Fruit of the Spirit-A Call for Wisdom

“Fruit of the Spirit”

~A call for Wisdom~

Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patient endurance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

This week the Lord has been dealing with me on self-control (self-discipline). Disciplining me in things of God and my daily habits to be better improved. To grow from glory to glory so I can walk in the New to which God has in store for me to come to the next level in him.

I have also being reminded that the Word of God is a measuring rode to me. His word lets me know what I need to allow him to change in me. But I also know that it does nothing to No effect if I just sit on it and do nothing to what I’ve read. God expects me to believe him and do what he says to do in His word. As I want (Will/continue to Do) to build my house on the rock to which will stand in the testing’s to come. (Matthew 7:24)

God also lead me to another place in his word in the encouraging process of change such as Hebrews 12:11 ~ No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

He is saying Jennifer you can do it as I am with you and he is giving me His strength like it says in Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

His Fruits of Goodness

“Fruit of the Spirit”

~A call for Wisdom~

Not only has the Lord been dealing with me on self-discipline and the process to change, but also the outlook of what fruit I have been producing and what fruit in others that I’m around have been producing as to seek wise counsel. And to take pleasure in Him even when trials come not to get distracted through them, but to self-discipline me to focus on the lord and meditate on his promises through it.

~Psalms 1:1-3~ Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.

~Psalm 37:4 ~ Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Delight means- to take pleasure in

The Heart of Me

For I have asked for Wisdom as His word says, You will get Wisdom when you ask in James 1:5~ If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

James 3:17~But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.

There has been some changes just recently because I have been a seeker of truth Seeking wise counsel. And though it has not been easy, I know that from here it can only get better.

There is a phrase in America- “You are what you eat.” (So what fruit are you? Do you taste good to God? Did a Bad Apple of negativity influence you lately? If so, God can make ALL things NEW. He can turn a bad situation around for His Glory.

Here is also a List that I refer to from time to time as well in my character to see what I need to work on: The 10 m’s of Ministry by Bill Hamon

http://storage.cloversites.com/arise/documents/10%20Ms.pdf

Allow his word to bring good pleasure to you and change you in the process. Become a Tree planted by living waters bearing GOOD Fruit!!

Seasons of the Heart 2

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Hillsong worship music- http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=VJyqh6QX94w&feature=endscreen

Bearing Good Fruit and working on the Rest,

Kingdom Artist
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Jen Page

To the Least of These

“To the Least of These”

The broken hearted, prisoner, the beaten down and the homeless are all around us, especially more so with these past several years due to the world shaken of the economy.

Healing the Broken Hearted

In my recent move to a new county, I have seen more homeless where I live, as before I was living in a more gang territory that also had homeless in the mix. God loves and reaches out to them all. Sometimes I think I don’t know how to help them, expect give in their need and pray for them. I feel at a loss as to what to do, but I’m reminded that God is there, and he will work through my faith, He will go as far as my faith will take me, and He is there with them as well, taking them as far as their faith will take them while also waiting for them to seek him, as He will be easily found by them for his Love is great for them.

I have witnessed to both group types and find that they just want to be loved. ~Being Jesus to them. ~ Showing them kindness, offering a prayer to them, or directing them to a place of hope that they can plant their feet in.

The Lord will be my Light

 

I know of a few people in my life that were once homeless such as my husband before I met him,to my parents before they had me, and yet because of words of encouragement by those who walked in love, and sharing God's love to them, it planted a seed towards there destiny. One powerful Testimony I have heard to date is from my Pastor Rob Deluca.  He was Homeless as a Teenager, and someone shared the gospel to him. He got saved, while still being homeless a little while longer after that, but He began His relationship with God, getting discipleship and Believing and practicing the word of God as God brought him out off the streets and into a blessed living today.

See His Testimony for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8Nf_RK5dI

“To the Least of These”

My brother in law ~ Daniel was in prison and he was supposed to get out in 2023, but He died young of a heart attack last year 2011 at the age of 26 yrs while in prison.

