MAY 2012

When I love someone, care about them and what's important to them, I start learning more about those things, making them important to me too... I don't simply read an auto-biography about this person, I spend time with them, experiencing life from their point of view... it's often said that those who love each other start to 'look alike'... If this is how we embrace people, wouldn't it (at least) be the same as we embrace God...?

Lord God, I pray for contentment AND dissatisfaction simultaneously in Your Name, Jesus, as we are humbled by Your Grace and driven to a desperate hunger for You... more, more, more that we spill over in every area, God, because we cannot contain you... that the spiritual emptiness that plagues the world has no choice but to draw Your Presence and Your Love FROM us and thru us as You fill us, that our need for You increases exponentially. Let us move like oxen (Proverbs 14:4) and make a Divine mess with the Love and Power of God - in Jesus Name ♥

I am ALREADY living with You eternally, yet I am existing in this container in time temporarily, for Your Glory and Your Purpose to bring forth the destiny You've called for us - Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done... on earth as it is in Heaven!

God, there's nothing worth doing today if You're not involved in it... I pray to be clothed in the full armor of Light... I surrender my whole self to be used of righteousness.. Praise Jesus! Amen

The sun's purpose is to shine... and it fulfills it's destiny REGARDLESS of the weather forecast... ;)
 Have a BRILLIANT day!! ♥

Wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace. (James 3:17-18)

Lord, help me love the world into a relationship with You ♥

I am forgiven and forgiving

God reconciles.
"Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us." (2 Corinthians 5:18-19)
(... the Message version) "... All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then CALLED us to settle our relationships with each other..."

Jesus replied, "If you only knew the gift God has for you...you would ask..." John 4:10

We walk through life completely unaware of our own exposure and our desperate need for God's Divine Protection...

God, I am desperate for You...saturate me with Your Presence...swallow me with Your Spirit...let me be lost in Your Glory.. Let there be nothing left of me so that everyone sees only You in me. I surrender spirit, soul, and body to you - to be used of righteousness...I surrender, in Jesus Name ♥

Faith extends way beyond what the eyes can see or the mind can conceive.

Today I'm thinking about the generosity served by a little girl at a tea party. Even though she knows it's just 'air', there is a belief that reaches beyond that reality, she diligently serves up a faith-based experience and her heart SHINES through.
Today, I pray for a child-like faith... that when I extend my hands with what may feel like is only air, let it be FULL of belief that God is doing things that I can't see but that I KNOW are real...I pray that I am willing to risk giving what I may not see that I have, but in God, by His Spirit, my hands are over-flowing...in Jesus Name ♥

In the name of Jesus, I refuse doubt and worry. I refuse to examine myself with any eyes other than those of my Savior, Jesus Christ. By the Word of God, I chose to utilize the power and authority He gave to me over all dark things, critical things, or worthless things... The Light is IN me and shines through me. If God be for me, then who can be against me?! Glory to God! ♥

You are becoming the person you were destined to be! in Jesus Name ♥

Do we dare to experience the fullness of God?

"...Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him..." (Matthew 5:1MSG)

We are not fighting for victory, we are fighting FROM Victory

It is easier to see someone who is clearly in lack and offer help, assistance, or service... But are we willing to go deeper? To be willing to serve those who don't 'appear' to be in need... Are we willing to be committed to outward rejection and to break through the independent spirit with love..to meet the internal needs - that go unnoticed but are clearly audible.. if only we'd stop to listen to what we cannot see.

We are not called to suffer, we are called to joy! :) Abundant Joy!

Are we willing to risk our reputation for God's Kingdom?
Are we willing to let our present understanding or comprehension be annihilated to grow in God?
Are we willing to daily throw our agenda away and seek God's agenda in ALL we do? (or do we put limits or conditions on our true willingness...?)
God, we are so sorry for thinking that for one moment our input somehow mattered, You are the Beginning and the End. You are the Divine Authority. We worship You with everything we are and all we do in every single moment! We love You!

