Thought-Life in the Kingdom
"THOUGHTS ARE THE UNSEEN REALM OF PEOPLE'S MINDSET, REFLECTING THROUGH WORDS EITHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE RELEASED".
WHY ARE THOUGHTS SO IMPORTANT ?
God said in (Proverbs.18.21) "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." This brings me to the understanding that my thoughts are directly connected to my mouth or ways of life.
God also said in (Isaiah.55.8,9)"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says The Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."
So to understand this further, we must start with :
THE GENESIS OF THOUGHT-LIFE:
Permit me to share with you THE TRUTH which could Utterly Release you from any kind of yoke/ bondage, as this is THE WILL OF GOD for each and every believer, be it thoughts on lifestyle, thoughts on career, thoughts on purchasing, thoughts about time-spending, thoughts on GOD and HIS CHURCH which is HIS BODY, thoughts on friendship, dating, marriage and ultimately family.
(Proverbs.23.7 a) says:" As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he "
(Proverbs.4.7) says:"Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting, get understanding". Read further (Proverbs.4.8-15) to get really the meaning of the above.
{IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT GOD TRANSLATED HIS THOUGHTS INTO WORDS OF LIFE,WHICH HE RELEASED AS SEED INTO ADAM (male and female). The name EVE was given only after the fall, and after the release of God's curses. (Genesis.4.1) }
{ SO WE CAN BOLDLY SAY: THAT GOD'S WORDS ARE GOD'S THOUGHTS }
In (Gen.1.26)- "GOD said: Let us make man in OUR IMAGE, after OUR LIKENESS, and let them (Adam -both male and female)
(v. 27) have D O M I N I O N O V E R :
a) the fish of the sea
b) the birds of the air
c) the cattle
d) all the earth
e) every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth (including serpents)
(v.28)GOD BLESSED THEM, and said: BE FRUITFUL, be productive, be successful and MULTIPLY, (to increase & excel in all GOD'S dimensions, so that GOD would populate the earth with Godly offspring )-(Malachi.2.13-15) as this was God's idea about joining man with the woman,( one flesh) the ultimate purpose of Marriage.
and REPLENISH THE EARTH, (to re-fill the land)
and SUBDUE THE EARTH, (to conquer in all realms)
and HAVE DOMINION (to rule, reign in the earth realm, just like GOD ruled in heaven).
Note: the phrase"GOD BLESSED them to be".
In (v.29)- we find the key God wanted them to be even as HE was and is. GOD hence wanted Adam not to be a slave, but a son/daughter. He doesn't want man to work for HIM, but with HIM. Even as HE is EL-SHADDAI, HIS whole heart is to SEE MAN REIGN IN AND WITH HIM.
Jesus said in (Jn.15.5b): Without me, you can do nothing. So GOD created MAN to BE HIS FRIEND and relate to HIM from the earth realm. In fact GOD made Adam to be like a god on the earth, just like HIM in heaven. But we see later on, Satan trespassed into this position as the god of this world, by the position handed over to him by Adam. Read (2 Corinthians.10.4,5). Now remember Adam was already given authority over every creeping thing on the earth, but this was handed over to Satan by Adam. Let's study carefully how this happened.
In Genesis.3. we see the introduction to THOUGHT-LIFE realm:
We see Eve speaking to the serpent. Then we see the result of this discussion, as she starts looking at the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thoughts begin in what you see too long.
a) the fruit was good for food - Lust of the fleshy appetite
b) the fruit was pleasant to the eyes - Lust of the eyes, the spirit of the world seduces believers into "I" syndrome or SELF-DEPENDENCE.
c) the fruit also side-tracked them from being dominators to victims of the ploy of Satan. As we allow our thoughts to dwell on the schemes of Satan too long, we see (James.1:12-17) manifest in our lives.
d) the fruit was desired to make one wise- Pride of life, sadly opening the door to wisdom which was the counterfeit of God's Planned-wisdom.
