WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

The other night I asked the Lord what I should read before bed. “Psalm 51.” I love that Psalm but there are verses that I don’t fully understand. I know that happens to you too. But there are easy resources online for doing a quick study, or even an extended one. So, I decided to take a closer look and do a word study on verse six:

“Behold, you desire truth in the innermost being: and in the hidden part you will make me know wisdom.”

When I look up the words in their original language, I get a deeper understanding of what the verse really means. It’s a way to meditate on a scripture and let it make a deeper impact, sinking into my heart, because I’m taking the time to focus on it longer than the time it takes to just read it and move on.

In this verse, David is talking to God. David says, “You, God, desire truth in the innermost part of me.” The first word I want to look at is “desire.” The Hebrew word is “chaphets” and it means “delight in, take pleasure in, like.” But there’s more, something I wouldn’t have known about, unless I looked it up: In the definition of “desire” is the idea of bending down toward someone, inclining yourself toward them. So this tells me God actually takes so much pleasure in us having truth, that He bends down toward us, delighting in when He sees truth in us.

So, what is this “truth” God likes bending down to see in us? The word “truth” is the Hebrew word “emeth,” and it means all kinds of amazing things. Among them are: “faithfulness, reliability, trustworthiness, peace and stability.” But again, there is more to it. This is “truth that is spoken,” “truth as it pertains to divine instruction,” “truth in ethical knowledge,” and “truth in judgment.” So God delights in leaning down toward us to smile on our faithfulness, our trustworthiness, His truth that we are speaking, our receiving the truth of His divine revelations to us, doing the right thing when we have ethical decisions to make and truth in good judgment.

Where does God see these wonderful truths in us? The verse says He sees them in our “inward parts.” The Hebrew word for “inward parts” is “tuwchah” and it means “the seat of the mind and thoughts.” In other words, these truths are not just the flighty thoughts off the top of our heads, but they are coming from a deeper place in our minds. These are the things that if someone took the time to seriously ask you, “What do you really believe?” You would go to this part of your heart and mind and say with the most conviction, “This is what I believe.”

God bends down lovingly toward us to see if we have embraced His truths and if they live steadfast and unmovable in the depths of our hearts.

The rest of Psalm 51:6 tells us what God does when He sees His truth in our hearts:

“In the hidden part you [God] will make me know wisdom.”

The “hidden part” is the secret part. The word “know” is the Hebrew word “yada” which means to “see and know, to be sure of, discover and know by experience, feel, understand, and be able to teach.”

Then the final word, “wisdom,” “chokmah” in Hebrew. And this is the most exciting of all. Wisdom always means how to apply knowledge. But when you look at how this word is used, it is wisdom in specific areas.

It is wisdom concerning skill in war. It is wisdom in administration. It is shrewdness. (Matthew 10:16 says “Be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.”) This wisdom is discretion in religious matters and wisdom concerning ethical matters.

In studying the words used in this one scripture, we find that our loving God is inclining Himself down to us. He likes, and in fact delights in seeing the things He’s taught us dwelling in the deepest parts of our hearts. When He finds them there, He can attach the blessing of discovering, experiencing, understanding, feeling and even being able to teach great skill in war (physical and spiritual), administrative skills in all categories of life, shrewdness, wisdom in religious matters and godly ways to handle ethical matters as well.

For me, this verse in Psalm 51 is a great one to think about for a while. Studying the words God chose to put here, really helps to see the significance of the verse and the bigness of God’s own heart toward us and how much He is willing and desiring to give us great wisdom in the everyday decisions of life. This verse tells us how to receive that wisdom.

Studying a verse is easy to do online. Just go to this link, put a word or scripture reference in the search box, choose the Bible version and click the arrow. Then click where it says “STRONGS.” That gives you the option of looking at the definitions of the original words. I found in this resource that I had to use the KJV or the NASB, but there may be other sources if you read a different version. https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/psa/51/6/ss1/t_conc_529006

Try this, even if you only look up a couple words. I think you will really be blessed.

