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Jesus is willing, are you ready????

The world holds the Christian Community back in so many ways when it comes to faith.  I challenge Christians all over including myself, to start doing one very specific thing differently this year:  There are some ways in which Jesus wants us to live concerning our faith, that the world cannot receive and that the world would call laziness, complacency, irresponsible, weak. The world believes you have to work hard to get certain things, but the bible says that Jesus did the hard work for us and we just need to rest in that.  The flesh likes hard work, because it gives the flesh something to glory in.  Accomplishment through hard work feeds our pride.  Accomplishment through the finished work of Christ feeds our faith.  I challenge us as a Christian Community to start speaking in the name of Jesus to our sickness, injury, abuse, lust, addiction, laziness, chaos, bills, finances, bank accounts, spirits.  I'm not saying don't do anything.  I'm saying speak before you do, allow

Faith coaching........

I believe what happened leading up to the birth of Jesus, still begs further consideration in the wake of the New Year.  I don't know about you, but there are some areas in my life where I really desire change, where I really want to see things fall in order.  I'm going to call out some of those things right now: 1. I want more energy and drive to get things done on a daily basis 2. I want to be able to do more constructive things during the day with my daughter 3.  I want to be able to organize my mind and my thoughts concerning what I need to get done on a daily basis 4.  I want to see order being established in my home by the Holy Spirit 5,  I want to see laundry done, beds made.......... 6.  I want to stop being guilt driven 7.  I want fruitless areas of my life to disappear and be cast into the sea.  That's it right there! I WANT FRUITLESS AREAS OF MY LIFE TO DISAPPEAR AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA!!!!! Matthew 17:20 New King James Version (NKJV) 20 So Jes

A Nativity Twist

As Christmas approached this year, everybody was talking about Jesus's birth and the nativity.  It's customary during this time of the year for preachers to speak on these particular scriptures in the bible.  I have to confess, I said to myself, preaching on the Nativity Story again, but  God always manages to breathe life into the nativity story for me afresh every year.  This year wasn't any different.  Just as I was about to think that I couldn't possibly glean any other wisdom from this story, God breathed life into it afresh once again for me. Matthew 1 Matthew 1:18-21 New King James Version (NKJV) Christ Born of Mary 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. 20 But while he thought about these thing

Children

Children are on my mind today.  I'm thinking about how society's views of children have changed over the years.  In today's society children are treated as burdens or inconveniences.  Children have been considered additional expenses in the pool of bills swimming around our homes.  There are parents that take every and any opportunity to drop their kid off somewhere for somebody else to take care of them.  I know that's not everybody and maybe not even most, but their are enough people that think this way to have a small influence over the rest of us that may not really feel this way.  I'm even taking a long look at myself and my own mindset towards our children.  I love our children, and they are a blessing in my eyes.  Having them around me and watching them grow; keeping them safe.......well it brings tremendous comfort to me.  But I believe there is a small part of me that is influenced by the part of society that says "children are a burden".  Things

What are you really made of? Only God knows..

Psalm 139:13 - For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb Isaiah 29:16 - Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made i t, “He did not make me”? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed i t, “He has no understanding”? Isaiah 37:26 - “Did you not hear long ago How I made i t, From ancient times that I formed i t? Now I have brought i t to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities i nto heaps of ruins. Isaiah 43:1 - [ The Redeemer of I srael ] But now, thus says the LORD, who created you , O Jacob, And He who formed you , O I srael: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you ; I have called you by you r name; You are Mine. Isaiah 44:2 - Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you : ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant; And you , Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. Isaiah 44:21 - “Remember these, O Jacob, And I srael, fo

Building Testimony Part 2

When God gives you a new revelation about Him, run with it!!!  A revelation is a certain truth that God has opened your heart up to, in order for you to receive it by faith.  God works in you.  Revelations are specific to a certain truth and a certain individual that God wants to reveal that truth at that specific time.  That is why you can be reading the bible, the same versus as someone else and you can totally catch a glimpse of something that nobody else around you can see or receive at that present time.  It's because God has chosen to show it to you specifically, Halellujah!  That's why it's so important for you to run with it whenever that happens.  Take the revelation as far as God will allow you to go with it.  This is a part of building testimony in the Lord Back to the topic of healing.  In my last post I talked about the definition of the word stripes in Isaiah 53.  Originally I said that we are healed because Jesus joined himself together with our hurts, brui

It's all real!