Ever since that inevitable day, Satan used his craftiness to bring man out of the glory realm of HIS MAKER , and allowed him to now depend on the usage of his Mind, which was not in GOD's original plan, that is why PAUL got a revelation of this from THE SPIRIT, how the mind has to be dominated by GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS instead of SIN and NEED-CONSCIOUSNESS.
GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN: GOD made man a Spirit-being, having a soul living in a capsule called body
(1 Thessalonians.5.23)
AND
MAN'S ORIGINAL DOWN-FALL: Man now no more depended on his spirit, which died as a result of the fall, but became a prey to satanic nature which was the nature of disobedience and rebellion to HIS MAKER .i.e. Man became a Dominant Soul-being, having a dead spirit, which ultimately affected his body.
So Man did not loose heaven after the fall, because he was never in heaven at all when he sinned. But what he lost was the Presence of GOD which is the VERY BREATH of EVERY BELIEVER. Without the Presence of GOD, how could we understand HIS WORD which are GOD's thoughts. So Adam and Eve now had to use their mind for the first time to get into GOD's Presence.
As a spiritual being, it was NATURAL for man/woman to have access with GOD as HE desired FRIENDSHIP with them. So TRUE FRIENDSHIP starts only when one has learnt to walk and talk with GOD (Genesis. 3.8).
{Incidentally this was and is GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING UNTIL THIS DAY, which is to Walk and Talk with GOD, as we were created for GOD's pleasure} (Revelation.4.11).
Very sadly many of today's servants (the sons of Ishmael) have ADOPTED the SLAVERY MIND-SET, as the flesh and its fruit are so appealing to many Christians. So instead of LEARNING to FLOW in THE SPIRIT, by THE INCORRUPTIBLE SEED OF THE WORD producing naturally the fruit of The Spirit, they desperately crave instead for recognition and fame by worldly ways of security, hence availing of the glory also. The flesh only magnifies its name and its nature, no wonder we have many anointed snakes like Satan in the church, moving like wolves in sheep's clothing today. Surely they're anointed, but by who and for what purpose is the question.
In many a online-church or updated Christendom, we have a portrayal of servants using the Name of JESUS CHRIST to establish agendas either of their own, or forefathers heritage, thus not establishing the Kingdom of THE KING JESUS CHRIST in the earth as it is in heaven. Instead what many of the servants have is SELF manifesting as god, and ambition the goddess. Therefore we see a little of Jesus (through One's unrenewed mind-set)and more of the spirits noted below, as The Charisma of Preaching/Teaching/and Anointings become more evident and hence become the Main Focus, and not what Paul said in (1 Corinthians 1.17,18)(Galatians 1.8-12).Let's see how to test(check) the spirits (agendas of servants) with the alignment of THE WORD, that we're told to identify wherever.
The spirit of Lucifer representing Ambition (Isaiah11.10-20)(Ezekiel28.11-17)(Job38.4-7)
The spirit of Cain representing False Brotherhood (Always Murders the Abel spirit of true and acceptable blood-sacrificed worship). (Genesis 4.3-8)(Jude 1.11)
The spirit of Korah representing Rebellion to Authority. (Assisted by his fellow worker Dathan who stand against God's authority, to the accusation and pointing of the finger, dividing spirit). (Numbers 16.3-33)
(Jude 1.11)
The spirit of Jezebel representing Manipulation and control, (not allowing the prophet or the True Word of The Holy Spirit, but is very presumptuous in its approach. It is very ruthless against the TRUE Ministers of GOD's STANDARD OF AUTHORITY). She seduces the servants of GOD like Delilah did, and perverts the Godly through Ashtoreth,the queen of heaven, who are assisted by today's Ahab's in war and sex. (1 Kings 19.2-5 and 21.1-16)), (Mathew 14.3-10 and Mark 6.14-29)
The spirit of Apollyon (Abaddon) representing the (angel of perdition/bottomless pit)dragon/python spirit, which squeezes, ruins and destroys the REAL (dominated by the spirit of religious Phariseeism,and has a form of godliness, but denies the power thereof). (Job 26.6,28.22, 31.12) (Revelation 9.11)
The spirit of Judas representing the hidden love for fame, money and power. (Spirit of betrayal and very subtle in its maneuvering effort of being a disciple. The heart is deceptive and crafty, like the spirit of Balaam). (Joshua 15.25 with John.6.64,71)(John 12.4-6)(Mathew 27.3-8)
