A while back, God gave me a vision. I saw the woods and all the plants. Oak trees, pine trees, maple trees, flowers, weeds shrubs. All kinds of the different plants growing together. None of them hurting each other but growing together.
God told me, “Every one of these plants that I have created grow and manifest what they are. What ever I have put into their seed is what they are doing and supposed to do. One plant is not jealous of the other. The weed does not say, why cant I be an oak tree? or the flower does not say, why cant I be a pine tree, or the maple tree does not say, why cant I be a birch tree. The plant life grow together each manifesting their glory of being what they were supposed to be by God. Even helping each other with shade, and vines climbing trees, etc…. They work in concert together none trying to be like the other.
You will not see a flower looking at an oak tree and trying to imitate it. You will not see milkweed looking at a flower and trying to imitate it. Each plant is happy to manifest what they are. It is their glory back to God for Him creating them. God is satisfied and so are the plants because they have accomplished what they were created for. We as humans are in the exact same kind of life. We know we are created to accomplish certain things but don’t know what or how.
God has a plan and purpose for each of us. A very desirable and exciting thing He wants each of us to do. It is in the seed inside of us that God created and He wants us to give Him glory by becoming everything that you and I are supposed to be. He has written it in our very hearts, the firtle soil where dreams are planted, [the heart]. The heart is where the drive comes from to accomplish what is in it. We all want to leave this earth accomplished in what we were created to do. Gods satisfied and we are satisfied.
[Me preaching on this blog is what God called me to do for example and this gives glory to God and benefits the hearer and brings people into the Kingdom.]
Don’t say that God hasn’t given me anything. God never leaves a person without some seed to sow. Take an inventory of what you like and desire and what talents that you have. Check out your most inner desires. Chances are some of them seem impossible, but with God all things are possible. God wants us to think big. After being saved we move forward on God’s plan in faith and where the impossible meets us, that’s where God then moves on yours and my behalf.
TESTIMONY; I was paying on a 20,000 dollar school bill for my daughter. I called the company that had the note and made payment arrangements and kept paying on the bill. At that time things were financially tight. All I could do was pay the interest. I was not making any headway on the bill. At one point it was reduced down to 15,000. This still was not really a big help. I was being honest and still tithing to the Lord’s work. This went on for quite a while. I gave the problem to God but did what I could do. Then I noticed that the place I was dealing with that held my debt. wasn’t sending me any mail.
TESTIMONY CONT…. I called them up and asked about my bill and I gave them the information. They looked and then said, “we are not showing any such bill and we do not have your name recorded here either. I said to them, can I have your word then that my debt is completely paid in full? She said yes. End TESTIMONY. God had supernaturally taken care of this debt. I was honest to do my part and God stepped in and gave me closure and relief. Glory to God!! $15,000 canceled.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM!
The gifts and talents and abilities we have were meant to be developed through God’s help, to guide us in it and strengthen us to do it, and to give us wisdom and knowledge to understand and accomplish what our desires are. What happens is mankind not knowing God will run with what they have in their heart to do without God and create a warped version of what God originally intended. Doing things in their own carnal understanding and making the best of it.
As a result pride sets in which is the hardening of the heart against God. The person who does this without God’s help says to themselves, ” I have done this work, I am a self-made person and don’t need God to show me anything. I worked hard, I went to college, I worked my way up in this company, I built this business. These people can become their own little god. They have built their own little kingdom being in the idolatry of their own accomplishments. This is a dangerous place to be.
PRIDE IS WARPED THINKING ABOUT WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE. It is not based on what God says about you, the one who built you and knows what your purpose is. so this person then creates their own world view about themselves not being based on the word of God, who has absolute truth and who made the world and its people. Building your life without God leading the way, is pride, and it is sinking sand, a house built without a foundation. When a storm comes, the house will collapse. [MATTHEW 7:25] NKJ
So a person who builds their own life without Christ has taken the gifts and talents and the very life you have and has ran with it and took it as their own and has glorified themselves with it instead of God who gave them everything they have. So pride sets into the heart, along with vain imaginations about how great you are and self-made. God gets no glory and neither did this person give their life to Christ so He could help you build your life. Jesus wants to join with you and me to accomplish life and have a relationship with us.
It is Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit working with us in our life goals that teach us how to hear his voice and obey His directions. It is one of the keys to salvation. Once you are found trustworthy through your obedience to Christ He can add to you more of the life that He has ordained for you because you obeyed Him in the small and basic things first.
This is how you walk in salvation. First receiving Jesus as Lord and then letting Him work on your character and then directing us in our endeavors.
