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Can I Just Be Honest?

by Wayne C. Anderson

We’ve all heard it said, “honesty is the best policy.” That’s cute, but the most crucial time for honesty is when we are facing God. Honesty at the very deepest parts of your being is essential to have meaningful dialogue with the Master. Hiding the things we fear from Him is fraudulent. Likewise, keeping pain a secret from Him is dishonest.

Confession only to the depths that our shame will allow is a counterfeit to truth and genuine peace. Therefore, confession of sin to the Lord should always be to the depths of our being – the very fibers that make up our existence. Then, and only then is our soul - our destiny - cleansed unto absolute purity and true devotion by the saving grace of the Lord Jesus’ death, which will cause us to rise in newness, even as He broke the chains of death and rose from the dead.

It is hard to forgive others when we have not experienced forgiveness ourselves. Yet if we do not forgive, the Lord does not back us up with our faith activities. (see Mark 11)

Thus, it is hard to hear the voice of God or understand when He is speaking to us when our innermost beings are clouded, covered, even sheltered in dishonesty in the least.

The answer is to be honest regularly with the Lord. Your conversations with Him should be brutally honest, knowing and believing that He will restore the honest heart to a place of victory, a place of exceedingly great joy.

Imagine what might have been if Adam & Eve had run back to the Father in their nakedness and told Him what they had done before He asked? But, instead, their dis-honesty caused them to hide with clothes and distance from the Father and made Him come looking for them.

If “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God,” then that deep abiding honesty will hear the glorious voice of the Lord, and the result will be mountain moving faith!

Honesty is good stuff. Try it. You’ll like it. Allot.
"Be strong, all you people of the land, declares Yehovah.
Work, for I am with you,
declares Yehovah with the council of the heavens,
according to the covenant that I made with you
when you came out of Egypt.
My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.
For thus says Yehovah with the council of the heavens:
Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens
and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations
shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory,
says Yehovah with the council of the heavens.
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,
declares Yehovah with the council of the heavens.
The latter glory of My house shall be greater than the former,
says Yehovah with the council of the heavens.
And in this place I will give shalom,
declares Yehovah with the council of the heavens."
Haggai 2:4-9
Thanks for reading. We hope to see you soon!

Wayne C & Stephanie Anderson & Your I.A.M. Apostolic Directors & Team
Behold He Is Coming With The Clouds
IAM CONVENING Heart of the Father JUNE 2022