Isaiah 66:1,2 "This is what the Lord says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the Lord. "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word."
The Lord has shown me some things this week that I was confused on and tonight He has brought me to this place. His presence has been so heavy for about the last two hours, here in this bedroom that I use for my office, where I write to Him, for Him, because of Him. It is where I play worship music always when I am in this room, this is where I read His precious Word and where I worship Him. This is where I call to Him, where I sing and minister to Him. I sing in my bedroom also, and there is always worship music there, all night, constantly, but this room, this room is where He comes and joins me. He listens to me worship Him, He reads the Word with me, explaining things, opening the scriptures to my understanding. This little room is where He is showing me His Footstool.
I always thought I would worship Him at His footstool, it would be in Heaven. But no, He is telling me, I am on His footstool. This world, this earth is His footstool. When I worship Him right here, wherever I am on this earth, I am worshiping at His footstool. As I sit here, I sit at His footstool. At His feet. He is always with me....I can hardly type as His presence is so heavy now.
My Lord, here I am at Your footstool. I don't want to be any other place but here, where you put me. I don't want to be anything other than what You have made me to be, Yours. To think I almost went out tonight, to Bible Study, but I felt so tired, so weary, from work, been so hard last few days of the month. But I am so thankful I decided to stay home, as I would not have missed this, I am so blessed, just to be here in Your presence. To think I would have left and not been able to spend these few hours with You. Just here with You, it is so glorious, so right. I give all that I am, Lord, all my will, all my life, to You. I just want to be with You, I just want You. You are my desire. How long, O Lord, before You return, how long before I can begin to spend eternity with You, never to have anything going on around me that is not pure worship to You. I want to be in that heavenly choir that enthrones You with praises and pours heartfelt worship up to You twenty four hours a day. And more than that I want to sit at Your feet, feel Your hand upon me, hear Your voice speak softly, telling me You love me too; to feel Your breath upon me.
You have shown me that I am at Your footstool here on earth. Amid all the sounds of the groaning of the earth as it fights its destiny, as the decay of sin is beginning to spread, the glee of those demonic spirits that think they have won this earth for their king. But no, they don't know, or if they do, they don't believe that You will return for what is Yours. Those people that are called by Your Name, Your people, will be lifted up from this decaying land. You will trample satans armies under Your feet and You will declare a new earth. You will wash us clean again. You will restore our land, Your footstool.
But for now, as I worship, as I praise Your Holy Name, You will come and give me Your blessing, Your love as You sit with me in my little room. You will be with me in my car, at my job, at church; no matter where I am You will be here with me. At Your footstool, You will hold my hand, You will dry my tears of joy as I cry from Your Holiness spreading all around me. At Your footstool, You will lead me through Your Word and teach me Your ways, Your wishes and plans. You will listen to me worship You with all my heart, You will be touched as my soul cries out with longing for Your touch, Your presence and You will give me my heart's desire.
I worship at Your footstool, my Lord, with all my heart, I worship You. I give You all honor, all glory, all of my love. This 30th day of April, 2011, I sit at Your footstool, seeking only You, desiring only You, loving only You.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
THE SNARE DID NOT GET ME
Proverbs 4:25-27 (Message) "Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow attractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left, leave evil in the dust."
I almost got snared...almost. The enemy is so subtle. You cannot always recognize what he is doing unless you are really entuned to the Lord's voice. You have to really be so wanting to hear the Lord's voice.
The Lord told me he wants me to move, I have mentioned this. He told me in the fall. I am thinking September. It will take money - time to accomplish this. I will need some moving time so I need to save some of my vacation time for this, so much to think about. But it will have been a year in September that the Lord first told me He was moving me. The enemy knows this. He knows the Lord has plans for me, something wonderful He is doing in me and with me. So as it gets closer, and nothing he has tried so far to stop me has worked. He began with the worship in my church, making me wonder who would take my place, what would happen, putting guilt on me. Well, the Lord was quick to squash this one; He told me that it was not my problem, it was His.
Then satan tried the weather on me. Telling me how much bad weather the area is subject to. Well, that got him nowhere also, as the Lord gave me a perfect peace about it. My Lord will take care of me, no matter where I am, He controls the weather, and He gives perfect peace to me.
Well, now satan is really getting dirty. He knows how I feel about worshiping my Lord. Satan knows I want to learn as much as I can about worshiping my God, and he knows I love to be where beautiful, heartfelt, corporate worship is going up to my Lord. So he started stirring in me a desire to go to all the worship conferences that are being scheduled that I could. One at the end of July, he really threw that one at me. Three days in North Carolina, great speakers and teachers on worship. One speaker I had watched DVD's by, on worship, it was so enlightening; read one of his books, good stuff. So exciting to me, me who loves to worship the Lord.
To add to the excitement of the conference, I would get to meet a friend that I love so dearly, as she lives near by and could come to the conference also. So here I was beginning to make plans, to schedule vacation time, check airline schedules and costs....so why was I feeling so distressed this morning.
I was excited last night, so excited. But this morning I was so heavy with a grieving spirit. Why was I no longer excited? Only a few hours had passed. But now there was a terrible uneasiness in me when I was thinking about it. I was looking at scheduling vacation and seeing what would be left for my moving time. I could hardly think about it I was so distressed.
I only know to do one thing. I took a break and got my phone. I brought up the Bible app on it and began to read the Word. It was not necessarily what I was reading, I can't even remember now. But it was by reading the Word I was tuning in to the Father, I was going into His realm, His spiritual realm. It didn't take long for me to begin to hear His voice, softly talking into my spirit. He told me He knew I loved to worship Him and wanted to constantly, but that I was being deceived, and it was the enemy doing it.
My Lord told me that satan was trying to pull me from the plan He had for me, trying to fix it so I would have neither the time or money (and the Lord has being providing extra to put aside for the move) to move. It would all be spent going all over the country under the guise of me believing I was in God's will to attend these conferences at this time. The Lord told me I would be going to them, just not right now. He also reminded me that when I first found out about this conference, He had told me, not this one. But with time passing, satan tried afresh with new vigor. But the Lord wanted me to keep my eyes on what He had planned for me at this time. To move to the place where He has things in place for me to begin my life anew doing what He has prepared for me to do for His Kingdom. Immediately I felt my spirit lift up; the load of heaviness remove from me as I began to see what was happening.
See, satan can be such a smooth talker, he can have you believing this is the Lord telling you to go here, go there. Oh, you so need to know the Lord's voice, you need to be able to distinguish it from the enemy. If the Lord's voice is speaking to you, you will know in your spirit it is He. When it is the enemy speaking, you will as I, if you are truly in the Lord, begin to feel such a heaviness in your spirit. You know that there is something wrong here.
Thank you, my Lord, for showing me I was being distracted from the path you have set my feet on. I know you will have worship conferences for me that will be in your timing. I need to stay focused and do things as You put them in place for me, not my time and certainly not the enemys. Your plan for me, my wonderful Lord is what I want in my life. I am so excited that you have such plans for me. I will go with you my Beloved, where you lead me, I will follow.
I love you, Jesus. With all my heart. The big British royal wedding was today and I could only think of the most wonderful royal wedding in the world. When You, my King and Prince of Peace, come for me, your Bride to take me to Your palace for eternity. I will keep myself unto You, to be ready when ever it is the time for You to come for me, for Your Bride.
This 29th day of April, 2011, I am following after You, my Lord, following after You and only listening to Your voice.
I almost got snared...almost. The enemy is so subtle. You cannot always recognize what he is doing unless you are really entuned to the Lord's voice. You have to really be so wanting to hear the Lord's voice.
The Lord told me he wants me to move, I have mentioned this. He told me in the fall. I am thinking September. It will take money - time to accomplish this. I will need some moving time so I need to save some of my vacation time for this, so much to think about. But it will have been a year in September that the Lord first told me He was moving me. The enemy knows this. He knows the Lord has plans for me, something wonderful He is doing in me and with me. So as it gets closer, and nothing he has tried so far to stop me has worked. He began with the worship in my church, making me wonder who would take my place, what would happen, putting guilt on me. Well, the Lord was quick to squash this one; He told me that it was not my problem, it was His.
Then satan tried the weather on me. Telling me how much bad weather the area is subject to. Well, that got him nowhere also, as the Lord gave me a perfect peace about it. My Lord will take care of me, no matter where I am, He controls the weather, and He gives perfect peace to me.
Well, now satan is really getting dirty. He knows how I feel about worshiping my Lord. Satan knows I want to learn as much as I can about worshiping my God, and he knows I love to be where beautiful, heartfelt, corporate worship is going up to my Lord. So he started stirring in me a desire to go to all the worship conferences that are being scheduled that I could. One at the end of July, he really threw that one at me. Three days in North Carolina, great speakers and teachers on worship. One speaker I had watched DVD's by, on worship, it was so enlightening; read one of his books, good stuff. So exciting to me, me who loves to worship the Lord.
To add to the excitement of the conference, I would get to meet a friend that I love so dearly, as she lives near by and could come to the conference also. So here I was beginning to make plans, to schedule vacation time, check airline schedules and costs....so why was I feeling so distressed this morning.
I was excited last night, so excited. But this morning I was so heavy with a grieving spirit. Why was I no longer excited? Only a few hours had passed. But now there was a terrible uneasiness in me when I was thinking about it. I was looking at scheduling vacation and seeing what would be left for my moving time. I could hardly think about it I was so distressed.
I only know to do one thing. I took a break and got my phone. I brought up the Bible app on it and began to read the Word. It was not necessarily what I was reading, I can't even remember now. But it was by reading the Word I was tuning in to the Father, I was going into His realm, His spiritual realm. It didn't take long for me to begin to hear His voice, softly talking into my spirit. He told me He knew I loved to worship Him and wanted to constantly, but that I was being deceived, and it was the enemy doing it.
My Lord told me that satan was trying to pull me from the plan He had for me, trying to fix it so I would have neither the time or money (and the Lord has being providing extra to put aside for the move) to move. It would all be spent going all over the country under the guise of me believing I was in God's will to attend these conferences at this time. The Lord told me I would be going to them, just not right now. He also reminded me that when I first found out about this conference, He had told me, not this one. But with time passing, satan tried afresh with new vigor. But the Lord wanted me to keep my eyes on what He had planned for me at this time. To move to the place where He has things in place for me to begin my life anew doing what He has prepared for me to do for His Kingdom. Immediately I felt my spirit lift up; the load of heaviness remove from me as I began to see what was happening.
See, satan can be such a smooth talker, he can have you believing this is the Lord telling you to go here, go there. Oh, you so need to know the Lord's voice, you need to be able to distinguish it from the enemy. If the Lord's voice is speaking to you, you will know in your spirit it is He. When it is the enemy speaking, you will as I, if you are truly in the Lord, begin to feel such a heaviness in your spirit. You know that there is something wrong here.
Thank you, my Lord, for showing me I was being distracted from the path you have set my feet on. I know you will have worship conferences for me that will be in your timing. I need to stay focused and do things as You put them in place for me, not my time and certainly not the enemys. Your plan for me, my wonderful Lord is what I want in my life. I am so excited that you have such plans for me. I will go with you my Beloved, where you lead me, I will follow.
I love you, Jesus. With all my heart. The big British royal wedding was today and I could only think of the most wonderful royal wedding in the world. When You, my King and Prince of Peace, come for me, your Bride to take me to Your palace for eternity. I will keep myself unto You, to be ready when ever it is the time for You to come for me, for Your Bride.
This 29th day of April, 2011, I am following after You, my Lord, following after You and only listening to Your voice.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
CROWN OF PRAISE
Isaiah 61:10 (Message) "I will sing for joy in God, explode in praise from deep in my soul! He dressed me up in a suit of salvation, he outfitted me in a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom who puts on a tuxedo and a bride a jeweled tiara."
As I was praying and waiting on the Lord to show me, just show me what I was to write tonight, I saw a crown in my spirit. A crown that was moving, jubilent. A crown for praise. A crown of praise. When I became the Lords alone, He clothed my ragged soul in a cloak of love, my distressed spirit in a robe of righteousness, and lifted my heart up and placed upon it a crown, a crown of praise to Him. He gave me a special gift. A crown of praise. One that I could offer back to Him. A crown that would bless me, annoint me, and empower me to show and teach others to worship Him, to praise Him. Now I see, my Lord, where this is going. I was not sure when I saw the crown, saw the praise around it. But, You, my Lord, are always faithful, always guiding in what You want me to see in You, to say for You.
I was like so many, I thought I was praising God, worshiping the Lord, but I understand now that all I did was sing songs. Songs that I sang while I made out lists in my mind, decided on what all I had to do when church was over. You know what I mean, do not say you have never done that. And as I know now, those songs were never leaving the building. Of course, people told me how wonderful they were, how they enjoyed them....but it was not to be for them. Never for them. But it may as well have been, as they never reached the throne room of God. Just songs with words, no praise, no worship. Just songs.
Wow. The Lord just used a broadcast to confirm this to me. This importance, this need that our worship be from the heart, not words, but heartfelt feelings, desires to truly lift up His Name about all names, to worship Him. The words are not important the Lord has shown me, it is the love flowing from my heart to Him. Lifting up His Name in glory, in honor. Putting Him in my thoughts. Thinking only of Him while I am worshiping, while I sing what ever song that is being played. I can walk through the grocery store with whatever they have playing on the intercom and begin to worship Him using that music with the words of praise from my heart.
He has placed a crown on my head. This crown, designating me as a worshiper of the King. Setting me aside, putting me in a place separate from the crowd, drawing me up onto His mountain, to just worship Him. The Lord loves to be worshiped. He, who has provided all things to His children, who loves so unconditionally, desires to be worshiped for Who He is, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, the Father who made us, made us to worship. And when He finds one that lives to do just that, lives to worship day and night, He places a crown of worship upon their head. You see, I know my Lord sings with me. He has words of worship and praise that He loves to hear and He sings them into my spirit, into the spirit of all those who desire to worship Him. Where do you think these songs of no-names come from. I find myself singing out songs of worship to my Lord that I can never sing again as they are words that He is giving me for that one time of worship, that special expression of love, in just the manner He wants it to be sung. He wants all to see how this child of His, this worshiper of His, sings her love to Him, how she wants nothing else but to be able to sing words of love to her beloved Lord.
When I remember just singing....well, I will never just sing again. Only words of real worship will come from me, in thanksgiving and praise to the Lord, to the God of all the earth, that has redeemed me just for His pleasure, just to worship Him and give Him glory. Just to please Him with my songs of love, songs of adoration, soulful songs of my desperate need for His presence. I will worship to bring joy to Him, so He will leave His throne room and come to where I am, alone in my room, with only thoughts of Him in my songs, only pure worship to Him coming from my lips, just to let Him know that I cannot live my life without Him being in control of everything I do, everything I am. I need You, Lord, every moment, every hour, how I need You. I worship You with all that I am, You are my God, You mean everything to me.
This 28th day of April, 2011, I come to tell You how much I love You, my Lord. You are the Light of my days, You are the Stars of my nights, You are my heart. And the most beautiful part of all this, my Beloved, is that I know I am Yours also. I know You love me....forever.
As I was praying and waiting on the Lord to show me, just show me what I was to write tonight, I saw a crown in my spirit. A crown that was moving, jubilent. A crown for praise. A crown of praise. When I became the Lords alone, He clothed my ragged soul in a cloak of love, my distressed spirit in a robe of righteousness, and lifted my heart up and placed upon it a crown, a crown of praise to Him. He gave me a special gift. A crown of praise. One that I could offer back to Him. A crown that would bless me, annoint me, and empower me to show and teach others to worship Him, to praise Him. Now I see, my Lord, where this is going. I was not sure when I saw the crown, saw the praise around it. But, You, my Lord, are always faithful, always guiding in what You want me to see in You, to say for You.
I was like so many, I thought I was praising God, worshiping the Lord, but I understand now that all I did was sing songs. Songs that I sang while I made out lists in my mind, decided on what all I had to do when church was over. You know what I mean, do not say you have never done that. And as I know now, those songs were never leaving the building. Of course, people told me how wonderful they were, how they enjoyed them....but it was not to be for them. Never for them. But it may as well have been, as they never reached the throne room of God. Just songs with words, no praise, no worship. Just songs.
Wow. The Lord just used a broadcast to confirm this to me. This importance, this need that our worship be from the heart, not words, but heartfelt feelings, desires to truly lift up His Name about all names, to worship Him. The words are not important the Lord has shown me, it is the love flowing from my heart to Him. Lifting up His Name in glory, in honor. Putting Him in my thoughts. Thinking only of Him while I am worshiping, while I sing what ever song that is being played. I can walk through the grocery store with whatever they have playing on the intercom and begin to worship Him using that music with the words of praise from my heart.
He has placed a crown on my head. This crown, designating me as a worshiper of the King. Setting me aside, putting me in a place separate from the crowd, drawing me up onto His mountain, to just worship Him. The Lord loves to be worshiped. He, who has provided all things to His children, who loves so unconditionally, desires to be worshiped for Who He is, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, the Father who made us, made us to worship. And when He finds one that lives to do just that, lives to worship day and night, He places a crown of worship upon their head. You see, I know my Lord sings with me. He has words of worship and praise that He loves to hear and He sings them into my spirit, into the spirit of all those who desire to worship Him. Where do you think these songs of no-names come from. I find myself singing out songs of worship to my Lord that I can never sing again as they are words that He is giving me for that one time of worship, that special expression of love, in just the manner He wants it to be sung. He wants all to see how this child of His, this worshiper of His, sings her love to Him, how she wants nothing else but to be able to sing words of love to her beloved Lord.
