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5/06/12 GIVING GRACIOUS CORRECTIONS
HEARD:
To be gracious. A war with words. I am
protecting you.
QUICKENED MEMORY:
This week I heard this scripture in my iTouch:
Luke 4:22
So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the
gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth.
It burned a hole through me!
PIX: I saw my white horse turn around and
look at me with His all seeing eye.
PIX: I saw a big pink Mack Truck.
HEARD: Yes sweetheart, a mack truck. Please
be careful.
THE WEIGHT OF OUR WORDS
I heard John Paul Jackson say this week that he quickly
learned that when his authority in God increased, he
could barely just twick his finger and a person would
feel like they were blown away with something he said.
He said he had to learn extreme discipline in what he
said and how he said it, because of the impact and
influence his words were having on people.
God has been taking me through lessons in how to speak
graciously, but still be to the point, bold and give
correction with His heart. We each have things to learn
in how to find the balance. I have been praying over
this so much this year and my sense is that the Lord's
rebukes were directly related to the sensitivity and
hardness of a person's heart and their ability to
receive what He said.
We are entering into an era of the fear of the Lord,
where His authority and power will be displayed in
extreme ways. Remember how Peter spoke a rebuke and
Ananias and Sapphira died for lying to the Holy Spirit.
I remember Bob Jones saying many times that the church
has been crying out for clarity and easy to understand
prophetic Words, but the Lord told him we were not
mature enough to bear the accountability of receiving
such Words, and that is why He has been speaking to us
in parables and riddles and strong meat rhema that needs
interpretation. The greater the clarity, the greater
the accountability to receive and obey. I have realized
that the opposite is true too, the greater our
obedience, the more our hearing and seeing is clear
speech.
Num 12:6-8 NLT
And the Lord said to them, "Now listen to what I say:
"If there were prophets among you, I, the Lord, would
reveal myself in visions. I would speak to them in
dreams. 7 But not with my servant Moses. Of all my
house, he is the one I trust. 8 I speak to him face to
face, clearly, and not in riddles! He sees the Lord as
he is. So why were you not afraid to criticize my
servant Moses?"
I remember Bob Jones saying NOT to come to him and ask
for a Word unless they wanted correction. Now in order
to avoid the whole thing, he says JESUS LOVES YOU AND
THAT IS THE BEST WORD YOU CAN RECEIVE. And I have heard
Bobby Conner say that when he looks into people's eyes
he knows EVERYTHING that is not covered under the blood
of Jesus through asking forgiveness and repentance. Who
in their right mind would want to come to such fear of
the Lord servants, unless they were either clean or
desperate to change?
BALANCING CORRECTION WITH WISDOM
COMMENT FROM QW MEMBER: This is really good
Sandy. It confirms that sometimes God does direct us to
admonish, but when doing so, we are to find the proper
balance of gentleness, love and reproof.
I am reminded of something my counselling teacher told
our class in Bible college. He said that if you have
something you need to tell someone that might be kind of
hard to "swallow", you look at it like making a
sandwich. You first take a word of encouragement about
something that is good or positive that they have done
well, or something good the Lord sees in them to kind of
build them up, (that would be likened to the first piece
of bread), and then you add the meat, (that would be the
difficult Word that they might not like), and then you
follow it up with another Word of encouragement, love,
affirmation so that the difficult Word is sandwiched in
on either side with good things so that the difficult
meat in the middle is much more palatable and easier to
get down! :o)
Scripture says when we admonish, we are to gently rebuke
or warn. An admonishment carries a concern for something
that has gone awry that is no longer according to
scripture. However, notice that even in admonishments,
they are carried with only gentle reproof and mild
language.
MY RESPONSE: This is a great Word of Wisdom,
thank you! I have 2 contrasting responses to this!
Sometimes when I hear the
tone in someone's voice and they are giving feedback, I
am just waiting for the BUT part. Or the HOWEVER
part.... It seems that the BUT part, ends up taking away
from the good part of the feedback.
On the other hand, just last
night (!!!) I had a discussion with my son over their
ability to get the kids to eat their meat. Part of it is
chewing and softness. And I told him that when he was a
toddler, I tried everything I could think of to disguise
pot roast meat. Nothing worked. Finally I blended it all
up with Miracle Whip and served it in a sandwich! So all
I can say is that is better to draw men with a little
honey.
I think that in the days of strong meat/ chastisement of
the Lord He is going to help people swallow His strong
Words with a lot of miracles, stemming from the
sweetness of His love.
Here is the teaching the Lord gave me
about giving
Admonishments:
2 Thess 3:14-15 NKJV
And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle,
note that person and do not keep company with him, that
he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but
admonish {3560} him as a brother.
Col 3:16-17 NKJV
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom, teaching and admonishing {3560} one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace
in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word
or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God the Father through Him.
GREEK ADMONISH: To caution, reprove gently, mild
rebuke or warning
ADMONISH
noutheteo
NT:3560 noutheteo (noo-thet-eh'-o); from the same as
NT:3559; to put in mind, i.e. (by implication) to
caution or reprove gently:
KJV - admonish, warn.
NT:3559
NT:3559 nouthesia (noo-thes-ee'-ah); from NT:3563 and a
derivative of NT:5087; calling attention to, i.e. (by
implication) mild rebuke or warning:
KJV - admonition.
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