Loving the LORD for [real] 1 John 14: 21-24 :)

Thank You, LORD, for Your LOVE and Your Mercy…

The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and  I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]

John 14:21Amplified

Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My Word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him. 

John 14: 23 Amplified

Anyone who does not [really] love Me does not observe and obey My teaching. And the teaching which you hear and heed is not Mine, but [comes] from the Father who sent Me.

John 14: 24 Amplified

I begin this post with the LOVE that the LORD says that I must LOVE HIM with....the amplified Bible saying it best ...placing brackets around real when amplifying on the WORD here...I love it! I love the Me and My and Our...as Jesus teaching His disciples clearly was speaking of Himself, and His Father ...and teaching that in order for Him and His Father to do what is said here...for them...Father and Son...and of course we know that includes the 3rd person of the trinity...Holy Spirit...that that person must K E E P  Jesus' commands which He explains are not His but His Father's commands. In order for our Father and Jesus and Holy Spirit to come to us and make Their Home...Their Abode and special dwelling place with us...we must observe and obey ...we must not only hear but heed...we must not be hearers only but doers of the WORD!!! 

I say all of the above in order that your hearts are prepared for the following message...

I received a challenge yesterday from a younger sister in Christ, who is leading a group of precious women every day...a group that I am pleased to be part of as a receiver of the posts she places every day...and as a prayer warrior with her ministry.  I've been very blessed and was really about my call...my Father's work that He's called me to do...intercessory prayer ministry in the Secret Place of the Most High daily with sisters in Christ in person by conference line and by face book, email, and website...sometimes posting on this blogsite...or the other one wwwwomenwhopray.blogspot.com. I also keep one grand daughter every day, and during the summer, 2 and sometimes 3...loving this ministry, too. 

Just wanted you to know how this came about before share the post.  Please receive with all the love in my heart that I can muster up and give to you ...as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ....

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Hey, friends and family, and all that the LORD has given me in my tent…

I’ve been concerned…almost mourning over my tent for many days now…

I’ve even come and spoken to you…like even yesterday on face book, sharing what one of my friends from Fiji shared from Deuteronomy 28…reminding us that in order to receive the blessings, Israel had to not follow other gods…

Exodus 20 points it out clearly, as one of the first of the 10 commandments says,  Thou shalt have no other gods before me…and the Word bears it out in other places… telling us that our God is a jealous God…,and He won’t share us with anything or anyone else!

In Matthew, we find that we can’t serve two masters…we must love the one and hate the other…speaking of Yahweh and mammon….

My heavy-heartedness is in the fact that all around me there is compromise of these scriptures…and most of the ones I’m concerned about don’t seem to know they are compromising…a veil of some sort has come over them…can’t see the danger.

Another one says, ²⁶ … If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee…

As disease is rampant in this nation and around the world…and as so many Believers are sick…or there’s sickness in our families and among our friends…and all in this tent…

We must stop and see…if there is some clouding in our sight…some veil over our eyes…is there a door open? What might be going on?

Are we or our families involved in any practices of Egypt…or of Canaan…the Promised Land…

Joshua was given the same promise as Moses…and all the Blessings came, if they did not pick up the practices of the ungodly nations around them…

Timothy warns us of the last days…of departing from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth…

I know that I am in danger of stepping on toes…I mean of meddling as the old joke goes when the preacher was preaching against tobacco and the old lady liked snuff….

However, I was challenged this morning by a younger sister in Christ by the following words.  In fact, these words greeted me early this morning after my prayer time  and exercise time with my husband…around 7:45 a.m:

I challenge you today to be bold in your faith. Stand up for Truth. Don't sit by and let Satan deceive those around you. Speak Truth and Life. Boldly.

Point others to Truth, girls. God will take care of the rest. 

My concern for some practices going on among Believers…that fit in the scriptures I’ve laid out has weighed heavy on me lately.

And, then, my friend gives this challenge….

I did not run right up to my computer and write this…

God’s Ready Writer?  Well, I don’t want to lose friends…I don’t want to alienate people for bringing up things that are seemingly none of my business…

Well, I’m not my brother’s keeper…right? 

Or am I?

The challenge says Speak the Truth…Don’t sit by and let satan deceive those around me….

I don’t know how many of you were active in the pro-family movement in the 1970’s & 80’s like I was…

It was the beginning of the days of the new age movement in this nation….

