Month: April 2025

Seek not after your own heart and your own eyes

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Seek not after your own heart and your own eyes

This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. Groupthink confirmation bias is even worse. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals. Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s not easy to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

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This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. Groupthink confirmation bias is even worse. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals. Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s not easy to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

GOD CAN AND HE WILL

He can and He will so command it to be done in Jesus Name
He can and He will so command it to be done in Jesus Name
Our God changes not. His power and His love are still the same.
He can and He will so command it to be done in Jesus Name

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

He Can and He Will

Christians worship many idols, but the worship of the intellect is the worst.

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Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon.

God considers His Creation as His wife. He calls you to love Him, trust Him, seek Him, and find Him. God created you to be joined to Him intimately. He desires to lead you in every thought and emotion. He wants to flow through you in love, joy, and peace. He wants to do His works of righteousness through you as you willingly yield to Him. He wants to lead you, fill you with faith, and allow faith to give you access to His grace. He wants His grace to say His words and do His works through you as you yield the members of your bodies to His righteousness.

Jesus said only the words of the Father. Jesus did only the works of the Father. Every thought, word, and action came from His Father in Heaven. That’s how it’s supposed to be for you. That union with God is the only place of fulfillment. As you yield to His righteousness in this way, He transforms you into the image and likeness of Christ. He purifies the Lord Jesus Christ in you. It’s incremental transformation. The only place you’ll find true satisfaction is as God transforms you. God created you to transform you into the image and likeness of Christ.

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Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon.

God considers His Creation as His wife. He calls you to love Him, trust Him, seek Him, and find Him. God created you to be joined to Him intimately. He desires to lead you in every thought and emotion. He wants to flow through you in love, joy, and peace. He wants to do His works of righteousness through you as you willingly yield to Him. He wants to lead you, fill you with faith, and allow faith to give you access to His grace. He wants His grace to say His words and do His works through you as you yield the members of your bodies to His righteousness.

Jesus said only the words of the Father. Jesus did only the works of the Father. Every thought, word, and action came from His Father in Heaven. That’s how it’s supposed to be for you. That union with God is the only place of fulfillment. As you yield to His righteousness in this way, He transforms you into the image and likeness of Christ. He purifies the Lord Jesus Christ in you. It’s incremental transformation. The only place you’ll find true satisfaction is as God transforms you. God created you to transform you into the image and likeness of Christ.

HE AROSE

He bled and died, my Jesus.
He was my substitute, He died for me.
And though entombed He lay, the grave gave up its prey;
And on the Glorious Day, My Lord arose.

CHORUS:
He arose, Jesus arose.
Conquered death, hell and the grave.
He arose, Jesus arose.
And He lives for-ever more.

Now we see Jesus, King of Kings
And Lord of Lord. Come worship Him
For He is worthy of all our worship,
And He is worthy of all our praise.

CHORUS

O praise the Lord, O praise His Name.
For He is worthy of our praise.
Come worship Him, come worship Him,
For He is worthy of our praise.

Frank T. Patterson

He Arose

Spiritual Adultery “and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring” Numbers 15:39b

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Spiritual Adultery

and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: ~ Numbers 15:39b

If you put anything in the place of God, you are unfaithful to God. You’re serving an idol. When you follow other gods, God looks at it as unfaithfulness. Idols can be statues or demons, but the human intellect is also a deceptive idol, and many people worship the human intellect.

The passage you just read from Numbers 15:39b is speaking of idolatry, which is spiritual adultery against God. God judges you as unfaithful when you seek after your own heart, mind, and ability to observe. He rightly judges you as an unfaithful wife when you do that.

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Spiritual Adultery

and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: ~ Numbers 15:39b

If you put anything in the place of God, you are unfaithful to God. You’re serving an idol. When you follow other gods, God looks at it as unfaithfulness. Idols can be statues or demons, but the human intellect is also a deceptive idol, and many people worship the human intellect.

The passage you just read from Numbers 15:39b is speaking of idolatry, which is spiritual adultery against God. God judges you as unfaithful when you seek after your own heart, mind, and ability to observe. He rightly judges you as an unfaithful wife when you do that.

HAVE YOU BEEN TO JESUS

Have you been to Jesus with your stains of sin?
Is your life committed to Him?
Have you asked Him to bear your grief and your woe?
Do you know that He loves you, my friend?