I'm so excited today!  I'm excited because the Lord is real.  His promises are real and His love is real.  Everything in the bible points to Jesus.  Jesus is the ultimate expression of God's love.  Halellujah!  I'm excited about Jesus today.  I'm excited because healing in the name of Jesus is real, peace in the name of Jesus is real, comfort in the name of Jesus is real, success and prospering in the name of Jesus is real.  He is real!  All His benefits are real.  I think today I want to talk about supernatural health and healing.  I believe that I walk in supernatural health and I believe my children come under the covering of supernatural health as well.  I define supernatural health as relying totally on Jesus Christ for my daily health and the health of my kids.  That means that God has given me some revelation on daily things I do and take to stay healthy.  That means that when something is wrong with my kids, God gives me answers on what steps to take to get

The ark

I just want to praise God for the ark.  I want to praise God for the ark that He used to save Noah, I want to praise God for the ark that He used with the Isrealites in the wilderness and I want to thank God for the ark He has used with us.  I believe Jesus is our ark.  You know there are many people out there that think God is out to punish them rather than save them.  There are people out there who see an angry God and not a loving and forgiving God.  But God does not desire to punish, He desires to save us.  There had to be a punishment for sin, because God is righteous.  But instead of pouring our His wrath on us, which He did not want to do, He sent His beloved son Jesus to receive the wrath in our place.  This is how much God did not want to punish us for our sins.  He did not want to pour His wrath out on us, but it had to be poured out, so Jesus took it.  So how can you refuse such an awesome gift of salvation.  We all need and want God, He is our creator and we yearn for Him. 

God's first priority??

I am extremely excited about taking this blog in a different direction and stregthening our faith throu physical evidence of spiritual things.  All around us is physical evidence of what God speaks about in his Word.  There is historical evidence of events that took place in the bible.  Studying these things is a very important aspect of building our faith. I'm going to talk a little about Exodus 25.  It is the chapter that contains God's instructions o n the building of the tabernacle.  *The first piece of furniture that was made for the sanctuary was the ark of the testimony. Exodus 25:10 10 “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. The first thing that stands out to me is that the testimony would be placed in an ark.  Arks have redemptive implications in the bible.  When God wanted to save Noah, he had them build an ark.  Concerning the sanctuary.  God said

Building testimony

Building testimony after testimony with God is the most important thing.  True testimony is built on the the Word of God.  In my previous post, I mention how God had set me free in an area of my life that I had been struggling with for the 5 years that I had been married to my husband.  You can read it if you haven't already by visiting Get the Spirit not the Works.   Basically God freed me from the condemnation and hopelessness I was experiencing when it came to trying to be like the woman described in Proverbs 31.  He basically told me to stop focusing on the works and get the spirit.  There was a spirit acting through this woman and the spirit supplied the works.  This spirit is the "spirit of wisdom".  Wisdom is a spirit and is referred to in the bible as a "she".  So I started to look at the Proverbs 31 woman through a different set of eyes.  Now as I approach being a wife and mother and I think about the example in Proverbs 31, instead of focusing on her &

Your Testimony will set you free and others

Yesterday it was brought to my attention how powerful testimony is.  It's amazing because you could have been struggling with something your whole life and all you need is a word from the Lord.  God can speak one word and set you completely free of a stronghold in your life.  I'm reminded of a story from the bible. Matthew 8:5 5 Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, 6 saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” 7 And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it. ” 10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to

Get the "spirit" not the "works" (updated)

I am glad to be back on my blog!  It's been a couple days, but God has taken that time to reaffirm certain things in me.  I am glad to keep breathing life onto the vision that God has given me for my family and home.  Halellujah!  Never be presumptious about how God would choose to package something.  God has deposited so much inside of me since I got saved more than 10 years ago.  He is still pouring such an abundance into me.  Praise God for His inexhaustible supply.  It makes me think of nursing my baby.   My son loves it when the milk comes out in so much quantity that he has to put less work into getting it.  But  when it is not coming out like that and he has to work a little harder to get it,  it upsets him and he cries.  But let me tell you, it's when he has to work harder to get it, that the body responds and continues producing milk in the abundance you need for your child.  Sometimes it's like that with God.  We love it when He is pouring so much in us at one tim

Wisdom supplies!

Lord God, I pray today that my words be pleasing to you Lord.  Lord I pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation.  I pray for favor today Lord God.  Lord God I thank You for the Spirit of adoption that I have received by whom I cry out Abba Father.  I pray for this spirit of adoption to become more evident in my life so that everybody knows you are my daddy!  I pray that I come to you as a little child comes to their parents in whom they place complete trust to give them everything they need and everything they want.  I want to walk with you from that posture Lord God and I know the Holy Spirit will do it.  In Jesus Name I pray. There are many different spirits talked about in the bible and we should take heed to them.  Especially in our prayer lifes.  The bible says that wisdom comes from a spirit.  Ephesians 1 refers to it as the spirit of wisdom and revelation.  Proverbs 4:7 says "Wisdom is the principle thing".  Then it goes on to say "And in all your getting, ge

The law doeth but faith speaketh

Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God.   People are scared to walk in faith, because they are scared nothing will happen.  As long as we are alive there will be some area of life where there is a trial or challenge.  Zero in on those areas and build up your faith in those areas, by listening to messages from the annointed preaches in your problem area.  See I've always wondered why different preaches seem to have a focus in different areas.  You'll find one preacher might preach about holiness all the time, while another might preach about grace all the time,  then you find preachers that talk about prophecy all the time.  Now, I know why.  These Christian leaders were put in place to deal with the diversity of challenges we come up against in our daily lives.  We need to hear the Word of God to be built up.  Reading the bible is not enough Romans 10 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” [ g ] 14 How then shall they call on H

