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February 14, 2012
We have been called to a mission... will you carry it out!
February 10, 2012
Burn in me...
Have you ever felt that burning feeling inside your soul when you speak of something that is about God?
Last night at service I was speaking to the church regarding the goal for the Youth. We are working to help the youth MARK there schools.
M- Memorize the Word so that we can have it be the source in which we gather all our information.
A- Act out the Word and be the example that we need to be.
R- Read the Word so that it isn't just something we hear but something that lives in us.
K- Kneel before we go to the Word so that we allow the spirit to speak to us and not our own ideas.
This is truly my true burden for our young people. I received this idea from a source online but have changed some of it so it will apply to our youth. They need to feel like they are capable of making a MARK in their communities and not just with their friends but with everyone around them. God will do everything they need Him to do if they truly apply these things to their lives.
We are in need of a burning inside passion for all of us. We need to feel that anointing in us burn every time we speak of the goodness and miracles of God. There is always something to give God glory for and in everything we should give Him the glory. I'm so excited to see what God is going to do in our young people when they each get that burning feeling that they are able to do great things.
I'm going to pray more than ever that our young people experience that rush of excitement every time they are speaking of God. That they will feel a burn inside them as they walk in the ways of God. It is about time that our young people feel they can step into the shoes that have been placed before them. There is some great things that are going to happen when these young people grab a hold of their purpose and truly start making a MARK in their homes, communities, and schools.
I'm expecting great things to come... and can't wait for the day that one of the young people comes up to me and says.... it works!
Last night at service I was speaking to the church regarding the goal for the Youth. We are working to help the youth MARK there schools.
M- Memorize the Word so that we can have it be the source in which we gather all our information.
A- Act out the Word and be the example that we need to be.
R- Read the Word so that it isn't just something we hear but something that lives in us.
K- Kneel before we go to the Word so that we allow the spirit to speak to us and not our own ideas.
This is truly my true burden for our young people. I received this idea from a source online but have changed some of it so it will apply to our youth. They need to feel like they are capable of making a MARK in their communities and not just with their friends but with everyone around them. God will do everything they need Him to do if they truly apply these things to their lives.
We are in need of a burning inside passion for all of us. We need to feel that anointing in us burn every time we speak of the goodness and miracles of God. There is always something to give God glory for and in everything we should give Him the glory. I'm so excited to see what God is going to do in our young people when they each get that burning feeling that they are able to do great things.
I'm going to pray more than ever that our young people experience that rush of excitement every time they are speaking of God. That they will feel a burn inside them as they walk in the ways of God. It is about time that our young people feel they can step into the shoes that have been placed before them. There is some great things that are going to happen when these young people grab a hold of their purpose and truly start making a MARK in their homes, communities, and schools.
I'm expecting great things to come... and can't wait for the day that one of the young people comes up to me and says.... it works!
February 7, 2012
Get me out of this comfort zone..
James 1:22-24
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your ownselves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
I have found in my life that I will hear something and want to do it but it just is so out of my comfort zone that I just can't do it. Sometimes I can hear someone say the right things to me and agree what they are saying is true but when it comes to changing those ways in my life it is just not as easy.
Like this scripture states I see in the glass what I want to see but I forget what I once was or forget to see what I should be. We always want to do all the right things but it isn't always that easy. We want to do all the right things and dream big but we can't really apply them to our lives. Dreams are always wonderful but it is only a dream if not put into reality. Or in a spiritual sense it is only a dream until we make the step and God does the rest.
As I pray regarding my life and the new adventures that are to come I'm reminded of these scriptures. It is so easy to hear the Word and know the Word but it is so hard to actually apply it. Oh Peter step out on that water and try the power of God. If Peter would have never stepped out on that water he would have never walked on water, but he did and that is all that matters.
During the CCD Family Camp in July of 2009 God spoke to me clearly. He said to me I will make you walk on water. Instantly I knew that there was significance in the word make and that is if I wanted to do the will of God in my life I was going to need to step out of my own comfort zone.
That August I went to my Pastor and said I feel a call to Sweden. At that time in my walk I was so scared that my Pastor would say no that I prayed and fasted for a month before getting the strength to speak to him... getting out of my comfort zone.