CHORUS:
Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me,
And I will give you, and I will give you rest.

CHORUS

How often through life do we struggle and fall
’Neath a load that we need not to bear;
For Jesus will carry your burden right now.
On the cross He carried it all.

CHORUS

But want as we would that our burden be gone,
Yet heavy the load that we bear;
Loud we complain that our burden does pain,
So loud, that we don’t hear Him say: –

Frank T. Patterson

Have You Been to Jesus?

Speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God.

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The political realm is just one small part of your life. God has also given you the responsibility to earn a living and take care of your families. If you develop skills for your careers, you can do that in two different ways. The ungodly way is to depend on your intellects and human abilities. The godly way is to seek the face of the Lord regarding your career. When you seek God’s will, that doesn’t mean you don’t go to work. It’s not that you trust God to take care of you so you don’t bother working. The Holy Spirit will lead you to develop your skills and to work hard and smart. He’ll show you the best career for the part of the body of Christ God created you to be. He’ll show you how to develop your skills. His wisdom will flow through you as you work.

You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:2

He’ll work through you on your job. He’ll speak through you on your job. You’re not paid to spread the Gospel, but when God speaks through you, you speak His Logos. You speak His Rhema. You speak the living Christ. You can do your job by the Wisdom of God. Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God. If you’re in a meeting, the words you say are alive with the Spirit even as you focus on the job at hand and the business purpose of the meeting. You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God. It causes faith in those who hear it even if you never mention the Gospel. If you’re an electrician, God speaks through the work of your hands. Those who see it and receive it are hearing the Rhema of God. If you’re a carpenter, God works through you. You are a living letter from God to whoever watches you work. Just remain in the flow of the Holy Spirit and His Wisdom. Listen to His voice. Learn to let Him lead. Learn to follow Him.

He’ll do the same in your family. He’ll lead you and give you power for righteousness. He’ll do the same in all your relationships. You listen to His voice in ALL your ways. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance. Then, He teaches you as His student, and sets you free from sin. Sin has held you down. Your fleshly nature has enslaved you. Nevertheless, listening to Christ and yielding to Him will set you free. In the last section of this chapter, God’s Endgame, I’ll thoroughly explain how to experience all these blessings.

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You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God.

The political realm is just one small part of your life. God has also given you the responsibility to earn a living and take care of your families. If you develop skills for your careers, you can do that in two different ways. The ungodly way is to depend on your intellects and human abilities. The godly way is to seek the face of the Lord regarding your career. When you seek God’s will, that doesn’t mean you don’t go to work. It’s not that you trust God to take care of you so you don’t bother working. The Holy Spirit will lead you to develop your skills and to work hard and smart. He’ll show you the best career for the part of the body of Christ God created you to be. He’ll show you how to develop your skills. His wisdom will flow through you as you work.

You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:2

He’ll work through you on your job. He’ll speak through you on your job. You’re not paid to spread the Gospel, but when God speaks through you, you speak His Logos. You speak His Rhema. You speak the living Christ. You can do your job by the Wisdom of God. Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God. If you’re in a meeting, the words you say are alive with the Spirit even as you focus on the job at hand and the business purpose of the meeting. You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God. It causes faith in those who hear it even if you never mention the Gospel. If you’re an electrician, God speaks through the work of your hands. Those who see it and receive it are hearing the Rhema of God. If you’re a carpenter, God works through you. You are a living letter from God to whoever watches you work. Just remain in the flow of the Holy Spirit and His Wisdom. Listen to His voice. Learn to let Him lead. Learn to follow Him.

He’ll do the same in your family. He’ll lead you and give you power for righteousness. He’ll do the same in all your relationships. You listen to His voice in ALL your ways. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance. Then, He teaches you as His student, and sets you free from sin. Sin has held you down. Your fleshly nature has enslaved you. Nevertheless, listening to Christ and yielding to Him will set you free. In the last section of this chapter, God’s Endgame, I’ll thoroughly explain how to experience all these blessings.

HAVE A JESUS DAY

Have a Jesus day.
Just commit your day to Him.
He will make a way.
He will keep you out of sin
And if things don’t go the way you thought they should,
You will know that He has planned it all for good,
That you may be transformed from sin,
That you may be conformed to Him,
So have a Jesus day.

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Is your hope in politics? No!

