His voice is so pure, if you wonder why some folks cry when in worship. It is not like anything you will ever experience. It soothes deeper than grandma's, gives more wisdom than daddy's...I am talking about this voice that I hear when I don't ask for an audience with Him but decides to heighten my awareness of His presence by simply speaking...
I find something so amazingly beautiful when He speaks, when you have not initiated the conversation. It is the reminder, the evidence that you are on His mind. That He is aware, observing what it is that you need the most and responding simply because He cares, simply because He loves you. It is a wooing greater than any lover! And though He speak to and through me...it is moments like these that knock me off my feet...when He speaks.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
A Good Soldier
II Timothy 2:3- "Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus."
Transparent Moment: This season of my life has been so challenging. I have incurred loss and disappointments beyond measure. Yet...every time I feel like it is too much, every time my heart rehearses the hurt the Holy Ghost finds a way to speak peace, reaffirm joy and encourages me to stand.
Don't get me wrong, I know suffering. I was not born rich or perfect. I know what it means to suffer because of bad judgment, poor decisions, lack of discipline, you name it...But there is something about suffering when have done all you can to be "right". To live right, to love right to give RIGHT! It is a different kind of cross to bear. And human nature wants some form of vindication, satisfaction some relief because it is painful! And it causes you to die! Die to your will and the demands of your carnal nature to "GET OUT" of the press. I know I haven't made it this far in my own strength or my own merit I know that it is the Lord who has strengthened me and encourages me to continue to stand.
So, this is just a word, to encourage, and to remind you that if you "having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness…" - Ephesians 6:13-14 (KJV)
Transparent Moment: This season of my life has been so challenging. I have incurred loss and disappointments beyond measure. Yet...every time I feel like it is too much, every time my heart rehearses the hurt the Holy Ghost finds a way to speak peace, reaffirm joy and encourages me to stand.
Don't get me wrong, I know suffering. I was not born rich or perfect. I know what it means to suffer because of bad judgment, poor decisions, lack of discipline, you name it...But there is something about suffering when have done all you can to be "right". To live right, to love right to give RIGHT! It is a different kind of cross to bear. And human nature wants some form of vindication, satisfaction some relief because it is painful! And it causes you to die! Die to your will and the demands of your carnal nature to "GET OUT" of the press. I know I haven't made it this far in my own strength or my own merit I know that it is the Lord who has strengthened me and encourages me to continue to stand.
So, this is just a word, to encourage, and to remind you that if you "having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness…" - Ephesians 6:13-14 (KJV)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Go Ye Therefore
Today’s devotional from Oswald Chambers’ Daily Thought for Disciples caused me to really analyze what our strong holds as believers really are. He makes a valid statement by pointing out our greatest struggles are not those things we can easily identify and accept as sin, but it is with but the good and noble from a “natural” standpoint that wages the greatest war within…
He didn’t use these scriptures as his focal point, but this scripture is what comes to mind…
I Corinthians 10:23
23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others”
A point of conviction for me yesterday was the fact we can not call ourselves Christians and see the trouble in the world and not act. The current state of society should compel us to reach out to the lost. Now I get that salvation is not based on works BUT I think that greatest sin of the believer is his own complacency; that we are neither hot nor cold. We are so in love with our selves, impressed with our own spiritual prose so much that we miss that there is someone who is lost, whose life is broken and don’t have a clue on how to get right! And we hold the keys to their liberty but we are too stuck gazing at the wonder we have become that we miss their need…
Do Better & Be Blessed! *SMILE*
Matthew 28:18-20 "Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,b baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
He didn’t use these scriptures as his focal point, but this scripture is what comes to mind…
I Corinthians 10:23
23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others”
A point of conviction for me yesterday was the fact we can not call ourselves Christians and see the trouble in the world and not act. The current state of society should compel us to reach out to the lost. Now I get that salvation is not based on works BUT I think that greatest sin of the believer is his own complacency; that we are neither hot nor cold. We are so in love with our selves, impressed with our own spiritual prose so much that we miss that there is someone who is lost, whose life is broken and don’t have a clue on how to get right! And we hold the keys to their liberty but we are too stuck gazing at the wonder we have become that we miss their need…
Do Better & Be Blessed! *SMILE*
Matthew 28:18-20 "Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,b baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
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