{"id":1469,"date":"2012-11-29T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2012-11-20T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T15:32:57","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-11-29-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/29\/pearls-of-wisdom-11-29-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 11-29-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>I AM FLOURISHING<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Psalm 92:12,13, Amplified Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The [uncompromisingly] righteous shall flourish like the palm tree [be long-lived, stately, upright, useful, and fruitful]; they shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic, stable, durable, and incorruptible].\u00a0 Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God.<\/p>\n<p>I love these verses in <strong>Psalm 92<\/strong>.\u00a0 We will be studying verses 14 and 15 tomorrow.\u00a0 They are such melodies to my soul.<\/p>\n<p>I am righteous.\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 I have been made right with God and been given His ability to think the way He thinks and to do things the way He doe them.\u00a0 Now that takes some practice and time spent with Him and His Word to learn from His manual (the Bible) how He does things.\u00a0 He thinks differently than you.\u00a0 If you have spent any time with Him, you already know that.\u00a0 Every day we have to renew our minds to way He thinks.\u00a0 For example, He says that we are to give when we need something.\u00a0 In the world we hoard when we are in need.\u00a0 The two ideas are at exactly opposite ends of the pole.\u00a0 But that is the way God is.<\/p>\n<p>Because I am righteous, look at all that I am.\u00a0 First of all, I flourish like a palm tree.\u00a0 Palm trees withstand the storms of life when other trees are uprooted and fall.\u00a0 A palm tree is generally long-lived.\u00a0 It is useful and fruitful.\u00a0 We flourish like the palm tree.\u00a0 Flourish means:\u00a0 To expand, prosper, increase, increase in wealth, enlarge, shoot out, enter into a state of prosperity, become extremely successful.\u00a0 I like that, don\u2019t you?\u00a0 I like to increase in wealth and become extremely successful.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 So I can help others and bring joy to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>I grow strong like a cedar in Lebanon.\u00a0 I am full of God\u2019s majesty; therefore, I am majestic.\u00a0 I am stable because the Lord of stability lives in me.\u00a0 I am durable because God always endures long.\u00a0 He never wears out.\u00a0 Neither do I, in Him!\u00a0 I am incorruptible because the incorruptible One lives in me.\u00a0 He is incorruptible.\u00a0 Nothing decays Him.<\/p>\n<p>I am planted in the house of the Lord.\u00a0 I am planted there.\u00a0 I am not going anywhere.\u00a0 I am fixed in Him and His house.\u00a0 Because I am planted in the house of the Lord, I flourish (succeed, prosper, increase and expand) in everything I set my hands to do in the courts of my Lord.<\/p>\n<p>How refreshed we are in Him!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I AM FLOURISHING Psalm 92:12,13, Amplified Bible The [uncompromisingly] righteous shall flourish like the palm tree [be long-lived, stately, upright, useful, and fruitful]; they shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic, stable, durable, and incorruptible].\u00a0 Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God. 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