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Is your hope in politics? No! Your hope is in Christ. God wants you to acknowledge Him in ALL your ways. God wants you to listen to His voice in ALL your ways. ALL your ways include your careers, social life, politics, and every other aspect of your life.

This current order will eventually fade and fall. However, you live your life in righteousness while you’re here. You stand against evil. Righteousness means being led by the Holy Spirit and only saying the words Christ says through you and only doing the acts Christ does through you. If you do that, Christ will have an impact on your culture. The battle is spiritual and must be fought in the spiritual realm.

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In ALL your ways!

Is your hope in politics? No! Your hope is in Christ. God wants you to acknowledge Him in ALL your ways. God wants you to listen to His voice in ALL your ways. ALL your ways include your careers, social life, politics, and every other aspect of your life.

This current order will eventually fade and fall. However, you live your life in righteousness while you’re here. You stand against evil. Righteousness means being led by the Holy Spirit and only saying the words Christ says through you and only doing the acts Christ does through you. If you do that, Christ will have an impact on your culture. The battle is spiritual and must be fought in the spiritual realm.

Happy Are We

Happy are we, who go in
and come out no more,
For the fullness of One
– The Christ – The Son
Is the only door.
The truth is the way,
it’s revealed in this day,
His life has begun.
All flesh must cease
– then He gives peace
Victory has come!

Happy are we, joyful indeed
– we have liberty,
We are born from above,
we are birthed in His love
And His praises we sing.
His covenant are we,
we’re His joy and His peace,
Setting mankind free.
Sorrow has flown
– He’s come into His own,
So rejoice with me!

Bob and Charlotte Torango

Should you throw out your Bible if you depend on the Holy Spirit alone?

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Listen, trust, and obey God by the power of the Holy Spirit. That makes sense. You can do that. You’ve done it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was right and that you must do it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was wrong and that you must not do it. You’ve sensed that something was wrong in a situation, and you avoided it. You’ve sensed the peace of God when something was in God’s will. You may not have given Christ the credit, but you should have.

You need to depend on the Holy Spirit alone. Depend on the Spirit of Christ.

That does bring up some questions. For instance, should you avoid all technical instructions and rather pray God would give you a vision to show you how to program your electronic devices? God could do that, and He could lead you that way. However, the Holy Spirit is likely to give you wisdom and lead you to read the instructions if that’s what’s needed. You need to be in the Spirit to have the wisdom of Christ flowing through you in either case. Should you avoid researching a topic or a procedure? Not necessarily. The Holy Spirit often leads you to look up the needed information. God will guide you in the process. When you come to a problem, you’re in the Spirit and seeking God’s will. The Holy Spirit can guide you to look at a video that shows how to do something technical. He can also give you confidence so you know what needs to be done. Don’t limit God.

Should you throw out your Bible if you depend on the Holy Spirit alone? No. The Holy Spirit will lead you to read your Bible. The Holy Spirit will interpret the meaning of the Bible for you. The Holy Spirit may guide you to look up the original meaning of a word. The Holy Spirit will warn you about false teachers and lead you to teachers and shepherds who will keep you safe from lies. He may lead you to one church body where you grow until you’re ready to move to another church body. You know God’s ultimate plan for the church is unity, but the body of Christ is in that interim between the promise and the full possession. The main thing is that you seek God’s will and yield to His Spirit. God is practical and active in your life.

What about politics in a republic like the United States? Should you avoid voting? Should you totally detach yourself? In the past, many Christians stepped out of politics. They turned their schools over to ungodly people. They turned their lawmaking responsibilities over to ungodly people. That resulted in ungodly laws that grieve the heart of God. And they thought it wouldn’t be a problem. However, it led to serious problems. Those problems are part of why the world is so crazy now.

Some say the Holy Spirit leads them to detach from the world. Some say the Holy Spirit tells them to avoid voting or even being aware of what’s happening in the world. I’m not going to second-guess that. Just be sure you’re listening to and following the Holy Spirit. Be sure you’re not following your own will or rationalized reasoning. It’s between you and God.

Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ~ Romans 14:5b

Be sure the Holy Spirit is leading you and not the culture, a persuasive leader, or the news media. Beware of the ungodly counselors in the media and the culture. Beware of false teachers and false prophets.

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You need to depend on the Holy Spirit alone.