The spirit of Baal representing love for the world and its lusts thereof. (This spirit has its roots in curses/horoscope and is the result of the counterfeit. It deceives its followers to build today Christian Tower's of Babel, and the Babylonian system of Idol-worship of SELF and FAMILY which is acceptable in today's social laws/practises). (Judges 2.13,6.28-32),(1 Kings 18.17-40)(Jeremiah 7.9,19.4-5).the spirit of Ashtoreth (wife of Baal) representing the goddess of sex and war. (Judges 2.11-23)(1 Samuel 7.3,4)(1 Kings 11.4-8)
The spirit of Nicolaitanes representing the worship of Idols. (Dominated by the spirit of fornication, and gnostical in attitude as they were ruthless in the burning alive of the early church-saints.They hold to what they consider the truth and are ignorantly deceived. This spirit has separated leader’s from their flock’s. The leader would be exalted most of the time in the flock's mindset, regarding praying, teaching and understanding of GOD’S WORD, even above GOD but very subtly). To illustrate this we see often the phrase- he is a Mighty Man of GOD, he being the leader, used more. On the contrary we don't hear- he is a Man of The Mighty GOD. (Revelation 2.6,15)
So we see above some of these spirits that are so Crafty like the father of lies, sadly operating in most believers out of ignorance of "GOD'S WORD and GOD'S STANDARDS summarized in JESUS". That is why John and Paul urged the church to TEST every SPIRIT. Paul asked the Galatian church, to oppose disguised 'Angel's of light' who preach not the gospel of the kingdom. Jesus HIMSELF released a whole chapter in (Mathew 7.13-27) about checking out the Pharisees who claim to know the lord, who are involved in miracles ,but are still not HIS as HE does not KNOW them. They use HIS name for their own fame, but are not used by HIM, as they unknowingly are led by their own human spirits.
NOW to further study Thought-Life there are many who fell, as their thought-life ruined them because of NEGATIVE THOUGHT PATTERNS which grew unnoticed in them, as these thought-seeds were not dealt with, in their primitive stages as we can see below:
PL. NOTE BELOW IS A STUDY OF THOUGHT-LIFE IN THE REALM OF UNWANTED SEXUAL THOUGHTS, ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX. THERE COULD BE OTHER MANIFESTATIONS OF NEGATIVE THOUGHT-LIFE in the form of Excessive Habits like:
Smoking - causing Destruction to body, as well as Destroying Life's Environment for healthy people. Motivated by selfish passions and suicide tendencies.
Alcohol Addiction - causing destruction to body, causing poverty and breaking-down of family values and ultimately causing much stress around.
Drug Addiction - causing personal irresponsibility and damage to one's own body, drawn out of roots of selfishness, and low self esteem.
Lusts for food - causing Gluttony, All types of sicknesses and disease, and sin-security.
Lusts for Fame and power - causing Demonic Control/ Manipulation over people, Harassment to families by the spirit of anger and revenge. Workaholics spring up from this spirit.
Lust for Death/Suicide - causing Escapism from REALITY of LIFE. Caused by Tormenting spirits released from demonic realm, undealt generational curses, and suicidal tendencies. Also involved in witchcraft, Transcedental Meditation (TM) Transactional Analysis (TA) and other celestial or even drug trips.
The saying goes like this: " NEVER ALLOW A SNAKE TO GROW LEST IT WOULD GROW TO KILL YOU. ANY SEED IN IT'S INFANT STAGE,CAN BE EASILY ABORTED,BUT IF LEFT TO GROW AS A TREE, THEN THE RESULT WOULD BE FATAL.The Bible does not hesitate to expose these servants, so that we could learn from their fatal undealt thought patterns. They are as listed:
Moses : The most meekest man in the sight of GOD. Moses had an anger- issue which was not dealt with. Eventually it was dis- played when:
a) Moses killed a fellow-Egyptian and buried him in the sands of time.
b) Then Moses destroyed the GOD-GIVEN 10 commandments, when he became impatient with God's people worshipping the golden calf .
c) Moses was asked to speak to the Rock for water on behalf of God's people, but since he got familiar with an earlier episode, he vent his anger by beating the rock twice, thus causing the judgment of GOD on him.
