness rather than light do evil deeds. If my deeds are evil, I hate the light, and I will not come to the light, neither will I follow it. God reproves the deeds of those who hate the light. I will do the truth and not simply speak it. I will do the truth, and I will come to the light and remain with the light. If my deeds are works that come from him, then I will do the truth. I will beware of the lights of Satan, and I will walk not in the counsel of his lights. I will not jeopardize my relationship with the Lord; therefore, I will not lose my prosperity, my health, and his blessings. I will not walk in the counsel of the ungodly. I will not stand in the way of sinners, neither sit in the seat of the scornful. I will allow my delight to be in the law of the Lord. In his law, I will continue to meditate day and night. I shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, and I will bring forth my fruit in my season. My leaf shall not wither, and whatsoever I do, shall prosper. My due season has arrived; therefore, I continue in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. I continue to hope in the living word and that which is forever settled in heaven then shall my heart be sound in the word, and I will not be ashamed. I hear these words, and I do them; therefore, I will not explode into the darkness with the wandering stars and clouds without water.

Moses Hightower

Go On Unto the Joyful Things of Today and Tomorrow and Cease Balancing the Books of the Past

Your past should be sealed in the book of profitability and only read and learned from so that the same mistakes are not committed in the future. Some of the things that you have experienced were because of other people's mistakes, but some bad things experienced by others are because of you. Cease balancing the books of the past, and go on to the joyful things of today and tomorrow. How someone else could have done what they did to you is not the issue today, but how you responded to what they did will be an issue tomorrow. You may choose by your obedience or your disobedience as to what you will regret or enjoy. Choose to worship the God of life and then will you wish and pray to live. Worship the god of self or the god of this world and you will wish and pray to die. The god of this world is ugly and cruel, but I am kind and compassionate. I did not mean the things in your life for bad. I meant them for good. You must learn to bring sweetness out of the bitter things of life and good out of evil. How can you say you have grown in the knowledge of God when you yet wrestle with what's fair and what's wrong?

When you have won me and an excellent knowledge of me, then will you count all the bad things that you suffer joy rather than sadness. When you worship me and live for me, then all your sufferings are for my name's sake and not for doing evil. You are sad because you are reaping the crop for your evil planting. Arise from your beds of regret, and go to the harvest field of future joy. Go there, and plant the seeds of good. Be patient, and you will have a harvest of fruit that is a great consolation to you. I am the God of honor; therefore, do not charge me with allowing things to happen as a punishment to you. Grace is teaching you. Are you learning?

Why go through the hard times if you are going to cast the lessons of great value in the pits of this world?

You will have suffered in vain if you do not learn from your pains. What you expected during the harvest of your evil sowing was an erroneous expectation. How can you expect a celebration of victory when you have sown the seeds of mourning and grief?

The crop of deception was sown long ago. Now eat the bitter seeds of your sowing and then will joy come because of godly endurance. Be not deceived. I am not mocked. Whatsoever a person sows, that is what that person will reap. I ate the bitter herbs and drank the bitter cup of your sins for the joy that I set before me. Now you come to me, and I will help you eat and drink of your bitter experiences that the horror of their reality is dulled by my mercy and grace that I will give to you. You may eat it alone, but I offer you my companionship. I ate and drank from your bitter lot alone. Shall the wrong not taste of any bitterness when no one was available to eat and drink with the right?

There is pleasure in sin, yet only for a season. Remember your pleasures while you sinned, and learn that all the pleasures enjoyed in the bread and wine of sin are not worth the judgment and cost of these sins. Where are the pleasures now?

Where are the remembrances of their gratifying feelings?

Behold a better way, the way of the cross where emotions are crucified with me. Come to the cross, and live with a cross borne upon you then will you enjoy the victory of discipleship. Sin is deceptive. When it is finished, it will mock you. Though sin hides behind the face of beauty, it is ugly when exposed and finished. When sin is finished, it will send you into a rage. Your rage will not receive an answer from sin when you question the tabernacle of its dwelling. Silence will be its answer and ignorance shall be its expression when you inquire to find out the why to the pain that produces the rage of insanity. Wisdom writes with the pen of pain. Wisdom draws with the paintbrush of rage. The chaotic expression that wisdom has drawn is not a disorderly design with no meaning, but its dark and empty form is the picture that depicts the only results that sin can bring.

