PRUDENCE 2: Speech, People And SITUATIONS

Matthew

7:1-6GNB

Matthew 8

1 “Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, 2for God will judge you in the same way as you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others.3Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the log in your own eye? 4How dare you say to your brother, ‘Please, let me take that speck out of your eye,’ when you have a log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. 6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs — they will only turn and attack you. Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs — they will only trample them underfoot.

Ecclesiastes 7:15-18New International Version (NIV)

15 In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:

the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
    and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
16 Do not be overrighteous,
    neither be overwise—
    why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
    and do not be a fool—
    why die before your time?
18 It is good to grasp the one
    and not let go of the other.
    Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.

Psalm 37:23-24New International Version (NIV)

23 The Lord makes firm the steps
    of the one who delights in him;
24 though he may stumble, he will not fall,
    for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

30 "The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just. 

31The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip. 

32The wicked lie in wait for the righteous, intent on putting them to death; 

33 but the LORD will not leave them in the power of the wicked or let them be condemned when brought to trial. 

34 Hope in the LORDand keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it. 

35 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree, 

36 but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found. 

37 Consider the blameless, observe the upright; a future awaits those who seek peace. 

38 But all sinners will be destroyed; there will be no future for the wicked. 

39 The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble. 

40The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him" Psalm 37: 30-40 NIV. 

Psalms 120

 9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. 10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Psalm 119: 9-11 KJV.

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

Psalm 119: 105 NIV.

Psalm 119:130New King James Version (NKJV)

130 The entrance of Your words gives light;

It gives understanding to the simple.

Psalm 32:1-2New King James Version (NKJV)

The Joy of Forgiveness

A Psalm of David. A Contemplation.[a]

32 Blessed is he whosetransgression is forgiven,

Whose sin is covered.

2 Blessed is the man to whom theLord does not impute iniquity,

And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Romans 4: 4-10 GNT (GNB).

4 A person who works is paid wages, but they are not regarded as a gift; they are something that has been earned. 5 But those who depend on faith, not on deeds, and who believe in the God who declares the guilty to be innocent, it is this faith that God takes into account in order to put them right with himself. 6 This is what David meant when he spoke of the happiness of the person whom God accepts as righteous, apart from anything that person does:

7 “Happy are those whose wrongs are forgiven,
    whose sins are pardoned!
8 Happy is the person whose sins the Lord will not keep account of!”

9 Does this happiness that David spoke of belong only to those who are circumcised? No indeed! It belongs also to those who are not circumcised. For we have quoted the scripture, “Abraham believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous.” 10 When did this take place? Was it before or after Abraham was circumcised? It was before, not after.

1 John 4:15New Living Translation (NLT)

15 All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.

1 Corinthians 12:3New International Version (NIV)

3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 10:10-11New International Version (NIV)

10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

1 Peter 2:6New International Version (NIV)

6 For in Scripture it says:

“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
    a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
    will never be put to shame.”

2 Corinthians 13:12-14New American Standard Bible (NASB)

12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.13 All the [a]saints greet you.

14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

PRUDENCE 1: Speech, PEOPLE and Situations

Intro: 

Colossians 4:6King James Version (KJV)

6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Body:

Proverbs 19:2King James Version (KJV)

2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
New International Version
Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them. Proverbs 26:12.

 Proverbs 26: 17-28 GNB

17Getting involved in an argument that is none of your business is like going down the street and grabbing a dog by the ears. 18-19Someone who misleads someone else and then claims that he was only joking is like a mad person playing with a deadly weapon. 20Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, quarrelling stops. 21Charcoal keeps the embers glowing, wood keeps the fire burning, and troublemakers keep arguments alive. 22Gossip is so tasty! How we love to swallow it! 23Insincere talk that hides what you are really thinking is like a fine glazeon a cheap clay pot. 24A hypocrite hides hatred behind flattering words. 25They may sound fine, but don't believe him, because his heart is filled to the brim with hate. 26He may disguise his hatred, but everyone will see the evil things he does. 27People who set traps for others get caught themselves. People who start landslides get crushed. 28You have to hate someone to want to hurt him with lies. Insincere talk brings nothing but ruin.

Proverbs 6: 12-15 ESV
12A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,
13winks with his eyes, signals^c with his feet,
points with his finger,
14with perverted heart devises evil,
continually sowing discord;
15therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

James 1: 21-25 ESV

21Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN (... a must read before joining the occult or becoming an atheist)

"God is light and in Him is no darkness at all" 1 John 1:5 (KJV).
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" JAMES 1:17(KJV).

1. GOD IS LOVE
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love" 1 JOHN 4:7-8 (NKJV).
Love prompted God to create the universe and to delegate portions to angels and intend to share His Kingdom with men in the world to come (Isaiah 14:12-16, Daniel 10:12-13, Corinthians 6:2-3).

2. AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My Holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD
As the waters cover the sea" Isaiah 11:9 (KJV).
In Heaven everyone and everything rejoice to see God. He is completely approachable, and has appeared several times to man, and did not slay those who saw His face (Genesis 18:10-16, Exodus 24:9-11,Exodus 33:9-11, John 14:21, 23).
But we do not always see it to be so, because man is currently disconnected from God, and so is vile.
3. THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS
Scientists say that the earth is older than 6 thousand years. They are right according to the Scriptures (Genesis 1:1, Revelation 12:7-9, Jeremiah 4:23-27, Isaiah 45:18, Genesis1: 2-3, {Hebrews 11:3--AMPLIFIED BIBLE}). Flood and supernovae overtook that world, as one-third the universe fell to corruption.
Then God restored all things and made Adam, our common ancestor (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7-8).

4. THE FALLEN WORLD
The universe fell again, when man yielded to the devil and lost his authority over the earth and one-third the universe round about him, which is why the beings on those planets have also gone astray since man's fall (Revelation 12:4, Genesis 2:15-17& 3:1_5, Genesis 6:1-6 and 2 Samuel 21:20).
Some of them inter-married mankind to raise hybrids against the universal or God's purposed design.
Remember the Philadelphia Experiment of invisibility, that also turned out to be a teleportation session in which lives were lost, and many such experiments of man that had to be shut down or decommissioned because lives were lost, or because they failed to fulfill the purpose. And as always, no one batted an eyelid. The luminaries of importance from different walks of life, were probably engineering it. Now, when God saw how wicked mankind is, and how quickly he was corrupting his race, and how that his evil will corrupt the rest of the universe, He (God)  had to get rid of the bad apples, before they corrupt the others. (Genesis 6, Deuteronomy 7:1-5, 2 Peter 2:4-5 and Jude1:6.) And the ignorant dare to call God a monster, and many of such believe in psychic manipulation. Who is fooling who? They can only lure the ignorant. And my heart is moved for their sake too, because they too need God.
And as for the atheist you are even more lost. In as much as there is life, and in as much as there are sublime beings, as many YouTube videos rightly prove: Angels caught on tape, ghosts, strange creatures, time travellers and ancient youths or individuals who have lived for centuries without aging further, then you should know that there is a God. He is the beginning of all intelligence and intelligent life.
God is good, and so are His intentions. As the Bible has it, when He raptures (translate into Heaven) the Church, then a New World Order will begin: the one-world-government of the devil. Then you will see how monstrous fallen (godless) man is (2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, Daniel 9:27 & 11:29-32, Revelation 13:1-18).

5. THE PRINCIPLES
You must have heard about the law of attraction (the secret),  and how that like thoughts attract one another.
Now,  God created all things (Genesis 1:1 and Colossians 1:16), and gave us our power of Imagination, which other beings do not have, as we know.
Now some think that  the ultimate truth in life is to be liberated from baser appetites and to control your world using your imagination or attraction, and to journey to the spiritual planets (which are actually the other two-thirds part of the universe not affected by corruption--Job 1:6 & 2:1), but they are badly mistaken. These things have to do with your mind and body, not your spirit (Colossians 2:16-23).
Man connects to God with his spirit, "God is a Spirit, and they that must worship God, must worship Him in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship Him" JOHN 4:23-24 (KJV paraphrased ).
Now again let us reconcile paradoxes, and weed out errors. I assume that you are acquainted with the law of attraction, but if you are not, I will concisely explain it to you, and ultimately relate it to Ultimate Truth and lesser truths.
"Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God (Have the faith of God--maginal reference).
"For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart but believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.
"And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing you shall receive.
"And if you stand praying, and have aught against any in your heart, forgive, that your Father which is in Heaven might forgive you your sins" MARK 11:22-25 (KJV paraphrased).

11 PRINCIPLES OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION
1. "Desire when it conceives, gives birth..." JAMES 1:14 (KJV).
Whatever you conceive and believe, you can achieve --Napoleon Hill.
2. Whatever you believe and say will come to pass (Mark 11:23).
3. Whatever you keep thinking and saying you are becoming. (2 Corinthians 3:18.)
4. Everything comes back around with harvest obeying the law of growth. (Mark 4:25.)
5. You do to yourself what you do to others. (Matthew 7:1-2, 12.)
Life is a mirror, and every energy goes in circles (The Secret--movie).
6. Your gifts make way for you. (Proverbs 18:16.)
7. If your heart is one, nothing will be restrained from your power of Imagination. (Genesis 11:6.)
This is the very point the occultists (witchdoctors, witches and wizards) keep exploiting. They have trained their imagination to do certain things or any and everything: telepathy, telekinesis, time travel, necromancy etc.
But there is no relationship with God, but with elemental spirits in all of these.
8. "If any two of you shall agree as touching anything, it shall be done for them, by My Father which is in Heaven" MATTHEW 18:19 (KJV paraphrased).
If you knowingly or unknowingly affirm any statement, you establish it and usher such reality into your life.
9. "A threefold cord is not easily broken" Ecclesiastes 4:12 (KJV).
10. You can merge two or more realities.
In other words you can inherit traits assortedly.
You can override one reality with another.
You can have a conference call or meeting with two or more people separated in space and time, and you can step into any of the other places, as if they are extensions of the same, depending on the technology.
All paradoxes MAY BE reconciled.
11. "No one can say when God has not spoken" LAMENTATIONS 3:37 (paraphrased).
Certain paradoxes will not be reconciled.
You can only speak in line with God's Word, or never speak against His will. (Proverbs 13:13.)

