Paul had asked the Lord to remove a thorn in his flesh, a "messenger sent to buffet his body" and the Lord resounded to him "My grace is sufficient for you for My power is made perfect in your weakness." (2nd Cor. 12)
My grace is sufficient....I Love that, I need that and it's what He gives with no partiality, with no regard of who I am, it's all based on who He is, and I am so glad!
"Lord let Your grace be sufficient for me in every way. Let all Your provision be enough and let me never long for more."
In Jesus name, amen.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
No darkness at all!
God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all 1 John 1:5
So if we're hidden in Christ, NO DARKNESS, whohoo!!
So if we're hidden in Christ, NO DARKNESS, whohoo!!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Is eating what I do not need a sin?
Mark 9:29 & Matthew 17:21. "These kind only come out by prayer and fasting."
The disciples were brought a man's son who had a demon and they were trying to cast it out, but couldn't. This son was being tortured violently, and the demon would not let him go. Jesus came up and saw a crowd and asked about it, the father told Him how this demon terrorizes his son, The Lord rebuked the spirit, it threw him down one more time and then it left him.
When asked later by His disciples why they couldn't cast him out He said these kind only come out by prayer and fasting, one translation says much prayer and fasting!
If we have not committed our lives to prayer and fasting, it may very well be a sin. I've known guys who have gone to the doctor and been told unless they lose a ton of weight and start eating healthy, they will develop diseases, and they will die. Some of these people start losing weight immediately, and do very well. Others seem to not believe it, or care enough, and they go on with their lifestyles and eat what they want, and yes, die early.
The lust of our flesh is a powerful thing if given into.
But what about this diligence issue. Much prayer and fasting, this is a disciplined life is it not? Like a professional athlete it requires hard work, discipline in mind and body, and for the Christian living a prayer and fasted life, it means given over to the Holy Spirit, completely.
I was just thinking about senseless killing, like a drive by shooting that hits the wrong house...do we live senseless lives, specially those of us "hidden in Christ." Do we live this life all for Him, half and half? Zeal for Christ, burning passionately for Him, directed by His Spirit?
This can't be a thing of works, they tried to cast the demon out, but according to Jesus instructions, these kind only come out by prayer and fasting. So do we live, do I live, a prayer and fasted life. No I do not, as He has instructed me to.
If my life is His, hidden in Christ, and it's no longer I that live, but He that lives in me, what place do I have, what right do I have to now control my life? If I have given it up to be saved, shouldn't I give up all control as well? If I sell a property, and it's no longer mine, if I try and go live there still, isn't that trespassing? If I sell my car, but keep a set of keys and go and drive it, isn't that stealing?
We have become thieves robbing the temple of God that we are. We are not our own any more, we have been bought with a price, the price of Christ's life. And if we still assume control of our lives, we are thieves and trespassers!
We must not work in the flesh, but we must yield to the Spirit at all times. (Which we also must not do as a work of the flesh)
For some of us we just don't hear that we're going astray, because we are not attune to His Spirit. We have become dulled in our senses. "Lord, quicken our senses once again, whatever has caused us to lose sight of You, redeem that thing in our lives, and let us like sheep to a shepherd, hear your voice, so You can once again lead us as You will, in Jesus Name, amen!"
I have noticed in my own life that there are times I hear my voice better than His!? "Lord make that the opposite, that I hear You above all else, in Jesus Name!"
Mark 9:29 & Matthew 17:21. "These kind only come out by prayer and fasting."
The disciples were brought a man's son who had a demon and they were trying to cast it out, but couldn't. This son was being tortured violently, and the demon would not let him go. Jesus came up and saw a crowd and asked about it, the father told Him how this demon terrorizes his son, The Lord rebuked the spirit, it threw him down one more time and then it left him.
When asked later by His disciples why they couldn't cast him out He said these kind only come out by prayer and fasting, one translation says much prayer and fasting!