When I remember just singing....well, I will never just sing again. Only words of real worship will come from me, in thanksgiving and praise to the Lord, to the God of all the earth, that has redeemed me just for His pleasure, just to worship Him and give Him glory. Just to please Him with my songs of love, songs of adoration, soulful songs of my desperate need for His presence. I will worship to bring joy to Him, so He will leave His throne room and come to where I am, alone in my room, with only thoughts of Him in my songs, only pure worship to Him coming from my lips, just to let Him know that I cannot live my life without Him being in control of everything I do, everything I am. I need You, Lord, every moment, every hour, how I need You. I worship You with all that I am, You are my God, You mean everything to me.
This 28th day of April, 2011, I come to tell You how much I love You, my Lord. You are the Light of my days, You are the Stars of my nights, You are my heart. And the most beautiful part of all this, my Beloved, is that I know I am Yours also. I know You love me....forever.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
I WILL SEE THE LORD
Psalm 27:13 "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."
I will see the Lord. Of this I am certain. His goodness showers His people daily but so many do not see. They don't understand that even when things seem hard to them, it is still the goodness of the Lord. There are times when things happen to us to move us from one spot to another; these things withstanding, we would just stay put. But when we are called to go or to do something and it is what the Lord intends for us to do, He will cause something to move us. This, I have determined, will not happen to me. I fully intend to do exactly what I am called to do, go where He leads me.
I will see the Lord. I will see His hand in each day, in each hour, every minute. I know that I am in His will and I know that He is doing the leading, I do the following. When you realize this is what is moving your being, you see the Lord in all. Do you know, my beloved watches movies with me. He reads books with me, looks at magazines with me. He also does these things with you, are you watching and reading the things that our Lord would enjoy? Think about that for a moment. He has a habit of talking during the movie thought, but I must say I like how He explains things, how He can put everything I am watching into His realm, in the spiritual realm, His world.
I will see the Lord. When I close my eyes at night to sleep, I know He is keeping close watch on me, His beloved, to make sure I have a peaceful rest, that there are no invading evil spirits that would disturb my soul while I am unaware. My Lord never leaves me while I rest. There is such contentment in this, such peace. When I wake, I know He is pleased to hear worship coming from me. I feel His pleasure in me.
I will see the Lord. When the Lord asks me to talk to someone, one that is having a difficult time or distressed in body or spirit, I know it is His words that I am speaking. I never have to worry about what to say as He knows what is needed and gives those words to me. It is He that is glorified in this, it is Jesus that is giving the peace to this person, not I, it is nothing I am doing. I am the messenger only. It is my Lord that gives the grace.
I will see the Lord. As I cannot contain the joy that the Lord puts in my heart, all I want to do is praise His Holiness. Give glory to His Name and worship Him with all my heart and soul. I have to worship my Lord, there is no other way to put it. I have to. I will dry up inside, my spirit will die if I can not worship the precious Lord that is everything to me. Everything. He is all to me, He supplies everything I need, and as He is who I seek, He supplies everything I want. See when you have Him on your mind and in your heart, and He is what you want, you will get your heart's desire. The Lord wants nothing more than to be first in your life. He will fill that desire in you with His presence. My desire....His presence.
I will see the Lord. You must understand, He will make sure I see Him. I see Him in the morning sunrise, I see Him in the fluffy clouds as I am flying over them in a jet, I see Him as the sun goes down and the stars come up. When I see the stars I am reminded that He knows them all by name, and if they are that important to Him, how much more am I on His mind. He deserves all the glory from my lips. I see my Lord in a child's face as I pray a blessing on this child that they will be drawn to the Lord as they grow and know Him as their Savior. I see Him in the faces of His children, those with so much love for Him in their eyes. I see Him in the voices of those that lift up His Name in Praise and Worship. I see the Lord.
I see my Lord in His Word. He is everywhere. And I purposely look for Him in each verse. I look to see Him, to see what He is telling me here. And He speaks to me. When He speaks to me through His Word, I see Him ever so clearly. I could almost touch Him. I know He touches me. I can feel Him, feel His presence. I would love to touch His face. Touch those eyes that have looked into my heart, into my soul, smiling as He finds Himself there. Yes, I will see the Lord as I look for Him everywhere. There is no doubt I will see Him. You can also, if you will but look for Him. He is not hiding from us, He wants us to find Him, to see Him.
My precious, beloved Lord. My desire to worship You grows stronger each day. I love You deeper each moment. There are times I think my heart will burst from loving You so much. You fill my days and nights in my thoughts. My Jesus, You are my life. This 27th day of April, 2011, I will see you, I will see You, my Lord.
I will see the Lord. Of this I am certain. His goodness showers His people daily but so many do not see. They don't understand that even when things seem hard to them, it is still the goodness of the Lord. There are times when things happen to us to move us from one spot to another; these things withstanding, we would just stay put. But when we are called to go or to do something and it is what the Lord intends for us to do, He will cause something to move us. This, I have determined, will not happen to me. I fully intend to do exactly what I am called to do, go where He leads me.
I will see the Lord. I will see His hand in each day, in each hour, every minute. I know that I am in His will and I know that He is doing the leading, I do the following. When you realize this is what is moving your being, you see the Lord in all. Do you know, my beloved watches movies with me. He reads books with me, looks at magazines with me. He also does these things with you, are you watching and reading the things that our Lord would enjoy? Think about that for a moment. He has a habit of talking during the movie thought, but I must say I like how He explains things, how He can put everything I am watching into His realm, in the spiritual realm, His world.
I will see the Lord. When I close my eyes at night to sleep, I know He is keeping close watch on me, His beloved, to make sure I have a peaceful rest, that there are no invading evil spirits that would disturb my soul while I am unaware. My Lord never leaves me while I rest. There is such contentment in this, such peace. When I wake, I know He is pleased to hear worship coming from me. I feel His pleasure in me.
I will see the Lord. When the Lord asks me to talk to someone, one that is having a difficult time or distressed in body or spirit, I know it is His words that I am speaking. I never have to worry about what to say as He knows what is needed and gives those words to me. It is He that is glorified in this, it is Jesus that is giving the peace to this person, not I, it is nothing I am doing. I am the messenger only. It is my Lord that gives the grace.
I will see the Lord. As I cannot contain the joy that the Lord puts in my heart, all I want to do is praise His Holiness. Give glory to His Name and worship Him with all my heart and soul. I have to worship my Lord, there is no other way to put it. I have to. I will dry up inside, my spirit will die if I can not worship the precious Lord that is everything to me. Everything. He is all to me, He supplies everything I need, and as He is who I seek, He supplies everything I want. See when you have Him on your mind and in your heart, and He is what you want, you will get your heart's desire. The Lord wants nothing more than to be first in your life. He will fill that desire in you with His presence. My desire....His presence.
I will see the Lord. You must understand, He will make sure I see Him. I see Him in the morning sunrise, I see Him in the fluffy clouds as I am flying over them in a jet, I see Him as the sun goes down and the stars come up. When I see the stars I am reminded that He knows them all by name, and if they are that important to Him, how much more am I on His mind. He deserves all the glory from my lips. I see my Lord in a child's face as I pray a blessing on this child that they will be drawn to the Lord as they grow and know Him as their Savior. I see Him in the faces of His children, those with so much love for Him in their eyes. I see Him in the voices of those that lift up His Name in Praise and Worship. I see the Lord.
I see my Lord in His Word. He is everywhere. And I purposely look for Him in each verse. I look to see Him, to see what He is telling me here. And He speaks to me. When He speaks to me through His Word, I see Him ever so clearly. I could almost touch Him. I know He touches me. I can feel Him, feel His presence. I would love to touch His face. Touch those eyes that have looked into my heart, into my soul, smiling as He finds Himself there. Yes, I will see the Lord as I look for Him everywhere. There is no doubt I will see Him. You can also, if you will but look for Him. He is not hiding from us, He wants us to find Him, to see Him.
My precious, beloved Lord. My desire to worship You grows stronger each day. I love You deeper each moment. There are times I think my heart will burst from loving You so much. You fill my days and nights in my thoughts. My Jesus, You are my life. This 27th day of April, 2011, I will see you, I will see You, my Lord.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
COME ON - GET HAPPY
Jeremiah 31:13 "Then maidens will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness, I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow."
This morning I was looking at a popular ladies magazine. You know, the ones that line the checkout counter at the store. They have articles about health, recipes, so forth. Well on the front of this one was an article entitled How to Get Happy. Silly women, you don't just get happy, you either are or you are not. You can not manufacture happy. It is an inward expression from your heart. Happy comes from the heart, not from the head. It is what is in your heart that determines true happiness. It is not a head thought thing, that is only superficial happiness, it goes away real quickly. It is a make believe happy, to fool yourself into thinking you are happy.
Let me share what the Lord has shown me about happiness. First I want to tell you how very sorry I feel for the writers of that article in the magazine. I feel even sorrier for the ladies that read the article and try to use those ideas to make themselves happy. It was ideas such as be good to yourself, go shopping, take warm bubble baths. Now bubble baths are lovely and soothing, but not happy makers.
The Lord has the perfect plan for our happiness. There are a few steps to achieving happiness but it is so worth the trip. First you need to ask the Lord for complete forgiveness of your sins. He is waiting to give you forgiveness for all sin, past, present and anything in the future that you may do that is not of Him. He loves us so. Then, you must, for your sake, give yourself to the Lord. Completely, without reservation, holding nothing back. Give everything to Him. Your control, your will, just lean onto Him, He can handle anything you give Him. He will never let you down. He will show you just how you can trust Him. He will do things in your life that will build your faith, giving you no doubt that He is there and doing everything for your good. Now what have we got left. If you will look inside yourself now, you will find what I did. Total peace. Total joy. Happiness. There is no stress or worry to rob your thoughts, your heart will not be carrying a load of problems. You will have just handed those up to the Father each day as they are thrown at you by the enemy. See, the Lord never leaves you. He is right there waiting for that load of sorrow as soon as it comes on you. He wants nothing to rob your joy, your happiness. You will find that heartfelt, loving worship to the Lord will keep refreshing that happiness on a daily basis. Praise and worship to our Lord, our Jesus, for all He has done, for all He does for us each day.
See the Holy Spirit....feel the Lord's Spirit inside you, showing you constantly anything that is not of the Lord, so you can give it to the Father, repentive heart just giving all of it to the Lord. Keep yourself holy before God, keep your heart cleansed. I assure you there will be happy there.
This happy feeling you will discover, is the kind that wakes up with you in the morning and sings inside you all day long. It stays, no matter how the day goes, nothing can remove this kind of happiness from you. It is not manufactured by the mind, no one has to write an article in a magazine to tell you how to be happy. If you forget these instructions written here, pick up the Word of God. It is there to instruct you always. I get so joyful and happy at the words of my Lord, I cry from the swelling of my heart in joy. These words so wonderful and blessed bring restoration to me, peace, they remind me in each word of the Lord's great love for me.
Happy. Real happiness is a God given blessing. He is the only way to have true happiness in your life. Only my precious Lord can give this to you, to me. I have accepted His love and He has given me true happiness. I do not plan to do anything that will rob me of this.
My Lord, how I love you. You have given me so much, You continue to bless me each day. My heart is so full of love and adoration for You, I never want to be out of Your presence. I thank You for giving me life, eternal life through You. This 26th day of April, 2011, there is happiness in my heart that no one can take from me, as it was put there by You, my Beloved.
This morning I was looking at a popular ladies magazine. You know, the ones that line the checkout counter at the store. They have articles about health, recipes, so forth. Well on the front of this one was an article entitled How to Get Happy. Silly women, you don't just get happy, you either are or you are not. You can not manufacture happy. It is an inward expression from your heart. Happy comes from the heart, not from the head. It is what is in your heart that determines true happiness. It is not a head thought thing, that is only superficial happiness, it goes away real quickly. It is a make believe happy, to fool yourself into thinking you are happy.
Let me share what the Lord has shown me about happiness. First I want to tell you how very sorry I feel for the writers of that article in the magazine. I feel even sorrier for the ladies that read the article and try to use those ideas to make themselves happy. It was ideas such as be good to yourself, go shopping, take warm bubble baths. Now bubble baths are lovely and soothing, but not happy makers.
The Lord has the perfect plan for our happiness. There are a few steps to achieving happiness but it is so worth the trip. First you need to ask the Lord for complete forgiveness of your sins. He is waiting to give you forgiveness for all sin, past, present and anything in the future that you may do that is not of Him. He loves us so. Then, you must, for your sake, give yourself to the Lord. Completely, without reservation, holding nothing back. Give everything to Him. Your control, your will, just lean onto Him, He can handle anything you give Him. He will never let you down. He will show you just how you can trust Him. He will do things in your life that will build your faith, giving you no doubt that He is there and doing everything for your good. Now what have we got left. If you will look inside yourself now, you will find what I did. Total peace. Total joy. Happiness. There is no stress or worry to rob your thoughts, your heart will not be carrying a load of problems. You will have just handed those up to the Father each day as they are thrown at you by the enemy. See, the Lord never leaves you. He is right there waiting for that load of sorrow as soon as it comes on you. He wants nothing to rob your joy, your happiness. You will find that heartfelt, loving worship to the Lord will keep refreshing that happiness on a daily basis. Praise and worship to our Lord, our Jesus, for all He has done, for all He does for us each day.
See the Holy Spirit....feel the Lord's Spirit inside you, showing you constantly anything that is not of the Lord, so you can give it to the Father, repentive heart just giving all of it to the Lord. Keep yourself holy before God, keep your heart cleansed. I assure you there will be happy there.
This happy feeling you will discover, is the kind that wakes up with you in the morning and sings inside you all day long. It stays, no matter how the day goes, nothing can remove this kind of happiness from you. It is not manufactured by the mind, no one has to write an article in a magazine to tell you how to be happy. If you forget these instructions written here, pick up the Word of God. It is there to instruct you always. I get so joyful and happy at the words of my Lord, I cry from the swelling of my heart in joy. These words so wonderful and blessed bring restoration to me, peace, they remind me in each word of the Lord's great love for me.
Happy. Real happiness is a God given blessing. He is the only way to have true happiness in your life. Only my precious Lord can give this to you, to me. I have accepted His love and He has given me true happiness. I do not plan to do anything that will rob me of this.
My Lord, how I love you. You have given me so much, You continue to bless me each day. My heart is so full of love and adoration for You, I never want to be out of Your presence. I thank You for giving me life, eternal life through You. This 26th day of April, 2011, there is happiness in my heart that no one can take from me, as it was put there by You, my Beloved.
Monday, April 25, 2011
TOTAL TRUST
Psalm 84:12 "O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in You."
What a wonderful weekend, Lord. Thank You for all the blessings You have given me this weekend. The services at Destiny were such a blessing to me, my visit with my friends, everything has been wonderful. You always see to everything and I am so blessed of You. I love Your presence with me, no matter where I go, I know You are with me. That is the best part of every day.
Last night, as I watched all the warnings on TV of the tornados that might happen, there was a strange sense of calmness in me. I say strange as I remember how terrified of bad weather I have always been. Even in Houston, I always feel a little uneasy when bad weather comes. But last night watching, there was a difference in me. I awoke around 4 this morning to a real loud light and thunder show outside. It was really bad weather and my Lord, I was calm. I was totally at peace during the storm. I am so amazed at what You have done in me. The total peace in my life. I know it only comes from the total trust I have in You. No fear of life, or what it holds, as I know You hold me in the palm of your hand. It is You that is the keeper of my life. Not me, not this world, but you my Lord.
Remember, Father, how I would cringe when weather would turn bad. And don't think the enemy has not been whispering in my ear telling me how many thunder storms come across this area that we don't have in Houston. But the enemy also does not recognize the new person You have made in me. He doesn't realize that I have total trust in You in all things. And now his words of fear fall on deaf ears. The only fear in me is of my God, an awesome, loving fear of the Lord that plans my days for me, and gives me strength and courage to face what ever comes as I know You are with me constantly.
I wish to thank You again my Lord, for Your blood shed for me. It is because of that blood, that precious blood You shed for my sins, for my redemption and salvation, that gives me the right to completely trust in You. Without that sacrifice, I would not know the peace, the joy of You, my Lord. I have that peace and joy because You are the Rock of my salvation, the everlasting light given to me to guide me throughout any dark area that may come upon my life. You put light into a world that would tend to swallow me up in its misery and shame. I am a product of that light in You. You share with me the love and fellowship of the Father, giving to me what is Yours, sharing with me the eternal life that comes from the love of the Father. Never ending love, precious atonement for me, each day of my life.
I am still so encased in yesterday, Resurrection Sunday, knowing the significance of that remembrance of the price You paid to give me this peace I have. I want to worship You each moment, giving to you so much love, all I am, all I will ever be, totally giving it to You. My Lord Jesus, You are the love I never thought possible, the joy that I feel each moment, You are the thought I have in the morning when I wake up, and the longing I have all through the day. The longing just to worship a Savior that deserves all the glory, all the honor and all my worship forever. You so deserve all praise, Lord, all praise.
This 25th day of April, 2011, I want my life to go where You lead, be where You are, and spend my days loving You as You love me. Together, I want to be a shadow to You and of You. I want to be so close to You, I am as a shadow, a reflection of Who and What You Are. My desire, my Lord.
