The Thoughts of God: The Only Truth About Me

[Shane]

Folks I received this from my Home Church in Newport MN and It was very powerful glory to Jesus , so I wanted to share this as this weeks C.F.C message and pass it on courtesy of:

Third Day Ministries
www.3rddayministries.com
 October 14, 2008
WORD OF THE WEEK: The Thoughts of God: The Only Truth About Me

PART 1 of a two part series from Pastor Judy Sky

I have a little spiritual exercise for you today. Set aside a few moments of quiet time to be still and know!! Psalms 46:10

Consider these questions for yourself, and pause and calmly let the answers come, (Selah!)

Do this exercise in light of all the answers being available to you by , letting this Mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:5)

    * What is in the mind of Christ today?
    * What is in Your mind, today, Lord?

    * What is God thinking today?
    * My God? what are You thinking about today?

    * What are You thinking about me today?
    * What do You want me to know, Lord?

I ask You now to download the thoughts You want me to think.

Let Your mind be in me, the Mind that is in Christ Jesus.

Empower me to think as a spirit-man, son of God.

I have Your Spirit in me. (John 16:7-16)

I release from Your Spirit in me the thoughts that are mine from the Mind of Christ.

I choose to receive Your thoughts now. I know, according to Your Word that You want me to Let Your Mind Be In Me that is also in Christ Jesus, I receive all that You are imparting to me, my God.

My God,

    * What are You thinking, (through The Mind of Christ), about my particular situation, dealing with _______________________?
    * What are Your Thoughts, Oh God, about my particular: relationships, finances, ministry, condition, health, future, love life or love  walk?? my maturity level?

How precious to me, are Your thoughts, Oh God! So high, so wide, so deep! How precious to me! (Psalms 139:17)

    * What is Your heart and mind, my God, and what do You want me to think about my self, individually?
    * Give me Your heart and mind and love for this

this particular group of people __________(friends, family, church, co-workers, etc)?

    * Give me Your Vision and impart in me what I need to know intuitively or consciously from Your plans for me and for us:
    * What does Your Mind? The Mind of Christ see coming up for me, and for us?
    * What do You, Oh God, want me, and want us to know now?
    * What do You, Oh God, want to do in me and in us to prepare us for what is to come?
    * How and through what means do You, my God, want to accomplish that?

I know that I may not consciously hear and understand all that is being imparted and downloaded and released from Christ in me to my own soul, through The Spirit of The Mind, but I do know that Your Word says, Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened unto you. (Matthew 7:7) Solomon was wise in asking for wisdom to rule the people, rather than riches that he got anyway. (2 Chronicles 1:10-12) I know that Wisdom is from Your thoughts, my God! and I am asking for Your Mind to be in me, and Your thoughts to fill that mind. Let that same mind be in me as is in Christ Jesus. I choose to believe it and I choose to receive it all.

I know, according to Your Word, that is exactly what is happening right now and I peacefully and confidently and joyfully receive all You are imparting to me. I pray that I will live out of what You are giving me, for Your glory. Amen
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus

We can consider for our example the difference between the thinking of Mary and Martha and the thinking of the mind of Christ Jesus

, and consider what the experience might have been for Lazarus as he went through the valley of the shadow of death into hearing the call of God on his life.

Re-read story of Lazarus: (John 11)

Mary and Martha scolded Christ for not being loving, and for not being faithful to their brother. They judged that He was wrong, demonstrated a lack of promptness and bad timing and that He was allowing Himself to be distracted on His way to visit poor, sick Lazarus

They admonished Him, "If You would have been here, our brother would have lived!"

But maybe he needed to go all the way through that death experience in order to be the first example of Christ raising the dead. Because he went all the way into and through death, he became the first of this sort of resurrection life?.

We have resurrection life in the form of Christ in us, on the inside, actually walking it out in us and as us, telling us to "go forth" to all the nations fulfilling the great co-mission.

Lazarus only had The Life of Christ on the outside, calling him to "come forth". Then he needed the help getting his grave-clothes unwrapped.

That is our part? loving each other and dealing with the "stinketh" stuff with in and about each other. We've been given the empowerment and the command to separate life from the death and even to the stench of death, the healing of the memories, and the filthy rags that are the end of our own righteousness and independence from God. There is One New Man (Ephesians 2:14-18) who is able to do these things, with Jesus as The Head. Jesus is the Firstborn of many brethren (Colossians 1:18, Romans 8:29), and our spirit-men are of that ?Many Brethren Company?.

What was Lazarus's part? To hear? To respond to the voice and the call? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word or Voice of God (Romans 10:17). The faith of God, or the faithfulness of God raised him up. The brethren loosed him and released him from all that bound him up and stunk. How powerful is that? How loving is that? What an example is that!

We need to stop listening to the wisdom of the world and begin to listen to our God. We need to stop going by the lower and base senses: what we see and what we feel.

