This is my simple obsession
To love You
To know You
This is my simple devotion
To love You
To know You
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Believe the rock, not the sand.
So Papa has begun to tell me how my feelings sometimes are completely false.
Sometimes what I feel comes in contact and alignment with what he says, and what I know to be true. But sometimes they just lie.
Temptation is not a sign of the lack of God. Depression is. Fear is. Hate is. Hopelessness and insecurity, jealousy and self-pity, despising, complaining, these are signs of hunger and lack. But Daddy showed me that what we feel isn't always true.
I was feeling jealousy against a friend of mine for something they had that I didn't. I began to renounce those feelings of jealousy and anger, and pray that God would help me get out of the depression that came with it. He says: whom the Son sets free is free indeed. I said God help. He said "I have set you free."
I didn't feel free. I was being tempted and accused and depressed and angry. Then He showed me the truth. I am free from the hold of hate and jealousy. I am fe ee from sin and death. I am free!!!! But I didn't feel free.
Who cares?
Sinse when did God say: "the Holy Spirit, the Helper, will cause you to feel truth always." No he told us that he will TEACH us. We may not feel happy about it. We may noy understand it. But he says: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways know him and let him know us, and he will direct where you are to go." Paraphrased.
So... when we feel everyone hates us, or God is distant, or we will never be healed, or God doesn't want the best for us, just don't believe it. You may FEEL pain, or temptation, or anger, but you are free from thos things.
You might ask: "then why am I not healed? Why do I still have this pain, this problem, this fight?"
I can't answer that for you. I can't even answer it for me. So we better go to the better source. :)
Sometimes we go through hardships to manifest Jesus. Something Todd White says.
Jesus himself wad tempted. Temptation is not a sign of lacking God
Unbelief is
Unbelief, however, is not just not believing, it is believing against. When Jesus couldn't do miracles because of the unbelief of the city, it wasn't because they had never seen a miracle and didn't know it was possible, it was because they didn't want to believe him.
He will help our unnelief if we are willing. Like the man with the demon-possessed son, we say "Lord help my unbelief!"
And he does. And he brings healing. And he brings peace. And he brings light. And he brings joy. And he brings everything we were made for. Everything perfect.
Sometimes what I feel comes in contact and alignment with what he says, and what I know to be true. But sometimes they just lie.
Temptation is not a sign of the lack of God. Depression is. Fear is. Hate is. Hopelessness and insecurity, jealousy and self-pity, despising, complaining, these are signs of hunger and lack. But Daddy showed me that what we feel isn't always true.
I was feeling jealousy against a friend of mine for something they had that I didn't. I began to renounce those feelings of jealousy and anger, and pray that God would help me get out of the depression that came with it. He says: whom the Son sets free is free indeed. I said God help. He said "I have set you free."
I didn't feel free. I was being tempted and accused and depressed and angry. Then He showed me the truth. I am free from the hold of hate and jealousy. I am fe ee from sin and death. I am free!!!! But I didn't feel free.
Who cares?
Sinse when did God say: "the Holy Spirit, the Helper, will cause you to feel truth always." No he told us that he will TEACH us. We may not feel happy about it. We may noy understand it. But he says: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways know him and let him know us, and he will direct where you are to go." Paraphrased.
So... when we feel everyone hates us, or God is distant, or we will never be healed, or God doesn't want the best for us, just don't believe it. You may FEEL pain, or temptation, or anger, but you are free from thos things.
You might ask: "then why am I not healed? Why do I still have this pain, this problem, this fight?"
I can't answer that for you. I can't even answer it for me. So we better go to the better source. :)
Sometimes we go through hardships to manifest Jesus. Something Todd White says.
Jesus himself wad tempted. Temptation is not a sign of lacking God
Unbelief is
Unbelief, however, is not just not believing, it is believing against. When Jesus couldn't do miracles because of the unbelief of the city, it wasn't because they had never seen a miracle and didn't know it was possible, it was because they didn't want to believe him.
He will help our unnelief if we are willing. Like the man with the demon-possessed son, we say "Lord help my unbelief!"
And he does. And he brings healing. And he brings peace. And he brings light. And he brings joy. And he brings everything we were made for. Everything perfect.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Seasons.
So one day I was looking out my back door at our new apple tree. He said: "You know, to a seed, everything is new."
Then as I began voxing one of my good friends from Brazil, Papa started showing me the significance of all seasons.