After I spoke to my Pastor he told me that the Lord had told him prior to us talking that I needed to go. He didn't know if it was Bible School or what but he knew that God spoke regarding me going and now it is history.
I went to Sweden January of 2010 and I was completely out of my comfort zone. There I learning to trust in the Lord in every minute of every day. During my trip I didn't see people filled with the Holy Ghost but I did see an angel and I did see the hand of God move. I learned so much from my brothers and sisters there. Learning the true meaning of servant hood and the importance of trusting God.
I share this with you again to say I don't believe that God is done pushing me onto the water. I don't believe that He is done stretching me in the box that I've become so comfortable in. If I am going to be anything for God I need to be a doer of the Word and not just a listener of the Word.
If I am going to be a vessel for God I need to make sure that I don't stand on the side of the ship looking at the horizon knowing that I could have it if I just would step out of my comfort zone. God will take care of us if we are walking in His will. We can walk on water if we know that the man who is guiding our footsteps is God and not us.
This is going to be my challenge for myself. I'm going to have unfailing faith in God's ability to do the miraculous, getting me out of this comfortable box I live in. I'm going to pray like Hannah and being diligent like Jacob that the things I think as impossible become possible through Christ.
I'm no longer going to limit the hand of God in my life and allow myself to walk in a comfort zone. Sometimes I limit myself because of life and I believe that it is time for me to allow God to MAKE me what He wants to MAKE me.
I believe that in each person we have our own weakness. There is something that God wants us to do that we just can't do. We know that we should be doers of what we hear but we seem to not want to get out of the comfort zone. So I challenge you all today... lets get out of our comfort zones and apply the things we hear and know.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your ownselves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
I have found in my life that I will hear something and want to do it but it just is so out of my comfort zone that I just can't do it. Sometimes I can hear someone say the right things to me and agree what they are saying is true but when it comes to changing those ways in my life it is just not as easy.
Like this scripture states I see in the glass what I want to see but I forget what I once was or forget to see what I should be. We always want to do all the right things but it isn't always that easy. We want to do all the right things and dream big but we can't really apply them to our lives. Dreams are always wonderful but it is only a dream if not put into reality. Or in a spiritual sense it is only a dream until we make the step and God does the rest.
As I pray regarding my life and the new adventures that are to come I'm reminded of these scriptures. It is so easy to hear the Word and know the Word but it is so hard to actually apply it. Oh Peter step out on that water and try the power of God. If Peter would have never stepped out on that water he would have never walked on water, but he did and that is all that matters.
During the CCD Family Camp in July of 2009 God spoke to me clearly. He said to me I will make you walk on water. Instantly I knew that there was significance in the word make and that is if I wanted to do the will of God in my life I was going to need to step out of my own comfort zone.
That August I went to my Pastor and said I feel a call to Sweden. At that time in my walk I was so scared that my Pastor would say no that I prayed and fasted for a month before getting the strength to speak to him... getting out of my comfort zone.
After I spoke to my Pastor he told me that the Lord had told him prior to us talking that I needed to go. He didn't know if it was Bible School or what but he knew that God spoke regarding me going and now it is history.
I went to Sweden January of 2010 and I was completely out of my comfort zone. There I learning to trust in the Lord in every minute of every day. During my trip I didn't see people filled with the Holy Ghost but I did see an angel and I did see the hand of God move. I learned so much from my brothers and sisters there. Learning the true meaning of servant hood and the importance of trusting God.
I share this with you again to say I don't believe that God is done pushing me onto the water. I don't believe that He is done stretching me in the box that I've become so comfortable in. If I am going to be anything for God I need to be a doer of the Word and not just a listener of the Word.
If I am going to be a vessel for God I need to make sure that I don't stand on the side of the ship looking at the horizon knowing that I could have it if I just would step out of my comfort zone. God will take care of us if we are walking in His will. We can walk on water if we know that the man who is guiding our footsteps is God and not us.
This is going to be my challenge for myself. I'm going to have unfailing faith in God's ability to do the miraculous, getting me out of this comfortable box I live in. I'm going to pray like Hannah and being diligent like Jacob that the things I think as impossible become possible through Christ.
