This world has rocked my ship lately! If you wanted to see a
seriously mad 7mth prego lately, you could of popped by my house pretty
much any day lately, and you could of seen some fire breathing
preaching.. But I found myself being reminded of Mercy!! And knowing
that God gives me peace.. And when I say what do you want me to do? He
answers and He leads me to the path of peace! And He shows me to have a
heart like His. ".I tell you, He will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will He find on the earth who have faith?"
And this made me sad.. How many will He find on earth who have faith?..
How many of the sifted wheat's, Faith will not fail. How many will
return to the Father? How many will Stand firm to save their life? Or
lift their heads as they stand to see their redemption coming on a
cloud?
I see this evil army coming against us, and I feel this
crazy amount of fear, because I feel like I am standing alone..
Loneliness leads to despair! And God says You're not alone.. And I say, I
do not want to be dragged into captivity! I dont want to be there.. I
am free.. And that makes me want to fight.. But You cant beat demons by
punching their hosts in the face! And I want to scream at the world and
say stop feeding the Beast! Stop laying your sacrifices down at his
multiple altars.. The anger in me wants to stab the beast in the belly!
But God told me to just Stand.. Don't move.. Just stand there and
Worship Me! Fight in the Spirit.. "But you will not even need to fight.
Take your positions; then STAND still and watch the Lord’s victory. He
is with you, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or
discouraged. Go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with
you!”“Listen to me, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Believe in
the Lord your God, and you will be able to stand firm. Believe in His
prophets, and you will succeed.”
So my dear friends who may or
may not think Im crazy right about now! Please Pray for me while I step
away for awhile.. And pray with me.. Please Just Stand with me as you
march out against him.. Send up to heaven Praise with the beauty of
your voice to Worship the Only One who can win this war without leaving a
scar or wound on His people.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Friday, July 3, 2015
Hillsong UNITED Empires album Review!
Disclosure: I was not financially
compensated for this post. I received a sample of the product for review
purposes. The opinions are my own, based on my personal experience with
the product.
Hillsong UNITED just released their new album, Empires. It has been anticipated by many fans of this genre of worship music but also by many fans of Hillsong UNITED. Reviewing this album has been a blessing, and I'm sure you will be encouraged by it also.
Hillsong UNITED Empires Track List:
1. Here Now (Madness)
2. Say The Word
3. Heart Like Heaven
4. Touch The Sky
5. Street Called Mercy
6. When I Lost My Heart To You (Hallelujah)
7. Even When It Hurts (Praise Song)
8. Prince Of Peace
9. Empires
10. Rule
11. Captain
12. Closer Than You KnowWhen listening to the first song, Here Now (Madness), you can hear that the album is going to be distinctly different and new. The entire album is unique in comparison to previous albums that have been created by UNITED and in comparison to other music out there currently. Some may enjoy this newness, but others may prefer the more centered songs of UNITED. The song Here Now (Madness) has a different vibe to it. It also has a different flux of instrumentals throughout the song. This song may be too long for some but for deep worship I think anyone would find this song great. I think for so many of us, this album will reach us in a time of spiritual need. I think this song and the entire album was perfect for helping a believer to focus on God, His perfect Will, and plan for our lives. That He is in control and knows all! This song helped bring peace to the chaos around me. My favorite sentence in the song Here Now (Madness) is "Faith makes a fool of what makes sense, but grace found my heart where logic ends".
As I progressed throughout the album I felt like the songs were chosen to almost fit together, and that the instrumentals had the same flavor. All the songs tempo were similar in play. The songs and melody in this album will definitely change the atmosphere for corporate worship but I think that this album is meant to hit us when we are in personal worship, the type of worship music that you take into your prayer closet. All of the songs bring something sweet to the soul. The focus I believe throughout the whole album was to bring peace to our hearts through focusing on Jesus through personal worship and taking us into the presence of Our Lord when everything in our lives and this world seem to be at a loss. This album brings us into that place of boldness, to conquer the fear that causes chaos in our hearts, soul, and minds. In Say The Word the chorus speaks "It will remain, And my soul will hang on every word you say, cause I know your word will never fail, and my soul will hang on every word you say".
Overall this album brought me comfort. Through the Spirit, God was speaking to United, in hopes to bring us music that will bring us peace and comfort in a time that we will need it the most. God knows what is coming, and what we will need to help us conquer and take spiritual authority over the enemy. In Prince of Peace, the chorus says "Tearing through the night, riding through the storm, staring down the flight, my eyes found Yours, shining like the sun, striding through my fear, The Prince of Peace met me there, You're always there, You heard my prayer". While listening to this song, it brought me into that intimate place with God. UNITED, Empires is amazing creation, drawling us into the Presence and nearness of God. Empires will be an encouragement to the young, old, healed, and broken.
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Sunday, June 28, 2015
The Shift and the Sift
My heart hurts... This past week, I pondered what to think, how to feel, what to do, and I found myself in this place of feeling hurt.. I said God, I just need to listen to you.. And He spoke.. He reminded me of a Word He gave me two years ago.. A word for a man I didn't know, but I gave it to him.. But this word made me cry.. I was scared because it was about the future.. I didn't realize exactly what it meant til this week.. Until God reminded me of it.. God prepares His children for the future. He prepares them for the hurt they will feel.. I said to HIM! You Know.. YOU Knew.. You give me peace at knowing You know all things.. You know the way the world will turn because You know the beginning to the End.. You are the creator of All things..
But I still will cry because we are stepping into the next phase of God's plan.. I do not cry because of the world.. I am an alien in this place. I don't belong here. I never have.. I cry because of His sovereignty.. Because His reign Is perfect, and so is His judgement. I cry because His plan includes a curse and blessing.. I cry because I love His creation even though I wish I didn't have to witness it..
And on the my 24 hour drive home, I prayed and God reminded me of Mark 10.. The rich man who Jesus genuinely loved.. And I felt that love that Jesus felt for Him.. He loved this rich man unconditionally. And the rich man asked Jesus, how does one inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, and Jesus said you must Obey God, and Give up everything in order to Follow Me.. And the rich man was saddened because even though he obeyed God commands, and "did the right things" he still couldn't give up parts of himself.. So the rich man left, and went back to his old life, still doing "the right things" but never taking up his cross, giving it all up, and following Jesus to death so that he will have life..
And I thought wow.. Jesus, you are so amazing.. You love unconditionally.. I knew that, but this was just what I needed to have the right mindset.. But I still will cry.. Because I can see the shift and that there will be a sifting in the church.. There will be many "rich men" in our churches who "do the right things, and obey the commands but wont be able to stand because they never gave it all up, and will be sifted out and return home never bearing their cross to death completely so that they will have life..The world has a better grip on these men with what they can see..A seed doesn't become a plant until it dies after being put in the ground..
His Love IS and Will always be unconditional, but salvation is a different story.. I do not believe in the "once saved, always saved method" that men have come up with..
"Dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom of God. In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” Then Peter began to speak up. “We’ve given up everything to follow you,” he said. 29 “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for the Good News, 30 will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life. 31 But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.”
Are you ready? Be prepared because this shift will cause a sift in our churches.. Many will return home, but many will turn to persecution..
You must be ready to bear your cross to death, to bear persecution, to bear the hurt, so that you can ascend just as Jesus did!
"But the one who endures to the end will be saved"
But I still will cry because we are stepping into the next phase of God's plan.. I do not cry because of the world.. I am an alien in this place. I don't belong here. I never have.. I cry because of His sovereignty.. Because His reign Is perfect, and so is His judgement. I cry because His plan includes a curse and blessing.. I cry because I love His creation even though I wish I didn't have to witness it..
And on the my 24 hour drive home, I prayed and God reminded me of Mark 10.. The rich man who Jesus genuinely loved.. And I felt that love that Jesus felt for Him.. He loved this rich man unconditionally. And the rich man asked Jesus, how does one inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, and Jesus said you must Obey God, and Give up everything in order to Follow Me.. And the rich man was saddened because even though he obeyed God commands, and "did the right things" he still couldn't give up parts of himself.. So the rich man left, and went back to his old life, still doing "the right things" but never taking up his cross, giving it all up, and following Jesus to death so that he will have life..
