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.