I'm no longer going to limit the hand of God in my life and allow myself to walk in a comfort zone. Sometimes I limit myself because of life and I believe that it is time for me to allow God to MAKE me what He wants to MAKE me.
I believe that in each person we have our own weakness. There is something that God wants us to do that we just can't do. We know that we should be doers of what we hear but we seem to not want to get out of the comfort zone. So I challenge you all today... lets get out of our comfort zones and apply the things we hear and know.
February 1, 2012
Chess....
Today I spent the afternoon with my mom and like always we spoke of the things of God. I love to share with my mom what is going through my head because she is always quick to put me on the right track if I'm not thinking right or if I am she puts me at ease. I'm grateful for having such a wise mother and one whom I can share godly things with.
Our topic of conversation today was regarding my burden for the people of Sweden and specifically the church in Falun. While in Sweden I realized quick that God had placed a special burden on my heart for Falun and for the saints of God whom are laboring there. Leaving was difficult but at that time in my life it was God's time for me to return home.
It has been close to two years since I was in the beautiful country of Sweden and since then I've prayed for an opportunity to go back if only for a visit. So far that has not happened but I do believe that God will make a way for me to return.
The other night I was given this beautiful vision of God placing me in a chess game and each box being a certain journey in my life. As I rode the horse through the game I saw myself going through each journey in my life as God put every move into place as He desired, in one of those boxes I saw Sweden. Prior to this vision I had been constantly reminded of Sweden as I walked through the snow and put on my boots God would bring me back to the many days I spent walking the snowy streets of Sweden praying for a sign of why I was called there. During the time spent in Falun I quickly received my answer regarding why God wanted me in Sweden. It was sad to know that by that time I only had a month left. I realized after some great sorrow that God was putting things into play so I could return and return with a greater purpose and preparation. As often said by many others... God's timing is never our timing and His ways not our ways. He knows the beginning from the end and He knows what other things need to be put into place for me.
In 2012 I want to make sure that every decision I make is with God at the center. I want to make sure that when it is His time to open doors that I am ready to walk through them. I want to make sure that I am spiritually ready for the tasks ahead of me and want to make sure that I am physically prepared. God can't always do all the work sometimes we need to take the time He gives us to take care of business.
I share this with you today to say this... God has a chess game for each one of us and the fact of the matter is that we can either ride the horse or be the horse. If we allow God to play the game we will find ourselves ready and prepared for the tasks ahead. Let each task stretch you, let each experience bring you closer to God, and lastly use the time you have wisely.
I believe that each person has a special calling in the kingdom of God but if we never grow or change we will just continue to start over at the beginning of the chess game.
Our topic of conversation today was regarding my burden for the people of Sweden and specifically the church in Falun. While in Sweden I realized quick that God had placed a special burden on my heart for Falun and for the saints of God whom are laboring there. Leaving was difficult but at that time in my life it was God's time for me to return home.
It has been close to two years since I was in the beautiful country of Sweden and since then I've prayed for an opportunity to go back if only for a visit. So far that has not happened but I do believe that God will make a way for me to return.
The other night I was given this beautiful vision of God placing me in a chess game and each box being a certain journey in my life. As I rode the horse through the game I saw myself going through each journey in my life as God put every move into place as He desired, in one of those boxes I saw Sweden. Prior to this vision I had been constantly reminded of Sweden as I walked through the snow and put on my boots God would bring me back to the many days I spent walking the snowy streets of Sweden praying for a sign of why I was called there. During the time spent in Falun I quickly received my answer regarding why God wanted me in Sweden. It was sad to know that by that time I only had a month left. I realized after some great sorrow that God was putting things into play so I could return and return with a greater purpose and preparation. As often said by many others... God's timing is never our timing and His ways not our ways. He knows the beginning from the end and He knows what other things need to be put into place for me.
In 2012 I want to make sure that every decision I make is with God at the center. I want to make sure that when it is His time to open doors that I am ready to walk through them. I want to make sure that I am spiritually ready for the tasks ahead of me and want to make sure that I am physically prepared. God can't always do all the work sometimes we need to take the time He gives us to take care of business.
I share this with you today to say this... God has a chess game for each one of us and the fact of the matter is that we can either ride the horse or be the horse. If we allow God to play the game we will find ourselves ready and prepared for the tasks ahead. Let each task stretch you, let each experience bring you closer to God, and lastly use the time you have wisely.
