tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74303188325086622802026-07-18T19:13:33.407-05:00Things the Lord gives me, and then I write them.Patti Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15376249926089596648noreply@blogger.comBlogger759125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430318832508662280.post-49646311586323293852024-10-14T13:45:00.001-05:002024-10-14T13:45:43.501-05:00

   If Canaan represents our Heavenly abode, indeed, does not the wilderness represent our time here on earth, while Egypt is our lives before we were born-again by the Spirit of God? God’s people, although He offers Himself, and who He is to us, often murmur and complain, having still our flesh which fights against the Spirit of God. Regardless, God will still show us His

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 If we stay in Christ,(we don’t walk away or leave Him, but continue to trust and depend on Him, throughout  our lives) His keeping power will be there for us. He won’t keep us against our will, but according to our will, depending on if it is set towards Him and His ways. But, if we are focused on, and do our own will, regardless of what He says, shows we haven’t really given ourselves

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As Christ followers, our lives should be based on His precepts which are espoused in His Word. Looking at the decisions we’ve made with our lives, we should be able to see them backed up by Scripture, if our goals are to obey Him, and bring pleasure to His heart. Ask God, then to reveal to you what those Scriptures are which exemplify your life, lived to His glory. Write them down. If there

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Are you polluting the Body of Christ by your disobedience, neglect, and ambivalence? Is your temple in disarray, and The Temple in ruins because of the collective disrespect we have towards Him, the Master Builder and our Chief Priest? When one member neglects their own temple (the place in us where God dwells) and spends their days building their own paneled houses instead, it severely

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 The Majesty of God is unfathomable, only revealed fully to us, when our mortality is captured by His immortality!!!! While it’s true we can get closer and closer on this earth in seeing Him, as we give up our will for His, but the complete unveiling is when we lose our mortal hindrances, our body and our humanness. 1 Cor. 15:54-“ When the perishable puts on the imperishable,

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 I imagine when the men from the East followed the star and found Jesus, that they experienced a stillness of awe! They may not have even known why,  but they knew something Holy had happened, as they starred at the child, as if God had made it known, in some part of their being. Today also there are Holy moments. And they may not even be in the most great of circumstances, in

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 Many people have “advantage” in this world according to it’s values: beauty, riches, personality, astounding talent, know-how, charisma, intelligence, and confidence, to name a few. Where does that put the ones who don’t? Usually at the bottom of the pyramid just taking whatever they can get, eating the proverbial crumbs from another’s table, trying the best they can to play the cards

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 In the West, American Christians in particular, (probably because of our wealth here, compared to 3rd world countries) have created a “gospel” which many refer to as “the prosperity gospel,”that teaches if you are in Christ means you will have material gain. Of course, most don’t blatantly say that, but it is implied either by using the concept of planting a seed into their ministry, and

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 The warfare today that is internal is the dying of the carnal mind, as we transition into the full use of the mind of Christ, and with that transition, can come a kind of fogginess. At the same time, the confusion is now being exposed for what it is, and the vestiges of the carnal mind are dying.  We must put all our cards on the table before the Lord; our former beliefs, thoughts

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 Being “in Christ” rescues us from this present evil age. Because we don’t continue in our sin, by His power, offers us protection against being sucked into the world (which is passing away and inherently evil)and protects us from the spirit of anti-Christ. It is hard to believe, if we judge after the flesh, that those we know who are loving and kind, and do not know Christ, are of this

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 The new wineskin, is the “new and living way” set up as the container whereby the ecclesia can function best. It was provided when Jesus came and died, when the curtain was torn, with no partition between His followers and God. In the old, that partition were the restrictions laid down through the priesthood, as being the only ones who could go into the Holy of Holies. Now, the old is

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 While attending a conference many years ago, the speaker was talking about the Father’s love. He connected our reception into this world, as newborn babies, with how we are able to receive the love of God. Many of us in attendance had experienced much rejection, or at least felt rejected for a large part of our lives.  Maybe our being born didn’t happen in a happy environment. Perhaps

