Sunday, April 26, 2015

Blessing

It's a blessing to be a blessing...someone  that the Lord has connected me with has blessed me. All because of our obedience in Him!!! The title of this book alone is confirmation enough that I'm lined up with your will God. I couldn't imagine how but God, you know what we need when we need it! Thank you Daddy! You love your daughters...All of us...thank you Lavera

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Are You Cheating On God?





About a month ago in 4am prayer Pastor prayed about us having the fruits of the spirit Galatians 5:22-23. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

They all stuck with me but the one that stuck out the most was faithfulness. To be more faithful. To have more faith in our God.  Not to cheat on God but to be faithful to Him.

Wow, to be faithful to God and not cheat on Him.

In order to cheat on someone both parties have declared that they’re in a committed relationship with one another. Whether it's exclusively dating, engaged to be married, or married, it’s a true one on one with you and them only.

You're serious about this thing. They are with you and you are with them and you don't care who knows it. You’re so excited, you can shout it from the roof top. I’m in a relationship and I’m in love!!!!

Since we know this in our natural covenants, it’s imperative that we’re the same way and more in our covenant relationship with God.  We have to be faithful to HIM. He declared His love for us over 2000 years ago and we declared our love for Him when we received the gift of salvation from Him. 
We began the love, the relationship and now we are committed; we can't cheat on Him. He's faithful to us every day, hour, minute and moment with new grace and mercy.

He tells us that He'll never leave us or forsake us. That's His word and it’s a promise that He’s not going anywhere.

Then why leave Him? Why cheat on Him when He’s so faithful to us? Some may not physical leave the relationship with God but we cheat on Him when we're doubting, murmuring, complaining, worrying, burdened down, wavering, double minded, gossiping, back biting, fornicating, stealing, lying, etc. But God, is still right there in relationship with us and ever so faithful.

But, what about when we do walk away from him? When something or someone else has caught our eye and attention? We desire to see and talk to them more than God, we engage in ungodly tasks, talks and acts. We put them first and the Lord specifically tells us in His word throughout the bible that our God is a jealous God. Exodus 20:5, 34:14, Deuteronomy 5:9, Joshua 24:19.

He’ll have no other gods before Him, but we think the grass is always greener on the other side but how many of us know that it's weeds over there too? Let’s stay with God and where He is.

In 2013 at the women’s victory retreat called the Bride of Christ I learned that the Lord betrothed me.
 
Betroth means - to promise to marry, to wed.

In Hosea 2:19-20 he tells us
“I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me
In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy;
I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
And you shall know the Lord. 

At that retreat Jesus married me. Actually I was His bride long before the revelation came to me; I just didn't know. Do you? If you didn't know, now you do; because He's betrothed you too. He's your husband, He picked you, He came after you and He loved you first.  Let's return back to our first love of God with a commitment, determination, and conviction, to stay in this marriage to the very end; until the Lord God comes back. (Coming back to get His bride).

I don’t know about you but I don't want to cheat on Him anymore.  He is God, I want to trust Him wholehearted and take Him at His word and promises for my life. Matt 28:20b reads and surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

Thanks for reading, be blessed and please share.




Friday, April 10, 2015

Don't Even Think About It....





You love me in spite of me.

You love me so much that you'll send a word to me; even when I think of doing something that's out of your will, you'll send someone to me that's in the midst of that same storm or coming out of it to save us both.

Despite of what it looks like, feels like, if it ain't right, it ain't God. Now it's up to me to do what is right at this point. I can go left, I can go right or I can stay on the narrow path that my Father has laid out for me to walk. It's my free will. A scary thought but it's true

But God, how much does He love me that He'll show me what's ahead before I walk that crooked path. There have been and will be other times again that I’ll feel like this saved path is lonely and that I'm missing out on something but oh God you have a way of letting me know that I'm never alone and that I’m not part of this world. I can’t be, I’m a king’s kid, an heir to the throne, a daughter of God.
You word clearly states in Deuteronomy 31:6 you'll never leave me or forsake me, for the Lord my God goes with me; and since I’m a kings kid, a daughter and an heir,  I can fully rely on the promised word of God in John 18:36 when Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world.