We don't have to wait for desperate times to 'call for desperate measures'... ♥ more of You God! You are all I need! ♥

Without You, Jesus, I wouldn't have a Dad..♥

God, I see that You're more than the Ruler...You're my Daddy! You hold me in Your Arms, You watch me to make sure I don't get hurt, You pick me up when I fall down, You kiss my boo-boos and make them 'all better', You stand as my boundaries so that I grow into my potential, You see my heart in every situation, You provide for my needs - even the ones I'm not aware of, You protect me from bad things - especially when I don't know any better, Your Hand is on me always. I love You!! ♥

Heavenly Father, continue to scrub us - wash us, cleanse us - continue to bring the dirt to the surface so it can be washed away by Your Blood, clarify us O God, prepare us, bring us.. ♥

"But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate His extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life." (1 Timothy 1:16)

"...so that they may take hold of life that is real."

It is critical for us to deny the world system and to seek desperately the reality of Heaven - we cannot afford to have any other point of view than that of Jesus Christ or any other existence than that which is God's.

God, break me open and wake me up! I don't want to miss what You're doing. Bring me further into Your reality.. I refuse to be rebellious or lazy.. I will not try to mold You to my current understanding, I am inferior to You.. Teach me, Jesus, how to move like You move, to do like You do. Fill me to over-flowing with Your Spirit that I may be dressed in Your Clothes.. spill me, open me up, take every part of me away and replace it with Your knowledge, Your wisdom and understanding, Your eyes and ears, Your heart. Shape me, make me, mold me, use me. In Jesus Name - Amen ♥

I repent from the goat mindset.

Embracing (or stepping INTO) God's reality for yourself (in your life, in your present situation) is KEY to sharing that promise (His Promise) with others... I can't share with you something I don't have. I need to first know I have much more than I think I do.. To be able to SEE, by faith (through Jesus' Eyes), that God's reality extends far past our own human understanding and to BRING THAT FORWARD by the Holy Spirit is essential to sharing the Kingdom,
Lord Jesus, I pray for an awakening.. a spiritual eye-opening... Holy Spirit, confront us with Your Truth so that we may move deeper into Your Presence, Your Reality, Your Glory.. teach us, guide us, lead us INTO You God.

Being in intimacy with the Holy Spirit, walking in and with Christ in relationship with my Father - God in Heaven - will bring me into Truth over the lies in my life, my family, my community, and this world.. through repentence I turn away from these lies on my/our behalf, refuse and rebuke them asserting the Authority and Victory that has already been established by the Blood of Jesus, restoring ...in it's place (where the lies once dwelled) the Divine Truth of love, light, and freedom.
Holy Spirit, I pray for revelation as I spend time with You - I'm sorry for not knowing who I was, and I am just so thankful and grateful that You, by Your Spirit, have shown me the Truth of who I am. I refuse the spirit of rebellion in Jesus Name (I'm sorry for not listening, for not hearing You all those times before) and as I now recognize Your Voice I see that I coninuously find myself in You, I grow in Your Living Water. I refuse doubt and worry as You teach me to grow like the wildflower - soaking in the rays of Your Light, bending with Your Wind. Thank You for Your Son, Jesus Christ, for Your Spirit to comfort me and teach me, for Your Love which is perfect in all things - Amen. ♥

 

"I can't show you where you're going until you trust Me to take you there..."

 

The inspiration/invention of all things in the physical (or natural) form is the derivative of a memory (or mold) of a parallel spiritual reality in existance.

 

Unbelief is rebellion

 

God - Holy Spirit - teach us to be multi-lingual as You are...

 

O God.. If we would just dare to put You first, how mighty would You move... If we would just be conscious of - sensitive to - the presence of the Holy Spirit, together at the same time, can we even comprehend how the atmosphere over nations would shift?

