Things

Words. Things. Words are things. Language shapes our understanding. Words. Words are things. Chew on that...

Hebrews 11:3 (MEV)

3 By faith we understand that the universe was framed by the word of God, so that things that are seen were not made out of things which are visible.

Proverbs 16:24(MEV)

24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb,
    sweet to the soul and health to the bones.

"Words are things, I'm convinced. You must be careful about the words you use for the word you allowed to be used in your house."

Dr Maya Angelou 

Quite the standard!

Compare James 3:5-8; Proverbs 18:21; Matthew 12:26-27; Matthew 12:33-35; Ephesians 4:29; Proverbs 12:18; 13:3.

James 3:5-8 (MEV)

5 Even so, the tongue is a little part of the body and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles. 6 The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. The tongue is among the parts of the body, defiling the whole body, and setting the course of nature on fire, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 All kinds of beasts, and birds, and serpents, and things in the sea are tamed or have been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Proverbs 18:21 (MEV)

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue,

    and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Matthew 12:26-27 (MEV)

26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. Then how will his kingdom stand? 27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

Matthew 12:33-35 (MEV)

A Tree and Its Fruit

33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt. For the tree is known by its fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things. And an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

Ephesians 4:29 (MEV)

29 Let no unwholesome word proceed out of your mouth, but only that which is good for building up, that it may give grace to the listeners.

Proverbs 12:18 (MEV)

18 There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword,

    but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 13:3 (MEV)

3 He who guards his mouth preserves his life,  but he who opens wide his lips will have destruction.

Modern English Version (MEV)

The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House.

Word

Pours heart out to Stillness.

     time to see an increase.

Fresh anointing.

     Calling them in.

To send them out.

     Bringing in the sheaves.

Effective Calls

The call of the Son of God produces an effect on those that hear!  Glory!  Let em hear! 
A vision was given in worship yesterday: "end time harvest" was the definitive phrase given in prayer:
There was a black screen of cloud-like substance between the platform (pulpit) and the multitudes.  The wall of darkness was spoken to and began to part in the center.  The multitudes, wearing white, began to flow through the gap. The wall tried to close but prayer and command caused it to roll back further, turning into a v and funneling the people behind it in the press toward the gap.  
The people then split down the center like a line drawn by a blade and then funnelled back to the gap by the wall pressed forward together. 

We spoke to the wall and commanding it it relented.   End time harvest.  Those delivering the Word open gaps in the wall of darkness, multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision! Hallelujah!  What a responsibility!

I have compared thee, o my love...

I merely read these words of the Song of Songs, and I began to weep. I began to weep under the illumination of the Spirit of God revealing to me from His word the great love with which he loves me. I began to weep as the Lord convinced me that though by the standards of this world I lack beauty and face rejection, He has compared me, and He has set his affection on me.

The passage reads:

I am black, but comely, o ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 
Song of Songs 1:5-6

you see, in the eyes of this world the woman possessed no beauty. her skin was dark, tanned by the sun and aged from years of labor outside. her own heart accused her as she cries out "do not look upon me, because I possess no beauty. do not gaze at me, because the sun - exposure to harsh and damaging conditions - has taken such a toll on my appearence."

The Lord has been dealing with me so severely about negative self image, and this woman is the poster child. She cries out against herself, yea, she rails against her own image. She views herself as less than desirable. She is convinced that she isn't even worthy of a second look. I wonder how many of us share this view with the woman of the song? How many of us would say of ourselves that we are worthless, we are ugly, we're not even worth a gaze? How many of us walk around every day carrying the burden of self-hatred that comes with such a poor image of ourselves?

The woman's problem and the root of her poor image appears to be more than simply skin deep, however. I assert this for we read (in nsv, that is "new Shane version"), "in despised and rejected even by the people closest to me." Tell me her rejection doesn't fuel that cry for all men to look away from her. Labor and convince me that the fact she was rejected even by her own siblings, her own family, doesn't haunt her and whisper in her ear, "you're unlovable. you're undesirable. Even those who ought to be the closest to you want nothing to do with you. they don't love you; they don't desire you; what makes you think anybody else in this world would be otherwise?"

once again I wonder how many of us deal every day with the weight of rejection. Abandoned by your parents. Rejected in that relationship. Cheated on, used, despised, betrayed - all by the ones who ought to have been the ones who loved you the most, or else professed a great love for you. this sort of thing plagues so many, and don't we have the tenancy to apply that rejection to God? "How can I love God as a father, when my father beat and cheated on my mom, made me feel less than human in the way he spoke to me, and abandoned us when I was but 10 years old?" "how can I love Christ as a husband when my husband abused me sexually, had an affair and divorced me for another woman?" "How could God accept me when my entire life I've been rejected by my parents, my teachers, my coaches, the opposite sex, the workforce, and everyone else?" This, I think is one of our great difficulties in the Christian life.

Yea, but it's even deeper than the rejection... she says, "they made me to care for the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept." you see, because of the lack of understanding and acceptance she's received, she goes out of her way to protect and keep the lives, emotions, and overall health of those around her. for the selfsame reason, however, she has failed to keep her own protected. it's because of the rejection of the men in her life that she's allowed her vineyard to be spoiled by the first man that professes to accept and love her. it's because of the rejection of every authority in her life that she's stuck in that abusive relationship to the man who professes to accept and love her as she is. her awful self image is tied not only to fact that she's been rejected, but also to the fact that she has since dishonored herself, and as a result gave up all the dignity which she  before possessed.