Listen, trust, and obey God by the power of the Holy Spirit. That makes sense. You can do that. You’ve done it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was right and that you must do it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was wrong and that you must not do it. You’ve sensed that something was wrong in a situation, and you avoided it. You’ve sensed the peace of God when something was in God’s will. You may not have given Christ the credit, but you should have.

You need to depend on the Holy Spirit alone. Depend on the Spirit of Christ.

That does bring up some questions. For instance, should you avoid all technical instructions and rather pray God would give you a vision to show you how to program your electronic devices? God could do that, and He could lead you that way. However, the Holy Spirit is likely to give you wisdom and lead you to read the instructions if that’s what’s needed. You need to be in the Spirit to have the wisdom of Christ flowing through you in either case. Should you avoid researching a topic or a procedure? Not necessarily. The Holy Spirit often leads you to look up the needed information. God will guide you in the process. When you come to a problem, you’re in the Spirit and seeking God’s will. The Holy Spirit can guide you to look at a video that shows how to do something technical. He can also give you confidence so you know what needs to be done. Don’t limit God.

Should you throw out your Bible if you depend on the Holy Spirit alone? No. The Holy Spirit will lead you to read your Bible. The Holy Spirit will interpret the meaning of the Bible for you. The Holy Spirit may guide you to look up the original meaning of a word. The Holy Spirit will warn you about false teachers and lead you to teachers and shepherds who will keep you safe from lies. He may lead you to one church body where you grow until you’re ready to move to another church body. You know God’s ultimate plan for the church is unity, but the body of Christ is in that interim between the promise and the full possession. The main thing is that you seek God’s will and yield to His Spirit. God is practical and active in your life.

What about politics in a republic like the United States? Should you avoid voting? Should you totally detach yourself? In the past, many Christians stepped out of politics. They turned their schools over to ungodly people. They turned their lawmaking responsibilities over to ungodly people. That resulted in ungodly laws that grieve the heart of God. And they thought it wouldn’t be a problem. However, it led to serious problems. Those problems are part of why the world is so crazy now.

Some say the Holy Spirit leads them to detach from the world. Some say the Holy Spirit tells them to avoid voting or even being aware of what’s happening in the world. I’m not going to second-guess that. Just be sure you’re listening to and following the Holy Spirit. Be sure you’re not following your own will or rationalized reasoning. It’s between you and God.

Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ~ Romans 14:5b

Be sure the Holy Spirit is leading you and not the culture, a persuasive leader, or the news media. Beware of the ungodly counselors in the media and the culture. Beware of false teachers and false prophets.

GREATER FAR THAN EARTHLY TREASURE

Greater far than earthly treasure,
Greater far than any thing
That this world has to offer
Is the love the Christ, my king.

CHORUS:

O salvation, great and marvelous,
O salvation, full and free.
He, from death to life hath brought me.
Blessed peace and joy is He.

Frank T. Patterson

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All your Ways

If you totally depend on Christ, He’s your life. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance as He leads, teaches, and corrects you moment by moment in every situation. You listen to Him and obey Him by His power as He gives you His free gift of righteousness. He speaks His words through you. He does His works through you. You don’t do your own thing anymore. Then, you don’t partially depend on Him and also depend on other sources for decision-making, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, or truth. You depend on Him wholeheartedly. You aren’t double-minded. You depend on Him for everything. You stop looking to ungodly counselors for guidance. You stop depending on your fallen mind. When you hear His voice you yield to His Spirit and allow Him to say His words and do His acts through you. The love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. If you continue to do that with a sense of expectation, you’ll know the truth. And the truth will set you free.

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All your Ways

If you totally depend on Christ, He’s your life. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance as He leads, teaches, and corrects you moment by moment in every situation. You listen to Him and obey Him by His power as He gives you His free gift of righteousness. He speaks His words through you. He does His works through you. You don’t do your own thing anymore. Then, you don’t partially depend on Him and also depend on other sources for decision-making, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, or truth. You depend on Him wholeheartedly. You aren’t double-minded. You depend on Him for everything. You stop looking to ungodly counselors for guidance. You stop depending on your fallen mind. When you hear His voice you yield to His Spirit and allow Him to say His words and do His acts through you. The love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. If you continue to do that with a sense of expectation, you’ll know the truth. And the truth will set you free.