We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived but you also have a part. If it were only up to Me you would all be living Heaven on earth, you would have spread the Garden of Eden to fill the earth and there would not be one waste place and no one among you would be poor, sick, or dying.
He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited. Isaiah 48:18.
Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and sound of a melody. Isaiah 51:3.
And no resident will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity. Isaiah 33:24.
I want to give you the Kingdom of Heaven, but whether you receive that gift or not is entirely up to you. I call you all to My Kingdom and glory, but you are free to reject that gift, just as the generation of Israelites I redeemed from the slavery of Egypt rejected My gracious gift of the promised land of abundance, flowing with milk and honey, and beautiful homes and vineyards for them that they did not build or plant.
Why did so many reject the gift of the land I had promised them more than 400 years before when they had witnessed My miracles and wonders? Why do so many reject so great a salvation as I offer you in Jesus? It goes back to the beginning, why did Adam reject life and choose death when I had given them a perfect eternal life in the flesh?
It goes to one simple thing that determines everything: What are you allowing yourself to focus on and think about? It is all about your thoughts. And the good news is that you can control and direct them.
I know the thoughts that I have towards you, plans for your shalom and not evil, to give you a future and a hope. Are your thoughts full of shalom? Or evil?
Beautiful thoughts make beautiful words.
For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil. But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:34-37.
Beautiful words make beautiful deeds.
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:15-20.
Beautiful deeds make beautiful days.
Who is the man who desires life and loves length of days that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 34:12-14.
Beautiful days make a beautiful life, a beautiful life makes a happy heart, a happy heart does good like a medicine and makes a strong and healthy spirit, soul and body.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22.
All the days of the afflicted are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast. Proverbs 15:15.
A healthy body makes a strong life that can do more and more good deeds, and your life becomes very fruitful with fruit that endures. And the result? You glorify Me on earth and I glorify you with Me forever.
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. John 15:8.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ Matthew 25:21.
I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. John 17:4-5.
Watch your thoughts and change your life and I will be with you.
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9.
It all starts with your heart. Jesus told you that when He gave you His shalom peace as a gift to guard your hearts and minds: “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.” John 14:27.
Beautiful thoughts start in your heart, in your spirit, and move out to your soul (mind, will, and emotions) and then move to your body to change things and do things.
But where do these beautiful thoughts originate and generate? By faith. Faith is of the heart, not of the mind, but it can fix a fearful, evil, or anxious mind. Faith is a wonderful thing when you feed it correctly with My Word. For when in Adam you were born again from below by the lies of the devil, My thoughts became higher than your thoughts and My ways than your ways, but when your spirit is born again from above by My Words you are in a whole new realm.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:7-11.
Receive the implanted Word, it has the power to save your souls. How? By what your mind is dwelling upon.
Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the Word implanted, which is able to save your souls. But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. James 1:21-22.
You can access My thoughts by faith from My written Word and the Words My Spirit will speak in your heart. I sent My Word to heal you and deliver you from all your destructions (pits). Psalm 107:20.
Faith comes by hearing, so be careful what you hear. Be hearing My beautiful Words about you and your world over and over and over until they become your thoughts, grow a beautiful garden in your heart where I love to come and dwell with you and you with Me, and then your full heart will speak the beautiful words in you and the garden will begin to grow everywhere you go and the devil will find no place in you.
I told Joshua to meditate on My Word day and night, to not let it depart from his mouth, and not to veer off it to the right or the left and then he would make his way prosperous and successful. Joshua 1:7-9. And the result? “Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses.” Joshua 1:3.
Turn everywhere you stand to a holy place, sanctified ground where miracles abound and My Will is done on earth as it is in Heaven. Plant the Kingdom on the earth by the seeds of beautiful thoughts, beautiful words, and beautiful deeds that match Mine. Just agree with Me and I can do the rest.
I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to plant heaven and establish it upon the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’” Isaiah 51:16.
My Son gives you the practical “how to” of this in the lesson on the withered fig tree. So let us look at that now and apply it in your life.
And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions.” Mark 11:22-26.
- First and foremost: “Have faith in God.”
And faith comes by hearing and hearing My Word. The more you hear, the more you believe, and the more you believe the more you can receive of My benefits for faith drives out fear of a dreaded result and replaces it with the certainty of the benefit promised in My Word.