When he first went to prison, we visited him a few times, and was lead  to write him, I sent him words of hope and pictures that he loved of both family and the art work as I was reaching out God’s love to him praying that one day he’d come to know Jesus as His Lord and savior.

In one letter he sent to me, He said that he shared the Art pictures with other guys in prison as it gave them hope, and He said that he wept at one I sent him. I cried thinking, I haven’t done enough, I could have done more, I could have written to him more or prayed more for him and the rest of the guys in prison.

I know that before He died, he shared with my husband that He was praying more as He also saw changes in him. God was already doing something in the life of my brother. And though I don’t know for sure where he is now, my heart can rest in peace in the thought of him being with Jesus in heaven as my husband and I both could feel that there was a positive change in him And my husband sending his last letter to him on the steps of salvation and God’s love for him. We knew He read the love letter.

Daniel my brother was a gang member, He had it rough in life growing up in a broken home, but His life didn’t defy his end as his end has only just started because He is now in Heaven with the King who loves and forgives him.

To the Least of these Jesus says: “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Matthew 25:31-46- Read the full version

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A31-46&version=NIV

~Learning to Love like Jesus means also being selfless and reaching out to a broken society. Loves covers a multitude of sins. Love changes things. In wherever you live, ask God how you can help to the least of these as He says, when you do it to the least of these, you do so to me.

The poems were written by my Mom, as I love and honor her.

On Skid Row

~On Skid Row~

Shunned by society, here they go to the streets of skid Row

With chains of alcohol and drugs they are bound,

Young and old here can be found. Somebody’s sister, some mother’s son.

Dreams of the past and things they had done

This has become the only home they know

On the streets of skid Row

Living by any means that can be found,

They’re dying alone without making a sound

So, don’t condemn them to this place

But open your heart and show God’s Grace.

Let them see His Love, pure and true.

For the chance to live brand new.

Show kindness to people you don’t know

It could have been you there,

On Skid Row.

Prison Walls

~Prison Walls~

God

I heard it said for ones like me,

Your blood was shed

I never thought that what I did, or would say,

would affect my life this way.

I made mistakes am now paying the cost,

Now I know how much I’m lost.

Guards outside my room

This “Hell on earth” Full of hate, full of gloom.

But, I remember it told me,

You came to set the captives free.

So I give to you my heart and life.

Wash me clean and make me right.

Draw me ever near

As I step foot from darkness into light

Sensing you are here.

Though I’ll sit within prison walls,

My heart takes wing

Free to fly beyond these halls,

Praising you my King.

Below is links of encouraging music:

Casting crowns-If We are the body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4wojcSO9Ww

Grace Williams- I can feel you’re anointing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRRYyukKmac&feature=related

Mary Mary-Can’t give up now.

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/mary_mary/cant_give_up_now.html

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May prayer is that I love like Jesus loves-

Reaching out to love To the Least of these,
Kingdom Artist,
www.4himpaintings.com
Jen Page

Sword of the Spirit~ To think for yourself

“Sword of the Spirit”

Sword of the Spirit-Lion verison

Ephesians 6:17
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

~They thought for themselves~

-Enlightened by reading the word of God. Holy Bible
Below is links to testimonies of Muslims,Jews,Ex- Freemasons,Ex-Jehovah witness,Ex- roman cathlics,Ex- mormons,and actors and famous people who thought for themselves reading the Holy Bible and more to which caused them to believe in Jesus Christ.

Living Word

~ The Holy bible - How do I talk about something that is living and active that is full of authority and power knowing that when you read the same scripture that your friend read next you that it speaks to your heart in a different way bringing life, and healing to you with a positive change.

How do I talk about this powerful Love letter, this weapon, and this awe inspiring amazing word that comes to life in my circumstances or learning that the same word bringing positive changes in other people’s life?

