Lord God, I pray that You would bless a ministry for Your Glory. I submit myself unto You, for I cannot claim this vision for myself. I pray that You would nourish this seed and give it of the Water of Life.
You are my only. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.
When I am in my weakness, I am at my strongest.
You are all I have left and all that I need.
I just want to submit myself unto You. I ask for Your wisdom that is freely given to those who ask... to understand Your mystery, Your will, Your provision for this Life that I have surrendered. It is no longer I who live, but You who lives in me. Greater is He who is in me, that he who is in the world.
Lord, I ask for Your anointing, that You would fill me according to Your riches as I present myself as an empty vessel before You.
Faith without works is dead. Those who share, more will be given. You have been responsible w/ a little, and I give you more.
Lord, let me be Your song. Let me be in tune w/ the song that You sing for me. Let me reverberate Your song in my life and for those around me.
Glory be to You.
In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Willfulness or submission
Jesus, come into my heart. I accept You as Savior in my life.
Could this be a misleading prayer? Who are we to command Him what to do? When we come before Him on judgement day, we are not going to ask Him to come to us... but it will be us that go to Him.
The main word that we should focus on is "I". How many times have people accepted Him into their hearts and nothing happens- I can testify to that statement.
We do nothing in the transformation- literally. But it is Him that does His work in us. Instead of saying 'I', we should be asking Him humbly for Him to come; we really should be coming before Him, knowing that we have lived a sinful life; we should be confessing that we have been wrong. We need to do this before the cross... confessing all sin at the foot of the cross and submit ourselves to His Truth and His ways.
New International Version (©1984)
Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
It is He that is the giver of life, it is He that corrects us, it is He that blesses. The only thing we really gotta do is surrender all and submit ourselves unto Him. Its His work, His life, He is in control and directs His will in our lives. He who began a good work in us will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Could this be a misleading prayer? Who are we to command Him what to do? When we come before Him on judgement day, we are not going to ask Him to come to us... but it will be us that go to Him.
The main word that we should focus on is "I". How many times have people accepted Him into their hearts and nothing happens- I can testify to that statement.
We do nothing in the transformation- literally. But it is Him that does His work in us. Instead of saying 'I', we should be asking Him humbly for Him to come; we really should be coming before Him, knowing that we have lived a sinful life; we should be confessing that we have been wrong. We need to do this before the cross... confessing all sin at the foot of the cross and submit ourselves to His Truth and His ways.
New International Version (©1984)
Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
It is He that is the giver of life, it is He that corrects us, it is He that blesses. The only thing we really gotta do is surrender all and submit ourselves unto Him. Its His work, His life, He is in control and directs His will in our lives. He who began a good work in us will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Bankruptcy
Pretty tough thing to go through what I am going through. I can't even pay attention let alone my bills. But one thing that I do have peace about is... the rest that God puts into my life.
It is upon my heart that this bankruptcy thing may have to come to pass. The ways of this world has put me into bondage in the ways that I had coveted according to my heart. I lived in that manner- according to the ways of the world.
In bankruptcy, I must declare all my valuables so the trustee may review them and may take them away to pay for part of the debt that I owe them. Much of it I wish to keep and not let go. I could potentially hide some stuff... but that still would not be right. God is watching.
I will inventory all my stuff and declare EVERYTHING as best as I can- especially all that seem to be most important to me... my fishing gear... golfing equipment... computer.
But, I also think that in filing for bankruptcy, my credit of this world will be no more. This will only force me to FULLY rely on my Provider instead of this credit that everyone so covets.
My trust in in the Lord, to teach me, to raise me, to feed me when I am hungry, to give me thirst when I am thirsty. It is perhaps a desire that He has put in me as He did in Paul? To serve Him fully and to rely on my Savior in all things He puts before me?
It is upon my heart that this bankruptcy thing may have to come to pass. The ways of this world has put me into bondage in the ways that I had coveted according to my heart. I lived in that manner- according to the ways of the world.
