BLESSINGS FROM KEEPING PEACE

My Dear Precious Child, In a clear explanation of where conflicts and disputes originate, James cleared up the confusion by writing in his letter to the churches that they originate inside your own mind and body, revealing that they are demonic passions and desires. He wrote that those passions make war with your own faculties in an effort to dominate you and become lord over you. What you desire, you do not obtain, so you choose to get it by killing someone. Or, maybe you envy what someone has and you can't get it, so you fight tooth and toenail to get it to better yourself above the other person in your own eyes. (James 4:1-3) Then James wrote that the reason that you do not have what you desire is because you don't ask Me to supply it for you; or, if you ask, you ask wrongly, intending to spend what you get on your own pleasures with no thought of sharing. Often you might even proudly display what I give you as an indication of My favor toward you, creating jealousy in other people. He sternly reminded the people who read his letter that to be a friend of the world is to be at odds with Me. He emphasized that a person is identified as My enemy if he is a friend of the world. There is scripture that says that the Holy Spirit that I have planted inside of you tends to occasionally cause other people to err toward jealousy. Yet other scripture says that I resist the proud but bestow My favor on the lowly. (James 4:5-6; Proverbs 3:34) In order for you to stay pure, James said for My children to strip away from their lives all excess and to humbly welcome My words which have taken root in you with the power to save you from evil. He reminded the people who read his letter to always act on My words. He warned them not to be like some other people who only listen to the words, choosing not to practice them, and in the end they deceive themselves. He compares that person to someone who looks in a mirror at his own face, then he immediately goes off and forgets what he looks like. On the other hand, there is the person who looks into the My ideal words of freedom and lives in their wisdom and instructions. That person is no forgetful listener but he or she is one who carries out My words in practice in his own body. That second man is blessed in everything that he does. James next words of wisdom advised you that if you submit yourself to Me and resist the devil that the devil will fly away from you. In other words, when you are tempted to speak evil of someone, or or Me, if you resist that temptation and refuse to yield to it, then the demon will go on to someone else to tempt. Also, the demons hate to hear you worshiping Me with a pure heart. They flee from your dedicated words of worship for Me. Always remember that when you draw close to Me that I am already waiting for you to join Me because I have already drawn near to you. James advised you to first of all clean your hands, sinners, and cleanse your heart, you backsliders. He advised the sinners to lament, mourn and to weep, letting your frivolous laughter be turned into mourning and your worldly joy be turned into sorrow. The result of your getting rid of all fake worshipful dedication to Me and to be humbled by Me allows Me to exalt you on high. When I lift you up, you are truly lifted high above the earth. (James 4: 7-10) Going back to the dangers of the tongue in its spewing forth poison, James wrote to the readers of his letter, wherever you are, he wrote that a person who does not control his or her tongue often claims to be a devout believer in Christ Jesus. All the while, he is self-deceived and his worship of Me is pointless because he will obtain nothing. He or she is serving the devil and his demons by spewing poison into the world instead of truly worshiping Me. In his letter he sternly admonished the readers of his letter to refuse to speak illl of each other. He wrote that anyone who speaks badly about his brother in Christ is speaking ill of My words. The same applies to judging your spiritual brothers or sisters. If you judge someone, you are judging My words, making yourself the judge. If you judge My words, then you are no practitioner of My words but a judge of them. There is only One judge of the law who can save you, Christ Jesus. So who are you if you judge your neighbor? (James 4:11-12; Matthew 7:1-6) Come on now, you who say to come on with you today or tomorrow and you shall go out of town, spend a year trading and come home with a profit. You have no idea what you will encounter tomorrow. You are only a vapor that appears and then vanishes. If you say that you will do such and such, you make arrogant and pretentious claims by swearing to do something. All boasting and promising to do something makes you open for condemnation. When you know what to do and don't do it, then you sin. (James 4:13-17; Matthew 5:33-36) Your agreement to do something must depend upon My being willing that you engage in the adventure, hinging on, "The Lord willing, I will." James was firm in his beliefs of the negative or positive power of your tongue. Your own spiritual sister spoke My truth when she said that when you utter something negative about someone that the demons from hell turn the same judging words into condemnation on you, yourself. So you curse yourself when you utter something negative about someone else. She spoke My truth when she spoke those words. You must strive to gain control of your tongue. It starts with determining any demons who are concealed in your heart. Eventually their identify will be revealed by the words that come out of your mouth. Your Father of Truth About Words