And I thought wow.. Jesus, you are so amazing.. You love unconditionally.. I knew that, but this was just what I needed to have the right mindset.. But I still will cry.. Because I can see the shift and that there will be a sifting in the church.. There will be many "rich men" in our churches who "do the right things, and obey the commands but wont be able to stand because they never gave it all up, and will be sifted out and return home never bearing their cross to death completely so that they will have life..The world has a better grip on these men with what they can see..A seed doesn't become a plant until it dies after being put in the ground..
His Love IS and Will always be unconditional, but salvation is a different story.. I do not believe in the "once saved, always saved method" that men have come up with..
"Dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom of God. In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” Then Peter began to speak up. “We’ve given up everything to follow you,” he said. 29 “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for the Good News, 30 will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life. 31 But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.”
Are you ready? Be prepared because this shift will cause a sift in our churches.. Many will return home, but many will turn to persecution..
You must be ready to bear your cross to death, to bear persecution, to bear the hurt, so that you can ascend just as Jesus did!
"But the one who endures to the end will be saved"
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Gold Doenst make Ugly Pretty!
Warning (My 3am Preaching Rant but I promise its good)
My 3am old lady wake-up call, led me to lay in bed doing what I do best.. Thinking, pondering, mediating.. and I thought of this weekend.. Mothers day.. and this is how God moves me.. The Spirit prompts me with questions...
When did Jesus compare Himself to a mother?.. and I thought about it, hence this 3am post.. and He showed me when He said "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me..
Wow! If I had a pulpit in my bedroom, oh good gracious! What is the number one thing I feel most of the time? Protectiveness.. I am constantly, subconsciously, consciously protecting my children.. Im always saying dont do this, dont do that, do your best, and Im always trying to protect their heart and build it up, even though I feel as if I suck alot.. and then as always I get hit with the Spirit illuminating another part of myself.. and that brings me back to my lack of where Im not protective.. I say to myself, isn't it the mans job to protect me?, and God showed me about 4 months ago, that Protection is like my number one natural instinct and gift.. I like to think of it as one as a natural gift I was created with.. Sometimes its used for good, sometimes its not.. How many Cheater show's I have watched, and I think at that moment the women is straight up protecting her heart.. most likely by burning her hubbies clothes on fire, or draining his bank account.. Or Someone is about to get cut and die basically!! and then this is where I think what if the protection was happening years before? What if we weren't so dang selfish as married people! ..
What if we as women didn't think it was our husbands jobs to protect ours hearts, but instead it was our jobs to protect theirs.. What if it wasn't just their job to minister to us, but what it we made it our priority to minister to theirs! "A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands." I dont think this verse was just talking about our children!
I might get a little deleted for this but eh, but we live in a place now where we as women are prompted to take over men's roles.. Im sorry But Honestly I really dont want too. Id rather just keep the roles I was created with.. We are always told we are stronger, we are empowered.. But empowered by who and what?
So this is my call to the fellow ladies.. Guess what we are empowered! Empowered by the Holy Spirit.. To do what you say?
To take the strength and gift of protectiveness, and make that your first priority before there is no statistic for marriages in this country and ~Protect your hubby ~ Protect your Children~Build your house up
Then if us women really want to get crazy empowered.... we will protect the authority God placed over you and your family! That means your pastor and leadership.. That's means no more gossiping, or slandering, or drunken wine nights.. God knows that we love to talk especially over a drunken bender!
What if the women in your church stood behind every man that God called to that place.. What if the women in your church built up and encouraged every man in that place.. instead of being the first one to talk about what "they dont like"... Im sorry, but guys just dont talk about that stuff!
Can you imagine that? If we took the empowerment from the Holy Spirit and became the WINGS OF REFUGE!.. Sweet love of Jesus!!
#BeProverbs31 #GoldDoesntmakeUglyPretty
My 3am old lady wake-up call, led me to lay in bed doing what I do best.. Thinking, pondering, mediating.. and I thought of this weekend.. Mothers day.. and this is how God moves me.. The Spirit prompts me with questions...
When did Jesus compare Himself to a mother?.. and I thought about it, hence this 3am post.. and He showed me when He said "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me..
Wow! If I had a pulpit in my bedroom, oh good gracious! What is the number one thing I feel most of the time? Protectiveness.. I am constantly, subconsciously, consciously protecting my children.. Im always saying dont do this, dont do that, do your best, and Im always trying to protect their heart and build it up, even though I feel as if I suck alot.. and then as always I get hit with the Spirit illuminating another part of myself.. and that brings me back to my lack of where Im not protective.. I say to myself, isn't it the mans job to protect me?, and God showed me about 4 months ago, that Protection is like my number one natural instinct and gift.. I like to think of it as one as a natural gift I was created with.. Sometimes its used for good, sometimes its not.. How many Cheater show's I have watched, and I think at that moment the women is straight up protecting her heart.. most likely by burning her hubbies clothes on fire, or draining his bank account.. Or Someone is about to get cut and die basically!! and then this is where I think what if the protection was happening years before? What if we weren't so dang selfish as married people! ..
What if we as women didn't think it was our husbands jobs to protect ours hearts, but instead it was our jobs to protect theirs.. What if it wasn't just their job to minister to us, but what it we made it our priority to minister to theirs! "A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands." I dont think this verse was just talking about our children!
I might get a little deleted for this but eh, but we live in a place now where we as women are prompted to take over men's roles.. Im sorry But Honestly I really dont want too. Id rather just keep the roles I was created with.. We are always told we are stronger, we are empowered.. But empowered by who and what?
So this is my call to the fellow ladies.. Guess what we are empowered! Empowered by the Holy Spirit.. To do what you say?
To take the strength and gift of protectiveness, and make that your first priority before there is no statistic for marriages in this country and ~Protect your hubby ~ Protect your Children~Build your house up
Then if us women really want to get crazy empowered.... we will protect the authority God placed over you and your family! That means your pastor and leadership.. That's means no more gossiping, or slandering, or drunken wine nights.. God knows that we love to talk especially over a drunken bender!
What if the women in your church stood behind every man that God called to that place.. What if the women in your church built up and encouraged every man in that place.. instead of being the first one to talk about what "they dont like"... Im sorry, but guys just dont talk about that stuff!
Can you imagine that? If we took the empowerment from the Holy Spirit and became the WINGS OF REFUGE!.. Sweet love of Jesus!!
#BeProverbs31 #GoldDoesntmakeUglyPretty
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
A fabulous wardrobe! A godly wardrobe!
Everyday morning as I sit and reflect, I say to God. Im sorry, Im
such a wretch.. Some days I choose to clothe myself in my old nature..
This past year God gave me His eyes and showed me myself, my old self.. I
thought I was such a good person.. But really the only good in me came
from Him.. He saved me from a lot of choices I have made in my life, He
is still saving me.....Lately He has been taking the things I don't
enjoy and teaching me through them.. He has been showing me who He is.. Who is I AM!
He is Good. He is the very nature of Good! He is the very nature of who
He says I AM. He tells me that it is possible for me to learn and
become like I AM.. Its as simple as taking off some old ratty clothes
every morning and clothing myself in His glorious attire..We are such a
stubborn people.. We like to wear our old clothes because they are
comfortable, they fit just right and we have had them forever.. Take a
tour of walmart and you will see jammies all around! Its so much easier
to stay comfortable, then to clothe ourselves in the nature of God..
I just Thank you God, that when I ask who is I AM.. You show me through your word. You speak to me in those places I dont enjoy.. I thank you for choosing me and loving me, and wanting only the best wardrobe for me..
Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like Him..Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony
I just Thank you God, that when I ask who is I AM.. You show me through your word. You speak to me in those places I dont enjoy.. I thank you for choosing me and loving me, and wanting only the best wardrobe for me..
Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like Him..Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Return to your First Love!
Jesus is sooo good! He always points to the Father.. Even on the cross, dying He pointed to the Father! He always was glorifying the Father.. I sat in church today thinking of His amazing Love for the Father! Man, I need to get back to that place of just Loving the Father like Jesus does.. The past 1.5 years I have been tired.. So consumed with His fire, and so oppressed by people making the walk harder on His work through me.. I came to this place of freedom, but I wanted to just rest there.. I prayed today that He can help me love Him like I should.. Let me get back that consuming fire for Him.. That passion to see His will be done, no matter what it takes, no matter what or who I have to overcome to get there again... I want you to sit and think about Jesus! And what He did so that He could point you to the Father. So that He could point you to His amazing Love! #ReturnToYourFirstLove
"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God"
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Faith expresses itself in Love
When I am drawn to prayer over my church is something that the Spirit
brings me too.. The gift of intercession is sooooo needed in every
church.. God knows just what your church needs.. Dont ever stop or
hinder prayer from your people..
All my intercessors read Galatians 5 and pray that over your church! All my brothers and sisters pray this over our church!! Freedom purchased by His Love!! Paid for by His death.. Raised In His Resurrection!
That the faith we have expresses itself in love.. That our church is just overflowing with love.. God says that Love never fails.. It is the greatest gift.. It is what shows the world that we belong to God.. It strengthens the church..Its brings freedom. It unites.. It is so important, this is why it is the all the commandments summed up in one, commanded by Jesus! To love each other, and Love God, with everything... With every part of yourself, especially with your faith! It brings freedom to not only the the born again, but the soon-to-be born again.. If only the body of Christ asked for love instead of behavior change from each other, the world would be on fire by now!! #SeekTheGiftOfLove
All my intercessors read Galatians 5 and pray that over your church! All my brothers and sisters pray this over our church!! Freedom purchased by His Love!! Paid for by His death.. Raised In His Resurrection!
That the faith we have expresses itself in love.. That our church is just overflowing with love.. God says that Love never fails.. It is the greatest gift.. It is what shows the world that we belong to God.. It strengthens the church..Its brings freedom. It unites.. It is so important, this is why it is the all the commandments summed up in one, commanded by Jesus! To love each other, and Love God, with everything... With every part of yourself, especially with your faith! It brings freedom to not only the the born again, but the soon-to-be born again.. If only the body of Christ asked for love instead of behavior change from each other, the world would be on fire by now!! #SeekTheGiftOfLove
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
His Promise of His Presence!
Seems like there is a this magnitude of suffering going on lately.
Yesterday when I was reading about the Egyptians Christians who were
murdered I just am filled with sadness! Then today I wake up with
multitudes of prayer requests sent to my email and I'm am saddened. So
much so that I cant help by cry for those who are suffering in the way
they are.. I read that one of they Egyptians cried out for Jesus before
he was murdered, and the tears just started to flow.. They are so
many people crying out for Jesus right now.. I sit here and beg God for
His Spirit to manifest in this town! In this world.. I pray to His
Spirit to manifest Himself in all of us.. Not for an abundance of gifts,
but for His overflowing Presence! His Presence is where you find
healing, where you find comfort, where you find joy, where you find
gifts, where you encounter His pure and perfect love. Its where you find
Him. If we could all just get on the same page regardless of beliefs on
His Spirit.. If we could just get on the same page to see His Presence
manifest in the places where we live.. If we could, I can already
envision my town so full of His healing, so full of His love, so full of
His power, so full of His hope!
That is one promise you can count on,, no matter how sick you are, no
matter if you are on deaths door, no matter how broken heartened you
are,,... His presence is there.. Its in you! Its in us!! We need to cry
out for more.. We need to recognize Him more..
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. "
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. "
Monday, February 9, 2015
When we turn Gods blessing into a curse!
When we turn Gods blessing into a curse!
Wow.. I have been pondering this word God gave me a week ago.. I was reading how God made the Egyptians look favorably on the Israelites.. He said "But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and ARTICLES OF GOLD, and clothing; and YOU WILL PUT THEM ON YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.".
God blessed them! He not only rescued them and delivered them, but sent them off better then they came in... But..
Wow.. I have been pondering this word God gave me a week ago.. I was reading how God made the Egyptians look favorably on the Israelites.. He said "But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and ARTICLES OF GOLD, and clothing; and YOU WILL PUT THEM ON YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.".
God blessed them! He not only rescued them and delivered them, but sent them off better then they came in... But..
Mose's absent from them was too much for them to handle, Moses was
keeping them straight.. But we are just the same! When we don't "see"
God working, or "feel" God working in our life, we start to turn away..
We say, Where is this Jesus that is supposed to be saving me..We say
where is this God that delivered me supposedly? And then we create a new
god. An Idol.. We create an object of freedom or deliverance,and its
usually ourselves or someone else.. We say, we freed ourselves!
Then we take the very same blessing God gave us and we turn it into a curse..
"Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."Aaron said to them, "TEAR OFF THE GOLD RINGS WHICH ARE IN THE EARS OF YOUR WIVES, YOUR SONS, AND YOUR DAUGHTERS and bring them to me." Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron"..
Not only do we curse ourselves but we put that curse on the people that we want to bless.. The children of the Israelites never got to experience the next blessing, the Promise land! The children who came out of Egypt who's parents put the articles of gold on, who wondered the wilderness were far beyond the age of 20 after 40 years of traveling....
But God is still faithful! Even with our unfaithfulness. He still blesses us.. He still pours our His grace and favor! He still kept His promise of the Promise land.. The children of the cursed would now find blessing..
He blesses the cursed, even when we curse the blessing..
#WhyILoveHim
Then we take the very same blessing God gave us and we turn it into a curse..
"Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."Aaron said to them, "TEAR OFF THE GOLD RINGS WHICH ARE IN THE EARS OF YOUR WIVES, YOUR SONS, AND YOUR DAUGHTERS and bring them to me." Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron"..
Not only do we curse ourselves but we put that curse on the people that we want to bless.. The children of the Israelites never got to experience the next blessing, the Promise land! The children who came out of Egypt who's parents put the articles of gold on, who wondered the wilderness were far beyond the age of 20 after 40 years of traveling....
But God is still faithful! Even with our unfaithfulness. He still blesses us.. He still pours our His grace and favor! He still kept His promise of the Promise land.. The children of the cursed would now find blessing..
He blesses the cursed, even when we curse the blessing..
#WhyILoveHim
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Holy Spirit
Wow! This is it my friends.. His Spirit is being poured out.. His
sons and daughters are walking around with Heaven in them! God created
it all and sent prophets to introduce the coming Jesus! Jesus, the
savior of the nations.. Jesus came, and introduced the Holy Spirit to
us! All three were there in Heaven before the earth was even formed..
They all new this was the plan from the start.. We are in the last days
my friends.. This is it.. The Holy Spirit has been introducing us
to our real Father, To Jesus, and to our real home! The Holy Spirit has
been introducing us to the New Us! The new transformed sanctified,
spirit filled us.. There is only one last introduction.. That is Jesus
coming with a thunder, and an introduction of a new earth and new
heaven! An introduction into eternity! I pray that you know there is no
other introduction other than Him.. There is nothing that can save you
from your grave other then Him..
In the last days,’ God says,
‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams.
These verses are from God Himself.. If you are not in a church full of the Holy Spirit, that both sons and daughters are equal, where you are encountering God during the night and during the day,, you need to find a new church! Jesus left you with the Holy Spirit for a reason..! He is not to be feared, He is to be used.. He left you with power from Heaven! #ItsHotInHere
In the last days,’ God says,
‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams.
