Thoughts Higher Than Mine_Living Word Chronicle

I am faithful. I am faithful. I am faithful. Doubt not. My promises are sure. They will come to pass. You have need of patience. In your patience, you possess your soul. Do not falter at the finish line. You must endure unto the end to win and be saved. A clear path has been made for your feet. A heavenly convoy has been given to you. The ministering spirits sent with you are greater in power, might, and knowledge than any earthly bodyguards. You are secure from all the wiles of the devil. Be assured of heavenly attendants escorting you. This is a faithful band. Now look to the plain path paved by heaven's procession.

(RHEMA: A Heavenly Convoy Escorting Us In Our Earthly Procession)

God is faithful. God is faithful. God is faithful. I do not doubt. His promises are sure. They will come to pass. I have need of patience. In my patience, I possess my soul. By grace, I will not falter at the finish line. I must endure unto the end to win and be saved. A clear path has been made for my feet. A heavenly convoy has been given to me. The ministering spirits sent with me are greater in power, might, and knowledge than any earthly bodyguards. I am secure from all the wiles of the devil. I will be assured of heavenly attendants escorting me. This is a faithful band. Now I look to the plain path paved by heaven's procession.

Moses Hightower

A Moment of Eternity In the Grandeur of Love's Sunlight

I have not left you alone to figure these things out. Stop trying to reason your way through life, and lean on my understanding. I am in you to impart my understanding in every situation. The smallest things are not too small for me to help you with. I desire to express the things from my mind through your mind. Come up higher, and taste of the thoughts that are higher than your thoughts. Come up higher and learn of ways that are higher than your ways. Grace is lifting you up higher and presenting you the fruit of its unmerited favor. You have not earned anything from me, for I did not employ you, although I do reward you. I am your Father, and you are my son. You are an heir to all that I have. This is a business much different from the business in the world. This is heavenly business, and you came here not to be ministered unto but to minister. You must learn to allow grace to carry you by its labor. Grace will carry you beyond yourself and into a yielded lifestyle that allows my spirit to flow through you and lead you to dimensions beyond natural ability. Lift up your eyes from the fleshly wonders of the earth, and marvel at my ability and my power. My provision is already in you, but you have tabernacled fleshly wonders and vessels traveling to the wandering dimensions of falling stars. Cease observing these fleshly wonders and mental giants. They are only for a short while and then they pass away. Allow me to make you a tabernacle like unto the Son of God and then in the image of God, I will show you the image to be tabernacled.

There are things that your eyes have not seen and things that your ears have not heard. There are things that have not entered into your heart. As an attractive cloud, so has man's own understanding blocked his view of true spiritual understanding. I desire to give you the understanding of the Spirit of God. Stop harnessing the beautiful cloud of your own understanding, and allow my breath to blow it away. I will not blow it away if you choose to clutch it with your mental possessiveness. Loose it today, and I will grant you the beautiful transparency of the understanding of the spirit. Men will rave about their own minds, not realizing that it is possible for the things of their minds to be mere reflections from pride or another spirit. Which of you can add one cubit to your stature by thought?

I can lengthen your legs. I caused Aaron's rod to bud. I have all power. Lean on me and not to your own understanding then will you see true spiritual images that are fostered from the source of true spiritual understanding. This is no time for the lack of understanding. During this time of coldness, the love of many has already waxed cold. How can you remain a fervent prayer warrior, if the icicles of misunderstanding and indifference hang from your heart?

If you squander the opportunity to be continually baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire, then you will spend your time clothed with cold love instead of the fire of God. I am a consuming fire. Then what should you be?

I am in you to manifest what I am in this life. I am not double minded; therefore, walk as you see me walk. Talk as you hear me talk. Be as I am. To many, the spirit is a heavenly journey far into the distant sky and unto the high mountains of spiritual assumptions. I have low keyed myself and come down to you. Do not look away in the distance to find me. I have placed myself and my kingdom within you. The heavens declare my glory, and the firmament shows you my handiwork, but you do not have to take a voyage to the heavens to find me. I will come to the repentant hearts. I will come to those who seek me with all their heart. You shall be found of me in the day that you seek me with a whole heart. Do not seek a spiritual experience, but seek me, the Living God. Believe that my name is Jesus, and call upon that name. I will deliver all that call upon my name. I desire to grant deliverance in the sanctuary today. Be sensitive to me. I desire to impart vision to the people. How will they see things that are invisible, if they only have human vision?

