You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also? But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you. Luke 11:40-41.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
What is inside is what comes out. Your mouth speaks out of your heart’s abundance. You can tell a tree by its fruit and the way others will know who you are inside is by the fruit of your lips on the outside.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, LORD, my rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14.
You will notice that when I gave Moses the plans for the Tabernacle I did not start at the outer courtyard. I started with the very core of the structure, the Holy of Holies, and not with the veil, golden boards, and coverings, but with the place where Moses would hear from Me, the Ark of the Testimony (Covenant) with its Mercy Seat (propitiatory). I gave Moses the plans from the inside out.
“God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7.
And that is the way I operate and you too must operate, first conceive in the spirit and then work it out to birth it in the earth. If you want to walk in love, you must start in the very core of your being and become love as I am so that you do not walk sporadically but permanently in love.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Ephesians 3:14-15.
What this means is nothing that is foreign to true love in all its majestic splendor should be permitted into your heart, soul, or mind. You will have to watch what is going on inside before anything can change outside.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” Matthew 23:27-28.
What was My Son’s solution to this hypocrisy and lawlessness? Go after the inside first.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.” Matthew 23:25-26.
My Son told His disciples that to become fruitful branches on His vine of divine supply they would have to be purged and pruned, that is cleansed of the sin that so easily divides us and encumbers you from completing the good deeds I prepared in advance for you to do. And He told them how I do that, by My Word, the washing of the water of My Word. My Word is living and working, revealing the thoughts and motives of the heart.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. John 15:1-3.
If you will receive the implanted Word, you can save your soul from torment, worry, anxiety, offense, and a host of other toxic thoughts that will poison the rich soil of heart so that it becomes an arid waste where nothing good can take root and grow.
Thus says the LORD, “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD. For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.” Jeremiah 17:5-6.
But what is the remedy? Read on:
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD and whose trust is the LORD. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8.
There is a huge difference in the life of one who knows Me over the life of one who does not. If you will attach to Me in love and remain in My Word and let it remain in you, your life will become a joy. You will have hit the geyser of living water that is in those who believe, leaping up to eternal life.
Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a wellspring of water leaping up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14.
My Words are spirit and life. I am spirit and I seek those who walk in love, which is also known as walking in the spirit and walking by faith. In other words living above the flesh realm of the mind set on death to the spirit realm of the mind set on life and peace.
To change your core to love you must be born again from above by My Word and then renew your mind to program your thoughts to match Mine. And this takes a serious commitment on your part but it is well worth it in the peace and joy that you then can count on every day of your life.
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:1-2.
So let us start with some very basic things. Watch what you are thinking about as if your were a business owner checking on your employees (your thoughts) to see if they are engaged in their work or are off doing unproductive things that cause your business not to profit but fail. And what would you do with unfaithful and unproductive employees who were costing you time and money but producing nothing good? You would fire them and hire ones that made you a profit. And that is what you need to do with any thought that is making you have fear, depression, laziness, malice, or ill will towards others. My servant David put it this way:
I will sing of your love and justice; to you, LORD, I will sing praise. I will be careful to lead a blameless life—when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart. I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it. The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil. Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate. My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me. No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence. Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the Lord. Psalm 101.
If you look at Psalm 101 that I just set before you and think of your house as your own spirit, soul, and body and what you are considering are the thoughts of your mind, every morning you will see which thoughts to banish from your house: vile thoughts, faithless thoughts, perverse thoughts, and any evil. All slanderous thoughts, no matter how quiet you stay about them, haughty and proud thoughts, looking down at others, all lying and deceitful thoughts or words and not permitted to stand there let alone move in and dwell with you. What thoughts then are you permitting to dwell with you? Faithful, blameless, and those that minister good to you and make your inner garden a delight.
The more time you spend with Me, the more like Me you will become. Come share My joy so your joy can be complete.
I love you. Watch your thoughts and make your inner business thrive. Show no pity to evil thoughts, idle thoughts, fearful thoughts, and depressed thoughts. Fire them and get your roots into the good soil of love and tap into the fountain that I offer you—the Holy Spirit in you and on you. I will take out your stony heart and give you a soft heart that is open to receive the seed of My Word and pour My Spirit into you. Love to the core and in love you will walk.