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Exposed!

As I move forward in what the Lord has called me to do, I realize that I need to be exposed.  Meaning people have to see sides of me that they are not use to seeing.  Sometimes, we hide certains aspects of ourselves because we care about what people think of us.  God does not want me to care what people think of me, He wants me to care what He thinks of me.  If I spend time and energy trying to cater to people, then they are not going to get the blessing that God would deliver through me.  Because, see I'm trying to give people what I think they want, but God wants to give people what they need.  Lemme say this again "when you are basing your actions on what people are going to think of you, God is not able to use you to give them what they need".  Lemme say this again, "When you are trying to please people instead of God, you are robbing the people around you of what they need through you".  People need to see you exposed in order to be blessed by you.  It is i

A fresh word!!! (revised)

I have to write in this blog, when I don't it's like I've missed my fresh revelation of God to carry through my day.  It's fresh manna for me from heaven, it's my food for the day.  I'm late coming on today and boy have a suffered as a result.  I am so drained.  It's never too late with God, so here goes.  Holy Spirit have your way!  The enemy will use things and people to keep you from getting a fresh revelation of God everyday.  He will cause you to think you can meditate on what you have, you don't need anything fresh.  However, in the book of Exodus when the Isrealites were in the wilderness (thank you Jesus) ......When they were in the wilderness, God fed them with fresh manna from heaven.  First of all "manna from heaven".  Wow!  I would love to have anything that comes from heaven.  Joseph Prince said that he believes God wants us to have a touch of heaven on everything we do.  So every morning there would be manna from heaven waiting fo

Don't look back

Rest from dead works, rest from striving, rest from trying to figure out the answers yourself.  The scripture that comes to me is Genesis 19:26.  God saved Lot and his family from the fire and brimstone that destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Lord told Lot and his familly not to look back as they were escorted out of the cities.  However, Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.  That's pretty intense.  There comes a time in our lives where God is trying to take us in a certain direction and we need not look back.  Don't look back at the former things, don't look back at former works, don't look back at former solutions.  Behold God is doing something new, when we are looking back we cannot move forward.  "We cannot move forward, while we are looking back".  We cannot move forward into a new annointing, a new blessing, a new ministry, etc.  While we are looking back, we cannot move forward in new relationships.  If you continue

Go where God leads!

My husband and I have a beautiful 4 year old daughter and a 4 month old son.  My daughter will be 5 in November.  My daughter and I have gotten to spend alot of time together and do so many fun things together over the years.  Since our son has come along our relationship has changed a bit, as it should.  She have a little more responsibility.  On top of that she is at the age where she is held alot more accountable for her behavior.  I feel like our relationship has hit this place where it's out of balence.  God has put it on my heart that my daughter needs to see me serving outside of our home.   He has also laid it on my heart that we are not gonna get the right balence back in our relationship until I do it.  At this point, a healthy relationship with my daughter is completely reliant upon, my taking her with me to serve.  Hallelujah!  I'm so glad that God is guarding my relationship with my daughter, it is so precious to me.  In my blog posts lately, I have been on the t

Dead only for a time

Had to do another post today.  I normally only do 1 a day but this is just on my spirit.  Your faith works will activate God's annointing in your life.  "Your works done from faith will activate God's annointing in your life".  You gotta do it to live in His annointing.  Remember when you die and are raised up again as a believer your works will pass through fire and any dead works will burn up, but the works that are done in faith will come through the fire.  ONLY Those works that come through the fire will be rewarded.  Remember you are already saved, you already have eternal life.  However, although your sin is not remembered are recorded.  You works done from faith will be remembered and rewarded.  The last thing is this: Your dead works will not stay dead if you start moving in faith in some other areas of your life.  "Your dead works will not stay dead if you start moving in faith in some other areas of your life". Ezekiel 37:1-14 New King Jame

"Faith works" vs "Dead works"

The following scripture has been brought to my attention twice since yesterday: James 2:20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead. I paused on this scripture because I have heard it taught in many different ways.  I don't know if I have always heard it, in it's proper context.  Because today it meant something different to me then it ever has.  Maybe it's just where I'm at in my life right now.  I have not prayed for this yet but something has been on my heart lately;  I have come across some "only God could of showed you that" teaching lately.  It's not necessarily something I come across often in the body of Christ, even though I should.  That is the teaching with the greatest power in my life.  Education is great but revelation is even better.  I have found it on my heart that I need God to show me some things that only He can show me.  I have found myself in the same position that I found myself in right before I

