Last week I undertook a challenge out of a response from being quite strongly convicted about my evasive tendencies to sit still in the presence of God. Why do we resist so much or find it difficult to receive the greatest love that we will ever experience??...
So I started a Purify Study, but rather than talk about my outcomes and lessons learned…. My desire is to encourage you to take your pulse, investigate the condition of your heart, and finally jumpstart it to beating full force with life and excitement for God. Take time to reflect on these questions, answer them in honesty, and discuss with the Father.
-What is in your heart?
-Do you have a foreskin over your heart?
-What is the outpour of your heart?
-What things or stuff do you keep in your heart whether good or bad? And how does this affect your relationship with God, self, others?
-How is your LOVE WALK? - Handicapped? Limping? Or Full strides?
-Is God kept in a box in your heart or does He have full total control?
The heart is a major vessel of life…directs blood flow to major arteries and organs throughout your entire body. You are a vessel that has been blessed with the ability to give life. The generations that will come from you are the hope…God’s hope for continuous lighting of a dark world. Many times we allow the enemy to string our hearts and play it like a yo-yo…I bellieve that submitting to God takes away our personal responsibility for our heart’s healing. At the end of my fast I realized my efforts at best always result in masking the hurt and often fueled by fear and other wrong motives. At first they may seem to succeed, but that desire, longing, wanting, needing for something to fill that void consumes and overpowers, resulting in evident failure.
My prayer for you is that God will give you Grace to submit your yearning heart to Him. May His Holy Spirit search your heart and flush out all that doesn’t belong. May the Love of Christ consume your heart, leaving no room for self. Causing an organic response of a heart that leads you to true self-surrender. May this Love overflow into all areas of your life and infects all those around you. That you will truly walk out God’s command of ridding "...yourselves of all the offenses you have committed [or have been committed against you], and get a new heart and a new spirit” (Ez 18:31). Relinquish the guilt of the past, relinquish past offenses, and take on your new identity. God promises to sprinkle and cleanse you…He will finish the work in your heart (Ezekiel 36:25-26). For the fruit of Love comes as a result of a Pure Heart, Good Conscience, and Sincere Faith (1 Timothy 1:5). Lay your heart on the altar, for you are fearfully and wonderfully made, you will forever be God’s Beloved, honored and precious in His sight…He made uniquely you perfectly…Never forget that…
Next week I’ll be sharing on “Prayer” or better yet “Heart-to-Heart” with God.
One luv (in Christ)
James 4:8
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Problems...or Perspective???...
You say you have problems, no one can understand???... Is it a matter of life and death?
You say no one understands the pressures and frustrations and the weight of the decision before you. Well atleast you have a choice... What do you say to a woman when the hospital says there's nothing we can do for your mother. Please take her home and request for at home hospice care. What do you think she goes through as she watches her mother die before her eyes... Still think you've got problems??...
J
What do you tell a child whose home is attacked by rebels, his father and siblings chopped before his eyes. What do you say when He is forced to rape His mother and then shoot her? Forced to fight a war that was never his but some how is caught up in it...still have problems???
Life is about perspective...an active, purposeful and spiritual determination that no matter what comes your way...rather than complain look to help another with far bigger problems than yours. The righteous ones of God are but transient beings, but while we're here we are called to live a life abandoned to God and believing in the shed blood of Jesus Christ... Perspective
You say no one understands the pressures and frustrations and the weight of the decision before you. Well atleast you have a choice... What do you say to a woman when the hospital says there's nothing we can do for your mother. Please take her home and request for at home hospice care. What do you think she goes through as she watches her mother die before her eyes... Still think you've got problems??...
J
What do you tell a child whose home is attacked by rebels, his father and siblings chopped before his eyes. What do you say when He is forced to rape His mother and then shoot her? Forced to fight a war that was never his but some how is caught up in it...still have problems???
Life is about perspective...an active, purposeful and spiritual determination that no matter what comes your way...rather than complain look to help another with far bigger problems than yours. The righteous ones of God are but transient beings, but while we're here we are called to live a life abandoned to God and believing in the shed blood of Jesus Christ... Perspective
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
On Vacation
I know...I know...the hot topic of I am "Fearfully and Wonderfully made = unique ordinary me" will be posted soon...
So this past vacation break with my mum definitely reminded me of how fortunate and blessed I am to have a relationship with my mother, but more importantly a shared faith life. We worshipped together on resurrection Sunday and it was oh soo beautifull. I love when women truly worship, hearts open, freedom of love...it's incredible. I really believe that women have the heart of God, it stretches but never breaks, it rebounds and loves overtly passionately and sometimes secretively, but nonetheless it loves soo profoundly that I know God sees and can relate to...that is exactly where I lead to my blog topic "On Vacation".
I watched a Joyce Meyer episode as part of my reminder to enjoy everyday living, and she talked about Mathew 11:28-30
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
She preached it in a way I had never heard. If you digest it carefully, Jesus invites us to find rest in Him when we are faced in trouble. Now imagine a rest to yor favorite guilty pleasure or dream place. Mine is an all expense paid spa retreat somewhere in Arizona or Thailand :-)The point is if we trust God's Grace to be sufficient in every situation, and we learn from Christ how to be like Him everyday, and we walk in gentility and humbleness of heart = victory and we wont get weary! The keys to kingdom living is taking a vacation in Jesus Christ. Trusting Him when a situation comes up and you cant figure it out...because seriously HIS BLOOD IS STRONGER!! Our God extends particularly to us Martha's rest in trouble and sameness in spirit in all that we go through. AMEN!!!
