the FireCarrier

As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, ‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭4‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬ I have covered you in my light. Follow it. Turn off the noise which distracts you from me. Walk in the way I have shown you. Be filled with my word. Allow it to guide you in all truth. It contains the only life you need.

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭10‬:‭16‬-‭20‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Don't turn back, but keep moving forward in the direction I have placed within you. I have made you unique, different from others, yet in my lineage. Listen, and you will hear me encouraging you. I am leading you  in the direction to be going.

Therefore Jesus said again, Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ‭‭John‬ ‭10‬:‭7‬-‭11‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Look ahead. See through the tangled messes and missed dreams. Learn my Word and the direction it holds for you. I was there before the beginning and will yet be there after the worldly end. Do not fear but continue to follow me. Look ahead, I am there to protect and lead you.

LORD, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps. Discipline me, LORD, but only in due measure— not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing. Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland. ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭10‬:‭23‬-‭25‬ ‭NIV Look for me and you will find me. I am there ever-with you. Failures are in the past. Now move forward. I am with you. I will guide you in the way I have created for you.

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Don't become complacent, thinking you know me nor what I wish to be doing. You will miss me. You will not hear my directions for you. I am there, within your every day. Bring me your broken past. Place it upon my altar, releasing it. Reach forward to me. My power will again surge through you.

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭1‬‬ ‭MSG‬‬ Read my word. It is life. It reflects my love and direction for you. It is through your life that others can find my love for them. Be kind to them as I am kind to you.

Is this the message others receive from you? Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