RHEMA  2/24/08  MAKING THE BEST CHOICE IN A WORLD OF CHOICES 

PRAYER:  Lord please speak to me tonight.  Please feed my children Lord, feed them all.

HEARD:  Precious one, you dont have to worry.  I have it all under My control.  Don’t need to worry!  Bless this day our daily bread. 

Matt 6:9-11 NKJV

Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.   Your kingdom come.

Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread . 

EXCERPT RHEMA 2/23/08  WOULD RATHER HAVE BREAD

VISION:  I turned onto one of the Albertson’s grocery store isles and I saw a very tall smiling angel.  He was looking at some pancake syrup in front of the pancake shelf and wanted to know what I had to say about the syrup.  I said, “No thank you, I would rather have bread!”

COMMENTS: Pancakes and syrup are a thing of my past life. With little nutrition, they gave me high energy and then brought me crashing low. I have to watch my carbohydrate count as I deal with keeping my blood sugar on a level keel, so now when I choose my carbs I choose my favorites that I will really enjoy but also help me feel the best afterwards and be healthier for me. For all my trying, I am actually dieting just to keep from gaining weight, and I am overweight. I wait on the Lord to heal my life that has been plundered by eating too much sugar, diets and illness that has effected my muscles and metabolism.

John 6:32-36 NKJV

 Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.  33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."  34 Then they said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread always."  35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

HEARD:  Best-a-mony.  Seeing things differently now.  It’s a change.  All things are not expedient.  So choose the best.  B vitamins. 

1 Cor 6:12-20  NKJV

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh."   17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.  18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

PIX:  I saw a bunch of hot sauce packets in the bottom of a Taco Bell to-go bag.

Heard:  Trade in the old for the new.  New position, backbone.  The will to say no and make the right choice. 

CONFIRMATION QUICKENED EYE GLANCE:  Right after hearing the above about hot sauce, and not having any idea what it meant, I wondered what Spelt bread was because that is the bread I recently found that is so good.  So I looked it up on google.  I had a quickened eye glance on the advertisement on the right.  It was a picture of a Taco Bell soft taco.  Since I had just seen the vision of the Taco Bell hot sauce packets, I clicked on it wondering if there was a Word from the Lord.  I had never heard or seen this ad before.  (I can see Him smiling!  He loves to leave these pre-knowledge bread crumbs in our road, Him already having known our journey and the choices we will make! He knew I would wonder what Spelt bread was and knew the advertisement on that page.  Happy smiles.) 

QUICKENED QUOTES FROM ADVERTISEMENT:  Taco Bell’s ad on Google reads: 

“It’s Your Choice.  Living life to the fullness is about making great choices..” 

“Play the ‘It’s Your Choice’ Game...”

“Sometimes we must choose between things that look or sound similar, but they’re actually very different.  “It’s Your Choice” game is a fun exercise in making life choices.”

{end quotes from Ad}

EXPERIENCE AND PARABLE:  I had heard the Lord already say, “The will to say no and make the right choice”  so I was excited to click and play the game.  Maybe He had more to say!  It had a series of 2 pictures, each showed healthy choices and less healthy choices.  WOW WHAT A GREAT WORD PARABLE.  The following were photo choices in the game.

1. Do I want fresh fruit or fruit cake?

2. Do I want a walking machine or a slot machine?

3. Do I want to wear running shoes or high heals?

4. Do I want a Taco Bell soft taco or a cheeseburger?

SPIRITUAL APPLICATION/ INTERPRETATION:

1. Do I want fresh, living fruit from His vine or do I want canned fruit that has no vitamins and perhaps a counterfeit of the real?

John 15:4 NKJV

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine , neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 

2. Do I want to walk in exercising my godly conscience every day or do I want to gamble with my conscience and see if I can outsmart it and still win?

Acts 24:16 KJV

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

 

3. Do I want to run God’s race of humble servanthood or do I want to exalt myself higher than I really am and place myself higher than others?

Phil 2:3-4 NKJV

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

4. Do I want the red hot passion of hearing God, or do I want to play sour pickles and catching up (Ketsup) with those who are red hot for God?

Matt 24:12-13 NLT

Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. 

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... questions to ponder!

WORD TO PONDER:  MAKING THE BEST CHOICE IN A WORLD OF CHOICES  2/24/08

My beloved, I AM teaching you that outside of scriptural sin, even though what is not sin is lawful, not all things are helpful for you nor will they build you up.  In a world full of choices, it is always better to choose the BEST choice. 

I will give you daily bread for your sustenance.  Part of your daily bread is the fruit of My Spirit called temperance.  You can never have enough self discipline, there is no law against it.  I AM teaching you to trade in your old life and exchange it for something new.  This is a new position in Me.  It is a position with a strong will and backbone to say no to yourself, no to the world and no to all that is not the right choice.  Better yet, beloved one, is the will to make the BEST choice.  You are well educated, you already know the best choices for your life.  Eat My will now, and live in My best choice for you.

1 Cor 10:23 AMP

All things are legitimate [permissible — and we are free to do anything we please], but not all things are helpful (expedient, profitable, and wholesome). All things are legitimate, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life].

1 Cor 3:16 NKJV

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Gal 5:22-23 NKJV

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