Abraham : Father of Nations. Walked with GOD like no other. But lyingly deceived Pharaoh about Sarah his wife, and received cattle, and servants from where even a Hagar whom he used to create an Ishmael, opened the flesh-realm.
Samson : Separated as a Nazarene unto GOD. Displayed enormous Ability and strength against the Philistines and the lion. The spirit of LUST brought him to his destruction, when he was blinded in both eyes, and destroyed. What a way for a Nazarite to be killed. It is here, we discover the spirit of Suicide– guerillas (let me die along with my enemies).
Eli the priest : A priest in the temple who back-slid and caused Israel to follow.A thorough Compromiser of The Value System of GOD which he preached ,but never dealt with the sexual immorality of his own sons, thus causing I C H A B O D-the glory departed.
Samuel : A great prophet, known for very sharp discernment, walked with much respect in the sight of all Israel and Pagan Territory, recognized in and by all nations. Never imparted to his two sons the fear of the Lord, hence they walked in the same curse like Eli's sons possibly through Eli's impartations.
Elijah : Prophet of GOD who slayed 400 prophets of Baal, stopped rain from coming for 3 1/2 years, brought down fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice at Carmel. But fear and even the spirit of suicide came over him, as he got a death- threat from a spirit of Jezebel.
Elisha : Walked in the double-portion Anointing of his master Elijah, as a result did many super- miracles. In fact his journey started in a cursed place Jericho, which Joshua cursed. A man who raised the dead, and blessed the oil of the widow etc. was the same man who never taught anybody else how to handle his mantle, in fact selfishly took it to his grave. At a certain juncture, Elisha displayed Anger and Cursed 42 children, which resulted in 2 bears coming from the woods and devouring them. We need to be drawn more to THE Anointed One– JESUS CHRIST,rather than merely the anointing.
David : Was anointed at a young age by Samuel the prophet, to be king over Israel. A man who sought GOD and developed much intimacy with HIS MAKER like none of his predecessors.Learnt to be the shepherd of his father Jesse's sheep, later on we see how this was prophetic as he was 'given this Reign' over the nation Israel (GOD's sheep). He dealt with different enemies in the form of bear, lion, Goliath -Israel's enemy all by the intimacy he had with his GOD. Sadly belonging to the ancestral tribe of Rehab, the prostitute he succumbed to THE HIDDEN SPIRIT OF LUST not known to anybody except himself. LUST has no Limits, when it strangles you. It would even go to the extent of Murdering the woman's husband, so as to satisfy one's SELFISH MENTAL passion.We see impartations of this Spirit of Lust to Amnon, when he seduces his own cousin Tamar. Later on to add insult to his father David's wounds, Absalom Slept with his father's concubine at the counsel of Ahithophel.
Solomon : Given the wisdom to handle all Israel, which was even tested by the Queen of Sheba. It is sad, that even the GODLY- GIVEN wisdom was destroyed in Solomon's life ,when the Spirit of Lust took over. Ultimately he had nearly 1,000 wives and concubines to satisfy his lust for women. Incidentally many use Solomon's life as an excuse to flirt around with the Spirit of Lust, ultimately falling as Prey to this vicious Spirit.
Now through all the above SEDUCED VICTIMS recorded in The Bible, for our Alertness to no more be victimized by these spirits listed above, we can Rise up in The Lord's Power and spread the fragrance of HIS victory where-ever we are. We don't have to be like the One's who DID NOT CONFRONT HIDDEN-SIN in their lives, which eventually destroyed them. Most of them thought, they could get away with these. Personally there is a battle to deal with and fight through, as these spirits do not suddenly take over. ALL spirits enter through gateways unnoticed, innocent conversations with the opposite sex, either in school, college, office or place of work, or even church. Then leads to shaking off hands etc, touching which flares and arousing of unwanted passions. Ultimately the final act of sex, which was supposed to be SACRED in the sight of GOD, which GOD permitted only in and through Marriage Relationship.
