Often when praying or counseling with someone I get a picture. I love that the Lord does that for me. It deepens meaning and helps with the understanding and remembering.
Today while praying with a friend I saw the game of Perfection after the timer had "popped" and thrown all the shaped pieces all over the place.
The lord said "I did this...you thought you had perfection...you had placed everything where you thought it should be but I want to be in charge.
I have allowed this season where everything is not in order and I want to "right it" and set your life in the pattern I have for you"
Friend dont be afraid when Life goes awry.
God wants to shape your life in a way that is useful to Him and will glorify His Name.
He is the Only One Who can make Perfection. Let Him take the wheel and order your life aright.
After all He created you in the very beginning!
Thursday, January 7, 2016
When God Questions
Reading in Genesis today I was struck once again at the scene between adam (with Apple on his breath) and God.
In fact I often smile when recalling how God has asked me a question.
I mean the ALL KNOWING, OMNIPOTENT, OMNIPRESENT AND OMNISCIENT God asks ME a question?!
I guess it's kind of a parenting tactic. He knows the first couple are hiding and obviously don't want to be found... Never mind not wanting to admit to their wrong doings.
"Where are you hiding?
Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree?"
It's obvious that a lot of things are going on here. But what I see mainly is Relationship. God had already been walking and talking in the garden with them.
He Knows friend and He just wants to talk about it....let Him in
In fact I often smile when recalling how God has asked me a question.
I mean the ALL KNOWING, OMNIPOTENT, OMNIPRESENT AND OMNISCIENT God asks ME a question?!
I guess it's kind of a parenting tactic. He knows the first couple are hiding and obviously don't want to be found... Never mind not wanting to admit to their wrong doings.
"Where are you hiding?
Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree?"
It's obvious that a lot of things are going on here. But what I see mainly is Relationship. God had already been walking and talking in the garden with them.
He Knows friend and He just wants to talk about it....let Him in
For Better or for Worse
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
WHILE DOING A BIT OF SHOPPING IN TARGET I noticed two middle aged men "holed up" waiting for someone to finish their shopping. I assume that they knew each other but at the same time seemed a little hesitant in their sharing
It kind of went like this;
MAN #1
"I don't know why my wife is here. She has more clothes than our closets can hold. She just never has enough, wears something once and then loses interest."
MAN #2
"My wife has 48 pair of shoes....and then another 20 plus pairs for summer alone. She wears them all but always wants more"
I sensed that they were both frustrated. They obviously had both "lost their voice" if they ever had one. And had seemingly entered the Passive Zone. You know the saying "happy wife..happy life". Then why didn't they look happy?
So girlfriends....are any of you just ignoring the subtle and perhaps not so subtle hints/looks/ sighs/ frustrations that your husband may be showing? Have you turned a blind eye or deaf ear? Do you care? Have you gotten used to having your own way?
Do you really want your own way?
Men.....have you given up and shut up...? Have you abdicated your role of "protector and provider"? I'm not suggesting that it is going to be easy but it is obvious to me that something has to give if your marriage is going to grow
I know I'm stirring a pot....perhaps even going where angels fear to tread...but..the picture of those two men who had obviously abdicates their position in the family.....saddened me.
It's good when someone takes the lead and I think in a marriage setting it should be the man.
Please remember it's just a "musing"
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Resurrected
Tomorrow, EASTER, is the most celebrated day of remembrance in the Christian's life. We sing "Up from the grave He arose!" , "Christ the Lord is risen today. HALLELUHIA" among many other hymns.
All day I have been thinking of the word "resurrect "
To bring (a dead person) back to life
To cause (something that had ended or been forgotten or lost) to exist again, to be used again etc.
When sin entered the world with Adam and Eve something was broken. Dysfunction entered the scene and everyone who has ever lived has been subject to it and even as a new born baby carries the sin nature.
When we get saved, born again, (accept JESUS into our hearts) we recognize that through the shedding of JESUS blood (death) we have been made clean and no longer must be burdened with the sin nature. "Old things have passed away..behold all things have become new" 2 Corinthians 5:17
Have you ever wondered what needs to be resurrected in your life? I think the Lord had a Perfect Plan for each and everyone of us before The Fall and because of that "fall" we were robbed of the very giftings, personalities, uniqueness that Christ has planted and knit into our very fiber.
