We Know A Person's Heart!

But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.” Matthew 15:18-20 NIV

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Matthew 12:34 NIV
 

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Luke 6:45 NIV

I am so tired of people saying--in defense of trump--"we don't know his heart" and all who are saying this, profess to be Christians, with supposedly--a knowledge of God's Word. Really? They don't know his heart? Perhaps, it's because they are not Christians, but hypocrites who have their heads so far up Dooflebutt's behind they can hardly breathe. IF YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE, YOU KNOW TRUMP'S HEART! PERIOD!

I challenge any and all so-called Christians to deny this truth--based upon The Word, not my opinions or theirs--whatever comes out of trump's mouth is a demonstration of what's in his heart. What we hear him say or see him tweet that fits the pattern demonstrated for a long time now, is who he is--a bigoted racist--and no matter how many photo ops are arranged with people of color surrounding will ever change who he is. He's a con man, a manipulative gaslighter, and a pathological liar. If you think I'm wrong, prove it with something other than--your feelings. Document it.

Quick Review:

Obama wasn't born in America and maligned him until Obama produced his birth certificate to shut him up and that didn't work.

There is documentation of his racist views in denying people of color to occupy his apartments.

There is the documentation that he wanted 5 men of color executed--for no reason (after they were exonerated) other than their skin color.

He called Black NFL players SOBs because they dared to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem in protest of the racial injustice in this country. Note: The Black NFL players know the lyrics to the song--trump doesn't and that's documented as well.

He's offended Gold Star families (Khan and Johnson).

He's maligned a Congresswoman--Fredericka Wilkerson.

He belittled a judge because of his Hispanic heritage.

And with the latest comments--calling countries and the entire continent of Africa--s**thole countries, but wants immigrants from Norway (predominantly white nation), Everybody with a functioning brain--knows his heart--because whatever is in there--consistently--comes out of his mouth or his fingers. He loves the support he gets from his white supremacist base and that's not going to change. Only people with low-functioning intelligence will continue support this hateful bigotry residing in the White House. But then, if people are supporting him and his racist agenda, it tells a lot about them.

It's time to get real folks! We don't need the rest of the world being contemptuous of us because of the malignancy haters elected with the help of Russia.

Get educated about all candidates in all elections.

Know the difference between factual information being presented and fake/constructed information--designed to con and manipulate emotions and actions.

Do the research and stop relying upon Fox Entertainment Network--no real news is coming from them--they entertain their audience with hateful rhetoric and scorn truth when others dare to present it.

Get out and vote! Complacency never experiences victory--only passion wins the day and people driven by passions, are driven into action.

 

Look, Believe, Raised!

"For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”(John 6:40 NIV)

There are two ways one could interpret this verse and still be on target.  Jesus said, "It is my Father's Will" and this could be taken quite literally for those who understand the impact of a will from a legal standpoint. A will is a document that details what a person wants after they are no longer around to oversee that which belongs to them and the conditions that must be met to receive the benefit of being in the will.

Now, before you start thinking, "she's way off" bear with me for a moment. The document that details the Father's Will is The Word, and we know from the first chapter in John that--"In the beginning was The Word and The Word was God, and The Word was with God" so in those terms--Jesus was not only talking about the Father, but Himself. He knew He would not be around to look out for those who believed in Him so He had to purposely leave behind His written document (which He could rightfully claim) as His Will.

The other side of this statement is just as accurate when the word "Will" is interpreted to mean "desire." It is the Father's desire for all to Look to the Son, Believe in Him (and obey) and when He returns, they will be raised up and reign with Him for all eternity! This is God's desire and we know it to be true because He said, "He so loved the world (all the people in it) that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish (in their sins), but have everlasting life."

The desire is clear and so are the conditions. We must look to the Son and see The Father since they are One, believe that He is and ever shall be, repent of our sins and live according to The Word (His Will) and when He returns, He will raise us from the dead (physically dead) and we shall rise with a glorified body (totally healed and whole) and reign with Him!

Look at how the Son conducts Himself, Believe that He is the only way we'll get a chance to see God when we obey His Word, meeting the conditions of The Will (obedience) guarantees us eternal life when we are Raised and meet Him in the air, ready to return to the One who gives all life! Glory to God! Are we ready?