These verses are from God Himself.. If you are not in a church full of the Holy Spirit, that both sons and daughters are equal, where you are encountering God during the night and during the day,, you need to find a new church! Jesus left you with the Holy Spirit for a reason..! He is not to be feared, He is to be used.. He left you with power from Heaven! #ItsHotInHere
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Who am I?
Moses said to God.. Who am I to lead these people? Who am I to appear before pharaoh? God didn't reply to Moses with a description about the characteristics of Moses, nor about who God created Moses to be, nor about why God chose Moses to do this.. But instead God replied with..
"I will be with you"..
Its never about us.. Its always about Him.. It doesn't matter who you are! How educated you are! What kind of speaker you are! It doesn't matter about your past! God can take anyone and turn them into a leader of people because He is with them. God can takes the lowly and exalts them above the rest. That is all it takes for you to go from ordinary to extraordinary. He just needs a yes from you.. He does the rest!
"I will be with you"..
Its never about us.. Its always about Him.. It doesn't matter who you are! How educated you are! What kind of speaker you are! It doesn't matter about your past! God can take anyone and turn them into a leader of people because He is with them. God can takes the lowly and exalts them above the rest. That is all it takes for you to go from ordinary to extraordinary. He just needs a yes from you.. He does the rest!
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Be Royalty
Do you want to live like a prince or princess, or like someone who is
living outside the gates of the kingdom? When you become a child of God.
You inherit every heavenly and earthly blessing that the King gives to
His Children.. The problem is that we ourselves want a kingdom
lifestyle, yet we want to live inside the gates of that kingdom. We
think that grass is greener outside those walls. We never surrender it
all to God. We think we can "be" it all,, but when you are child
of God, the only way for you to live like a prince or princess is to
live inside the kingdom, inside those gates.. Where the water is alive,
and the bread brings life! The pastures are always green, where we will
be more then satisfied. I know that I lived outside those gates most of
my life, and I can tell you that the grass isn't greener on the
outside.. Its actually dead, and never bears fruit that will fill me
up.. It just breeds death and destruction.. God drew me close to those
gates with His mercy and grace! It was the day I decided to go through
those gates, and never leave is when my life really started. It was when
I became alive, and actually felt alive! I eat and drink from a living
well that never goes dry, in a land that belongs to the one who created
it. I live like a princess because I am a princess. I am a child of The
King..
Monday, December 15, 2014
The Pursuit of Joy
The pursuit of Joy!
I think sometimes we think Joy should just be with us naturally, but the Joy that comes from God isn't natural. Its supernatural. This type of Joy is something that is too be found! We met an awesome but broken man over the weekend. He told me, he lost his Joy.. I was quickened by the Holy Spirit to pray over him.. so I did.. I prayed that he would find that Joy that comes from God, and that He would see God everywhere because that is where you find Joy. I prayed that Joy overflows out of him. You find this Joy when you are in pursuit of God! Its a pursuit of being in the places that He dwells. That is where you find Joy! You find Joy in the realm where God is! You wont find it in this world.. You will never find that type of Joy! You will only find happiness, happiness that disappears when your life doesn't go the way you want it! Then we blame God for the lack of our unhappiness! Yet we forget to realize that God is eternal! The things of Him are eternal, and they last forever! Happiness is of this world is only temporary yet we still blame Him!
Joy lasts forever because you can only find it in God! I pray that in this season if you have no Joy, that you take the steps to pursue God harder than you ever have before! You will find Him! You find everything that He promises to His children, one of them is Joy! "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."
Pursue God, Don't Relent!
I think sometimes we think Joy should just be with us naturally, but the Joy that comes from God isn't natural. Its supernatural. This type of Joy is something that is too be found! We met an awesome but broken man over the weekend. He told me, he lost his Joy.. I was quickened by the Holy Spirit to pray over him.. so I did.. I prayed that he would find that Joy that comes from God, and that He would see God everywhere because that is where you find Joy. I prayed that Joy overflows out of him. You find this Joy when you are in pursuit of God! Its a pursuit of being in the places that He dwells. That is where you find Joy! You find Joy in the realm where God is! You wont find it in this world.. You will never find that type of Joy! You will only find happiness, happiness that disappears when your life doesn't go the way you want it! Then we blame God for the lack of our unhappiness! Yet we forget to realize that God is eternal! The things of Him are eternal, and they last forever! Happiness is of this world is only temporary yet we still blame Him!
Joy lasts forever because you can only find it in God! I pray that in this season if you have no Joy, that you take the steps to pursue God harder than you ever have before! You will find Him! You find everything that He promises to His children, one of them is Joy! "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."
Pursue God, Don't Relent!
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Milk Is Good, but Solids Are Better
Up in the heavens the moment I was reborn there was a celebration
going on for my birth! Jesus came to baptize with the Holy Spirit and
the Holy Spirit brings birth! I was reborn as a baby but in a realm that
I cant see, but that is there. There was the birth of me as a spiritual
baby in Christ! At that moment God took me into His arms, cradled me,
and became my Father! I became a child of God, and I have an
inheritance! I have promises of a Father that will never go void! Promises that God will never take a way.. Promises that were given to me by Him, and I trust in those promises!
But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
As we grow as children of God, we shouldn't stay babies forever. Its just like the natural realm we should be growing, and the only reason why we wouldn't be is if there was something lacking.. I never understood why I would meet these crazy Jesus people but after I started to get spiritual food that fed my soul, I started to flourish and grow in Christ, and become mature. I stopped drinking and craving milk that came from a mother, but instead I had to feed myself, and its not always easy to get spiritual food yourself.. Its far easier for a Christian to continue to drink milk and get fed by a mother, but that will always stunt your growth, and you will never move or grow into the mature person God is calling you to be..
For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
As we grow as children of God, we shouldn't stay babies forever. Its just like the natural realm we should be growing, and the only reason why we wouldn't be is if there was something lacking.. I never understood why I would meet these crazy Jesus people but after I started to get spiritual food that fed my soul, I started to flourish and grow in Christ, and become mature. I stopped drinking and craving milk that came from a mother, but instead I had to feed myself, and its not always easy to get spiritual food yourself.. Its far easier for a Christian to continue to drink milk and get fed by a mother, but that will always stunt your growth, and you will never move or grow into the mature person God is calling you to be..
For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
His Temple...
The places God takes me.. I should write a book on The places you will go... with God! Lately has been da struggle spiritually for me.. But even with this struggle, God takes me to these places with Him because He loves me.. Ive been thinking about His Temple.. And how Perfect and Glorious it will be when all His remnant comes back from being scattered.. The day that He will shake the heavens and earth.. The day when I get to see His scattered return to the temple filled with His glory.. The future glory that will be greater then its past glory! The day that I I get to be in the perfect and glorious temple of God, that has been built on Him, stone by stone built upon that Rock! We really have been scattered so far and so broad, but He is bringing us back! I'm claiming my healing from Him that one day He will unite us! "Does anyone remember this house—this Temple—in its former splendor? How, in comparison, does it look to you now? It must seem like nothing at all! I have been so crushed by this scattered-mess.. I have had to work through the bondage of religion because we are scattered.. I know that being apart isn't the end.. Being in unity is the end!
6 “For this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: In just a little while I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land. 7 I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this Temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 9 The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. And in this place I will bring peace. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
God wants us to rebuild this Temple that is in ruins while we wait for that Glorious day! 4 “Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins? 5 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! 6 You have planted much but harvest little.
Rebuilding is hard work! Rebuilding Gods temple should come first! We expect this great harvest, but God tells us that when He doesn't come first, and when you are taken over by sin you end up with harvesting little or nothing..
Look at what’s happening to you! 8 Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. 9 You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses.
6 “For this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: In just a little while I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land. 7 I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this Temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 9 The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. And in this place I will bring peace. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
God wants us to rebuild this Temple that is in ruins while we wait for that Glorious day! 4 “Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins? 5 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! 6 You have planted much but harvest little.
Rebuilding is hard work! Rebuilding Gods temple should come first! We expect this great harvest, but God tells us that when He doesn't come first, and when you are taken over by sin you end up with harvesting little or nothing..