Friends. It's time for RESURRECTION SUNDAY! Now that you are "clean" I pray you will begin to call into existence all that the Lord has had for you from Day 1. Go before Him in prayer and see what He has to say. Don't be afraid..the Maker knows it all and wants most of all for you to be walking in the Fulness of your Calling!
All day I have been thinking of the word "resurrect "
To bring (a dead person) back to life
To cause (something that had ended or been forgotten or lost) to exist again, to be used again etc.
When sin entered the world with Adam and Eve something was broken. Dysfunction entered the scene and everyone who has ever lived has been subject to it and even as a new born baby carries the sin nature.
When we get saved, born again, (accept JESUS into our hearts) we recognize that through the shedding of JESUS blood (death) we have been made clean and no longer must be burdened with the sin nature. "Old things have passed away..behold all things have become new" 2 Corinthians 5:17
Have you ever wondered what needs to be resurrected in your life? I think the Lord had a Perfect Plan for each and everyone of us before The Fall and because of that "fall" we were robbed of the very giftings, personalities, uniqueness that Christ has planted and knit into our very fiber.
Friends. It's time for RESURRECTION SUNDAY! Now that you are "clean" I pray you will begin to call into existence all that the Lord has had for you from Day 1. Go before Him in prayer and see what He has to say. Don't be afraid..the Maker knows it all and wants most of all for you to be walking in the Fulness of your Calling!
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Patience in the Pain
Yesterday, chatting with Kendall, I was telling her that the Lord had planted a thought in my heart. That we need to have
Patience in our Pain.
We chewed on that for a while, as we can often see that as contrary to what the Scripture wants
We believe that the Lord's Will is to heal
We believe we have an enemy
But my thinking was
WHEN WE HAVE PRAYED
WHEN WE HAVE BELIEVED
WHEN WE HAVE PRAISED AND THANKED
we MUST walk in the Patience and Perseverance that HE KNOWS "the way that I take..." That He watches me carefully, nothing escaping His Attention. That His Timing in the Process is impeccable.
So Friend, if you are experiencing pain today, physically, mentally or emotionally....take the Truth personally,
HE KNOWS
HE'S WORKING HIS LIKENESS IN YOU
IT WILL NOT LAST ONE SECOND TOO LONG
And as James 1 says ~ you WILL become "mature and complete in Christ Jesus" when perseverance has completed its work in you
Chosen for Affliction
Alistair Begg
I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 48:10
Comfort yourself, tried believer, with this thought: God says, "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction" [KJV]. Does not the Word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not a protective shield, against which the heat has no power? Let affliction come--God has chosen me. Poverty, you may stride in at my door, but God is in the house already, and He has chosen me. Sickness, you may intrude, but I have balsam ready--God has chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this vale of tears, I know that He has "chosen" me.
If, believer, you require still greater comfort, remember that you have the Son of Man with you in the furnace. In that silent chamber of yours, there sits by your side One whom you have not seen, but whom you love; and often when you do not know it, He comforts you in your affliction and softens the place of rest. You are in poverty; but in your lovely house the Lord of life and glory is a frequent visitor. He loves to come into these desolate places, that He may visit you. Your friend sticks closely to you. You cannot see Him, but you may feel the pressure of His hands. Do you not hear His voice? Even in the valley of the shadow of death He says, "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God."1
Remember that noble speech of Caesar: "Fear not, you carry Caesar and all his fortune." Fear not, Christian; Jesus is with you. In all your difficult trials, His presence is both your comfort and safety. He will never leave one whom He has chosen for His own. "Fear not, for I am with you" is His sure word of promise to His chosen ones in the "furnace of affliction." Will you not, then, take hold of Christ and say:
Through floods and flames, if Jesus lead,
I'll follow where He goes.
1) Isaiah 41:10
Patience in our Pain.
We chewed on that for a while, as we can often see that as contrary to what the Scripture wants
We believe that the Lord's Will is to heal
We believe we have an enemy
But my thinking was
WHEN WE HAVE PRAYED
WHEN WE HAVE BELIEVED
WHEN WE HAVE PRAISED AND THANKED
we MUST walk in the Patience and Perseverance that HE KNOWS "the way that I take..." That He watches me carefully, nothing escaping His Attention. That His Timing in the Process is impeccable.