What a wonderful weekend, Lord. Thank You for all the blessings You have given me this weekend. The services at Destiny were such a blessing to me, my visit with my friends, everything has been wonderful. You always see to everything and I am so blessed of You. I love Your presence with me, no matter where I go, I know You are with me. That is the best part of every day.
Last night, as I watched all the warnings on TV of the tornados that might happen, there was a strange sense of calmness in me. I say strange as I remember how terrified of bad weather I have always been. Even in Houston, I always feel a little uneasy when bad weather comes. But last night watching, there was a difference in me. I awoke around 4 this morning to a real loud light and thunder show outside. It was really bad weather and my Lord, I was calm. I was totally at peace during the storm. I am so amazed at what You have done in me. The total peace in my life. I know it only comes from the total trust I have in You. No fear of life, or what it holds, as I know You hold me in the palm of your hand. It is You that is the keeper of my life. Not me, not this world, but you my Lord.
Remember, Father, how I would cringe when weather would turn bad. And don't think the enemy has not been whispering in my ear telling me how many thunder storms come across this area that we don't have in Houston. But the enemy also does not recognize the new person You have made in me. He doesn't realize that I have total trust in You in all things. And now his words of fear fall on deaf ears. The only fear in me is of my God, an awesome, loving fear of the Lord that plans my days for me, and gives me strength and courage to face what ever comes as I know You are with me constantly.
I wish to thank You again my Lord, for Your blood shed for me. It is because of that blood, that precious blood You shed for my sins, for my redemption and salvation, that gives me the right to completely trust in You. Without that sacrifice, I would not know the peace, the joy of You, my Lord. I have that peace and joy because You are the Rock of my salvation, the everlasting light given to me to guide me throughout any dark area that may come upon my life. You put light into a world that would tend to swallow me up in its misery and shame. I am a product of that light in You. You share with me the love and fellowship of the Father, giving to me what is Yours, sharing with me the eternal life that comes from the love of the Father. Never ending love, precious atonement for me, each day of my life.
I am still so encased in yesterday, Resurrection Sunday, knowing the significance of that remembrance of the price You paid to give me this peace I have. I want to worship You each moment, giving to you so much love, all I am, all I will ever be, totally giving it to You. My Lord Jesus, You are the love I never thought possible, the joy that I feel each moment, You are the thought I have in the morning when I wake up, and the longing I have all through the day. The longing just to worship a Savior that deserves all the glory, all the honor and all my worship forever. You so deserve all praise, Lord, all praise.
This 25th day of April, 2011, I want my life to go where You lead, be where You are, and spend my days loving You as You love me. Together, I want to be a shadow to You and of You. I want to be so close to You, I am as a shadow, a reflection of Who and What You Are. My desire, my Lord.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
HE'S ALIVE !
Isaiah 33:10 "Now will I arise," says the Lord. "Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up."
What a beautiful Resurrection service I attended this morning. I am sure so many of us attended these services today and rejoiced in the celebration remembering our Lords death and resurrection.
Throughout the Bible we read scriptures that tell us of the risen Savior. That He arose, death could not keep Him, He arose to sit at the right hand of the Father. The service I attended this morning was amazing. First of all, the service I was a part of, this church, they give way to the Holy Spirit of God. It is God's service, His beautiful, precious Spirit is welcome there. The Holy Spirit is exalted and made welcome. The Lord's presence is there, so sweet and so precious. He is there. You feel Him as You worship Him. There is no hurry, there is no agenda that rushes the service along. No, there is nothing more important that welcoming the Holy Spirit into the service and praising Him. Giving love and honor to the Lord. Letting the Spirit bring you into the presence of the Lord.
Today the pastor spoke about the presence of the Lord. Jesus, He is alive. He has history, He is future, but HE IS NOW. Right now, Jesus is. My heart lept at this as I know my Lord is alive. Driving down the street, doing my job, being at home, going to the store; doesn't matter where I am, He is with me. He is alive in my heart, He is breathing life to me daily, He is the joy that floods my soul. Every day, now. Jesus is with me. There is no day, there is no night, that He does not let me know He is with me.
But the pastor was right when he said that a lot of people do not recognize the fact that our Jesus is now. I think it is the way they were brought up, in the churches they attended, what they were taught. I also was taught that Jesus rose from the grave and now sits at the right hand of the Father. But I was not taught that He left the Holy Spirit to be with me, to live in me, to guide and comfort me. No one told me that the Holy Spirit would teach me the ways of the Lord, lead me into His presence if only I would yield myself to Him, if I would love Him with all my heart, if I would worship Him. No one told me when I was growing up, the Holy Spirit was never mentioned nor was Jesus taught to me as a Living God. A lot of precious time was wasted. But my Lord, thank You Jesus, does not want me looking back. Now, the present, is what He wants known. Now, He is Now.
I was so thankful to hear this in church this morning. To confirm what my heart knows. You know, the enemy comes to you and will agree that we serve a risen Savior. Yes, he knows all this. But he also will let you know real quick that He is in heaven and we are on earth, that we were left alone. Another convincing lie of the enemy. Yes, Jesus is in heaven, but He is alive and lives in us through the Holy Spirit. He is interceding constantly to the Father on our behalf. He is loving us without judgment, loving us continually, leading us through our days through the Holy Spirit. He left us, but told us when He left, He would send the Comforter to be with us, that we would never be alone; He would always be with us.
Our Lord is so gracious to us. I love You Jesus. I am so touched by Your love, by Your precious peace You give to me, because You love me. How can I repay what You have done for me? I know there is nothing I can do that would ever be equal to what You have done for me. I also know You do not want me to try. You simply want me to love You, let You fill my life with Your love and presence and give myself unto You, for Your glory, for Your work. I am to be a testimony to You. I am to live my life so others will see You in me. I am to live my life devoted to the Savior that lives in me, Alive!
Your pour out Your spirit on me, giving me new life each morning. You breath strength to my tired, weary body, You restore my mind with the promises of Your Word, and You give hope to my soul when the world around me is so lost. How can anyone say You do not live? How can anyone just think You were for the past, for the future, and not realize it is You that makes this life we live now possible. Now, You are Now. An ever present Lord, the Mighty King of Kings that reigns forever. Now. You reign now.
I love You my King. I worship You with my life. You have given me the salvation of my past, the hope of my eternal life with You, and You give me life worth living NOW with my Living Lord. My Jesus. Your wonderful, constant, abiding Holy Spirit. This 24th day of April, 2011, I live because You live in me, Alive, Alive, Alive. You are my Past, my Future, and You are my NOW.
What a beautiful Resurrection service I attended this morning. I am sure so many of us attended these services today and rejoiced in the celebration remembering our Lords death and resurrection.
Throughout the Bible we read scriptures that tell us of the risen Savior. That He arose, death could not keep Him, He arose to sit at the right hand of the Father. The service I attended this morning was amazing. First of all, the service I was a part of, this church, they give way to the Holy Spirit of God. It is God's service, His beautiful, precious Spirit is welcome there. The Holy Spirit is exalted and made welcome. The Lord's presence is there, so sweet and so precious. He is there. You feel Him as You worship Him. There is no hurry, there is no agenda that rushes the service along. No, there is nothing more important that welcoming the Holy Spirit into the service and praising Him. Giving love and honor to the Lord. Letting the Spirit bring you into the presence of the Lord.
Today the pastor spoke about the presence of the Lord. Jesus, He is alive. He has history, He is future, but HE IS NOW. Right now, Jesus is. My heart lept at this as I know my Lord is alive. Driving down the street, doing my job, being at home, going to the store; doesn't matter where I am, He is with me. He is alive in my heart, He is breathing life to me daily, He is the joy that floods my soul. Every day, now. Jesus is with me. There is no day, there is no night, that He does not let me know He is with me.
But the pastor was right when he said that a lot of people do not recognize the fact that our Jesus is now. I think it is the way they were brought up, in the churches they attended, what they were taught. I also was taught that Jesus rose from the grave and now sits at the right hand of the Father. But I was not taught that He left the Holy Spirit to be with me, to live in me, to guide and comfort me. No one told me that the Holy Spirit would teach me the ways of the Lord, lead me into His presence if only I would yield myself to Him, if I would love Him with all my heart, if I would worship Him. No one told me when I was growing up, the Holy Spirit was never mentioned nor was Jesus taught to me as a Living God. A lot of precious time was wasted. But my Lord, thank You Jesus, does not want me looking back. Now, the present, is what He wants known. Now, He is Now.
I was so thankful to hear this in church this morning. To confirm what my heart knows. You know, the enemy comes to you and will agree that we serve a risen Savior. Yes, he knows all this. But he also will let you know real quick that He is in heaven and we are on earth, that we were left alone. Another convincing lie of the enemy. Yes, Jesus is in heaven, but He is alive and lives in us through the Holy Spirit. He is interceding constantly to the Father on our behalf. He is loving us without judgment, loving us continually, leading us through our days through the Holy Spirit. He left us, but told us when He left, He would send the Comforter to be with us, that we would never be alone; He would always be with us.
Our Lord is so gracious to us. I love You Jesus. I am so touched by Your love, by Your precious peace You give to me, because You love me. How can I repay what You have done for me? I know there is nothing I can do that would ever be equal to what You have done for me. I also know You do not want me to try. You simply want me to love You, let You fill my life with Your love and presence and give myself unto You, for Your glory, for Your work. I am to be a testimony to You. I am to live my life so others will see You in me. I am to live my life devoted to the Savior that lives in me, Alive!
Your pour out Your spirit on me, giving me new life each morning. You breath strength to my tired, weary body, You restore my mind with the promises of Your Word, and You give hope to my soul when the world around me is so lost. How can anyone say You do not live? How can anyone just think You were for the past, for the future, and not realize it is You that makes this life we live now possible. Now, You are Now. An ever present Lord, the Mighty King of Kings that reigns forever. Now. You reign now.
I love You my King. I worship You with my life. You have given me the salvation of my past, the hope of my eternal life with You, and You give me life worth living NOW with my Living Lord. My Jesus. Your wonderful, constant, abiding Holy Spirit. This 24th day of April, 2011, I live because You live in me, Alive, Alive, Alive. You are my Past, my Future, and You are my NOW.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
JOY COMES IN THE MORNING
John 16:20 "I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy."
Now the precious Savior of the world has been laid to rest. The disciples, Mary, the wonderful women that loved and supported our Lord, all were grieving. The lose of their loved one tore at their hearts. I know only too well, as do so many, how this feels. Even with the words of comfort that Jesus left them with, that He would be raised up, nothing gave them comfort. I don't think they truly believed that He would rise again. They had never seen this happen, their eyes only knew what they had seen, Jesus crucified and buried.
But then they saw the empty tomb. They began to see and hear accounts of sights of Jesus. Word was beginning to spread to the disciples, to the loved ones. Jesus alive! How could that be? Do you think they still had doubts? Still wondering how could it be?
The Word tells us that Jesus rose from the dead after three days. This is what we celebrate on Easter Sunday. He arose, victorious over the grave. Dying to give us forgiveness from the Father for all our sins. Our sins, the reason He came, the reason He died. Us. All those who truly love the Lord, go through the crucifixation and resurrection each year at Easter time. We read the scriptures and relive that time that was so dark, so forbearing to our Lord. We talk about the beautiful sacrifice He made for us. We tell of our love for Jesus. We weep.
I want you to know, Jesus doesn't want us to weep. He does not want us to look back and think of what we did to cause Him to die. What we continually do that causes Him grief. He wants us to rejoice in His life. In the victory won when He rose again. He wants us to look upon His life as a victorious, glorious time in history when the Son of God became the son of man, lived among us, conquered temptation, lived without sin and walked to His death to show a love that no man had known before and would never to able to equal. He only wants us to receive that love. The Lord knows we can never love like this. We can love with all our hearts, all our being, give Him our all, and we will never be able to equal the love He has for us. His love is unconditional. His love is so deep that it finds us wherever we are, in whatever condition we are in, we cannot hide from His love. The love of Jesus penetrates the hardest heart, delivers the sickest soul, and manifests itself in the most unlovable. It is enough love to fill our being and let us know that we will never be alone. This love carrys with it true victory for our sins, comfort for all our sorrows and healing for our spirits. This love brings peace that quiets all the disturbing thoughts thrown at us by the enemy. This love heals the most diseased bodies when submitted to Him. This love carrys the promise of everlasting life.
As we go through this night, waiting for the sun to rise on Easter Sunday, on Ressurection Sunday, what the Lord wants us to have is Joy. In the morning His wonderful joy. Joy that will fill the hearts of all that love Him. Jesus wants us to spread this joy to all around us. Joy that is given in love to all. When we think about the Lord, He wants us to do so with joy and laughter. I saw a painting the other day of Jesus and children dancing around, laughing, full of joy. It stuck me that this is how He wants us to be, rejoicing, laughing, dancing in the spirit, full of Him, full of His joy.
How beautiful He is. How wonderful His love. How amazing His joy. I love you so much my Lord. I am thrilled at the thought of going to church in the morning and sharing Your joy with those that love you. To look into the eyes of God's children and see You there, see Your love and joy looking back at me. Lord, let me shine with You in me, let me only reflect Your love, Your joy to all that see me. If someone does not know you, I want them envious of what I have. So envious, they will be asking me what I have and how can they get it. I so want to share You with everyone.
Tonight, my Jesus, I find myself seeking Your presence. I want to spend time with You this day, as I do each day. You are who I love. You are my adored Savior. Thank you Lord, for saving my soul, for Your sacrifice for me. This 23rd day of April, 2011, I thank You for loving me, for reaching out to me and for giving me Your joy. I will rejoice in Your life, Your resurrection, and Your everlasting joy.
Now the precious Savior of the world has been laid to rest. The disciples, Mary, the wonderful women that loved and supported our Lord, all were grieving. The lose of their loved one tore at their hearts. I know only too well, as do so many, how this feels. Even with the words of comfort that Jesus left them with, that He would be raised up, nothing gave them comfort. I don't think they truly believed that He would rise again. They had never seen this happen, their eyes only knew what they had seen, Jesus crucified and buried.
But then they saw the empty tomb. They began to see and hear accounts of sights of Jesus. Word was beginning to spread to the disciples, to the loved ones. Jesus alive! How could that be? Do you think they still had doubts? Still wondering how could it be?
The Word tells us that Jesus rose from the dead after three days. This is what we celebrate on Easter Sunday. He arose, victorious over the grave. Dying to give us forgiveness from the Father for all our sins. Our sins, the reason He came, the reason He died. Us. All those who truly love the Lord, go through the crucifixation and resurrection each year at Easter time. We read the scriptures and relive that time that was so dark, so forbearing to our Lord. We talk about the beautiful sacrifice He made for us. We tell of our love for Jesus. We weep.
I want you to know, Jesus doesn't want us to weep. He does not want us to look back and think of what we did to cause Him to die. What we continually do that causes Him grief. He wants us to rejoice in His life. In the victory won when He rose again. He wants us to look upon His life as a victorious, glorious time in history when the Son of God became the son of man, lived among us, conquered temptation, lived without sin and walked to His death to show a love that no man had known before and would never to able to equal. He only wants us to receive that love. The Lord knows we can never love like this. We can love with all our hearts, all our being, give Him our all, and we will never be able to equal the love He has for us. His love is unconditional. His love is so deep that it finds us wherever we are, in whatever condition we are in, we cannot hide from His love. The love of Jesus penetrates the hardest heart, delivers the sickest soul, and manifests itself in the most unlovable. It is enough love to fill our being and let us know that we will never be alone. This love carrys with it true victory for our sins, comfort for all our sorrows and healing for our spirits. This love brings peace that quiets all the disturbing thoughts thrown at us by the enemy. This love heals the most diseased bodies when submitted to Him. This love carrys the promise of everlasting life.
As we go through this night, waiting for the sun to rise on Easter Sunday, on Ressurection Sunday, what the Lord wants us to have is Joy. In the morning His wonderful joy. Joy that will fill the hearts of all that love Him. Jesus wants us to spread this joy to all around us. Joy that is given in love to all. When we think about the Lord, He wants us to do so with joy and laughter. I saw a painting the other day of Jesus and children dancing around, laughing, full of joy. It stuck me that this is how He wants us to be, rejoicing, laughing, dancing in the spirit, full of Him, full of His joy.
How beautiful He is. How wonderful His love. How amazing His joy. I love you so much my Lord. I am thrilled at the thought of going to church in the morning and sharing Your joy with those that love you. To look into the eyes of God's children and see You there, see Your love and joy looking back at me. Lord, let me shine with You in me, let me only reflect Your love, Your joy to all that see me. If someone does not know you, I want them envious of what I have. So envious, they will be asking me what I have and how can they get it. I so want to share You with everyone.
Tonight, my Jesus, I find myself seeking Your presence. I want to spend time with You this day, as I do each day. You are who I love. You are my adored Savior. Thank you Lord, for saving my soul, for Your sacrifice for me. This 23rd day of April, 2011, I thank You for loving me, for reaching out to me and for giving me Your joy. I will rejoice in Your life, Your resurrection, and Your everlasting joy.
Friday, April 22, 2011
THE SECRET FOLLOWER
John 19:38b "Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews."
It was a blessing that Joseph was a follower of Jesus, as when all Jesus' friends ran away, it was left to the secret followers of our Lord to ask for His body, to bury Him. Now Jesus knew these men, but they were not close, not family, not dear friends. I hate to think of my friends deserting me in life, much less in death, but it was so...