Look at what’s happening to you! 8 Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. 9 You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
In the battle...
I was thinking tonight about how I haven't really been writing lately, and I miss it.. I miss my moments with God and the revelation He pours into me.. I remember those moments thinking I will never get them back, but I know that isn't true. Right now I'm in the battle..
God is so true to His word! When I'm in the battle, all I know is His love, and the mental exhaustion.. But He is true to His word.. He says I will never leave you.. My grace is sufficient! Those things He continues to show me in the fight.. That His Grace is sufficient! This battle is feeling like its taking forever.. and that well maybe I have been fighting long enough.. Like okay God come in and save me now.. God didn't leave me on this earth alone.. He left me with the comforter and counselor..He left His power to win a victorious life.. To run the race to the end.. I am more then a conqueror! I just wish I could not be so fleshly and remember this always. I wish I could just walk around like Jesus all the time, knowing, claiming, and having complete revelation of the Father..
I realize through this battle, that I wish I would just die already! I'm not talking about physically, but I wish that old man in me would seriously croak...
God gave me something to cling to back in May that I have been holding on to and that is that its going to be a really rough ride.. And to hold on to the cross at all moments.. I thought I would of had a few months to kinda just be excited about my transition but Satan was totally on his game.
I started to have a battle inside my own mind.. I have never experienced this type of spiritual warfare and I really shouldn't be surprised but I wasn't ready to say the least. Through this I keep finding Gods grace, love and mercy for me each day. He keeps showing me how much He loves me, but this battle I am ready for it to be won already..
Two weeks ago was probably one of the worst weeks so far.. I know that God is bigger then my own heart. He is bigger then me condemning myself. He is bigger then my battle. He knows the end of it. He knows how long it will last. He knows the good He will work from it, because I do love Him.
Because God is that good, He has been working some on some of the old man inside of me to come out. He will clean that out of me.. He will produce more endurance in me, through long suffering..
I just want that old man to die.. I want to let it go, and never look back.. I want to come back into focus with Him, so that my own mind stops distracting me.. Before, I would always retreat.. You might of notice I would of went off grid, but this time He said don't retreat..
So that is what I will do. I will anchor down and stand in the waves...
God is so true to His word! When I'm in the battle, all I know is His love, and the mental exhaustion.. But He is true to His word.. He says I will never leave you.. My grace is sufficient! Those things He continues to show me in the fight.. That His Grace is sufficient! This battle is feeling like its taking forever.. and that well maybe I have been fighting long enough.. Like okay God come in and save me now.. God didn't leave me on this earth alone.. He left me with the comforter and counselor..He left His power to win a victorious life.. To run the race to the end.. I am more then a conqueror! I just wish I could not be so fleshly and remember this always. I wish I could just walk around like Jesus all the time, knowing, claiming, and having complete revelation of the Father..
I realize through this battle, that I wish I would just die already! I'm not talking about physically, but I wish that old man in me would seriously croak...
God gave me something to cling to back in May that I have been holding on to and that is that its going to be a really rough ride.. And to hold on to the cross at all moments.. I thought I would of had a few months to kinda just be excited about my transition but Satan was totally on his game.
I started to have a battle inside my own mind.. I have never experienced this type of spiritual warfare and I really shouldn't be surprised but I wasn't ready to say the least. Through this I keep finding Gods grace, love and mercy for me each day. He keeps showing me how much He loves me, but this battle I am ready for it to be won already..
Two weeks ago was probably one of the worst weeks so far.. I know that God is bigger then my own heart. He is bigger then me condemning myself. He is bigger then my battle. He knows the end of it. He knows how long it will last. He knows the good He will work from it, because I do love Him.
Because God is that good, He has been working some on some of the old man inside of me to come out. He will clean that out of me.. He will produce more endurance in me, through long suffering..
I just want that old man to die.. I want to let it go, and never look back.. I want to come back into focus with Him, so that my own mind stops distracting me.. Before, I would always retreat.. You might of notice I would of went off grid, but this time He said don't retreat..
So that is what I will do. I will anchor down and stand in the waves...
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Do you believe in the power of Holy Spirit? The Power of God!
Do you believe in the power of God?
I have come into this word "blasphemy" so many times, and it actually scared me because when I come across the scripture that says "but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come." I have never had any insight or revelation on it until today..
When I think of that word, I think of cursing..
When you speak against or curse the holy spirit, you are really speaking against or cursing the power of God because the Holy Spirit is where you receive power.. "but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you Holy..
Jesus was so on it.. Those religious folks wanted to say that His power was from Satan, or demonic powers.. But Jesus said "if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has arrived among you"
Jesus even said anyone "Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me"
Are you working with Him or against Him? And I'm talking to all those legalistic folks. The power that lives in you is the same power that raised Jesus from the dead.. Its the same power that gives you life.. Its the same power that opened the eyes of your heart? The same power that took the veil away from you eyes.. If you believe that the holy spirit lives inside you, then how you can believe yet stand against..
I think that "we all" think we are not standing against it but if you are not using the power God gave you, then you aren't working with Jesus in His strength.. You are doing all the work.. We know what happens when we do the work..Your work leads to pride..
Some of you have become arrogant, thinking I will not visit you again. But I will come—and soon—if the Lord lets me, and then I’ll find out whether these arrogant people just give pretentious speeches or whether they really have God’s power. For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power. Which do you choose? Should I come with a rod to punish you, or should I come with love and a gentle spirit?
Do you really have Gods power, and if so are you working for Christ and not against Him ? Do you let Gods power move inside of you? Do you let Gods power move inside your church?
What made me really dig deeper that the Kingdom of God, isn't just talk.. Its living by His Power.. To keep your eyes set on kingdom things, and to really work for the kingdom means you have to live by the Holy Spirit. You have to let Him move and do the work..
I have come into this word "blasphemy" so many times, and it actually scared me because when I come across the scripture that says "but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come." I have never had any insight or revelation on it until today..
When I think of that word, I think of cursing..
When you speak against or curse the holy spirit, you are really speaking against or cursing the power of God because the Holy Spirit is where you receive power.. "but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you Holy..
Jesus was so on it.. Those religious folks wanted to say that His power was from Satan, or demonic powers.. But Jesus said "if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has arrived among you"
Jesus even said anyone "Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me"
Are you working with Him or against Him? And I'm talking to all those legalistic folks. The power that lives in you is the same power that raised Jesus from the dead.. Its the same power that gives you life.. Its the same power that opened the eyes of your heart? The same power that took the veil away from you eyes.. If you believe that the holy spirit lives inside you, then how you can believe yet stand against..
I think that "we all" think we are not standing against it but if you are not using the power God gave you, then you aren't working with Jesus in His strength.. You are doing all the work.. We know what happens when we do the work..Your work leads to pride..
Some of you have become arrogant, thinking I will not visit you again. But I will come—and soon—if the Lord lets me, and then I’ll find out whether these arrogant people just give pretentious speeches or whether they really have God’s power. For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power. Which do you choose? Should I come with a rod to punish you, or should I come with love and a gentle spirit?
Do you really have Gods power, and if so are you working for Christ and not against Him ? Do you let Gods power move inside of you? Do you let Gods power move inside your church?
What made me really dig deeper that the Kingdom of God, isn't just talk.. Its living by His Power.. To keep your eyes set on kingdom things, and to really work for the kingdom means you have to live by the Holy Spirit. You have to let Him move and do the work..
Monday, August 25, 2014
The Encounter
What can I say... I took this trip because I really felt led to go on it and experience whatever God wanted me to experience. I came with no expectations of what God was going to do. I just came open.. It is hard for me now to even describe all that I encountered there, but now I know that there was a serious purpose in me going..