So Friend, if you are experiencing pain today, physically, mentally or emotionally....take the Truth personally,
HE KNOWS
HE'S WORKING HIS LIKENESS IN YOU
IT WILL NOT LAST ONE SECOND TOO LONG
And as James 1 says ~ you WILL become "mature and complete in Christ Jesus" when perseverance has completed its work in you
Chosen for Affliction
Alistair Begg
I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 48:10
Comfort yourself, tried believer, with this thought: God says, "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction" [KJV]. Does not the Word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not a protective shield, against which the heat has no power? Let affliction come--God has chosen me. Poverty, you may stride in at my door, but God is in the house already, and He has chosen me. Sickness, you may intrude, but I have balsam ready--God has chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this vale of tears, I know that He has "chosen" me.
If, believer, you require still greater comfort, remember that you have the Son of Man with you in the furnace. In that silent chamber of yours, there sits by your side One whom you have not seen, but whom you love; and often when you do not know it, He comforts you in your affliction and softens the place of rest. You are in poverty; but in your lovely house the Lord of life and glory is a frequent visitor. He loves to come into these desolate places, that He may visit you. Your friend sticks closely to you. You cannot see Him, but you may feel the pressure of His hands. Do you not hear His voice? Even in the valley of the shadow of death He says, "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God."1
Remember that noble speech of Caesar: "Fear not, you carry Caesar and all his fortune." Fear not, Christian; Jesus is with you. In all your difficult trials, His presence is both your comfort and safety. He will never leave one whom He has chosen for His own. "Fear not, for I am with you" is His sure word of promise to His chosen ones in the "furnace of affliction." Will you not, then, take hold of Christ and say:
Through floods and flames, if Jesus lead,
I'll follow where He goes.
1) Isaiah 41:10
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Mad to Missionary
Luke 8 recounts the story of the naked demoniac in Gerasenes.
The guy who had enough resident demons to enter and send a "great herd of swine" plunging to their deaths
Long story short...Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man making this once insane man one of us ;)
Crowds came to see the miracle of restoration.
V38 this man, now sane, kept "begging and praying Jesus to be able to go with Him and be with Him"
BUT Jesus sent him away saying"return to your home, tell your story of the many and great things that God has done for you"
The man departed, proclaiming throughout the whole city what Jesus had done for him"
How about you?
How about me?
Have you told? Have you spread the Good news that once you were blind but now you can see? You were lame but now can walk?
The Scripture admonishes us to let our light shine, to not hide our Source of Life.
You know....
SO THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW!
Shine. Friend. Shine!
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
AUDIT
To many people that is a word they would rather never hear.
A friend shared with me that he was being audited....the word automatically strikes dread if not fear. He complained that he knew that his bookkeeping was not the best and getting ready was going to be a NIGHTMARE!!
Once again it brought me back to the 10 virgins at the end of the age...you know all waiting but only 5 ready.
Seriously that is one nauseating feeling!
you know what it sounds like...
"OH DARN I MEANT TO BUY OIL!!!!"
Friend Don't put off today doing first things first!
"People get ready, the songs says, Jesus is coming"
That statement should strike such excitement in the depth of your being and if it doesn't
ASK YOURSELF WHY
and I just pray
you will DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!
The scripture says He will come like a thief in the night......to tell you the truth ...I don't care how He comes..Im ready!
blessings
A friend shared with me that he was being audited....the word automatically strikes dread if not fear. He complained that he knew that his bookkeeping was not the best and getting ready was going to be a NIGHTMARE!!
Once again it brought me back to the 10 virgins at the end of the age...you know all waiting but only 5 ready.
Seriously that is one nauseating feeling!
you know what it sounds like...
"OH DARN I MEANT TO BUY OIL!!!!"
Friend Don't put off today doing first things first!
"People get ready, the songs says, Jesus is coming"
That statement should strike such excitement in the depth of your being and if it doesn't
ASK YOURSELF WHY
and I just pray
you will DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!
The scripture says He will come like a thief in the night......to tell you the truth ...I don't care how He comes..Im ready!
blessings
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