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His Faithfullness

Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and feed on His faithfullness The Lord will can never be used up by you.  He has an endless supply to feed you.  This scripture has stood out to me, particularly the part where it says to feed on His faithfullness.  In life there are times where we really need to take things 1 day at a time.  God is faithful, and God only provides what we need for the day.  We spend so much time worried about tomorrow or 1 year from now, that we are not feeding off what He has actually provided for us right now.  God's faithfullness is experienced in the here and now.  You cannot experience tomorrow's faithfullness from God today, or tomorrow's grace today.  You have to feed off today's faithfullness while it is still today.  I feel like the word "feed' means that it will give us fuel, it will build us up,  it will help us have faith for all that God wants to perform in our lives.   Feeding off His faithfullness will multiply

quiet down.....

Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and feed on His faithfullness. Delight yourself also in the Lord And He shall give you the desires of your heart. It is so important to listen to what the Lord is speaking to you as an individual.  There are alot of powerful Christians out there but you are powerful too!  Anyone who has the Holy Spirit is powerful! Isaiah 30:15 New King James Version (NKJV) 15 For thus says the Lord God , the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”   Over the years the Lord has quieted me down and this scripture definitely describes the work He has done in my heart.  You have to be really discerning about when the Lord wants you to share and when He wants you to quiet down.  If you are sharing your heart with others at a time when the Lord is saying to quiet down and just listen, it keeps you from hearing what He is speaking into your life.  Many times we ca

Women need close female friendships

Satan has worked very hard to produce shame in our lives.  This shame keeps us from making a difference in the lives of others, this shame keeps us from developing meaningful friendships, this shame keeps us from experiencing the type of intimacy that makes us feel free and loved.   Women particularly have suffered in this area.  God created us to relate to others.  It's one of our purposes on this earth.  See man was put here first and he was by himself, but God created woman not only for the purpose of relationship, but by design we have never known anything else.  Women need close friendships.  We need these friendships to grow in our relationship with God, we need these friendships to be healed from diseases, and we need them to break unhealthy behavior patterns in our lives. One of Satans specific missions is to keep women apart.  Why do you think women are too busy to nurture friendships anymore.  Satan uses our jobs, our family responsibilities, all types of things to keep

Vision

Colossians 3:3 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Do you know that God has a life planned for you that only You and Him know about?  I can't speak for anyone else, but God has given me a clear vision for my life.  I'm not even talking about ministry.  I'm just talking about God's plan for my day to day life.  The life I'm living now contains some of that vision but I'm not totally living the vision yet.  I'm not totally living the vision yet. But I know I will because it has gone unchanged for the 6 years I've been married to my husband. Even though God uses people in my life to encourage me in the direction He wants me to go in certain areas,  but nobody has ever been able to touch on the vision that God has given about how my family's life on this earth is going to be lived out.  But it's so clear to me I can taste it, I can touch it.  There are some things you may mention to other people about what God has show

Your limitations are blessings

Every season of your life comes with different sets of issues that could potentially fustrate you.  It's so important to live in the moment instead of constantly looking at what's coming next.  We miss out on so many blessing when we don't live in the moment.  I'm one of those people that was always looking for the "next thing".  I pray that I am changing.  Right now I have a 4 year old and a 5 month old and there are situations and challenges that come with this season of life for me.  I went through it when my 4 year old was a baby.  I can't find clothes to wear half the time, laundry's not done most of the time.  Getting clean clothes folded is just way to ambitious for me at this point.  The house is clean enough to be enjoyable most of the time I think.  Oh yeah and keeping myself clean is even a challenge these days.  I'm a stay-at-home mom with a 5 month old and a 4  year old who is also home with me from the time she gets out of school at 1

Learn how to abound!

Sometimes, you spend so much time taking care of other people, you get a real desire for someone to take care of you.  That's what God is here for; to take care of us.  Remember we are the sheep of his pasture it is He who made us and not we ourselves, and He is responsible for us and we are not responsible for ourselves.  Every morning we have to put the responsibility for ourselves on God because if not, we take it on ourselves, and the responsibility for ourselves is too big of a burden to carry because it was not meant for us and we were not built for that.  Do you know God has wired us a certain way and there are things in this world that God did not design us to deal with.  In the function of day to day lives we have to throw off stress, worry, doubt, anxiety, fear, panic.  These things will kill you because we were not wired to deal with those things.  We were created and designed for God's paradise, to spend a lifetime of unbroken fellowship with Him.  We were not desig

Pray for this blog

G od definitely called me to do this blog and I get plenty of distractions during the day to keep me from doing it.  I think I have to be careful because maybe the enemy is sending those distractions.  Pray for this blog, because when I don't do this blog in the morning, I really lack direction and discernment for the day.  It is the time of the day where God takes me and points me in the right direction.  When I do the blog in the morning, my day is very directed.  Right now I am so exhausted and my day really lacked direction, I didn't blog this morning.  Another thing that happens when I don't blog is that I'm extra exhausted alot earlier than normal.  It is something I need, and I pray it is something my readers need as well.  I believe the effective, fervent prayers of the righteous availeth much.  We know that ministries cannot stay alive without prayer.  Please pray for this blog.

