Deliverance and Discretion

Deliverance is salvation, rescue, retrieval, restoration, healing, completeness, bringing back to an original state, to a pristine unblemished condition. This IS the new birth, the New Creation-ones. John 3:3, 2 Cor 5:17. God makes all things new. His life flowing through a thing- renews it continually.  Its the absence of: death, separation, hopelessness, darkness.. etc. Also called His Divine Nature in us. 2 Pe 1:3-4, 1 Cor 1:30

• Awareness of a problem alone does not solve it. But a correct, proper response can.
• There is a difference between helping and hindering.
• There is a difference between wise acts and foolish acts.
• There is a connecting link between wisdom and discretion
• There is a benefit to wise decisions and choices.
• There is a connection between believing and acting
• There is a connection between believing and speaking.
• We are often smarter than we realize
• Smart people hang out with smart people.
• God's people have a different kind of smartness. 

I wondered why there seems to be no middle ground between a fool and a wise person?

Maybe the 'tween is called a disciple or a learner, yet even that one falls on-can be counted wise.

(A fool who holds his peace can be counted as a wise one.)

So there is a process involved in leaving foolishness and going on over to wisdom/discretion.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. God's wisdom brings discretion. Discretion saves us.

Saves us from BAD decisions!

• There is a connection to what we believe and what we say. Words are directive. Just listen!

A boat's rudder has a great power. Ability.

The motor has one sort of power- the rudder has another kind of power.

See that?  Once is directive, one is inertial. The tongue is like a rudder of a ship. Its directive. It sets the direction for that thing to go! Where is the source of power? the motor? the gasoline? the ignition switch? The pilot? The boat? Perhaps its a combination of things that add up to a whole.

Prophesy has a creative element. Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy to these dry bones, speak to the mountain, speak to the storm, speak to the inanimate object, telling it what its going to do. Mark 11:23-24, John 15:5.  Moses wished all God's children's operated in the prophetic, and "Is Saul also among the prophets?" still speaks today. God's Spirit falling upon, coming upon, resting on, is for some activity, purpose, calling, directive, production, labor, fruit, edification.

Paul prayed, and asked others to pray for utterance- the ability to speak the best, most productive words,

words that set a directive, words that build up, not tear down, words that edify, charge us or others up.

• There is an evil side in the power of words. Its called inciting a riot with words that inflame to evil. History evidences many who controlled, dominated, destroyed many. They did evil by bringing out the worst in people. Instigators.

• Supernatural/spiritual realities trump natural facts. Because we are in league, partnership, covenant with the LORD. Certain battle have already been successfully waged on our behalf. When we prophesy the WORD, will of God over a thing we are aligning with a reality that circumvents any fact of the natural realm. Faith in any covenant reality changes circumstances. Paul and Silas' chains and bruises were facts. The covenant Presence of God with them in that cell, meant the bonds could not hold them. See that? The law of gravity is a fact. The law of lift is a reality that causes a jumbo 747 to fly off into the clouds!

Illus: ships that never sailed. They were designed to, but never caught the wind and saw adventure.