November 24, 2008 Mark Chapter 7 Verses 1-23 GOD WORKING WITHIN ME TO PULL A DEEP ROOT OUT!
November 24, 2008 by Tina
One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to confront Jesus. They noticed that some of Jesus’ disciples failed to follow the usual Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating. (The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions. Similarly, they eat nothing bought from the market unless they have immersed their hands in water.
This is but one of many traditions they have clung to such as their ceremony of washing cups, pitchers, and kettles. So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old customs? For they eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.” Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was prophesying about you when he said, These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away.
Their worship is a farce, for they replace God’s commands with their own man-made teachings. For you ignore God’s specific laws and substitute your own traditions.” Then he said, “You reject God’s laws in order to hold on to your own traditions. For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: Honor your father and mother, and Anyone who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death. But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I could have given to you. You let them disregard their needy parents. As such, you break the law of God in order to protect your own tradition. And this is only one example.
There are many, many others.” Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “All of you listen,” he said, “and try to understand. You are not defiled by what you eat you are defiled by what you say and do! Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowds, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the statement he had made. “Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that what you eat won’t defile you?
Food doesn’t come in contact with your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then comes out again.” (By saying this, he showed that every kind of food is acceptable.) And then he added, “It is the thought-life that defiles you. For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, eagerness for lustful pleasure, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these vile things come from within they are what defile you and make you unacceptable to God.”
Whoa! So I have to share with all of you what happened to me last week as God was working with-in me. I tell you sometimes it’s so easy to look at others faults instead of taking a good look at ourselves!
When Chris and I first married I remember telling him that there was so much in my past that I could not tell him because I was to ashamed… to embarrassed.. I was not able to tell him all. I was afraid that if I did he would not want me. I was in fear. He would say to me Tina, It does not matter what you have done… I love you for who you are… and your past is just that your past..It’s not who you are now ….
Although I told him several things about my past there were some of which I left out. So in all reality I was only telling him part of it. So about a week and a half ago… My friend had contacted me, and told me I had Deceit, in me… and that I needed to Renounce it Repent it and be washed clean…I thought Huh? Me?
What is she talking about? I hit me so hard… that the next day I was left crying out to God asking Him what have I done? How could this be? He then said to me…Tina, Go and Re-read the Words I have spoken to you. So after a while of searching through the Words given I saw some things that jumped out at me… let me share..
I MUST HAVE MY PEOPLE IN STRICT OBEDIENCE TO MY WORD.
I know your thoughts, yes you have many obstacles but your love for Me is real. Nothing please My Fathers heart more than for you to admit your weaknesses to admit your need for Him. Your willing heart pleases Me. For I can teach a willing child. Don’t feel like your inadequate because you are right where I want you to be. See, Tina these are the moments I long for. It makes Me joyful Your heart is in a healing mode the more time you spend with Me the more your heart will open up to Me and the healing process can begin.
There are so many deep roots In you I must pull out But I will not do this all at once Your not able to handle all at once For I know what to work on at the present. “I DID NOT PULL YOU OUT OF THE FIRE SO YOUR TESTIMONY COULD BE HIDDEN” “I PULLED YOU OUT OF THE FIRE SO THAT OTHERS COULD SEE MY GLORY!”
Just like the roots in you that I will pull out. They too will not go away all at once but as time passes I will be healing you from the inside out. You, yourself is in a healing process. I have done much work in your heart already. Much more work needs to be done. This process will occur over time. Evil will try to keep you in slavery to fear. Your past, all that you endured, brought you to Me.
Now I will turn all that around and you will bring others to freedom. Your testimony is powerful. Tina, You have only touched the surface of your testimony. This should not be so. I did not pull you out of the fire so that it could be hidden nor did I pull you out so you could only tell part of it. I know your embarrassed about your past…. Many are…Some of these deep roots in you will come out over time. I am working within you. Do not be discouraged I am not disappointed with you My Child.
I understand you far better than you understand yourself. I know why it is so hard for you. I have forgiven you Tina. You are washed clean. But you have carried this keeping it to yourself…. Only telling a few… Why carry that burden? Why carry that heaviness Tina? Did I wash you partly clean?
Ok! These are some of the Words I have found in several pages in which the Lord had spoken to me. As you can tell, many times He was talking to me about deep roots.. a healing process taking place within.. You see when He saved me, He washed me clean… He had forgiven me.. But I had not forgiven myself and carried this burden all this time.
But because I had not given this to Him, I did not face it and bring it out in the open… I myself was defiled. Yes! DEFILED! In the scripture above… Jesus said, It is the thought-life that defiles you…For from within, out of a person’s heart comes…….which in my case was deceit. So I was curious to find out exactly what that meant. So here below is the definition.
DEFINITION OF DECEIT—
Deception is the act of convincing another to believe information that is not true, OR NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH AS IN CERTAIN TYPES OF HALF-TRUTHS
Ok, So when I saw this…I was like a sinking ship filling up with water… My heart just hurt… because I knew the Lord was showing me my error. This hurt me but it was true. not the first part, but the last that I capped. I only told my testimony in part. Now don’t get me wrong I did share all truth.. everything in my testimony is true… But what the Lord was showing me was that I did not tell everything… I just left the really bad parts out.
I tell you this was very hard to swallow as I cried out to God for help…I ask for forgiveness and asked to be washed clean.. Repenting of all that was within me, Renouncing the evil. But then I said to Jesus, I can’t Lord I just can’t tell Chris everything… I am scared. He said it will be ok… Do not fear… And that was it.
The next day….something in me just felt like I could share..I had this boldness… that I did not have before. So I sat Chris down and told him all. WE cried and then he said to me…. I love you now more than I did before… now I can clearly see just what you have had to endure… with tears running down his face… he simply loved me anyway…
I felt a freedom… a lift of burden off of me… I could breathe…once again…You see I share this with all of you because I have been saved for a while… well almost 9 years.. and God is so perfect in His timing He will always meet us where we are at!
Talk about LOVE and COMPASSION!! You just can’t get better than Jesus…..not a one can fix you, put you back together again except Jesus…
Be Blessed!
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