“If you continue (remain, abide, hold on to) in My Word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Give Me a clean slate to write upon. You cannot put new wine into old wineskins. They burst. Many of you have the wrong words in your heart—words contrary to My Words. And these words will not help you but will hinder you and kill your destiny.
Enlarge your hearts. I take out your stony heart and give you an expanding, living, pliant, forgiving heart of love, like Mine. Hard hearts, stony hearts, cannot expand and cannot open to let in the seed of My Word. If today you hear My voice, harden not your hearts.
A hardened heart makes it is easy for Satan to steal the seed of My Word before it plants therein. Solomon asked Me for a hearing heart, a heart that could hear from Me. He knew that was the key to wisdom.
Make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding; for if you cry for discernment, lift your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 1:2-6.
A stone-cold heart is deaf. How do you get rid of a stony heart? First, let Me ask you, how did I turn stony tablets to living tablets? I took My finger and wrote My Word on them. So how do I change stony hearts to living hearts and make you into living stones being built into My house and a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifice unto Me for the saving of souls?
“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Jeremiah 31:33-34.
And a second witness in My Word:
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws upon their heart, and on their mind I will write them,” He then says, “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Hebrews 10:16-17.
It is Covenant words and Covenant promises that you want written in your heart. So first you must be born again from above and then renew your mind.
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. Ezekiel 36:25-27.
But many people who believe still have hard hearts. I am writing but you can speed up the process if you are writing with Me too. And you can slow it down and negate it if you are speaking the opposite of what I am saying.
Keep My commandments and live, and My teaching as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 7:2-3
You are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of hearts of flesh. 2 Corinthians 3:3.
How do you write?
My heart is astir with a good word; I say my verses concerning the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Psalm 45:1.
You write My Words on your heart by speaking them with your tongue. Your tongue is the pen of a ready writer. And your tongue speaks what fills your thoughts. So let Me help you with this. I tell you what to think on.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Joshua 1:8.
I was teaching Joshua, and you through My Words to him, how to program your heart to write a new story for taking your promised land. Let the past go and start a new story to the praise of My glory. And this time let Me write it with you by getting ahold of My Words, for you are always writing on and programing your heart.
If you have been held captive by tormenting thoughts of shame, blame, jealousy, anger, bitterness, depression, grief, helplessness, addiction, lusts, illness, impurity, or any other thoughts or symptoms, words or actions, that are keeping you from a joyful, radiant healthy blessed life of shalom peace, you need to get set free. So listen now to this Life Lesson and do it.
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless. James 1:26.
To be forever free you must start speaking the truth because the truth will set you free.
One who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. James 1:25.
Let Me give you a teaching now on how to do this, because many of you know this but you are not doing it. But it is very simple. You do not say what you feel, you say the truth. Keep that thought and let Me give you more light on it in a moment.
Many people have lost heart, have no joy, and are walking around saying they are depressed and go tell doctors and psychiatrists and their families how unhappy they are. They are the grief of their parents, spouses, children, co-workers and siblings. And most of them have no outward reason to be that way. Their life, if they had the right mindset about it, is full of good things, but to them everything is stressful, awful, and without hope. They cannot seem to shake off the darkness, this hopelessness, this fear.
But, they are not drawing on the well within them. My Son leads you to springs of living water as I wipe every tear from your eyes and in your spirit leaps up the fountain of eternal life. But there is only one way to drink of it and only one way to program your heart to joy. You have to say, “I am full of joy.”
Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the LORD God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. Therefore with joy you shall draw water at the springs of Yeshuah.” Isaiah 12:2-3.
And you have to say “I am full of joy,” over and over until it writes on your heart. Because when you took Jesus as your Lord, the Holy Spirit came to live in you and the fruit of the spirit is love, JOY, and many other good things that you should say you have.
Let the weak say, “I am strong (a hero, a champion).” Joel 3:10.
Say right now, “I am full of joy.” And then tell yourself, “I am happy.” And that is the truth.
You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound. Psalm 4:7.
For You, O LORD, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands. Psalm 92:4.
You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Psalm 16:11.
And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. Acts 13:52.
Jesus gave you His joy by sharing His Words with you. And He also poured the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, into your heart. Speak the truth in love. If you say you do not have joy, you are lying if you have made Jesus your Lord. He gave you His joy by My Words which He speaks to you. He plants the seed of My Word in your heart. It is time you confirmed the truth by saying what is true and agreeing with Me.
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. John 15:11.