I believe that each person has a special calling in the kingdom of God but if we never grow or change we will just continue to start over at the beginning of the chess game.
October 25, 2011
Emotions...
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:4
When reading this passage of scripture today I am reminded of the power of emotions and the significance they play in our walks with God. Many people call the female gender emotional and as much as I do believe this to be true I also believe they are important for our spiritual health.
I know I've probably read this Scripture a million times in my life, but I have never put together a thought regarding it before today. Yes we mourn when we have lost or our hearts are hurt, however, I believe that Jesus was saying something very important than just the basic.
Studies show that if we do not mourn the loss of a loved one that it could have major affects on our physical and mental health. The more people try to make sense of life situations and take control with their own power the more you see the importants of walking with God. We say walking with God all the time but when it comes to letting our feelings speak to God we can't do it. As if we are like in a love relationship with God and we can't tell Him how we really feel. It sounds silly when you say it out loud but it is so true.
Last year at Ladies Retreat Sister Chavis spoke about how the Lord had told her when praying that she needed to turn her emotions back on Him. When she was lonely she was to pray those feelings back to God as if He was feeling distance from her. This idea was very powerful to me and when I applied it to my life allowed me to get passed my own lonely feelings.
If we never show or speak of our emotions to God, He can't always give us what we need. You receive not because you ask not. Sometimes we are so quick to talk in life when it comes to what we want in a vehicle and what we want in a house or even in a relationship, but when it comes to Jesus and us we can't really speak up. We can ask Him to heal our marriages and find us the perfect husband or wife but when it comes to just mourning about how bad we've treated Him, that's not going to happen.
Last night my friend asked for some advice and when we finished she said to me, "I never know what to say to people who are struggling because the only answer I have is prayer. Why is it that when we are struggling that is the last thing we want to do or can do?" I thought about this much in my time in the church and I've came to this conclusion. When it comes to us speaking to God and telling Him our heart, the enemy will do everything in His power to keep us from talking to God. If He can take away to extension cord to the power source he can take away the power.
So what am I getting at today? I'm saying that blessed are those who bring their hearts to God and truly mourn about their relationship with Christ because those are the ones who will be comforted. It isn't any different than those we love, if we never tell them we love them or speak words that make them know that, then we will never give them the peace they need in trusting that love. God is the same way if we can't go to Him and speak our hearts and show Him the love then He can't give us the comfort in knowing His love. Don't let the enemy steal what you have by taking away your power source. Stay connected to your love and keep telling Him how wonderful He is. Life isn't worth living if you can't love.
Lord bless you all and keep you in this daily walk. I pray your blessed by this revelation I received and pray that it speaks to the hearts of those who read it. God is coming back for a spotless church and in that church for a bride that is in love with Him and His coming.
September 30, 2011
Be Ye Holy...
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1Peter 1:13-16
When talking about holiness I believe it is important to mention that none is holy without Christ and without holiness we are unable to be modest. It is impossible for us to please our Lord without being close to Him and to be close to Him we must be modest. The two go hand in hand together and can not be removed from our lives if we want to walk with Christ.
In this scripture we see that our mind is a huge part of holiness and I came to see this apply over a year ago. We so often put so much weight on modesty that we loose the real reason we need modesty and that is because we are serving a holy God.
Being holy in God's eyes is standing apart in mind and in dress. I think of it this way if I have a good spirit ,one which is connected to Christ, all the things about modesty becomes easy because we are following the voice of Christ. However, if we are modest looking in dress and our mind is full of comparison how can we be modest.
While you ponder on that fact think about your walk with God. Is the way you dress and act pleasing to God. Much of my walk with Christ I saw myself as doing good because I was modest in dress but in the mist of my modesty I stopped girding my mind and allowed my modesty to become "MY" own works. I lost holiness and in the mist I lost my connection with Christ.
We sometimes put so much on the way that we dress that we forget the real reason for modesty in our lives. Do not get me wrong I do believe in modest dress but do not agree in it when our dress becomes our security blanket to salvation. Which is why I talk about holiness instead of modesty.