This is what causes her to cry out, "do not look upon me! I am stained and undesireable!" but then we hear the words of the king - the one who has become ravished by her beauty and loves her despite all her own perceived shortcomings:

"I have compared thee, o my love, to a company of horses in Pharaohs chariots.

thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold."
song of songs 1:9-10

Christ says today, "I have compared thee, o my love, and I find no comparison. I have compared thy beauty, o my love, and nothing measures up. in my eyes, o my love, you are worth dying for. I would lay aside all my glory and majesty just to be with you and know you. I would forsake even my own life to take you unto myself. I have compared thee, o my love, and you are a pearl of great price."

oh, what manor of love is this?

Brother Shane

Happy One Year Anniversary My Heart

A year ago today I became one soul with my best friend! Though the enemy attacks us at every turn as we move forward in marriage and ministry and though we've been through ups and downs and multiple trials along the way, I would not do it any different given the opportunity. He's been there when the world turned on me. At my lowest he was there to be the manifestation of God's love for me (stole that line from HIS wedding vows...lol) and continues to be daily! The Lord has established a thing and according to The Word of God (Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.”  Matthew 19:6 NLT) NOTHING (not man, devil, or even self) can come against, hinder,or reverse what GOD has established! Hallelujah! I am so prepared for the next year and the rest of our lives! Amen!
I love you Jasper Daniel Pierce!

All I have is yours

“All I have is yours, _____________.”
                                              [INSERT YOUR NAME HERE]

     This last month I’ve learned that when God declares something and you stand on it, He confirms it with His power.  I’ve begun to see miracles in ministry.  I’ve seen a woman who after confessing Christ was in shock and awe as she stepped into the baptismal waters because she was able to lift her legs over into the street side water trough without any pain. “My knees don’t hurt anymore.  I couldn’t do this before.”  I’ve heard a missionary in Mexico who tells me he watched creative miracles happen when God spoke the Word, flat-footed to reddened arches perfected in the anointing before their very eyes, a tumor, hardened, in another man’s back, a powerful Word, a fall, and no more tumor.  “It’s not there anymore.”, the man said.  “I know.”, the Pastor whispered back to him.  I watched an old man dance, and I mean old man, and I mean dance because God relieved him from RLS right there in the Bible Study because of prayer.  I’ve watched people go from hardened hearts to weeping for a change and finding one in Christ.  These things have always been there and I’ve asked the Lord to show me again and again because He said I could see them in His Word and now after all this time, I see.  I SEE.  Oh mighty God, Hallelujah to Your name.  I believe faith makes us better.  I believe that faith continues to form me in His image.  I believe that faith will heal my wife of all of the enemy’s devices against her.  I believe faith will unify her and I in a ministry so stout that you’ll be hearing of it across the land.  I believe faith in the name of Jesus and operation in the anointing of His Kingship will usher in a mighty revival.  The beauty of it all is this:  I couldn’t believe for a day’s wage before and now I believe all things are possible if only we believe.

In the midst of trials, I am being taught that it’s my work to maintain trust in His ability and that the battle is not mine but belongs to the LORD.  I am being taught that as I submit myself to Him and wait upon Him in love to that trial, loving that trial in all ways possible from the heart of a man, that He will show you why that’s so crucial in life.  I am becoming a king from the priest without leaving the priestly behind.  Jesus gave us that authority by the power of Christ.  The king commands, the priest ministers.  As I find myself loving the Lord more and more I find, exposed, the devices of the enemy around me.  The light really does expose darkness and to the extent that darkness is destroyed by it.

I’ve learned that all of the perversions in this world are a fruit of fear and all of the bitterness a man (or woman) can produce stems from pride and that these two stem from the increase given to seeds of rejection sown into us throughout our lives by our peers, families, society, and culture.  If we receive what the world has for us then we will produce it’s fruit.  IF we are in Christ, the heavenly things are our fruit.  “All I have is Yours”, we are told to say unto our God but I am now beginning to realize that He answer’s us with the same: “All I have is yours, ______.”

Ministry Report and Encouragement

Today's Little Lesson
Good morning!

      Coffield Unit, Tennessee Colony, TX
07/31/2016

Dearest Friends:
                We’re writing to report to you on Kingdom.  Hallelujah.  Yesterday we visited the Coffield Unit Trusty Camp.  This is the largest prison in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and if you’ve never been to a prison before I’m certain that fact alone can be intimidating.  This, for me, was a big deal.  You see, I served much of my prison time there on that unit.  I’m finding that God is faithful more and more.  This day was no different:
                I want you to understand that the very life you lived before Christ is changed by Christ and those that knew you then, when they meet you now, are also greatly impacted by the witness of Christ.  It’s amazing that it’s not us and it’s not our efforts but the Lord and His glory and His purpose that causes such a great witness.  You can be going through hell on earth and literally I mean and walk into a space where you were the old you and the LORD will still blow their minds of the change by His power and His Spirit.   Encouraging to know that holding on and not giving up and stepping out on faith and on the Word of God has fruit.  That’s our ministry today.  Your effort isn’t vain.  Your effort, seen or unseen, is fruitful because HE causes it.  He knows how to move, he knows how to take you around the enemy, he knows how to hide you and give you peace and joy that is every-flowing.  THIS BATTLE IS NOT YOURS BUT THE LORDS AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO FIGHT IT JUST HIDE BEHIND THE THRONE!!!   GLORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Genuinely,

Bro. J. D. Pierce
President
Christ Carries Me Ministries
Phone: 903.265.4424
Email: Service@ChristCarriesMe.org

Christ Carries Me Ministries
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