But these men were followers of Jesus in secret. They were afraid to make their relationship with the Lord known. They were afraid of men.
The Lord showed me how years back I would keep quiet about my relationship with Him. People would know I went to church, but that was all. If I was around people whose faith was not known to me, I would be quiet. Sort of testing the water, not wading in too deep until I knew who I was swimming with. How foolish...as I look back, how ashamed I am of this time. Yes, Lord, I know it has been covered by Your precious blood, but the shame still comes to me.
I see in my spirit so many of God's children are still afraid, afraid to confess their love for Him. So worried about what family, friends, co-workers will say. Not wanting to offend. Our Lord was not ashamed of His Father, He is not ashamed of us. He took all that shame upon Himself and took it to the cross and the grave, where it was buried for all time. Once we repent and ask forgiveness, it is buried, dead, not apart of our living spirit anymore.
Still fear exists. I would like to believe with this day, this day that we remember the death and burial of our Lord, that hearts would draw strength from our Lord and refuse to deny Him, deny their love for Him any longer. That boldness comes and Jesus is exalted as their King of Kings, their Lord. But I am also a realist. I know how the enemy works and I know his lies. But I will be praying for those who are bound up in fear of man. I will pray in the spirit daily for those wanting to be free to follow Jesus openly. No longer in secret.
My Jesus, how I am so thankful for the day You gave me the strength to break the chains of fear and actual shyness, to step out and declare You as my Savior and to begin to openly serve You. There is no way anyone that comes in contact with me has any doubt of who my Lord is. Yes, I know some day there may be a time it could be a matter of life or death to confess You as Lord. I know what will be my choice, Lord, as You know what I will do also. I find it a deep comfort knowing that You know me and know that I will never deny You again. Comfort and peace, joy, more joy knowing You know my heart.
I will go to my Father's house worshiping and praising the Savior that gave His all for me, as I will give my all for Him. My love, my thanksgiving for this life in You, Lord, I will worship You with all of my heart, my soul. I love you so much, Jesus.
There is no shame that will ever again follow me as I will chose to follow You this 22nd day of April, 2011 and each day until I arrive in glory with You.
It was a blessing that Joseph was a follower of Jesus, as when all Jesus' friends ran away, it was left to the secret followers of our Lord to ask for His body, to bury Him. Now Jesus knew these men, but they were not close, not family, not dear friends. I hate to think of my friends deserting me in life, much less in death, but it was so...
But these men were followers of Jesus in secret. They were afraid to make their relationship with the Lord known. They were afraid of men.
The Lord showed me how years back I would keep quiet about my relationship with Him. People would know I went to church, but that was all. If I was around people whose faith was not known to me, I would be quiet. Sort of testing the water, not wading in too deep until I knew who I was swimming with. How foolish...as I look back, how ashamed I am of this time. Yes, Lord, I know it has been covered by Your precious blood, but the shame still comes to me.
I see in my spirit so many of God's children are still afraid, afraid to confess their love for Him. So worried about what family, friends, co-workers will say. Not wanting to offend. Our Lord was not ashamed of His Father, He is not ashamed of us. He took all that shame upon Himself and took it to the cross and the grave, where it was buried for all time. Once we repent and ask forgiveness, it is buried, dead, not apart of our living spirit anymore.
Still fear exists. I would like to believe with this day, this day that we remember the death and burial of our Lord, that hearts would draw strength from our Lord and refuse to deny Him, deny their love for Him any longer. That boldness comes and Jesus is exalted as their King of Kings, their Lord. But I am also a realist. I know how the enemy works and I know his lies. But I will be praying for those who are bound up in fear of man. I will pray in the spirit daily for those wanting to be free to follow Jesus openly. No longer in secret.
My Jesus, how I am so thankful for the day You gave me the strength to break the chains of fear and actual shyness, to step out and declare You as my Savior and to begin to openly serve You. There is no way anyone that comes in contact with me has any doubt of who my Lord is. Yes, I know some day there may be a time it could be a matter of life or death to confess You as Lord. I know what will be my choice, Lord, as You know what I will do also. I find it a deep comfort knowing that You know me and know that I will never deny You again. Comfort and peace, joy, more joy knowing You know my heart.
I will go to my Father's house worshiping and praising the Savior that gave His all for me, as I will give my all for Him. My love, my thanksgiving for this life in You, Lord, I will worship You with all of my heart, my soul. I love you so much, Jesus.
There is no shame that will ever again follow me as I will chose to follow You this 22nd day of April, 2011 and each day until I arrive in glory with You.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
DRINK YE ALL OF IT
Matthew 26:26-27 "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it."
This was the scripture in the newspaper this morning. Each morning there is a scripture on the editorial page of the newspaper. I don't really read it like I use to, but I look through it quickly and then look to see what scripture is there. As I read it this morning, and I know this scripture, we have heard this one used a lot during communion service at church. But this morning, the words just jumped out at me. I don't know if I ever really paid attention to them like I did earlier today. Don't know if they ever registered to me.
"Drink ye all of it." The Lord quickened my spirit and told me, "All of me, I want you to have all of me, everything that I have for you, not just part but all". There is so much to the Lord, so much He wants to give us, to share with us. How many of us just take part of what the Lord has to offer and seem to be okay with that part, not even seeking Him to get all He has for us. A lot of times, it is not our fault when this happens, as church upbringing has neglected to fully show us the whole of the Lord. There is just this much we are taught and this is all we know. Unless we seek Him on our own, unless we are lead by the Holy Spirit for the truth, for the completeness of our Lord.
We know of His forgiveness; we understand His unconditional love, but do we understand what He truly desires the most. Our Lord wants us to know Him, to center our lives around Him, to desire Him above all else. Jesus wants to spend time with us, letting us get to know Him. He is the Bridegroom and He wants us to get to know Him, just like a suitor would His perspective Bride. Jesus wants us to become so "in to Him" that we will automatically think of Him each moment of the day. We will need to have Him near us, we will be wanting to worship Him, glorify His Holy Name. He will pour out His precious love on us so we will be left wanting more and more of Him.
My Lord, I so want to spend all my time with You. Today Lord, I went to the Biblical Museum to see the painting of the Resurrection. I was amazed at the beauty of the picture. But there was another picture that struck me by it's story it was telling. Jesus, you were holding the bread, which I knew was the bread of life and behind you was the cross, the crucifixation. The blood shed. The whole story, all of it, all of you, given completely for me. And your eyes, your beautiful eyes, were looking at me, as if you were saying just to me "for you, I died for you". I have known this Lord, but You wanted me to know it especially today, to know of your great love for me, this weekend. Telling me once again that I am your beloved.
Drink all of it, every drop of what You have for me. You have such plans for me. You have healing for me, You have miracles for me. You have grace for me. There are endless blessings for me. All in You. I love You so Lord. I want all of You, everything there is I want it. I want to wake up in the morning with worship on my lips thanking You for Your wondrous love for me, I want to always remember the sacrifice of Your life given for me so I might have my life in You. All of You.
This 22nd day of April, 2011, as I proclaim my love and adoration for You, my Savior, I am drinking from the cup of Your love, Your salvation, Your peace. I am drinking all of it, all of You.
This was the scripture in the newspaper this morning. Each morning there is a scripture on the editorial page of the newspaper. I don't really read it like I use to, but I look through it quickly and then look to see what scripture is there. As I read it this morning, and I know this scripture, we have heard this one used a lot during communion service at church. But this morning, the words just jumped out at me. I don't know if I ever really paid attention to them like I did earlier today. Don't know if they ever registered to me.
"Drink ye all of it." The Lord quickened my spirit and told me, "All of me, I want you to have all of me, everything that I have for you, not just part but all". There is so much to the Lord, so much He wants to give us, to share with us. How many of us just take part of what the Lord has to offer and seem to be okay with that part, not even seeking Him to get all He has for us. A lot of times, it is not our fault when this happens, as church upbringing has neglected to fully show us the whole of the Lord. There is just this much we are taught and this is all we know. Unless we seek Him on our own, unless we are lead by the Holy Spirit for the truth, for the completeness of our Lord.
We know of His forgiveness; we understand His unconditional love, but do we understand what He truly desires the most. Our Lord wants us to know Him, to center our lives around Him, to desire Him above all else. Jesus wants to spend time with us, letting us get to know Him. He is the Bridegroom and He wants us to get to know Him, just like a suitor would His perspective Bride. Jesus wants us to become so "in to Him" that we will automatically think of Him each moment of the day. We will need to have Him near us, we will be wanting to worship Him, glorify His Holy Name. He will pour out His precious love on us so we will be left wanting more and more of Him.
My Lord, I so want to spend all my time with You. Today Lord, I went to the Biblical Museum to see the painting of the Resurrection. I was amazed at the beauty of the picture. But there was another picture that struck me by it's story it was telling. Jesus, you were holding the bread, which I knew was the bread of life and behind you was the cross, the crucifixation. The blood shed. The whole story, all of it, all of you, given completely for me. And your eyes, your beautiful eyes, were looking at me, as if you were saying just to me "for you, I died for you". I have known this Lord, but You wanted me to know it especially today, to know of your great love for me, this weekend. Telling me once again that I am your beloved.
Drink all of it, every drop of what You have for me. You have such plans for me. You have healing for me, You have miracles for me. You have grace for me. There are endless blessings for me. All in You. I love You so Lord. I want all of You, everything there is I want it. I want to wake up in the morning with worship on my lips thanking You for Your wondrous love for me, I want to always remember the sacrifice of Your life given for me so I might have my life in You. All of You.
This 22nd day of April, 2011, as I proclaim my love and adoration for You, my Savior, I am drinking from the cup of Your love, Your salvation, Your peace. I am drinking all of it, all of You.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
DRAWING FROM THE WELL
Revelation 21:6 (Message) "Then he said, "It's happened. I'm A to Z. I'm the Beginning. I'm the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty."
Do you ever feel so thirsty, and after drinking what seems to be a large amount of water, you are still thirsty. Nothing seems to quench that thirst? I have had moments like that where I could not get my fill of water. And I find myself thirsty again. Only not for water.
I am thirsty for the things of God. From the A to the Z. From the Beginning to the End. Every part of the Lord, I am thirsty for. I have learned so much this last year. I am being taught by the Master. I feel as though I am sitting at the feet of my precious Lord and being hand fed His Precious Word. But the more I learn, the more I find I have to learn. There seems to be no end of the majesty of my Lord. Just when He shows me a new truth, the insight of another wonderful mystery, I find there are more to discover.
The first thing I learned from my Lord was His wonderful love. Isn't it just like Jesus to make you feel so loved at the very beginning. This, He showed me, was so I would learn to trust Him. You cannot trust someone that doesn't love you, that you don't love. So that was the first lesson. Love. So simple and yet so deep. I did nothing to make Him love me, the Lord just did. It was the plan He told me, the Father's plan for His children. Always loved, chastised at times, but always loved. Then, of course, came trust. This lesson was not always easy to understand. I really had to search for the answers sometimes. Some days it was easy, but then when the trials came, the temptations, the valleys.....those were the hard days. But the Lord was here, just like He told me in His Word, He never left me, not once. When I slipped and fell, just as He told me, His hand came down and He lifted me back up, forgave me, and there was the love. Still there, never waivered, always strong, unconditional. I learned to trust. I trust my Lord with my entire being.
The next lesson I learned was His will for me was so much better than mine. I learned His will was perfect. Mine, well, what do you think... It took a little while, but once I conformed my will to His, things began to happen, blessings began to flow. With my surrendering of my will, also went control. I gave complete control to the Lord. He began to move in my life like I would have never believed possible. He is still moving things around to put me in place to do what He has planned for my life. So exciting, His plans are. I never remember any of my plans for my life so breath takingly wonderful. I am so glad for my Lord's leading me, teaching me.
From the well of knowledge and wisdom, I am learning how to know what the Lord intends for me, what He wants me to do. I find in His Word so many life sustaining messages. Do you ever think they were put there just for you? I do. I find a verse and it becomes so alive to me, it fits the situation just perfectly. I know the Lord already knew that this day, this moment I would be reading that verse and He made it open up for me to truly understand what He was trying to get me to understand. Giving me that life saving water from His beautiful well. I draw from the well of life of the Lord daily. I cannot live on yesterday, I must have the fresh Word each day. More water from the well. There is so much more to learn about my Lord.
The beautiful water of life words, "Peace, be still", "I come that you might have life abundantly", "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and I will give you rest" "Fear Not". These are just a few of the springs of living water that rise up out of the well of God's Word. There is not another well on earth that can flow through you like the Word of God. It brings rest to the weary, peace to the anxious, joy to the broken hearted, and love to the forgotten.
The wonderful Word of God. There is meaning anew for each day. Life sustaining breath. Just from reading the Word. How amazing is that, my Lord, that You give us water from a river that never runs dry. As I thirst for more of You, as I read Your Word, You teach me more and more about You. You show me that I need not fear anything as I am in You. You love me and You know all about me. Nothing I do surprises You. I know before I take a breath You know just how long it will be before I exhale. Every detail about me. I am Yours. I trust You completely knowing You will never leave me, You will never let me down. Everything that concerns me, concerns You. My God. My Lord. My All. A to Z, the Beginning and the End. The First and the Last. The Alpha and the Omega. My God.
This night, 20th of April, 2011, I am leaning on the Rock. I am sitting at the feet of my Lord and Master, I am learning from my Teacher, I am drawing from the Well.
Do you ever feel so thirsty, and after drinking what seems to be a large amount of water, you are still thirsty. Nothing seems to quench that thirst? I have had moments like that where I could not get my fill of water. And I find myself thirsty again. Only not for water.
I am thirsty for the things of God. From the A to the Z. From the Beginning to the End. Every part of the Lord, I am thirsty for. I have learned so much this last year. I am being taught by the Master. I feel as though I am sitting at the feet of my precious Lord and being hand fed His Precious Word. But the more I learn, the more I find I have to learn. There seems to be no end of the majesty of my Lord. Just when He shows me a new truth, the insight of another wonderful mystery, I find there are more to discover.
The first thing I learned from my Lord was His wonderful love. Isn't it just like Jesus to make you feel so loved at the very beginning. This, He showed me, was so I would learn to trust Him. You cannot trust someone that doesn't love you, that you don't love. So that was the first lesson. Love. So simple and yet so deep. I did nothing to make Him love me, the Lord just did. It was the plan He told me, the Father's plan for His children. Always loved, chastised at times, but always loved. Then, of course, came trust. This lesson was not always easy to understand. I really had to search for the answers sometimes. Some days it was easy, but then when the trials came, the temptations, the valleys.....those were the hard days. But the Lord was here, just like He told me in His Word, He never left me, not once. When I slipped and fell, just as He told me, His hand came down and He lifted me back up, forgave me, and there was the love. Still there, never waivered, always strong, unconditional. I learned to trust. I trust my Lord with my entire being.
The next lesson I learned was His will for me was so much better than mine. I learned His will was perfect. Mine, well, what do you think... It took a little while, but once I conformed my will to His, things began to happen, blessings began to flow. With my surrendering of my will, also went control. I gave complete control to the Lord. He began to move in my life like I would have never believed possible. He is still moving things around to put me in place to do what He has planned for my life. So exciting, His plans are. I never remember any of my plans for my life so breath takingly wonderful. I am so glad for my Lord's leading me, teaching me.
From the well of knowledge and wisdom, I am learning how to know what the Lord intends for me, what He wants me to do. I find in His Word so many life sustaining messages. Do you ever think they were put there just for you? I do. I find a verse and it becomes so alive to me, it fits the situation just perfectly. I know the Lord already knew that this day, this moment I would be reading that verse and He made it open up for me to truly understand what He was trying to get me to understand. Giving me that life saving water from His beautiful well. I draw from the well of life of the Lord daily. I cannot live on yesterday, I must have the fresh Word each day. More water from the well. There is so much more to learn about my Lord.
The beautiful water of life words, "Peace, be still", "I come that you might have life abundantly", "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and I will give you rest" "Fear Not". These are just a few of the springs of living water that rise up out of the well of God's Word. There is not another well on earth that can flow through you like the Word of God. It brings rest to the weary, peace to the anxious, joy to the broken hearted, and love to the forgotten.
The wonderful Word of God. There is meaning anew for each day. Life sustaining breath. Just from reading the Word. How amazing is that, my Lord, that You give us water from a river that never runs dry. As I thirst for more of You, as I read Your Word, You teach me more and more about You. You show me that I need not fear anything as I am in You. You love me and You know all about me. Nothing I do surprises You. I know before I take a breath You know just how long it will be before I exhale. Every detail about me. I am Yours. I trust You completely knowing You will never leave me, You will never let me down. Everything that concerns me, concerns You. My God. My Lord. My All. A to Z, the Beginning and the End. The First and the Last. The Alpha and the Omega. My God.
This night, 20th of April, 2011, I am leaning on the Rock. I am sitting at the feet of my Lord and Master, I am learning from my Teacher, I am drawing from the Well.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
DEATH ROW
Luke 23:43 "Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
The Lord has been dealing with me for several days now on this. I have said that this is the hardest time, or should be, in the life of one that loves the Lord with all their heart. Forgiveness, mercy, grace, all given so freely to us, but nothing can erase the mind that remembers the sins that Jesus died for. Nothing erases the memories from our minds, God has thrown them far from Him, but our minds remember those times we rejected our Lord, the times we denied our Lord with our actions, with our words. This is very difficult for me, this week, and now this blog. But I know the Father intends it for my cleansing, for my growth, to bring me past this week and into the glory of the resurrection. So we begin....