Love, Carolyn

LET'S LIVE FREE

LET’S LIVE FREE

Ground zero for any human being is not the soul, but the Spirit. That’s why, when a person says they are trying to “find themselves” or doing some deep soul searching, they won’t be truly satisfied until they look at the Spirit. God says in Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose.” To have true liberty and delight in this world, we need to know ourselves as a Spirit person and be led by the Spirit.

John 3:8 says, “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” When we allow the Spirit to rule, we go wherever it pleases. Second Corinthians 3:17 tells us, “The Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” And Galatians 5:1 tells us we should “stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.”

When we believed in God’s son, God Himself made us alive spiritually in Him. At that moment, He took the documents that listed all the bad things against us and folded it in half so no one could see it. Then it was nailed to the cross. It talks about this in Colossians.

It was a custom that any person who didn’t pay their debt, had papers written up against them. The papers were put up in a place in the city where everyone could see. But if some benevolent soul came along and paid the debt, the paper was folded in on itself and no one could see the debt. It was gone, paid for. That’s how it is when a person gets born again of Holy Spirit. All debt is paid and the person is free.

“And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened [made alive] together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross” (Col. 2:13-14).

Once we’re free, and we’re endeavoring to walk by the Spirit, we’re like the wind. We are free to obey the Spirit and go where we’re guided. Colossians 2:16: “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon,” where you hang out or what you do.

No one can judge you, only Jesus. Paul says he doesn’t even judge himself: “But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self” (1 Cor. 4:3).

Yes, “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:10). And “Every one of us shall give account of himself to God” (Rom. 14:12). We can’t do this by our great reasoning and mental discipline. We have to remind ourselves that we ARE Spirit, created in God’s image and like Him. We can only be free like the wind when we let our Spirit-self be in charge of our lives. We have to look at the Word of God to find out who that Spirit self is, who WE really are.

Paul tells us, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh is lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law” (Gal. 5:16-18).

Verse 25 of Galatians 5 says: “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

We are told in Romans: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the [Spiritual] children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom. 8:14-17).

Verse 29 tells us: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the [Spiritual] image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

This is amazing! It means that you and I are Spiritual brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, with the same amazing Father. That means that we, as Spirit people, are above every single demon there is! Colossians 2:15 says this about Jesus: “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them.” We ARE the Spiritual children of God as well, with the same God-given reborn spirit!

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? God that justifieth?

“Who is he that condemneth? Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

“It is written, ‘For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ [That’s before we became Holy Spiritual people!] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8: 31-38).

Let’s believe it, receive it and act like it! We keep reminding ourselves of who we really are and that there is no devil spirit, no demon who is bigger than we are spiritually. Like Jesus, we stand. “Resist the devil and

and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).

And with people, we walk in the Spirit. “And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). And “We walk in love” (Eph. 5:2).

Let’s live free and kick the devil’s butt this week!

Love, Carolyn

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ARE YOU JOY? OR DO YOU ONLY HAVE IT?

ARE YOU JOY? OR DO YOU ONLY HAVE IT?

Even though I'd heard the phrase, “You are a spirit person,” many times before, I got a revelation today on how to use this revelation differently than before. God created every human being to be a “speaking spirit” (Gen. 2:7 Heb. Chumash). Then when we get born again and we receive Jesus Christ, a miracle takes place because “God has given us His Holy Spirit” (1 Thess. 4:8) to replace our human spirit that was given to us in natural birth. Peter calls it “incorruptible seed.”

In this package, “God blessed us with all spiritual blessings” (Eph. 1.3). That includes all the fruit of the spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23: “The fruit that comes from having the Holy Spirit in our lives is: love, joy, peace, not giving up, being kind, being good, being faithful, being gentle, and being the boss over our own desires.”

