JANUARY 2013

I trust the Holy Spirit's leading in my life. I trust the relationships He has placed me in. I trust that I will be lovingly corrected when I make a mistake. I trust that He is in control, so I don't have to be. 
My life is simply to live IN RESPONSE to His goodness, His greatness, His grace, and His glory. These are the boundaries He's set for me to reside. Nothing more, nothing less.

God loves me for my sake, but heals me for yours.

Moses didn't strive to live by the Law..he lived in relationship - he lived from his relationship with God.

Only those who know that they're blind are able to have their eyes opened:
God, who is in heaven, Your ways surpass my understanding. So easily, I can make things complicated and feel overwhelmed at all that needs to be done. But You, only You, are fully aware of the discrepancy between heaven and earth. And even so, You're not overwhelmed, You're not stressed or worried. You are God! Ruler of all creation. You have already declared it finished. In the Garden, Your children had no awareness of themselves, only of You. Bring me to a revelation of that place. I look with my natural eyes and realize I'm very blind. Jesus did only what He saw You doing..He SAW You...in all things, every moment of every day, His Eyes were locked on You. And because of His watching You, the world was transformed. God, open my eyes that I might receive the eyesight of Jesus. Teach me how to watch You, to keep looking for You. Not sometimes, not just in church or in prayer, not just when I feel I need to 'do something righteous'... Change me, make me the lover, the worshipper You've called me to be. Father, I know I am blind but I look to You anyway. My face is in Your hands, my heart desperate for Yours.

Daddy God, I repent of the "I need to pay me dues" mentality. It implies that I've earned what I have, whether its a little or a lot. It also gives me a sense of entitlement when I look at others because I have lived in response to comparing myself with others.
Hear my heart's cry, O God! All that I have, both spiritually and in the natural is all by Your grace. I humbly receive the inheritance You've given me in Christ. I honor the price that has been paid by those that have gone before me, which allows me the freedom to know You and celebrate You. I reject the arrogance that I must too pay that same price. Who am I, that I consider myself worthy to suffer for Your sake. Papa, fill me with Your Heart, Your Spirit. Take me up into the encounter that others have endured for. I am fully Yours and I'm here to worship, celebrate with You, that I'm home. All this, here on earth, is Yours. Have Your way, O Mighty God. Create in me a pure heart that longs to get lower still.

There's not one situation out there, in life, that is without promise. EVERY situation carries a promise...because God. He's too good of a Steward to lead you to a land (situation) that doesn't carry potential Victory.

*I speak love and light into the world. I say devotion to Your people as we are taught by You, Holy Spirit, to worship You, O God, with all our life and our whole being.
*I claim Your rest in our hearts Lord. We will not be deceived into doing things You are not asking us to do.
*I claim provision, in Jesus Name, for the place and assignment You called us into at this time, both individually and corporately.
*I claim Your joy and I refuse for myself and for my church to be distracted by lies of discontentment or depression. I reject and refuse fear, in Jesus Name, as we are called to LOVE and love casts out fear.
*I claim Your peace as it cannot be stolen from us... only we are able to give it away, by personal choice, giving consent to confusion... We have been given the spirit of a sound mind.
*I surrender our eyes and ears to You, O God, as You have said You will never leave us or forsake us. We KNOW we can hear You and we can SEE You. I pray that the perception of our minds may be enlightened so that we may know the HOPE of Your calling, comprehend Your inheritance to us, and glimps the GREATNESS of Your power. I refuse doubt, in Jesus Name, for by faith we are able to see and know the mysteries revealed.
*I submit the Blood Covenant on the Cross as FINAL authority against ALL earthly issues and declare RELEASE from Heaven.
*I release our prayers to You... God, what is it YOU want us to pray for?

"I want you to know that you can fully rely on the things you have been taught about Jesus, God's Anointed One." (Luke 1:4, the Voice)

God, Your very breath and blood flow through me, nourishing me so that I may grow up healthy in God, robust in love. (Ephesians 4:16)

Just because I "feel" a certain way does not mean that's the Truth.
In the same way, tangible circumstances also do not reflect God-reality. 

God, deliver me from justification! Show me the ways I deceive myself and others. Bring me into loving, CARING, intimate relationships...first with YOU Jesus, and then with your people. I simply am DONE trying to be YOU in my life. You be You in me, around me, and reign over me. Restore me as Your heart desires, in Your timing, with whatever method You choose. I trust You. Amen.

God, teach me how to breathe so I can inhale You! I have been suffocating myself on superficial things, gasping for air, trying to find something that will take away this deadness I feel deep inside. But it's You! Jesus, it's You! You're the Bread I'm hungry for. Your Living Water quenches my desperate thirst. Your Spirit is the air I was made to breathe. Teach me to breath, God...teach me to breath.

I will stop seeking my own accomplishments, but rather keep my eyes on Yours.

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances...I pray the depths of your heart be eclipsed by the weight of His glory!

I am SIGNIFICANT in Jesus. Regardless of what I hear, regardless of how I feel, regardless of the thoughts dropped in my head. I am significant through Christ. There is no reason to feel insecure about ANY relationship - I cannot be rejected. I will not be denied. I am ALREADY protected, by my Father. I am called INTO relationships. It doesn't matter if others don't have my best interest in mind because God does. I am ALREADY accepted in heaven... I cannot be rejected, so there's NO reason to reject others. I trust the leadership God has placed in my life. I know as much as I "think" I do... and that's OK! God's opinion is the ONLY opinion that matters. I have ALREADY been recognized in heaven... I don't need to be recognized here on earth. ALL that I am lies in Who He is.

