Jesus

"Jesus, Beloved"

Two weeks ago these were the words that came out of my teacher's mouth at the beginning of class. He could barely speak because he was so broken over the church's neglect for Jesus that he was in tears for nearly half of our two hour class. When he could talk, he continued to say that without the fellowship and love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, all of life comes down to nothing. When so many of us focus on the 'social' and 'poitical' issues of the day, we have forgotten our first love. Issues are not the problem, the neglect of Jesus is. For example: abortion needs to be ended and human trafficking needs to be ended, but so many people have neglected Jesus as the basis for the ending of these... We need to put Jesus back in the center! I believe that if we would just preach Jesus and His life and ministry and kingdom that all these issues would be solved!! People would be less concerned with the issue and would be totally consumed with the heart of Jesus behind each issue!! Beloved, we need to return to our first love!
Jesus I ask that you would show us your glory that we might remember the heights from which we have fallen! We want to be with you where you are! Return to us Jesus and make all things right once again! I pray that you would put the love that is in your Father in us so that we could love you with an everlasting love like He loves you! (John 17.) Jesus, I pray that you would dwell in our hearts and increase our faith! I pray that we would be a people who are rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus Christ and that we would be able to know the highth, the depth, the width and the length of your love for us in Christ!! Bring to fullness the Spirit's work in our lives! Take us deeper Holy Spirit! We want nothing less than what you have for us!! Bring us into the fullness of the Spirit. (Ephesians 3:17-19.)

Only Love

Just sitting in the prayer room today. I'm relaxing and getting ready for my class later, but for now I am simply enjoying the presence of God.:) I wonder how many people truly realize the beauty of just sitting at the feet of God? To be fascinated by my Father, Bridegroom and the Holy Spirit living inside of me is by far, the best thing in the world. I would rather be in the presence of God forever than to live a hundred lifetimes with all the luxuries of this world! As one of my favorite songs says, "My soul sings, how I love You!" I delight in the fellowship with my Savior! How amazing that we get the chance to have this kind of partnership, if we will just step out in faith to follow! "Oh Lord, our Lord! How majestic is Your name in all the earth!!" Just imagine this,, my best friend is the Maker of the entire world! All things are in Him and without Him there is nothing!! (John 1:3) !!!AND!!! on top of being my best friend, He lives inside of me!!! Counseling me and leading me into deeper fellowship with God, preparing me to be a better bride for Jesus!!! If you find my Beloved, would you tell Him that I am lovesick for His return. I am lovesick for Him because I am His, and He is mine (SS 6:3)!! He alone is my satisfaction, only He can capture my heart! All others will fade away, but only Love remains! Fascinate my heart oh God! Come into Your garden. :)

~Joy~

... In Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Psalm 16:11

A joyful heart is good medicine...
Proverbs 17:22

Not a lot to say tonight because I need to write a paper that is due on Monday. Only one more paper after this one for my 'Existence and Majesty of God' class. :) So this blog is my writing "warm up exercise" before I have to actually write super seriously, haha ugh :s

I decided to write a little bit about joy because we all need some more of it! There are many different kinds of joy. There is joy when you turn in all your homework on time, there is joy when you cook a really great meal, there is borrowed joy from a good movie, there is joy when you score the winning point(s) in an athletic competition, there is joy when you meet a new friend, there is joy when you marry your husband or wife, there is joy in buying your very first home/car etc..., there is joy when everything in your life is going perfect and even when it's not perfect you can usually find something to be joyful about... but these are all temporary joys...
what about those days when everythihg is going wrong, or you got a terrible grade on an assignment, or you burnt your dinner and started your stove on fire, where is your joy found when you are backed into a financial corner with no visible way out, or you feel like you have no friends, and you break your ankle on your way to your car and therefore cannot walk and have a huge medical bill? Where is the joy to be found on those horrible days?
For this, I will turn to Nehemiah 8:10 and Psalms 16:11 where they directly answer our question. They state "... Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." and "... In Your presence is fullness of joy..."
Jesus so desires that we find our joy in Him and Him alone. He doesn't want our fascination with other, finite beings and things to get in our way of being fascinated with Him. Because when we are fascinated with Him, it won't matter what comes our way in this life because we will be able to find joy in Jesus Christ! And the joy in Jesus is eternal and can never be taken away!!

"This joy that I've found, the world can't take it away!!!"
IHOP-KC Worship Chorus

,,i.wanna.b.where.YOU.r..!

One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord And to meditate in His temple.
Psalm 27:4 NASB

Thus says the Lord, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB

Jesus, let me seek You for all the days of my life! Reveal to me the mysteries that are found in You and let me not grow weary in searching You out! I want to be with You and only You! Take me away with You! Draw me away and let me run with You! I am Yours and You are mine!!!