There was no real trial. Can you imagine being brought up in front of a judge, no lawyer looking after your rights, you have none, but shoved up in front of this bored man, who is concerned about what people are going to say if he makes the wrong decision. So finding that he could legally pass him on, he did just that. Now he stands before another judge, so curious about this Jesus, that he is excited beyond words. He also could find no real crime commited, but as he had vengence again Jesus, he allowed Him to be beaten, horribly beaten. Then to mock Him, they dressed Him in a beautiful robe and continued to ridicule Him. Deciding not to make any unfavorable decisions, he sent Him back to the first judge. The decision was to give the choice to the people, we might consider them peers, but Jesus had no peers, no one that was truly His equal. The same people that were His praisers earlier, had turned on Him and cried "crucify Him". That was it. Sentence declared.
There was no chance for appeal. There was no stay of execution as had there been, it would have taken place in the garden when Jesus asked His Father, if there was any other way. But no, there was only one way for the redemption of the children of God, us...sinners, all.
Jesus was beaten. He was blindfolded and spit upon, and mockedly asked "who did this to you". Can you imagine the men that were doing this. Have you ever just mocked someone that was innocent and weakened by repeated verbal beatings, much less physical ones? Just because it was fun. If so, this is one of the things Jesus died for....one of the sins.
The cross. It was heavy. Jesus was weakened from the beatings. But He lifted it up, the burden. The Father is telling me that it resembles our burden that He lifts from us now, lifts it up and carries the load no matter how heavy, so we might be free. But Jesus carried that cross, on the road they call Via Dolorosa, which means the way of suffering, the way of grief. It was Jesus that suffered. It was those that loved Him that grieved, those that truly loved Him.
Mary. Can you imagine what Mary thought when she saw her beloved son, so beaten she could hardly recognize Him. Do you feel the heartbreak she felt. This child, born of her, being put to death. This precious, sweet boy that grew into a man she was so proud of, quietly going to His death.
So many people lining the streets. What a difference now. A few days before they were rejoicing over His coming and now, watching with curious eyes to see what He would do. Wondering if He would save Himself, could He, really; just bystanders with no insight into the real purpose, the magnitude of what was taking place before their very eyes. The Son of God going to take their place in death so they might live.
Nails were drove deep into His hands and into His feet. The cross was dropped into the ground and Jesus' body took such a blow as the weight of it pulled on the nails in His flesh. The final rejection, that moment when all the sins of the world filled Him, taking on all our sins, past, present, future, and doing so turned the Father from Him. The Father could not look on sin and turned away. Did you ever have a parent that you loved so and you knew that loved you turn from you for something you did that was really bad, just told you they could not look at you right then. Or leave their sight for a while? And this was something of our own doing... Jesus took sins that were not His. He was perfect without sin and was made sin for us. He suffered the rejection of His Father for us. And I truly feel that at that point, His heart just broke. I know there is nothing that says this, but I feel it must have been heartbreaking for Him to know that He was rejected, scorned, beaten and mocked for nothing He did. Where was the love returned for all the love He had given others. His last words, "It Is Finished". Done, complete. What He had come for, His real purpose on this earth, accomplished in death.
I have had such a time the last few days, weeks, leading up to this week, knowing the songs, the plays, everything done to honor the sacrifice of Jesus. I know I am forgiven, I know I am loved, I know I am the Lord's beloved. But tell my heart not to grieve over what Jesus did for me. I try and cannot succeed. Even the Fathers love and comforting me still does not stop the grieving I feel over what my blessed Savior did for me.
Do you think some of them even knew in their hearts that this was the Christ, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the precious Son of God.....our Savior? Even a few, did they really know who He really was?
Can you understand now why I worship. Why I live to worship my Lord. There is nothing else I can do. Nothing else I want to do. I have trouble working some days as I want to just spend that time worshiping the Savior who gave everything for me, so I could have a life to be lived in the freedom of the Lord. To be free from the chains of sin that satan would constantly try to bind me with, to keep me shackled, tortured and ashamed. Freedom from sin. Righteously adorned in white, cleansed and made ready to be the Bride of Christ. And there is no doubt in my mind as I sit here typing this, that I will be in that remnant group of worshipers that are to be the Bride of Christ. No doubt what so ever, that one day, my Lord and Savior, will come riding in through the breaking of the clouds and claim His Bride, me and you, and take us to Glory to be with Him forever.
Thank You, Father. Yes, I feel it. I feel the peace penetrating my soul now, I feel the lifting of this from my heart. You are right, my God. The only way to freeing myself from this burden or any burden I am grieving over is to let it out, give it all to You. I can feel the weight of it gone. Thank You my Lord for now I can begin to rejoice over the victory won, rejoice in the knowledge that I will live in You for eternity as You gave all for me, and I will give my all for You. I am free in You. I love You, my Lord.
Jesus, my precious Savior, I love You. I thank You for what You have given for me. You are so worthy of all my worship. All my praise. Your Name is the most beautiful name ever spoken. Your Name brings salvation to those who call on You; Your Name heals the broken, the lame, the very spirits of those who You died for. You are to be exalted, my Lord. I exalt You, I exalt You above all the earth, into the heavens. You, my Lord, my everything.
This 19th day of April, 2011, just a few days until that beautiful Resurrection Day, I can now rejoice and live in this moment....in Your presence... in paradise....forever with joy in my heart.
The Lord has been dealing with me for several days now on this. I have said that this is the hardest time, or should be, in the life of one that loves the Lord with all their heart. Forgiveness, mercy, grace, all given so freely to us, but nothing can erase the mind that remembers the sins that Jesus died for. Nothing erases the memories from our minds, God has thrown them far from Him, but our minds remember those times we rejected our Lord, the times we denied our Lord with our actions, with our words. This is very difficult for me, this week, and now this blog. But I know the Father intends it for my cleansing, for my growth, to bring me past this week and into the glory of the resurrection. So we begin....
There was no real trial. Can you imagine being brought up in front of a judge, no lawyer looking after your rights, you have none, but shoved up in front of this bored man, who is concerned about what people are going to say if he makes the wrong decision. So finding that he could legally pass him on, he did just that. Now he stands before another judge, so curious about this Jesus, that he is excited beyond words. He also could find no real crime commited, but as he had vengence again Jesus, he allowed Him to be beaten, horribly beaten. Then to mock Him, they dressed Him in a beautiful robe and continued to ridicule Him. Deciding not to make any unfavorable decisions, he sent Him back to the first judge. The decision was to give the choice to the people, we might consider them peers, but Jesus had no peers, no one that was truly His equal. The same people that were His praisers earlier, had turned on Him and cried "crucify Him". That was it. Sentence declared.
There was no chance for appeal. There was no stay of execution as had there been, it would have taken place in the garden when Jesus asked His Father, if there was any other way. But no, there was only one way for the redemption of the children of God, us...sinners, all.
Jesus was beaten. He was blindfolded and spit upon, and mockedly asked "who did this to you". Can you imagine the men that were doing this. Have you ever just mocked someone that was innocent and weakened by repeated verbal beatings, much less physical ones? Just because it was fun. If so, this is one of the things Jesus died for....one of the sins.
The cross. It was heavy. Jesus was weakened from the beatings. But He lifted it up, the burden. The Father is telling me that it resembles our burden that He lifts from us now, lifts it up and carries the load no matter how heavy, so we might be free. But Jesus carried that cross, on the road they call Via Dolorosa, which means the way of suffering, the way of grief. It was Jesus that suffered. It was those that loved Him that grieved, those that truly loved Him.
Mary. Can you imagine what Mary thought when she saw her beloved son, so beaten she could hardly recognize Him. Do you feel the heartbreak she felt. This child, born of her, being put to death. This precious, sweet boy that grew into a man she was so proud of, quietly going to His death.
So many people lining the streets. What a difference now. A few days before they were rejoicing over His coming and now, watching with curious eyes to see what He would do. Wondering if He would save Himself, could He, really; just bystanders with no insight into the real purpose, the magnitude of what was taking place before their very eyes. The Son of God going to take their place in death so they might live.
Nails were drove deep into His hands and into His feet. The cross was dropped into the ground and Jesus' body took such a blow as the weight of it pulled on the nails in His flesh. The final rejection, that moment when all the sins of the world filled Him, taking on all our sins, past, present, future, and doing so turned the Father from Him. The Father could not look on sin and turned away. Did you ever have a parent that you loved so and you knew that loved you turn from you for something you did that was really bad, just told you they could not look at you right then. Or leave their sight for a while? And this was something of our own doing... Jesus took sins that were not His. He was perfect without sin and was made sin for us. He suffered the rejection of His Father for us. And I truly feel that at that point, His heart just broke. I know there is nothing that says this, but I feel it must have been heartbreaking for Him to know that He was rejected, scorned, beaten and mocked for nothing He did. Where was the love returned for all the love He had given others. His last words, "It Is Finished". Done, complete. What He had come for, His real purpose on this earth, accomplished in death.
I have had such a time the last few days, weeks, leading up to this week, knowing the songs, the plays, everything done to honor the sacrifice of Jesus. I know I am forgiven, I know I am loved, I know I am the Lord's beloved. But tell my heart not to grieve over what Jesus did for me. I try and cannot succeed. Even the Fathers love and comforting me still does not stop the grieving I feel over what my blessed Savior did for me.
Do you think some of them even knew in their hearts that this was the Christ, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the precious Son of God.....our Savior? Even a few, did they really know who He really was?
Can you understand now why I worship. Why I live to worship my Lord. There is nothing else I can do. Nothing else I want to do. I have trouble working some days as I want to just spend that time worshiping the Savior who gave everything for me, so I could have a life to be lived in the freedom of the Lord. To be free from the chains of sin that satan would constantly try to bind me with, to keep me shackled, tortured and ashamed. Freedom from sin. Righteously adorned in white, cleansed and made ready to be the Bride of Christ. And there is no doubt in my mind as I sit here typing this, that I will be in that remnant group of worshipers that are to be the Bride of Christ. No doubt what so ever, that one day, my Lord and Savior, will come riding in through the breaking of the clouds and claim His Bride, me and you, and take us to Glory to be with Him forever.
Thank You, Father. Yes, I feel it. I feel the peace penetrating my soul now, I feel the lifting of this from my heart. You are right, my God. The only way to freeing myself from this burden or any burden I am grieving over is to let it out, give it all to You. I can feel the weight of it gone. Thank You my Lord for now I can begin to rejoice over the victory won, rejoice in the knowledge that I will live in You for eternity as You gave all for me, and I will give my all for You. I am free in You. I love You, my Lord.
Jesus, my precious Savior, I love You. I thank You for what You have given for me. You are so worthy of all my worship. All my praise. Your Name is the most beautiful name ever spoken. Your Name brings salvation to those who call on You; Your Name heals the broken, the lame, the very spirits of those who You died for. You are to be exalted, my Lord. I exalt You, I exalt You above all the earth, into the heavens. You, my Lord, my everything.
This 19th day of April, 2011, just a few days until that beautiful Resurrection Day, I can now rejoice and live in this moment....in Your presence... in paradise....forever with joy in my heart.
Monday, April 18, 2011
TOUCHING THE LORD
Psalm 62:1,2 "Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, He is my defence, I shall not be greatly moved."
All day long my heart has been longing, earnestly desiring to touch the Lord. Just to let Him know, just to make it known to Him, how much I adore Him, how much I love Him. I know in my heart that He knows but I want to give Him that which I don't seem to be able to find to give, to truly touch Him. To really touch His heart.
In God's Word, there are scriptures telling of how He was touched. The one that is strongest in my spirit is the woman with the issue of blood. She did not want to be seen, she just knew if she touched even His garment, she would be made whole. But you cannot touch the Lord without His knowing. He felt power release from Him, the moment she touched His robe. I think that is it. The tangible feeling of His power flow to me when I touch Him.
In prayer, when I simply let the Holy Spirit take over and pray for me, He knows so much better the right words that will touch the Father, just the words to get His attention. I don't pray for myself much. There are times the enemy really is coming against me in body or spirit and I know to go immediately to the Lord for His help but that is not often as the Lord keeps me in such good health. But other than that, I don't ask for much from the Lord for myself. He has given me so much. My health for one, but my He keeps my finances even, there is not a big overflow anymore but there is always enough for what He wants me to do, wants me to give. I am loved by my friends, and I know that is His doing also. He has shown me how to love through Him, to give that unconditional love out to His children and they respond to me in kind.
But I pray for others. He has called me to be an intercessor for His children, to call upon His Name in prayer for their health, their needs. And I do. And I know that He touches them, healing and supplying their needs. I don't know if it is from my prayers, or the prayers of others, but He touches and He heals.
I pray for my work, for the people that I come in contact with daily. I feel the Lord brings people in our paths just for the sole purpose of touching us, so we will pray to Him for His touch on them. I don't believe in accidental things, or luck. When the Lord is directing your path, there is nothing there that He does not know about or people there that He doesn't have a purpose for. Begin to notice things, take note of how they happen, what is said, you will understand this better. I did not always see this before, but when these same people began to ask me for prayer, someone they are just doing business with, then you know the Lord has a hand in it all. Just let Him use you, it is part of His purpose for you.
That touch. How I long to have His touch on my life. I want to hold His hand, I want to feel that annointing on me constantly, I want to feel that flow from His heart to mine without having to let go. I have almost what feels like a desparation to be in His presence at all times. To be under His annointing. To be honest, I don't always feel His annointing when I sing. Sometimes I think I sound like a blarinig trumpet or something like that. And it is not the Lord's fault, it is mine. You know when you do any kind of ministry for the Lord and your mind and heart is not totally on Him, or when the enemy comes in for a moment to tell you to think on what you are doing, or are people watching you, should you be doing this now...., there is nothing there but self. Pitiful self. And you can feel it. But when I reject that lying spirit, and get my mind back where it should have, then there is the beautiful touch of the Lord again, His annointing touching you. When I sing or pray for someone, when I am totally in line with His Word for this ministry, then I know I touch the Lord. I can feel His power flowing to me. Amazing, awesome feeling of love and power of the Lord.
Can you understand why I so desire to touch the Lord with every moment of my life. Possibly I would be no good to anyone, and I know it is hard for the Lord to use me at those moments as I don't have thought for anyone but Him, but for a while each day, when it is just the two of us, perhaps Lord, it would be possible to take my hand and let that flow connect our hearts. Just for a while. Can't you see the desire and longing in my heart for You, my Lord. I love You so much. You mean everything to me. I can't drive down the road in my car without wanting to be certain that You know how much I love You. Just You.
I adore You, my Jesus. I long for Your return, for the day I will no longer be separated from You. This 18th day of April, 2011, I just want to touch You, Jesus.
All day long my heart has been longing, earnestly desiring to touch the Lord. Just to let Him know, just to make it known to Him, how much I adore Him, how much I love Him. I know in my heart that He knows but I want to give Him that which I don't seem to be able to find to give, to truly touch Him. To really touch His heart.
In God's Word, there are scriptures telling of how He was touched. The one that is strongest in my spirit is the woman with the issue of blood. She did not want to be seen, she just knew if she touched even His garment, she would be made whole. But you cannot touch the Lord without His knowing. He felt power release from Him, the moment she touched His robe. I think that is it. The tangible feeling of His power flow to me when I touch Him.
In prayer, when I simply let the Holy Spirit take over and pray for me, He knows so much better the right words that will touch the Father, just the words to get His attention. I don't pray for myself much. There are times the enemy really is coming against me in body or spirit and I know to go immediately to the Lord for His help but that is not often as the Lord keeps me in such good health. But other than that, I don't ask for much from the Lord for myself. He has given me so much. My health for one, but my He keeps my finances even, there is not a big overflow anymore but there is always enough for what He wants me to do, wants me to give. I am loved by my friends, and I know that is His doing also. He has shown me how to love through Him, to give that unconditional love out to His children and they respond to me in kind.
But I pray for others. He has called me to be an intercessor for His children, to call upon His Name in prayer for their health, their needs. And I do. And I know that He touches them, healing and supplying their needs. I don't know if it is from my prayers, or the prayers of others, but He touches and He heals.
I pray for my work, for the people that I come in contact with daily. I feel the Lord brings people in our paths just for the sole purpose of touching us, so we will pray to Him for His touch on them. I don't believe in accidental things, or luck. When the Lord is directing your path, there is nothing there that He does not know about or people there that He doesn't have a purpose for. Begin to notice things, take note of how they happen, what is said, you will understand this better. I did not always see this before, but when these same people began to ask me for prayer, someone they are just doing business with, then you know the Lord has a hand in it all. Just let Him use you, it is part of His purpose for you.
That touch. How I long to have His touch on my life. I want to hold His hand, I want to feel that annointing on me constantly, I want to feel that flow from His heart to mine without having to let go. I have almost what feels like a desparation to be in His presence at all times. To be under His annointing. To be honest, I don't always feel His annointing when I sing. Sometimes I think I sound like a blarinig trumpet or something like that. And it is not the Lord's fault, it is mine. You know when you do any kind of ministry for the Lord and your mind and heart is not totally on Him, or when the enemy comes in for a moment to tell you to think on what you are doing, or are people watching you, should you be doing this now...., there is nothing there but self. Pitiful self. And you can feel it. But when I reject that lying spirit, and get my mind back where it should have, then there is the beautiful touch of the Lord again, His annointing touching you. When I sing or pray for someone, when I am totally in line with His Word for this ministry, then I know I touch the Lord. I can feel His power flowing to me. Amazing, awesome feeling of love and power of the Lord.