To a seed, the ground, the air, the water, the growth, it's all new. Completely unseen before. God showed me that in a season where seeds are planted in our hearts, everything, the Word, the worship, the encounter, the revelations, the feelings, it's all new. It's all beautiful and wonderful.
But then we hit summer.
It's hot. The reality around us doesn't feel nearly as pleasant as it did in the seed season. If we don't go deep in the word and in our identity, we will spread out and whither away to nothing.
Daddy told me that that is why many young Christians grow tired and die out. We don't stay with our first love. We get bored because everything is not new, it's hot and boring and tiring. But if we will continue to go deep in who He is, and we find Him as sufficient for us, and we embrace the season we go through, out of that patience comes forth the blossoms.
The blossoms. Worship in spirit and in truth. The love for God that is uncontainable and contageous. The worship outside that flows from encounter inside.
And when we give ourselves fully to Him, when we worship him with everything, and waste ourselves on Him like Mary of Bethany did, out of that comes fruit.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfullness and self control. Look at these fruits. Every single one of them came from a season.
Reminds me of Song of Solomon.
That moment in the story where the Shulamite has only shown her love and faithfulness to Him, and her sacrifice, and He leaves. He runs away.
He leaves her in a winter season.
Notice in that story, she knows where He is. But she has no proof that He is with her. In the winter season God doesn't leave us. He removes His tangible feely presence so that we can love Him with everything, not just our emotions. It's when there is no growth. There is no fruit. No good smell. Nothing. And we ask God "What do you think you're doing??! Don't you see that I need to grow in my gifts and my fruit and my callings?" And He responds. "The fruit that fell in summer, throughout the winter becomes new seeds for the upcoming spring. You need to embrace the seasons as they come. I am making all things new."
Then as I began voxing one of my good friends from Brazil, Papa started showing me the significance of all seasons.
To a seed, the ground, the air, the water, the growth, it's all new. Completely unseen before. God showed me that in a season where seeds are planted in our hearts, everything, the Word, the worship, the encounter, the revelations, the feelings, it's all new. It's all beautiful and wonderful.
But then we hit summer.
It's hot. The reality around us doesn't feel nearly as pleasant as it did in the seed season. If we don't go deep in the word and in our identity, we will spread out and whither away to nothing.
Daddy told me that that is why many young Christians grow tired and die out. We don't stay with our first love. We get bored because everything is not new, it's hot and boring and tiring. But if we will continue to go deep in who He is, and we find Him as sufficient for us, and we embrace the season we go through, out of that patience comes forth the blossoms.
The blossoms. Worship in spirit and in truth. The love for God that is uncontainable and contageous. The worship outside that flows from encounter inside.
And when we give ourselves fully to Him, when we worship him with everything, and waste ourselves on Him like Mary of Bethany did, out of that comes fruit.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfullness and self control. Look at these fruits. Every single one of them came from a season.
Reminds me of Song of Solomon.
That moment in the story where the Shulamite has only shown her love and faithfulness to Him, and her sacrifice, and He leaves. He runs away.
He leaves her in a winter season.
Notice in that story, she knows where He is. But she has no proof that He is with her. In the winter season God doesn't leave us. He removes His tangible feely presence so that we can love Him with everything, not just our emotions. It's when there is no growth. There is no fruit. No good smell. Nothing. And we ask God "What do you think you're doing??! Don't you see that I need to grow in my gifts and my fruit and my callings?" And He responds. "The fruit that fell in summer, throughout the winter becomes new seeds for the upcoming spring. You need to embrace the seasons as they come. I am making all things new."
Saturday, August 10, 2013
HIS Love changes everything
What Love is this that He would die?
What Love is this that He would bare the stripes so I could be healed?
His Love goes deeper than the pain that I feel. His Love is stronger than depression and fear.-Laura Hackett
His Love brings freedom to the X_treme!!!!!! He enjoys it when we are Joyful. He smiles when we smile. He laughs when we laugh.
When we encounter the Love of God... We cannot stay the same. His Love brings Healing, Freedom, Restoration, Perfection. Just one encounter, and everything changes. EVERYTHING!!! Broken mindsets shift to a HOPE FILLED OUT-LOOK! How awesome is that!!!! =) Haha!
So, I guess what I'm saying is that He rocks and I can't contain it!!!!! =D YESSS!!!!!! GO JESUS!!!!!!!!
Ps.... Why not get excited about such an exciting God?
What Love is this that He would bare the stripes so I could be healed?