With holiness we are given spiritual eyes to see and know what is expected of us. We are able to see that our Lord wants us to be separate, covered, and beautiful as He has designed us to be. In that there are things to be desired and to be unknown to others.
Why open a package that you already know what it contains? There is no mystery, there is no anticipation. I look at our modesty being the same way and it makes me feel happy to know that there is something more to me than just what I look like on the outside. There is something so beautiful when modesty and holiness walk together in harmony.
I'm grateful that I serve such a holy God because it makes me realize that without the Holy Ghost and without modesty I can't get close to Him. Because of His grace I can reach the gates of Heaven but because of His blood and Spirit I can get through them.
Salvation to me is more than getting into heaven it is spending the rest of my life with a man who loves a holy and modest woman. That man is the only man whom I know I could never truly be good enough for and that no matter what I do or say without Him I'm truly the farthest thing from Holy.
I'm praying today that God would give me a heart to become more like Him to become not more modest, not more holy, but more like Him. Let the fruit of the spirit be what comes from my pours and what falls from my lips.
July 1, 2011
I'm Trading My Sorrows
As I sang that song last night I realized why I really love this song. It isn't because it has an upbeat tempo and that it makes you want to put on your dancing shoes its because each line speaks to me.
Each day brings a new kind of sadness. You can just read the newspaper and feel sad as there are new situations every day. Its almost as if the more our country battles with debt the more prisons we need, the more mental health units we need, and the more you read about sexual sins and addictions. All the sin in this world makes me want to trade all my sorrows and pain into something better.
That's right there is something better than pain and sorrow something better than doubt and grief. God has a joy that makes all the things around me feel little. Not that sin isn't a big thing but that I don't have to live in it, I don't have to forever be surrounded by it. My God has given me the opportunity to trade all that in for something better... JOY!
Lately it seems like everything around me is about sickness, doctors, medications, diets, and appointments. But when I sing this song I am reminded that I can trade all the sickness of the world into the joy of the Lord. No matter what happens I know who holds my future and yes I may not understand why I am sick but I do know that I don't have to live being sick. I maybe sick in my body but I am filled with joy in my soul. People may want to put shame on me for not being like the world or looking like the world but I'm telling you what I can have the joy of the Lord if I trade all the shame of the world on me in for His joy.
Amen that's why I can sing the bridge of this song.
You may ask me why I'm writing this and I'm writing this because it is the lyrics to this song that remind me that I don't need to live in sorrow or in pain. I can trade it in for a better car to drive. I can drive in joy as some day this vessel of mine will be here while my spirit will be lifted out of here and go on to a higher place. I want to be living a life like I want to be in heaven right now. Not because of what life is like down here but because I can find the source of gas that makes me feel like dancing when everyone is around and feel like dancing when no one is around.
I'm filled with joy today knowing that no matter what I'm trading in my sorrows, pain, sickness, and shame in for some heavenly joy that makes me laugh til my guts hurt, that makes me smile til my cheeks hurt, and makes me be the witness that God has designed for us all to be.
There is something about the joy of the Lord and there is something about the beauty of a joy filled apostolic saint of God who is living and walking in the Holy Ghost. There is just something about my Jesus that can't be hidden by the enemies ways nor stopped by his destruction because I know the author of the true joy and I know that if I stand with God that no matter what happens my sorrow may last for the night but my joy will come in the morning.
I'm saying yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!! It doesn't matter what comes my way I'm going to life my head up High and say hallejuiah anyhow. God is bigger than all this and I refuse to forget where I can tap in to some true joy and hope.
I'm Trading My Sorrow... I'm Trading My Pain
Each day brings a new kind of sadness. You can just read the newspaper and feel sad as there are new situations every day. Its almost as if the more our country battles with debt the more prisons we need, the more mental health units we need, and the more you read about sexual sins and addictions. All the sin in this world makes me want to trade all my sorrows and pain into something better.
I'm Laying Them Down For The Joy Of The Lord
That's right there is something better than pain and sorrow something better than doubt and grief. God has a joy that makes all the things around me feel little. Not that sin isn't a big thing but that I don't have to live in it, I don't have to forever be surrounded by it. My God has given me the opportunity to trade all that in for something better... JOY!
