From the Life Happens Series…OWNING OUR TRUTH

ALL PRAISES TO GOD, our CREATOR

In quotes thought for today: Owning One’s Truth...I got to thinking, with all the talk going around about demonic agendas, secret societies, occult's, blood sacrifices, government sanctions/shutdowns, and any other things associated with theoretic fear of the infamous Illuminati among others; it makes me wonder how much more of a push do believers to just TRUST GOD!

Life Happens…Owning Our Truth, Where Holiness Begins

What can one mortal do about it absent the most powerful (Omnipotent) Creator?Did God gift us with power, love, mental/spiritual discipline; a friend (advocate), brother via adoption, and an assigned band of angels on our side?

The only blood sacrifice believers should be concerned with, is the Blood of the Lamb, which freed us from the lawless one(s), sin, enemies, and the devourer for His namesake (Glory)

Fact 1: People, animals and plants die everyday.Fact 2. Nobody knows when their day [shall] arrive nor how they will leave here; but everyone and thing will, except God's WordFact 3. We just need to pick which sword we will utilize; because of it, we will die
“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away” Luke 21:33
“And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail”  Luke 16:17 
"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" Matthew 26:52 

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Testimony…

For instance, I've remained in unhealthy (one-sided) relationships for decades, knowing I was guilty of none of the wrongs generally associated with the more common bad relationships. The signs were there, but I ignored them and pursued my heart--my truth, rather than the obvious one--non-mutual, non-shared, or non-reciprocal feelings. (i.e. coworkers, friends, family & other loved ones)
“Hmm...what an enormous waste of time to spend being chained in obsessive passion for another,” I thought; but, when I sought the Lord (via Spirit of Truth) on why or how I could have been so unwise (stupid) about it, I received a plethora of truth to what it taught me.
For starters, it made me strong enough to alone handle the chains of oppression, of which I had prior and later faced. It taught unselfishness as in how to love others more and how to reevaluate the Love God has for me (us). The experiences (seasons) taught me about myself--what God created or subjectively had in mind for me; and overall, it taught me patience (trust and confidence) in the Lord.
I learned to trust the voice of reason, season, time, chance, love, patience, joy, gentleness, humility, strength, courage, wisdom, knowledge... [a Revealing or enlightenment on the Glory of the Lord].
[Sanctify them by the truth, thy word is the truth; you will know the truth and it will make you free, to be profane is to reject, deny and speak against God’s truth; Jesus, the anointed Christ Savior, Son of Man, only begotten Son of God, the Word made manifest in the flesh, dwelling among us as the author and finisher of our faith, the way, the truth and the life, more--i.e. some or one’s truth];

Here’s Another Truth:

"All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth? Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him” (Ecclesiastes 3:20-22)?

Why? …

Response via Discernment & Confirmation: The Spirit of Truth is our driving force and guides us to seek it (TRUTH).

Tolerance - In truth, we learn patience.Reevaluation - In truth, we learn discernment.Understanding - In truth, we gain empathy among knowledge given or shown us.Trust - In truth, our confidence is modified or transformed.Hearing - In truth, we learn to hear more intricately and solemnly

Ever noticed how quickly things spread by word of mouth?Ever noticed how one can disclose something to another and if not in the sacredness of care or love; things repeated to another oftentimes become quickly distorted along the lines of communication.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them
Romans 1:29-32

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“Thou [was] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created, till iniquity was found in thee” (Ezekiel 28:15)

Fact 1. We [man and angels] sinned in the beginning and because God loved us he chastened us early [betimes] --Genesis 6:5 | Jeremiah 17:9 | Hebrews 12:6-11 | Proverbs 13:24-25 | Titus 1:7 | Proverbs 3:11-12; 19:18-19 & 21:9 | Hebrews 12:6-11Fact 2. This is why God reminds us that we love Him, because He first loved us (1 John 4:19-21). He knew our hearts were evil, that we were disobedient, and disbelieving (Gen 6:3-5). He knew our behavior could be defiant and that we could be manipulated or coerced (Gen 6:1-12). Yet, He chose to give us a chance to redeem ourselves throughout time (Eccl 9:11).

Fact 1. The serpent was to go on his belly all the days of his or its life eating the dust and having his head bruised by the heel of enmity between he, the woman, and each of their children (seed)--i.e. sibling rivalry such as with Cain Abel, Esau vs Jacob, Judah vs Israel, etc., Eve mother of all living (Gen 3:14-20).

Fact 2. Eve would bear children in sorrow, with a desire to her husband and under his rule (Gen 3:16 & other cf throughout the bible)Fact 3. The man (metaphorically, the dust --Gen 1:5-9 & 3 v. 19) would have to, in sorrow; till the now cursed ground for herbal nutrition; to make bread and provision for his family but painstakingly as it brought forth both thorns and thistles, for a period of his life. He was recorded to have died at the age of 930 (Gen 5:5-10).

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A Poetic Truth (Power of Life & Death)

I've fought my last fight I gave it all my might
I've done plentiful wrong trying to get things right
I woke this morning dreading being alive
I spent most of the day down memory lane
Sorting thru heartache, shame and all of its pain
Hoping for pieces to pick up and start over again
But we're only given one earthen life, sometimes with loads of strife
It may seem to hurt like hell ...the slashes of the enemy’s knife
Of all the moments I've dread, the best is that I was led
Led in a path beyond my control, years have gone by and I've gotten and feeling quite old
I questioned briefly, the captain of my soul...searching for one last goal
In my life I have lied cheated and stole what of it my heart could hold
I took in much more than I could handle...today there was no more flicker to my candle
I thought there was no more shimmer or shine left...what more for me does the rock of ages cleft
So I decided to give up the breath...embrace transition's finality in death.
Death to all the crap that this world holds in every shape form and fashion...this is an affirmative action
I will master my fate...while making clean, the slate
No I won't be petty by throwing shade...that bed of deception's already been played.
I rebuke, bind up and cast out into oblivion; everything done and said by self and others to want me dead
I thought about treating others like they have me but that' s too cheesy...yet this time around I won't go down so easy
I know that I have a right to choose that of which I will serve...at times being the over-talkative nicer one has gotten on, even my last nerve
There is nothing more of this world that I yet desire nor deserve...except to be free from a world enslaved...full of vultures whose pride is vexatious and in no way efficacious
The evil things we all do or did to bring added value of self-serving desire, forsaking the promise of hell's temperate fire, were all contrived by one [already damned] good liar.
~the Messenger

“The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going” (Proverbs 14:15).

Don’t Be Reckless with Truth…Keep the Faith

“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation” (2 Peter 1:20).

“For our God [is] a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:29 KJV)

God is Mighty!

The Spirit of Prophecy Reproofs & Enlightens Us on What God Created …. or Had in Mind for Us

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7)
“The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended [it] not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world”
(John 1:2-9).


[Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness]
(1 Timothy 4:1-7).


[Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withheld that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness] (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12).

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