Newness of Life

 Peter says that fiery trials refine our faith, but how? Because the believer who is cleaving to God's presence and word will always, always, ALWAYS see Jesus in the midst of the fire. When we emerge with the tinge of heaven wafting from our war-tattered garments, we have yet another story of God's glory. Then, after we see Him and know Him better, we have the task of remembering all that He did, and in doing so we go from faith to greater glory, to more faith, and even greater glory as the foundation of our spiritual house becomes stronger and firmer and deeper in the love of God.  Remember! Here is a little exercise to keep God's miracles fresh in our hearts. David took time daily to remember all that God had done in his life. Slowly go through various trials where God showed up and note how He had to perform each detail to bring it to pass. "Lord, you were the one who prompted Sarah to call me about the job when I returned from my mission's trip. Lord, you were ...

  “ Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock:  25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock.  26 And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:  27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof. Matt 7:24-27 ( The Lord gave a very clear sign to America about this reality in the one house that was standing on Mexico beach after Hurricane Michael. The good news is that He will be glorified in these storms. You can read about it on my blog under that name. He warns and prepares us.) S imon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:  but I made supplication ...

 This is so rich and full of truth that I wanted to post it. McLaren's commentary on Phil 3:8: Yea doubtless, and I count all things  but  loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them  but  dung, that I may win Christ, The ‘gain’ is of course the opposite of the ‘loss.’ His balance-sheet has on one side ‘all things lost,’ on the other ‘Christ gained,’ and that is profitable trading. But we have to go deeper than such a metaphor, and to give full scope to the Scriptural truth, that Christ really imparts Himself to the believing soul. There is a real communication of His own life to us, and thereby we live, as He Himself declared, ‘He that hath the Son hath life.’ The true deep sense in which we possess Christ is not to be weakened down, as it, alas! so often is in our shallow Christianity, which is but the echo of a shallow experience, and a feeble hold of that possession of t...

  This is a little "song" I sang this morning in prayer as I was taking the time to go back and remember all that the Lord has done. This was how the Lord encountered me when I had given up all hope. This was the lifeline He threw out to me....a revelation of the truth of GRACE. My journey home actually began with that exact word! Grace . My first ray of light that broke through the thick, heavy, hopeless darkness. "He Said Grace" He said Grace, Grace, He said Grace, Grace, When I was hopeless, When I hated myself, When all of my trying led to only failure, When I though He was angry and I had given up, He said Grace, Grace I am going to take those chains off of you, I am going to bring you out of that pit, Run to me when you know you have failed, That’s why I suffered, that’s why I died, Why do you stand off from the cross? Run to me when you fall short, Run to me when you sin, That’s why I suffered, That’s why I died. He said Grace,...

 

  (still editing this but I am going to leave it on the blog while I'm working...may want to check back later) "Christ did not suffer so we could refuse his sacrifice. He suffered so we would “eat” his body, but we won’t allow ourselves because we must work for it, so we stay out in the field, tired, not satisfied, and maybe a little bitter-and Satan laughs, because it was the church that taught us to do it." I am chewing the word and promises for physical healing. Sharing some notes regarding what the Lord is teaching me: Remember, when you look to your symptoms, that  God calls those things that are not, as though they are, and He raises the dead. So don’t be frightened or put off by pain in your body, because His word raises the dead. Lord, make me like a child so I can enter into your Kingdom in the area of healing. I just realized I keep having a thought rooting around inside my heart, trying to not be discovered in the bright light of truth. "Well, how is your...

Your word is my shield and buckler. No matter what enemy David was facing, he consistently fled into the refuge of God's word. He meditated on it day and night until He saw God move.    “As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.” (John 6:57) How do we eat Jesus? “Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat that which is good , and let your soul delight itself in fatness.” Isaiah 55:2 We hear him, and we keep hearing him until faith is born. When faith is born, we enter into the substance of the unseen. When faith has been born, some work or experience will follow. Until then, it is dead. Like a tiny seed, the promise yields its peaceable fruit in due season; new fruit of the Spirit, or freedom from some opression. But first, we have to chew, and chew, and chew. This is actually the biblical metaphor for how we are to labor to enter into the rest of God. “Let us therefore fear, lest, a PROMISE being left us ...

  I was thinking this morning about the elder brother slaving away in the fields, working for his father, and how different he is from the child that Jesus said we must become in order to enter the Kingdom. How hard it is for us to trust completely on His redeeming sacrifice for everything that we need, and to believe that He truly is that merciful, kind, and generous.  The elder brother thought that he had to do something to earn His father's kindness, so he worked, and deep in his heart he waited for the debt that was owed to him. Paul tells us that that to the one who works, God is indebted, and because of this, he never enters into the Kingdom given freely by the Father. When his younger brother came home and his father threw a party, he was angry! He was the one who deserved the fatted calf.  He was the one who deserved a party! Lest we smugly dismiss the elder brother thinking that we are quite certain that God owes us nothing, because we haven't done anything to ...

 I want to share a journal entry from 10/10/20 that I found edifying to re-read. It's so good to go over our journals because we really do tend to forget. I am coming to see that 90% of our faith walk is comprised of simply remembering. The enemy works hard to make us forget. Like many of my blogs I am writing stream of consciousness so it's not clean and edited.  Prayer Walk October 10, 2020 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! Oh wow this morning was powerful. I feel a fresh wind of God blowing. I see fire, and flecks of gold and white blowing winds of fire.   So, I will do the play by play. I was walking and thinking, thinking, thinking. Then I thought about how my beautiful Bridegroom Jesus has a still, small voice so I took some time to get quiet. Your thoughts are not my thoughts O God, your ways are not my ways. Here, let me lay them down and quiet my mind so that I may hear your words of life, words that always bear good fruit when they f...

Jesus was bound and led away to die so that we could be loosed from Satan's dominion! Praise God! To be "bound" means fastened to, tied to, and it's what Satan wants to do to us, but Jesus came to set us free so that nothing can exercise any dominion over us. Through his death, he destroyed the one who had the power of death! Coming soon....

 In this post, I tried to pull together what I have been hearing over the last few years in terms of the season that we are living in. I just wanted to see it all together instead of spaced out in my journals, some of the most crucial words and warnings. I hope that it encourages you. My Children, Are you awake? Are you not able to discern the hour in which you live? Will you be full of faith, believing the word of the Lord, or will you be unfaithful in this most crucial hour?   “ Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat,and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” Mark 16:14 Unbelief:  ognate: 570   apisia – properly, without(divine persuasion, "no-faithfulness" (unfaithfulness); "want of faith" (betraying a trust)" Will you believe the scriptures and discern the hour and expect the return of the Lord, just as scriptures have prophesied, or will you have a ...