The new revelation I got was that we don’t HAVE these things, we ARE these things. Each of us is a new spirit; we have a soul (our minds, emotions and will); and we live in a body. Since these characteristics, called fruit of the spirit, are spirit things, we can say, “We ARE love; We ARE joy; We ARE peace,” and so on. We have to do this so much that we convince our souls that this is true.

First John 4:8 says, “God IS love.” Since God gave me what He IS, then I AM love too. It’s a spiritual thing.

Today when my soul started to get riled up about confusing instructions, I told myself, “I am a spirit and I am peace.” I used to say to myself, “I have peace.” But “having it” is different from “being it.” You can “have” a healthy pancreas, but “being” healthy is an all over thing. The soul can have peace, but the spirit is peace. And the spirit is greater and a much higher authority than the soul or body. The spirit rules.

Besides having opportunities to “Be peace,” at work today, I had opportunities to “Be love.” The difference was, when I thought about having love and giving it, it felt like it was a certain amount, like having a package of love, but when I said to myself, “I AM love,” it was all in me and all over me. That was so much better than having only a portion of it.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).

I only tried out two of the fruit of the spirit today: love and peace. It was remarkable and really satisfying. I can hardly wait to try out the others. They are like muscles underneath the flesh: they are us, but we don’t see them until we exercise them.

Let’s not have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control, let’s BE it.

Love, Carolyn

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LABOR DAY - A LABOR OF LOVE

LABOR DAY - A LABOR OF LOVE

It’s Labor Day Weekend and a great time for a message on Words—a labor of love! Speaking words that build up rather than tear down, speaking words deliberately, not randomly is worth the effort when you know how really powerful words are.

 

Did you ever see a slow motion film of a sneeze? The sneeze moved molecules and our words do too. One day the scientists will figure out a way we can see it—the words going out and how they work to bring those realities to pass—how they move molecules that move other molecules and set up a chain reaction of events that eventually get the thing done that was first spoken. One day we will see how it works, but for now, I just know that it does work.

Author Kevin Trudeau writes the following:

“Words have power. Most people speak words that increase body stress and turn the body’s pH from alkaline to acidic. Words can change the way we think and feel.  Researchers have concluded that speaking the correct form of words and thinking the correct thoughts actually changes a person’s DNA. . . .

If you look at people today around the world who have no disease and no illness, there are virtually no common denominators. You can’t look to a person’s genetic disposition. You can’t look to a person’s diet because they vary so greatly. Some of these people smoke, some of them eat monkeys raw, some of them eat dairy products, some of them are vegetarians, some of them do not exercise, others simply walk.

They generally all do sleep very well, but the most obvious common denominator is how they think and how they talk.”

King Solomon said, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Prov. 18:21). James talks about the tongue, comparing it to a bit in a horse’s mouth and a ship’s rudder: “If we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole bodies about. Likewise, look at the ships: though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the helmsman determines” (James 3:3-4 AMP).

Your tongue can turn your whole life around. Solomon said, “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth” (Prov. 6:2). He also says, “A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul” (Prov. 18:7).

A person’s soul consists of his mind and his emotions, so what we say captures our mind and if we say it enough, our minds will believe it, and our emotions will go right along!

I’ve heard that thoughts are what make the creases or folds in our brain matter. Words heard over and over become more and more established as thoughts, and the creases get deeper.

If we want to have a different response to stimuli, we have to consciously labor with words to make it different.

 

What we say snares or captures our souls, either negatively or positively. We want to be capturing our minds and emotions with true words, uplifting words, saying true things, good things, about ourselves as well as others.

I’m not saying that we should never say anything that sounds bad or negative. We have to be able to say honestly and directly what is not good, before we can actually do something about it. If we refuse to even see it, or we ignore—for instance—a devil spirit, it doesn’t go away. We need to see the negative things so we can speak to them and also use our tongues as weapons to move the negative influences away.

There’s a great expression, “Handcuff a thought before you speak it.” We give life to a thought by speaking it.

