Contending with one another over Gods word.

[Mickiel]

I have noticed on the board that there is contention with some over Gods word. In that I wanted to share a few things. Look at Isaiah 50:4;" The Lord God has given me the Tounge of Disciples, that I may know how to substain the weary one with a Word." I will be continuing into this chapter, because it holds a lot of healing and inspiration concerning how we get into disagreements with each other. And I want to give the board that, and show how blessed it can be to speak to heal, and not to hurt or to add a notch to your belt of self shine.

Did you know that your words, your words, can substain others? Conversely they can crush others. In vs. 8;" Who will contend with me? Let us stand up to each other." This confrontational stance in conversation is an expression of your will against anothers will. But if taken within the right contention, healing can still come. Vs.8;" Who has a case against me? Let him draw NEAR to me." We get into arguements and we draw away from each other. We start making speeches and eventually end up lecturing ourselves, because the other has withdrawn. This is not the direction of unity, again it is the direction of Self, our favorite pastime.

Our God is Real and he is comming. We can build ourselves up, or practice tearing each other down. False concepts are the things to attack, not personalitys. We take hardly no responsibility for our humiliation. Look at vs.2, latter part of verse;" Their Fish stink for lack of water." And our conversations can become like this, they begin to stink for lack of the water of encouragement. Because we grow in the art of asserting ourselves, and do not speak as a disciple of Christ, but speak as a person well versed in defending themselves. Building nobody up, we gain credit by building our own reputations, as others learn from our well established strong personality. And others are hurt by it, which bothers us none.

But I want to go into vs.11, and show you how to kindle a Fire within people by your words. How you can set ablaze a wisdom within them, that will bless them.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

I travel over the internet to many places, witnessing this word over this whole planet. Such a blessing, to sit in your home and speak with people all over this world. I used to view Tentmaker as a place to stop at and move on, never to stay. Kind of like a truckstop. God removed that from me and bid me to stay, and is doing that to me at many places. Just hang in there and give this word. Not there to make friends, but not there to make enemies. And this has been an area that I need so much growth in, because I can be so impersonal and uncaring of how people are responding to me, when they rarely do. So I rarely speak on unity, because I am really not concerned with it, because I am a loner. And this is a weakness of mine, an ugly god I have set myself up into serving in my zeal to bang hard at this message.

Our conversations are an endorsement of our true hearts desire. One of the worse things to snap out of is yourself! God had to make me start staying at websites, because I had gotten into " Hit and Run." You start hitting people with this message, day after day, and you can get into an attack mode, and really you are no longer defending Gods Word, but your defending yourself. I just finished talking to a brother in the Netherlands, an interesting conversation, which began on the tail of me just chewing up certain Christians on this website. I mean I was just beating on them mercilessly, chaseing some away and muteing others. As if I was Gods Dog, and he was sicking me on them. The brother said to me, " Man, whats wrong with you?" You speak great words of knowledge, and then you don't allow anyone to get close to you. And I agreed with him about that. He said I really helped him, but he felt like I wouldnot allow him to get close to me. And I wouldnot, I prefer that closeness to be refered to God. Refuseing to let my self shine when others are helped. I am not interested in people attacthing themselves to me. But the man had some interesting observations about how I was communicating with others.

I was shown how selfish I can be, and was being. You know you can be blinded by your awareness of how much God may be using you? As God improves your style of communication, did you know you can become wrapped up into that improvement, and will think that your every word is blessed by God? Then you must face the Humiliation from the Holy One.

And I want to go into that.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

Again Jesus in Matt. 7:12;" Therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat them."Contained within this Holy advice is a principle that demands both self examination, self awareness, and examination of others, based on how you wish to be examined yourself. Two things; If your going to talk, then make sense, or people are not going to listen to you. And then listen to what they are saying. If you think your making sense, then you need to respect and make sense of what others are trying to say to you.

Understand this; In witnessing, there is your personality, and there is the truth itself. Which is the stronger? When you communicate, did you know your personality can assert itself, as if it is stronger than the truth you speak?

Let me show you the dangers in this.  Unseen dangers.

Peace.

[Mickiel]

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Understand this; In witnessing, there is your personality, and there is the truth itself. Which is the stronger? When you communicate, did you know your personality can assert itself, as if it is stronger than the truth you speak?

Let me show you the dangers in this.  Unseen dangers.

Peace.
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Again Jesus in Matt. 28:19;" Go and make disciples of all the nations." And you know, subconsciously, many of us are really trying to do this in a selfish manner, not a Spiritual manner. We fancy ourselves as teachers, and are going about the business of establishing that amoungst the people. The platform that you teach from is much more important than your personality. Its the personality that can superseed the foundation, if you are more interested in yourself, than in Gods message.

And you can get to a point that its hard to seperate the two.

And I want to get into that.

Peace.