Spring Time
This time of
year is an excellent time to look ahead and also to clean house.
It’s a mental time to remove the physicals not needed and to clean
house mentally. More so than January 1.
They cleaned
house in the book of Acts with the end result being that the Word of
God prevailed. God’s Word took preeminence in people’s lives.
Acts
19 Many of them
also which used curious arts brought their books together, and
burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and
found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20 So mightily
grew the word of God and prevailed.
Too many people
want God to stay as Lord of heaven and not to interfere with what
they want to on earth. They don’t want him to be Lord of earth.
Matthew 6:9
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our
Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
King David
wanted God to show him where he was doing something wrong.
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if
there be any wicked way [idol or false paths] in me, and lead me in
the way everlasting.
If David who was
the king could ask God to show him where he was off, what about us?
Philippians
16 Nevertheless,
whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let
us mind the same thing.
What are the
thoughts, the things we care for?
Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Let us think the
same thoughts [phronema].The thoughts of
Christ.
Romans 13:11 And
that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of
sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is
far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works
of darkness, and let us put on the armour
of light.
13 Let us walk
honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
14 But put
ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
provision for the flesh, to fulfil the
lusts thereof.
Literal
according to usage of Romans 13:12-13:
Our alienation
from Christ because he has not returned is about over with, for the
day of Christ’s return to gather his saints unto himself is just
momentary. Therefore, make an immediate and complete decision to put
on in your renewed mind, love without hypocrisy, which is the
spiritual weapon that dispels all darkness.
Get control of
our thinking patterns and align them with God’s Word.
II Corinthians 10:5 Casting down
imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Literal
according to usage:
Demolish your
human logic from the high position to which you have lifted it
vertically against the knowledge of God which you have known by
experience; be wise, lead captive everything to Christ which you
have attentively listened to and heard.
Most of the
unnecessary extra baggage we carry is in our mind in the form of
doubt, worry, fear, anxiety, condemnation, depression, thinking
evil.
Acts 27:9-28:11
Paul had many
opportunities to manifest all kinds of worry, doubt, fear,
depression, thinking evil, anxiety. Instead he stood and received
revelation that saved lives.
Philippians 4:6
Be careful [anxious] for nothing; but in
every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace
of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Prayer.
In fellowship with God, trusting God, leads to peace, God’s peace
will be there.
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art
there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
No matter where
you are God is there with you and will not fail the promises in His
Word.