Don't let the enemy....

Don't let the enemy still your power!  Don't let the enemy still your authority!  The bible says that the devil comes to steal, kill, and to destroy.  He is the enemy of your soul.  But God is the lover of your soul.  Hallelujah!  This past week God confirmed some things in me.  He re-affirmed my posture in the kingdom, letting me know that what I had learned over the years was something I needed to continue to stand on and it is all a part of maturity. He also confirmed His discernment that lives in me and my ability to exercise it.  He showed me that things that I thought I was seeing in certain people were not just a figment of my own thoughts, but rather something He was showing me.  He is confirming the role I play in the lives of those around me.  There is so much that got confirmed for me between last week and this Sunday and then BOOM!  I was going to meet a girlfriend of mine whom I love and hadn't seen in so long and I got in the parking lot and dented my truck, I

Accountability from my readers

Well, in order to accomplish anything big we need to be accountable to somebody. There are some changes I would like to see take place in my everyday life, but it requires me to try some new things.  Now, I don't know if it's the season for these changes but I feel like it is.  I feel like this is the season where God is gentlly nudging me out of my comfort zone in different ways.  But, I have to confess that I'm one of those people that starts things when I'm all excited, and then when the excitement starts to fade and life gets in the way, I let those things fall away.  The scripture text below describes me in many areas of life:   But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. I am asking God to forgive me for this and help me to become the person in the scripture text below: 23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he

Use your gifts now!

This morning I was listening to a Joseph Prince sermon and He was talking about Christ being our head.  He was saying how blessed we are in Christ.  He said if the Head is rich then the whole body is rich.  If the Head is healthy then the whole body is healthy.  The head of a person can't be rich but the rest of the body be poor.  That doesn't make sense.  If your head has something then your whole body has it, because it's connected and joined to the body.  If something is wrong with your head then it's going to affect the health of the whole body.  We have everything that Jesus has because He is our head.  I will say that again.  "We have everything that Jesus has because He is our Head.  Look at the scripture below: It's Ephesians, Chapter 4 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” [ b ] 9 (Now this, “He asce

His pasture

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.  For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand Know that the Lord, He is God. It is He who has made us and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Are we living in the Lord's pastures.  I thought about something a minister has said to me a couple times and I just really got it!  She said "my family has to seek God in order to find me".  See as we seek God and walk with God we dwell in His pasture.  It really does translate us into another place.  When she said that her family has to seek God to find her, I didn't really know what to think about that, but now I realize just how good that is.  We live in a culture that is busy and fast paced.  There is alot of pressure.  But the Lord makes his people to lie down in green pastures.  If we follow Him as sheep do a shepherd, He will alw

Blessed!!

I am truly blessed.  My husband and I have a SUCCESSFUL business.  I get to stay-at-home with our children.  We have a beautiful home in a great neighborhood and wonderful family around us.  My daughter goes to a great private school and we can still afford to place her in extra curricular activities such as ballet and karate.  My husband takes great care of us and I'm not lacking.  Lemme me not say I'm not lacking, because there is an area of my life where I lack.  I want to do more for others.  I cannot just sit here as blessed as I am and not reach out to others, I just can't.  Granted I have 2 young children, 1 just turned 5 months, but I don't want to let that hold me back.  I want to bless others and giving money is just not enough anymore.  Sure I could just give more money and maybe I will, but I want to do more than just give money. I know the devil does not want me to share this post,  he is saying to me "people are going to think you are bragging"

Speak!

There are times when God quiets you soul, slows your pace. I did not blog yesterday because God did that to me yesterday and I did not have anything to blog about.  However, I was invited to a women's conference yesterday and I knew God wanted me there.  If God would not have quieted me down earlier I might not have been able to discern that I needed to say "yes" to that invitation.  I would of had too much going on.  There was one reason I believe that God wanted me to go to the conference, to bring back to memory an experience I had and remind me how important it is to speak the word of God to your situations and circumstances. In the past I had recurring dreams that I experienced from the time I was young well into adulthood.  What was vividly brought back to my memory last night was something I had forgot, I mean completely gone from my mind.  Some months after I got saved I started having a dream.  I would be in my house and something is chasing me up the stairs in

Overpowering the flesh

As mothers and/or wives we have a myriad of things we need to do every day.  A to-do list that is a mile high.  You can't do it all, often times it is hard to prioritize because it all seems so important.  Well as believers "it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure".  The amplified version of this scripture says "for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you (energizing and creating in you the power and desire), both to will and to work for His good pleasure...".  Did you know that God will not only give you the power to do something, but also the desire?  Let me say that again, did you know that God will give you not only the power to do what He wants you to do but also the desire?  I experienced that power and desire working in me on vacation this week. One of the ministers that God uses in my life admonished me to abstain from fleshly wants and desires this week so I could hear from God.  Well, you would think