Don't Be Led Astray!

"No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous." (1 John 3:6,7 NIV)

Now that I have time to think about things in my life, I often remember some of my mother's responses to things when I questioned her judgment. When I tried to make a case for her to change her mind about something by saying, "Everyone else is going or doing something," she'd remark, "If they all jumped off the bridge, would you go?" That sounded like such a silly question to me--then--of course I wouldn't jump off a bridge just because everyone else did. But now, her response makes a lot of sense.

When everyone else is saying that "sin is not sin" any more, I know better. I don't have to go along with everyone else; I'm not jumping off that bridge.  I am not a lemming!

That's exactly what people are doing when they go along with the PC group (politically correctness) that declares that God didn't really mean what He said. For those who declared they knew Him and yet have this stance--they lied. And we have the proof in His Word. No one can say they know God and yet willfully sin against Him or live in opposition to His Word. Don't take my word for it--read it for yourselves.  In fact, read The Word, pray and meditate about what you read, then repent and move into fellowship with Jesus and be made whole by hearing Holy Spirit when He speaks!

Don't allow the enemy or anyone who has been influenced by the enemy to lead you astray--away from Truth in God's Word. When He appeared upon the earth in the likeness of flesh--Jesus--did not re-define sin, He opened the way for us not to sin and directs our pathway to heaven by the work on the cross. Are we going to make His sacrifice for us--pointless?

Choose to live according to His Word, not allowing anyone to lead you astray. If they want to jump off the bridge, let them go by themselves. If I'm the only one left--who will not support living in opposition to God's Word--then I'll be the only one left--I will not allow the enemy to lead me astray--off the path of righteousness!

God yet honors those who promote Truth and obey His Word! Hallelujah!

Loving Regardless!

"But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (Matthew 5:44,45 NIV)

Talk about having a sense of humor! When Jesus told people to do this I can only imagine what they were thinking. "What? Is He nuts? No, He wasn't--He was simply being who He was and is--Love!

Love--can only produce love, can only ignite love, can only fuel love and while it can be a strain sometimes, to love the unlovable, we can do it when we remember this. The problem with remembering this message is that we are often seduced by a spirit of self-righteousness to think we have to cater to those who hate us and we we do not.

How do I  know? When Jesus overturned the tables in the temple because of the farce He saw of hypocrites, He loved them enough to correct them. When parents have rules and instill in their children appropriate behaviors it is because of love. God has established proprieties for all of us and in order to obey Him, we have to love--not be foolish, but care enough about people that we plan no harm, but want to see them in position to receive all that God has for them.

Only an enemy plans harm--love plans care and protection.

Even when we recognize the enemy, we can still love them enough to correct them, redirect their thinking, and treat them courteously, and never lose sight of the rules established to maintain order and consideration of others.

Because people "in general" do not understand the meaning of courtesy and consideration, they often ignore the rules of courtesy and the laws of the land. Discourteous drivers think they are the only ones with the right to drive on the roads, at any time, and to ignore those who also have rights. Discourteous movie-goers have phones ringing and public conversations that interfere with those who have also paid to see the movie to "hear" what's on the screen. Discourteous people eat at restaurants and never tip their servers appropriately. Discourteous people only think about what they want and never consider the rights of others or give them any consideration. In spite of all this, we can still love--sometimes from afar--and pray that their hearts will be softened to hear God and know Love, so they, too--can love.

Regardless of how we feel--as long as we do not allow ourselves to be put in harm's way--we love regardless of the attitudes of others towards us. Jesus said so, but even He had limits and boundaries--because He is love!

Ocean Depths!

"He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7:19 NKJV)

Because of God's mercy towards us--He will not stay angry with us forever, and when we repent of our sins, His mercy and compassion are so great that He forgives us and tosses our sins into the depths of the seas.

The key to having our sins tossed into the sea is our repentance--turning away from those things that do not honor God in any way and turning to God, honoring Him in all we do.

Many--who want to live any way they want to live--espouse God's love and criticize anyone else who mentions sin, saying we should only talk about love. Well, God is love and He loves us all, but He will not tolerate disobedience any more than our natural parents will. The rules don't change because of His love, but the rules are established because of His love.