Moses saw me who is invisible. The invisible things of the spirit are not too far away that you must use a spiritual telescope. The invisible things of the spirit are not too small that you must use a spiritual microscope. There is no instrument to use for seeing invisible things. I desire to change the spiritual eyesight of my people that they all might have a vision. It is possible to have eyes to see and not have insight. What I will do today is worth more than money can buy, for I will touch the eyes of understanding, and my people shall know the hope of my calling. They shall know the riches of the glory of the inheritance that is within them. As lightning from heaven, so shall my power touch those who desire to see. All of this is part of the revival that I am giving. How will you see the sinners that I am talking to and leading, if you have not spiritual insight?

The light of my lightning shall show many people the marvelous light of the kingdom. As the light of the sun arises upon the face of the morning, so shall spiritual light arise upon the minds of my church. Every vessel called to finish this race shall now begin to see. Every vessel and every cell of the body of Christ that is destined to continue in my word shall now see the light of my glory and be transformed by the renewing of their minds. The dark clouds of misunderstanding and the dark images of fear shall retreat because of the brightness of the light that I manifest. Behold the glory of the work that I have already done, yet know the glory of the work that I am doing is greater than all the glory of the past.

Many eyes have grown weak because of the absence of joy. The joy of the Lord is not simply strength to leap and be energized for playing before me, but the joy of the Lord is also strength for weakened spiritual eyesight. When spiritual eyesight is restored, then shall the raging waters of the flood be observed without fear. Look closely at the waters of a flood harnessed by the high banks of mountains. There is no reason to fear the waters that flow on to another destiny. It is when there are no banks to border a flood that there is reason to worry. Come to the borders of holiness, peace, and spiritual understanding and then will your fears be cast into these raging waters while you stand on the bank, without fear. Have you sought the kingdom of God only?

Have you sought the kingdom of God and my righteousness?

Some seek the kingdom but not my righteousness. The kingdom of God is liken unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls, who when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. What kind of pearls did you come to the kingdom for?

Unless you came for me and my righteousness, then the kingdom shall become your enemy, and unrighteousness shall become your love. Many seekers have cast their treasures in the sand of time because they never set their affections on me and things above. The sands of time are filled with used things from my kingdom because believers cast them to the ground because of frustration and misunderstanding. This is a reflection of their intent. They came to the kingdom for me to fix their lives instead of coming to the kingdom to be born again. This is the source of many distractions. What have you come to my kingdom for?

Unless you seek me, the Living God, then you will find treasures for the sands of time. Unless you seek me, then you will litter the sands with unwanted things that I gave you. Come from the hot, dusty sands of things and begin storing your treasures in heaven. Today has brought you a moment of eternity where light is from the Lamb. His light is a spiritual rainbow flashing after the rain of my spirit upon you. Look to the magnificent rainbow of love and promise, and behold the light of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, righteousness, and the fear of the Lord. By faith, be baptized again with the light of love, and you will be clothed with humility and truth. Though many things seem to remain the same, all things are passing away. Time is passing away. It is not just another day. Time is passing away. Time shall rush on through a portion of eternity until it has exhausted the fuel of time then time shall be no more. Where will you spend eternity?

Why will you spend eternity in the place you are destined to go?

What will determine where you will spend eternity?

Are the sufferings of this present time worthy to divert you from heaven?

Why have you halted to tabernacle your hurts and your fears, when the wind of wrath shall blow your sand tabernacle away?

Come and tabernacle a tabernacle worth building. My waters will only remain in the cisterns that I build. Unless I build the house, then you have labored in vain. Labor no longer for perishing meat, but labor for the meat that will never perish. I am emptying out my spirit upon the hungry and the thirsty. Why is it that some of you are not hungry and thirsty?