If we have not committed our lives to prayer and fasting, it may very well be a sin. I've known guys who have gone to the doctor and been told unless they lose a ton of weight and start eating healthy, they will develop diseases, and they will die. Some of these people start losing weight immediately, and do very well. Others seem to not believe it, or care enough, and they go on with their lifestyles and eat what they want, and yes, die early.
The lust of our flesh is a powerful thing if given into.
But what about this diligence issue. Much prayer and fasting, this is a disciplined life is it not? Like a professional athlete it requires hard work, discipline in mind and body, and for the Christian living a prayer and fasted life, it means given over to the Holy Spirit, completely.
I was just thinking about senseless killing, like a drive by shooting that hits the wrong house...do we live senseless lives, specially those of us "hidden in Christ." Do we live this life all for Him, half and half? Zeal for Christ, burning passionately for Him, directed by His Spirit?
This can't be a thing of works, they tried to cast the demon out, but according to Jesus instructions, these kind only come out by prayer and fasting. So do we live, do I live, a prayer and fasted life. No I do not, as He has instructed me to.
If my life is His, hidden in Christ, and it's no longer I that live, but He that lives in me, what place do I have, what right do I have to now control my life? If I have given it up to be saved, shouldn't I give up all control as well? If I sell a property, and it's no longer mine, if I try and go live there still, isn't that trespassing? If I sell my car, but keep a set of keys and go and drive it, isn't that stealing?
We have become thieves robbing the temple of God that we are. We are not our own any more, we have been bought with a price, the price of Christ's life. And if we still assume control of our lives, we are thieves and trespassers!
We must not work in the flesh, but we must yield to the Spirit at all times. (Which we also must not do as a work of the flesh)
For some of us we just don't hear that we're going astray, because we are not attune to His Spirit. We have become dulled in our senses. "Lord, quicken our senses once again, whatever has caused us to lose sight of You, redeem that thing in our lives, and let us like sheep to a shepherd, hear your voice, so You can once again lead us as You will, in Jesus Name, amen!"
I have noticed in my own life that there are times I hear my voice better than His!? "Lord make that the opposite, that I hear You above all else, in Jesus Name!"
Saturday, November 13, 2010
At His word
The Lord reminded me this morning about how Peter was told by Jesus in Luke 5 that peter should go out and let down his nets, even though Peter said "Lord we have been out all night and have caught nothing, yet AT YOUR WORD I will do it." We know the story, he caught so much fish that he called another boat over, and they both started sinking because there was so much fish. I have been told by teachers that this might have been a months worth of fishing, but they left it all and followed Him.
At His Word. Wow, what a phrase.
At His Word:
The demons flee
The dead come back to life
The blind see
The deaf hear
There are so many more, at His Word. I want to be at His beck and call, I want to be At His Word at all times. He alone is worthy of that kind of attention, and I need to give Him that kind of attention!
Lord help us to believe in Your words so much that nothing else can even be spoke and believed, except Your Words, YOu are worthy, You are holy, You are good, You are faithful, You are wonderful,marvelous, mighty, and I Love you, in Jesus Name, amen.
At His Word. Wow, what a phrase.
At His Word:
The demons flee
The dead come back to life
The blind see
The deaf hear
There are so many more, at His Word. I want to be at His beck and call, I want to be At His Word at all times. He alone is worthy of that kind of attention, and I need to give Him that kind of attention!
Lord help us to believe in Your words so much that nothing else can even be spoke and believed, except Your Words, YOu are worthy, You are holy, You are good, You are faithful, You are wonderful,marvelous, mighty, and I Love you, in Jesus Name, amen.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Playing war
I was playing the card game war with my 6 year old this morning. One thing that struck me is that whenI have an ace, or king os such I have this expectation that I am going to win, but when I have a lower care especially like a 2 or 3 I know I am probably not going to win. But what's weird with God is there re not probably's, there's only' s. Only His Word, only right or wrong, only black or white, there is no other. We don't always like that, we want grays, we want maybes, or do we?
Do we really want a maybe when we're about to get married, or applying for a job, or making the team? Do we want maybe's when we stand be fore Him on that great and final days?
Let's not believe in maybes, let's believe in only's, and be confident that He holds all the aces, and all the high cards, and the deck is stacked, in fact it's His.