The first night God spoke so loudly on something that I had to fight against before. It was a certain lie that Satan has been trying to feed me for at least 2 years.. I conquer it, and then randomly Satan will throw me a bone. I never bite, but God blew me away with just releasing a word that has helped me understand exactly what happens when I even look at the bone.. Looking at the bone leads to walking to the bone, and picking it up.. He showed me that even me looking at the bone, has led to some pride in me that I had to get rid of..
What God showed me is that so many of us think that our sins are tiny.. I was looking at the stage that night and the cross was on it, there were some other items on the stage that I could see, but God showed me the corner of the stairs where there was a shadow, and He said this is where you hid those little tiny sins that you don't think about or are aware of.. This is where Satan would throw that bone. Right in the corner in the dark, so I would miss it because it wasn't right in my face.. Then very clearly God said that I have been duped into thinking that my little tiny sins were small and harmless but indeed there are huge.. They are so huge that Jesus was called to die, but not just die a nice peaceful death, but he was called to die a cursed death for those little tiny sins that hide in the corner in the dark.. He had to die a cursed death in order to take the curse away from me.. A death full of suffering. A death that I should of had to take.. But instead Jesus freely and willing took my place. He came down to this cursed world, and became a lowly servant, loved me, then died a cursed death, so that I could be rescued from a cursed death.. So that I could be rescued from a cursed life..
I was stupid in believing that my actions took no part in that, and I repented. God brought me to a whole new revelation of the cross, and what He had to endure for me.. I cried a lot that night..
Then God spoke to me on my destiny.. From the very beginning all I could hear Him say is its time for you to stop being afraid.. Stop thinking you are nobody.. He said you are somebody to me, you are my child.. I have been praying for a few months on something He has pushed me to pray for.. One very early morning I took a run, and I felt led to pray for things that I know was from the Holy Spirit.. It had to do with my name.. I have been praying for God to make me into an entirely new person, including my name.. From the top of my head to the tip of my toes, I want to be made new for Him.. At the encounter they spoke about change. If I change then everything changes.. Everything around me changes if I will only change. They spoke about Jacob, and how he was a liar, and manipulated his circumstances to make him have favor. He stole his brothers birth right, then he stole his brothers double blessing.. He stole this favor, but it left him with nothing. He had to run and hide for his life, and work for his wives. He ended up running and hiding from his brother, and ended up wrestling with God. He wrestled all night, and wouldn't stop until God would bless him. God kept telling me that He can take me and make me into someone new.. He will give me a new name, but I will have to fight, and overcome.. From that moment on Jacob was devoted to God, and God left him with not only a new name, but also a battle wound, a limp.. I am holding on to this promise.. I am holding on to becoming someone new. This weekend has pushed me forward in knowing that whatever God has planned for me, that I can conquer it. This also gave me a revelation of a fear that I had. The fear of being unworthy of all that God has planned for me. God showed me that I had to let that go.. Because He has the power to take nothing (me) and make it into something (Child of God) for His purpose.. He confirmed this again by speaking to me about the cross on Friday night. He said when I look at the cross to look at it as like a wedding ring. The cross was where Jesus poured out His blood, and where His covenant became. Jesus is the groom and He made His covenant with His blood, and that when Jesus died for me, He wants to be in union with me.. And that He wanted to give me a ring because I am the bride.. It is a promise to forever hold me, and keep me, and love me, and cherish me..
Then on Saturday night, I Got my RING! Like literally got a ring!! I was listening to a message about how valuable I am to God.. That even though I ran away, God still had open arms for me when I came back.. I ran back home awhile ago, but when I met with God, I didn't take the ring He wanted to give me.. I took the sandal's for my feet, but I have had this fear of being unworthy of the favor and anointing He has destined to overflow out of my life that I never took His ring.. He said its time for you to take this ring I want to give to you.. When He gave me my ring, I felt so free. He gave me the understanding of the authority and value He has placed on my life.. and that I don't need to be afraid anymore because He loves me sooo much. He loves me like a groom loves His bride.... He has nothing but good planned for me and that its time to start moving forward, and not being afraid..
That was amazing but then it got freakishly awesome.. Because on this Encounter I had total confirmation on why I felt so called to go.. At dinner one of my leaders was talking, and come to find out she lived in the very same tiny small town that I live in now.. But she moved five years ago.. Come to find out, that she has been praying for my town to move in the same direction that God has been leading me and some other people I am in ministry with.. She has been praying for this for years, even longer then I have lived here.. I am in awe, of Gods divine appointments He sets up to just confirm everything He has been speaking into me, and that I have been speaking out.. A divine appointment that made a connection for God to do some amazing work through.
Before I left I got an amazing letter from someone who helped me for the past year.. This letter pretty much summed up everything for me, and maybe one of handful of letters that led me to tears.. Its pretty amazing how God knows what to put on peoples hearts to confirm everything He is speaking to His people..
"Through the weekend I hope you've opened your heart all the way to God an enabled Him to show you who He is, and who He thinks you are"..
Then I realized that my heart was all torn up inside, yet I still belong to you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel leading me to a glorious destiny!
The first night God spoke so loudly on something that I had to fight against before. It was a certain lie that Satan has been trying to feed me for at least 2 years.. I conquer it, and then randomly Satan will throw me a bone. I never bite, but God blew me away with just releasing a word that has helped me understand exactly what happens when I even look at the bone.. Looking at the bone leads to walking to the bone, and picking it up.. He showed me that even me looking at the bone, has led to some pride in me that I had to get rid of..
What God showed me is that so many of us think that our sins are tiny.. I was looking at the stage that night and the cross was on it, there were some other items on the stage that I could see, but God showed me the corner of the stairs where there was a shadow, and He said this is where you hid those little tiny sins that you don't think about or are aware of.. This is where Satan would throw that bone. Right in the corner in the dark, so I would miss it because it wasn't right in my face.. Then very clearly God said that I have been duped into thinking that my little tiny sins were small and harmless but indeed there are huge.. They are so huge that Jesus was called to die, but not just die a nice peaceful death, but he was called to die a cursed death for those little tiny sins that hide in the corner in the dark.. He had to die a cursed death in order to take the curse away from me.. A death full of suffering. A death that I should of had to take.. But instead Jesus freely and willing took my place. He came down to this cursed world, and became a lowly servant, loved me, then died a cursed death, so that I could be rescued from a cursed death.. So that I could be rescued from a cursed life..
I was stupid in believing that my actions took no part in that, and I repented. God brought me to a whole new revelation of the cross, and what He had to endure for me.. I cried a lot that night..
Then God spoke to me on my destiny.. From the very beginning all I could hear Him say is its time for you to stop being afraid.. Stop thinking you are nobody.. He said you are somebody to me, you are my child.. I have been praying for a few months on something He has pushed me to pray for.. One very early morning I took a run, and I felt led to pray for things that I know was from the Holy Spirit.. It had to do with my name.. I have been praying for God to make me into an entirely new person, including my name.. From the top of my head to the tip of my toes, I want to be made new for Him.. At the encounter they spoke about change. If I change then everything changes.. Everything around me changes if I will only change. They spoke about Jacob, and how he was a liar, and manipulated his circumstances to make him have favor. He stole his brothers birth right, then he stole his brothers double blessing.. He stole this favor, but it left him with nothing. He had to run and hide for his life, and work for his wives. He ended up running and hiding from his brother, and ended up wrestling with God. He wrestled all night, and wouldn't stop until God would bless him. God kept telling me that He can take me and make me into someone new.. He will give me a new name, but I will have to fight, and overcome.. From that moment on Jacob was devoted to God, and God left him with not only a new name, but also a battle wound, a limp.. I am holding on to this promise.. I am holding on to becoming someone new. This weekend has pushed me forward in knowing that whatever God has planned for me, that I can conquer it. This also gave me a revelation of a fear that I had. The fear of being unworthy of all that God has planned for me. God showed me that I had to let that go.. Because He has the power to take nothing (me) and make it into something (Child of God) for His purpose.. He confirmed this again by speaking to me about the cross on Friday night. He said when I look at the cross to look at it as like a wedding ring. The cross was where Jesus poured out His blood, and where His covenant became. Jesus is the groom and He made His covenant with His blood, and that when Jesus died for me, He wants to be in union with me.. And that He wanted to give me a ring because I am the bride.. It is a promise to forever hold me, and keep me, and love me, and cherish me..