His Love goes deeper than the pain that I feel. His Love is stronger than depression and fear.-Laura Hackett
His Love brings freedom to the X_treme!!!!!! He enjoys it when we are Joyful. He smiles when we smile. He laughs when we laugh.
When we encounter the Love of God... We cannot stay the same. His Love brings Healing, Freedom, Restoration, Perfection. Just one encounter, and everything changes. EVERYTHING!!! Broken mindsets shift to a HOPE FILLED OUT-LOOK! How awesome is that!!!! =) Haha!
So, I guess what I'm saying is that He rocks and I can't contain it!!!!! =D YESSS!!!!!! GO JESUS!!!!!!!!
Ps.... Why not get excited about such an exciting God?
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Take the world, but give me Jesus!
Yes, amazing song!
As I sit in my room and worship the Lord, I begon to sing: take the world... but give me Jesus! Take the world, take the world, take the world...
But then He shows me something. I have been believing a lie. The lie that the key to our walk with Him is all about giving up the world, the things that people idolize, the things that are good in it of themselves, but when taken too far become a very unhealthy obsession. But no, the power and meaning of that song is not take the world, but the Give me Jesus. Yhe point is not "take everything away", but rather "no matter what I have to give, I WANT JESUS!"
It's the holding on to Him with dogged faith and determination that no matter what life makes for us, we run straight to Him. When the darkness, hights, relationships, family problems, pain, loss, depression, failure, terror, or anything else scares us or causes us to feel hopeless, LOOK STRAIGHT to your D A D D Y!!! His arms are ALWAYS open wide, His eyes ALWAYS on you, and His heart ever pounding with love for you!!! He is jealous for your heart!
When we become attached to things and beliefs and people and feelings, He doesn't want you to stay stuck! He will do whatever He can to remove the veil between you and His son Jesus! But when we cry out for the separation to be removed, for our eyes to be opened, His heart quakes. He is madly in love with you!!! And when you say with all your heart tjat "ALL I WANT IS YOU!!!" He cries back to us: "ALL I EVER WANTESD IS YOU!!!"
He loves you. He loves you. He doesn't need a reason, He is in love with you!
But true love will not force itself on anyone. It waits. It watches. It serves. He will knock on the door until you open up. He will put His hand on the latch of the door, but never open it. He will even sometimes take the feelings of His presence away. Because He wants us to RUN after Him and not rest until we find Him! To not sit at home and sing "Take the world, but give me Jesus" but to throw open the door, and to run after Him. If the world comes with us we've gained the world for Him. But if it stays behind don't turn back.
"You will seek Me and you will find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."
-Jeremiah 29:13
As I sit in my room and worship the Lord, I begon to sing: take the world... but give me Jesus! Take the world, take the world, take the world...
But then He shows me something. I have been believing a lie. The lie that the key to our walk with Him is all about giving up the world, the things that people idolize, the things that are good in it of themselves, but when taken too far become a very unhealthy obsession. But no, the power and meaning of that song is not take the world, but the Give me Jesus. Yhe point is not "take everything away", but rather "no matter what I have to give, I WANT JESUS!"
It's the holding on to Him with dogged faith and determination that no matter what life makes for us, we run straight to Him. When the darkness, hights, relationships, family problems, pain, loss, depression, failure, terror, or anything else scares us or causes us to feel hopeless, LOOK STRAIGHT to your D A D D Y!!! His arms are ALWAYS open wide, His eyes ALWAYS on you, and His heart ever pounding with love for you!!! He is jealous for your heart!
When we become attached to things and beliefs and people and feelings, He doesn't want you to stay stuck! He will do whatever He can to remove the veil between you and His son Jesus! But when we cry out for the separation to be removed, for our eyes to be opened, His heart quakes. He is madly in love with you!!! And when you say with all your heart tjat "ALL I WANT IS YOU!!!" He cries back to us: "ALL I EVER WANTESD IS YOU!!!"
He loves you. He loves you. He doesn't need a reason, He is in love with you!
But true love will not force itself on anyone. It waits. It watches. It serves. He will knock on the door until you open up. He will put His hand on the latch of the door, but never open it. He will even sometimes take the feelings of His presence away. Because He wants us to RUN after Him and not rest until we find Him! To not sit at home and sing "Take the world, but give me Jesus" but to throw open the door, and to run after Him. If the world comes with us we've gained the world for Him. But if it stays behind don't turn back.
"You will seek Me and you will find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."
-Jeremiah 29:13
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