Agreed..This concept along with what I am sharing here is the very message that God has been having me share with so many of the brethren I come into contact with who are desiring a closer walk with Jesus.Always the focus is to encourage them to be more disciplined in the time they spend with God..putting Him first. We are to be pointing everyone to study Jesus,our Risen Lord.To read the words written about Him..to drink deeply from the very words He spoke..to look closely at the way He behaved in each circumstance..always flowing in perfect harmony with each and every differing need..righteously adjusting each souls's outlook with spontaneous accurate wisdom...and perfection in manner(attitude).Do we desire to be like Him? To learn of Him proceeds actually knowing Him personally.

He is Alive,The Living Word..His sheep hear His voice and we follow Him and no other will they follow.He is still speaking to His people today as in days gone by. His word,His Very Life comes alive,repatterned,reproduced in the lives of His believers as He is being formed in us. When we stay focused on His recorded words and movements in a steadfast,disciplined and diligent manner..we do not go off into trivialities and become snared by fleshly mental leanings and fruitless distractions..we are able to know His Way..and to walk worthily in it.And so it is that we see that study is a beginning training that takes discipline..and there is more to discipline than this.

Here I would encourage those who stand asking..what would the Lord do in this instance..not speaking directly to Him,but thinking about Him,as though we must lean on our own understanding/knowledge about Him (for example only what we've read or heard about Him from others,which has it's own importance but is not enough) to sift through the varied possibilities..even this can be confusing.Oftimes the way we were shown to handle a similar situation in our past,does not speak into or meet the needs of what we are faced with now,as the dynamics have changed and so we need more wisdom to deal with what is being presented.Life has a way of being too fluid to be predictable. Just as the letter of the word kills..the spirit of the word brings life..we must be able to adjust with fluid flexibility to the highest(divine) perspective in regards to whatever shows up demanding our attention.

This flexible readjusting takes heavenly wisdom,which we must approach the throne of grace to recieve. We are not to behave as though we had no clear access to enter into the Holy Place and recieve directly from Him.If we would build upon the foundations already lain,let us stretch forth our faith and approach Him directly,asking,"What would You have me do?" This is a much needed discipline I rarely hear or see being practiced. Are we believeing that He is present,so very near..not far away seen only for the past events, only observable in the words written about Him(may we always keep these words before our eyes..hear what I am saying)..or as a far away promise in our future to lay hold of/behold eventually.

We have the recorded word(Logos)..we have the spoken word(Rhema)We have the Living Word..accessable if we would only tarry long before Him,in surrendered posture, pressing in further to touch His very presence to worship and adore Him,to be filled with His Spirit to overflowing.To ask for wisdom and understanding,believing to recieve. He is mindful of our needs,He waits in order to closely guide those who actually wait for Him..He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him,determined to obey Him in a more steadfast and disciplined way..it is only by His grace that we can do this. As it is His will that we attain to this..He will provide the grace in which to triumph in this as well..we have not because we do not ask..and keep asking until we are certain of His guidance.He is testing our commitment to obediance..you say with your mouth this(I surrender all,not my will but Thine be done)..but do you mean it with your whole heart? So comes the trials and decisions we must make..that we might learn to draw nearer to Him,desiring only His Will,His Way.

And then you shall hear a voice behind you saying..'This is the way..(in this moment..in this circumstance)..walk ye therefore in it.'
Thank you Lord Jesus that You are an ever watchful Shepherd who patiently stands ready to intercede on our behalf,providing generously with the divine guidance we are never without need of.

Cause us,O Lord God, to come to Your Living Waters,to drink and be cleansed of our own leanings,tarrying long in peaceful surrender..to be made upright with Your Very Life reproduced in us..as we are more fully sanctified and transformed into Your Wonderful Image according to Your Expressed Will.

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G.M. (Destiny) Sweet