I have been impressed in the past few days to recognize victories and power today (now)!! This is going to be a short little blog until I have time to formulate my thoughts and add more details but three times God has shown me in the last three days that the victory is not in the future but today, His power is available today and in that we live in freedom.
I heard "there is victory" and my first thought was yes, God has the victory - like in the future. There will be a time when we will see that victory. But I realized almost immediately that I was thinking in the wrong time zone....HE has the victory in my life TODAY!! Whew....that is BIG, bigger than I can really wrap my head around. We say it but do we GET it????
Then I was singing a song and it said "there is freedom" and like a lightening bolt in my spirit I wanted to shout "THIS is FREEDOM". As in freedom TODAY!! When we are in HIS presence, in total surrender and worship....there IS freedom for us and THIS PLACE of total surrender is total FREEDOM in HIM. There is nothing better!!
The third time was when I was talking to someone about the power of the Lord and desperately wanted them to know that power is available TODAY - not at some point in the future or for other people. It is available to all who surrender their life and will to the Lord Jesus Christ and it's available NOW. Why do we think that God has the power to save us from an eternal stay in hell, but yet HE cannot use that same power to save a marriage, change our thinking or feeling or impact our "now"?????
My heart, soul and mind are just churning with thoughts to share but I need some time to sort them all out yet still, I felt compelled to start the process by sharing bit by bit what my experiences have been and what God is showing me and teaching me through this wonderful journey we call life. MY life is HIS - ALL I do, ALL I am and ALL I ever will be. THIS is freedom!!!
Scrambled thought, typo's and all. Here it is for now....more to come. I can't wait!!
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Lead the dance....
This morning I decided for quiet time to just go back and review notes from sermons that have been preached this year. So many things that I've thought as I'm sitting taking notes were AMAZINGLY spoken directly to me and my life. My thoughts here are quick and not studied this morning so what you are getting is straight from my heart.
What is our purpose? I've thought about that and heard it SO many times but this morning for some reason God quickened my heart (literally - as I'm sitting here typing I'm almost shaking with "something"). We HAVE a purpose and why do we not think about what it is and live IN IT every day. Oh, I'm broken over the days that I've gotten up with my to do this and just started marching through the day to mark it all off and race exhausted to the end only to realize that I've really wandered through the day without holding high my PURPOSE. Or even worse, not evening knowing what my purpose was.....
I want to give credit but didn't write down which Pastor gave this message but the words were: purpose, promises, power, provisions, and presence. I think it was Doug Sager who gave this message....I sat writing with quickness because it all touched me. As I went back through those notes it became clear in a real way that each day before I even get out of bed, I need to be reminded of my purpose. I need to choose to live my day IN that purpose and FOR that purpose. Here's the problem, my friends - if we don't CHOOSE to live on purpose, we WON'T!!! Here's a stopping point - it we don't CHOOSE to live on purpose, we WON'T. It will not just happen by accident. What is your purpose??
Mine if first and foremost to honor and glorify the Lord in everything that I do - sounds great, right?? But here's the thing....I can't leave it at that, there needs to be specifics. What does that look like, how do I do that. What are the specific steps I must take because again - if we don't have a plan we will just wander through our lives. So today starts a journey or actually continues a journey of seeking HIM and HIS purpose for my life. It's not about me and what I want - it's about HIM. He is speaking and working and redefining that purpose, making it clear and I'm bursting with excitement at what is just around the next bend in the road. I want to lead the dance - not be a wallflower waiting for someone to ask me to join them. God has given us His power to live the purpose that HE has created for us long before we were even here. YOU are God's masterpiece and the time is now to start living intentionally in His purpose for your beautiful amazing life!!!
Please excuse that jumbled thoughts - this was something God laid on my heart with great pressure and I had to just get it out.....Love to all who read this - YOU were created to live a live with great PURPOSE. More to come soon!!
Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them"
What is our purpose? I've thought about that and heard it SO many times but this morning for some reason God quickened my heart (literally - as I'm sitting here typing I'm almost shaking with "something"). We HAVE a purpose and why do we not think about what it is and live IN IT every day. Oh, I'm broken over the days that I've gotten up with my to do this and just started marching through the day to mark it all off and race exhausted to the end only to realize that I've really wandered through the day without holding high my PURPOSE. Or even worse, not evening knowing what my purpose was.....
I want to give credit but didn't write down which Pastor gave this message but the words were: purpose, promises, power, provisions, and presence. I think it was Doug Sager who gave this message....I sat writing with quickness because it all touched me. As I went back through those notes it became clear in a real way that each day before I even get out of bed, I need to be reminded of my purpose. I need to choose to live my day IN that purpose and FOR that purpose. Here's the problem, my friends - if we don't CHOOSE to live on purpose, we WON'T!!! Here's a stopping point - it we don't CHOOSE to live on purpose, we WON'T. It will not just happen by accident. What is your purpose??
Mine if first and foremost to honor and glorify the Lord in everything that I do - sounds great, right?? But here's the thing....I can't leave it at that, there needs to be specifics. What does that look like, how do I do that. What are the specific steps I must take because again - if we don't have a plan we will just wander through our lives. So today starts a journey or actually continues a journey of seeking HIM and HIS purpose for my life. It's not about me and what I want - it's about HIM. He is speaking and working and redefining that purpose, making it clear and I'm bursting with excitement at what is just around the next bend in the road. I want to lead the dance - not be a wallflower waiting for someone to ask me to join them. God has given us His power to live the purpose that HE has created for us long before we were even here. YOU are God's masterpiece and the time is now to start living intentionally in His purpose for your beautiful amazing life!!!
Please excuse that jumbled thoughts - this was something God laid on my heart with great pressure and I had to just get it out.....Love to all who read this - YOU were created to live a live with great PURPOSE. More to come soon!!
Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them"
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