Will your debt ever be paid?

I paid for you to live righteously, godly, and soberly, not to live and continue in sin. Grace will not abound if you continue to live in sin. Grace will teach you in spite of what you think about the consequences. The consequences of sin yield a great harvest of pain and sorrow, but the blessings of obedience and grace yield the greater harvest of joy and success. A kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies and then it brings forth much fruit. In place of the lonely kernel, you have an abundance of fruit. Choose the blessings of abundance in righteousness, which comes from your time alone in fellowship with me, or choose the curses of abundance in unrighteousness, which comes from your time alone in fellowship with sin. Choose this day what you shall reap.

The scheme of deception has an evil ending. The drama of its script sounds good, but the cost of its production is enormous. You will pay in the end. After sin is finished, the horrible scheme is revealed according to its true value. My word brings light that you might see the end of sin's entire plight. Are you an exception who will escape the burns of fire carried in the bosom?

Are you an exception whose feet will not be burned from walking on hot coals of fire?

You have walked in the wrong places. Now learn from your travels, and become a teacher of righteousness then will your sufferings have real value. How will you teach others if you are not acquainted with the devices of evil?

Many are ignorant of the devil's devices. Will you remain ignorant after suffering so much?

The only good that can come out of your sufferings is the lessons in righteousness and wisdom that are learned by you. These lessons must be taught to others that their obedience may be exchanged for their love toward me and then I will reward them so that your children and their children might be spared from your defeats. Come and make a new covenant with me, and I will show you how the ugliness of this experience shall become the embrace of beauty and understanding. How long will you embrace the arms of regret and despair?

How long will you halt between your own opinions and my realities?

If you continue to squeeze regret's arms as a lover in the time of misunderstanding, then regret will squeeze the desire to live from your bosom. Come to the arms of eternal love, and allow the embrace of holiness to blow the fresh breath of life within you. I have allowed you to keep the spirit that I gave to you then why choose to allow your soul to live in misery?

Truth paints a picture that brings pain and exposure to that which is wicked. Ask truth not to lie for you, for it does not know how to lie. It can only tell the truth that it is. This is truth's picture of your life. Now allow me to change this reality by the transformation of my righteousness upon this ugly scene. Look at this ugly scene again. Do you like what you see?

Are the pleasures you remember worth this scene filled with the death of efforts, dreams, and visions?

Bring me this ugly scene, and I will create a new life as I created a good world when the first one became ugly, dark, and without form. The world of chaos did not resist the moving of my spirit upon its face. Now cease your resisting, and break under the power of my actions upon the face of your life. I will create a new life for you and make things inside of you brand new and then will the old scene of defeat and wasted efforts be buried in the chambers of an old hard heart of sin. I will take away the stony heart and give you another heart of flesh. Come and receive of the transformation on high. Come. I have beckoned. Now come, and be changed forever.

By Don Grigsby

Don and Linda Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - Go On Unto the Joyful Things of Today and Tomorrow and Cease Balancing the Books of the Past

Yesterday is like an open chasm before us and behind us. The one who gave the law of the pit in the Old Testament will fill the pit with his grace and cover us with his blood. Eternity takes us to the feet of the El Olam. This term in the Hebrew means time beyond our thoughts and senses. It also means hidden things that are beyond our minds. Our minds and human reason will try to put us thought the crazy maze of time. Time will try to make us to jump though its endless hoops and still be frustrated. God's eternal joy is not circumstantial. We have never seen or heard the things that God has prepared for us and put them on the shelves of today and tomorrow within our reach. We make a spiritual effort to forget and bury the things of yesterday and reach for the things that are just before us in today and tomorrow. Yesterday will keep us in its dungeon of regret. Today and tomorrow will brings us to the table of blessing in the presence of his face. All the pain and the suffering of today that seems to have its source is not the past trying to drown us but the very present help of God pushing us into greater dimensions of his power. The one who is rich in mercy has already balanced the ledgers of our past by depositing his eternal redemption into our account. Its wealth runs over into every new day we look into the face of. Love's embrace will shield us from the storms that try to stir up our past into some trouble in the present. Our safe harbor is assured as we call upon him.

