MY FRIENDS LISTEN

John 15:20-21 NKJV

Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

QUICKENED: The truth was stirring inside me today that those who are my friends, will treasure and keep the rhema that He gives me. What an astounding thought! Truly He chooses His friends differently than the world does. In today's world, how little we listen, and how little we trust the word of another.

QUICKENED PHRASE: I had this phrase pop into my mind: A man is known by the Words he keeps.

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TREASURED WORDS

Today I was given the offer to read a friend's book. It was not a new book, but a used book. It was not just any book, but the one which my friend had supped from and received straight from Jesus. As I opened it, I saw all the markings, lines, stars; it brought tears to my eyes. Papa downloaded His heart into my own as I skimmed through the pages.

I saw how He feels when we treasure His Words. He sees every stopping place as we cherish and linger over what He says to us. He watches as we highlight them so as to hold on a bit longer before we move on. Each line so lovingly drawn - to capitalize upon their importance; their markings linger on and become treasuries of discovery for yet another time when we are drawn to open up the storehouse. This is but a token of how we keep His Word and hold onto it for another day. And then I saw a greater truth even more precious. Throughout history and time, He holds onto our love for Him in the same way. He records our words. They are in the great library of heaven.

Ps 139:16-18 AMP

Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! [Ps 40:5.] If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You.

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CONCLUSION

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{Words to Ponder are summaries of His quickened Words of prophetic revelation, punched with the word of wisdom and written under inspiration.}

WORD TO PONDER: MY FRIENDS LISTEN 4/09/05

A man is known by the Words he keeps. My friends listen to My Words and treasure them. He who hears and heeds you, My servant, also hears and heeds Me. If he treasures My Word, his heart is with Me. If he treasures your Words as being My servant, his heart is also with you. By this My friends are being increasingly known and manifested to each other. You shall know them and they shall know you. There will come a day when you will choose your friends as I do.

Luke 10:16 AMP

He who hears and heeds you [disciples] hears and heeds Me; and he who slights and rejects you slights and rejects Me; and he who slights and rejects Me slights and rejects Him who sent Me.

John 15:20-21 NKJV

Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.