Foundational Testimonies

I don't know if you have ever noticed that there are some preachers and it seems that they always preach about the same thing.  There is a reason for that.  That one thing is usually based on a foundational principle that God gave them to live their entire life by.  It's the testimony God gave them...................and yes your whole life can be based on 1 key testimony given to you by God.  One pastor I had use to preach about "Holiness" all the time, to the point where even his wife would ask him "Are you going to preach about Holiness again?"  But it's what God gave him to preach about.  Joseph Prince preaches about "Grace" alot.  That's what God gave him.  Even those of us who are not bonafide preachers, have something as believers that God has given us to share with the world.  Some conviction that came in the form of a testimony.   Mine has to do with "motives".  I guess it's based alot on the scripture whatever is not

Liberating not limiting

There are many scriptures in the bible that I have looked at as limiting but now, I'm seeing them in a whole new light.  I'm realizing that God meant these scriptures to be liberating not limiting.  As I was getting troubled about all the things I wanted to get done at my home, God said "Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about its own things.  Sufficient for the day is it's own trouble" (Matthew 6:34).  There was a time where I took this scripture to mean "You have enough troubles for today, don't take on tomorrows troubles too".  It was really kind of a gloomy scripture to me.  But today I realize that Jesus is telling me I don't put more on you then you can bear, my yoke is easy and my burden is light and I want you to learn that, so don't take on unnecessary troubles, don't take on challenges that were meant for another day.  The challenges of today are all I want you to deal with, this is so you can have all the thin

What Christ Did!

Last night I went to bed meditating on Joseph's Prince devotional.  He was speaking about how when Jesus was on the cross, was the first time he referred to "God" as "God" instead of Father.  The scripture was Matthew 27:46 (My God, My God why have You forsaken me).  The devotional talked about how God had to turn his back on Jesus because His eyes could not behold the sin that He took on for us.  Remember Him who knew no sin, became sin.  Jesus had to become something that would cause His own Father to turn His back, so that God's face could shine on us.  Can you imagine? The pain not only physically but emotionally.  He was alone, for us.  But at the same time, God was pleased with Him because of how He loved, but He couldn't embrace Him in that moment on the cross and say "Son, I am so pleased with you".  At a time when any human being would need it most,  God had to turn His face because Him being Holy could not behold the sin that Jesus to

Seasonal Blessings

Last night was rough because it was the first night that I had Carson in his crib all night.  He is 4 months old.  He was waking up alot, needing to be soothed.  Prior to last night, Carson would maybe spend part of the night in his crib then part of the night sleeping on our huge ultra-comfortable sectional sofa downstairs with myself or my husband.  I knew that we would not be able to do this but for so long, but I also knew that I would know when it was time to go with the crib for the whole night.  I am one of those people, whereas I don't want to loose sleep if I don't have to.  Well, the time came.  The night before last I realized that the sleep I was getting in our prior sleeping arrangement was diminishing and Carson needed to get use to being in his crib.  So we did it and he did rather well, but it was the first night so I was up about 3 times in the middle of the night before he slept on thru.  But I know it was God's timing to put him in the crib because even t

Don't be afraid of ministry

Don't be afraid of ministry. Don't be afraid of your desires. Don't be afraid of your design. This is for the women!  We care deeply for our families, protective even.  But God cares even more deeply and He will protect them.  This is from God, "You can't protect them".  Pray for God's protection.  I'm going to say it again "You can't protect them". Pray for God's protection.  Lets disarm the flesh right now in the name of Jesus.  If you have been holding off and saying "no" to ministry, your desires, and your design to try to protect your family, I want to tell you right now "You can't protect your famil, only God can".  I say this to women because we put so much of ourselves aside for our families, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing.  But I am saying sometimes we do it for the wrong reasons.  I am a big advocated of putting family before ministry.  However, it is getting more weighty on my hear

When ministry invades

If you are like me, there are some things you have been praying to take place in your life.   My question to you is, what are you going to do when those things start to come to pass.  Do you think it's going to be convenient when God actually starts answering the desires of your heart?  Do you think your going to be able to tell God "I want that, but not yet"?   Trust me on this, when God starts answering your prayers, it will not be at a convenient time or season in your life.  Lemme say this one again, "it will not be in a convenient season in your life".  You know how people say "Watch what you pray for".  Well,  there are some things I noticed about how God has designed me and what that means for my purpose in my home and outside my home.  Based on that I have been praying for a long time about how I would like to see my life unfold.  These prayers have been based on God's revealed purpose for my life.  I have desparately wanted some things in

Rewarding yourself

This is off the beaten path of what I've been posting lately, but it's on my mind.  This is definitely for women.  most of the women I know work ver hard.  Whether they are at home or working outside of the home.  One of the areas of home that I struggle with the most is getting the household chores done that need to be done on a daily basis. Keeping the kitchen clean, doing laundry, decorating, and projects that desparately need to be done.  There is a program that I've done before but couldn't' keep up with, called "Flying".  It is the FLY lady program.  FLY stands for Finally Loving Yourself.  This lady teaches women how to get your home under control.  One of the 2 most important componants of the program is rewarding yourself.  I never felt that part was very important so I didn't take it seriously, but now I realize how important it is.  But I realize she is trying show us how important it is to maintain balence in our lives.  The rewarding helps

Miracles on my mind.