Going deeper in God's word

This blog is really a faith walk for me.  I really don't know what I'm going to say until I start typing.  This blog really feeds me and I pray that it feeds others as well.  There have been a couple scriptures that have really been blessing me this past week.  Some things I've been meditating on. 1 John 4:17 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment ; because as He is, so are we in this world. As I read this scripture, the thing that stood to me was "that we may have boldness in the day of judgement".  Many times as I study the Word of God, certain statements within a scripture jump out at me and resonate on my spirit.  As I meditated on this statement I realized having boldness wasn't something I had yet to do, but rather something that had already been done.  The word "have" in this statement does not come off to mean something we have to do, but rather something that has been given to

Arise to the grace of God

The way God thinks and works is many times the exact opposite of the world.  The enemy wants to get us operating as far as possible from God's grace.  God is our creater.  He is our designer.  He is our engineer.  He knows how to pull our heart strings.  He and only He knows how to heal us in order to be able to walk in all the great things He has planned for us.  Do you know it is "forgiveness" that frees us from sin and not "punishment".  I'll say that again.  Do you know it is "forgiveness" that frees us from sin and not "punishment".  Do you know that it's "love" that moves us into doing the will of God and not "determination". It's not our love for God, but rather His love for us.  Are we able to fully receive His love, His forgiveness, and His grace today, so that we can walk in His will and purpose for our lives. Determination is not going to get the job done, your own will is not strong enough, and no g

from striving to rest

I have a big birthday party going on tomorrow with about 30 people coming.  My house is not in shape for it, I haven't bought the ingredients for the dishes I'm making yet, but I'm relaxed.  You know why?  Because I crossed over yesterday.  If you have been reading my posts, you know that yesterday I spoke about the spirit of Striving.  I spoke about resting in the Lord, and I spoke about needing to be in a posture of rest to find grace.  I have been back and forth with this for years.  Always going back and forth between "striving" and "rest".  But something tells me I have reached a time in my life where I have to lean on grace and I can't go back to striving.  I just sense something telling me that at this point I don't have a choice.  Everything that I want to has to be comctedpletely reliant on God's grace provision. Hallelujah!  Onward and upward I go. It is my believe that this blog is only scratching the surface of what God wants to

Grace

You know, God brings us messages for a reason.  When the same type of message from scripture continues to get placed in front of you, you need to stop and ask the question "God are you trying to tell me something?".  If it keeps coming up you need to let whatever truth that God keeps placing in front of you seap very deep into your soul.  It needs to saturate you.  For years God has been speaking to me about Mary and Martha; and my being troubled about many things.  For years God has been telling me to lean on His grace on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for my work.  For years He has told me not to strive.  This is the first time, that I stopped and said "Hmm, God must really want me to get this".  I've come to the realization that this truth needs to saturate me and I look forward to it.  I feel like I've been going back and forth with it over the years, as if it is not for every situation in my life.  But it is! Grace, grace, grace.  We are saved by

Refreshing comes from the Lord

Hebrews 13:5 says that the Lord said that He will never leave us nor forsake us.  Jesus will not abandon us to the woes we experience in this world.  Do we believe that today, sometimes we feel tired, alone, without hope.  But this is not true, though we may experience trouble today, God will not leave us in that trouble.  Though we are exhausted today, God will not leave you  in that exhaustion.  God will not leave us in any trial, He will not leave us in any tribulation, He will not leave us in depression, He will not leave us in sickness.  He will not leave us in despair.  He will not leave us in any pit that any circumstance has created for us.  He will not leave us in our current state at all.  His word says it is He who works in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure and He, Who began a good work in us is faithful to complete it until the day of Christ.  Hallelujah!  HE WILL NOT LEAVE US where we are today people.  Weeping may endure for a night but SURELY joy cometh in

Small things

God's word is so good!  Thank you Lord for your Word.  Your word that is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of bone and marrow.  Lord your word is so good.  Lord you watch over your word to perform it.  Oh Lord Your word never returns unto you void, Hallelujah but it accomplishes what pleases you and it prospers in the the for which you sent it.  Hallelujah, Hallelujah!  I pray that prayer today Lord, watch over your word and perform it in my life today Lord.  Speak a word Lord and perform it Lord.  In Jesus name.  I love you Lord and I praise you Lord and I thank you for saving me and bringing me to this day in which I sit Lord God.  Thank you for this day.  I shall rejoice and be glad in it.  Have your way O Lord, have your way O Lord.  Wisdom and favor over this blog O Lord. God says in the book of Zechariah "Who despises the day of small things". I know we serve a big God.  I know we should not box Him in.  I know tha