You must find the promise in My Word to know that you are asking for My Will and then you know if you ask anything according to My Will I hear you and you know that when I hear you what you have asked for is yours. 1 John 5:14-15. It is then you are ready to move mountains, including wrong thoughts and ingrained mindsets that produce wrong thoughts such as bitterness, resentment, worry, envy, critical spirit, complaining, whining, and blaming. And that is the second step to getting to beautiful thoughts.
- “Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.”
Find the Words and promises, especially in My Covenant Names in the Bible that answer your fearful thoughts, bitter roots, offenses, worries, anxieties, defeat, cowardice, unfruitful areas, and whatever else the world, flesh, devil, or your old mindsets bring against you and speak to those things to go! Cast them out in Jesus Name and take down every stronghold, thought, and imagination that is contrary to My Words.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5.
What are the weapons of your warfare against these thoughts and speculations that would turn your thoughts to evil and unclean things rather than beautiful and pure things that are good, pleasing and perfect? The armor I give you which is being clothed in My Word, holding up the shield of faith, putting on the helmet of Salvation, and wielding the Sword of the Spirit, which is My living and active Word in your mouth, to take down strongholds of the evil one in your mind left over from your old self that was born from below and all the unclean spirits of illness and poverty coming to steal the benefits you have in Covenant with Me in Christ.
Bless the (אֶת־) LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy (אֶת־) name. Bless the (אֶת־) LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; who pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases; who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; who satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Psalm 103:1-5.
- Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.
If you have faith in someone then when they tell you they are going to do something for you, you do not doubt that promise but thank them immediately and anticipate it with joy. It comes from the relationship you have with that person and the deeper that relationship is the more you trust, especially in one that has proved true over years of close fellowship. If you know Me there is no room for doubt, all is pure joy as you anticipate the perfect result as I have promised. And all My promises as many and as magnificent as they be are “yes” to you in Jesus for all who believe in Him, including the crown of them all, eternal life with Me forever. And how do you show you believe? By joyful thanksgiving before the result manifests in the physical world. You believe in the spirit and rejoice as your beautiful thoughts and words tell the result until you see it in the earth realm. The voice of thanksgiving works wonders.
Do not beg for My benefits, receive them by faith. Begging for and demanding over and over again, even with heartfelt tears, what I have freely given you already in Christ accomplishes nothing and is very frustrating to you and Me. It just keeps the benefit sitting at your door as I knock and you refuse to open to receive. Those are uninformed, wrong thoughts and they are not beautiful and will not give you a beautiful life. You must get the thoughts in your heart right before you can perceive and receive.
- Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions.
The standard by which you judge I must apply back to you. That is a spiritual law and it will not change. I forgive you by the blood of My Son poured out for you in an eternal redemption cleansing you of all sin and paying the judgment against you. And your sins and offenses are washed out and paid for by that eternal blood and I attributed all your faults, sins, and failures to Jesus and punished them on Him. They are no longer yours as far as I am concerned. Now you must receive that gift for it to work in your life, otherwise you will die in your own sins, but I offer that to everyone. I ask you to forgive others as I have forgiven you: by the blood and the reception of all sin by My Son. If that is not enough for you to forgive others or even yourself than it is not enough for Me to forgive you of your sins. Think about that before you say you cannot forgive someone. You are turning that back as the standard I must use on you.
And furthermore thoughts of unforgiveness and resentment bring ill will and malice into you heart, mind, and words so that your thoughts and words are ugly and tormenting full of anger and unrighteousness and even more disastrous hate and pride. These will never give you a beautiful life but an ugly one. Get these things out of your heart by pouring in My Word and flushing them out. Instead of telling yourself evil things about that person start spitting that out of your mouth and mind and thinking of My Kingdom and other beautiful Scriptures about who you are and what you have in Christ. Read passages on forgiveness and look at the life of Jacob’s son Joseph, who had a beautiful life despite what others did to him. But when your heart is right with Me I make all things work together for your good no matter who meant them for evil. I have the final word, and so do you in all that tries to take you down.
Cast all your care on Me because I care for you.
To sum up Mark 11:22-26: It all starts in your heart with beautiful thoughts of faith, it moves on to getting bad things and thoughts out of your life (moving mountains), moves on to praying without ceasing, the prayer of faith that gets results, moves on to thanksgiving and from there to the divine presence in and on you, which moves on to pure love being poured into their hearts, and moves to forgiveness, and moves on to agape (love).
This together with My power and benefits will make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived.
I love you. Open your heart to receive My love and then abide in My love and let My love abide in you and you will share My beautiful thoughts and My beautiful life will become yours too.