TEST THE SPIRITS

1 John 4:2 By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source];

3 And every spirit which does not acknowledge and confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh [but would annul, destroy, sever, disunite Him] is not of God [does not proceed from Him]. This [nonconfession] is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you heard that it was coming, and now it is already in the world.

2 Peter 3:3 To begin with, you must know and understand this, that scoffers (mockers) will come in the last days with scoffing, [people who] walk after their own fleshly desires

4 And say, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the forefathers fell asleep, all things have continued exactly as they did from the beginning of creation.

5 For they willfully overlook and forget this [fact], that the heavens [came into] existence long ago by the word of God, and the earth also which was formed out of water and by means of water,

6 Through which the world that then [existed] was deluged with water and perished.

7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been stored up (reserved) for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly people.

Matthew 7:16-20
16 You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

17 Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit.

18 A good (healthy) tree cannot bear bad (worthless) fruit, nor can a bad (diseased) tree bear excellent fruit [worthy of admiration].

19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

20 Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=KWEDBaFy0SI

Spirit Song (with lyrics)

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DIFFERENT IS BEAUTIFUL

He Prayed - It Wasn't My Religion,
He Ate - It Wasn't What I Ate,
He Spoke - It Wasn't My Language,
He Dressed - It Wasn't What I Wore,
He Took My Hand - It Wasn't The Color Of Mine
But When He Laughed - It Was How I Laughed
and When He Cried - It Was How I Cried.

by Amy Maddox

"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people & use things 

instead of using people & loving things."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmI9yT2iug&feature=share

Different is Beautiful, Life is Beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2uboZoseOc&feature=share

Different is Beautiful

"God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;

male and female He created them."

Genesis 1:27

MARKED
I'm marked!
I'm marked by God's clear hand!
He signed His name on me.
His autograph of Love reveals
My true Identity.

My finger prints, each tiny hair,
Set me somehow apart.
I am not like another soul
I have no counterpart.

He made me as I am because
He wanted me this way
A product of His workmanship
His image to portray.

I stand amazed that He who made
The universe and all
Should care so much! I'm only Me!
And Oh, I feel so small.

When I consider all His mind
Has authored and decreed
To think He loves me as I am
And sees me in my need.

But Oh, He does! He really does!
He signed His name on me!
His marks of ownership reveal
My true identity.

by Mary Mason

For as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ [into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah] have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ.

There is [now no distinction] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:27-28

Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5

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LUKEWARMNESS -- RENOUNCE -- REPENT

I know lots of confessing Christians -- of whom most have been lulled into apathy & then drawn into LUKEWARM CHURCHES.
YOU (my brothers and sisters in Christ) ARE IN MY PRAYERS TODAY!

FORGIVE US LORD, AS I HUMBLE BOW BEFORE YOU THIS MORNING,

CONFESSING MY OWN LACK OF SENSITIVENESS TO YOUR WAYS AND TRUTHS ALL TOO OFTEN

AND

FOR BEING A FREQUENTLY COMPLACENT PLACATER --

PLEASE HELP THE BODY OF BELIEVERS (aka the church) RETURN TO OUR FIRST LOVE OF JESUS

AND TO GOD'S HOLY WORDS IN SCRIPTURES --

REVIVE AND REFRESH YOUR PEOPLE, I PRAY

Repent by Steve Green with Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=HO5nWZD8Tt0

Revelation 3:14 And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the trusty and faithful and true Witness, the Origin and Beginning and Author of God’s creation:
15 I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are NEITHER COLD NOR HOT. Would that you were cold or hot!
16 So, because you are LUKEWARM AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT I WILL SPEW YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH!

17 For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
18 Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.

19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I TELL THEIR FAULTS AND CONVICT AND CONVICT AND REPROVE AND CHASTEN [I discipline and instruct them]. So BE ENTHUSIASTIC AND IN EARNEST BURNING WITH ZEAL AND REPENT [changing your mind and attitude].

20 Behold, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK; IS ANYONE HEARS AND LISTENS TO AND HEEDS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM AND WILL EAT WITH HIM AND, AND HE [will eat] WITH ME.

21 HE WHO OVERCOMES, (is victorious), I WILL GRANT HIM TO SIT BESIDE ME ON MY THRONE, as I Myself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside My Father on His throne.

22 HE WHO IS ABLE TO HEAR, LET HIM LISTEN TO AND TO HEED WHAT THE [Holy] SPIRIT SAYS TO THE ASSEMBLIES (churches).

REVIVAL STARTS WITH REPENTANCE & RENOUNCING

THE SPIRIT OF ERROR

LUKEWARMNESS -

LIBERALISM - MODERNISM -TOLERANCE - COMPROMISE
RENOUNCE
TO SAY PUBLICLY
that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something

TO REPENT IS
to be sorry & admit that you did something bad
or that you neglected to do something good (omission).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=9xPSr7lwjAc

Bonnie Keen, Donnie Sumner, Gene McDonald - I Have Returned [Live]

"THE ENTIRE BIBLE
IS ABLE TO HOLD ITS OWN
IN ANY KIND OF CONTROVERSY WITH HUMAN WISDOM IN ANY FORM."