Can you understand why I so desire to touch the Lord with every moment of my life. Possibly I would be no good to anyone, and I know it is hard for the Lord to use me at those moments as I don't have thought for anyone but Him, but for a while each day, when it is just the two of us, perhaps Lord, it would be possible to take my hand and let that flow connect our hearts. Just for a while. Can't you see the desire and longing in my heart for You, my Lord. I love You so much. You mean everything to me. I can't drive down the road in my car without wanting to be certain that You know how much I love You. Just You.
I adore You, my Jesus. I long for Your return, for the day I will no longer be separated from You. This 18th day of April, 2011, I just want to touch You, Jesus.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
BEFORE AND AFTER
Psalm 63:1-3 "O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory. Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You."
My Lord, how I love to praise Your name. My heart worships You constantly when I am awake, and I know my spirit must be worshiping when I am sleeping as when I wake up, I have words of worship on my lips. That is the beginning of each day my Lord. I worship You to begin my day in You. I want to make sure You know that I am seeking after You, searching for You before my day begins. I want to remind You that I have no other God but You, that there is nothing else on my mind but serving You. You will be told how much I depend on You, that I rely on You for everything my day will hold. You will be asked once again to go before me and clear my pathways of any snares of the enemy. I depend on Your loving kindness to me for each day. I ask You to help me with my work, I want to do my work as unto You, I want to please You as I go through my day and can only do so with Your help.
Before the day gets started, Lord, I want to make sure that I am in Your thoughts, that You know I am here and I need You to feel my love. It seems like forever since I have talked to You, that is how I feel each morning. Even though during the night when I awake, I praise Your name and give You expressions of my love. I feel this is very important, I know it is to me, and I want to spend every waking moment worshiping You, my Jesus.
This week is so hard for me, Lord. It should be hard for everyone that loves You so much. I glory in the resurrection, but before that, before You fulfilled all prophesy about Your rising again, there is the suffering and pain you took because of me, all of us that love You. It tears at my heart when I think that you were beaten, mocked, spit on, humiliated....for my sin. My Lord, how my soul cries out to You in shame and begging forgiveness everytime I read the scriptures telling the next few days. I know my sins have been forgiven, but I can not help but want to undo the things I have done, the things You died for. I feel like Peter now, wanting to undo what had been planned before. And now I need to ask forgiveness again, for I should know that what You did was for the santification of us all. The redeeming of our lives to the Father. There are times I can feel the pain of rejection from some people that don't understand wholly why I worship like I do, why I follow after you. And my feeling rejected doesn't compare to the rejection You felt from the Father when you took our sins, my sins. I was reading again. It hurts so much to read the words written but I read them, I never want to forget what You did for me, what you suffered for me. I want it written on my heart as a reminder of Your love, a love I will probably never completely understand, but am so grateful and blessed to have. That love is just Who You are. I long to understand You more, to get so close to You that I won't know where I leave off and where You begin.
I know to do this I must constantly seek after You, to learn more about You by reading Your Word, yielding myself to the Holy Spirit for His teaching and guiding. He will draw me into the knowledge of You, He will share with me Your wisdom. I know I must love others unconditionally and I always, always must love my Lord above all. I know I will get there, it is that important to me that I am with You. I want to be that spotless, cleansed bride that You will return for.
After my day, Lord Jesus, I want to go to rest but first I want to thank You for being with me the day, I want to praise You for all the things You blessed me with. I want to ask You to search my heart and let me know if there is anything there that I need to get out of me, I will need You to help me here. I don't want to close my eyes with anything that is unpleaseing to You in me. After we do these things, I will lift my voice to You in worship, glorifing You for Who You are, only because of who You are. Worship the Lord of Lords, drawing on You to come, pour Your presence out all around me, all over me, Your presence that is life to me. Then Lord, I know there will be some petitions of prayer to You. So many friends, family, ill and with needs, and I know I will be lifting them up to you, asking You to bless their lives. To be with them, letting them know that You are there on their behalf. And then I will worship until You reach down and draw my eyes shut, breath Your sweet breathe of rest upon my body and I sleep.
Before the day, after the day, starting and finishing in the same place, in worship to You. There is no other way for me to live, for this is what I do, Lord, this is what You made me to do. Worship you from my heart. I will worship You each and every day, night, every breath I take will be of worship to You. I desire only You Lord. This 17th day of April, 2011, before the day and after the same, I 'll be loving You and giving You all my worship.
My Lord, how I love to praise Your name. My heart worships You constantly when I am awake, and I know my spirit must be worshiping when I am sleeping as when I wake up, I have words of worship on my lips. That is the beginning of each day my Lord. I worship You to begin my day in You. I want to make sure You know that I am seeking after You, searching for You before my day begins. I want to remind You that I have no other God but You, that there is nothing else on my mind but serving You. You will be told how much I depend on You, that I rely on You for everything my day will hold. You will be asked once again to go before me and clear my pathways of any snares of the enemy. I depend on Your loving kindness to me for each day. I ask You to help me with my work, I want to do my work as unto You, I want to please You as I go through my day and can only do so with Your help.
Before the day gets started, Lord, I want to make sure that I am in Your thoughts, that You know I am here and I need You to feel my love. It seems like forever since I have talked to You, that is how I feel each morning. Even though during the night when I awake, I praise Your name and give You expressions of my love. I feel this is very important, I know it is to me, and I want to spend every waking moment worshiping You, my Jesus.
This week is so hard for me, Lord. It should be hard for everyone that loves You so much. I glory in the resurrection, but before that, before You fulfilled all prophesy about Your rising again, there is the suffering and pain you took because of me, all of us that love You. It tears at my heart when I think that you were beaten, mocked, spit on, humiliated....for my sin. My Lord, how my soul cries out to You in shame and begging forgiveness everytime I read the scriptures telling the next few days. I know my sins have been forgiven, but I can not help but want to undo the things I have done, the things You died for. I feel like Peter now, wanting to undo what had been planned before. And now I need to ask forgiveness again, for I should know that what You did was for the santification of us all. The redeeming of our lives to the Father. There are times I can feel the pain of rejection from some people that don't understand wholly why I worship like I do, why I follow after you. And my feeling rejected doesn't compare to the rejection You felt from the Father when you took our sins, my sins. I was reading again. It hurts so much to read the words written but I read them, I never want to forget what You did for me, what you suffered for me. I want it written on my heart as a reminder of Your love, a love I will probably never completely understand, but am so grateful and blessed to have. That love is just Who You are. I long to understand You more, to get so close to You that I won't know where I leave off and where You begin.
I know to do this I must constantly seek after You, to learn more about You by reading Your Word, yielding myself to the Holy Spirit for His teaching and guiding. He will draw me into the knowledge of You, He will share with me Your wisdom. I know I must love others unconditionally and I always, always must love my Lord above all. I know I will get there, it is that important to me that I am with You. I want to be that spotless, cleansed bride that You will return for.
After my day, Lord Jesus, I want to go to rest but first I want to thank You for being with me the day, I want to praise You for all the things You blessed me with. I want to ask You to search my heart and let me know if there is anything there that I need to get out of me, I will need You to help me here. I don't want to close my eyes with anything that is unpleaseing to You in me. After we do these things, I will lift my voice to You in worship, glorifing You for Who You are, only because of who You are. Worship the Lord of Lords, drawing on You to come, pour Your presence out all around me, all over me, Your presence that is life to me. Then Lord, I know there will be some petitions of prayer to You. So many friends, family, ill and with needs, and I know I will be lifting them up to you, asking You to bless their lives. To be with them, letting them know that You are there on their behalf. And then I will worship until You reach down and draw my eyes shut, breath Your sweet breathe of rest upon my body and I sleep.
Before the day, after the day, starting and finishing in the same place, in worship to You. There is no other way for me to live, for this is what I do, Lord, this is what You made me to do. Worship you from my heart. I will worship You each and every day, night, every breath I take will be of worship to You. I desire only You Lord. This 17th day of April, 2011, before the day and after the same, I 'll be loving You and giving You all my worship.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
TRANSCENDING LOVE
Hebrews 3:3-4 "Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything."
I just spent the last two hours watching a movie. A love story, about a boy, a girl, and a house. I had not watched this movie for years, I don't watch many movies, much less love stories. It would just make me remember I am alone, all alone. But tonight as I watched, it was different. I knew it would be sad, beautiful but sad, but I was drawn to watch it. The title doesn't matter as real love stories have the basic beginning and true love has the same ending. The important thing here is the way the movie was played out to me. Some might tell me I am too spiritual minded for any good, but I don't think the Lord thinks so and what He thinks is what is most important to me. He likes me like I am, He is the one that has built the house I am in to be just like this, at this time in my life. He wants my mind to always be fixed on Him and the things of Him. That way, it makes Him the honored one in this house that is me.
What my Lord showed me was myself at an early age, falling so in love with Him. I can remember loving the Lord, reading my Bible, singing to Him. Not as I am now, but what was capable of myself at that age, and the understanding I had. Probably had I been in a spirit filled church at that age, things might have been different as my knowledge of Him would have been deeper but things were what they were then. But I loved the Lord as I best knew how. Then He showed me how circumstances took me from Him, never His doing, my own. My own lack of understanding. Oh, this is so hard, I am so touched by His love and presence, but this is what He has given me for this night. To share with you.
While I was absent from Him, He showed how He began to form the house I would finally occupy. The Lord showed me that even though I was not thinking of Him, He never lost sight or thoughts of me. He began to build a foundation that I could stand on that would not weaken when I needed strength. He showed me the walls that were made of glass, so that I could not hide away from Him when I needed His understanding and cleansing most. He could always see inside me and I would always be able to know He was there. He showed me the vault, my heart, where He would pour love that would transcend anything I had every known. Transcend, to go beyond the limits or powers of anything I would know. This love would be higher or greater than anything I had ever known possible. And it was His gift to me. He showed me His blood, the very blood that He would shed for me, that blood that would guarantee my return to Him for eternity.
My Lord showed me my return, the beginning difficult, as I was torn between what I knew and what He wanted me to know. I had so many ideas of what love was, how can one be so ...the only word I can come up with is stupid, but my Lord doesn't like that word. He would prefer I use naive. But I did not really know what love was. He had to teach me. He had to teach me how to love Him. See, I thought I had to do something, to prove I was worth His sacrifice, and I kept trying and I kept failing. So the beginning was a little rough, like this love story tonight. A little stormy, heartaches, failures, misunderstandings. But my Lord never gave up. Kind of like the movie guy. He never gave up, kept trying, kept building, working on the relationship in his heart until it was shared. My beautiful Lord, He never gave up on me, He kept working on this house for me, knowing one day I would occupy it, I would fit in it perfectly.
He taught me about transcending love. A love that is so much greater, so much more than you can imagine real. My patient Lord, the Lover of my soul, taught me that real love requires no action, no trying, there is nothing to do for it, nothing to work on; this love that transcends all else is just heartfelt. It grows in the heart through being loved in return. From a love that shows you it is not going anywhere no matter what you do, how you behave, how you reject it; it never stops, never leaves and is always just given to you.
For nothing I have done, but everything Jesus has done. My Lord, my precious love, never once did You leave me, never once did You stop loving me. I just did not understand that love, that depth, that sacrifice of love You had for me. You have stopped at nothing to win me, to draw me to You, to have me for Your own. Jesus, my Jesus...You waited for me. You built the house and waited until I could see only You. Then You showed me what was built for only me. You showed me that no one could occupy this house but me, and You. For this house is only a house without You in it. You are the honored occupant of the house that makes it what it is. I am here because You love me and this is what You do when You love, You build the house, You place Your beloved in the house, and then You dwell there with them as they love and worship only You.
Well, the love story ended with a love that would never die. Old in age, the couple's love would never leave them again. My Lord showed me as it was ending, that He would love me always and knew I would always be His. He said our love would never end, in fact, He said it was actually only beginning. One day soon, He would return for me, I would leave this earthly house He built for this time, this place, for the beginning of our transcending love and He would take me to another house that He has built for me. This one would be more glorious than the earthly one, as it would be for eternity, centered around His throne.
My precious love, I worship You. I thank You for this house You built. I thank You that You seal it with Your love and protection daily. There is so much joy here but I know there is more to come. This 16th day of April, 2011, You have taught me to love, to love You with transcending love.
I just spent the last two hours watching a movie. A love story, about a boy, a girl, and a house. I had not watched this movie for years, I don't watch many movies, much less love stories. It would just make me remember I am alone, all alone. But tonight as I watched, it was different. I knew it would be sad, beautiful but sad, but I was drawn to watch it. The title doesn't matter as real love stories have the basic beginning and true love has the same ending. The important thing here is the way the movie was played out to me. Some might tell me I am too spiritual minded for any good, but I don't think the Lord thinks so and what He thinks is what is most important to me. He likes me like I am, He is the one that has built the house I am in to be just like this, at this time in my life. He wants my mind to always be fixed on Him and the things of Him. That way, it makes Him the honored one in this house that is me.
What my Lord showed me was myself at an early age, falling so in love with Him. I can remember loving the Lord, reading my Bible, singing to Him. Not as I am now, but what was capable of myself at that age, and the understanding I had. Probably had I been in a spirit filled church at that age, things might have been different as my knowledge of Him would have been deeper but things were what they were then. But I loved the Lord as I best knew how. Then He showed me how circumstances took me from Him, never His doing, my own. My own lack of understanding. Oh, this is so hard, I am so touched by His love and presence, but this is what He has given me for this night. To share with you.
While I was absent from Him, He showed how He began to form the house I would finally occupy. The Lord showed me that even though I was not thinking of Him, He never lost sight or thoughts of me. He began to build a foundation that I could stand on that would not weaken when I needed strength. He showed me the walls that were made of glass, so that I could not hide away from Him when I needed His understanding and cleansing most. He could always see inside me and I would always be able to know He was there. He showed me the vault, my heart, where He would pour love that would transcend anything I had every known. Transcend, to go beyond the limits or powers of anything I would know. This love would be higher or greater than anything I had ever known possible. And it was His gift to me. He showed me His blood, the very blood that He would shed for me, that blood that would guarantee my return to Him for eternity.
My Lord showed me my return, the beginning difficult, as I was torn between what I knew and what He wanted me to know. I had so many ideas of what love was, how can one be so ...the only word I can come up with is stupid, but my Lord doesn't like that word. He would prefer I use naive. But I did not really know what love was. He had to teach me. He had to teach me how to love Him. See, I thought I had to do something, to prove I was worth His sacrifice, and I kept trying and I kept failing. So the beginning was a little rough, like this love story tonight. A little stormy, heartaches, failures, misunderstandings. But my Lord never gave up. Kind of like the movie guy. He never gave up, kept trying, kept building, working on the relationship in his heart until it was shared. My beautiful Lord, He never gave up on me, He kept working on this house for me, knowing one day I would occupy it, I would fit in it perfectly.
He taught me about transcending love. A love that is so much greater, so much more than you can imagine real. My patient Lord, the Lover of my soul, taught me that real love requires no action, no trying, there is nothing to do for it, nothing to work on; this love that transcends all else is just heartfelt. It grows in the heart through being loved in return. From a love that shows you it is not going anywhere no matter what you do, how you behave, how you reject it; it never stops, never leaves and is always just given to you.
For nothing I have done, but everything Jesus has done. My Lord, my precious love, never once did You leave me, never once did You stop loving me. I just did not understand that love, that depth, that sacrifice of love You had for me. You have stopped at nothing to win me, to draw me to You, to have me for Your own. Jesus, my Jesus...You waited for me. You built the house and waited until I could see only You. Then You showed me what was built for only me. You showed me that no one could occupy this house but me, and You. For this house is only a house without You in it. You are the honored occupant of the house that makes it what it is. I am here because You love me and this is what You do when You love, You build the house, You place Your beloved in the house, and then You dwell there with them as they love and worship only You.
Well, the love story ended with a love that would never die. Old in age, the couple's love would never leave them again. My Lord showed me as it was ending, that He would love me always and knew I would always be His. He said our love would never end, in fact, He said it was actually only beginning. One day soon, He would return for me, I would leave this earthly house He built for this time, this place, for the beginning of our transcending love and He would take me to another house that He has built for me. This one would be more glorious than the earthly one, as it would be for eternity, centered around His throne.
My precious love, I worship You. I thank You for this house You built. I thank You that You seal it with Your love and protection daily. There is so much joy here but I know there is more to come. This 16th day of April, 2011, You have taught me to love, to love You with transcending love.
Friday, April 15, 2011
RESTORATION
Psalm 69: 35 "For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it."
The Lord showed me this verse like this: "For God will save Zion (His people) and rebuild the cities (our hearts) of Judah (worship on earth). That they may dwell there (in His presence) and possess it (His peace and blessings).
What a revelation this was to me. The Lord will save us from our religions, our mind-sets that have been instilled in us from an early age. These mind-sets are so hard for some to overcome. Raising hands to praise the Lord, worshiping with songs from your hearts, so hard for some to do. To get by what years in structured religious services have taught them. The Lord wants to unteach you these things. He desires pure heartfelt worship from His children. He will save us from these mind-sets.