Unless you cease eating and drinking from the reservoirs of the world, then you will only have an appetite for devilish and sensual things. Allow me to spoil your appetites for carnal things today and then will your appetite for true spiritual food be revived. Open your mouths wide, and I will fill your souls with living waters that shall wash away these appetites that have spoiled your desires for the things of the spirit then shall the sunlight of righteousness arise upon your faces and a new day shall begin in your lives. The darkness shall dawn upon the faces of others, but they that know me and love me shall experience the sunrise of true spirituality. Be attentive now, for I desire to minister to those with open hearts.

By Don Grigsby

Don and Linda Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - A Moment of Eternity In the Grandeur of Love's Sunlight

Eternity brings to us the infinite venues of that which cannot be held in the hands of that which is corruptible. Deposits of corruption are in pits that are always near to the feet of those who wander and are not lead by the Spirit. Spiritual riches abound in the hearts that have committed everything to the Lord. As a living sacrifice that is totally being consumed daily on the altar of our commitment, we are beyond the reach of the gravity of lust that would pull us down. Harmony with the mind of the Spirit will place us in an orbit in the heavenlies that will cause us to see and understand many things that are hidden to the natural mind. Our natural mind will crystallize every thought that will create fresh understanding. Living waters of revelation will flow out of the throne of grace into the thoughts that are pursuing the excellent provisions of his greatness. We have not been raised up into heavenly places to be emotionally excited but to have our understanding enlarged.

As we behold the magnificence of the imagination of the mind of God, we are awed into thanksgiving that never wants to stop. His love will hold us in an embrace that will cause us to look at the world and the cheap trinkets it offers as just trash to be swept away. All who hunger after the supernatural on a continual basis will be the only ones that will know true completion and satisfaction. If we pursue the empty vapors of the vanishing phantoms of the night, we will fall into a wilderness that has no way out. He who has lifted us out will continue to open the doors into treasure compartments that are not worthy to be compared to the things of this visible world. God who called the light out of darkness reveals the visible out of the invisible. We will behold that which the eye cannot behold as the artist of grace continues to unfold the canvas of eternity over the framework of our lives. All the scribbling and graffiti of life will find its place in the disposal can of our lives.

DARKNESS, FEAR, AND MISUNDERSTANDING

Jesus has not left me alone to figure these things out. I purpose to stop trying to reason my way through life and lean on his understanding. He is in me to impart his understanding in every situation. The smallest things are not too small for him to help me with. He desires to express the things from his mind through my mind. I will come up higher and taste of the thoughts that are higher than my thoughts. I will come up higher and learn of ways that are higher than my ways. Grace is lifting me up higher and presenting me the fruit of its unmerited favor. I have not earned anything from God, for he did not employ me, although he does reward me. He is my father, and I am his son. I am an heir to all that he has. This is a business much different from the business in the world. This is heavenly business, and I came here not to be ministered unto but to minister.

I must learn to allow grace to carry me by its labor. Grace will carry me beyond myself and into a yielded lifestyle that allows my spirit to flow through me and leads me to dimensions beyond natural ability. I lift up my eyes from the fleshly wonders of the earth and marvel at his ability and his power. The Lord's provision is already in me, but I have tabernacled fleshly wonders and vessels traveling to the wandering dimensions of falling stars. I cease observing these fleshly wonders and mental giants. They are only for a short while and then they pass away. I allow God to make me a tabernacle like unto the Son of God and then in the image of God. He will show me the image to be tabernacled.

There are things that my eyes have not seen and things that my ears have not heard. There are things that have not entered into my heart. As an attractive cloud, so has man's own understanding blocked his view of true spiritual understanding. He desires to give me the understanding of the Spirit of God. I must stop harnessing the beautiful cloud of my own understanding and allow his breath to blow it away. He will not blow it away if I choose to clutch it with my mental possessiveness. I loose it today, and he will grant me the beautiful transparency of the understanding of the spirit. Men will rave about their own minds, not realizing that it is possible for the things of their minds to be mere reflections from pride or another spirit. No one can add one cubit to his stature by thought.