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YES -- NO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_5blKbAW7o&feature=share

Yes Lord Yes - America's 25 Favorite Praise & Worship (Lyrics

Matthew 12:30 He who is not with Me [definitely on My side] is against Me, and he who does not [definitely] gather with Me and for My side scatters.

31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy (every evil, abusive, injurious SPEAKING, or indignity against sacred things) can be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the [Holy] Spirit shall not and cannot be forgiven.

32 And whoever SPEAKS a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever SPEAKS against the Spirit, the Holy One, will not be forgiven, either in this world and age or in the world and age to come.

33 Either make the tree sound (healthy and good), and its fruit sound (healthy and good), or make the tree rotten (diseased and bad), and its fruit rotten (diseased and bad); for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit.

34 You offspring of vipers! How can you SPEAK good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the]superabundance) of the heart the mouth SPEAKS.

35 The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things.

36 But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they SPEAK.

37 For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.

NOTE TO SELF:

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW ANOTHER PERSON REACTS TO MY WELL INTENDED WORDS, ACTIONS, OR DEEDS.

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN

MEAN WHAT YOU SAY

Let your Yes be simply Yes,

and your No be simply No;

anything more than that comes from the evil one.

Matthew 5:37

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WORD -- HOLY BIBLE

SPEAK ENCOURAGEMENT -- SPEAK HOPE -- SPEAK LOVE-- SPEAK FORGIVENESS -- SO EACH WORD BECOMES AN ONGOING ECHO OF GREAT JOY.

Are there WORD RE-DOs? Take a feather pillow to the highest peak of the highest mountain; Rip it open -- shake out all the feathers --Then catch them -- and put them back in the pillow.WORDS ARE JUST AS HARD TO RECAPTURE ONCE SPOKEN.

WORD

Speech or writing used with other words

by people to certain people.

God's HOLY WORD the Bible

WRITTEN TO ALL PEOPLE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=FS1LAc5DSCU

THY WORD - Amy Grant

"THE ENTIRE BIBLE

IS ABLE TO HOLD ITS OWN

IN ANY KIND OF CONTROVERSY WITH HUMAN WISDOM IN ANY FORM."

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TRANSFORMATION

TRANSFORMATION

change · alteration · modification · variation · conversion · revision · amendment · metamorphosis ·

Be not conformed to this world, Be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of your mind.

Romans 12:2

TRANSFORMATION:

Christ can transform flesh to fruit

Fruits of Spirit:
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control Galatians
5:22-23

Fruits of the Flesh:
Adultery, Fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries
Galatians 5:19-21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF651O_ETqg&feature=share

Here I Am - Tamela Mann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD2PJ0xbAdY&feature=share

Keith Green - Create in me a clean heart

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NOW -- TIME

TAKE TIME
Take time to think:
it is the source of power.
Take time to read;
it is the foundation of wisdom.
Take time to play;
it is the secret of staying young.
Take time to be quiet;
it is the opportunity to see God.
Take time to be aware;
it is the opportunity to help others.
Take time to love and be loved;
it is God's greatest gift.
Take time to laugh;
it is the music of the soul.
Take time to be friendly;
it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream;
it is what the future is made of.
Take time to pray;
it is the greatest power on earth.
Take time to Plan –
It is the secret of being able to have time to take time for the things listed above.
Author: Unknown

The Sin Of Omission

It isn't the thing you do, dear;
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you a bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts to-night.

The stone you might have lifted
Out of brother's way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time nor thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.

The little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind;
Those chances to be angels
Which every one may find
They come in night and silence
Each chill, reproachful wraith
When hope is faint and flagging
And a blight has dropped on faith.

For life is all too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great;
To suffer our great compassion
That tarries until too late;
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
by Margaret Sangster

TIME IS

IRREVERSIBLE,

IRREPLACEABLE;

WASTING TIME

IS WASTING LIFE

Perfect time to start (Christian Music) [Lyrics] - ActiveChristianity

"Dost thou love life?

Then do not squander TIME,

for that is the stuff

life is made of."

Ben Franklin

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DELIVERER

Exaltation of the Afflicted
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Because the Lord has anointed me
To bring good news to the afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to captives
And freedom to prisoners;
2 To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To grant those who mourn in Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke?
“Is it not to divide your bread [a]with the hungry
And bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the naked, to cover him;
And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isaiah 58:6-7