If we build our lives without Jesus, we can do that but in the end, you will lose everything you thought you gained and be in hell. Your life didn’t bring glory to God but to yourself, And Jesus did not get to have a relationship with you. All your works will burn up before God. Pride is going in the opposite direction of God’s intention for us. Jesus wants love developed in us. Pride is the opposite. Pride is all about the person and not anyone else. Remember the plants I mentioned. They all give glory to God just being what they were created to be. So we must also.
When each of us works on our own lives with our own talents, listening to the direction of Jesus on what to do next, there is no jealousy, no bitterness, wishing you were someone else or you wish you were like this person or that person. I wish I had the talent that that person has. Your eyes are in the wrong direction. Get your eyes on Jesus and let Him make you bloom with your own gifts and talents and calling that He Himself put in you before you were born.
This is when people can love each other and be happy for each other in our development of our talents, coexisting together in the favor of God knowing that He favors no one but loves everyone the same. So we can be at rest and peace just being what God is making us into and not being jealous of one another.
DONT SAY, GOD, ‘GIVE ME THIS PERSONS TALENT OR MAKE ME LIKE THIS OR THAT PERSON, BUT RATHER SAY, ‘ GOD MAKE ME INTO WHAT YOU CREATED ME TO BE. You will then love yourself also and your heart will leap for joy. Great will be your rewards in heaven because you allowed God to make you into what He intended and it gave Him glory, just the way the plant life does or the animal kingdom does, or the sea life does. All life has its own glory. Even the stars and the cosmos.
If you are not connected to Jesus then you don’t know what your life is supposed to look like or how to develop it into its maximum potential. You will lose everything you gained. It is not just about money and gain in this world but also the salvation of you yourself. He will maximize your Spirit and soul and it will look like love. He will cause you to love Him with all your heart soul and mind and love yourself. [MARK 12: 30,31] Then you will truly be able to love others unconditionally, not by just what you do for them but also how you treat them. God’s blessing is on this person. being long-suffering, not envious, not proud, or puffed up. We won’t behave rudely, or seek our own. We will not be provoked, and think no evil. We won’t rejoice in iniquity [Immoral or grossly unfair behavior], but rejoices in the truth; you will bear with all things, hope in all things, endure all things. LOVE NEVER FAILS! {1 Corinthians 13: 4,8}
[JOHN 3:27] NIV. John answered and said, a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
WHY SHOULD WE WALK IN LOVE? Because it is God’s nature. We are commanded to walk in love. Love is the total atmosphere of Heaven and in every person in Heaven. Pride cannot enter heaven. It is Satan’s nature. the third reason is because love cannot be defeated. It is your armor. When you are talked about and slandered and hated and backstabbed and even struck, or just challenged with bills or bill collectors, love will carry you through as you tap into God’s supply. When the fire comes against you and we douse it with water, [LOVE] we put the fire out and we are not harmed. We then actually shed light on the one who offended us. We can potentially bring their wall of pride and defense down and be an example of Christ to them.
I will repeat this vision God gave me years ago. VISION. I saw a garden hose laying the ground with no water coming out of it. The Holy Spirit said, ” Do you see this hose on the ground? As it lays there bugs, and spiders crawl up into it for shelter. Dirt also can get in there. But when the water runs, it flushes away all filth inside of the hose. As long as the water stays on, nothing can ever crawl up into the hose again and contaminate it. The hose supply comes from another source. So He said My continual supply of my Spirit being poured into a believer who does not get their supply from this world but from me, will never run out and he will not be contaminated by the sin of this world. That person will be like a garden hose to bring water and life to a dry dead planet, showing the love of Christ and giving people the hope they need to be saved. Then they themselves will become my watering vessels of hope in this world.
So when bad things happen to us that are not of our own doing, when we forgive and let it go we are preserving our own spirit and soul from any damage. Only Jesus Himself can get us to a place like this. It will be His nature and strength that we submit to through a humble Spirit of submission to Him and His life in us that we received when we confessed Him as Lord. Pride will get mad and retaliate against the offender. So you will become like your enemy.
[ROMANS 12;19,20] NKJ. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written,” VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY SAYS THE LORD. THEREFORE IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP COALS OF FIRE ON HIS HEAD.” This means you will give him a light to see by.
[TESTIMONY] My sister was newly hired at a city bus transit line in a mid-size city. She was saved a short time before she got the job. She has Jesus in her. I know her and she is honest and hard-working and very smart. she has a degree in marketing. Her job was to collect the money from the bus fares and deposit and count it and make sure the books balanced. Also to stay in radio communications with all drivers and handle emergency plus more.