And the good news is, if you keep saying the truth and not a lie to the contrary, no matter what you “feel” right now, it will change to what you are saying. Remember, the tongue is the steering wheel of your life, if you bridle it, you can control your entire body.
If anyone does not stumble in the words he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. James 1:2.
If you have been saying you are depressed and sad, crying and moping, grasping out at others to relieve the depression, then start speaking the truth of My Word that you have joy, My great joy, in your heart, and refuse to say the opposite, and you will watch your heart get happy. And a cheerful heart does good like medicine. Proverbs 17:22.
My Word will go to work and write My Words of joy upon your heart. But you must be severe with yourself about it and not sluggish, going back to the rut of your emotional roller coaster that is fueled by unclean spirits from hell, for depression is the spirit that overwhelms the damned in hell. In the confines of hell, there is no way out of the darkness of eternal death. Why should you who are saved by the blood of My Son and My incorruptible Word entertain such a lie? If you want to be free, you must speak the truth in agreement with what I say about you.
But if you do not look deeply into the mirror of My Word, which I call the perfect law of liberty, how do you know what I say about you? You must continue in My Word to know.
“If you continue (remain, abide, hold on to) in My Word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32.
Let us start. And you may find you have a lying tongue that is writing the words of the enemy on your heart and not My Words of truth that will set you free. YOU MUST SPEAK WHAT I SAY ABOUT YOU FOR THAT IS THE TRUTH THAT WILL SET YOU FREE.
To be set free to live a happy life stop saying how sad, depressed, and hopeless you feel and say, “I am happy.” And refuse to indulge any other complaint out of your mouth, whether speaking only to yourself or others. And back it up with John 15:11; John 17:13; Psalm 16:11; Psalm 4:7; Psalm 92:4; Isaiah 12:3; Isaiah 55:12, and many other scriptures, there are over 211 passages about joy in the Bible. Why? My joy is your strength. I gave it to you. Speak it and live it. Anytime you are ready to say what a sad, depressed person you are, STOP LYING, and say the truth. The truth will set you free to be happy. Lies will not.
And call upon My Covenant Names for the magnificent promises in them are yours and you can so state, such as the LORD my healer, the LORD my provider, the LORD my Shepherd, the LORD my strength, the LORD my righteousness, and so many more. Many know My Name El Shaddai and El Elyon but few people know My Name El (אֵל֮) Simhat (שִׂמְחַ֪ת) gili (גִּ֫ילִ֥י), it means God of My exceeding joy, gladness, and rejoicing.
O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling places. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, gladness and rejoicing; and upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God. Psalm 43:3-4.
To be strong, start saying you are strong. That is the truth. You are strong in Me and the power of My might. Ephesians 6:10. YOU HAVE RESURRECTION POWER WORKING IN YOU. Ephesians 1:18-20; Ephesians 3:20. To release it you must speak it. Next time disaster hits, and the devil will try, like when the poisonous snake came out of the brush and bit Paul as it attached to his arm. Paul had no fear, he knew that POWER that was in him by the Holy Spirit and Jesus’ promise that you have authority over serpents and he just shook it off. No lies out of his mouth, only truth.
To be free start saying, “I am free.” You have the glorious freedom of the children of God to rule and reign in life through Christ Jesus by receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. And if you know My Word and follow it, you are My disciple and you know the truth and it sets you free. Do not fall back into slavery a second time.
To be free of fear, start saying, “I have no fear, the LORD God is with me wherever I go.” Joshua 1:9. And recite the benefits of Psalm 103:1-5 and call on My Name as the LORD who looks ahead and has already provided. I just read the beginning of Psalm 18.
I love You, O LORD, my strength.” The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. Psalm 18:1-3.
To be free from lack and financial difficulties, say, “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.” And “I am rich, it has pleased the Father to give me the Kingdom.” And “For I know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for my sake He became poor, so that I through His poverty might become rich.” 2 Corinthians 8:9.
And to be free of fear of scams, hacking, and stolen identity, make sure you tithe and give offering and then you can speak your tither’s rights if the devil tries to put you in fear. “I am a tither, the LORD opens for me the floodgates of Heaven and pours down a blessing and I cannot contain but have all sufficiency for myself and an abundance for every good work. And the LORD rebukes the devourer for me and he cannot take what is mine.” Speak the truth. It will set you free.
To be free from guilt, shame, and self-condemnation, never speak of those things again. Once you have repented and confessed those sins to Me, the blood of My Son has washed them all away and paid for them in full, say, “There is no condemnation for me now for I am in Christ Jesus and my sins and offenses God remembers no more.” “I am righteous with God’s own righteousness by the gift of Jesus.”