I mean I still feel like a student in the word of God. And I’m Still learning new and amazing things. The word has brought healing in my life, brought answers to questions I had, Brought direction when I needed it. I haven’t learned of any other book in past or present being able to change billons of lives throughout history, seeing people healed, protected, favored, restored, saved, miracles, signs, and wonders because they believed what the Bible said and took time to read it for themselves seeking truth through the word.

Sword of the Spirit

The Holy Bible written by 40 different people with 66 books inspired by God put together and each book fits together like a glove woven in the pages God’s heart for humanity.~ His Love letter.~ From Testimonies of past lives who went through it before us so that when reading their story it gives us a hope to turn to for the answers we seek, to prophetic words written that have come to pass and as well as other words still waiting to come to pass to know that the earth is still going to be, that Israel has a good future ahead because of the coming return of Christ to rule and reign for a 1000 years, to instructions to go by for a fulfilled Life that gives all you could even have hoped for beyond what you could imagine.

It amazes me when I learn of Jewish or Muslim people who haven’t given the Holy Bible a chance in reading it for themselves do to being foretold by former Jews or Muslims not to read it for fear of what’s in the word and yet I have heard of testimonies of both the Jew and the Muslim reading The Holy Bible for themselves and finding truths, finding who Jesus really is, Finding out that He is the real deal as He reveals himself to each one who searches the truth. These people originally went to the word looking for faults or holes in the Holy Bible, yet when they began reading the word for themselves, they found Peace, They found Love, They found strength, and they found hope.  

How do I know this you may ask? Through testimonies of others, through their own experience of encounters with Jesus, Encounters of heaven, Encounters of God, of the Truth to which they were seeking, as the word of God came alive.

Double Edge swords

Think for yourself- Encouraging you to read the Holy Bible for yourselves. Or listen to it on a CD of the bible, mp3 player, and more, But one that has the whole Bible. If you don’t have one yet you can read it at whatever language and translation best helps you to understand the Bible for FREE at: Biblegateway.com http://www.biblegateway.com/

Below are testimonies of all walks of life to which they thought for themselves reading the word of God-The Holy Bible, and to each has come to believe in Jesus Christ because of their encounter with the King of Kings through his word and more.

~ Russian Jew salvation testimony- http://www.menorah.org/russianby.html

 ~Stories of 10 Jewish people who came to believe- They thought for themselves http://www.theythoughtforthemselves.com/

 ~Ex-Jehovah’s Wittiness who read the Bible for themselves http://4jehovah.org/ex-jehovahs-witness-stories/

~Ex-Mormons Now a Christian http://www.exmormon.org/whylft82.htm

~TESTIMONY OF FORMER FREEMASON CHAPLAIN NOW A CHRISTIAN http://www.cuttingedge.org/free004.html

~Ex- Roman Catholic who became a Christian reading the bible for himself http://www.bible.ca/cath-why-I-left.htm

~Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/clarke/worship_same_god.html

~Muslims testimonies:

1.     http://christianity.about.com/od/miraculousintervention/a/khalidtestimony.htm

2.     http://www.answering-islam.org/Testimonies/sami.html

3.     http://www.southasianconnection.com/articles/4/1/Testimony-of-Shereen-Sharif---Knowing-God-Personally/Page1.html

4.     http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Qureshi/testimony.htm

5.     http://www.hissheep.org/israeli/palestinian_muslim_turned_christian.html

6.     http://www.30-days.net/testimony/why-jesus/

7.     http://www.answering-christianity.com/adeel_khan/testimony_of_akbar.htm

~Actors and Famous people becoming a Christian:

1. http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/testindex.html

2. http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/churchandministry/evangelism/bagby-kirkcameron_wayofthemaster.aspx

The Living word, a book that saves lives and directs paths. ~Encouraging you to read it and to think for yourself. To get to know who God is. What his promises are. And taking a chance at believing him to only see your miracle, your breakthrough your peace and much more come to pass.

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To one who Loves reading the Holy Bible,

Set free by His Love and Thinking for myself,
Kingdom Artist,
www.4himpaintings.com
Jen Page

Jesus is the word