Isaiah, one of my favorite prophets, spoke on God’s behalf, saying, “I create the fruit of the lips” (Isa. 57:19). What comes out of our mouths is created into our physical reality.

Usually what we say doesn’t manifest immediately and that’s where it gets tricky, because if we don’t see something right away we think nothing is happening. If we keep saying something, negative or positive, the actual creation into our physical reality may not come until later. By the time it manifests we may or may not remember that we really did say it, but it will surely come.

 

Let’s look at the record of Jesus speaking to a fig tree. He and his disciples were going into Jerusalem in the morning and he went up to a fig tree, but the tree was fruitless. He said, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever” (Mark 11:14). Even when Jesus spoke to the tree it didn’t dry up right there on the spot. It took a little time.

Jesus was with his disciples when he spoke to the tree; then they went into Jerusalem and spent the day there; then they went back by where the tree was, yet nothing had happened. But, “in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away” (Mark 11:20-21).

“And God SAID, ‘Let there be light:’ and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). “God SAID, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so” (Gen. 1:11). God created by SAYING.

In the Chumash, which is a Hebrew-English translation of Genesis through Deuteronomy, the created man of Genesis 2:7 is described as a “speaking spirit.”

You and I were made to create by speaking, just like God. We can look into the mirror and say what God says about us: “His love is perfected in me” (1 John 4:12). I choose to say what God says about me.  He is bigger than I am, so if God says something about me and I agree with that, and I say that, well then, that’s the way it will be.

I say it and keep saying it and then my brain will start making a new crease; and pretty soon, I will believe it and be it. Amazing, isn’t it?! Why not believe what God says about us? We start saying it and we don’t stop until we see it!

Determining to speak in a new way is a labor of love. Happy Labor Day to all of you.

Love, Carolyn

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"LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP"

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“LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP”

One of my cousins just graduated from High School and is now in training for the mission field. I’m so proud of her. She has taken a big step in going further in her relationship and ministry for our Lord and God. In Luke 5:4 Peter is introduced into a new level of ministry too. Jesus teaches, then tells Peter, “Launch out into the deep.”  The word “deep” has some awesome meanings. It is the Greek word “bathos,” and means depth, as in “deep water,” and without further study, this is what we assume He’s talking about here in Luke 5. But there’s something even more exciting to it.

The word Jesus used, “bathos” for “deep” also means “profundity” (a word I had to look up). Profundity is profoundness. It’s “understanding, perceptiveness, insight, complexity, enormity, intricacy, greatness, extensiveness and mystery.”

First Corinthians 2:10 uses this same word translated “deep”: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth [is searching] all things, yea, the deep things of God.”

Jesus was telling Peter to launch out, not only into the deeper waters of Lake Tiberius, but into the deeper waters of relationship with Him and ministry to His people. But like many Christians today, Peter had his own ideas of where he was at and what he was willing to do. He told Jesus, “Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing” (v. 5)

Honestly, how many times have we prayed and felt that we didn’t get our prayers answered? Or what about the times we stepped out boldly to minister healing to someone and it didn’t work? What about the times we cast a demon out and it kept coming back? Here was Peter: He’d come in from fishing all night with his crew; they caught nothing; he and the guys had already cleaned all the junk off the nets, wrapped them up and put them away. They had failed this time and knew it. But Jesus didn’t let them stay that way. They were at the end of their rope, disappointed and exhausted and Jesus asked them to do something they really really didn’t want to do! Get back in the boat, do exactly what you did all night long, only this time I want you to go out even further and deeper!

It’s like that in our individual growth as a minister to God’s people. We do our best and then Jesus asks us to go even further, even deeper. Sometimes it means looking deeper into our own souls and finding the things we’re not so proud of. When Jesus told Peter to “let down your nets for a haul,” Peter wanted to do it, but he was a little short on believing and he only took one net. “When they enclosed a great multitude of fishes their net broke” (v. 6) Peter found out he didn’t trust Jesus as much as he maybe thought he did. “When Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ‘Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the haul of the fishes which they had taken” (vv. 8-9).