My MOM’s (Mothers On the March) met up with some really strange women…ones that were into spiritism, witchcraft, doctrines of demons, mantras, chantings, meditations,….

When I turned at 24 to the LORD with all my heart, I had to renounce all my involvement with any practices that were not of the Israel of Abraham, and the First Church…

Today, when I read this challenge and that dread came over me concerning yoga and secret societies, like the Masons, etc., I could not believe that I was to speak out today to warn the ones I love so much.

I could hear the scriptures in Deuteronomy concerning the blessings and cursings…I could hear the scripture about if we turn from the Egyptian practices, then, none of those diseases would come upon us…

I sat down at google…I knew what I was hearing…but did not know where to go…and there it was…the connection that the Holy Spirit was directing me to of Egypt and yoga…

I knew that yoga was connected to Buddhism and Hinduism…I even taught of those religions in school as a teacher….

I did not know however, that, yoga’s origins come out of Egypt…did you?

I knew the feminist’ symbol of the Women’s Movement in the 70’s and 80’s was the ANKH…I did not know that symbol refers to one of the premises of Egyptian yoga.

Check out this website…. http://timeless-wisdom.blog.co.uk/2011/05/29/title-11233161/

Let me be perfectly frank here.

If you are seeking the Kingdom …if you are trying to remain in the secret place of the Most High…

I mean if you are gathering with others who are surrendering their ALL to the LORD JESUS CHRIST…

You may find at times that you don’t quite fit…or that something is keeping your mind boggled…or like in a veil…

You may not hear clearly all the time your Shepherd…

Well, dabbling…tampering…playing …with the things that God hates…or even only listening to and wishing you could…can make a disparity in your walk with the LORD…

Remember that Rebekah…Jacob’s wonderful wife…hid idols in her bag as she left her father, Laban…

Was God fooled? 

You know it wasn’t my Mama that knew that a secret society…the Masons…was not of God.  She encouraged my Daddy and uncle when they joined…

However, when my pastor, showed me the scriptures and the oaths that were taken by my Dad…my sister and I faced my Daddy and told him that we were praying that ring off his finger…we refused to bury him in that lamb’s fleece or to have a Masonic funeral…my Daddy warned me to be careful what I said about them…and I told him that wasn’t something wrong with anything that he would be part of that would endanger his daughter?

Well, one day he got a letter …that said at the top…in the Hello part…it said…get ready…bless allah!  And, who is allah! Well he is not Yahweh…not Jehovah…not JESUS!

After that Daddy renounced the Masons…he was not buried in the fleece…there was no Masonic funeral…Praise God!

I know that may step on toes.  I believe that Believers may be compromised…but they can’t live the abundant life in that state…

Same as for the yoga…and the wearing of symbols that are of other nations and cultures…

none of the Native American stuff for me…no dream catchers or things of their gods…

It’s not only drugs that open doors to the devil…both illegal and legal…but there are practices of the pagan…the nations of other gods…

I don’t throw salt over my shoulder…or pull the pulley bone of the chicken for good luck…no rabbit’s feet for me…no horoscopes….

I had to separate myself from all that separated me from the abundant life…from the Secret Place…

The LORD knows me…

If I speed…or lie …or break rules…I get caught…

As I go on through this life, I’m glad that I get caught if I’m doing wrong.  I am pleased to confess sin and get that heart clean again and again…

I’m pleased that He’s not through with me yet.

The LORD tells us to meditate on the WORD day and night…that means all the time. Yoga and transcendental meditation and such tells us to clear our minds. 

To have the Mind of Christ we can’t clear our mind.  Our goal is not to reach our inner self and the meaning of yoga means to bind ourselves….

I’m a bond-slave to only ONE!!! Jesus Christ! Binding to HIM and allowing myself to only think on whatever is good, and pure, and what is beautiful and of good repute…

Today, I stepped up to this challenge by my friend and sister in Christ, Jill.

I hope that she’ll be pleased that I spoke out to protect those around me…

LORD, I’m sorry that I didn’t do this sooner…but I really don’t like confrontation like people think I do…

I’ve learned to love to war with You, LORD, and not have to speak and be alienated by those I love because they did not want for me to say what I’ve said…

Thank You, LORD, for Your LOVE and You Mercy…

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen and Amen.

Until the next time…

Teddi