 

I refuse to be impressed by circumstances, reports, or lies formed to distract me from the destiny that God has called me into for His Purpose. I deny the influence of the terms and conditions of the systems of the world. I accept and posses, by the Blood of Jesus, the inheritence given to me by my Father in Heaven and I shout praise and glory to You God for what You have done, are doing, and will do ♥ I claim this in Jesus Name

 

I insist for you and each of you to walk IN the freedom that was purchased for you by the the Blood spilled by Jesus Christ on the cross.. I remove the blindfold that covered your face, causing confusion and stumbling, and by the power of the Holy Spirit declare an eye-opening INTO THE reality - the realm - of God himself.. I release a clarification and revelation over your life, to realize the shift in the atmosphere, to experience (encounter) God, His Spirit, and the Love of His Son bringing about fulfillment of your purpose in His Divine Plan. In the Name of Jesus, the Truth is received, embraced, and celebrated! ♥

 

I enforce the law of Heaven in Jesus Name ♥

 

I refuse to cause offense to my God in Heaven by submitting to being influenced by, confined by/to, limited by, defined by or subject to your circumstances or mine! I declare peace and freedom in Jesus Name ♥

 

We are not confined to or defined by our experiences or conditions of this life. It's time for us to behave as the most valuable creation that Jesus gave His life for... It's our immediate responsibility and priority to do more than hope for the True Identity to be known by our children and our children's children.. We must realize and become who God says we are so that our ceiling becomes their floor. We here for a time such as this, we have survived for a purpose - His Purpose - and we will not be moved.

 

I'm driving down the road and I start to visualize Jesus driving w/me.. sitting on His lap.. Suddenly my whole body relaxed as the usual tension of driving lifted off me, realizing that He's giving me the opportunity to drive but resting in the knowledge that He'll course-correct me, that He's completely in control, that He speaks gently in my ear teaching and guiding me (turn here..watch your lane, slow down, stop), that as focused (and narrow-minded) I am while trying to operate such heavy machinery - He's aware of ALL THINGS and protects me from the unseen. I love You Jesus! ♥

 

The power of praying in God's Word...
"so My word that comes from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it [to do]." Isaiah 55:11
Speaking outloud our prayers, praying in and from His Word, gives birth to that promise - an assignment unto that thing in which you spoke - where it is compelled to fulfill it's destiny.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1

 

We are a fabric interwoven together by God, with His heart at the very center of us. We have our unique path pre-destined by God, yet they all come together (and in covenant, cannot be broken) to accomplish His Purpose.

APRIL 2012

I stand confidently on the Promise of God... everything else is just noise. ♥

"For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity. Christ Jesus Himself human, who gave Himself - a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time." (1Timothy 2:5-6 HCSB)
Ransom - is to redeem a person from captivity by paying a stipulated price; to deliver or redeem from captivity, bondage, or detention, or punishment for sin by paying a demanded price
No Greater Love than this ♥ It is my heart's desire to protect His.

 Lord, I pray that I can see with heart-eyes of Heaven... that I continue to grow in Your reality... I realize I am not designed to live within tangible reality, but rather I am destined to exist in Heaven under Your Will and that I am not waiting to 'get somewhere' that is coming...Your Kingdom is here and available now. In the Name of Jesus, I step into THIS reality, seeking Your heart, God, knowing that I am not intended to live in anything less than You. Thank You Lord God for Your faithfulness and Grace! ♥ Amen

...I don't have to leave earth in order to be IN Heaven...

I refuse to remain unchanged. God's love has completely rearranged me through the life, death, and eternal life of Jesus Christ ♥

I am seeking a Divine disruption today - I pray God for you to bring a suddenly into this day... in Jesus Name ♥
Our Father, who art in Heaven... hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread
and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory forever and ever. -Amen

"Revival is mixed with many such dilemmas - God doing what we've never seen Him do before, all to confirm that He is whom He said in His Word. We have the inward conflict of following the One who changes not, yet promises to do a new thing in us. This becomes even more confusing when we try to fit that new thing into the mold made by our past successful experiences.
Not everyone handles this challenge well. Many hide their need to be in control behind the banner of 'staying anchored to the Word of God.' By rejecting those who differ from them, they successfully protect themselves from discomfort, and from the change for which they've been praying."
- Bill Johnson, 'When Heaven Invades Earth'