Then on Saturday night, I Got my RING! Like literally got a ring!! I was listening to a message about how valuable I am to God.. That even though I ran away, God still had open arms for me when I came back.. I ran back home awhile ago, but when I met with God, I didn't take the ring He wanted to give me.. I took the sandal's for my feet, but I have had this fear of being unworthy of the favor and anointing He has destined to overflow out of my life that I never took His ring.. He said its time for you to take this ring I want to give to you.. When He gave me my ring, I felt so free. He gave me the understanding of the authority and value He has placed on my life.. and that I don't need to be afraid anymore because He loves me sooo much. He loves me like a groom loves His bride.... He has nothing but good planned for me and that its time to start moving forward, and not being afraid..
That was amazing but then it got freakishly awesome.. Because on this Encounter I had total confirmation on why I felt so called to go.. At dinner one of my leaders was talking, and come to find out she lived in the very same tiny small town that I live in now.. But she moved five years ago.. Come to find out, that she has been praying for my town to move in the same direction that God has been leading me and some other people I am in ministry with.. She has been praying for this for years, even longer then I have lived here.. I am in awe, of Gods divine appointments He sets up to just confirm everything He has been speaking into me, and that I have been speaking out.. A divine appointment that made a connection for God to do some amazing work through.
Before I left I got an amazing letter from someone who helped me for the past year.. This letter pretty much summed up everything for me, and maybe one of handful of letters that led me to tears.. Its pretty amazing how God knows what to put on peoples hearts to confirm everything He is speaking to His people..
"Through the weekend I hope you've opened your heart all the way to God an enabled Him to show you who He is, and who He thinks you are"..
Then I realized that my heart was all torn up inside, yet I still belong to you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel leading me to a glorious destiny!
Monday, August 11, 2014
They slipped away one by one
I was in worship singing and praising, and I had this vision of the pharisees and the adulterous women. Then I was asked a question by Holy Spirit.. Who do you think that women is going to remember? Jesus or pharisees? Then in the vision I was that women, and I was looking up at Jesus, and I saw the glory around Him. It was this bright light. This was a face this women would never forget. It was a bright light she would never forget, and the memory of those pharisees disappeared out of her mind.
God was revealing something to me about these passages in the bible.. I was having a discussion with a friend a week before this, and I was thinking about these passages and what they meant.. What they mean for us, what they mean for new believers, what they mean for unbelievers.. It is amazing because this vision showed me the progression of what life is like when you grow up surrounded by religious people whether you are a believer or not.. Religious people want to stone the saved, and unsaved.. What life is like when you are a true follower of Jesus.. What life is like when you are saved by Grace, by Jesus!
This women was a sinner. She knew she was a sinner. She knew the consequences of her sin by the Jewish law. She wasn't unaware of it. She was on her way to death at the hands of religious people.. People who had no compassion because they thought they were zealous for the law although they made themselves believe they were zealous of God, but in fact they weren't zealous for God at all.. They honored God with their lips, and not their hearts.
She was at deaths door, and here comes this man named Jesus, who saved her. He rescued her from her own sin. He was quiet, and humble when He approached them. He didn't say anything at first, but then when the pharisees kept demanding answers He convicted them, and He rescued her from death. He saved her from death at the hands of religious people who thought they were better then her.. She had an encounter with His amazing love. He saved her by His Grace.. She looked up at Him, and seen His glory. She experienced His glory! He told her after to sin no more.. He confronted her on it after He saved her.. After He rescued her from death. He didn't condemn her to die like the pharisees did. In the book of Exodus when Moses was talking to the Israelites about going to experience God, and hear Him they said "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die." Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.".
God had already rescued the Israelites from the Egyptians and now He was wanting them to experience Him so they would fear Him, so they would keep themselves Holy. Keeping the law doesn't keep you holy.. Knowing God, and His love is what keeps you Holy. It is what keeps you from sinning. Fear of disappointing someone you love so much will you keep you convicted, it will keep you holy.. The Holy Spirit has the job of that, not us.
The pharisees slowly disappeared one by one out of the sight our Savior. They didn't experience the love, they didn't see the glory, instead they were no longer in the presence of Jesus.. That is what pride does.. It takes you away from His presence. It takes you away from His glory, and His love.. Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor. But he gives us even more grace to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, "God opposes the proud but favors the humble.
God favors people who love Him, not people who are proud that think they have it all together..
Through this, I am still thinking about theses scriptures and how we should be as Christians. I want to be like Jesus, not like pharisees. I want people to see Gods Glory in me, and encounter Gods love that pours out of me. I want to be quiet and humble. I don't want to be afraid to encounter people who don't have it all together. I don't want to think I am better then people who are swallowed up in sin, because I know that just one encounter of Gods love is what changes a person. Condemnation doesn't change a person.. When you are condemning someone you are sentencing them to die.. I am not the creator of life. I am not the one who gives life, I am not the one who takes it away either.. I am not the judge of who lives and who dies. Jesus didn't condemn this lady to die, but instead He gave her life..
Pride takes you away from Him.. Pride is evil.. Jesus didn't walk away but it was the pharisees who walked away, they left the presence of God. They slipped away one by one.. Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall..
Slipped and Fallen away from God because of Pride..
God was revealing something to me about these passages in the bible.. I was having a discussion with a friend a week before this, and I was thinking about these passages and what they meant.. What they mean for us, what they mean for new believers, what they mean for unbelievers.. It is amazing because this vision showed me the progression of what life is like when you grow up surrounded by religious people whether you are a believer or not.. Religious people want to stone the saved, and unsaved.. What life is like when you are a true follower of Jesus.. What life is like when you are saved by Grace, by Jesus!
This women was a sinner. She knew she was a sinner. She knew the consequences of her sin by the Jewish law. She wasn't unaware of it. She was on her way to death at the hands of religious people.. People who had no compassion because they thought they were zealous for the law although they made themselves believe they were zealous of God, but in fact they weren't zealous for God at all.. They honored God with their lips, and not their hearts.
She was at deaths door, and here comes this man named Jesus, who saved her. He rescued her from her own sin. He was quiet, and humble when He approached them. He didn't say anything at first, but then when the pharisees kept demanding answers He convicted them, and He rescued her from death. He saved her from death at the hands of religious people who thought they were better then her.. She had an encounter with His amazing love. He saved her by His Grace.. She looked up at Him, and seen His glory. She experienced His glory! He told her after to sin no more.. He confronted her on it after He saved her.. After He rescued her from death. He didn't condemn her to die like the pharisees did. In the book of Exodus when Moses was talking to the Israelites about going to experience God, and hear Him they said "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die." Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.".
God had already rescued the Israelites from the Egyptians and now He was wanting them to experience Him so they would fear Him, so they would keep themselves Holy. Keeping the law doesn't keep you holy.. Knowing God, and His love is what keeps you Holy. It is what keeps you from sinning. Fear of disappointing someone you love so much will you keep you convicted, it will keep you holy.. The Holy Spirit has the job of that, not us.
The pharisees slowly disappeared one by one out of the sight our Savior. They didn't experience the love, they didn't see the glory, instead they were no longer in the presence of Jesus.. That is what pride does.. It takes you away from His presence. It takes you away from His glory, and His love.. Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor. But he gives us even more grace to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, "God opposes the proud but favors the humble.
God favors people who love Him, not people who are proud that think they have it all together..
