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“Guard your heart above all else, for it
determines the course of your life.”
NLT
Power Point: -
I love
peanut butter but I buy the “stir-it-up” organic kind (no more Jiff, sigh!) Sometimes when I get to the bottom of
the jar, it’s hard because I haven’t stirred it every time I use it. Usually I
just give up and open another jar, while promising myself that I will do better
next time. And then I don’t. I do
not keep vigilant watch over my peanut butter and something that should be soft
and creamy and tasty becomes hard and not good for much!
Holy
Spirit wants us to keep “stirring up” our hearts. He’s put an anointing in
there that will change every step we take, and every thought we think. He is
life in us. He has given us absolutely everything we need to live a “stirred
up” life. In 2 Peter He says we’ve been given the ticket to participation in
the life of God. What a thought!
And then He says, “Don’t lose a moment in building on what
you’ve been given complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual
understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience reverent wonder, warm
friendliness, and generous love…With these qualities active and growing in our
lives, no grass will grow under your feet.”(The Message)
In
other words it’s our job to keep “stirring up” what we’ve been given. The
anointing breaks every yoke, guides us in wisdom, and generally brings heaven
to earth in us and through us. How
do we do that?
-We have been given a spirit of power, love, and a sound
mind. When fear tries to harden those things in our heart we refuse it and
“stir up” what Jesus told us.
-We have been given the words of The Word which are chock
full of promises for us. Keep them in front of your eyes, and the back of your
mind and the bottom of your heart constantly. Stir them up!
-These words are given to us to thoroughly equip us so that
we are can be ready, willing and able to carry out every good work He has
prepared for us.
It’s all in the Word Beloved. The measure of thought and
study you give to it will be the measure of power and wisdom that will come
back to you. The Holy Spirit is the
One who reveals deep understanding of the truth that you hear. His anointing
teaches you all things. Some of the evidence of His presence in you is wisdom,
power, enthusiastic joy, and peace. If that’s tucked way down in the bottom of
your heart and the “issues” of your heart don’t “measure up" then maybe its
time to give more time to “stirring up” the gift that is in you. Like that
peanut butter when you get to the bottom of the jar, you have to keep stirrup
up the anointing so that your mind, will and emotions do not harden. Life can’t
come from a hard heart. The Life that Jesus died to give you comes from
guarding the Gift He has given you in Holy Spirit. Stir Him UP! If you don’t
stir up the ingredients properly when you are baking cookies or if you leave
out a key ingredient, you will not get a good batch. The same is true in your
life Beloved. If you leave out the key ingredients for life, His Word, His
Spirit and His Anointing, then you will never have the life that God intended
for you. They’re there in the
bottom of your heart- it’s your job to stir them up!
Power Thought:
What's in the "bottom of your heart"? Start stirring. Faster!
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