In bankruptcy, I must declare all my valuables so the trustee may review them and may take them away to pay for part of the debt that I owe them. Much of it I wish to keep and not let go. I could potentially hide some stuff... but that still would not be right. God is watching.
I will inventory all my stuff and declare EVERYTHING as best as I can- especially all that seem to be most important to me... my fishing gear... golfing equipment... computer.
But, I also think that in filing for bankruptcy, my credit of this world will be no more. This will only force me to FULLY rely on my Provider instead of this credit that everyone so covets.
My trust in in the Lord, to teach me, to raise me, to feed me when I am hungry, to give me thirst when I am thirsty. It is perhaps a desire that He has put in me as He did in Paul? To serve Him fully and to rely on my Savior in all things He puts before me?
Friday, March 25, 2011
"True science" of God
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
God created everything, it doesn't take a scientist to figure that out. Thats what the Truth is. Everything is put forth by Him, orchestrated in perfect fashion. It doesn't matter how it happens, although it is very interesting to see how He puts everything into action.
But, we can say there is a science to life as we know it. I present exhibit-1 (myself). Through rigorous trials I have gone through, there is cause and effect. There is reaction to every action. Either it will produce good fruit or bad. Blessing or consequences.
The scientist is, per say, God. I am His subject. What He is trying to do is produce good fruit out of His labor. There are many times that I falter before Him to get the desired effect in which He wishes. But, nonetheless, an action is produced. And when that action is produced it can affect not only myself, but those around me; always in a negative manner- if good ethics is the standard in which is being tested.
Chances are that He is going to put me through it again... and again... and again- until the faith-building trial produces good fruit and His Wisdom is received by me- according to the richness of His glory. Only until then, could I share what I have learned w/ someone else whom may experience the same trials- and the fruits of His labor continues and never stops- according to His desires in which He uses it.
Science can be a bad word in regards to the Christian faith- it is okay to seek how something God has made, how things of this world work... just be careful not to take the glory for yourself or give it to someone else; although people may entice you to their deceptive ways to draw you away for God.
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
God created everything, it doesn't take a scientist to figure that out. Thats what the Truth is. Everything is put forth by Him, orchestrated in perfect fashion. It doesn't matter how it happens, although it is very interesting to see how He puts everything into action.
But, we can say there is a science to life as we know it. I present exhibit-1 (myself). Through rigorous trials I have gone through, there is cause and effect. There is reaction to every action. Either it will produce good fruit or bad. Blessing or consequences.
The scientist is, per say, God. I am His subject. What He is trying to do is produce good fruit out of His labor. There are many times that I falter before Him to get the desired effect in which He wishes. But, nonetheless, an action is produced. And when that action is produced it can affect not only myself, but those around me; always in a negative manner- if good ethics is the standard in which is being tested.
Chances are that He is going to put me through it again... and again... and again- until the faith-building trial produces good fruit and His Wisdom is received by me- according to the richness of His glory. Only until then, could I share what I have learned w/ someone else whom may experience the same trials- and the fruits of His labor continues and never stops- according to His desires in which He uses it.
Science can be a bad word in regards to the Christian faith- it is okay to seek how something God has made, how things of this world work... just be careful not to take the glory for yourself or give it to someone else; although people may entice you to their deceptive ways to draw you away for God.
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Vindicated
What a powerful word that God can describe His work in our lives. It is showing proof that we can trust in Him through all the trial He puts us through.
There was a time in my life when a slow vehicle would be in the way of my self-righteousness. My instant gratification for myself would be to curse that person as I held them in contempt... they weren't worthy of me going around them- especially if they were in the fast lane. But the only gratification I got was a shameful feeling- being that of me slapping myself in the face because of whom I had to go around... realizing that it was just an old lady just trying to stay on the road.
This happened time after time. And time after time I reaped the same conviction of shame from the finger of God. But, low and behold, after repetitive conditioning of this faith-building trial, I have graduated to humbleness before the Lord. I now give the benefit of the doubt (or shall I say 'Lord'?) when ever I come upon another co-habitant of this world.