BITTER EXPERIENCES, DECEPTION, RAGE, REGRET, AND SADNESS

My past should be sealed in the book of profitability and only read and learned from so that the same mistakes are not committed in the future. Some of the things that I have experienced were because of other people's mistakes, but some bad things experienced by others are because of me. I cease balancing the books of the past and go on to the joyful things of today and tomorrow. How someone else could have done what they did to me is not the issue today, but how I responded to what they did will be an issue tomorrow. I may choose by my obedience or my disobedience as to what I will regret or enjoy. I choose to worship the God of life and then will I wish and pray to live. If I worship the god of self or the god of this world I will wish and pray to die. The god of this world is ugly and cruel, but Jesus is kind and compassionate. He did not mean the things in my life for bad. He meant them for good. I must learn to bring sweetness out of the bitter things of life and good out of evil. I cannot say I have grown in the knowledge of God when I yet wrestle with what's fair and what's wrong.

When I have won Christ and an excellent knowledge of him, then I will count all the bad things that I suffer joy rather than sadness. When I worship him and live for him, then all my sufferings are for his name's sake and not for doing evil. I am sad because I am reaping the crop for my evil planting. I arise from my bed of regret and go to the harvest field of future joy. I go there and plant the seeds of good. I will be patient, and I will have a harvest of fruit that is a great consolation to me. He is the God of honor; therefore, I do not charge him with allowing things to happen as a punishment to me. Grace is teaching me, and by that same grace, I am learning.

I am determined not to cast the lessons of great value in the pits of this world as I go through the hard times. I will have suffered in vain if I do not learn from my pains. What I expected during the harvest of my evil sowing was an erroneous expectation. I cannot expect a celebration of victory when I have sown the seeds of mourning and grief.

The crop of deception was sown long ago. Now I must eat the bitter seeds of my sowing and then will joy come because of godly endurance. I purpose not to be deceived. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a person sows, that is what that person will reap. The Lord ate the bitter herbs and drank the bitter cup of my sins for the joy that he set before himself. Now I come to him, and he will help me eat and drink of my bitter experiences that the horror of their reality is dulled by his mercy and grace that he will give to me. I may eat it alone, but God offers me his companionship. He ate and drank from my bitter lot alone. Jesus, who is right, made himself available to eat and drink of bitterness; therefore, I will not escape tasting the bitterness of my wrong.

There is pleasure in sin, yet only for a season. I remember my pleasures while I sinned, and I learned that all the pleasures enjoyed in the bread and wine of sin are not worth the judgment and cost of these sins. The remembrance of those pleasures and gratifying feelings are no more. I behold a better way, the way of the cross where emotions are crucified with Christ. I come to the cross and live with a cross borne upon me then I will enjoy the victory of discipleship.

Sin is deceptive. When it is finished, it will mock me. Though sin hides behind the face of beauty, it is ugly when exposed and finished. When sin is finished, it will send me into a rage. My rage will not receive an answer from sin when I question the tabernacle of its dwelling. Silence will be its answer, and ignorance shall be its expression when I inquire to find out the why to the pain that produces the rage of insanity. Wisdom writes with the pen of pain. Wisdom draws with the paintbrush of rage. The chaotic expression that wisdom has drawn is not a disorderly design with no meaning, but its dark and empty form is the picture that depicts the only results that sin can bring.

My debt has been paid with precious blood. God paid for me to live righteously, godly, and soberly, not to live and continue in sin. Grace will not abound if I continue to live in sin. Grace will teach me in spite of what I think about the consequences. The consequences of sin yield a great harvest of pain and sorrow, but the blessings of obedience and grace yield the greater harvest of joy and success. A kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies and then it brings forth much fruit. In place of the lonely kernel, I have an abundance of fruit. I can choose the blessings of abundance in righteousness, which comes from my time alone in fellowship with him, or I can choose the curses of abundance in unrighteousness, which comes from my time alone in fellowship with sin. Today I choose to reap blessings of abundance in righteousness.