Do we really want a maybe when we're about to get married, or applying for a job, or making the team? Do we want maybe's when we stand be fore Him on that great and final days?
Let's not believe in maybes, let's believe in only's, and be confident that He holds all the aces, and all the high cards, and the deck is stacked, in fact it's His.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Have faith, the faith He gives you, and believe!
James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
If this is instruction, how many of us do this? If not, and it is instruction, what are we missing by not doing it, counting it all joy?
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
Do we have patience? Do we lack it? Follow #1, count it all joy! This has to be possible, otherwise He would not tell us to do it, what kind of a Father would He be if He asked us to do something that was not possible!
4 But let patience have its perfect work,
Ooh, do I do that, do I even let patience work in me at all some days, so, what if I don't, and what happens if I do:
"that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing."
Perfect and complete, lacking nothing?! Whaaa, have I ever even heard this preached from any pulpit, except for maybe some crazy charismatic church, but their crazy..so does God really intend us to be perfect and holy, is that what He made us to be? And that "lacking nothing" REALLY? I can lack nothing....He says it, is His Word true, can it really be used for correction, teaching and reproof?
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
If I ask for wisdom, it will be given, and liberally...how come we seem to be able to believe this more than Him making us perfect and holy by the way?
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting,
Is this a catch....so I have to believe without doubting...so if I doubt, it aint' workin', right?
for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
Don't we feel like that sometimes? It's a place n the sea He never intended us to be!
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
Whoa, this is definitely not preached, we won't receive anything from the Lord if we doubt, wow, I guess He wants me to believe, if not:
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
It seems I meet a ton of believers that seem really unstable, and it's really sad, it is REALLY sad. What are we missing as believers...when we don't believe...."Lord, let us have faith, let us believe, in Jesus Name, amen!"
If this is instruction, how many of us do this? If not, and it is instruction, what are we missing by not doing it, counting it all joy?
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
Do we have patience? Do we lack it? Follow #1, count it all joy! This has to be possible, otherwise He would not tell us to do it, what kind of a Father would He be if He asked us to do something that was not possible!
4 But let patience have its perfect work,
Ooh, do I do that, do I even let patience work in me at all some days, so, what if I don't, and what happens if I do:
"that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing."
Perfect and complete, lacking nothing?! Whaaa, have I ever even heard this preached from any pulpit, except for maybe some crazy charismatic church, but their crazy..so does God really intend us to be perfect and holy, is that what He made us to be? And that "lacking nothing" REALLY? I can lack nothing....He says it, is His Word true, can it really be used for correction, teaching and reproof?
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
If I ask for wisdom, it will be given, and liberally...how come we seem to be able to believe this more than Him making us perfect and holy by the way?
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting,
Is this a catch....so I have to believe without doubting...so if I doubt, it aint' workin', right?
for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
Don't we feel like that sometimes? It's a place n the sea He never intended us to be!
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
Whoa, this is definitely not preached, we won't receive anything from the Lord if we doubt, wow, I guess He wants me to believe, if not:
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
It seems I meet a ton of believers that seem really unstable, and it's really sad, it is REALLY sad. What are we missing as believers...when we don't believe...."Lord, let us have faith, let us believe, in Jesus Name, amen!"
Monday, November 1, 2010
Great white eating machine
I had this dream last night that a great white had gotten a hold on me waist down, holding me in it's mouth. This great big eating machine had me in it's clutches and wasn't letting go. Then I had some kind of really sharp arrow, so I started poking, slicing, cutting in any way I could, poked it's eyes out so it couldn't see, then realizing it could still smell and that's how it feeds, I cut around there too. The weapon in my hand even changed soI could use it like a knife or dagger too.
The eating machine was me. The lust for whatever I wanted and often did not deny myself is consuming me. I hate this man of sin, and I commit to the Lord that I will not entreat him in any way, I will not fulfill the lusts with it's passions, but I will crucify that fleshly man so he no longer has place in my life, or my children's, or my wife. SO that I can be an effective witness for Him in every way.
