This day started pretty rough. I've been struggling (well more like insecure) with where I am with God recently. All day today it felt like I was a carrying a huge stone on my back. Many things even until just after the evening teaching we had tonight, I was mopey. I had just went into a friend's house (who lives next door) for help. God met me there. In a way I didn't expect.
I don't know how many of you have seen "The Lion King." It is a cartoon about a son who ran from his problems and ends up having to go back and face his problems head on.
Well....I walked in on the part where his father "talked" to him from beyond the clouds. The father tells his son that he has forgotten about him. In the forgetting that he was heir to the kingdom and acted as an exile he had forgotten the father. He told the son "REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE! YOU ARE MY SON AND KING!"
That hit me. I had forgotten my Father in my problems. By both choosing to dwell on my sorrow and acting as if I were still a slave of sin. By forgetting that I am a child of God, I allowed my sorrow to become bigger than God himself. He wanted me all day to manifest joy but I had been in a state of turmoil.
Most amazing is that he waited on me.
How often do you forget that you are a child of God? To manifest his presence with joy?
Joy means so much more than happiness. It is second to Love. Called a "fruit" of the spirit and comes from the Father as a by-product of having the Spirit manifest in you.
I encourage you to thank God every single day if you really are the Lover's. He claimed you as his own from the beginning. That Christ came for you! That he left the Father's right hand as a representative to you that you are loved and he desires you!
The enemy works really hard to drag us from this truth.
So... REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!
Showing posts with label Becoming Needy. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Friday, July 22, 2011
Fragrance and fruit
I'm writing this post so late at night..well it's 1:45 in the morning, so I hope it is coherent.
Song of Solomon
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates
with choice fruits,
with henna and nard,
14 nard and saffron,
calamus and cinnamon,
with every kind of incense tree,
with myrrh and aloes
and all the finest spices.
These are the words of the Lover to the Beloved. The scent of the beloved attracts the Lover.
Christ created in each of us a garden. A place in which we can walk with him in the cool of the day.
A tabernacle of the Most High.
In this place, fragrant aromas are wafted out. They bring many into the place of worship. Is your life fragrance Love? The aroma that comes from a drying, crushing, and a burning in most cases of your very being.
Through those trying times in which Christ seems to have turned his back, you feel pressure from all sides closing in, and those times you feel absolutely spent. Out of those times, the greatest fragrance can come. Those times give us something to draw out of both while in the circumstance and the fragrant offering afterwards.
The fruit we bear by taking in the light of the Son, is transformed into the nourishment of ourselves and others.This is a perspective of a good friend of mine who does that subject justice. (From-sunlight-to-food-or-aspiring-to-be-more-of-a-vegetable)
To deny the process of converting Christ into a living example causes us to shrivel up. Our life is connected to His. When we called on Him to enter our lives to be like Him..He makes us Him on earth.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Meaning now. We must now be Him on earth. Feeding His sheep and bringing the world back to Him.
OK.
That makes you cringe a little.
Good.
I myself feel my flesh rise up against it many a time. This body in it's self is about preserving the self. But I am owned by Christ. He is inside the garden and is illumining the darkness of my soul and causing a lot of shaking.
But also don't forget that God's mercies are new every morning. That you are His delight and He created you for a great purpose.(Not always grand in our eyes, for we are made of dirt!) Also most of all He lived and died so that you would have a path to walk out.
I hope that you are encouraged more to be a fragrant tree that brings delight to the nostrils of the Lover.
Song of Solomon
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates
with choice fruits,
with henna and nard,
14 nard and saffron,
calamus and cinnamon,
with every kind of incense tree,
with myrrh and aloes
and all the finest spices.
These are the words of the Lover to the Beloved. The scent of the beloved attracts the Lover.
Christ created in each of us a garden. A place in which we can walk with him in the cool of the day.
A tabernacle of the Most High.
In this place, fragrant aromas are wafted out. They bring many into the place of worship. Is your life fragrance Love? The aroma that comes from a drying, crushing, and a burning in most cases of your very being.
Through those trying times in which Christ seems to have turned his back, you feel pressure from all sides closing in, and those times you feel absolutely spent. Out of those times, the greatest fragrance can come. Those times give us something to draw out of both while in the circumstance and the fragrant offering afterwards.
