WHAT DID GOD SAY TO ME THIS MORNING

Yesterday I told someone that I would have more energy today! Guess what? I have more energy this morning! I got up at 5 a.m. and went straight to the prayer closet! I feel so good this morning y’all! It’s nice, crisp, and cool outside; and that kind of weather is simply refreshing to me! I pray that you feel refreshed this morning too!

Okay so check this out. This morning I was praying and listening to the Holy Spirit talk to me. As I was listening, different areas of my life started to pop into my mind. I heard the Holy Spirit say, “I am growing your discernment so you can see from a new level. The things that you couldn’t even see 8 months ago, now you can easily see, but this is not the end of the growth. You still need to continue growing in your discernment, but on a new level.” Now as I am writing this blog right now, another thought just came to me: New Levels…new devils. The Holy Spirit wants me to understand that I may be able to discern the stuff that USED to get me off track, but now He wants me to realize that there is NEW stuff trying to get me off track and I don’t need to think I’m there yet because I may miss this new level of craftiness from the enemy!!! Because in my journal I wrote down: “close, but not quite there yet!” WOW!! WOW! WOW!

All of this makes even more sense as I am writing, because listen to what I else I heard the Holy Spirit say this morning: “Pay attention to patterns. Write down your experiences so you can SEE the patterns, whether they are good patterns or not-so-good patterns. I want you to see your patterns, and the patterns of those around you. This will help you with your discernment.”

As I wrote all this down in my journal, I asked God to give me a fresh word from His Word. So I opened up the bible to my scriptural surprise in the book of 2 Peter, the third chapter. The verse that stood out to me the most was 2 Peter 3:14. To give context, this chapter talks about the Lord’s return and how He is giving people time to be saved. But back to the stand out verse:

And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to live a pure and blameless life. And be at peace with God. 2 Peter 3:14 New Living Translation

The part that stood out most was “make every effort to live a pure and blameless life.” The text is saying while you are waiting on the day of the Lord to return, you are to make every effort to live pure and blameless. You know I had to go and look at the other translations to see what else I could get from this verse. The Easy English Bible really made it simple:

So, my friends, live in a good way, because you are waiting for these things to happen. Try very much to do what makes God happy. Then, when you meet God, he will see that you are clean. He will see that there is no trouble in your minds. 2 Peter 3:14 EasyEnglish Bible 2018

Now going back to my conversation with the Holy Spirit (before I even read this Easy version), He said to me:

• Don’t fall for potential.

• You can tell a tree by the fruit it bears. (Matthew 7:16 says you can identify people by the way they act.)

• Don’t get caught up in close, because close is not all the way there. I won’t just bring you close. I will bring you all the way there!

• Live a pure and blameless life.

• Don’t lose your own secure footing (2 Peter 3:17).

• Keep growing and gaining knowledge about Me.

I believe the Holy Spirit is reminding me to continue to make every effort to live a pure and blameless life, and don’t be fooled by those who aren’t making every effort to live that way. Growing in my discernment will allow me to see how the enemy will make a counterfeit situation look close, but not REALLY there.

When I looked up the word effort, it means you’re doing everything you possibly can do to live right. Some of the synonyms for effort include: striving, stretching, pushing, tugging, and exerting energy. Don’t be fooled by people who really aren’t even TRYING to live right!!!! They say with their mouth they are, but their fruit/actions don’t match their words. That’s the enemy trying to trick you with people’s counterfeit effort!! Don’t fall for a person’s potential to do right!! Don’t lose your own way being fooled by someone who wants you to believe that they are on the same page as you! MY GOODNESS!! I don’t even know who this is for…it may be for me! BUT MY GOODNESS!!! WHAT A WORD!!! Don’t be fooled by people’s words. Look for the fruit. Look at how they really act, not what they say. In my urban vernacular, I see myself saying this to a person: But where the fruit at though? And when they can’t show it, my next line is: Flee satan…and take that old artificial plastic fruit with you! #newlevelofdiscernment

The Word of God this morning is that God is giving us time to get it right, and we don’t know when He coming back, so stop thinking you got all day to get right. Get it together boo! Make every effort to live right and blameless today! The Lord is most definitely coming back and I want Him to find me and you, living a pure and blameless life!

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