Tuesday, August 27, 2019

AMAZING THINGS

"Blessed is the one who stays awake/alert and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”


If you are worried about how you look in the physical think how awful it is to lose your Coach bag or Michael Kors shoes, your Calvin Klein pants SPIRITUALY. 

My favorite dress is a luscious navy blue Calvin Klein with gold buttons. I love it. It fits right and I feel right wearing it. We learn about fashion and feel it is important to us, however we need to learn to feel right living in the spirit realm successfully. (The spirit is the realm we will live in eternally.) So very important to put on Godly behavior. Unless of course you want to go through the agony of losing your pants!
Ephesians 4;22-24  Strip yourself of your former nature,--
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 

When you were born again you inherited the nature of God. Live out of your spirit, not out of your soulish realm! By cooperating with the Holy Spirit you will renew your soul; what you think, what you feel, what you want.

Revelations 16:15  “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake/alert and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”
Stay awake, alert, aggressive and guard your clothes so that your nakedness not be shamefully exposed. Nakedness is vulnerability. 
No matter what style clothing you put on your body physically you are NAKED if you do not put on your guard, your best spiritually. Just like you purposely dress for success and with intention, you MUST put on your spiritual clothing intentionally! 
The bible says put on Jesus Christ : I belong to God, when I arise I am to deal in life as a representative of Jesus Christ with those in my household as importantly as those outside it. I will not be lackadaisical or given to my fleshly attitudes.

 I put on Jesus Christ and His attitudes. Col 3:12 ...

Put on behavior. Decide ahead of time to have behavior pleasing to God. Pray when you get up in the morning that your behavior be pleasing to God in all situations and he will help you to succeed.

You must stay spiritually dressed for battle for the mind is the battlefield. Unrelenting attacks on our minds...unrelenting worry, fear, concern about something are attacks that you mustn't be passive in. You must quote something out of the word like Jesus did in Luke chapter 4. Learn how Jesus did spiritual warfare. The enemy is a spirit that must be fought in the spirit. Not by physical acts. Don't let the enemy slide in your soulish realm in treatment of others, even in your thinking toward others, 

Have God thoughts. God has given us weapons and armor. Assault/aggressive spiritual acts and armor for protection.

Stop being passive and not really acting like a soldier.  We are soldiers in the army of God. Jesus is the Captain of the Host. He has given us his Name, and his Word, and God has given us weapons and he has given us armor. We need to know how to fight and win the war.

Peace--put on peace. walk in peace. 

Peace will protect your feet. The shoes of peace.

You are given self control according to Galatians 5 given last as a fruit of the Spirit of God. It is there to use! Put off the old nature. Put on the new nature. And remember, you are a soldier. As such you must not be lazy in this or discouraged. When you wake up in the morning you can do your own thinking not just what the enemy drops into your mind. Think what God thinks. He is for you and not against you. The enemy will sabotage you every time, defeating the purpose of God for you which is most certainly greatness!

Thoughts to pursue in next blog time:
The spirit of God clothed Gideon with Himself. Judges
Job 29 I put on righteousness. Walk out that righteousness.
Doing the right thing. Do not be weary in well doing for in due season you will reap.
  
As you dress in your No Name label or your Designer of choice realize the more important/most valuable, is to: 

Put on Love
Put on Mercy
Put on Kindness
Put on Peace
Put on Jesus Christ,  .. more later