stay on the safe path of healing

Here is today’s timeless advice for healing and divine health for life. Read the whole chapter of Proverbs four. Here are some of the verses. The key is paying attention to God’s words, listening, reading, copying, remembering them, so that they reach deep into your heart. Claim and proclaim them. Reject the bad reports about your health. stay away from those who repeatedly talk about their symptoms. keep looking at Jesus, who is the only reliable truth about your health. By His wounds you are healed.

20 My child, pay attention to what I say.
    Listen carefully to my words.
21 Don’t lose sight of them.
    Let them penetrate deep into your heart,
22 for they bring life to those who find them,
    and healing to their whole body.

23 Guard your heart above all else,
    for it determines the course of your life.

24 Avoid all perverse talk;
    stay away from corrupt speech.

25 Look straight ahead,
    and fix your eyes on what lies before you.
26 Mark out a straight path for your feet;
    stay on the safe path.
27 Don’t get sidetracked;
    keep your feet from following evil. 

I’ll share my heart with you

PROVERBS ONE: verses 20-33

Wisdom Shouts in the Streets

²⁰ Wisdom shouts in the streets.
    She cries out in the public square.
²¹ She calls to the crowds along the main street,
    to those gathered in front of the city gate:
²² “How long, you simpletons,
    will you insist on being simpleminded?
How long will you mockers relish your mocking?
    How long will you fools hate knowledge?
²³ Come and listen to my counsel.
I’ll share my heart with you
    and make you wise.

²⁴ “I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come.
    I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.
²⁵ You ignored my advice
    and rejected the correction I offered.
²⁶ So I will laugh when you are in trouble!
    I will mock you when disaster overtakes you—
²⁷ when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
    when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone,    and anguish and distress overwhelm you.

²⁸ “When they cry for help, I will not answer.
    Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
²⁹ For they hated knowledge
    and chose not to fear the Lord.³⁰ They rejected my advice    and paid no attention when I corrected them.
³¹ Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
    choking on their own schemes.
³² For simpletons turn away from me—to death.
    Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.
³³ But all who listen to me will live in peace,
    untroubled by fear of harm.”

 

Footnotes:

1. 1:8 Hebrew My son; also in 1:10, 15.
2. 1:12 Hebrew like Sheol.

Revised October 2012: Today’s Verses for Watchman

How to know God intimately? How to hear God?

Watchman’s October 2012 notes: (practical steps)

This has been one of the most frequented posts for the last 2 years. Many actually yearn for intimate relationship with God, our Creator, our Father in heaven. In this world of constant change, increasing isolation and separation from God, due to man’s increasing coldness and hardening of hearts, lawlessness, self-seeking, presumptions, covetousness (which is idolatry) and passion for the wisdom of the world (which according to James 3:15 is earthly, sensual and demonic.), many are crying out to the Almighty God who hears and answers.

How to re-build or start an intimate relationship with a God whom you do not even know?
The watchman has learned this (from experience and encounter with the Father in heaven since 1983, the year when he was born again by the Holy Spirit):

1. start today.
2. be still before Him.
3. believe He exists.
4. believe He wants to reward you, when you seek Him diligently.
5. believe that He is pleased with your faith (in Him and His Son Jesus)
6. believe in all His word, in the Bible.
7. read the Bible.
8. pray.
9. spend more and more time with God.
10. let go of more and more of the things of the world. When your hands are full of them you have no hands to receive anything from the Father in heaven!
11. do not love this world, nor the things it offers you. (1 John 2:15)

Practical steps:

1. keep your mind and body in stillness before the Lord.
2. be open to the Holy Spirit. Do not let your feeling or mind interfere.
3. take a note book.
4. write down your question and listen for answer.
5. the voice of the Lord will come in the still small voice in your inner part.
6. write down His answer. (He may answer you in the inner voice or in His written words)
7. discern whether the answer is from your own mind (e.g. thoughts/obsessions you have been thinking regularly lately prior to the session) or emotion or the enemy (evil spirits: e.g. destructive thoughts)
8. discard those not from the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 11:6 Amplified Bible (AMP)

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].

updated 10-13-2012

_____________original blog (11-2-2010)

Proverbs 3:5-8 (NKJV)
⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
⁶ In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct^[a] your paths.
⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the LORD and depart from evil.
⁸ It will be health to your flesh,^[b]
And strength^[c] to your bones.

Proverbs 3:5-8 (New Living Translation)
⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding.
⁶ Seek his will in all you do,
and he will show you which path to take.
⁷ Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom.
Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
⁸ Then you will have healing for your body
and strength for your bones.

Proverbs 3:5-8 (Amplified Bible)
⁵Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.
⁶In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.
⁷Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear and worship the Lord and turn [entirely] away from evil.^(A)
8It shall be health to your nerves and sinews, and marrow and moistening to your bones.
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“acknowledge” means “know intimately”. Know your God intimately, watchman.