We need live by :

"THE ONLY TRUTH ABOUT US is WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT US."

The bible says: A thousand will fall at your left hand and ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come near you. (Psalms 91:7)

But Lazarus died!

But Lazarus got raised up again, from the dead!

This was the greater miracle granted him:

To be raised the dead and not merely healed from sickness.

The impossible became possible.

The unthinkable became thinkable,

and now we need to THINK ON THESE THINGS?

that which is true and lovely and a good report? regardless what the News says.

We need to begin to think the thoughts of God.

We can see how God thinks when we are familiar, in agreement with and comfortable with discerning, recognizing, knowing and loving His Word which is His Voice.

His Words are symbols that re-present His Self.

When we know His Word and His Voice and His Ways, we can begin to know His Nature and His Spirit.

We have a "set" of His Words to establish and embellish the pattern of His Image in us. We can pass anything through that filter and discern if it is God or not. We can know God in an ever-increasing revelation, through all these facets if we know THE TRUE GOD? AS HE IS.

We learned a lot of "False-God Religion" that needs to be un-learned. We need to know that our God is all good, all loving with unconditional love that we cannot earn. When we allow ourselves to be Fear-Motivated, we are worshiping a false god. When we constantly learn to choose to dwell on and entertain THE THOUGHTS OF GOD, that are scripturally validated, we begin to have His Nature and His Spirit running through us. His Words are spirit and are life to those who believe. (John 6:63)

Our minds are renewed by "the washing of the water of the word of God" (Ephesians 5:26)

We are transformed by the renewing of our minds. (Romans 12:2).

That renewal is from the mind of Adam to THE MIND OF CHRIST. We are a people in the midst of transformation, who will move through the transformation according to the thoughts we choose to think.

The "mind" is identified by what it produces , there are only two minds: Christ and Anti-(or instead of) Christ.

A lot of people want to deal with God apart from Christ. They are a bunch of mixture: Pro-God, but anti-Christ, or instead of Christ. The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of The Son of God. We have been given that same spirit that raised Christ from the dead and it has the power to quicken and make alive? even our mortal bodies (Romans 8:11) Scripture does not say that that ?quickening? is for some other day or realm or season. It is "since" the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you He shall quicken your mortal body.!

Remember to watch and listen to your words, not to be religious, but as a clue to you, spirit-man, what your own soul is up to. It is up to you spirit-man, son of God, to guard your heart and mind. You are spirit, and that is the spirit of Christ, that is also your spirit ,who is joined to The Lord IS ONE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 6:17)

Remember: "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45) And "as a man thinketh, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7).

Let your own words tell on your soul as to whose thought you've been thinking; whose nature have you been entertaining?

Love believes the best of everyone. What do you believe?

Perfect Love casts out fear (1 John 4:18). Are you entertaining the temptations of the spirit of fear? These questions are not for condemnation, but for realization and responsibility and empowerment to choose and change:

Are you anxious?

Are you dreading?

Are you experience panic?

Are you worrying?

Are you a little paranoid?

Are you insecure?

These emotions may be the product of an unconscious entertainment of "some other spirit" of "some other false-god" or of "some other motivation".

Jesus with THE MIND OF CHRIST is THE WAY.

The one who comes to rob and steal and destroy is the temptation to choose SOME OTHER WAY(John 10:1) to get through much tribulation. We have THE WAY as our vehicle and transportation.

We are IN CHRIST.

We have available as our ENGINE, THE MIND OF CHRIST, and as our fuel that will faithfully get us where we are going: THE THOUGHTS OF GOD. ?His word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path?.

WITH WHOSE MIND ARE YOU THINKING?

CHECK IT OUT BY LISTENING TO WHAT YOUR MOUTH IS SPEAKING. IT WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOU ARE THINKING IN YOUR "HEART", IN THE SPIRIT OF THE MIND. CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS AND YOU'LL CHANGE HOW YOU FEEL. CHANGE HOW YOU FEEL AND YOU'LL CHANGE WHAT YOU WILL OR WILL NOT DO.

CHRIST IS OUR LIFE AND OUR ONLY HOPE OF GLORY:

"Let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus, who thought it not, too great a thing to be one or equal with God." (Philippians 2:6)

[Shane]

PART 2 of a two part series from Pastor Judy Sky

 
CHRIST IS OUR LIFE AND OUR ONLY HOPE OF GLORY:

"Let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus, who thought it not, too great a thing to be one or equal with God." (Philippians 2:6)

The Father sees you, for the last 2000 years, not as bad, unclean, defective, defeated, evil, shameful, guilty, sinful, but He sees you through the blood of The Lamb. It was the most profound event and most powerful. It made us clean and victorious! as Jesus Christ successfully and victoriously went to and through the cross and defeated the power of sin and death and moved into and through resurrection life? and He is our vehicle and we are in Him.