Ya see? My fleshly desires to cast down other people as reinforced or directed by the enemy and that what I did. I had sown injustice and reaped conviction of the Lord... sowing the wrong kind of seeds.
Sowing seeds is what we do, its actually begins by God- He is the one actually sowing a seed in us so that we may learn. When we aren't getting Him message, He just doesn't give up on us- He keeps putting us through that faith-building trial until we get it.
God's vindication can only happen if we trust and believe in His ways- the ways that He desires for us to handle any situation that happens in our lives. So instead of listening to the twisting thorn that is in our flesh that produces the wrong fruit, we can resist the enemy and he will depart from us. If we be still and know that He is God, we can be patient and humble in His righteousness, then, we can be vindicated- vs. satan, before God and by God.
The victory is already won if we think about it.
There was a time in my life when a slow vehicle would be in the way of my self-righteousness. My instant gratification for myself would be to curse that person as I held them in contempt... they weren't worthy of me going around them- especially if they were in the fast lane. But the only gratification I got was a shameful feeling- being that of me slapping myself in the face because of whom I had to go around... realizing that it was just an old lady just trying to stay on the road.
This happened time after time. And time after time I reaped the same conviction of shame from the finger of God. But, low and behold, after repetitive conditioning of this faith-building trial, I have graduated to humbleness before the Lord. I now give the benefit of the doubt (or shall I say 'Lord'?) when ever I come upon another co-habitant of this world.
Ya see? My fleshly desires to cast down other people as reinforced or directed by the enemy and that what I did. I had sown injustice and reaped conviction of the Lord... sowing the wrong kind of seeds.
Sowing seeds is what we do, its actually begins by God- He is the one actually sowing a seed in us so that we may learn. When we aren't getting Him message, He just doesn't give up on us- He keeps putting us through that faith-building trial until we get it.
God's vindication can only happen if we trust and believe in His ways- the ways that He desires for us to handle any situation that happens in our lives. So instead of listening to the twisting thorn that is in our flesh that produces the wrong fruit, we can resist the enemy and he will depart from us. If we be still and know that He is God, we can be patient and humble in His righteousness, then, we can be vindicated- vs. satan, before God and by God.
The victory is already won if we think about it.
Thank You Lord God for this day and for the free will that you have given us. I just wanna take this time to surrender it and submit myself unto You and Your ways, for I know what I can become and its destruction and waywardness it can produce.
I seek the great plans that You have for me because that is what You have promised. Create in me a burning fire if You find favor in me. Let me a carrier of the Flame. I present myself as an empty vessel. I deny all my thoughts and let me focus on You and Your ways... not mine.
I thank and praise You for Your work in this world as well as in me. Please pray for me first and convict me of any residual sin that I am practicing.
I seek the great plans that You have for me because that is what You have promised. Create in me a burning fire if You find favor in me. Let me a carrier of the Flame. I present myself as an empty vessel. I deny all my thoughts and let me focus on You and Your ways... not mine.
I thank and praise You for Your work in this world as well as in me. Please pray for me first and convict me of any residual sin that I am practicing.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
A remnant of hope preserved for restoration.
Thank You for that remnant, thank You for letting me see it, thank You for speaking to me.
For He works all things together for good, to those who love Him.
If He is welling up inside of you, answer Him. Learn to identify His voice. He will come to you first. If He is calling you, put everythin down and seek Him, answer Him. Know that something is going to happen- wait for confirmation to what He has spoken to you. Surrender unto Him, praise Him, deny your self-righteousness.
There are feelings for my wife- that of which I cannot claim for myself. But, this desire I believe is of the Lord. Glory to Him who works everything that was meant evil against me, God meant it for good. My old pattern was to move on in my relationship w/ my wife and divorce her... but those were the thoughts of the flesh/satan.
I must surrender myself and wait for confirmation, proceeding forward on this God given desire so that His glory can come into fruition. God is sowing something here, so I must affirm it and come into cohesion w/ this desire. I must let Him water and nurture His work for the restoration process He has begun. satan will try and thwart it, but resist the enemy and he will depart from you.
Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit... I hear Your prayer. I thank You. I praise You. I honor You. I surrender unto You. I yield to You. I ask for Your wisdom, which You give freely, to understand Your mystery and provision for my life, for my marriage, for my finances, for my children, for Your Life that You live in Me- it is no longer I who live, but You who lives in me. Hallelulia, Amen
For He works all things together for good, to those who love Him.
If He is welling up inside of you, answer Him. Learn to identify His voice. He will come to you first. If He is calling you, put everythin down and seek Him, answer Him. Know that something is going to happen- wait for confirmation to what He has spoken to you. Surrender unto Him, praise Him, deny your self-righteousness.
There are feelings for my wife- that of which I cannot claim for myself. But, this desire I believe is of the Lord. Glory to Him who works everything that was meant evil against me, God meant it for good. My old pattern was to move on in my relationship w/ my wife and divorce her... but those were the thoughts of the flesh/satan.
I must surrender myself and wait for confirmation, proceeding forward on this God given desire so that His glory can come into fruition. God is sowing something here, so I must affirm it and come into cohesion w/ this desire. I must let Him water and nurture His work for the restoration process He has begun. satan will try and thwart it, but resist the enemy and he will depart from you.
Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit... I hear Your prayer. I thank You. I praise You. I honor You. I surrender unto You. I yield to You. I ask for Your wisdom, which You give freely, to understand Your mystery and provision for my life, for my marriage, for my finances, for my children, for Your Life that You live in Me- it is no longer I who live, but You who lives in me. Hallelulia, Amen
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
I can still press forward... I can still 'patiently' press forward.
I can still 'patiently' press forward... expecting but w/ patience.
Christ was crucified for a long time. He had to lug His cross for what must have seemed like forever. Can you relate to that as much as I can?
As I hold my arms and hands up upon my cross, I asked "why have You forsaken me?". All I can sense is satan's (or shall I say God's wrath) upon this bludgeoned body of mine.
Whom have I trusted? Whom do I dwell with? Is the enemy amongst me? Why the badgering, why the put downs, why the expectations of what others expect of me? Everything is conditional.
Where is the 'positive, encouraging, kaaaaaaa-love' attributes that defines Christ? Thus, I close my door to the world to come in fellowship w/ God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit. He still calls me His own. I must be well spoken for (I hope). But the chance I hear His call- I can answer it. What do I mean?
Well, I just gone done a few days ago bashing in my head and lashing my legs w/ dowel rods. That is to say that this worldly people does not Love me like my Lord does; I react negatively to my surroundings in an uproar- reaping the seeds of satan. But, God has shown me what I am up against... and how do I learn to respond to it.
Back to positive, encouraging, kaaaaaa-love........ People just don't like being put down, or seeing people trying to hurt us- because it does. ANSWER: Why not just give an apology- say "sorry". Perhaps its that simple. In the midst of that proclomation is the Peace of God. Give unto Caesar what is due to Caesar. Fight fire w/ the Water of Life. It both... humbles us and... if it humbles us- it will humble the people in the midst. Do not cast a stone in return- whether it is upon yourself or not. But, His Truth and Love and Righteousness and Salvation and Gospel and Faith and Word will put them to shame.
Now you gotta practice what you preach!
Christ was crucified for a long time. He had to lug His cross for what must have seemed like forever. Can you relate to that as much as I can?
As I hold my arms and hands up upon my cross, I asked "why have You forsaken me?". All I can sense is satan's (or shall I say God's wrath) upon this bludgeoned body of mine.
Whom have I trusted? Whom do I dwell with? Is the enemy amongst me? Why the badgering, why the put downs, why the expectations of what others expect of me? Everything is conditional.
Where is the 'positive, encouraging, kaaaaaaa-love' attributes that defines Christ? Thus, I close my door to the world to come in fellowship w/ God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit. He still calls me His own. I must be well spoken for (I hope). But the chance I hear His call- I can answer it. What do I mean?
