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