Why did Jesus perform miracles?  It seemed to be a major instrument in His ministry.  That gives me chills.  I would define miracles as something no man could ever do.  Like no man could ever feed thousands of people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish; and have leftovers.  No man could ever turn water into wine.  No man could take a blind man and make him see.  Jesus did countless other miracles.  I just have to ask "Why Jesus, what did you want us to take from the working of miracles?"  Miracles are amazing and exciting but there is something else, I know it is.  What does the performing of miracles do for our faith.  I have miracles on my mind and I want to pray for some miracles for people this week.  I wanna do this not because I need some excitement in my life but I wanna know and see how miracles bring glory to God.  I wanna know How God desires to use miracles in the lives of believers today.  I want to learn something new about God in this area, about Who He is and wha

Look at the cross and LIVE!

My heart is so full today.  My heart is full with the love of God and the awesome power of the cross.  Praise God!  I'm just so thankful that I wake up to a God who wants me just as I am.  A God who appreciates who I am in a way that nobody else can, because He made me for Himself.  He did not make me for anybody else, not my mother, not my father, not my husband, not my children.  No, God made me for Himself.  I belong to Him.  He is the one Who takes care of me.  He made me to need Him.  There is a place on the inside of every human being that longs for God.  He put that place there on the inside of us.  This is the place where our true identity dwells.  He did that because He is jealous for us and wants us to always be His.  In the Book of Isaiah God says "Everyone who is called by my name Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him".  Hallelujah! I was created for the glory of God and He has made it very clear that He has created me, He h

START WITH GOD

This morning I was ready to start doing invoices which I have fallen a great deal behind on, when I hear God say "Start the day with me".  I say "I really need to do the invoices, remember I started the day with You when I listened to the scriptures on that t.v. show this morning".  I still hear God say "Start the day with me".  So hear I am starting the day with God.  This morning I was starting out the day looking at my house, my work, my day wondering how I was ever going to do it. I was looking at how untogether my house was, I was looking at the invoices that I must catch up on, I was looking at the appointment my husband and I have with next day blinds at our house at 10am.  I was looking at all these things instead of looking at Jesus.  When we wake up in the morning, what we look at has a huge impact on how our day is going to unfold.  It's almost predictable.  I am reminded of Peter walking on water.  The bible says in Matthew 14:30 that as so

Make room for God, He will provide

God has the blueprint for your life.  He knows how it needs to be built.  Just as he gave Moses and the people of Isreal the instuctions on how to build His temple.  God was very detailed and specific in these instructions.  He is the same way about the blueprint for our lives.  He has it planned out and knows what it should look like all the way down to the smallest most minute details. This is ministering to me right now as I type.  Living out our destiny in the Lord has implications for every part of our lives.  Because each person has a different destiny, our lives are obviously going to function differently.  I can't look to other people to tell me how my living out my calling is going to make the rest of my life look.  I think up until this point it has scared me.  It has scared me to shift my focus from some things that I have been focused on for the passed 5 years.  As God is opening up doors for me to minister to others, I realize some things have got to be put aside.  I&#

I need to breathe

I cannot run all day long jumping from one thing to the next.  I need space in between to breathe.  I find God gets lost in the busyness. There is a scripture I have been meditating on; "For thus says the Lord God, Holy One of Israel: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strengh.  Why is it when life gets busy and I feel like I have opportunity to catch up on things, God seems to want me to stay at such a slow steadfast pace.  When I get opportunities I want to run like the wind to get stuff done, I do have 2 young children.  But God doesn't seem to think that way.  Sometimes I feel like going at a "God pace" it takes forever to get stuff done.  But everytime I'm like "Ok, some time is cleared up, ready, set go; I need to clean, organize, throw stuff out, give stuff away, catch up on work,................then God says something like "You are troubled about many things" or "In returning and r

Don't underestimate GRACE

2 Cor 12:9 says "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness".  This is the 3rd day in a row that God placed this scripture in front of me.  In my devotional today, it spoke about how grace is when you can admit your need or weakness and receive help from another.  Isn't that what Jesus does for us through Salvation?  We admit that we are sinners and that we are not able to fix ourselves and that we needed the One who was without sin to die on our behalf.  To receive God's wrath for us, to stand in our place.  In the world we live in, it is not popular to ask for help.  In most cases if you do it do much, it is frowned upon.  But this is not so in the Kingdom of God.  In the Kingdom of God being able to accept grace has changed the world.  How much more powerful would we be in our lives if we learned to accept grace and offer it on a regular basis.  That's power!