Author: daughtersofz
Ears to Hear
Ears to Hear
Ears to Hear
Ears to Hear
Ears to Hear
Ears to Hear
Ears to Hear
Ears to Hear
Good Morning,
"Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you, Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully." (I Peter 5:6-7; Amplified Bible) I was watching the movie, The Lord Of The Rings, recently, and I begin to think about the character Frodo. There he was carrying this ring around his neck which was constantly causing him to become weaker and weaker. Slowly the carrying of this ring was changing his personality, as well as what he thought about. His thought process was being overwhelmed. There was a point where he could not discern between 'good' or 'evil.' Toward the end of the show he no longer believed his armor-bearer, Sam Wise, who had his best interest at heart, he believed Smiegel, the one who had already been taken over by the evil of the ring. Smiegel had become schizoid due to the evil power of carrying the ring, he had developed a dual personality. Frodo chose to follow Smiegel, who only wanted to posses the ring at any cost, verses Sam, who was loyal, faithful and selfless when it came to Frodo. For the sake of this message, I submit that if we carry the cares of this world around our necks, we end up slowly being taken over by the evil that comes from carrying burdens. Our Godlike personality becomes warped, schizoid, just like Frodo and our ability to discern between 'good' or 'evil.' One day we are standing and the next we are falling. Instead of us magnifying the Word or the promises of God, we end up magnifying the cares, worries and burdens that we are carrying. "As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the word and it yields no fruit." (Mtt. 13:22; Amplified Bible) Care here in these verses, carries the idea of distractions that cause anxiousness or taking thought. As you see Fr odo throughout the movie, he is increasingly anxious. Yet, he has one purpose, and that is to get the ring to the fires of Mordor, where he can once and for all throw it off into the fire. This is what God's word tells us to do, casting. Casting means to throw off or away from. When we throw the cares or the distracting thoughts and anxiety away from us they will burn in the fires of God's glory. When we trust God, then we are in fact demoting or humbling ourselves in our own estimation, then "He will keep us in perfect peace, when we keep our mind stayed on Him."(Isaiah 26:3)
Love,
Ears to Hear
Good Morning,
The Spirit of the Lord says;
Draw very near to Me through My Word
and obeying it. I have given to you My Spirit so that keeping My Word
would be your delight, for the Spirit and I are One. It is for your
benefit and blessing as well that you come closer to Me at this time,
for there is a divine shift taking place for all in My House. My love
has brought Us to this time. I Am now going through My house to sweep
clean all that will yield to My ways and Word. For all who yield there
will come a refreshing and a supernatural strength to bear up under all
that will come in the days ahead. These are the beginning of hardness
that history has never recorded before. For all who surrender to My
Word, there will be a fortress built around their hearts and their
lives. Do not be deceived, by thinking that all is well with you, I Am
calling all of My children to repent from following their own way down
their own paths. As you well
know the end of choosing your own ways, end in death. Learn now to
lean your whole self on Me, I must become your real all and all. Justice
will come to all who live upright before Me. Choosing Me in all of your
ways is increasing in wisdom, which is hearing My voice and obeying what
I have said to you. Many will not yield, for the spirit of deception
has made their hearts hard and now there will come to them a stronger
delusion to believe a lie. You will walk beside those who will swear
that they are following Me, but it will be plain by their words and
their actions that they no longer know Me. All who know Me strive to
obey Me. Do not be like the horse or the mule, who will not yield
without taking a whip to them. No, you must stay tender of heart and
then your whole man will follow My Word.
Loving Me, will be the most important
thing for you, this will be the road map. My love, not the world's love,
for you will know to love what I love and hate what I hate. My love is
set by My Word, it is strong, but will always be found in line with My
Word. Sin I hate, and you must hate it also, never become passive to the
sin that is abounding around you. Too many of those who sit in My House
are trying to have a love affair with the
world. Mostly because they take pleasure in having their own ways
covered, so they excuse those who do what lurks in their own hearts. I
Am turning up My light, everything done in the dark will be revealed. I
have covered those who will not obey to give them every opportunity to
sweep out what is in there, not to allow them to continue in their sin.
Everyone from the undershepherd that ministers My Word, to the priest
who sing the praises, and to every one who calls on My
name, from the youngest to the oldest, must lay down their own ways for
Mine. I Am giving a clarion call to come to repentance, I will walk in
My House to purge it from every unholy and profane thing. For I the
Lord your God Am a holy God, therefore you must be holy!
Love,