He did all this and even before the resurrection, He said "It is finished". This is His Finished Work. He did what we could not do, and when we enter into His Finished Work, and become one with Him in His death, we also become one with Him in His Resurrection Life. Many people are not experiencing the benefits of what He's done because they don't know about this good news, or they don't know to "reckon the old man dead". Some have forgotten what He actually did, or they are tricked and deceived by the pit to let go of this rich blessing and inheritance. Many have forgotten His benefits and don?t write checks on this great storehouse of mercy. Many have never experienced this great peace and this option for The Joy of The Lord to be their experience. Many will not let go of their own guilt and shame and let it be absorbed by The Blood of The Lamb. Many are deceived to hold onto their own guilt and shame and condemnation as if it were the right thing to do, they do not honor The Blood of Jesus. He paid the most tremendous price to see that we could be washed and clean and forgiven and available to contain, express and manifest His Presence and Power and Spirit on the face of the earth. It is to "be on earth as it is in heaven". We sit at the table full of the feast and we don?t eat but we are starving and crying. We are wretched and blind and poor in that condition.

The word miserable comes from the word "miser" which is defined as one who will sit in the presence of great wealth and luxury, but not able to enjoy it as they are too busy worrying about poverty sad, but true. That may be the sad but true picture of those of us who really have it all, but because we are thinking with the wrong mind, some other way, we are being robbed of all that has been set before us. THE MIND OF GOD tells us that he sets a table for us in the presence of our enemies. We can be so distracted by our enemies, by our giants in the Promised Land, that we are not able to think like Joshua and Caleb, who saw that "the grapes were as big a pomegranates". The others, with a carnal mind only saw themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of the giants.

If you are not seeing yourself as washed in The Blood of Jesus Christ and forgiven of your sins, and empowered by The Holy Spirit, with a hope and a future and a plan for your life, you may not be seeing with His eyes, or thinking with His Mind.

Once again: God is love and Love believes the best of everyone. Love sees potential. Love also may have correction in it and Love is able to raise the dead. Every now and then Love wipes out everything, re-plows the garden and begins a new season. That doesn't mean that something is wrong. That means that seasons have changed. When we are trusting in The Lord with all our hearts we don't have to experience the trauma of seasons changing. In Him there is not shadow of turning. God is our source of Light and Hope and Wisdom and Life.

Considering Lazarus

WHAT IS HE THINKING?

WHAT IS ON HIS MIND?

WHAT IS HE SEEING?

WHAT DOES HE WANT US TO KNOW?

BABYLON IS FALLING.

BABYLON MEANS CONFUSION. IT IS A SYSTEM OF RELIGION BIRTHED IN THE EARTH, A PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY KNEW GOD BUT THEY WERE NOT HAVING THE MIND OF CHRIST.

I hope that you are not identifying with Adam. I hope that you are identifying with Christ, because He is available to you.

I hope you are not thinking thoughts of Adam:

I'M JUST A FAILURE. I HAVE THE OLD MAN STILL DRAGGING ME AROUND! I CAN'T CHANGE, I'LL NEVER CHANGE. I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING, I'M A WICKED OLD SINNER?

MAYBE, SOMEDAY, IF I COULD, MAYBE I WILL?

 

THE SINFUL NATURE CAME IN BY QUESTIONING THE MIND OF GOD.

THE MIND OF GOD HAS COME TO EARTH IN THE FORM OF JESUS CHRIST.

WHEN WE ARE QUESTIONING AND DOUBTING AND CHALLENGING THE MIND OF GOD, BEING EXPRESSED AND MANIFESTED AS THE MIND OF CHRIST, THAT IS RECORDED AND IS ALIVE AND ACTIVE IN THE WORD OF GOD..

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE EXPRESSED MIND OF CHRIST WHICH ARE THE THOUGHTS OF GOD AND ABOUT ME SEES:

    * THE SINS OF THE WORLD FORGIVEN.
    * ME PROSPEROUS AND HEALTHY
    * I AM A CHILD OF GOD
    * MY SPIRIT MAN IS A SON OF GOD
    * I HAVE A FUTURE AND A HOPE
    * I HAVE BEEN GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT PERTAINS TO LIFE AND GODLINESS
    * GOD IS FOR ME AND NOT AGAINST ME
    * THE MIND OF CHRIST IS AVAILABLE FOR ME TO CHOOSE MY THOUGHTS

[Shane]

Third Day Ministries - October 22, 2008
WORD OF THE WEEK: Discerning the Thoughts of God by Pastor Judy Sky

The Thoughts of God: Part Three

DISCERNING THE THOUGHTS OF GOD:
I promise you that I am giving you fuel that belongs to you from God Almighty.