Father wants to rebuild the cities - our hearts - into what His heart desires from us. Worship. The Lord wants us to worship Him uninhibited and free. There is such freedom when you begin to sing from your heart unto the Lord. Just let the Holy Spirit lead you into worship. The Holy Spirit knows just what the Father wants to hear. Go with what you feel the Spirit is leading you into.
It is here, when you begin to truly let yourself go into true worship of the Father, lifting up the Holy Name of Jesus in worship, songs of love and thanksgiving unto the Lord, that you will have the presence of the Lord fill the space all around you, the room will become sweet with His fragrance and you will be filled with His Glory. You will dwell in His presence, you will live as you never did before. You will be in a place so holy you will not ever want to leave.
This is the place, in His presence, that you will begin to fill such love pouring into you. You will begin to see the changes that the Lord wants to make in your life. You will see healings take place, provisions made; you will see scripture come to life as you read it. You will have understanding of things that were mysteries before. The Lord will literary open your eyes to His Word, He will open your ears to His voice, and He will change your life forever.
All through worship. The Lord will restore worship to this earth. We were made to worship the Lord. It is why we are here. The Lord doesn't need anything we have, everything is His, on earth, sky, in the Heavens, it is all His. He wants us to worship. He wants us to glorify Him and thank Him for what He is, who He is, because He is. Worshiping, loving, honoring, praising the Lord. That is what pleases our God. Knowing that we are so in love with Him that we want to worship Him at all times, from our hearts, to Him. Worship.
The Lord want so to bless His children. He wants to give us every good thing that He has waiting for us. There is so much waiting for us. Few rules apply to receive these blessings. Love the Lord. How could you not love our Lord who has given so much to us. Then, we must love our neighbors like ourselves. This is not hard, just love them through the Lord. Love them with His love. It is given freely to you, pass it to your neighbors, just love them. These must be present as it is God's will that you love. It will purify your heart, this love. Then you worship. Just fill your mouths with praise and worship to the Lord, let it pour out of your heart to Him. Words that fill your heart that show your gratitude for what the Lord has done for you. Love on the Lord with songs of adoration, worshiping morning and night and all the time in between. Just worship.
If you have never worshiped the Lord before, just raise your hands where you stand. Begin to sing softly, thank You Lord, I love You Lord, You are everything to me. Just sing it over and over and as you begin to fill the love flowing from your heart, lift your voice louder and just worship. The Lord has been waiting to hear your voice praising Him, loving Him. He will give you all His attention when He hears your worship. There is nothing He won't do for you as He hears your heart pour out your love to Him in song.
Restore worship, Lord. Restore the hearts of Your children to yourself as they begin to worship You. And Lord, restore to them all the blessings of Your heavens, restore health to their bodies and spirits, restore their peace that they can only find in You, and restore joy to their hearts. Your joy. Restore them my Lord. Restore them as they offer their heartfelt worship to only You.
This 15th day of April, 2011, I thank You for restoration of worship in our land, our hearts. I love you my God. You are everything to me. Lord, as I lift my voice to worship You, let Your presence fall on me.
The Lord showed me this verse like this: "For God will save Zion (His people) and rebuild the cities (our hearts) of Judah (worship on earth). That they may dwell there (in His presence) and possess it (His peace and blessings).
What a revelation this was to me. The Lord will save us from our religions, our mind-sets that have been instilled in us from an early age. These mind-sets are so hard for some to overcome. Raising hands to praise the Lord, worshiping with songs from your hearts, so hard for some to do. To get by what years in structured religious services have taught them. The Lord wants to unteach you these things. He desires pure heartfelt worship from His children. He will save us from these mind-sets.
Father wants to rebuild the cities - our hearts - into what His heart desires from us. Worship. The Lord wants us to worship Him uninhibited and free. There is such freedom when you begin to sing from your heart unto the Lord. Just let the Holy Spirit lead you into worship. The Holy Spirit knows just what the Father wants to hear. Go with what you feel the Spirit is leading you into.
It is here, when you begin to truly let yourself go into true worship of the Father, lifting up the Holy Name of Jesus in worship, songs of love and thanksgiving unto the Lord, that you will have the presence of the Lord fill the space all around you, the room will become sweet with His fragrance and you will be filled with His Glory. You will dwell in His presence, you will live as you never did before. You will be in a place so holy you will not ever want to leave.
This is the place, in His presence, that you will begin to fill such love pouring into you. You will begin to see the changes that the Lord wants to make in your life. You will see healings take place, provisions made; you will see scripture come to life as you read it. You will have understanding of things that were mysteries before. The Lord will literary open your eyes to His Word, He will open your ears to His voice, and He will change your life forever.
All through worship. The Lord will restore worship to this earth. We were made to worship the Lord. It is why we are here. The Lord doesn't need anything we have, everything is His, on earth, sky, in the Heavens, it is all His. He wants us to worship. He wants us to glorify Him and thank Him for what He is, who He is, because He is. Worshiping, loving, honoring, praising the Lord. That is what pleases our God. Knowing that we are so in love with Him that we want to worship Him at all times, from our hearts, to Him. Worship.
The Lord want so to bless His children. He wants to give us every good thing that He has waiting for us. There is so much waiting for us. Few rules apply to receive these blessings. Love the Lord. How could you not love our Lord who has given so much to us. Then, we must love our neighbors like ourselves. This is not hard, just love them through the Lord. Love them with His love. It is given freely to you, pass it to your neighbors, just love them. These must be present as it is God's will that you love. It will purify your heart, this love. Then you worship. Just fill your mouths with praise and worship to the Lord, let it pour out of your heart to Him. Words that fill your heart that show your gratitude for what the Lord has done for you. Love on the Lord with songs of adoration, worshiping morning and night and all the time in between. Just worship.
If you have never worshiped the Lord before, just raise your hands where you stand. Begin to sing softly, thank You Lord, I love You Lord, You are everything to me. Just sing it over and over and as you begin to fill the love flowing from your heart, lift your voice louder and just worship. The Lord has been waiting to hear your voice praising Him, loving Him. He will give you all His attention when He hears your worship. There is nothing He won't do for you as He hears your heart pour out your love to Him in song.
Restore worship, Lord. Restore the hearts of Your children to yourself as they begin to worship You. And Lord, restore to them all the blessings of Your heavens, restore health to their bodies and spirits, restore their peace that they can only find in You, and restore joy to their hearts. Your joy. Restore them my Lord. Restore them as they offer their heartfelt worship to only You.
This 15th day of April, 2011, I thank You for restoration of worship in our land, our hearts. I love you my God. You are everything to me. Lord, as I lift my voice to worship You, let Your presence fall on me.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
SPIRITUAL ABORTION
Luke 8:11b "The seed is the Word of God."
I received a new Bible I had ordered in the mail today. It is the New Spirit Filled Life Bible. As I was looking through it, there are sections called Kingdom Dynamics. I was reading one that caught my eye on abortion when the Lord said into my spirit "Spiritual Abortion". I tell you it really caught my attention as I had never heard the term before. Then He began to tell me what He meant.
The Lord told me that when we receive a word from Him, either directly or given through the Holy Spirit, it is a seed of the Word of God. It is meant to be given birth through us to members of the body of Christ or to someone for correction, or an encouragement from the Lord. Sometimes it is something we are to say or sing during a service. A word of knowledge from Him; a new song born out of what He is doing in our spirit. He told me that when we fail to deliver this word, this song He is telling us to let loose from our spirits we are commiting abortion, a spiritual abortion. We are literally killing that seed He has planted in us that was to have been given for the growing of the body or someone He needed that word given to. For fear of man or of what the enemy told us was being out of order, for the fear maybe of rejection, of ridicule, we were silent, and kept that seed to ourselves. Without the releasing of that seed to where it could have been watered and nutured by the Lord, we basically killed it. Aborted. Destroyed.
As I was thinking earlier this evening, trying to tell myself surely this was not a word that would be received well, you know, abortion is a serious word, not to be taken lightly, and perhaps it was something best not spoken of here, the Lord once again spoke to me. He said "You are doing it now, you are considering abortion, spiritual abortion". I was horrified, for it was true. I was trying to find a way not to give the word the Lord had given me. It is the Lord that gave me the word and I know He knows who needed to read this and get this message from Him. I am only the instrument He is using. Forgive me, Lord, as I never want to abort Your message. I want to be a clear, flowing vessel for You to use. It is not for me to decide what should be given, all Your words are wonderful and I know even though it is a hard thing to say, You have the reason, You have the target it should go to, and You will see that person gets Your message. I am only to give it. I stopped not releasing the Holy Spirit in me in church months back as the Lord showed me His hurt and rejection when I would not do what I was asked to say, or sing, in church. So I let Him flow through me as He wills. Father, this is no different, forgive me, flow through me Your messages here also, Lord.
The Lord will not let me leave this tonight. I need to give another part of this message, it is for someone that will read this. Abortion is a sin. There are many that have made this decision early on in their lives for one reason or another. And that sin is weighing them down still today. Sin is sin. If you told a lie, and asked forgiveness from the Father, you would accept His forgiveness and love and move on in Him. The Father wants you to know, if this is about you, something done in your youth, or under situations that were different then; please, hear these words from the Lord. "Child, come out from under that bondage that satan has you in. I love you and you are forgiven your sin. As I would forgive anything you have done for My Son has set you free, He has paid the price for all you sins, this one included. I no longer remember the things of the past that you have repented for, and I want you to lay those things aside also. Let not the enemy use this to keep you from Me, come to Me and I will comfort you, I will love you, you are mine, my beloved child. Be free in Jesus today. Come to Me."
I thank you my Father for your beautiful presence, your glorious light, your precious forgiveness, and your mercy and grace. You are wonderful, Lord, You are light, love and life to me, to so many. There is none like You, Lord. I release this seed into the world tonight my Lord, as You have given it to me to bring to birth, I know You will let it fall on fertile ground and bring another to water and nurture it. It is in Your wonderful plan for Your children. All in You.
I love You so much, my God. You are life to me, my all in all. This 14th day of April, 2011, I am clinging to You, my Lord, clinging to You as I love You so much and want never to be apart from You.
I received a new Bible I had ordered in the mail today. It is the New Spirit Filled Life Bible. As I was looking through it, there are sections called Kingdom Dynamics. I was reading one that caught my eye on abortion when the Lord said into my spirit "Spiritual Abortion". I tell you it really caught my attention as I had never heard the term before. Then He began to tell me what He meant.
The Lord told me that when we receive a word from Him, either directly or given through the Holy Spirit, it is a seed of the Word of God. It is meant to be given birth through us to members of the body of Christ or to someone for correction, or an encouragement from the Lord. Sometimes it is something we are to say or sing during a service. A word of knowledge from Him; a new song born out of what He is doing in our spirit. He told me that when we fail to deliver this word, this song He is telling us to let loose from our spirits we are commiting abortion, a spiritual abortion. We are literally killing that seed He has planted in us that was to have been given for the growing of the body or someone He needed that word given to. For fear of man or of what the enemy told us was being out of order, for the fear maybe of rejection, of ridicule, we were silent, and kept that seed to ourselves. Without the releasing of that seed to where it could have been watered and nutured by the Lord, we basically killed it. Aborted. Destroyed.
As I was thinking earlier this evening, trying to tell myself surely this was not a word that would be received well, you know, abortion is a serious word, not to be taken lightly, and perhaps it was something best not spoken of here, the Lord once again spoke to me. He said "You are doing it now, you are considering abortion, spiritual abortion". I was horrified, for it was true. I was trying to find a way not to give the word the Lord had given me. It is the Lord that gave me the word and I know He knows who needed to read this and get this message from Him. I am only the instrument He is using. Forgive me, Lord, as I never want to abort Your message. I want to be a clear, flowing vessel for You to use. It is not for me to decide what should be given, all Your words are wonderful and I know even though it is a hard thing to say, You have the reason, You have the target it should go to, and You will see that person gets Your message. I am only to give it. I stopped not releasing the Holy Spirit in me in church months back as the Lord showed me His hurt and rejection when I would not do what I was asked to say, or sing, in church. So I let Him flow through me as He wills. Father, this is no different, forgive me, flow through me Your messages here also, Lord.
The Lord will not let me leave this tonight. I need to give another part of this message, it is for someone that will read this. Abortion is a sin. There are many that have made this decision early on in their lives for one reason or another. And that sin is weighing them down still today. Sin is sin. If you told a lie, and asked forgiveness from the Father, you would accept His forgiveness and love and move on in Him. The Father wants you to know, if this is about you, something done in your youth, or under situations that were different then; please, hear these words from the Lord. "Child, come out from under that bondage that satan has you in. I love you and you are forgiven your sin. As I would forgive anything you have done for My Son has set you free, He has paid the price for all you sins, this one included. I no longer remember the things of the past that you have repented for, and I want you to lay those things aside also. Let not the enemy use this to keep you from Me, come to Me and I will comfort you, I will love you, you are mine, my beloved child. Be free in Jesus today. Come to Me."
I thank you my Father for your beautiful presence, your glorious light, your precious forgiveness, and your mercy and grace. You are wonderful, Lord, You are light, love and life to me, to so many. There is none like You, Lord. I release this seed into the world tonight my Lord, as You have given it to me to bring to birth, I know You will let it fall on fertile ground and bring another to water and nurture it. It is in Your wonderful plan for Your children. All in You.
I love You so much, my God. You are life to me, my all in all. This 14th day of April, 2011, I am clinging to You, my Lord, clinging to You as I love You so much and want never to be apart from You.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
MY DELIVERER
Psalm 141:1-2 "O Lord, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you. May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting of my hands be like the evening sacrifice."
My Lord, how I love You. Tonight my thoughts are centered around Your goodness to me, Your continual thoughts for me, of me. As time draws nearer to the remembrance of Your sacrifice for me, for us all, I cannot help but cry out to You. I have such a hard time with this time of year, Lord, as do all those who love You so deeply. When I think how You loved me so much, You were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice for me...to deliver me from the hands of the enemy for all eternity. Here You paid the price, and yet I need the comforting. I just want to be held while I cry for the agony You suffered for me, the pain, the ridicule you suffered. But what I want to be comforted most I believe, dearest Jesus, is the pain and ridicule you suffer even today, even now as You continue to deliver Your children from the enemy's hands on a daily basis, those same children who can't even lift their hands to You in praise, in honor, worship to Your Holy Name. I am so sorry, my Lord, it breaks my heart as I think of the sorrow you experience each day as You wait for them to call on You, to invite You into their hearts, their lives.
You deliver me once again, my beautiful Savior, into the presence of the Father, knowing the peace I find there. You are flooding my room with that presence I so love, but it is You, just You, my Jesus, that I want to see. I want to see my Deliverer, I love You so much, I want to look upon that beautiful face, those loving eyes, the One who died for me. The One who took all the pain inflicted so I could be pain free, the loving Savior who took the ridicule, the rejection so I could be accepted. And it is not the acceptance of man I long for or seek, my Lord, it is the acceptance into the Fathers' Kingdom that is my goal. I don't care what men say of me, as long as they recognize I am Yours, that I am a child of God, I don't care what else they may think. They can call me disassociated, and that is okay as I am associated with You; they can call me names, as long as they call me by Your name, Christian.
I want to only please You, my Lord. I want to walk in the Light You have given me, I want to hear the words You have for me, those precious words of love and encouragement. Those words that I love to hear from You. Pleasing You is pleasure to me. I live to please You, my Love, my King. Your words have been set upon me to deliver me from my enemies, You give me the words to respond when confronted by the enemy, and to ward off his attacks. Your words, precious and beautiful to me.
Your glory is what I long to see. The bright, glorious light that You bring into my days is what I live for. Rain Your glory on me now, my Lord. Fill this room with Your presence as I seek to share my love for You; as I long to show anyway I can the depth of my love for You. I spend time and more time seeking ways to show my love for You and You just smile on me, yes, You do just smile on me as You see my heart, knowing how much I love You. Yes, Lord, I know I don't need to do anything more than what I do now. Yes, I see that You are loving the way I worship You, the way I tell others how much You mean to me, yes, Lord, You know my love. I live my life, Lord, as worship to You. My Jesus, I want You to return, return soon, my Love. Return and deliver my soul to You, my spirit longs to be delivered to You.
My Deliverer, my Lord, my King, my Beloved Savior, as we near these days when so many will look upon You, and remember You, I pray that they will worship You and give You all their praise and honor You for Your goodness to them. I pray it will not cease when Easter is over, that it will continue forever. Yes, Lord, I know, it won't. But perhaps this year, perhaps more will draw close to You and stay there, finding Your presence so sweet they won't be able to leave. I pray they experience a closeness to You that will keep them worshiping You all year. I pray...
Precious Lord, I will worship You always. I know many that love You and love to worship You. I pray it will spread to the ends of the earth. That people that never knew how to worship You will be filled with the Holy Spirit who will draw their hearts to You and they will give themselves up to pure heartfelt worship to only You. It will be glorious to hear and I know the bowels of Heaven will open and receive this sacrifice of praise and worship to the King of Kings, my Lord of Lords. Then will the Father reach down and heal His children, heal their lands. When that worship goes up like billows of smoke rising into the heavens and does not stop until it penetrates the very Gates of Heaven. What a day that will be....
Thank You, Lord, for delivering to me blessing untold. I love You, my Jesus. I love You, this 13th day of April, 2011, and will all my life. You are my life.
