Have you ever seen the beauty of a storm? Tornado, thunderstorm, rain, snow, the raging sea. They all have their beauty, and danger. I've stood stunned at some of the footage I've seen and yet there is beauty.
Phil 2:13 "for it is God who works in you both to will and do for His good pleasure." Imagine living for someone else's pleasure. But that's what I want to do is to allow God to do His good pleasure in me!
Storms, they come and go, the wreak havoc then they're gone. What good have they done but to accomplish His will?
Lord in me, will and do of You're good pleasure. I want all of You and none of me, in Jesus Name.

The attributes of God.

We are to have: The attributes of God. His character, His attitude.
We want His peace, His joy, His strength, His power flowing through us, but do we want to display His attributes? Do we even think that's possible? Where did He say in His word that we are not to have His attributes? When He says through Paul, "be imitators of me as I am of Christ." 1Cor 11:1 & Eph 5:1 Is it to mean exactly that, and are we to merely try, or does He not enable us to be able to be imitators of God as beloved children? Why would He ask us to and yet not empower us to? Did He not tell us that He gives us His authority, and yet He does not give us his attributes so we can be faithful representations of Him and His work?
We've all had bad service or a bad attitude from an employee at a restaurant or store we've visited. Does that not reflect directly on the establishment of where they work? And how much more does our attitude need to reflect the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords that we serve?
We all want the fullness of God, there's even movements that talk about that. But do we know that we can indeed fully be imitators of God as beloved children just as Paul talks about in Eph 5:1? It's not as if He were allowed full control of our lives, and if we allowed Him that right everyday, that we wouldn't reflect His personality more is it? If we allowed Him FULL control would He not mold us and shape us into the image He created us to be? To display His glory? To be His hands and feet? To be fully His and none of ourselves? Isn't that what He does in us? What He longs for, and what we should be longing for? And if it is something that He wants, and something that we want, isn't it like Him to be able to perform His Word in us?
He is able, though we are not, to flow through us, to perform all of His works in us completely and fully and; He wants too!! "Lord be our God, be the God that implants in us all the things necessary to be faithful servants in every way, in our hearts, our minds, in every thought word and deed may we reflect You, our King of Kings, our Lord of Lords, the Bright Morning Star, the Alpha and Omega of our lives, in Jesus Name!
Amen!

July 2nd Day of Atonement

Websters on line. Atonement: Being reconciled. Reconciled: To restore friendship
This is what God wants!

Acts Chapter 13 talks about Paul going into the synagog and pronouncing Christ as being raised from the dead, and Jesus being the promised salvation they had been waiting for. The gentiles heard it as well as the Jews, and they all seemed to have accepted it, until the next week when ALL the people in the area came to hear it. When the Jews saw this, they became jealous and stirred the people up, and ended up getting the men cast out of the city.
We have done the same thing today, we're casting out, casting off teachers, apostles, evangelists, prophets and pastors who do not teach what we want them to teach. But worse yet we are raising up for ourselves leaders who don't Love Christ the way we should, and who don't love the sheep they've been entrusted with. There's a love lost there. The kind of Love that Christ died for, the kind that makes all things possible.
As I do this at 1am, I realize that no one may ever read this, but God is reading it even now. Is this the inspired Word of God, or the ramblings of a man? My own thoughts, my own vision of what I think what God wants. i hope not because I trust in Him to speak, not just to me a man, but anyone who trusts in His Name, those of us who have been called according to His purpose, not of our own choosing, but we've been chosen, called, redeemed, and indwelled by His Holy spirit. We must trust in Him to speak, for just as He reminded me this morning; "Lord You have these words of life, where else can I go?" Where else can we go as Peter said to Jesus in John 6 when all the disciples left Him when He started talking about how He was the Bread of Life, and "He who comes to me shall never hunger or thirst." Then they started complaining about this and He said: " Do not murmur among yourselves." He hears us complaining the same way to day. Then Jesus said something very important, that no one comes to Him unless he is drawn by the Father.
Some of the christians in our church just simply haven't been drawn by Him, it's not their fault, they feel like their real Christians in many cases, but the lack of vision, the hearing of the Spirit in our congregations isn't catching all that, it's slipping by, and it needs to stop.
But can we have a body that hears, that sees everything the Spirit see's? He promises that My sheep know My voice (John 10:27) If we know Him, and are known by Him, then we are His, and we hear His voice.
Lord help us to hear, help us to see all that You have for us, and let us not miss anything You say or do, let us be attentive children.
In Jesus Name!
AMEN!!!