Well, I just gone done a few days ago bashing in my head and lashing my legs w/ dowel rods. That is to say that this worldly people does not Love me like my Lord does; I react negatively to my surroundings in an uproar- reaping the seeds of satan. But, God has shown me what I am up against... and how do I learn to respond to it.
Back to positive, encouraging, kaaaaaa-love........ People just don't like being put down, or seeing people trying to hurt us- because it does. ANSWER: Why not just give an apology- say "sorry". Perhaps its that simple. In the midst of that proclomation is the Peace of God. Give unto Caesar what is due to Caesar. Fight fire w/ the Water of Life. It both... humbles us and... if it humbles us- it will humble the people in the midst. Do not cast a stone in return- whether it is upon yourself or not. But, His Truth and Love and Righteousness and Salvation and Gospel and Faith and Word will put them to shame.
Now you gotta practice what you preach!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Sweetly Accessorized?
What is wrong w/ a factory vehicle? Nothing. It came w/ all the gadgets necessary for it to run according to whom engineered it. Then, why is it that people add modifications and accessorize it according to their hearts desires?
We are beautifully made according to His Glory. Nothing fancy, but fully functional. Why is it that we begin to accessorize it? We add ashtrays, bottle holders, fancy chrome, loud speakers, flashy wheels, extravagant paint job. All of this stuff gets in the way of our Lord. It is our focus... our idol.
The byproduct of all such things is driven by pride, self-righteousness, glamour, attention, complacency, focus on ourselves; all idols that draw us away from the Lord our God. We have made ourselves into something that bears us down according to satan's way.
All this stuff is not needed for His glory, when in fact it gets in the way. We need His help to detach these meaningless products that seem so important to us. We need to empty these things if we are to be empty vessels. We need to become nothing... because w/out Him- we are nothing. He is the one that increases, that provides, that nourishes, that teaches, that ministers, whom speaks to us.
We need to tune that radio station to Him- not to the influential music that people listen to. We need to tune into the song into the song that He sings for us. I heard that a music instrument cannot reach out and reverberate other instruments, like that of a band, unless there is another instrument that is of the same tune; like that of a guitar. If you pluck one string on one guitar, another guitars thing will vibrate... but only the string of the same frequency. So, lets tune and focus in on whom comes to us and speaks to us. Its God that comes to us, we don't come to Him. We are merely answering His call.
We are all perfectly made, we do not need to make ourselves into an idol- either for ourselves or for other people. He is the one to use us- to fill us according to His Glory... but only if we are an empty vessel, will He will us to do the work He has set before us.
We are beautifully made according to His Glory. Nothing fancy, but fully functional. Why is it that we begin to accessorize it? We add ashtrays, bottle holders, fancy chrome, loud speakers, flashy wheels, extravagant paint job. All of this stuff gets in the way of our Lord. It is our focus... our idol.
The byproduct of all such things is driven by pride, self-righteousness, glamour, attention, complacency, focus on ourselves; all idols that draw us away from the Lord our God. We have made ourselves into something that bears us down according to satan's way.
All this stuff is not needed for His glory, when in fact it gets in the way. We need His help to detach these meaningless products that seem so important to us. We need to empty these things if we are to be empty vessels. We need to become nothing... because w/out Him- we are nothing. He is the one that increases, that provides, that nourishes, that teaches, that ministers, whom speaks to us.
We need to tune that radio station to Him- not to the influential music that people listen to. We need to tune into the song into the song that He sings for us. I heard that a music instrument cannot reach out and reverberate other instruments, like that of a band, unless there is another instrument that is of the same tune; like that of a guitar. If you pluck one string on one guitar, another guitars thing will vibrate... but only the string of the same frequency. So, lets tune and focus in on whom comes to us and speaks to us. Its God that comes to us, we don't come to Him. We are merely answering His call.
We are all perfectly made, we do not need to make ourselves into an idol- either for ourselves or for other people. He is the one to use us- to fill us according to His Glory... but only if we are an empty vessel, will He will us to do the work He has set before us.
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