God can lengthen my legs. He caused Aaron's rod to bud. He has all power. I lean on him and not to my own understanding then will I see true spiritual images that are fostered from the source of true spiritual understanding. This is no time for the lack of understanding. During this time of coldness, the love of many has already waxed cold. I cannot remain a fervent prayer warrior if the icicles of misunderstanding and indifference hang from my heart. If I squander the opportunity to be continually baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire, then I will spend my time clothed with cold love instead of the fire of God. Because he is a consuming fire, then I should be a consuming fire also.

The Lord is in me to manifest what he is in this life. He is not double minded; therefore, I walk as I see him walk. I will talk as I hear him talk. I purpose to be as he is. To many, the spirit is a heavenly journey far into the distant sky and unto the high mountains of spiritual assumptions. He has low keyed himself and come down to me. I do not look away in the distance to find the Lord. He has placed himself and his kingdom within me. The heavens declare his glory, and the firmament shows me his handiwork, but I do not have to take a voyage to the heavens to find him. He will come to the repentant hearts. He will come to those who seek him with all their heart. I shall be found of him in the day that I seek him with a whole heart. I do not seek a spiritual experience, but I seek Jesus, the Living God. I believe that his name is Jesus, and I call upon that name. He will deliver all that call upon his name. He desires to grant deliverance in the sanctuary today. I am determined to be sensitive to him. He desires to impart vision to the people. They cannot see things that are invisible if they only have human vision.

Moses saw Jesus who is invisible. The invisible things of the spirit are not too far away that I must use a spiritual telescope. The invisible things of the spirit are not too small that I must use a spiritual microscope. There is no instrument to use for seeing invisible things. God desires to change the spiritual eyesight of his people that they all might have a vision. It is possible to have eyes to see and not have insight. What he will do today is worth more than money can buy, for he will touch the eyes of understanding, and his people shall know the hope of his calling. They shall know the riches of the glory of the inheritance that is within them. As lightning from heaven, so shall his power touch those who desire to see. All of this is part of the revival that he is giving. I will not see the sinners that he is talking to and leading if I don't have spiritual insight. The light of his lightning shall show many people the marvelous light of the kingdom. As the light of the sun arises upon the face of the morning, so shall spiritual light arise upon the minds of his church. Every vessel called to finish this race shall now begin to see. Every vessel and every cell of the body of Christ that is destined to continue in his word shall now see the light of his glory and be transformed by the renewing of their minds. The dark clouds of misunderstanding and the dark images of fear shall retreat because of the brightness of the light that he manifests. I behold the glory of the work that he has already done, yet I know the glory of the work that he is doing is greater than all the glory of the past.

Many eyes have grown weak because of the absence of joy. The joy of the Lord is not simply strength to leap and be energized for playing before him, but the joy of the Lord is also strength for weakened spiritual eyesight. When spiritual eyesight is restored, then shall the raging waters of the flood be observed without fear. I look closely at the waters of a flood harnessed by the high banks of mountains. There is no reason to fear the waters that flow onto another destiny. It is when there are no banks to border a flood that there is reason to worry. I come to the borders of holiness, peace, and spiritual understanding and then will my fears be cast into these raging waters while I stand on the bank without fear. Many times I have sought the kingdom of God only. But now I know that I must seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Some seek the kingdom but not his righteousness. The kingdom of God is liken unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls, who when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. In the past, I came to the kingdom for things. Unless I come for Jesus and his righteousness, then the kingdom shall become my enemy, and unrighteousness shall become my love. Many seekers have cast their treasures in the sand of time because they never set their affections on him and things above.

The sands of time are filled with used things from his kingdom because believers cast them to the ground because of frustration and misunderstanding. This is a reflection of their intent. They came to the kingdom for the Lord to fix their lives instead of coming to the kingdom to be born again. This is the source of many distractions. I have come to the kingdom seeking Jesus and his righteousness. Unless I seek him, the Living God, then I will find treasures for the sands of time. Unless I seek him, then I will litter the sands with unwanted things that he gave me. I come from the hot, dusty sands of things and begin storing my treasures in heaven. Today has brought me a moment of eternity where light is from the Lamb. His light is a spiritual rainbow flashing after the rain of his spirit upon me. I look to the magnificent rainbow of love and promise, and I behold the light of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, righteousness, and the fear of the Lord. By faith, I am baptized again with the light of love, and I will be clothed with humility and truth.