Grace directs prayer

Lately my son has been up alot, because of teething and congestion from all the drainage.  Because his teething started early and has peaked recently we never really got any solid sleep habits going with him.  He started at 2 months.  He is now 5 months and teething is stronger than ever.  Because of drainage he gets very congested at night.  No doctor can convince me that teething does not cause a runny nose.  I've seen it in too many children. My son's saving grace his that he has become a thumb sucker, so that soothes him and I'm hoping it will assist with some sleep training.  So here is my testimony;  I've been praying for my son to sleep.  Lord help him sleep, lord help him sleep.  We went to Disney World this week, so I was a little nervous about the whole sleep thing, since I was going to be walking around different theme parks for 3 days in a row.  The Lord showed me the true application of what he means when He said: "My grace is sufficient for you"

Holy Spirit Leadership

We had a cleaning company come in to service our home yesterday.  I spent about 2 hours in the morning, tidying up so that everything would be out there way to do what they came to do.  Right now the Holy Spirit comes to mind, thank you Jesus!  I'm wondering if I spend time moving stuff out the way so that the Holy Spirit can do what He came to do?  Here is the thing, I couldn't believe how fast I was able to clean up for the cleaning company to come and clean.  I was so productive and efficient that I know it had to be the Holy Spirit breathing in my work.  Because of that, the cleaning company was able to come in and do such a thorough job.  It was because they didn't have to waste time moving stuff out the way so they could clean.  Back to the Holy Spirit,  do you realize that our productivity comes from Him.  As a believer, working in your own strength is counter-productive.  The reason is because as believers we live God-sized lives, we have God sized tasks, and we nee

Stop trusting the devil!!!

There is a spirit I want to bind right now in the name of Jesus Christ.  It is the spirit that says, "This did not work out, it must not be meant to be".  This spirit keeps us from perservering and enduring.  This spirit causes you to abort what God has spoken to you.  This spirit tries to get you off track before you get to see the manifestation of what God has spoken over your life.  This spirit shows up when you are doing something that God led you to do and it doesn't work out the way it was suppose to.  Lemme say this again, this particular spirit shows up when you are doing something that God led you to do and it doesn't work out.  This spirit wants you to give up on pursuing the very thing that God led you to pursue.  I just realized that it is Satan who makes this statement to us.  It is Satan who says "This did not work out, it must not be God's plan".  The devil is a liar! John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of you

Enduring

This morning I was speaking with my husband about how my 5 month old is trying to fight his 20 minute morning nap.  Lemme just mention he is fighting every other nap as well.  I hate to hear my babies crying, I told my husband I think I'm just gonna have to let him cry.  My husband said "yeah, you're just going to have to endure".  I started thinking about that word "enduring" and I asked myself how good am I at that?  I'm not that good at it, lemme tell you right now.  My attention was turned to the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, starting at verse 18.  In this parable Jesus speaks of 4 different people.  People who hear the word of the Kingdom and don't understand it.  Then there is the person who immediately receives the word with joy but he has not root in himself so when persecution and tribulation arise because of the word, he stumbles.  The third person hears the word and the cares of this world and the deceitfullness of riches choke the w

Receiving out

Something happened to me yesterday that really caused me to examine myself and my committment to God overall.  Even more specifically made me question whether or not my pride gets in the way from me being able to receive the good things that the Lord wants to give to me.  For those of you who don't know, I am a full-time stay-at-home mom to a 4 year old little girl and a 4 month old boy.  I have my hands full.  Last night when my son went down for a evening nap, I decided that I would go up to our room with him in my arms and take a little break.  Well, he woke up and my break was scratched.  But I sensed the Holy Spirit still telling me to take a break.  I reasoned with the Holy Spirit that I could try to take a break with my son right there with me, but I kept sensing the Holy Spirit urging me to take a break.  So I told my husband I needed to get out and take a break.  Once I got out I really sensed the Holy Spirit leading me to see if I could get my hair done at the Bubbles.  B

The inspired life

The world has robbed us!  To be more specific the devil has robbed us.  The bible says that the theif comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy.  But Jesus says He came that we may have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10) There is a mindset in most of us that keeps us from living the inspired life.  A inspired life is a life that is breathed upon by the Holy Spirit.  However, the world has planted some seeds in our hearts about what life should be that keeps us from being able to live the inspired life that Jesus died to give us.  The world says we have to work for the "inspired life"  but God says it is Him who works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure.  The amplified bible reads the following: Philippians 2:13 Amplified Bible (AMP) 13 [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while [ a ] effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfacti

Your helper

As I go into this day, I realize that I want to be a blessing and I want to bless others.  I want to be a blessing to my husband, my son, and my daughter.  I want to be a blessing to people outside of my home.  I want to live blessing others.  I want a touch of heaven on everything I do.  The preacher at church talked about how refreshing it is to use your gift.  Not only is it refreshing to you, but also to everyone around you.  Your purpose is intertwined with other areas of your life, it's always important to operate according to your design.  But you must first seek the designer and ask Him first to help you walk in your design, call on the Holy Spirit to lead you.  The Holy Spirit is there for you, He is yours.  He is here to serve us, just as Jesus came to earth not to be served but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many. Why don't we talk to the Holy Spirit more?  Why don't we inquire of the Holy Spirit.  It is written : "And I will pray the Father, an