act, love, walk

again, this week at prayer, we took time to listen for what the Lord was saying. as i quieted my heart and mind and surrendered my pen, i wrote what God impressed on my heart.

 My beloved, I have called you out, to be holy, set apart, separate. I have heard your cries. I have heard your prayers. I have heard your heart. 


Have you heard Mine? Do you know what I desire? What I long for?


Its you - you alone. Not what you can do. Just you, the real you. Come as you are. Don’t put on a show - just be yourself. Present yourself (your whole self) as an offering. I don’t need your money. I want you. Open your heart to me. Become transparent.


Its simple, this life - this walk. Stop making it more complicated than it is. Act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with Me. Walk in the light, as I am in the light. Stay close. I am before you and behind you and beside you. Keep following My lead.


Lets hold hands, like a Father and a child. Lets link arms, like friends. Lets embrace and dance like lovers as we move forward together. 


I am with you even now. When everything trembles and shakes around you, I am there, leading you through the chaos. Keep your eyes locked into My gaze, then you won’t even see the calamity on all sides. I am bringing you through it. Lean on Me.


Stop looking at the problems. See Me - the Answer. See My heart for you and the lost. Keep your focus.

Then the verses 2 Peter 1:3-11 came to mind…

Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you - your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.

So, friends, confirm God’s invitation to you, his choice of you. Don’t put it off; do it now. Do this, and you’ll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.

be still and know

on sunday nights, at our church, we have an hour long prayer time. this past week, for the first 30 minutes, we sat in silence, listening. because prayer doesn't mean we have to always talk. its supposed to be a conversation with God. and a good conversation involves both talking and listening. so, we listened. and this is what God impressed on me in those 30 minutes.

communion is My heart. I want closeness, intimacy, oneness with My people. I have made the way of your salvation. receive it and move forward into deep communion with Me. rejoice in your salvation! and have eternal life now in the land of the living. walk with Me in the cool of the day. invite Me in and I will dine with you. eat the bread of My body and drink the wine of My blood. and be filled with Me. I created you to commune with Me. I am with you. I never leave you.

I desire that all would come to this true, deep knowledge of Me. you are My witness. give your testimony to the lost (your neighbor, a stranger). testify of My great love. just as i demonstrated My love (by dying for you), you will need to demonstrate your love (for Me and for each other and for the lost). have communion with Me and with one another.

the lost are as orphans, wandering alone without the knowledge of a Father. see them how I see them, with this kind of compassion. they are lonely. they don't know where their Home is. they don't know who to trust. they need Hope. give them the reason for the Hope you have. tell them, show them, that they have a Father and they have a Family - that they are not alone. they can have real closeness with the One who created them, the One who loves them more than any other.

if this Love is real, then its worth sharing.

damsel in distress

tonight i went to a women's event at NorthGate Church. honestly, beforehand, i wasn't totally excited about going. i had a few friends who i knew would be there and wanted me to go. but other than that, i had no idea why i was there. (great attitude, right?!)

but once i was there, and we started pressing in to God's presence in worship, i knew i was in the right place. at one point, when katie was leading worship, she sensed the Lord tell her that He heard our singing to Him, and that He wanted to sing over us. so, i just felt like i should get out my notepad and write whatever song He wanted to sing over me. little did i know that the very words He gave me would be the exact topic taught on that night.

i saw you there, a damsel in distress. your face was covered in the dirt. you lay in the muck, thinking you weren't worth anything.

but your eyes - one look from your eyes, that was all it took. I was undone for you. I could see behind the filth that you were mine. so I came to rescue you. I came to the muck and the filth, and I found you.

I want to show you who you really are. I have made a way for you. I have the cleansing flow. Wash yourself in my love. its all you'll ever need.

open your eyes. see what I see. I'll give you my vision. you are a pearl. you are clean. you are no longer a damsel in distress. you are my queen. you always were.

do not ever be confused of your identity ever again. I am your Saviour.

its not your surroundings that tell you who you are; not your circumstances. what I say - thats the truth of who you are, my beloved.