On that note, I am taking a vacation this week. Mentally chosing to trust God and to enjoy daily life simplicities like a fresh cup of coffee, warmth of summer, and having to depend on someone else :-)
So this past vacation break with my mum definitely reminded me of how fortunate and blessed I am to have a relationship with my mother, but more importantly a shared faith life. We worshipped together on resurrection Sunday and it was oh soo beautifull. I love when women truly worship, hearts open, freedom of love...it's incredible. I really believe that women have the heart of God, it stretches but never breaks, it rebounds and loves overtly passionately and sometimes secretively, but nonetheless it loves soo profoundly that I know God sees and can relate to...that is exactly where I lead to my blog topic "On Vacation".
I watched a Joyce Meyer episode as part of my reminder to enjoy everyday living, and she talked about Mathew 11:28-30
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
She preached it in a way I had never heard. If you digest it carefully, Jesus invites us to find rest in Him when we are faced in trouble. Now imagine a rest to yor favorite guilty pleasure or dream place. Mine is an all expense paid spa retreat somewhere in Arizona or Thailand :-)The point is if we trust God's Grace to be sufficient in every situation, and we learn from Christ how to be like Him everyday, and we walk in gentility and humbleness of heart = victory and we wont get weary! The keys to kingdom living is taking a vacation in Jesus Christ. Trusting Him when a situation comes up and you cant figure it out...because seriously HIS BLOOD IS STRONGER!! Our God extends particularly to us Martha's rest in trouble and sameness in spirit in all that we go through. AMEN!!!
On that note, I am taking a vacation this week. Mentally chosing to trust God and to enjoy daily life simplicities like a fresh cup of coffee, warmth of summer, and having to depend on someone else :-)
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Break time
Alright peoples...my mummy's here for resurrection weekend a la girls style ;) So stay tune for revelations from our discussions that touch upon God's unique plans for us solely as women...unattached to a man or defined by our parental status...Fun times. Have a blessed weekend!!!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Fear
I dont really mean to pick these heavy topics and do them little justice by skimming the surface...Fear...another topic that is a lifetime of study.
-What does fear mean to you?
-Can you recognize the patterns of control caused by fear?
-Is it oftentimes associated with helplessness? anxiety? worry?
Automatically that is what we naturally instinctively jump to when we hear the word fear. If you're like me, there's a quickening of the heart beat and an all too familiar overwhelmed, powerless sensation...suddenly nothing seems to go right and the fears have a reunion party...because I know I have been there before, I dread visiting and I wish it would be a drive by experience. But like you and I know full well...fear brings it's homies and cousins, lol.
One of my girlfriends asked me about one of the most prominent statements in the word "Fear of the Lord"...sends shivers and causes internal reverential trembling because we have seen/read what the wrath of God can do, especially in the Old Testament. I think it's interesting how God redeems things, words, people etc...Here we are familiar because of past experiences of the negativity surrounding the word "fear"...but God redeems it and associates it with himself...It's almost as saying "Let me be your fear" and we know that He is good and we can trust His heart always. Plus He promises throughout proverbs that we will be blessed by fearing him = wisdom and understanding (Pv 17,Pv 4:5-7, Pv 10:23).
How awesome a God who redeems things that hurt us and brings it back to Himself. All because of the finished work of the cross do we have undeserved Grace and Favor by a God who's love for us shows no bounds!
Heavenly Father, bless the reader of this entry. May these words sink into their soul and break strongholds that You, God, soo long to redeem for their good. I pray that You bring them to fullness of knowledge and revelation of You and their lives in You through Christ. Thank You. Amen
-What does fear mean to you?
-Can you recognize the patterns of control caused by fear?
-Is it oftentimes associated with helplessness? anxiety? worry?
Automatically that is what we naturally instinctively jump to when we hear the word fear. If you're like me, there's a quickening of the heart beat and an all too familiar overwhelmed, powerless sensation...suddenly nothing seems to go right and the fears have a reunion party...because I know I have been there before, I dread visiting and I wish it would be a drive by experience. But like you and I know full well...fear brings it's homies and cousins, lol.
One of my girlfriends asked me about one of the most prominent statements in the word "Fear of the Lord"...sends shivers and causes internal reverential trembling because we have seen/read what the wrath of God can do, especially in the Old Testament. I think it's interesting how God redeems things, words, people etc...Here we are familiar because of past experiences of the negativity surrounding the word "fear"...but God redeems it and associates it with himself...It's almost as saying "Let me be your fear" and we know that He is good and we can trust His heart always. Plus He promises throughout proverbs that we will be blessed by fearing him = wisdom and understanding (Pv 17,Pv 4:5-7, Pv 10:23).
How awesome a God who redeems things that hurt us and brings it back to Himself. All because of the finished work of the cross do we have undeserved Grace and Favor by a God who's love for us shows no bounds!
Heavenly Father, bless the reader of this entry. May these words sink into their soul and break strongholds that You, God, soo long to redeem for their good. I pray that You bring them to fullness of knowledge and revelation of You and their lives in You through Christ. Thank You. Amen
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