Saturday, October 23, 2010

Let the Wind blow....

As I reflect on this past year and half with God, I can say I am truly blessed.

I am blessed that my Father has pursued after me relentlessly. I am blessed that through identifying with His Son Jesus, I can know him intimately.

I am in love with Abba.


This desire has thickened through being called insane, through others having pre-conceived notions, and through being mocked.

I have received just a glimpse of what was like to be in Jesus' shoes. I am blessed.


Jesus was mocked. Jesus was called demon-possessed. Jesus was thought of as crazy for raising people from the dead, from casting out demons in people, and from sitting and eating with the tax collectors and prostitutes. WoW.
In fact , the very demonstration of Lazarus' resurrection is what led to Jesus' arrest.

People hate this God. People mock this Christ that shines through his true followers daily, and is mocked by those who claim to be brothers and sisters in Him. Jesus said we would do even greater wonders than He did and that those who walked in that type of surrender would be persecuted.

And guess what? It is true.

The same Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead can live in every believer. And that same power that anointed Jesus to cast out demons, resurrect people from the dead, heal people ,etc.,etc.. is waiting to consume these sinful bodies.

The third of the Trinity is so forgotten. He is pushed to the side because He cannot be put in a box. He cannot fit into the intellectual mind of a theologian or your ordained pastor who was taught a lot of man-made theology and so forth. The Holy Spirit is ignored in the church of compromise. What a pity.


Truthfully,
The God of the universe who spoke the earth into being can do what He wants. The heart of the matter is are we going to allow Him to do what He wants with us even if we don't necessarily understand it. I want that. I desire that daily. I want God to do what He wants with me so Christ may be glorified. I want to make God smile with every detail of the life He has given me.


Do not be so misled to think that those were only for the days of Jesus or only for certain people. It is for every single individual on this planet.


I am in love with Jesus Christ, and if I am mocked for allowing the Holy Spirit to have His way in me. So be it.

To identify with Jesus Christ, is to face persecution and opposition. One who claims to be a follower of Jesus and has no opposition or trial I question that relationship.


Know Jesus, Know Him intimately, Allow Him to have His way.

Don't sugar coat the Christ who suffered and endured wrath for every individual on the planet.

We are here to make God smile, to glorify His Son Jesus; not to please people or make them happy, and never to compromise the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1: 6-10
"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned. Ae we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you another gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned.
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Jesus Christ."


Matthew 5:11-12

"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all of kinds of evil against you falsely on My account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you."



Father,
I thank You for Your Word that is all inspired from Your Holy Spirit. I thank You for being Truth. I thank You for being Life. You are Majestic, and You are Mighty Father. I thank You for sending Jesus to die for us. We are so undeserving, but You chose to love us anyway. Abba, I ask that You would bring back Your people to the foundations of Your Son Jesus. Christ is the ONLY Solid Rock, on which we can firmly stand upon. I ask Father, that would pierce the hearts of people around the world, convict them , and bring them to You God. Pour out your Holy Spirit all over the nations, and all over the campus of Wingate. We need You, Lord. Your faithful servants are crying out for You. Hear our cries, O Lord.
I love You and I thank You for all that You do,
In Jesus' name,
Amen

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Love.

The God of the universe loves me.

He chooses to love this insignificant individual and birth significance through life in Jesus Christ.


As I sit here trying to accomplish a paper about "selfish love", I find myself more intrigued by the Love of my Heavenly Father.


School is beginning to fade, and my heart's desire to move forward and be completely saturated in the presence of God is overflowing.


Friday, please hurry.


I need a long date with my True Love. <3

Saturday, October 9, 2010

New Season= Changes.

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1



God is reall big.

God is over the universe which means our minds cannot wrap around how infinite He is.

God is up to something. I am reall excited.


This week I have been humbled. I have watched the words of the Father sink deep into the hearts of eight individuals and I cannot be more thankful. I have seen the Father move in the lives of these people to the point of weeping. It is only the power of God that can bring forth such tears. The God of the universe is beckoning our hearts towards His and He wants to set us free. He wants to set us free from every dark place that separates us from Him. He will do it, but we have to let Him.


The enemy is doing everything in his power to separate us from our Heavenly Father. The enemy wants us to have an identity crisis. he wants us to be so lost in this world, that we come to a place of uncertainty of who God is. What a dangerous place to be.

The enemy wants us to put our identity in everything but Jesus Christ. he uses people, things, , approval, theology, religion, drugs, sex, alcohol, etc etc.... to separate us from Jesus Christ. When we find ourselves at this point, we have a deep crisis. Our identity is lost and we are certain of nothing. Our lives become unstable and we become people who change on an hourly basis for the worst.

But I am certain that if Christ is Lord over our lives and we have surrendered wholly to Him we can live in freedom. We are free from bondage and He throws all of the distractions that try to hinder us from Him to the pits of hell. Christ Jesus has come to set us free. He has come to give us true identity.


My heart's cry is for those who think they are okay, but are in need of an identity check. My heart cries out for those who are in deep bondage from the things of this world. My heart cries for the false teachers who are leading various lives astray. Every heart is in need of the only Redeemer, Jesus Christ. There is no man, no thing, no idol that can save us. Our lives are not transformed until we come to complete surrender to Jesus Christ. The world fades. People fade. People are distorted. Jesus Christ is the only certainty of the universe. My prayer is that He will heavily manifest in the hearts of the people on my campus. I pray that the Holy Spirit will reign over this place and bring people to His heart. There is going to be a mighty change on this campus. I feel it. I believe it. I expect it. The God of the universe is beckoning our hearts... will we take action?