As soon as she got the job she was being attacked by 2 women and one man in the office. They hardly knew her. They accused her of all kinds of things. Stealing money fudging the books, and doing a bad job. She had not even finished two weeks there. This went on for some time and then she told me about it. I told her that those were demons operating inside of those people who were unsaved. They could sense the presence of Jesus in her and they hated her without a cause. I asked her, do you pray? she said yes. I asked, how do you pray? She said in her mind on the way to work as she is driving. Now my sister was new to this kind of warfare.
I said to her, “If a mean rabid dog came charging at you, what would you do? Would you look at it and think it away or would you get mad and yell at the dog and show an offense. She said I would yell at it. I told her, it is the same way with the devil when he is operating in people. You take your spiritual authority as a child of God and start speaking the word at those demons with your mouth, and you will be releasing God’s words through your mouth against those devils operating in those people. There is different kinds of prayers. When it comes to the devil you have to come at him as if he is an attacking lion. there is no compromise. either he goes or you go. So you use warfare prayers against demonic activity.
I showed my sister how to pray. I said, “say out loud, Satan I take authority as a child of God against the principalities and powers and demons operating in my co-workers [speak their names]. I bind you demons and command you into the abyss, and command you take your hands off of my job. I cut off your ability to attack me any longer at the root. I call on the Angels of God to go into Satan’s camp and bring, darkness, confusion, mayhem, and bring on Satan every plan that he thought to do to me, bring it back on him instead. Cover Him in confusion and blindness and take me off of His radar.
My sister did this every day and within a week, these people, all 3 of them were coming up to her and apologizing to her again and again, saying that they didn’t know why they acted like that and were very sorry that they acted this way. They said she was doing a fantastic job and didn’t want her to leave. They also said that the books are completely accurate and sometimes even a little more was in their bank bag. She had no more trouble from that time on from coworkers.
She took her authority as a child of God. She had to forgive those coworkers and their false accusations and love them by still treating them with kindness and respect. She gave the battle to the Lord by speaking God’s word against the demonic activity. God got the victory and my sister got peace. The coworkers got some light shed on them also to see how my sister handled it. It helps them to see an example and come a little closer to salvation for themselves. God loves those coworkers also and wants them in heaven with Him also. These people did not know they were even being used by demons. I have been in multiple multiple battles like this.
The last thing I will say on this is that, be careful that if you yourself brought trouble on yourself by doing what was wrong. then when you should see it repent before the Lord and confess your sin. Then stop doing it.
I will finish this with the title {THE TORMENT OF PRIDE.} Let’s talk about Satan the author of pride. You see when a person doesn’t want to give their life to Christ and make Him their Lord, you are cut off from eternal life, not the life that we still have on the earth. Satan had eternal life with God in heaven. He then wanted to glory for himself and broke off from God to live for himself and his own glory and now is condemned to hell and will never have eternity in God’s blessing again. This was pride on satan. He took his gifts and talents and wisdom and beauty and hardened his heart against God and then left heaven along with a third of the angels in the attempt to glorify himself. Stealing the Earth from Adam and Eve and becoming the illegitimate god of this world.
God is the life source. The living vine. When all life comes from Jesus the stupidest thing you can do is not want to be connected to Jesus so you can not only be everything you were created for but to have eternal life and pleasures forevermore in Heaven. I will get to the scriptures on Satans fall in a minute.
PRIDE!! [CAUSED SATAN TO FALL.] [CAUSED MAN TO FALL]. PRIDE MAKES US AFRAID BECAUSE WE ARE BUILDING A HOUSE OF CARDS THAT CAN EASILY BE BLOWN OVER. WE ARE AFRAID THAT SOMEONE WILL SEE WHO WE REALLY ARE. AFRAID OF LOSING WHAT WE BUILD, AFRAID OF CRITICISM, AFRAID OF LOSING ALL OUR WEALTH THAT IS BUILT UP SO THAT WE DONT BECOME DESTITUTE. AFRAID OF DESTITUTION AND HOPELESSNESS. AFRAID OF A DISEASE TAKING US OUT. AFRAID THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT FIND YOU ATTRACTIVE OR HANDSOME. AFRAID OF REJECTION FROM PEOPLE. AFRAID THAT PEOPLE MIGHT FIND YOU STUPID AND NOT INTELLIGENT. AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR CAREER OR JOB AND BEING HOMELESS.
