Late night discovery of Spring and Gods creation 4-9-17

I was waiting for my husband to get home last night from work. It was just after 9 pm.

The moon was out and I could see a few stars peeking through the clouds. The temperature was amazingly warm and the frogs were announcing the beginning of spring!

What a wonderful way God has of reminding us how wonderful His creation is and that even if there are "clouds" in our skies, beauty is all around if you just listen.

 He created the stars in the sky for signs and seasons. I am in the season of a "new awakening" and the stars are telling me of His love and that His plans for me are just beginning!

 The Great and Wonderful Creator has painted the sky with beauty just for us!

Whisper of the Holy Spirit

 Barb Pecha posted this:  

The mere whisper of the Holy Spirit 

can drown out the thundering noise 

of an entire world.  

David Jeremiah

I am listening. It took 40 years for me to open my ears to what He wanted to say. It took my heart to really seek to know Him.

But I am out of the "dessert" and ready to help you, yes anyone who is feeling stuck in a rut and WHO WANTS OUT, please let me know. I can share what happened to me and it just may help you get out of your spiritual rut. It is so awesome to feel and hear His Spirit. 

I am so glad He took me out of my "dessert" and has given me TRUE LIFE. GOD WILL NOT FORCE HIS SPIRIT ON YOU, you must commit to being open to it. 

 If you feel His spirit asking you to dig deeper into a relationship with HIM, NOW is the time. What are you waiting for? The earth to shake? Mountains to crumble? How about just someone who cares for you telling you.... "I am here, lets talk". God works in many ways. 

And so I am telling you.... He wants to pull closer to you. So lets talk! Send me a message if you want to talk about how you can pull closer to God. Thank you Barb Pecha for posting things that inspire us to seek Him.

Screen Doors!

Kissing through screen a door? Heard this expression the other day and then God gave me a word picture.

Do we live our lives with screen doors between us and God?
Image the screen doors are: sin, doubt, anger, pain and false teachings. Imagine we have only two or as many as 100 screen doors between us and God.

We can see God. Hear Him and maybe even feel Him. But the screen doors are still causing a "distance" between us and Him.

We must discover what our "screen doors" are so we can actually shorten that distance and have nothing stand in between us AND OUR SAVIOR.

If you read this, make a comment. Each time you make a comment you build faith. When you build faith you open your eyes to new things. Maybe to "a screen door" in your life. So commenting can cause you to move closer to God. Who is with me on this??????

Betrayal, anger, Gods Annointed feast- Passover! Bringing Freedom

Betrayal. A very serious sin in Gods eyes.

Betrayal in your relationship with Him or your relationship with your spouse (marriage contract) grieves the heart of God.

Sin can not be in the presence of God. So if we are struggling with ANGER and we do not purge that from our lives from our hearts, in our daily practice of life- we risk EVER being in the presence of the Lord! Judgement comes THE MOMENT YOU DIE!

The world would have you believe these things "are your right" because of.... (whatever excuse that can be twisted and applied) but we do not have the right- there is nothing right about it. 

 Passover is coming up. The evening of April 10th-18th. In the Older Covenant (old Testiment) all leaven (sin) was searched for and "cast into the fire" so that their homes were purified from "sin". God established His Appointed Times (Purim and Passover are the first two in the spring) so that we are REMINDED to purify our relationship with HIM and with OTHERS. Sin must be purged from our lives and the Spring Feasts help us to remember to do this.

Passover (not easter) is coming up. The evening of April 10th-18th. In the Older Covenant (old Testament) all leaven (sin) was searched for and "cast into the fire" so that their homes were purified from "sin". God established His Appointed Times (Purim and Passover are the first two in the spring) so that we are REMINDED to purify our relationship with HIM and with OTHERS.

Sin must be purged from our lives and the Spring Feasts help us to remember to do this. Man took took GODS Appointed Times away from us through threats, violence and lies. HE NEVER wanted us to forsake these events. THEY BRING LIFE, FREEDOM AND WISDOM for those who remember what they mean and apply their principles to their lives.

Living Water

Living water. What does that mean? Living water MOVES. It does not stay in one place and become stagnant. It MOVES and brings "life" of all kinds with it.

Yeshua (our Messiah Jesus) was baptized in the Jordan River, in the lowest part of the river just before the Dead Sea. No matter if you are in the lowest part and almost in the Dead Sea, Yeshua MADE A WAY FOR YOU TO BE CLEAN AND PURE. All you have to do is ACCEPT IT, LIVE IT- MAKE IT PART OF YOU.

 He wants us to BE LIVING WATER, that does not stand still, that does not end in a "dead sea" and that BRINGS LIFE to us EVERYDAY and to OTHERS who he has put in our lives. Be that LIVING WATER today with everybody you see, everything you say and with every thought you think.