Be careful of the tricks of the enemy who would blind to truth and attempt to get one to believe that God's Love cancels His rules, when in fact, it is just the opposite. When we love--we want to keep our loved ones safe from harm. God's Love wants to keep us safe from harm and keep us in position to receive His many benefits. If we love Him, we'll obey Him. When we refuse to obey Him, we are in fact obeying Satan who wants confusion and disorder and chaos to reign so we cannot hear God when He speaks.

I am so grateful for God's forgiveness and His giving me a another chance to get things right with Him, that I know my sins are at the bottom of the ocean and no one--doing any deep-sea fishing, will be able to snare them and bring them up to Him again. Hallelujah!

Our Tasks!

“I, the LORD, have called you to demonstrate my righteousness. I will take you by the hand and guard you, and I will give you to my people, Israel, as a symbol of my covenant with them. And you will be a light to guide the nations. You will open the eyes of the blind. You will free the captives from prison, releasing those who sit in dark dungeons." (Isaiah 42:6,7 NLT)

Anyone who proclaims the name of Jesus as their Lord and Savior has a job to do. We are called--to be true representatives of Him--who called us--to demonstrate His righteousness (not our own). We are to be a light, guiding nations. We are responsible for making sure the eyes of the blind (spiritually) are opened and those who are held captive by the darkness of their minds are set free. And we do all of this-in the name of the Lord, giving Him the glory for all things accomplished.

Every time the enemy raises his ugly head with lies and half-truths (which are actually whole lies), we must be in position to declare God's Truth. In order to do this, we must stay in The Word and be ready with an answer for anyone who questions our faith--based on The Word.

The enemy's strategy is to create scales on the eyes of those who say they believe, but are actually weak in their faith walk. We know these people when we see them because they waver--wobbling between God's Truth and man's political correctness in making decisions. They have been blinded to the Truth and then they promote--what they cannot fully see--the Truth of God's Word over the "constantly changing" landscape of political correctness. It is our job--our task--to keep telling God's Truth until the scales drop and they can see clearly how the enemy has manipulated them.

One of the reasons people find themselves in the darkness of depressed minds is because the enemy has planted seeds of doubt in their minds--causing them to doubt their own self-worth and doubt whether they are loved or not. The enemy plants seeds of negativity in the minds of all who waver--not understanding that their lack of total faith in God--has opened the door for Satan to enter.

The Word says, through John, "You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free." We must keep telling, and keep telling, and keep telling until we can tell no more--the Truth of God's Word so we can see captive minds set free--and the seeds of doubt are replaced by seeds of Love--His Love and ours--leading them to a path of His plan.

We have tasks to complete before He returns. The world is turning dark as it succumbs to the enemy's manipulations and we are the only ones who can be a beacon of light in the midst of all the darkness. Are you up for the task? Then let's get busy--promoting God's Truth like never before--to His glory by allowing Holy Spirit free reign in our lives!

Can You Hear Him?

Shhh!

Can you hear Him?

Shhh!

Listen closely!

He speaks in a whisper,

In the roar of a storm

Or the quiet of night,

From beyond the natural,

Into the Spiritual realm—

Love flows and overwhelms

As He speaks—

Words of comfort

Words of encouragement

Words of instruction

Words that give life

Words that speak volumes,

In various translations

And languages of all nations,

To the remnant

Who will listen

And obey His voice.

Shhh!

Can you hear Him?

He’s speaking to

Our hearts—even now!

“My sheep know my voice and

Another they will not follow!”

“Love me with all your heart,

Soul and mind, Love your neighbor

As you love yourself.”

“You can do all things

Through Him who loves you

And is always with you!”

“Greater is He—Holy Spirit—

Who is in you than he—the adversary—

Who is in the world!”

“Did you not know?

Did you not hear?

I am not a man

That I should lie.”

“I am The Lord,

Your God; and I

Do not change my mind

Like fickle, unstable man!”

Shhh!

Can you hear Him?

He speaks what is already written

All we have to do is study

To show ourselves approved

Unto Him, teaching His truth

And not our own,

As we promote the Gospel,

The Good News to everyone

With an ear to hear!

Shhh!

Can you hear Him?

© 2014 Mary M. Hall-Rayford