Though many things seem to remain the same, all things are passing away. Time is passing away. It is not just another day. Time is passing away. Time shall rush on through a portion of eternity until it has exhausted the fuel of time then time shall be no more. I plan on spending eternity with the Lord. I will not spend eternity in the place I was destined to go. My relationship with God will determine where I will spend eternity. The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to divert me from heaven. I will halt no longer to tabernacle my hurts and my fears when the wind of wrath shall only come and blow my sand tabernacle away.

I choose to come and tabernacle a tabernacle worth building. His waters will only remain in the cisterns that he builds. Unless he builds the house, then I have labored in vain. I will labor no longer for perishing meat, but I labor for the meat that will never perish. He is emptying out his spirit upon the hungry and the thirsty. Some are not hungry and thirsty because they have dined at the tables of the world. Unless I cease eating and drinking from the reservoirs of the world, then I will only have an appetite for devilish and sensual things. I allow God to spoil my appetites for carnal things today then will my appetite for true spiritual food be revived. I open my mouth wide, and he will fill my soul with living waters that shall wash away these appetites that have spoiled my desire for the things of the spirit then shall the sunlight of righteousness rise upon my face, and a new day shall begin in my life. The darkness shall dawn upon the faces of others, but they that know God and love him shall experience the sunrise of true spirituality. I will be attentive now, for he desires to minister to those with open hearts.

INSPIRATION

By Don Grigsby

RE: RHEMA - The Light of Life Has Displaced Death's Shadow and the Devil's Threat

His threats are hollow, and his devices are powerless over those who have heard and tasted of the power of God's living Word. Our enemy will try to turn our questioning thoughts into a rowdy mob of protesters that will shout insults to our faith and the promise of God. No good thing will he withhold from his children. Condemnation always brings its bags of lies around to prance like a court jester to try to make us think we are not worthy of miracles because of our mistakes and failures. God's word is an indestructible seed. It will always bring forth and prevail in the purpose for which it was sent. Praises should continually ring in our mouth. Miracles are about to spring forth as the green leaves of the trees multiplying in the spring of the year. As we feast in thanksgiving and the reality of miracles, others will have an empty plate. Our promises are not empty but full and running over with his blessings.

(Continued)

You have heard it said in a man's world that a man's word is his bond. My word is exalted above my name. If a man speaks my word, it will never change, neither will it come back to me void of its intent or purpose. Man's covenants cannot disannul my covenants; therefore, behold how I will defend you in my court. I am the Faithful Witness. I will give my testimony for you.

236. If I am for you, then who can be against you?

The enemy has sent a campaign of fear and intimidation against you daily. The enemy intends to hamper your testimony by intimidating you. The stares of the spiritual enemies in dreams are terrifying. He has penetrated your dreams and attempted to corrupt the atmosphere of your peace and rest. The intimidating figures and icons of your dreams are real and so am I. I am sanctified in you. I am the Lord of hosts. Allow me to be your fear. Allow me to be your dread. Do not draw back because of the beasts who come to war against you. Paul fought with the beasts of Ephesus.

237. Do you think that the enemy has sent house cats to fight against you?

Be confident of this fact: I began a good work in you, and I will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. You must rely on my promises or unbelief will snare you and hinder you in becoming what you should be. You must be totally convinced that what I have said is true.

238. If you believe what I have said, then why agree with anything that is contrary to the truth of my promises to you?

Look unto me, the great high priest that is passed into the heavens. I am touched with the feeling of your infirmities; therefore, know of a truth, that I understand how you feel. I was tempted in all points just like you are; therefore, I understand the pressure brought on by temptations. Come boldly unto the throne of grace, and you will be given mercy. You will find grace to help you in this time of need. I am the God of all grace. I am the author of grace. My grace is sufficient for you.

239. Who will terminate the grace that is being freely given you when I am its author and finisher?

(To Be Continued)

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