My Lord, how I love You. Tonight my thoughts are centered around Your goodness to me, Your continual thoughts for me, of me. As time draws nearer to the remembrance of Your sacrifice for me, for us all, I cannot help but cry out to You. I have such a hard time with this time of year, Lord, as do all those who love You so deeply. When I think how You loved me so much, You were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice for me...to deliver me from the hands of the enemy for all eternity. Here You paid the price, and yet I need the comforting. I just want to be held while I cry for the agony You suffered for me, the pain, the ridicule you suffered. But what I want to be comforted most I believe, dearest Jesus, is the pain and ridicule you suffer even today, even now as You continue to deliver Your children from the enemy's hands on a daily basis, those same children who can't even lift their hands to You in praise, in honor, worship to Your Holy Name. I am so sorry, my Lord, it breaks my heart as I think of the sorrow you experience each day as You wait for them to call on You, to invite You into their hearts, their lives.
You deliver me once again, my beautiful Savior, into the presence of the Father, knowing the peace I find there. You are flooding my room with that presence I so love, but it is You, just You, my Jesus, that I want to see. I want to see my Deliverer, I love You so much, I want to look upon that beautiful face, those loving eyes, the One who died for me. The One who took all the pain inflicted so I could be pain free, the loving Savior who took the ridicule, the rejection so I could be accepted. And it is not the acceptance of man I long for or seek, my Lord, it is the acceptance into the Fathers' Kingdom that is my goal. I don't care what men say of me, as long as they recognize I am Yours, that I am a child of God, I don't care what else they may think. They can call me disassociated, and that is okay as I am associated with You; they can call me names, as long as they call me by Your name, Christian.
I want to only please You, my Lord. I want to walk in the Light You have given me, I want to hear the words You have for me, those precious words of love and encouragement. Those words that I love to hear from You. Pleasing You is pleasure to me. I live to please You, my Love, my King. Your words have been set upon me to deliver me from my enemies, You give me the words to respond when confronted by the enemy, and to ward off his attacks. Your words, precious and beautiful to me.
Your glory is what I long to see. The bright, glorious light that You bring into my days is what I live for. Rain Your glory on me now, my Lord. Fill this room with Your presence as I seek to share my love for You; as I long to show anyway I can the depth of my love for You. I spend time and more time seeking ways to show my love for You and You just smile on me, yes, You do just smile on me as You see my heart, knowing how much I love You. Yes, Lord, I know I don't need to do anything more than what I do now. Yes, I see that You are loving the way I worship You, the way I tell others how much You mean to me, yes, Lord, You know my love. I live my life, Lord, as worship to You. My Jesus, I want You to return, return soon, my Love. Return and deliver my soul to You, my spirit longs to be delivered to You.
My Deliverer, my Lord, my King, my Beloved Savior, as we near these days when so many will look upon You, and remember You, I pray that they will worship You and give You all their praise and honor You for Your goodness to them. I pray it will not cease when Easter is over, that it will continue forever. Yes, Lord, I know, it won't. But perhaps this year, perhaps more will draw close to You and stay there, finding Your presence so sweet they won't be able to leave. I pray they experience a closeness to You that will keep them worshiping You all year. I pray...
Precious Lord, I will worship You always. I know many that love You and love to worship You. I pray it will spread to the ends of the earth. That people that never knew how to worship You will be filled with the Holy Spirit who will draw their hearts to You and they will give themselves up to pure heartfelt worship to only You. It will be glorious to hear and I know the bowels of Heaven will open and receive this sacrifice of praise and worship to the King of Kings, my Lord of Lords. Then will the Father reach down and heal His children, heal their lands. When that worship goes up like billows of smoke rising into the heavens and does not stop until it penetrates the very Gates of Heaven. What a day that will be....
Thank You, Lord, for delivering to me blessing untold. I love You, my Jesus. I love You, this 13th day of April, 2011, and will all my life. You are my life.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
LAMP TO THE SOUL
Luke 11:34 "Your eye is the lamp of your body. When you eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness."
It is so strange, Lord, to see for the first time, actually, this verse. I know I have read it before, probably many times, but today I saw it. I went to that section of Luke this morning as part of praying some scripture over some friends and when I finished I began to read the scriptures across from it. When You showed me this verse, Lord, it just jumped into my spirit. I pray Father, You give me the words You want me to write here. Just You Lord, just You.
What I am seeing here is that the Light that comes into our life, the only Light that I can see is our Lord Jesus. We bring that Light into our bodies by looking at the Lord. Seeking after Him, seeking His face. Our eyes control what comes into our minds, our hearts and our souls. If we are seeking the Lord, Him alone, then we have pure light coming in to our bodies. This Light will be a constant source of strength to our bodies, peace to our spirits and joy to our hearts.
When I was thinking on this scripture this morning, this came back to me. I had a customer come into my office one day and was carrying on about how good he thought I was looking, actually to the point of "too much" to suit me, but then he stopped and said, "there must be a man involved here, is there", and before I could say anything to him, he looked at me again and pointed up and said, "it's Him, Jesus". I smiled and told him yes, it was my Lord. He then told me, he knew, as he could see Jesus in my eyes. I have never in my remembrance had anyone on earth tell me something that gave me such joy and such a thrill. To think that my eyes showed my Lord in me. How could anything be more wonderful. It still warms my heart so much.
But the eyes. The eyes see everything. I believe that whatever you see flows into your mind, into your body. I also feel that you can shut off something you see, should it be accidental that you see something that is not of the Lord, by instantly asking God to remove it from you, to stop that flow into your body of any perverted, evil thing. The enemy wants so much to cloud your vision and put darkness into your spirit where only light should be. So instantly reject those things, don't give them entrance. Those people that intentionally look upon such things, fill their bodies, their minds, hearts and spirits with darkness. And we know that where darkness abounds, light is absent. So when a Christian, yes, in circumstances, the enemy uses the eyes to bring down our brothers and sisters, looks upon things of the world and doesn't ask the Lord to help them reject these things, darkness enters and the Light leaves. As children of the Lord, it is our responsibility when we see this happening to go to them and restore their sight. We need to bring the Light back into their situation immediately before they get complacent with their situation. All kinds of things can cause one to fall, and we don't walk in their shoes, so never should there be judgment on our part, just love and a helping hand, prayer and love.
What are you looking at? So many shows on TV and movies have just a little of this worldly thing, so much of that. Thre is so much of the world in these that after a while some get to where they don't notice it. It is so subtle you don't always notice it taking place. The first note of it is in your body, in your spirit. It just snuck in, that darkness. A little at a time, until it completely eliminated the Light. We must do whatever is necessary to keep this from happening. If there is darkness, something tht would give you a problem, shield your eyes, do not look at it. This is a responsibility that should be taken seriously. We do not know when our Lord is returning. We cannot have darkness inside us, only His light.
We need to sharpen the focus of our eyes. We need to develop tunnel vision. Our eyes should focus only on the Lord, the giver of Light. The maker of our bodies, our eyes. Our eyes should be kept clear, our vision not impacted by worldly things, focused on the things of the Lord. Our eyes are for reading His Word, for sharing His light. Our eyes should reflect the Lover of our soul in them. Our eyes should reflect our love for our Lord. Our eyes should shine with the glow of joy that is in our hearts, our spirits because of the great love of God. There should be a sparkle in our eyes from the Holy Spirit dancing around in them. See the Holy Spirit is there as a filter in your eyes to make sure only light is coming through and not dark, but you must ask for this, daily; Holy Spirit, please let me only look on the good of the Lord, please protect my eyes from focusing on evil, on darkness. We must ask for His help, and we must thank Him for His protection, for His guidance. People, this is so serious. The Lord needs His children to protect our eyes. They are the light to our souls, they are what
It is so strange, Lord, to see for the first time, actually, this verse. I know I have read it before, probably many times, but today I saw it. I went to that section of Luke this morning as part of praying some scripture over some friends and when I finished I began to read the scriptures across from it. When You showed me this verse, Lord, it just jumped into my spirit. I pray Father, You give me the words You want me to write here. Just You Lord, just You.
What I am seeing here is that the Light that comes into our life, the only Light that I can see is our Lord Jesus. We bring that Light into our bodies by looking at the Lord. Seeking after Him, seeking His face. Our eyes control what comes into our minds, our hearts and our souls. If we are seeking the Lord, Him alone, then we have pure light coming in to our bodies. This Light will be a constant source of strength to our bodies, peace to our spirits and joy to our hearts.
When I was thinking on this scripture this morning, this came back to me. I had a customer come into my office one day and was carrying on about how good he thought I was looking, actually to the point of "too much" to suit me, but then he stopped and said, "there must be a man involved here, is there", and before I could say anything to him, he looked at me again and pointed up and said, "it's Him, Jesus". I smiled and told him yes, it was my Lord. He then told me, he knew, as he could see Jesus in my eyes. I have never in my remembrance had anyone on earth tell me something that gave me such joy and such a thrill. To think that my eyes showed my Lord in me. How could anything be more wonderful. It still warms my heart so much.
But the eyes. The eyes see everything. I believe that whatever you see flows into your mind, into your body. I also feel that you can shut off something you see, should it be accidental that you see something that is not of the Lord, by instantly asking God to remove it from you, to stop that flow into your body of any perverted, evil thing. The enemy wants so much to cloud your vision and put darkness into your spirit where only light should be. So instantly reject those things, don't give them entrance. Those people that intentionally look upon such things, fill their bodies, their minds, hearts and spirits with darkness. And we know that where darkness abounds, light is absent. So when a Christian, yes, in circumstances, the enemy uses the eyes to bring down our brothers and sisters, looks upon things of the world and doesn't ask the Lord to help them reject these things, darkness enters and the Light leaves. As children of the Lord, it is our responsibility when we see this happening to go to them and restore their sight. We need to bring the Light back into their situation immediately before they get complacent with their situation. All kinds of things can cause one to fall, and we don't walk in their shoes, so never should there be judgment on our part, just love and a helping hand, prayer and love.
What are you looking at? So many shows on TV and movies have just a little of this worldly thing, so much of that. Thre is so much of the world in these that after a while some get to where they don't notice it. It is so subtle you don't always notice it taking place. The first note of it is in your body, in your spirit. It just snuck in, that darkness. A little at a time, until it completely eliminated the Light. We must do whatever is necessary to keep this from happening. If there is darkness, something tht would give you a problem, shield your eyes, do not look at it. This is a responsibility that should be taken seriously. We do not know when our Lord is returning. We cannot have darkness inside us, only His light.
We need to sharpen the focus of our eyes. We need to develop tunnel vision. Our eyes should focus only on the Lord, the giver of Light. The maker of our bodies, our eyes. Our eyes should be kept clear, our vision not impacted by worldly things, focused on the things of the Lord. Our eyes are for reading His Word, for sharing His light. Our eyes should reflect the Lover of our soul in them. Our eyes should reflect our love for our Lord. Our eyes should shine with the glow of joy that is in our hearts, our spirits because of the great love of God. There should be a sparkle in our eyes from the Holy Spirit dancing around in them. See the Holy Spirit is there as a filter in your eyes to make sure only light is coming through and not dark, but you must ask for this, daily; Holy Spirit, please let me only look on the good of the Lord, please protect my eyes from focusing on evil, on darkness. We must ask for His help, and we must thank Him for His protection, for His guidance. People, this is so serious. The Lord needs His children to protect our eyes. They are the light to our souls, they are what
Monday, April 11, 2011
SUBSTANCE OR WORD
Jeremiah17:7-8 (Message) "But blessed is the man who trusts me, God; the woman who sticks with God. They're like trees replanted in Eden, putting down roots near the rivers...never a worry through the hottest of summers, never dropping a leaf, serene and calm through droughts, bearing fresh fruit every season."
I trust You, my God. Even when it seems like You are silent, I trust You. You never fail to let me know You are thinking of me, working for me, moving on my behalf. You send that little word, almost daily, to me that reinforces what You have told me, the plans You are making for me. You know the enemy is trying constantly to discourage me, placing doubt and unbelief in my ears. You also know I am rejecting those thoughts, but You know too, that this constant barage of the enemy can wear on ones' spirit, so You send those loving words to me. I have received some from a sermon, words in a song, a word someone said, not even at me, but you zinged that word to my heart. And most importantly, the words from Your Word. There inlays the answer. Your Word. Encouragement in in Your Word. You knew that we would be battled daily by satan, so you put every plot, dirty deed, examples of all his doings into Your Word. From beginning to end, it is all there.
You showed me Judas and how easy it was for satan to enter him. He never truly gave all his love and commitment to Jesus. He never sold out completely to our Lord so he was an easy target for the enemy to get to. This shows us that we cannot be lukewarm towards our Lord. We must love the Lord with our whole heart or we may as well not love at all. The Father would rather have us hot or cold than lukewarm, in the middle, riding the fence, as one might say. It is all, or it may as well be nothing. And no use pretending, as the Lord knows your heart.
I love you my Lord. Completely. No doubt. Absolutely. You supply what I need, at all times. Today when I was beginning to feel like I had a weight on my back, the enemy putting in little jabs, how he loves to jab; You sent a word. You supply all my needs. Tomorrow as I take care of business matters, You will see that if is taken care of in You, in the way that is pleasing to You. We will take care of this in the morning, get all business over with, all thing of the world out of the way, and then it is our time. It won't matter then, if I am cleaning house, or perhaps cooking, You will be on my mind, and in my heart. We will be enjoying beautiful music together, I will sing to You and You will sing into my spirit. How I look forward to our day, my Lord. As You put all thing in order in my life....I love it, especially that You put You at the top. I give to You the control of my life, and You order my steps; You are always at the beginning of my path and You are at the end of it. Your light is all over so there is no way I can get off the path You have made for me. I know You will supply everything that is needed to follow You and I know that You will also supply the words of encouragement along the way.
Forgive me Lord, if my mind ventures to question what Your plans are. I know that You will reveal them to me as I need to know. I know that knowing all at one time would be overwhelming. I rejoice in the fact that You love me and have such wonderful plans to use me, to use me in Your kingdom. My heart is so full of love for You and for the life You have made for me, that You continue to plan and bring me into. Father, You are so awesome. You have such beauty, my mind cannot comprehend all Your beauty, I cannot even picture the beautiful I feel You are. When I try to picture Your beauty my spirit eyes just see brightness, so bright that I can see nothing else, but brightness. How I long to see Your face, to see Your beauty. Draw me to You my Lord, draw me to You this night, I pray. Let me be with You in Your throne room tonight, to sit at Your feet and worship You.
This 11th day of April, whether substance or word, Lord, You supply what I need.
I trust You, my God. Even when it seems like You are silent, I trust You. You never fail to let me know You are thinking of me, working for me, moving on my behalf. You send that little word, almost daily, to me that reinforces what You have told me, the plans You are making for me. You know the enemy is trying constantly to discourage me, placing doubt and unbelief in my ears. You also know I am rejecting those thoughts, but You know too, that this constant barage of the enemy can wear on ones' spirit, so You send those loving words to me. I have received some from a sermon, words in a song, a word someone said, not even at me, but you zinged that word to my heart. And most importantly, the words from Your Word. There inlays the answer. Your Word. Encouragement in in Your Word. You knew that we would be battled daily by satan, so you put every plot, dirty deed, examples of all his doings into Your Word. From beginning to end, it is all there.
You showed me Judas and how easy it was for satan to enter him. He never truly gave all his love and commitment to Jesus. He never sold out completely to our Lord so he was an easy target for the enemy to get to. This shows us that we cannot be lukewarm towards our Lord. We must love the Lord with our whole heart or we may as well not love at all. The Father would rather have us hot or cold than lukewarm, in the middle, riding the fence, as one might say. It is all, or it may as well be nothing. And no use pretending, as the Lord knows your heart.
I love you my Lord. Completely. No doubt. Absolutely. You supply what I need, at all times. Today when I was beginning to feel like I had a weight on my back, the enemy putting in little jabs, how he loves to jab; You sent a word. You supply all my needs. Tomorrow as I take care of business matters, You will see that if is taken care of in You, in the way that is pleasing to You. We will take care of this in the morning, get all business over with, all thing of the world out of the way, and then it is our time. It won't matter then, if I am cleaning house, or perhaps cooking, You will be on my mind, and in my heart. We will be enjoying beautiful music together, I will sing to You and You will sing into my spirit. How I look forward to our day, my Lord. As You put all thing in order in my life....I love it, especially that You put You at the top. I give to You the control of my life, and You order my steps; You are always at the beginning of my path and You are at the end of it. Your light is all over so there is no way I can get off the path You have made for me. I know You will supply everything that is needed to follow You and I know that You will also supply the words of encouragement along the way.
Forgive me Lord, if my mind ventures to question what Your plans are. I know that You will reveal them to me as I need to know. I know that knowing all at one time would be overwhelming. I rejoice in the fact that You love me and have such wonderful plans to use me, to use me in Your kingdom. My heart is so full of love for You and for the life You have made for me, that You continue to plan and bring me into. Father, You are so awesome. You have such beauty, my mind cannot comprehend all Your beauty, I cannot even picture the beautiful I feel You are. When I try to picture Your beauty my spirit eyes just see brightness, so bright that I can see nothing else, but brightness. How I long to see Your face, to see Your beauty. Draw me to You my Lord, draw me to You this night, I pray. Let me be with You in Your throne room tonight, to sit at Your feet and worship You.
This 11th day of April, whether substance or word, Lord, You supply what I need.
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