I'm Trading My Sickness... I'm Trading My Shame
Lately it seems like everything around me is about sickness, doctors, medications, diets, and appointments. But when I sing this song I am reminded that I can trade all the sickness of the world into the joy of the Lord. No matter what happens I know who holds my future and yes I may not understand why I am sick but I do know that I don't have to live being sick. I maybe sick in my body but I am filled with joy in my soul. People may want to put shame on me for not being like the world or looking like the world but I'm telling you what I can have the joy of the Lord if I trade all the shame of the world on me in for His joy.
Amen that's why I can sing the bridge of this song.
I'm pressed but not crush persecuted not abandoned. Struck down but not destroyed. I'm blessed be on the curse for His promise will endure his joys going to be my strength. Though my sorrow may last for the night... His joy comes in the morning!
You may ask me why I'm writing this and I'm writing this because it is the lyrics to this song that remind me that I don't need to live in sorrow or in pain. I can trade it in for a better car to drive. I can drive in joy as some day this vessel of mine will be here while my spirit will be lifted out of here and go on to a higher place. I want to be living a life like I want to be in heaven right now. Not because of what life is like down here but because I can find the source of gas that makes me feel like dancing when everyone is around and feel like dancing when no one is around.
I'm filled with joy today knowing that no matter what I'm trading in my sorrows, pain, sickness, and shame in for some heavenly joy that makes me laugh til my guts hurt, that makes me smile til my cheeks hurt, and makes me be the witness that God has designed for us all to be.
There is something about the joy of the Lord and there is something about the beauty of a joy filled apostolic saint of God who is living and walking in the Holy Ghost. There is just something about my Jesus that can't be hidden by the enemies ways nor stopped by his destruction because I know the author of the true joy and I know that if I stand with God that no matter what happens my sorrow may last for the night but my joy will come in the morning.
I'm saying yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord!! It doesn't matter what comes my way I'm going to life my head up High and say hallejuiah anyhow. God is bigger than all this and I refuse to forget where I can tap in to some true joy and hope.
May 16, 2011
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Luke 10:38-42
This last week I had a very inconvenient situation at work. My desire to do things quickly caused me a huge fall. Nothing was broken but my right palm has a nice long cut across it that was a constant reminder of my lack of gratefulness and slowing down. To make it even more of a reminder God allowed me to pass out which was something that He had healed me from. The rush of all the emotions that over took me caused my heart to stop and for me to pass out. A scary thing but after the stomach settled, the dizziness went, and the headache decreased I found myself reminded of my mom's words. "Maybe God is trying to tell you to slow down".
I'm a Martha I go and go without ever taking a brake to breathe. I run around to get things done and try hard to get things finished. I don't like things hanging over my head and even more so hate to leave things for the next day. If I start something I need to finish it and if I do something I want to do it the best I can otherwise I get frustrated.
My parents taught my brother and I that if you are going to do something you do it well. You don't do things half way and all work that is done must be done the right way. In that truth I have allowed my desire to do things good be the fall. You can still do things well even when you slow down. You can still do things correctly when you are not the first one done.
In the mist of my busy life I was forgetting to take the time to wait on the Lord. Take the time to slow down and enjoy the works of God. Take the time to slow down and be careful. All things are in His hands and things will be there tomorrow that are not of eternal value. Work will still be on my desk in the morning.
This week has been a great lesson to me. God has blessed me with a more scheduled life and easier way of making more time for him, but in the mist of getting things organized for this transition I have became a Martha frantically trying to get everything done for the work of God. But in the mist of my work God is saying "Krystina Krystina... slow down and commune with me. Let me guide your day and let me be the swiftness to your feet. I gave you this opportunity so you and me can have time together... not for you to spend time running around letting your life rule you."
God has opened my eyes and showed me the error of MY ways. I'm busy, I'm going and in the mist of it I'm missing Him. God is just saying the tasks of this world are not of value when I'm here with you. This call of yours goes forth every morning you walk into work don't be to busy doing the work for yourself that you don't hear my voice.
Here I am Lord guide my footsteps and make me walk swiftly in your ways. Guide me to those souls crying out your name. I'm working here because God wants me to and I must never lose my focus on why. I'm here to minister and to do that through my walk. Demonstrating the light of Christ.
