My "custom" when writing in this manner
is to write my thoughts in italics
while putting scripture in straight print.
Color is also significant to me.
Therefore, I use green as the color of new life.
Blue is my color for God's peace.
Last night, January 22nd, as I contemplated the last 63 years of my life,
invested in what I've loved so much,
and now "displaced" from the 2 San Diego County meetings
I had been attending,
I felt rather as these two pictures from the Palisades fires near Los Angeles:


Yet, by the time I went to bed, I was being given the message "let go" and "rebuild."
I slept late the next morning
and felt more healing,
as God speaks to me again -
as He did that first day, Dec. 4, 1961,
after having expressed the choice on Dec. 3, 1961,
to follow JESUS - and was born of God's Spirit.
Did I know what I was doing?
No. I just knew I wanted the peace & joy INSIDE
that I had been introduced to!!
I had been reading my bible for 3 years -
longing, longing, for power to understand
and APPLY it to my LIFE..
It finally began that day in 1961, December 4th.
No tribulation has ever been able to destroy that love & joy
in revelation & power In God's Spirit and love.
The morning of January 23, I was returned
to that first revelation of scripture in GOD's Spirit,
[19 years old, Dec. 4, 1961,
after I expressed the choice
to follow Jesus on Dec. 3, 1961],
I had longed for that power since I was a pre-teen:
December 4, God showed me HE creates our lives,
and He has created us like an architect -
satisfied with what He has produced.
I Cor. 3: WE are HIS temple -
and He is satisfied when we live as such.
Vs. 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
That can bring a sense of security when we connect with it -
and want it more than flesh, world, devil -
the temptations Jesus overcame
which are recorded in
Mt. 4; Lk. 4 - even our personality, our bodies, etc.
But, now, I have been given:
1 Corinthians 3: 9 again. ...
ye are labourers together with God:
ye are God's husbandry,
ye are God's building.
12 the fire shall try every man's work
of what sort it is.
if any man build upon this foundation...
wood, hay, stubble
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it,
because
it shall be revealed by fire;
15 If any man's work shall be burned,
he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
[even cjt!]
Then we can build again -
regardless of what destruction has come to our lives.
We can build again!
On the ONLY foundation -
and with what comes
from Him through His Spirit!!
Vs. 12 ...if any man build upon this foundation
gold, silver, precious stones.
1 Corinthians 3:
14 If any man's work abide
which he hath built thereupon,
he shall receive a reward.
It comes ONLY when we are born again of GOD's Spirit and receive revelation, power and access to God's grace, from His throne of grace, moment by moment, as we look to Him throughout our days.
No!! We don't get there consistently;
but it is the LOVE of our life to be there -
given FROM Him through HIS Spirit
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