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 Accepting God’s Will and Sovereignty against our own fleshly desires and reasoning is a lifelong, arduous work in progress. Although it is His work, our will must acquiesce to it; submit to it, and then obey. “The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” I have seen the flesh battling with the Spirit or Will of God, and escalating as it attempts to survive, in my own life, and now,

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The heartache of a person who has a passive spouse or parent is deep and real. A passive person is a fearful person. They are afraid of rejection, so they hold back verbally and in action. Their silent withdrawal effects the ones they “secretly” love, as they interpret their behavior as aloof, non-caring, and neglectful. This can result in a spouse or child to feel a lack of connection, that

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You are wanting to do wrong and feel good about it, but that’s not going to happen. The reason your life is full of chaos and not peace is because you are walking in unrighteousness, and you are putting other people and things before Him. He calls this idolatry. He alone is worthy of worship! Turn around! Come back to God before  it’s too late! The Holy Spirit does not strive with man

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Do you feel loved by God or do you just know that you are? I lived in “the knowing” for most of my life. How could I deny it, and embrace the cross at the same time? It wasn’t possible, because this IS love,  that He laid down His life for me. But, I didn’t feel loved because I had too many soul wounds to be healed from, and too many lies needing to be removed from my thinking. “For God so

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A trusted and faithful brother in the Lord once advised me, by saying, “Don’t go digging in your own garden.” When he said that, I knew I had been so caught up, most of my life, in self-analysis, digging around on the inside of me, (the garden of my soul) that I understood completely what he meant. It was loving counsel to try and help me stop doing what only God can and should do. Of course,

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Romans 8:18-23 “The whole creation groans and travails for the manifestation of the sons of God.”-Romans 8:19 Are you inwardly groaning and travailing for Christ to be fully manifest in you, through you? That He would be birthed? That the baby (His likeness) would be born/seen? Our frustration and impatience (brought on by intense desire) are the birth pains (limitations/incompleteness) that

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Matthew 26:55-“Am I leading a rebellion that you have come out with clubs and swords to capture me?” Yes and No. Yes, He is leading a rebellion against the powers and principalities of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places, but the ones he was addressing here, knew nothing of this rebellion, nor could they, because that rebellion is spiritually discerned. The crowd of people who

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Help me, Lord, to see the blessings from Your hand in the trial. Help me see the blessing that is the trial, for You are at work in me so that I will be and do Your good pleasure. Give me eyes of eternity, not eyes of earth; spirit eyes, not carnal ones, so that I can see past my own wants and fears, giving myself to the purposes You have ordained for me since the foundation of time. Help me

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I failed in the greatest trial I ever had, but God didn’t; He showed me the lack of trust I had in Him, which would never had been revealed to me, had the trial not come. It was then, when the veneer was removed, that He could begin to build in me, the golden image of His beloved Son. 

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     I can’t help seeing what I see-the increasing decline of most Christians into the cesspool of the world’s clutches. The grief and anguish in my spirit, coupled with helplessness, puts me into a depression which becomes increasingly harder to get out of.      The apostasy is upon us: in the world, in our country, our city, and our own family. The light is being

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1 John 2:6-“Whoever claims to live in Him, must live as Jesus did.” How did Jesus live? He lived hated, he lived mocked, He lived with the whole world against Him. He lived alone when the chips were down (in the garden) He lived betrayed and denied by one’s He thought loved Him, He lived abused, BUT He lived loyal to the Father’s Will, because of the strong bond of love they had, and

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The Tree of Life is everlasting Life. We, as Christ followers, will never fully cross from death into life until we physically die; but until then we will have to deal with good/evil (imperfections/limitations) in the world, ourselves, and others. The first Adam/Eve ate of that tree which translates into our struggles today, while we are in this mortal body.  We must wait, trusting God,

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If God is wanting to change destructive behaviors in us, giving us what we want (which we think we need) is not good for us or will not provide a motivation for change, but will enable us to continue in those same behaviors, BUT if He holds back in giving us what we want, it provides the necessary pain and suffering of discipline needed to lead us to repentance and the empowerment for change

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