I encourage you all today to take a little time. God is speaking and He is calling... are we just to busy to notice Him. I was so busy I needed a good shaking but thank God it was a cut on my palm and not a lost soul.
April 4, 2011
His seed shall possess it...
And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers 14:20-24
The people in the wilderness saw many miracles and works of God. They had received blessings and been taken out of captivity, but even with that they were not able to be content with what they had and wait for the promises of God. Yes, God showed mercy on their lives but that mercy was not the blessings they could have had.
Today I'm convinced that I'd rather live in the boat of contentment that will get me to the promises of God than in the life boat of mercy. I want more than mercy and grace I want to live knowing that its there if I need it but not ride in it. I mean come on yes the life boat keeps you a float but the boat is much more promising to get to your destination.
I believe God was speaking just that to the people in the wilderness. Yes, he gave mercy but that mercy was not the promise. I want my promise and refuse to be satisfied in the life boat of mercy. I want to ride in the boat where the waves come and feel like they are overflowing but in the bottom of that boat there sleeps Jesus.
I want to always know that the life boat is there but refuse to live as the cast away in the life boat. Soon I would like to know that I trusted in the anchor and the keeper of the storm. Jesus is really smart He knows what we need. :)
March 10, 2011
God has spoken by His Son...
Hebrews 1:1-4
These words are a great definition of Christ. The one who holds all the power and all the ways of this world. Who reigns higher than any other and who purged out the sins to sit in glory to wait for His bride. What a beautiful picture of who our God is.
While I look deeper into these scriptures I'm reminded of who I serve. This man called Christ was not a man but God. That as it states "express image of his person" God was not able to show himself until Christ came into the picture. This visual world we live in needed to see who God is. He gave us that and when we allow ourselves to search out the scriptures we can see just who God is.
I'm full of great hope today that I can know who the man is. That I can see Him, feel Him, and touch Him through the Word of God. I love feeling good when He touches me but we also need to know Him because it says in the Word.
Fall in love with the Word of God and know that each written Word gives us a deeper knowledge and understanding of Him. God came to us by His son to show us exactly what we can have through Him.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged out sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
These words are a great definition of Christ. The one who holds all the power and all the ways of this world. Who reigns higher than any other and who purged out the sins to sit in glory to wait for His bride. What a beautiful picture of who our God is.
While I look deeper into these scriptures I'm reminded of who I serve. This man called Christ was not a man but God. That as it states "express image of his person" God was not able to show himself until Christ came into the picture. This visual world we live in needed to see who God is. He gave us that and when we allow ourselves to search out the scriptures we can see just who God is.
I'm full of great hope today that I can know who the man is. That I can see Him, feel Him, and touch Him through the Word of God. I love feeling good when He touches me but we also need to know Him because it says in the Word.
Fall in love with the Word of God and know that each written Word gives us a deeper knowledge and understanding of Him. God came to us by His son to show us exactly what we can have through Him.
March 3, 2011
Bible Study and Discussion
Are you interested in joining us with our Bible Study Discussion.
Topic next week will be about who we follow. Are you a follower of the Apostles or are you a follower of Christ? Who are you living your walk with?
We say all the time we are Apostolic which is right but have you lost what it means to be a Christian?
Please feel free to comment! Let me know what you think and we will bring you into the discussion on Monday March 7th at 7:30pm. If you'd like to join us please feel free to send me a message or email. We will be doing this live through Skype and encourage all young people to join but that you clear this through your Pastors as we want to keep everyone in the know.
May this discussion topic cause you to think and to see what you feel. What do you feel about being a Christian?
Use the Bible!
Topic next week will be about who we follow. Are you a follower of the Apostles or are you a follower of Christ? Who are you living your walk with?
We say all the time we are Apostolic which is right but have you lost what it means to be a Christian?
Please feel free to comment! Let me know what you think and we will bring you into the discussion on Monday March 7th at 7:30pm. If you'd like to join us please feel free to send me a message or email. We will be doing this live through Skype and encourage all young people to join but that you clear this through your Pastors as we want to keep everyone in the know.
May this discussion topic cause you to think and to see what you feel. What do you feel about being a Christian?
Use the Bible!
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