Now again, the devil knows these things, and also knows that they do not ensure salvation without the knowledge of The Holy. Rather, he parades himself as an angel of light, or a most high. (2 Corinthians 11:14-15.)
Again, no true mystic or member of the occult denies that there is God, as they invoke deities in their rituals and activities. I am a Christian and no student of the occult, however there was such a time I read books voraciously, though I was careful not to read some from cover to cover. I still read a lot, but I now have areas of focus, and I am more mindful what I read; and never practiced magic arts.
To deny that there is a God will be to lie, or to confess that you are junior occult.
"You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe-- and tremble!  JAMES 2:19 (GMB).
The mystics and occultist all have awakened imagination, but the first step to spiritual awakening (having an awakened spirit) is the realization of God as Your Father, and Jesus as your Lord. In the spirit, you do not just deal with possibilities and realities, but with entities. If you do not yet know Jesus, you haven't explored enough, or haven't experienced all truths. You will either know Him as your fortress or a rock of offence. (1 Peter 2:5-7.)

Secondly, there is the law of giving and receiving. God established it. The devil gets some to offer a loved one, a body part, long life on earth, or anything terribly wierd and inconveniencing; and with it to sell their souls. He has conned such people in every way.
Solomon became king of Israel, and had opponents, but wanted wisdom and gave a thousand burnt offerings (of fattened animals) to God in one day, and that night God appeared to him in a dream and said, Ask of Me whatever you want.
And Solomon asked for wisdom (1 Kings 3:3-6), and he received wealth and long life along with wisdom.

There was a king in the Bible, who was under the rule of the King of Israel (at the time, Israel had split into Israel and Judah) and he always had to pay tribute annually. Then the king of Israel died, and his son reigned in his place, so the king of Moab decided to withhold tribute.
The king of Israel summoned the kings of Judah and Edom, and they consulted Prophet Elisha on the bidding of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. Elisha declared to them, go and you will win; God is with you.
They went down and pounded Moab on all sides.
When the king saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took 700 men that drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not. So he took his eldest son who should have reigned in his stead, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall, and there was great indignation against Israel, and they departed from him. (2 Kings 3:1-27, especially verses 26-27.)
The man gave such an offering that his opponents could not give, so the principles had to work for him.
Now, God doesn't want human sacrifices, but a mighty seed from your heart, plus (and first) your heart.
This is what most men cannot give, and that is why the people of the occult, as well as a few others keep prospering. The devil really gave them nothing, except take from them, and with it a pledge of their souls. What a tragedy!
Beloved, believe Jesus today. Everything you need is inside God. And there is more to be said, but not within this framework.
Look out for my soon to be published book, "As It Is In Heaven".  For other books by me check out Ajaka Chidiebere on Amazon.com or Google search.
If you need to connect yourself to God today or to break away from the occult or renounce atheism, follow the directives below:
"Anyone who believes and says that Jesus is the Son of God has God living in him, and he is living with God" 1 JOHN 4:15 (TLB).
"For salvation that comes from trusting Christ--which is what we preach--is already within easy reach of each of us; in fact, it is as near as our own hearts and mouths. For if you tell others with your own mouth that Jesus Christ is your Lord, and believe in your own heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in his heart that a man becomes right with God; and with his mouth he tells others of his faith confirming his salvation" ROMANS 10:8-10 (TLB).
"Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them" HEBREWS 7:25 (AMP).
God bless you.

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PLANNING FOR THE COMING YEAR

"For which of you, intending to build a tower sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply  after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish" LUKE 14:28-30 (kJV).

Before making plans for the next year, you need to have a central dream. What do you want out of life? Where do you want to be? And when? Soon as you determine this, you will know what you should be doing.
So, should you are a tailor and want to be a fashion designer with your own label, you need to learn more about designers, business systems and you also need capital. So you will have to prioritize; determine which should come first and the length of time each should take.
In the same way, you should determine which aspects of your (collective) plan that will yield you money quickly so that you can facilitate the others.
As you keep doing this you will soon be in your future plans ever before the designated year.
I hope it was helpful, God bless you.