PRIDE IS THE IRON DOORS OF THE HEART THAT CAN ONLY BE OPENED BY YOU FROM THE INSIDE. IT PROTECTS YOU FROM DEVASTATING INJURY FROM THE WORLD. AS A RESULT OF ALL THESE FEARS WE DO NOT TRUST MOST PEOPLE AND ONLY OPEN THOSE IRON DOORS TO WHOEVER CAN COME INTO OUR LIVES AND BENEFIT US. THUS WE ARE PRISONERS TO FEAR. PRIDE IS OUR OUTER SHELL THAT IS EASILY CRACKED. THIS IS HOW PRIDE IS TORMENTING. AT ANY GIVEN TIME SOMETHING BIGGER THAN WHAT WE AND OUR PRIDE CAN HANDLE CAN COME AND DESTROY OUR LIVES.
JESUS HAS AN ANSWER TO THIS. [REVELATION 3:20, 21] NKJ “BEHOLD I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME INTO HIM AND DINE WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME. TO HIM WHO OVERCOMES I WILL GRANT TO SIT WITH ME ON MY THRONE, AS I ALSO OVERCAME AND SAT DOWN WITH MY FATHER ON HIS THRONE.”
[JOHN 14:23] NKJ. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, ” IF ANYONE LOVES ME HE WILL KEEP MY WORD; AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE OUR HOME WITH HIM.
As you can see by this scripture, the iron doors that Jesus is knocking on have to be opened by you yourself to let Jesus in. This is the door to your heart, not your mind. Jesus loves you and is the only one who can be really trusted with your heart. He will never steer you wrong and will always have the best for you in mind. Pride then and the fear that comes with it can then start to fade away as you learn to trust Jesus more and more and yourself less and less. Jesus in you cannot be defeated. Remember, LOVE NEVER FAILS.
SATANS FALL BECAUSE OF PRIDE. INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN HIM.
INIQUITY [Dictionary meaning] Absence of moral and spiritual values, gross immorality, injustice, wickedness, denial of the sovereignty of God. Sin]
[ISAIAH 14: 3, 23] NKJ And it shall come to pass on the day that the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow and your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say; How the oppressor has ceased, the golden city ceased! The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked. The scepter of the rulers; He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke.
He who ruled nations in anger is persecuted and no one hinders. The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing. Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.
Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the Earth; It has raised up from their thrones, all the Kings of the nations. They shall all speak and say to you; “have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.”
How you are fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high.
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the pit. Those who see you will gaze at you, and consider you saying: Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, who did not open the house of the prisoner?
All the kings of the nations, All of them sleep in glory, everyone in his own house; But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot. You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
Prepare slaughter for his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, lest they rise up and possess the land, and fill the face of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them says the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, all offspring and posterity, says the Lord. I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.
[1 PETER 5:6, 7] NKJ
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him for He cares for you.”
Through humility, you will have peace. In pride, you will have torment. This is why God allows troubles to come in hopes of us finally humbling ourselves before Him so he can save us. It is designed to break pride. Some hear the Gospel and receive it right away. Others must go through many trials and troubles before they humble themselves under God. I WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
Hollywood portrays movies of getting tuff and hardening yourself and killing people as the answer to everything. God says the opposite. How many in Hollywood will see heaven? There is a place for toughness and standing for what’s right and maybe even being killed for it. soldiers and righteous leaders need a backbone to stand up against evil. I had an opportunity to talk to John Hughes the movie producer once and he said something about Hollywood to me. Standing with Jesus in this world will make you real tuff and fearless. Pray for the people of Hollywood! God loves them too and is not wanting anyone to perish.
Ask Christ into your heart today. Another day is not promised to you. Ask Him to be Lord of your life and to forgive you of all your past sins and to make you one of his children. Get in your bible and let Him speak to you. Once you have received Jesus you are now born again. The Spirit of God is now residing in you.
[JOHN 3:3] NKJ JESUS ANSWERED AND SAIDTO HIM,MOST ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ONE IS BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
Thank you for reading my blog. it is part of the fulfillment of my call. I have had many visitations both from Heaven and attacks from hell. God spoke audibly to me one time and said ORDAINED MINISTER. It was in a public truck stop. I was driving semi’s at the time and I was talking to an attendant at the truck stop. As we were talking I suddenly heard a loud voice say to me, ORDAINED MINISTER. It was a confirmation. I was already ministering to people where ever I went but this was new.
Enjoy your peace with Jesus as you make Him your Lord and get rid of pride like a live hand grenade. that can destroy you. Jesus loves you. greatly.
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