BUT ever since the 1st man/woman's tragic fall, they have tried to SEW FIG LEAVES TO DEAL WITH THEIR NAKED-NESS. So instead of being transparent and radiating God's FULL-GLORY, the system of the world has introduced many FIG-LEAF METHODS TO HIDE IN AND BRING FORTH THE UNWANTED.
James explains in his epistle in (Ch.1.12-15) " Blessed is the man that endures temptation (tests), for when he is tried (tested) he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love Him. So then let No Man SAY when he is tempted, that he is tempted by GOD, for GOD cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man.
STAGES as per the above verses for The ENTRY OF SIN:
a) But EVERY MAN is tempted when he is drawn away and ENTICED by Lusts.
b) Then the lust gets conceived.
c) Lust conception further produces sin.
d) Ultimately sin produces death.
SOLUTION: The only Solution for any sin, resulting from Unwanted NEGATIVE THOUGHT-LIFE PATTERNS is TRUE REPENTANCE, which embraces THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST at CALVARY. There is No Repentance without The Cross. True Repentance is not joining a church through water-baptism, or a social-club or an organization or even a ministry. True Repentance involves Death to the " I " syndrome, death to the flesh and its passions, death to the system of the world which sadly is unnoticed and operating in most church-systems, as Today's Christians are not SECURE IN GOD, but look for their Security in being Accepted by the world's majority. True Repentance is the Translation of One from the kingdom of Darkness and Death, to the kingdom of JESUS' Light and Life. (Mathew.4.16,17) True Repentance involves Seeking first The Kingdom of GOD and HIS Righteousness, above ALL.
True Repentance is not MERELY COMING to THE CROSS, BUT GETTING ONTO IT LIKE JESUS CHRIST. (Living Sacrifice). True Repentance evolves around THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST in EVERY DIMENSION, IN EVERY AREA OF ONE'S HEART unreservedly. True repentance is turning away from your way of life, to God's way of Kingdom life which only comes through the listed stages:
Jesus Christ said in HIS WORD, radical and remarkable statements for ANY and ALL BREAKTHROUGHS. They are as listed below :
1.COME AND SEE : (John. 1.39) - Jesus' lifestyle -Rest-full life (Mathew.11.28). I AM THE LIFE.
2.COME UNTO ME : (Mathew.11.28) - Jesus' Method -Called the disciples to Himself (Mathew.10.1)
3.LEARN OF ME : (Mathew.11.29) - Jesus said: I AM THE TRUTH to THE REALM OF MY FATHER'S KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
4.FOLLOW ME : (Mathew.4.19 ) - Jesus said: I AM THE WAY for ALL things in the kingdom. No man goes to The Father but through me.
May HIS WORD BE TRUELLY A LAMP UNTO OUR FEET (LAMP-LIGHT is enough only for each step taken) AND A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATHS (PATH-LIGHT speaks of continuous dependence on HOLY SPIRIT WORD which causes LIGHT from DARKNESS- (Genesis.1.3) and (Psalms.119.105). PRAISE GOD. May GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS draw each of us, in this end-time battle of the spirits of the flesh, the world and the enemy. Remember (2 Corinthians 10.1-5) deals with ALL Knowledge that exceeds the Knowledge of GOD, and all strongholds need to be pulled down. There are many verses/passages in THE WORD OF GOD which give us the breakthrough needed in our thought-life. Here are some to meditate on:
(Ephesians 4.7,13-22) (Ephesians 5.14-20) (Philippians 2.1-16) (Philippians 4.4-9) (Colossians 3.1-17) (Colossians 4.2-6)
(1 Thessalonians 4.3-12) (1 Thessalonians 5.8,14-22) (James 1.19-27) (2 Peter 1.5-10)
FINALLY REMEMBER, THE WORD OF GOD WILL KEEP YOU AWAY FROM SIN
OR
SIN WILL KEEP YOU AWAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD.
