Chronicles of a Watchman by Dr. James P. Norman Jr.

  The true manifestation of the Holy Spirit will be earmarked by: A. A Christ-like spirit of love, patience, and faith in God B. Soberness and keenness of Spirit vision  C. Deep humility of heart and meekness of spirit, with a lion-like courage against sin, sickness, poverty, disease, discouragement, failure, and every other thing that could cause defeat in the Christian life. D. Absolute clearness of the mental facilities in intelligent action to carry out Bible instructions concerning known duty and personal life as a Christian. E. Freedom from all fault-finding, surmising, whispering or slander to anyone, and freedom from all works of the flesh that are listed in Rom. 1:29-32; I Corinth. 6:9-11; Gal. 5:19-21; Mark 7:19-21 F. The lack of any condemning and judging spirit, or seeking to hurt anyone by thought, word, or deed. All divine readings will be for the edification and betterment of all concerned and will be in accord with the golden rule. Matt. 7:12 G. Freedom from an...

Church is the beauty of holiness I Chronicles 16:29 - give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name bring him an offering and come before him; Worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness. Psalms 29:2 - Christians are commanded to be perfect in Holiness in body and spirit. such as possible in Christ. God is spoken of as being glorious in holiness. His throne is called one of holiness. Ministers Should Be Holy   Avoid everything inconsistent with Leviticus 21:6 and Isaiah 52:11 Leviticus. 21:6 - profane means to show irreverence, blaspheme, and to disrespect the name of God by sinning  Isaiah 52:11 - Be ye clean, you who bear the vessels of the Lord. Be Examples of Holiness I Timothy 4:11-12 - Once again a example of charity in spirit , in faith, and purity. Exhort to Holiness Heb. 12:14 meaning to follow /to pursue /chase seek after/follow closely Luke 21:19 - In your patience possess ye your souls. Possess your Possessions  Obadiah is about both Deliverance and ...

  Holiness Becoming in the church  Psalms 93: 5 is about holiness and testimonies. The term holiness is used here of the word of God in its various Revelations of Truth.  Holiness became thy House. An example is the behavior of aged women. According to Titus 2:3-4 aged women can be great examples of Holiness. Titus 2:3-4 5       Age women not necessarily aged in years but in the Lord.  verse 4   that they may teach these young women Verse 5 to be discreet Character of God Meditate on the following scriptures on the Character of God regarding Holiness: Leviathan.19:2 Speak  1 Peter 1:15-16 So be ye holy Ephesians 5:12 Followers of God  Mimetes in the Greek means imitators; mimic the gait, speech, accent, and manner of life of another. It means Care to imitate God as children do their parents-- imitate his acts, words, nature, ways graces, and Spirit.  Character of Christ Romans 8:29 work together, while all things are work...

There are two kinds of wisdom the first being from The Holy Spirit. It has distinctive marks. It is pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated and full of mercy. It produces good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. The second is not from the Holy Spirit. It is ungodly and has envy strife, boastfulness, lying and confusion as its distinctive marks. (1 Corinthians 14:33) True Revelation and Direction comes from a Believer’s Spirit and is from the Holy Spirit. If revelation comes from the soul it is worldly, if it comes from the body it is lustful False revelation and false direction comes from demonic control. The “spiritual” man receives the “hidden wisdom”, the “soulish” man cannot receive it. For further study, see break down and related scriptures (nkjv and comp) of 1 Corinthians 2:7-15 below. 1 Corinthians 2:1-3 Not with human oratory of wisdom. 1 Corinthians 2:.4-5 - Human weakness supernaturally attested and empowered by the Holy Spirit (comp. Rom. 15:18-19; Co...

After a believer has fallen into passivity and has not allowed himself to continue to be challenged by the word of God and when right and wrong is presented to him he has already made a different decision. If others try to explain something more to him, he will think that they are invading his freedom. This is how other things can enter in. There are other religious ideas that can take the place that is reserved for the principles of God himself. When It   comes to race and culture these other things can ease into the top spot. The enemy can tell you who the real enemy is. Since his mind has become completely passive, he does not know how to use his own reasoning to deduce, differentiate or judge anymore. Instead, he indiscriminately takes in every thought that these evil spirits inject into him about racism or other ideas about who is or who isn’t. You may even look for help by people you think are the right ones. Then you will consider your thoughts to be the most perfect ...

Do you know what faith is? Do you really understand the nature of faith? Most Christians don't consider the nature of what Faith really is. Faith is not a matter of taste. Faith is not an option where you base it on how you feel. Faith is imperative. It is absolutely essential that you and I understand the nature so that we may follow God's Decrees. Believing that you have received his salvation and Holy Spirit does not mean you won’t be led by your own lusts and desires at times. Faith is never under any circumstances demonstrated by what you're doing for Jesus. That is the first and most popular delusion - that when a man is busy for God, he is a great man of faith. Faith is giving God an open door into your spirit to work his decrees (see my blog on the decrees part 1 and 2) even if you don't understand totally at the time, but by your relationship you trust Him. You say wow what a great man of faith look what he is doing for God. Nonsense! God is looking ...

You can see for yourself in John 8:29, it states “I do always those things which please him”. How often did the Lord Jesus do those things which pleased the Father? Always!!! That was the nature of the sinlessness of His humanity. This was the character of His normality. This was the perfect liberty of God’s son (the true meaning of Liberty). We say “I’ll do as I please” and imagine that this represents the liberty we enjoy, the freedom that the Lord Jesus enjoyed. It is given to you and me. The Lord Jesus was always at liberty to do only those things that pleased his Father. That is freedom. In other terms Jesus may be saying “I’ve entered into no engagement, I’ve made no friendship”, “I’ve indebted myself to nobody nor am I under obligation to anybody anywhere at any time”. That’s Freedom. Hebrews 11:5-6 - in the fifth chapter first we are told that Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found, because God had translated him. Before his translation he...