the countenance divine

what a week for convictions!!

vanity is vacuous 2 kings 9:30 When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window. , but jealousy kills! Proverbs 27:4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?-   you really want that mother to go! away!
but then I had a vile conviction...that I wanted to stay...I need it, Lord!- I was shocked by the conviction, but I was blown away by the desire to keep the sin, I need it...I can't get through without it...I don't understand...why you have to take it...that's how I get through...
Jesus says "I am the way, the truth and the light" you can surrender the sin.
So I did...And it is the Holy Spirit who convicts...and it is Jesus who sets you free and gives you a new day.

Proverbs 8:30-32

New International Version (NIV)

30     Then I was constantly[a] at his side.
I was filled with delight day after day,
    rejoicing always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his whole world
    and delighting in mankind.

32 “Now then, my children, listen to me;
    blessed are those who keep my ways.

acts

we're reading acts and it's wild...I mean actually crazy- an angel let's them out of prison, they're healing people in the streets, people are going wild, they're getting arrested for disturbing the peace- all sorts of stuff is going down...people are going nuts for the hope of Jesus.
and then they're organising - amidst the chaos! lol! And it's quite funny to think of men trying to organise God's chaos, isn't it?
acts is exciting- risky - strange and unworldly.
two things happened to me this week
1 it rained!
2 I was convicted of spiritual death
spiritual death is happening all the time- but there are no RIP facebook pages to it!
in fact spiritual death is rather despised- and despicable...human beings actually naturally deplore it- are repelled by it - can't, in short, stand it.
what happens when you are spiritually dead - is you cease to learn! and that takes you ages to figure out...because...you have ceased to learn.
meanwhile back at the ranch ...
you're organised...
at the end of the day, the holy spirit..has got a voice and he's speaking clearly...
y'all got to get over it.