Have you seen Him? Have you seen my Beloved?
He is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding amont ten thousand.
His head is like gold, and His eyes like doves beside streams of water!
(Song of Solomon 5:10)

My soul longs for the One I love... and I will search for Him, and only Him!!

For I am lovesick...

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Splendid and majestic is His work,
And His righteousness endures forever.
Psalm 111:3 NASB

Saturdays are wonderfully relaxing if done well. Sleeping in, running to the grocery store, doing laundry, spending time with my Jesus... :) there is nothing better!
I am house sitting this weekend and that means snuggling with their dog as well, so with all that, my day couldn't get much better!! But wait, there's more! It is going to get better because Allee and Andrea are coming over to watch movies, and hang! Yay! Besides the fact that I cannot get the tv to work, this day is going fantastic! :))

I have been craving spaghetti for a couple days, so I decided that I would make it tonight since I will have friends to enjoy it with me. :)

I am supposed to be writing a paper that is due Monday in my 'Existence and Majesty of God' class, but I am figuring that that would spoil my wonderfully relaxing day,, lol... It's supposed to be on an attribute of God that we have either talked about in class, or read in 'The Knowledge of the Holy' by A.W. Tozer. I've been delaying all day and so I decided to delay a little longer so I could talk to you. Or maybe I just have homework A.D.D... I think it's a serious possibility!

Well, if I am going to finish this paper before Allee and Andrea come over, I should go :)

Blessings!!!

Made For Love

Dear Readers...

It's tomorrow now and I'm laying here in bed watching Cory's setfrom tonight...

Have you ever stopped to think why God made you?... I mean just think about it for a second. Stop reading this and just ask God why He made you... okay now keep reading. :)
!!!!NEWSFLASH!!!! HE MADE YOU FOR HIS GLORY!!!!
He loves you soooo stinkin much. He delights in You and You bring Him glory... the fact that you are living , breathing and alive glorifies Him!

So what do you do with this information? Love Him because He first loved you!!! Way before forever, when God was looking for someone to love, Your name, Your face, Your personality filled His mind. I don't know if you know this or not but YOU RAVISH HIS HEART!!! Only You can love Him the way you do... So love Him with all your heart, soul, mind and strength!!!!

You only have one life to live, so you might as well do it right! LOVE HIM because that is all that He desires from you! :))

goodnight and God bless!!!

Lessons From The Playground

O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! Psalm 34:8 NASB

Ok guys, here it goes. I've never blogged before and I can't promise that I'm going to be any good at it either... But I have some things on my heart that I would like to share.
God is so good. I am so thankful for every breath that He has blessed me with. I am content with where I am in life and daily I try to thank God for this journey that I am on because it is only by His grace that I am where I am...
For those of you who don't know where I am, I am a student at the International House of Prayer University, 'aka' IHOPU, not to be confused with the pancake restaurant. :) I am a first year student and so far, I am being completely ruined by the love of my Father. Day after day I am experiencing newer and deeper revelations of His love and purpose for me and humanity in general. His love letter to us has come alive to me in a new and experiencial way that I can't help but fall more madly in love with Him. :)

I have been meditating the last few days about becoming like a child again... Something that Stuart Greaves said the other day in my 'Existence and Majesty of God' class has stuck with me and has been constantly following me everywhere I go. I want to go before my Father with the heart of a child, regardless of the current situation, always being childlike in my faith and trust in my Daddy. I want to trust that my Daddy is right ALL the time, if it says it in the Bible, I want to believe it and trust Him that He is always right... because He is always right. I may not understand, but I do know that if He says it, it's true.
So in that, I want to go back to the playground days. Not physically of course (playgrounds are dirty). But the attitude of every child at the playground when they talk to others is that their daddy is always right. It doesn't matter what subject they are talking about, if their daddy said it then it's right. Period. No questions asked. In an arguement when two kids cannot find common ground, the bottom line for each kid is my daddy is right and yours is wrong. Then when that fails, punches are thrown... Blood is shed... You get the point. :)
We as Christians need to have that childlike attitude that our Father is ALWAYS right. That doesn't mean that we should resort to violence if someone disagrees with us... haha. :) But to have that trust that no matter what this world tries to tell us, our Father is right. Period. No questions asked. It doesn't mean we need to understand everything that His Word says, because we will never ever understand everything, but we need to have faith that even in our lack of understanding, He is always True... it's who He is and He can never lie. Period. No questions asked.

I would like to finish this post with a quote from the 'Knowledge of the Holy' by A.W. Tozer.

"Every man lives by faith, the nonbeliever as well as the saint; the one by faith in natural laws and the other by faith in God. Every man throughout his entire life constantly accepts without understanding. The most learned sage can be reduced to silence with one simple question, 'What?' The answer to that question lies forever in the abyss of unknowing beyond any man's ability to discover. 'God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof,' (Job 28:23) but mortal man never."

Well, I'm done for today! I hope my blogging didn't start off too terrible. :))

May you be greatly blessed!