When Jesus challenged Peter to “launch out into the deep” Peter found out one of his personal weaknesses: a lack of total trust and maybe some personal pride as well. But He was at least brave enough to obey the call the best he could at the time.  

Then Jesus says something really interesting to Peter. He says, “Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men” (v. 10).

This incident was a big part of Peter’s training to be a great minister for the Lord. Though he had a heart willing and desiring to do Jesus’ commandments and follow His instructions, Peter made some pretty big mistakes.

A minister for the Lord has to realize he or she will make mistakes. Jesus is telling Peter to not be afraid of this. He was saying something like this:

“You are going to gather men and women like yourself. They will sin and fall short just like you and because you know the downfalls, you’ll have compassion and will be able to help them.

“You will be able to tell them your own story and how I helped train you and how you had to change your mind and get back in the boat one more time. You launched out into the deep at my urging and now you have seen in Me and in yourself the profound. You have more understanding, perceptiveness and insight. You see much deeper, the complexity, enormity, intricacy, greatness, extensiveness and mystery—more of ‘the deep things of God.’”

You who have been called to ministry, and have taken the leap, I am so proud of you. Welcome to the deep.

Love, Carolyn

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BEING GENEROUS - THE BUCKET TRUCK

BEING GENEROUS - THE BUCKET TRUCK

Early in the week, Jane and I saw that someone had thrown a pair of gym shoes up onto the telephone wires at the entrance to our street. I have a very long metal branch cutter, but the shoes were on the “hot” wire, so we decided it was better to pray for another way to get them down. Then yesterday, up pulls Raul’s son-in-law in a bucket truck! My neighbor Raul has a very generous heart so the Lord had an easy time working in him to help us out. I went over to see if they would get the shoes down and they laughed and said yes. We all got a big chuckle out of the fact that two of us were wearing the same kind of shoes that were caught up on the wire (only a different color) and we made jokes about them maybe being our size and we’d be getting a new pair.

In the Old Testament we’re told, “If there is a poor man among you, one of your fellow Israelites, in any of your cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not be heartless, nor close-fisted with your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend to him whatever he needs” (Deut. 15:7-9 AMP).

After the shoes came down from the telephone wires, I was in my garage sorting out all the art supplies I wanted to give away. Along came a girl I’d never met. We talked and it turned out she was a beginning art student in college and I was able to give her an easel, a clip board for her drawing classes, new canvasses and some other things that she told me were too expensive for her. I was thrilled. Just being able to be generous was reward enough in itself.

David talks to God in First Chronicles 29: 12-14 and reminds us that what we have comes from God in the first place: “Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand is power and might; and it is in Your hands to make great and to give strength to everyone. But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer as generously as this?”

We can never be more generous than God. But we are told to “be imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father]. And walk in love, [esteeming and delighting in one another] as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to God” (Eph. 5: 1-3).

In Isaiah 32: 8 we’re told that generosity is a noble act: “But the noble, openhearted, and liberal man devises noble things; and he stands for what is noble, openhearted, and generous.”

Proverbs 11:17 tells us: “The merciful, kind, and generous man benefits himself [for his deeds return to bless him]. (AMP).

Jane and I like do something generous when we go to a buffet. After we are served our beverages, we get out a generous tip and put it right on the table. Servers rely on their tips, so if we put out the tip early, they don’t have to be nervous, wondering, “Am I going to get a tip from these two?” Also, by doing this, we always get great service and the next time we come, they’re happy to serve us again.

First Timothy 6: 17-19 says, “As for the rich in this present world, instruct them not to be conceited and arrogant, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share.”

 We are all rich in something, whether it’s a son-in-law with a bucket truck, extra art supplies, an extra dollar for a tip, a compliment or a smile. Let’s make a little extra effort this week to open our eyes to where we can be generous and see how great it feels.

Love, Carolyn

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