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From the Quietness of the War Room, Salvation

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From the Quietness of the War Room

Your testimony.

Telling your story; that’s giving the account to others of when you know your relationship with JESUS (YESHUA) was made secure, established if you please. It’s important. Important that we keep telling the story – our very own story of JESUS Blood and Righteousness for us!

When is the last time you told your story? When is the last time I told my story? I do remember and it has been too long. 

Do you cherish your story? Do you remember the day with a sacred love? Does it bring a calm and a glow to your face when you remember? 

Just asking that you may ask. It’s important. 

If you like click HERE for my story.  As needed it can be told quicker :)

Salt and Light,
Kathie

Matthew 5:13-16

From the Quietness of the War Room, Gospel of Luke, KWT Paraphrasing

Facebook Tells!

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From the Quietness of the War Room.

Luke 6:45 (NASB) 45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.  source

Heart
The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system. source 

So obviously the TEXT is speaking of something different.

And from the same source above this:
The vital center and source of one’s being, emotions, and sensibilities. The repository of one’s deepest and sincerest feelings and beliefs. The seat of the intellect or imagination.

For purposes here let’s go with The repository of one’s deepest and sincerest feelings and beliefs. 

Mouth:
(Anatomy) the opening through which many animals take in food and issue vocal sounds.  source

Our mouths take in nutrients and let out sounds; in most humans those sounds are called words. Today and for a while now we have had multiple venues to display or express our words. We let them out into the room we are occupying, we speak into a phone and we pick up a pen, pencil, iPad, laptop, desktop, tablet and our phones and we upload our words (to clarify: our words include images, pictures, videos, graphics of all kinds – our own and in context even those of others we choose to share) to all manner of Social Media. I’m doing so right now! Even though you are not hearing my words,  I am surely speaking. Wouldn’t you agree?  :)

And if you have heard me long, you have a more than fairly accurate understanding of what I say because I pretty much put myself out here. Sometimes I think long and hard before I say it; other times it comes quick and the upload is done before I know it. And once it is uploaded and once you have read it, I can’t take it back. Sure I can delete the post but for those who read it before the delete – it’s there; no retrieving it. It’s said!

Words matter, don’t they?

Have you ever heard a word come from your mouth and immediately you wished you could snatch it back? Me too.  And yet my verse today tells me if it had not already been in my heart I would not have said it. (I know, I know there are some exceptions, but by and large, it’s true – hissy fits are not an exception!) Oh what we would learn about ourselves if we would listen to our words, especially our Social Media words.

How’s this for a KT Paraphrase of the ending portion of today’s verse
. . . for our mouths (Facebook pages, Twitter, etc.) speak from that which fills our hearts.

Here’s my suggestion (and perhaps not just mine) let us take a decisive look at our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap-chat, etc.  words and learn our own hearts. Our legacy, our testimony for JESUS hangs on our words.

Proverbs 18:21 (TLV) 21 Death and life are in the control of the tongue. Those who indulge in it will eat its fruit. source

Salt and Light,
Kathie

Matthew 5:13-16

Holy Soap Box

Bare Confidence

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I read her post and it was on. The thought train pulled into the station and I boarded; took me a good ways – a round trip all the way back to the Garden of Eden.

She was right; before sin Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed and well they should have been. However, no such public ‘well they should’ is attainable on earth today.

Revelation 3:17  (NKJV) 17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—  source

Shall we return to the beginning?

 Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. source

The two were naked and unashamed – spiritually, emotionally, and physically.

You see that word naked in Hebrew more definitively means ‘bare’.  So we could say they were bare before GOD and unashamed or since they were unashamed at being bare, they did no hiding from GOD. But when they sinned, they lost that confidence and so much more!  And the cover up began!

Seems ironic to me that as time has marched on the more women refuse to bare themselves before the holy God, the more they expose themselves to an unholy world and profess to be unashamed of it.

Where was I?  Oh yes. Adam and Eve.
After sin they were immediately aware of the change and they sewed for themselves loin-coverings in an attempt to cover the nakedness they had brought on themselves and all who would come after them, through them. Please note also they hid from the Presence of the LORD when He came for His usual walk in the cool of the day. Their bare confidence was gone! (Genesis 3)

I wonder if these propensities to bare our bodies is yet another perversion of our innate longing to be bare, to be seen, and known by GOD.  Allow me to summarize a conversation I had with my beloved in the midst of writing this post.

As a man when we are out and women cross our path I will often take note that she is attractive if she has presented herself well; but when she is scantily clad with cleavage showing and thighs shining I think Ugh! Why?! Put some clothes on!
And I said but you are not like the world’s men, your nakedness has been covered; the world’s men have not and they want to see that.
What grieves my spirit is when women who profess love for JESUS give no thoughtful concern to contributing to the nakedness of the world’s men and even more than that, give no appreciable thought to honoring JESUS with their physical ‘coverings’ which should give testimony that they have spiritually received HIS COVERING.

The Bible instructs us to dress in modest apparel; perhaps we would do well to examine what we are trying to hide when we expose so much of our skin to the world. Our clothing choices must not be ultimately based on culture and trending fashion. It is no easy task to find modest apparel in today’s market; especially swimwear. Much of today’s swimwear gives less coverage than underwear.  I get the pull to wear it – it was my practice too before my eyes were opened. Would we consider that the covering of our physical nakedness before we step out our doors into community is an act of worship? (Question is who are we worshiping?) As Christian women do we not want the clothes we wear to testify to people that our spiritual nakedness has been covered by the shed Blood of JESUS?  And would we also be willing to acknowledge when we refuse to wear modest apparel we are giving testimony to all who see us that we are our own god; that we have chosen for ourselves what is right and wrong?

When the Father made the coats of skin to cover the bodies of Adam and Eve, He was demonstrating for them and for us that covering our nakedness involved much more than just our bodies; fig leaf aprons would never do! Rescuing them and us required the shedding of blood and the ultimate blood to be shed would be HIS VERY OWN SON’s. There was no other way! With this being so, I will most gladly with all honor and pleasure dress myself in modest apparel. It’s a small token of gratitude to give to Him Who has covered my wretched nakedness and shame. I would rather it not have taken me decades to get here so if I can help shorten a sister’s travel time to modesty that would be my delight; hence this posting.

Salt and Light,
Kathie

Matthew 5:13-16