Service is a lifestyle.

It's ok for me to be human because You - alone - are God.

The church (the body of Christ) will display the wisdom of God (actively observed by the principalities and powers in the heavens) only TO THE DEGREE that the church is spiritually UNITED.

When I go to work, I minister to and serve BY doing a good job. Simply doing my job WELL, with the heart of Christ by the grace of His Spirit, puts me in divine position to participate in accomplishing the will of my Father. This is the heart of service.

Faith is SOLID trust in Jesus, resulting in an outpouring of love!

It is not up to me to accomplish God's will...it's up to Him. My role is to live in response to His faithfulness.
#purified

DECEMBER 2012

Daddy God, You are bigger than anyTHING. You reign forever more. My heart sings with thanks and praise as Your promise and Your truth resound in my ears. You've called me Your little girl... and I know You are raising me as only a Father can. You teach me how to ride my bike and You help me get a little stronger every day. You whisper "I've got you" in my ear when You take off my training wheels a...nd You run beside me, holding the back of my bike so I don't fall and get discouraged. You tell me "I know you can" when I start to ride on my own. ...and at the end of every day You wrap me in Your arms and tell me how much You love me...and that someday, You'll teach me how to drive... and after that how to fly. You are my Dad, and I love You as only a little girl does. ...and I ride my little bike with confidence because I know my Dad is watching me, protecting me from things I haven't yet learned to handle. You have been, are now, and always will be my Daddy... and I love you so , so much!
"Do not fear, for I AM with you. Do not be afraid, for I AM your God. I will stregnthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with My righteous hand." (Isaiah 41:10)

 

God, I pray no distractions. None. I just want You, unobstructed. Please God, I pray... do whatever it takes to remove anything that interferes with my being able to see the fullness of Your glory! I just can't be satisfied with anything less than all of You. Peel back my layers, reveal the secrets that are buried in me. Make me into the servant You've called me to be. Open my eyes that I see the one You want to touch, make me Your vessel. Holy Spirit, I want to be Your resting place. Jesus, I am Your dwelling place - I am Your home...do with me what pleases You. I hunger for Your fullness, God. I suffocate outside of Your Presence. Take me. Bring me. Make me. Have Your way, O God!

 

Father God, Your love reaches far beyond even what we think it should. Those we condem, You call righteous, because when You look into each of our hearts, You look THROUGH the Blood of Your Son. And if believe that You are good...if we believe we are saved by Your grace, then we would stop worrying about how we are doing and start caring for those who don't yet know You! God, I pray for every man ...who has ever purchased a girl for sex. I pray for every set of eyes that has ever viewed pornography. I pray for Your supernatural healing that is far greater than any image or experience with things of this world. I pray for the loneliness, the anger, the insignificance to be replaced with joy, peace, and a sound mind - that each one of these men would know that they matter to You; that You include them in Your adoption. God, I pray for everyone who is searching for a savior, that they find the One You sent.
...and God, I pray for the rest of us, who look down on these men...these sons of Yours...and I pray that WE become so pliable to Your heart that when You say go, our first response is to move - not talk back, not justify why not, but we just go, in the risk-taking faith You've called us to. We don't chose who gets to hear the gospel, we become the gospel for ALL the world to hear! Holy Spirit, touch EVERY heart right now who sees this. Every person who has a Hope, or hopes for a Hope, be touched, in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

Following Jesus as my teacher, I realize I must become like those I serve (have the same pressures, trials and sufferings, and experience) in order for my compassion to be genuine, to show mercy and grace, that I am able to intercede (stand in the gap) for them helping them where they are. I can't help (or serve) from a 'safe' place... I must share in their life - to be adequate and equipped.
 "For since He Himself was tested and has suffered, He is able to help those who are tested." Hebrews 2:18
 I will not complain, out loud or in my heart, for not my will but Your will be done.

 

God, I pray Your peace fall like the snow and blanket the earth and for a fresh anointing with oil of joy and gladness to saturate every heart. Amen

 

We are a restored people, in Jesus name.

 

I'm so grateful God doesn't leave us the way He finds us...

 

...His flesh is the curtain that was torn... (Hebrews 10:20)

 

God devises ways so that a banished person does not remain estranged from Him.
2 Samuel 14:14

 

Honor is acknowledging that God's way (in all things will all people) is superior than my way - submitting to that reality - to allow Christ's life and love to manifest in me and spill through me, causing an exchange that is void of control, fear, or pride - consumed by the glory of God, exercised purely by faith.

 

Worship is the weapon of warfare. 

The key to worship is to receive His forgiveness, that which is freely given.
It is pride that continues to hold us to our past. Pride, which insists either on praise or punishment. Pride, which perverts our eyesight, preventing us from seeing with unveiled eyes, the fullness of His glory - the new creation we are in Him.

We can't be two things at once. We are either a sinner or a saint. You are... fully one or the other - but not both.

When God looks at you, He looks THROUGH the Body of His Son; through the Blood, it impossible to see you as you were. He can only see you perfected: through the blood of the Lamb, through the body of the Mediator - your Advocate stands firmly between you and your past.
We are here to learn to receive the fullness of His grace.