Hello Friendly People,
Micah 6
V 8 He has told you , O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 7
V3 Concerning evil, both hands do it well. The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe, and a great man speaks the desire of his soul; so they weave it together.
V7 But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
2 Peter 1
V3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
V5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and in your goodness knowledge;
V 6 and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness;
V7 and in your godliness brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness love.
V8 for if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
V9 For he who lacks these qualities is blind and short sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
We look at the world we live in and the sin is unfathomable. Like this scripture says, the leaders can be bought with a price. Great men are found lacking morality with no shame to the needs of their soul. I was pondering my life in light of this scripture and solidly convinced myself I wouldn't sway even for money, but then, the soul issue of the verse blind-sighted me. The Lord requires of us, that we do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with our God. Sadly though, I have failed, as have we all. That soul cries out to be fed and, oh, what an appetite it has if it is not denied and whipped into submission.
I was so embarrassed at myself to recollect the silly, fleshy things I say to my children, my spouse and others. If I was caught on tape............
I believe our time on this earth is very short, please pray along with me that we quit feeding our flesh and get on with the kingdom business. No condemnation here, God will always allow us to rise again, to try again!
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Never give up, Never give in!
This week I was pondering the state of the women sitting in our churches. Many women have come from very destructive family foundations. A family where the nurturing and developing of their personality is twisted and crippled by abuse, neglect or indifference. Is it a wonder that women are willing to go through extremes to be beautiful or great compromise to be loved. God is watching us and loves us so much. He understands what has happened to this generation of women and has His hand extended to us. He wants to speak beautiful things to us that He fully intends to back up in our lives. God is not like the love we know that deserts us when we need it most. His love is not based on our performance toward Him, His love is unconditional without expectation. God knows that we haven't been taught how to love, or have a normal relationship or even parent our children. He also knows love is modeled and absorbed. If we don't get it modeled at home we will learn by what we see around us. Often times we look to those we admire, usually icons that are disastrously inept in portraying God's love.
I have found through praying with women, and personal experience, that indifference from a parent is harder to file than abuse. We can justify abuse as illness on the parents part but them not seeing our worthiness is something we embrace and take on as a truth in our soul. When we feel unworthy of attention or recognition, we then will find the very people that will fulfill that belief about ourselves. Relationship after relationship will end in failure and further our mindset that says we are unworthy of true love and acceptance. God so wants to change our view of ourselves.
These images are really in our heavens. They call this God's eye. If He can create these wonders, He certainly can create perfect love in us.
Zephaniah 3
V16 In that day it will be said to Jerusalem: Do not be afraid, Oh Zion; Do not let your hands fall limp.
V17 The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His Love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
The good news is God has the the lines to the script of love. We can do this thing called love. We can love our children in a nurturing way that gives them tools to live life and prosper in it. We can learn to love in an intimate relationship, a reciprocal relationship. It's true! I have failed at this so often that I am shocked at myself that I'm still in the game. God will never abandon His work of redemption in you, ever. His purpose is love, His personality is love. He will work love in us, if it takes our entire stay on earth to master love, so be it. He will not let us off the hook. The awesomeness of God is this, He will love you first, even though we are unlovable and ugly inside, He sees our value and starts to shine light on those things. Trust Him to love you, summit to His hand, completely abandoned to His love and watch Him transform you into a loving person!
Those of you who are coming into the Healing Rooms and humbly submitting yourselves, hang in there............. Gods' words can do nothing less than come alive in your life!
Never give up, Never give in!