Take hold of your life- your faith- and BECOME LIVING (MOVING, BREATHING, LIFE BRINGING) WATER!

Modern site at Jordan River where many are baptized today.

 

Come out of the dessert 4-7-17

In the dessert. That is where I was for 40 years! Spiritually I was in a place where I did not allow anything from God to grow to its fullest potential. I was as resistant to God to give me spiritual life as the dessert is to giving plant and animal life. I had let my faith dry up.
During this time God still FED ME AND GAVE ME WATER. He kept "offering more" but I resisted, only taking enough to keep me "alive".
Does that sound familiar? Do you feel you are resisting what God has to offer? Do you feel you could be closer to God but for whatever reason, you are in a rut?
I am FILLED WITH GODS WILL (finally I opened my heart to ALL He has to offer) and full of PASSION! This IS NOT MY DOING BUT HIS. (All I did was stop resisting) And it can be yours too! We are designed to be full of passion. But often we resist. BUT THAT IS NOT WHERE GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO BE!! He has so much more for you than "little bites". He has PREPARED A BANQUET for our delight.
These are not just word pictures but have a TRUE AND GLORIOUS application in our daily lives. WANT SOME???
It can be given to you too. But you have to take control over your feelings and what you see being possible. ARE YOU IN CONTROL (self control) over where your faith is right now? That can be good if you have given that control to God and bad if you have taken control and wont let God in.
Let loose of your fear, pain, anger and all the other things that have NO RIGHT TO BE IN YOUR LIFE. This is a decision. And it has great power to bring you into what you will soon see is Gods will for your life. If you are in a rut, rebuke it and stand firm on your faith. Call out to myself or other women who have been delivered from their rut to find out how.
This is my calling. My desire. To help you come out of the "dessert" and into the PASSION for which YOU WERE CREATED! Send me a private message if you want to talk- I am here for you!
Sharing your thoughts causes what you believe to grow. Not sharing can cause your faith to wither away. God is calling all of us to COME OUT OF THE DESSERT to a land of milk and honey!

Being BAKED in God

God gave me word picture this morning.  He was saying that we need to be "Baked in Him".  What does it mean to be baked?
When you bake something you are setting its componets so that they are no longer changed by the things they are exposed to.  We bake bread, pottery and the sun can bake the earth.
Nothing new can "grow" in something that is baked.  If the ground is baked, new life can not grow because there is a lack of water. If pottery is baked that means it is "set" with whatever it consists of, will harden and never change.  With bread, once it is baked the ingredients are set and can not be changed.
 
God is using the loaf of unleavened bread as an example for us today.

If we are baked with God, that means we are "set" in His ways, His design.  The world can not move us and the evil one can not change us.  Unleavened bread is baked WITHOUT the agent that causes it to rise.  So if we are to be unleavened bread to God, free from sin then we must be baked in His ways!  Baked with God.

How do we do that?  Well it is clear that in scripture that God wants His people to be "separate" from the world.  That does not mean where they live but HOW THEY LIVE.  He wants the "rest of the world to recognize HIS PEOPLE" by what they do or dont do IN HIS NAME.  So to be separate from the world is the first step.

How are we separate from the world?  Quick brake down would be:

1. Know we are sinners, know our sin so that we can purge it from our lives, repent of that sin, accept His son for atonement of that sin and then let God give us a "new" purpose in our lives.
2. Confess our faith in God, our desire to know and follow His ways in our ACTIONS.  Do we hold what is dear to God as Holy?  Do we do what He commands, Go when He tells us to Go, Listen when He speaks to us.  Do we confess with our VERY LIVES that He is the only one we worship- forsaking all sin and worldly activities and distractions that are contrary to His Will?
3. Can the world tell that we are separate?  Do our words speak of our faith both in form and in action?  Do we hold tight to Gods standards for our lives even when the world mocks us or punishes us?  Do we hold tight to God even when the evil one tries to distract us?  

Being Baked in God is a minute by minute activity.  The Hebrews were blessed with the hearts desire to see God in everything!!!!!  Everything they said, everything they did and in everything that exists.  Even trials- they would look for Gods blessings at the end.  Even in pain- they would rejoice for  strength that would be given and the endurance that would be gained.    God uses all things for the good and can cause all things to grow.  Since this is true.... look around you to see what gifts God has planted in your path that can bring blessings. 

There is always something to be gained by Trusting God in every situation.  It is our heart condition and then our mind set that will turn us to accept the blessings or.... accept the curse.  Even the worldy man far from God knows this to be true.  It is our heart condition and mind set that creates in us how we will react and relate to every situation.  So let us, EVERYDAY,  set our hearts to: LOVE FOR GOD and mindsets to: SEEK BLESSINGS FROM GOD and we will be full of more joy and blessings than every before.