'He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice...' (John 3:29)
"Why does the 'friend of the bridegroom' wait for the bridegroom's voice? At that time in Jewish culture, the tradition was that the engagement was the most important event - the decision you couldn't retract from... Following that event, the bridegroom went back to his father's house to prepare the place for them to live. The bridegroom left his good friend, the best man, with the bride to make sure that she was kept pure and to help her get ready for marriage... He was the one whom the groom could trust with his most valuable relationship, his bride-to-be. And when he heard the bridegroom's voice again, he knew it was time to deliver the bride to him.
...Jesus said 'In My Father's house are many mansions (dwellings); if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also (John 14:2-3)
In His death and resurrection, Christ made a covenant with the Bride - that's us - betrothing us to Himself for eternity, and then He left the Spirit of truth with us to keep us pure and get us ready for His return. The Holy Spirit is waiting with us in great anticipation for the Groom's voice..."
- Paul Manwaring, 'Walking in the Supernatural'

I refuse to be defined by or confined to the limits of other people's past experiences... I stand firmly in and on the Promise of God, my Father in Heaven ♥

pay attention... God is answering prayer EVERYWHERE! He's in a Good Mood!! ♥ ♥

"I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am." (Phillipians 4:12-13 MSG)
God has made me new - and in Him I am finding myself, the woman He has destined me to be... my heart is dedicated to eternal pursuit of God's Heart and His Presence in every moment! ♥ Thank you Jesus! ♥ 

Lord, I pray to see with Your Eyes... to look past the physical condition - not only of others, but also of myself - and to see with Your clarity the heart condition.. as it is through this kind of sight I can enter into a truth-based relationship, and therefore into a Kingdom reality... In Jesus Name ♥

Help me, Lord, to let go of myself and the limits of this earth and to take ownership of all that I already have in you!

THANK YOU God for not getting frustrated with me!

I've walked thru much punishment... Some was mine, some was not. The enduring of punishment for someone who has hurt me, didn't care for me, used me and threw me away gave me an appreciation and a respect for all that I have and a knowing that most of what I have is not mine. Now I can rest confidently on God. Jesus refreshed my soul, gave me new life, showed me my purpose, gave me the ability to have compassion for my own self and the one(s) who I took punishment for.

He said to him, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands." (Matthew 22:37-40 HCSB)
In The Message, it reads: Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."
Heart, soul, mind... Prayer, passion, intelligence... Love Him with ALL that you are ♥ 

"therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. And OVER ALL THESE VIRTUES PUT ON LOVE, which binds them all together in perfect unity" (Colossians 3:12,14)

I am SO desperately in love with God! ♥ I am compelled to pursue His Heart, His Kingdom, and His Purpose the way He pursued me! ♥

We don't need to battle with the enemy over power and authority... We simply need to remind him that he has none.  Thank You Jesus! ♥

Jesus said, "The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn't you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I'm telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what's right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It's harvest time! (John 4:34, 35 MSG)

 In the midst of the GREATEST Love Affair of ALL time! ♥ ...with God Himself ♥

In Jesus Name,
from God's Will,
in the Spirit,
in agreement,
with authority... Lord to You I pray. ♥ Amen ♥

In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. (Galatians 3:28)

KNOW who you are:
I am qualified through Christ
I am an heir/heiress to His Kingdom
I am pre-destined
I am called
I am justified
I am glorified
I am victorious
...ALL this through Christ Jesus ♥
I am elected by God Himself ♥
Stand on the promise of God, take possession of all He has ALREADY given you, step INTO your purpose - in Jesus Name, move forward in His Spirit and EMBRACE the Kingdom of Heaven ♥

The Lord IS the Reconciler - thru Him, ALL things will be made whole (set right). Nothing can stop the will of God... In the name of Jesus, God, may Your will be done! No weapon formed against me (you - us) shall prosper, By His Word, I declare that nothing can keep me (you - us) from God and all that is mine (ours) from our Father in Heaven, bought by the Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:37-39
37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, [hostile] powers,
39 height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord! !Amen!

"When the Church of Jesus becomes a family instead of a harem, people won't just come to church, they will become the church. It will no longer be a place they go to but a tribe they live in, a people they have responsibility for and a family that nurtures one another in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. They won't change churches just because the worship isn't as good as Joe's Super Church down the street. They will be committed to a family where they hear the voice of their Shepherd in the people who are leading them.
Covenant also means that people belong to a fellowship to be a contributor rather than a consumer. Covenant breaks the back of the pressure that leaders feel to perform because their flock hasn't come to be entertained, but they have come to be led." -Kris Vallotton

I can't be without You here