 It is access and permission and direction to begin, all the more, to discern His thoughts for you and about you, and through you and to you... that are your map, your path, your light, your fuel, your food... To CHOOSE to think His thoughts that are available to you in every present second is to choose the Life that He has set before you this day.
There are thoughts that are from the source of Life and thoughts that are from the source of Death... choose, God says, whom you will serve.
The results will be manifested in your life.  He says, "I came to give you Life, and Life more abundantly."  That Abundant Life is available in THE MIND OF CHRIST, which is a bank without shortage of wisdom, direction, supernatural power, hope, peace, joy... kindness, gentleness, meekness... the ability to suffer long, and not give up.
My Darling...
Yes, you are divine, but you are also still human.  Your humanity is not defectiveness, but it is process, the tunnel and the cocoon for the transformation process of the spirit to woo and win and convert the soul that you may be whole and fulfill your potential and fly... as you were designed... to live... butterfly.
You are spirit, but you also have a soul that has not been entirely bathed, washed, transformed and perfected.  The soul is in the process.  The spirit is perfected and overcoming the carnal, natural, negative, human way of identifying.   Your humanity humiliates you, your spirituality humbles you in the most awesome, forgiving, loving, unselfish, supportive, all-inclusive and empowering, constructive, way.

Think only thoughts of life.  Is this thought helpful?  Is it from God?  Is it anointed?  Does it empower you to move and progress into more wonderful versions of your self from moment to moment?

 


Does it inspire you?  Is the thought loving?  Are you thinking the best of a person?  Are you thinking the best of yourself?  Love chooses to believe the best of everyone and thinks on the good report, not the worse case scenario.  Are your thoughts directed and choosing to TRUST IN GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART?

Are your thoughts prayerful? Are you putting your requests and needs into words and actually saying them and turning them over to God?   Are you thankful?  Are you praising God with your thoughts?  Are you counting your blessings?  Are you seeing the half of the glass that is full?  Are you meditating on scripture... which is God's word?  Are you yielding your self over to the nature of God?  Are you counting on His righteousness... or your own (filthy rags)?  Are you consciously and deliberately praying for God's will, NOT YOUR OWN WILL, to be done in every situation?

If you are thinking this way, there is room for nothing else.  You are keeping a clean house if you are choosing and meditating on and dwelling on these thoughts.  His thoughts are in His Words.  We can abide in His Word... we can live and rest and move and find our very being in His Words that are from His thoughts.  How precious to me, are your thoughts, Oh God... so high, so wide, so deep... How precious to me!

John 15:7-8
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will* ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.                     

1 Peter 1:22-23
The Enduring Word 22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit* in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,*  NKJV

1 John 2:14
Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one. NKJV

John 8:31-32
"If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
NKJV

John 6:63
63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. NKJV

 
Maybe you ought to write it out, just to be sure you are praying through, putting your matters into words called prayers and giving them over and letting them go to God... asking, knocking and seeking for His thoughts for you, and then thinking on them, meditate on them, write them down, act on them...  Thereby choosing Life through THE MIND OF CHRIST.

Remember...

If your thinking makes you feel bad, causes shame, guilt, fear or condemnation... depression; if it is negative and critical... if it is resentful or full of self-pity and complaints or murmuring... if it is depressing or causes anxiety, the thoughts are not of God and are not from THE MIND OF CHRIST.  Those thoughts are not God's will for you.  Those thoughts are nothing but temptation to snuff you out and destroy you and get you to become paralyzed and helpless against your real enemies.

Even when it is God, confronting something in your life that is off or that He is correcting, those thoughts come as welcoming information that brings healing and deliverance and relief from slavery, from bondage, from ignorance and darkness.  The thoughts of The Holy Spirit that deal with what needs to change come as conviction, not as condemnation.  Conviction means that we do know that God has put His finger on something He wants us to address and deal with and as we are willing to hear His voice, He will give us the power and the will and the spirit of repentance that we need to make the choices that are best for our selves and others... that will bring us true happiness and peace, rather than instant pleasure for long term pain.

We need stop being deceived, that God brings pain and evil brings pleasure.  That is a lie!  ?at His right hand are pleasures forever more'... That would be short term pain and long term pleasure. "Delight yourself in Him and He will give you the desires of your heart."  God teach us that You are Delightful to us, and not destructive.  You know what satisfies us...

Psalms 17:15
15 As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness. NKJV

Let the thoughts of God guide you today, all day long, and tomorrow, also.  They will be full of comfort and encouragement and patience for you... and hope.

Our God is a good God... ALL THE TIME.

YOU NEED NO APPOINTMENT... HE IS AVAILABLE WITH HIS THOUGHTS THAT ARE YOUR ANSWERS TO PRAYER AND THE RESPONSE OF YOUR CRY FOR HELP AND THESE THOUGHTS ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU RIGHT NOW.