This eating machine it's eating you and me
It starts out with very little, then half of me
It chews and gnaws till there's nothing left
It grabs what it wants, feeding with no regret
I give in to it's passions so much
It consumes the very life , as I feed it so much
Never satisfied it craves so much more
More than I have noting left in my store
Why do I give into these passions of shame
Given over to another this is no game
It's like a great white eating machine
Consuming all in it's path
Never satisfied until I crucify it all
This tendency to lust that covers me in it's bath
Of fleshly indulgence
It's a death path
Why do I wander to pastures unknown
Leave the grassy plains to where my fancies are flown
It carries me to places of no rest
A cancer eating away at my chest
where my heart resides I give it my all
To take away all this my life it will gnaw
Until it's all gone
I've benn played like it's pawn
Feasting on my lusts, it craves more right now
Can't wait another moment or I'll have a cow
Impatience breeds anger no love found here
In this place of self satisfying driven by fear
Or maybe it's just passion, results the same
A hole in my heart no full of shame
There's no good in the me of my self
a pitiful end a mindless gulf
Turn instead to a God of Love
sent in the form of a son and settles like a dove
In a wandering wagon of lust and despair
I wander no more, my will His fare
For He paid the price with His sacrifice of Love in the air
On that cold lifeless day where He was crucified there
He did not ask me to die in His name
He asks me to live just the same
For Him with all that I have and do not
Trusting in His love to fill my cup
Not with everything I wanted and more
But everything He has in store
You see He loves me and redeems my shame
Calling on Him, and trusting His name
The name that is above every other no matter
He fills my plate, with no room for the latter
Now I fill on His mercies anew
All around lay my that no longer stick like a glue
Of torrential rain
Filling my heart and my brain
All the things I've ever needed are here
Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh will follow me there
My wife and my kids will no longer suffer cause I
Could not put down that last piece of pie
The eating machine was me. The lust for whatever I wanted and often did not deny myself is consuming me. I hate this man of sin, and I commit to the Lord that I will not entreat him in any way, I will not fulfill the lusts with it's passions, but I will crucify that fleshly man so he no longer has place in my life, or my children's, or my wife. SO that I can be an effective witness for Him in every way.
This eating machine it's eating you and me
It starts out with very little, then half of me
It chews and gnaws till there's nothing left
It grabs what it wants, feeding with no regret
I give in to it's passions so much
It consumes the very life , as I feed it so much
Never satisfied it craves so much more
More than I have noting left in my store
Why do I give into these passions of shame
Given over to another this is no game
It's like a great white eating machine
Consuming all in it's path
Never satisfied until I crucify it all
This tendency to lust that covers me in it's bath
Of fleshly indulgence
It's a death path
Why do I wander to pastures unknown
Leave the grassy plains to where my fancies are flown
It carries me to places of no rest
A cancer eating away at my chest
where my heart resides I give it my all
To take away all this my life it will gnaw
Until it's all gone
I've benn played like it's pawn
Feasting on my lusts, it craves more right now
Can't wait another moment or I'll have a cow
Impatience breeds anger no love found here
In this place of self satisfying driven by fear
Or maybe it's just passion, results the same
A hole in my heart no full of shame
There's no good in the me of my self
a pitiful end a mindless gulf
Turn instead to a God of Love
sent in the form of a son and settles like a dove
In a wandering wagon of lust and despair
I wander no more, my will His fare
For He paid the price with His sacrifice of Love in the air
On that cold lifeless day where He was crucified there
He did not ask me to die in His name
He asks me to live just the same
For Him with all that I have and do not
Trusting in His love to fill my cup
Not with everything I wanted and more
But everything He has in store
You see He loves me and redeems my shame
Calling on Him, and trusting His name
The name that is above every other no matter
He fills my plate, with no room for the latter
Now I fill on His mercies anew
All around lay my that no longer stick like a glue
Of torrential rain
Filling my heart and my brain
All the things I've ever needed are here
Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh will follow me there
My wife and my kids will no longer suffer cause I
Could not put down that last piece of pie
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