We ARE His bride

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child[b] when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
We are His Bride, we are to be married to Christ. By faith Abraham received his inheritance, by faith Sarah received a child even past childbearing, what have we received by faith? Us being His bride, the one without spot or wrinkle that he's coming back for. Doesn't seem like we're there? "Lord help us to receive what You've said by faith, even if we don't see it, and teach us to walk in it, not even knowing where it will lead us, but knowing how faithful You are the author and finisher of our faith, You are always true to Your Word. You don't say it and then not do it, what You say is always true, and it always happens, no matter if it looks like it or not, Your Word will not return without accomplishing what it set out to do, in Jesus Name let us believe Your Word, even now,"
In HIm,
tim

Our sins hold us back from true worship!

Why is the sin of gluttony not mentioned today very much? None of the weight loss shows talk about this sin, or mention that we can lust after food, or that it can hold our hearts. Food tastes really good, and many of us are hooked on things, certain foods can really trip us up. Just like lusting after certain things, like people, certain smells, or the sight of our favorite foods, or even the mention of their names can send us drooling.

But why is this never talked about? Because we all do it from, time to time? Thanksgiving is a time when many people habitually overeat, and still save room for pie! For whatever reason, gluttony seems to be the hidden sin that we ignore, and it can start when we're very young.

James 5:

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In these last days let us live in worship to our wonderful creator, instead of these passing confections that hold our hearts. I saw the most beautiful sun rise this morning. God created that. The same way He created us. He created us to worship Him, without other loves, hinderances that hold us back from true worship.

Hebrews 12:1b

"let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Notice it says lay aside every weight, our lust for food can not only add to our waistline, but the sin of gluttony can hold our hearts from the true worship of the One true God that we are suppose to have in our lives.

"Lord let us run this race, You are the author and finisher, we have shown in and of ourselves we are not good finishers, but Lord You are. So let us live through You, The Author, The Finisher, The Lord God Almighty, The all sufficient One, You are The Lord, and I Love You!!

In Christ,

tim"

Our commitment!

Lisa had a dream some years ago about her being a bride, but what the dream revealed was that she was representing us as the bride of Christ, and she was getting married!!My boss at work told me the other day that he wants to send us to Israel! So I want to renew out vows there, but I feel like it's supposed to be symbolic of us renewing our vows with Christ.

He wants to get married to us!

When He died for us, it was His invitation to a relationship with God. It was the price that He had to pay for us to be able to be presented as The Bride. Now He desires for us to renew that covenant with Him, that He paid for long ago.

Lord let us live for you in these end times, these crucial times that You're ordaining us to live out in the completion of your bride's walk here on this earth. Your completion of Your work.

In Christ's name we pray, AMEN! (Just as I typed this, Rich Mullins sang Amen!)

Where has our Love gone?

Our Love is not our own, and if it is, it's not good enough. What Christ did, and what He is doing, is far greater than ANYTHING we can manufacture.
You missed a beautiful sun rise if you didn't see this mornings, wow. He woke me up and started speaking to me before the cares of this world had a chance to choke things out for me!
"God You are so good. Let me not let the lust for the things of this world come in today and choke out Your word, and let Your Word be a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." (psalm 119:105) In Jesus Name, the Name that is above every other name!
We want Him to guide us but we allow other things to choke out His Word. Pleasure seems good for a moment then we are left with the fallout of what we did that took away His Word from our hearts. If we allow seeds of doubt to grow, it will take away our faith, it will cloud our hearing, it will steal, kill and destroy, because the seed of doubt is sown in our hearts by the devil himself. As God is the author of everything that is good, so the devil is the imitating author of everything that is bad. The father of lies. (John 8:8)
God You are good and in You there is no darkness at all! (1John 1:5)