Through this, I am still thinking about theses scriptures and how we should be as Christians. I want to be like Jesus, not like pharisees. I want people to see Gods Glory in me, and encounter Gods love that pours out of me. I want to be quiet and humble. I don't want to be afraid to encounter people who don't have it all together. I don't want to think I am better then people who are swallowed up in sin, because I know that just one encounter of Gods love is what changes a person. Condemnation doesn't change a person.. When you are condemning someone you are sentencing them to die.. I am not the creator of life. I am not the one who gives life, I am not the one who takes it away either.. I am not the judge of who lives and who dies. Jesus didn't condemn this lady to die, but instead He gave her life..
Pride takes you away from Him.. Pride is evil.. Jesus didn't walk away but it was the pharisees who walked away, they left the presence of God. They slipped away one by one.. Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall..
Slipped and Fallen away from God because of Pride..
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Do you have faith in your mustard seed?
Sunday I woke up in this weird mood. I was actually debating on skipping church... But I said I know God has something to tell me, so I went.. It was a great service but I was still in this weird mood.. I just felt like crying, and really, for no reason..
Sometimes the Spirit brings laughter, but sometimes He brings weeping.. God brings me into these places with Him, and sometimes its not an instant download of revelation. He gives me piece by piece, sometimes it takes a few minutes, sometimes a few hours, some a few days, and sometimes years..
This started last Saturday.. I was watching a sermon online, and then the next day my pastor spoke almost to the tee the same message. I was wow.. God is speaking to me, but what is He trying to tell me.. Where is He bringing me.. He doesn't bring you into these places just for the fun of fit. Its for Him, and His purposes.. Throughout the week that led up to this past Sunday I was thinking about faith.. Sunday before church I read Romans 8.. The life in the Spirit.. What does that mean? What does that look like?.. I took a shower and was praying and God reminded me of a dream I had at least six months ago.. This dream was for a purpose.. It was to show me something, and to teach me something about God.. I feel so greatfull that God took me into His realm of revealing something to me like this, so I can understand more of Him and more about who He is.. He showed me what it looks like when someone believes in Jesus and has faith.. When a person is re-born with the spirit.. When they become dead to themselves but alive in the Spirit. When a person becomes a new creation!!
In this dream I could hear the breath of God.. I could hear His Spirit giving life to this person.. This person was dead before, but God blew on Him, and He received His Spirit, which led to this person becoming alive in Christ.. Alive only because the Spirit lived in him..
11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
This person who now was alive was also preaching at a church in my dream. This person who was re-born didn't act as if he was dead after He received Gods spirit.. He said that before he was living this life of sin, that he didn't want to let go of and he couldn't breath at all, but then when he let go of his sin, he became alive, and that he could now breath.. Because he was alive.\
With Gods amazing love, full of grace, and mercy who gives us life.. Who breaths in us and pours His spirit on us.. Why oh why do we act like we are alive without Him.. We walk around with these vessels that hold the "Holy" spirit and we are useless vessels because we let our mind control us, and not let the spirit control us..
He is raising up His army.. An army that doesn't let their mind control them.. But instead gives over everything to Him, so that instead the spirit controls the mind..What does a battalion do when their leader commands..They listen.. They face the battle even if it means death..He is raising up warriors to be His army that lives by His Spirit..
I want that.. I want to be His warrior.. I want nothing more then to be an empty vessel only filled with His Spirit, that lives by His Spirit.. I want my faith to be more then just a mustard seed. I want my faith in Jesus to be a seed that sprouts, and grows, and ends up being the biggest tree that has birds living in it, and making their home in it..
Jesus said all you need is a mustard seed of faith.. and with it everything is possible.. Thank you Jesus for starting out small in us.. But I am ready to grow. I want to sprout, and grow branches.. I want to live my life by the spirit. I want to walk like you walked, and see what you see.. I want more and more faith because it is faith that brings Glory To The Father.. That is it. Faith alone is what pleases Him. Faith alone is what glorifies Him.. Faith alone is what saves you.. Faith alone is what gave you His Spirit.. Faith alone is what gave you birth..
So I ask you.. Do you have faith in your mustard seed? Do you really have faith in it? We talk so much about having faith like a mustard seed, but if you were put to the test could you find your mustard seed.?. Sometimes its hard trying to dig it out.. Sometimes its like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
My mustard seed of faith isnt just faith in what ever I am trying to accomplish.. It is my faith in God.. It is the question that brings God Glory.. Do I have a tiny seed of faith in God, that I cant find sometimes, or is my faith in God easily found.. I dont want to dig to find this seed.. I want it to be on the surface where I can see it. Where I can climb it, Where I can put a hammock in it and rest.. Rest in Trusting in God alone..
Sometimes the Spirit brings laughter, but sometimes He brings weeping.. God brings me into these places with Him, and sometimes its not an instant download of revelation. He gives me piece by piece, sometimes it takes a few minutes, sometimes a few hours, some a few days, and sometimes years..
This started last Saturday.. I was watching a sermon online, and then the next day my pastor spoke almost to the tee the same message. I was wow.. God is speaking to me, but what is He trying to tell me.. Where is He bringing me.. He doesn't bring you into these places just for the fun of fit. Its for Him, and His purposes.. Throughout the week that led up to this past Sunday I was thinking about faith.. Sunday before church I read Romans 8.. The life in the Spirit.. What does that mean? What does that look like?.. I took a shower and was praying and God reminded me of a dream I had at least six months ago.. This dream was for a purpose.. It was to show me something, and to teach me something about God.. I feel so greatfull that God took me into His realm of revealing something to me like this, so I can understand more of Him and more about who He is.. He showed me what it looks like when someone believes in Jesus and has faith.. When a person is re-born with the spirit.. When they become dead to themselves but alive in the Spirit. When a person becomes a new creation!!
In this dream I could hear the breath of God.. I could hear His Spirit giving life to this person.. This person was dead before, but God blew on Him, and He received His Spirit, which led to this person becoming alive in Christ.. Alive only because the Spirit lived in him..
11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
This person who now was alive was also preaching at a church in my dream. This person who was re-born didn't act as if he was dead after He received Gods spirit.. He said that before he was living this life of sin, that he didn't want to let go of and he couldn't breath at all, but then when he let go of his sin, he became alive, and that he could now breath.. Because he was alive.\
With Gods amazing love, full of grace, and mercy who gives us life.. Who breaths in us and pours His spirit on us.. Why oh why do we act like we are alive without Him.. We walk around with these vessels that hold the "Holy" spirit and we are useless vessels because we let our mind control us, and not let the spirit control us..
He is raising up His army.. An army that doesn't let their mind control them.. But instead gives over everything to Him, so that instead the spirit controls the mind..What does a battalion do when their leader commands..They listen.. They face the battle even if it means death..He is raising up warriors to be His army that lives by His Spirit..
I want that.. I want to be His warrior.. I want nothing more then to be an empty vessel only filled with His Spirit, that lives by His Spirit.. I want my faith to be more then just a mustard seed. I want my faith in Jesus to be a seed that sprouts, and grows, and ends up being the biggest tree that has birds living in it, and making their home in it..
Jesus said all you need is a mustard seed of faith.. and with it everything is possible.. Thank you Jesus for starting out small in us.. But I am ready to grow. I want to sprout, and grow branches.. I want to live my life by the spirit. I want to walk like you walked, and see what you see.. I want more and more faith because it is faith that brings Glory To The Father.. That is it. Faith alone is what pleases Him. Faith alone is what glorifies Him.. Faith alone is what saves you.. Faith alone is what gave you His Spirit.. Faith alone is what gave you birth..
So I ask you.. Do you have faith in your mustard seed? Do you really have faith in it? We talk so much about having faith like a mustard seed, but if you were put to the test could you find your mustard seed.?. Sometimes its hard trying to dig it out.. Sometimes its like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
My mustard seed of faith isnt just faith in what ever I am trying to accomplish.. It is my faith in God.. It is the question that brings God Glory.. Do I have a tiny seed of faith in God, that I cant find sometimes, or is my faith in God easily found.. I dont want to dig to find this seed.. I want it to be on the surface where I can see it. Where I can climb it, Where I can put a hammock in it and rest.. Rest in Trusting in God alone..
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