I’m just not; and never have been.

Jesus, you're always right there beside me, behind me and in front of me, you've got me all the way around. You are God that holds me with His righteous right hand.
I thank you God for loving me when I feel unlovable, for keeping me when I don't want to be kept; but what is really mind blowing right now is that He’s covering me even when I just think about coming from under His covenant (covering) that He made and has just for me.

Jesus, you think about and love me just that much. And He feels the same way about you too sisters.
He’s here, He’s near, and you've got me; always have and always will. He’s got you too sis!
I know it, you've shown it but now it's up to me to believe it. You too sis!
Somewhere along the path I changed, I looked another way but God is showing me that it's never too late to get back to Him. You too sis!

We can do it by getting back into our word, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, communing with like-minded people (who love God), not entertaining foolishness, and standing on the solid foundation that was built from the beginning will get us back on track. He’s right there waiting.

This living a saved life is a struggle for real for real; but once you get real with God and yourself you'll find that it becomes easier with Him to stay there. *but it’s a process, an ongoing process.

One more thing, there's so much power in telling your story. You don't know who else is struggling and going through too. Get your power back and tell your story. Share your storm even in the midst of it, there will be sunshine to follow.

Thank you for reading, be blessed and please share, if not this then your story, your message, your testimony, to help release and free someone else.

Friday, April 3, 2015

This is Giving me the Flux!!!

Are some of you in a season of change right now? A season of things surfacing or resurfacing for you and in your heart? So much that you're like God what is this? Because I haven't felt this way in a long time.

Well, if not you; for me it is.

I wasn't sure about it but earlier this week I was having a conversation with someone that sparked some emotions on the inside of me that I was like hold on, wait a minute, what is this?
It wasn't a tornado or tsunami of emotions or feelings but it was a mighty, mighty, did I say mighty rushing wind of them.
A wind that made me have to sit down, sit back, and say ok God...for real, what is this? And why is this happening.

I don't like it, I need help, and I’m feeling a certain way. Again, it's a way that I haven't felt in a long time. I was sad, mad, angry, hurt and then other entanglements started grappling at me too—abandonment, rejection, disappointment. God, why is this coming up? Why now?

I immediately started praying against any seeds of discord, anger, madness, unforgiveness and bitterness to not take root in my heart again towards this person and any other.

Lord, I know how far you’ve brought me and I don’t want to ever go back there again, help me.

He begin to tell me it’s a process (his process), I’m going back into the fire, I’m not going to like it but I’m coming out better as pure gold. Jesus, you were with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fire and you will be with me. But, quiet as kept you’re the one that put us in.

He took me back to a passage in a book I read called The Bait of Satan by John Bevere,
On page 8 and 9 it talks about Buy God’s Gold.

It states and I’m paraphrasing that pure gold (us) is soft and pliable and free from corrosion's (Born Again). It’s when it’s mixed with other metals that it becomes hard and corrosive. This is called alloy (SIN). The more metal (sin) the harder the gold (us, our heart) becomes.

So here comes Jesus, with a great move to set us free from our hardened hearts by having us to go through the fire (circumstances, situations, and conversations) to come out as pure, refined gold.

It’s called flux.

I’m going through the flux in this season, time, and process. Right now.

To refine gold is grinding it (breaking you down) into a powder and mixing it with a substance called flux (Jesus, God, Holy Spirit, Father, Daddy).
The mixture is placed in a furnace (trials, tribulations) and melted by heat. The alloys (sin) are drawn (pulled) to the flux (Jesus) and rise to the surface (your heart) and the gold (you, us) remains at the bottom (at the cross).
The impurities (anger, madness, bitterness, forgiveness, etc.) is removed, by the hands of our God, and therefore, a purer refined gold. A better you; daughter, mother, sister, friend, wife but mostly, woman of God.

So yes, some of us are in a flux season, time, and process right now where stuff is coming up and resurfacing and it doesn’t feel good and we're not truly understanding it, but know that God is right there with you, cleaning and removing everything that doesn’t need to be there.

We’re coming out so much better than how we went in.
Jesus thank you for purifying me to look more and more like you.

Thank you for reading, please share and be blessed.