The fruit we bear by taking in the light of the Son, is transformed into the nourishment of ourselves and others.This is a perspective of a good friend of mine who does that subject justice. (From-sunlight-to-food-or-aspiring-to-be-more-of-a-vegetable)
To deny the process of converting Christ into a living example causes us to shrivel up. Our life is connected to His. When we called on Him to enter our lives to be like Him..He makes us Him on earth.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Meaning now. We must now be Him on earth. Feeding His sheep and bringing the world back to Him.
OK.
That makes you cringe a little.
Good.
I myself feel my flesh rise up against it many a time. This body in it's self is about preserving the self. But I am owned by Christ. He is inside the garden and is illumining the darkness of my soul and causing a lot of shaking.
But also don't forget that God's mercies are new every morning. That you are His delight and He created you for a great purpose.(Not always grand in our eyes, for we are made of dirt!) Also most of all He lived and died so that you would have a path to walk out.
I hope that you are encouraged more to be a fragrant tree that brings delight to the nostrils of the Lover.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Committed?
I want to ask you an honest question. Are you committed to Christ?
There is no right or wrong answer...but it is between you and Him. Please be honest. I'm not asking for an answer, just that you think on it, meditate on what it really means, and ask Him to show you what it is. Please have the courage to ask.
A small confession of myself
I know for me, even being "single," I am owned. I belong to someone. Christ has committed Himself so that no matter how much I fall or how much I want to give up (and have!) He will never : give up or let up.
Without Christ, I am nothing. I realize that I'm only 25, but he has shown me a little of me. He has revealed that on my own: I am a blasphemous, wicked, cowardly, lustful,and SELF-RIGHTEOUS thing .
But he also promised never to leave.
How can I say more?
There is no right or wrong answer...but it is between you and Him. Please be honest. I'm not asking for an answer, just that you think on it, meditate on what it really means, and ask Him to show you what it is. Please have the courage to ask.
A small confession of myself
I know for me, even being "single," I am owned. I belong to someone. Christ has committed Himself so that no matter how much I fall or how much I want to give up (and have!) He will never : give up or let up.
Without Christ, I am nothing. I realize that I'm only 25, but he has shown me a little of me. He has revealed that on my own: I am a blasphemous, wicked, cowardly, lustful,and SELF-RIGHTEOUS thing .
But he also promised never to leave.
How can I say more?
Monday, April 25, 2011
"Compliments" by Francois Fenelon
Don't let compliments you receive from worthy people go to your head. On the other hand,do not let false humility keep you from accepting God's comfort when He sends it through others.
God wants you to take what comes and not run after what doesn't come. Simply accept what is given to you. Look only to God. Learn to live without things God sees fit to take away from you. There are certain things that God wants you to be detached from. Do you see that God allows people to respond to you in many different ways in order to mold you?
Trust God without fear. Learn to accept your weakness as you allow God to change you. There is no use being impatient or depressed about your faults. Make a habit of inwardly bringing yourself before God as often as you can during the day. Doing this can calm you down.
God wants you to take what comes and not run after what doesn't come. Simply accept what is given to you. Look only to God. Learn to live without things God sees fit to take away from you. There are certain things that God wants you to be detached from. Do you see that God allows people to respond to you in many different ways in order to mold you?
Trust God without fear. Learn to accept your weakness as you allow God to change you. There is no use being impatient or depressed about your faults. Make a habit of inwardly bringing yourself before God as often as you can during the day. Doing this can calm you down.
Friday, August 27, 2010
A neat poem
"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
-- William Penn
This poem is one of my favorites. It was given to me by a friend about 4 years ago when I was struggling to find God. It is a great definition of what a person who lives for Christ is like.
-- William Penn
This poem is one of my favorites. It was given to me by a friend about 4 years ago when I was struggling to find God. It is a great definition of what a person who lives for Christ is like.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Becoming Needy
How often do you think that everything in your life is going how you would like it? You feel God is in control right? That you are in perfect peace with The Creator?
Or
Does it seem that your entire life seems to be on the verge of crashing down on you? That your good intentions seem to cause pain to others, and sometimes end up causing an inhibition of growth in your friends and family?