The scheme of deception has an evil ending. The drama of its script sounds good, but the cost of its production is enormous. I will pay in the end. After sin is finished, the horrible scheme is revealed according to its true value. My word brings light that I might see the end of sin's entire plight. I am not an exception who will escape the burns of fire carried in the bosom. I am not an exception whose feet will not be burned from walking on hot coals of fire. I have walked in the wrong places. Now I must learn from my travels and become a teacher of righteousness then will my sufferings have real value. I cannot teach others if I am not acquainted with the devices of evil. Many are ignorant of the devil's devices. I refuse to remain ignorant after suffering so much.

The only good that can come out of my sufferings is the lessons in righteousness and wisdom that are learned by me. These lessons must be taught to others that their obedience may be exchanged for their love toward God and then he will reward them so that my children and their children might be spared from my defeats. I come and make a new covenant with God, and he will show me how the ugliness of this experience shall become the embrace of beauty and understanding. I no longer embrace the arms of regret and despair. I will no longer halt between my own opinions and his realities. If I continue to squeeze regret's arms as a lover in the time of misunderstanding, then regret will squeeze the desire to live from my bosom. I come to the arms of eternal love and allow the embrace of holiness to blow the fresh breath of life within me. The Lord has allowed me to keep the spirit that he has given to me; therefore, I no longer choose to allow my soul to live in misery.

Truth paints a picture that brings pain and exposure to that which is wicked. I will not ask truth to lie for me, for it does not know how to lie. It can only tell the truth that it is. This is truth's picture of my life. Now I allow God to change this reality by the transformation of his righteousness upon this ugly scene. I look at this ugly scene again, and I do not like what I see. The pleasures I remember are not worth this scene filled with the death of efforts, dreams, and visions. I bring him this ugly scene, and he will create a new life as he created a good world when the first one became ugly, dark, and without form. The world of chaos did not resist the moving of his spirit upon its face. Now I cease my resisting and break under the power of his actions upon the face of my life. He will create a new life for me and make things inside of me brand new and then will the old scene of defeat and wasted efforts be buried in the chambers of an old hard heart of sin. He will take away the stony heart and give me another heart of flesh. I come and receive of the transformation on high. I come. He has beckoned. Now I come, and I am changed forever.

INSPIRATION

By Don Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - The Grapes of Wrath Trodden by Jesus Has Resulted In Us Having Access To the Wine of the Last Days

Joel tells us that the mountains will flow down with the new wine of the kingdom in the last days. Jesus suffered often from the foundation of the world but at the cross made the perfect offering for sin. Our judgment seat is the cross where we can be viewed in the light of his expiatory offering for us. Propitiation stands on top of the mercy seat and says, "Grace has prepared a feast for all who will come to partake of."

Our eternal gratitude flows out of our hearts that we do not have to stand before a judgment seat without mercy. However, there are those who will forsake their own mercy. They will hearken to the wrong voice and follow their own pride into a court where they have no advocate. Our righteousness is of no value in any court, but the righteousness of his appropriation comes through the obedience of faith to him. As we do his will, we mirror the inward working of the soul that is fleeing the wine of the lust of this world and running after our Beloved.

My righteousness will destroy the rule of man's mind in your life. Mental ability was not given to you as a god. Dethrone mental ability, and crown me as Lord of your life. My thoughts are higher than your thoughts. Crown me as the Lord of every aspect of your life, and you will experience a new dimension of the depth of the riches of my wisdom and knowledge. My judgments are unsearchable, and my ways are past finding out. I have not counseled with anyone.

156. Who has known my mind?

When I am truly the Lord of your life, you will willingly present your body daily as a living sacrifice. I have granted you grace not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think. Access the present grace within you that you may think soberly and not as a spiritual drunkard, puffed up by the wine of inspiration from the mind of man. Grace is available. Access it. This grace will free you from the mirror of the flesh where many are held captive with the icons of the world. Allow grace to free you from the hypnotic effect of the world that is ever present before all who live in this world. Accept the transformation that is being given you today.

157. How can you properly view me without viewing the form of God?

Let the mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. He made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross.

158. Where is your cross?

159. Is your reputation on it?

160. Have you come to the kingdom to serve or to be served?

161. Do you really have the same mind as Christ Jesus?

162. What mind do you live after?

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