Say what I say about you and you will be speaking the truth in agreement with Me. Stop saying you feel unloved. I have told you that I have loved you with an everlasting love and that you are precious in My sight. I do not lie. Stop saying you don’t have wisdom, I made Jesus to be wisdom unto you and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Boast in Me and all I have done for you. Just like Mary the mother of Jesus did. She said I had done great things for her and all generations would call her blessed. But she said I had looked upon her lowliness but had not left her there.
You are holy, blameless, and beyond reproach before Me because Jesus took all your sins and suffered the sentence given to you in your place. Can you speak that so as to honor Me and stop saying that you are still under condemnation for your sin. Not before Me.
And if impure thoughts have been plaguing you, I can help you put that down. Just tell yourself and Satan you are no longer going to let them bother you or get your attention. Declare yourself pure, holy, and blameless in Jesus and next time they show up just be unflustered and tell them to leave. That will do it.
Find it in My Word and you can say that you have it. You have wisdom. You have peace. You have length of days, good days. You have forgiveness. You are healed. And I have plans of shalom and not evil for your life, to give you a FOREVER future and a hope that goes beyond the grave.
Always say what is the truth and it will set you free from shame, pain, blame, depression, fear and so much more because I more than address all those things in My Word and all you need to do is respond as I have told you is the truth about you and Me.
When you are disturbed by something, just run for the Book, My Book, the Bible, and you will find the answer you need. But you have to answer the lies with the truth of My Word and NEVER agree with the lie.
Freedom has laws. Freedom has a spirit. The Spirit of Liberty and the Law of Liberty. And it works by faith, the spirit of faith, which is that you believe in your heart and speak with your mouth in agreement with the truth of My Word. When law is based on the truth, it will never fail.
My Word is truth. I am love. So love is truth that sets you free. Love Me with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and your neighbor as yourself and you will walk in perfect liberty. Where My Spirit is there is liberty. The Spirit of truth whom the world cannot accept.
If you continue in My Word, stick with it through thick and thin, you are truly My disciples. When you stick with My Word you are following Me fully.
Do you recall that I called the report of ten of the twelve spies that Moses sent to scout out the Promised Land an evil report? I called it disobedience. Why? They thought they were just saying the truth of what they saw by saying that they and their brethren could never conquer the giants in the Promised Land or take their cities. But I had already told them from when I first called Moses to lead them out of Egypt that there were many people already in the Promised Land and there were giants, but I promised to send My messenger (angel) ahead of them to go with them and drive them out and they would win the land.
But only Joshua and Caleb spoke the truth that they were well able with Me to go in and do as I had promised. And I called speaking what I said as the truth was following Me fully. The others all spoke stout against My Words and said they would not win but die there by the sword of the giants and they would rather stay out in the wilderness and die there. They lost their destiny and all My good promises by speaking a lie and not the truth. They did not think they were lying because what they said seemed to match the circumstances, but I was about to change the circumstances. You may think that was not wise on their part, and it was not as it made them lose the wonderful life I had planned for them, but what about you? Because you have symptoms and illness attacks do you say you are not healed? But you are if you will take it. Jesus took your illness and pain and you are healed. It is there for you if you will speak it and agree with it in faith. First you receive in your spirit and then it can work out as the Spirit of truth quickens your mortal body.
This is a matter of life and death, blessing and cursing. And it is in the power of YOUR tongue. Not Mine. I have already spoken the good. You just must agree out of your mouth. You see that very plainly in the lives of the Israelites I redeemed out of Egypt who never went into their promised land. Do not be like that and miss the healing, the prosperity, the forgiveness, and the great works I have planned for you because you preferred speaking lies as your emotions dictated rather than My Words of truth. You may not think you are lying but anything contrary to the truth of My Word is a lie from hell. And the devil was a liar from the beginning. He has not changed. Do not join him. His dainties are not worth eating, they are nothing but dirt.
I love you. The Israelites constantly argued with My Words to them but Joshua and Caleb did not. Hence Joshua and Caleb were the only ones that were free in over two million people. And it renewed their youth and took them into the Promised Land as more than conquerors. And every one of My good promises came to pass for them, not one failed. And yet it was not so for all the rest. Some even fell into hell in a rebellion against Moses and Aaron in the desert. Again, not agreeing with My choice of leadership. It is good to speak the truth with Me for I know what is the best choice, the best way, and the best life. Jesus, My Word, is the way, the truth and the life, and He is the High Priest of your confession (homologia). Speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and you will be free.