I tend to like the first option. To feel like you are always in God's will, always encouraging people, and you feel good about yourself. I mean, who doesn't like to be liked, have joy all the time, and to be full of life?
It makes you love to be a Christian.
But as we look at the life of Christ's disciples, we see that no one who follows the Father ever seem to have any life in this world. Peter went from being a fisherman to a "fisher of men (which wasn't a popular job as we can see in Acts)" and also denied the very one he swore under oath to protect, Paul became so hated that he was flogged multiple times, shipwrecked, and killed for his faith. Doesn't seem like a very fulfilling life, now does it?
Then there is God. He used Peter's experience in denying Him to cause Peter to learn to deny his own strength in himself. How often do I deny my own self and not know if I do love Christ and can only answer
Him "only you know." That is when we feel the power of His love, when we are weak in ourselves.
He is our strength and help in hard times.
God used Paul's experience before he ever knew Christ. He made a way for Paul to really fear himself. He caused a major stir in everyone when he became one of the very people he persecuted. Paul mentioned later to people that were trying to become perfected in the flesh that he was. I mean, he did have everything before he became a disciple of the Way. He was highly respected by Romans and many Jews alike. He was good in the eyes of man. He'd be the guy who thinks that he is doing God's work, zealous to do what he thinks is of God.....
Then, FLASH!
The very person he thinks that he is serving he finds out that he is persecuting. I just wrote this paragraph and automatically flashed back to my past. I was a "zealous" servant of God, looked good in many people's eyes(LOL),and went through an experience that I thought made me a good person who God was proud of. Then, one day, I woke up to find that all of my zeal was gone, my love for others "mysteriously" disappeared, and I saw a little of the person who I was. He then chose to spread his cloak of Love over me.
The feeling of him is like no other thing. There is no human word to explain it. Now outside of Him, there is no life.
He should be our focus everyday.
I over heard a good friend say to someone the other day, "Don't ask if God will let you do something, ask if it would be pleasing to Him."
Thank you so much Shammah.
Or
Does it seem that your entire life seems to be on the verge of crashing down on you? That your good intentions seem to cause pain to others, and sometimes end up causing an inhibition of growth in your friends and family?
I tend to like the first option. To feel like you are always in God's will, always encouraging people, and you feel good about yourself. I mean, who doesn't like to be liked, have joy all the time, and to be full of life?
It makes you love to be a Christian.
But as we look at the life of Christ's disciples, we see that no one who follows the Father ever seem to have any life in this world. Peter went from being a fisherman to a "fisher of men (which wasn't a popular job as we can see in Acts)" and also denied the very one he swore under oath to protect, Paul became so hated that he was flogged multiple times, shipwrecked, and killed for his faith. Doesn't seem like a very fulfilling life, now does it?
Then there is God. He used Peter's experience in denying Him to cause Peter to learn to deny his own strength in himself. How often do I deny my own self and not know if I do love Christ and can only answer
Him "only you know." That is when we feel the power of His love, when we are weak in ourselves.
He is our strength and help in hard times.
God used Paul's experience before he ever knew Christ. He made a way for Paul to really fear himself. He caused a major stir in everyone when he became one of the very people he persecuted. Paul mentioned later to people that were trying to become perfected in the flesh that he was. I mean, he did have everything before he became a disciple of the Way. He was highly respected by Romans and many Jews alike. He was good in the eyes of man. He'd be the guy who thinks that he is doing God's work, zealous to do what he thinks is of God.....
Then, FLASH!
The very person he thinks that he is serving he finds out that he is persecuting. I just wrote this paragraph and automatically flashed back to my past. I was a "zealous" servant of God, looked good in many people's eyes(LOL),and went through an experience that I thought made me a good person who God was proud of. Then, one day, I woke up to find that all of my zeal was gone, my love for others "mysteriously" disappeared, and I saw a little of the person who I was. He then chose to spread his cloak of Love over me.
The feeling of him is like no other thing. There is no human word to explain it. Now outside of Him, there is no life.
He should be our focus everyday.
I over heard a good friend say to someone the other day, "Don't ask if God will let you do something, ask if it would be pleasing to Him."
Thank you so much Shammah.
I hope that that would be true of all of us.
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