TODAY is the DAY OF OBEDIENCE to HIM!!! by Itsallofhim

TODAY is the DAY OF OBEDIENCE to HIM!!! by Itsallofhim

I hear the voice of GOD today….telling me…’never compromise what I’ve/YOU been called to do!!!’ – NEVER allow others to deter my/your calling with their carnal wisdom and street logic.  HE has trained me/you for a specific mission.  There is a mission – a purpose for your life!  Others have not heard what you have heard from YOUR time together with the King of KINGS!!!  YOUR time together with JESUS!  

Others have not been through the Refiner’s fires that you have endured and from which you’ve benefited!!  Let HIM set you free ‘in’ that fire!!  Walk in HIS counsel.  Join with others who are moving in the same direction in which you have been called to go, but NEVER – EVER allow them to change your course; when that course was designed by your LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!  Seek HIS counsel – seek WISE counsel; yes….but the final approval of your life will come from your time together with Christ Almighty!  Rely on HIS WORD!  

Rely on the wisdom HE has given you.  You are called and anointed to a specific task.  Your life is important!  Don’t ever doubt that! If you do – at that time – you have invited the god of this world to enter into a sacred place of fellowship with your Saviour.  You will be calling HIM a liar.  YOU are important!!  Let’s move and have OUR being together!!

OBEDIENCE is big to Father God.  An obedient Christian is developed over time through direct contact with the Lord.  Allow HIM to change the rebellion and pride in each of our hearts.  As HE refines us, HE also defines our lives.  Each of us is tailor made to live a specific life, which is ordained by GOD ALMIGHTY - - GOD HIMSELF…and it is accomplished by the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT!!  NO other way can it happen!! To have someone who hasn’t heard what you have heard and hasn’t paid the price that you have paid in prayer, try to modify what you’ve been called to do is a violation of the trust the LORD has placed in you.  It’s an attempt to redefine the life the Father has called you to live!!

It is soo important to find trusted friends who understand who you are in Christ and are dedicated to always speaking truth to you.  In order that you can keep your direction in life in line with the WORD OF GOD!! But remember…you MUST be willing!  

GOD help you if your not!  THANK YOU LORD for all the grace and mercy YOU bestow on my life – straight from the throne room of heaven – and from the people in my circle.  However, the only one who will answer for your life when you come face to face with the LORD….HE has the final say in either calling your life significant or lighting the bonfire that contains the wood, the hay and the stubble you’ve presented to HIM!!!  Teach us LORD to follow YOUR ways….ONLY YOUR WAYS GOD!!!  HELP us LORD – not to listen to others and be moved by opinions!  HELP us KNOW when YOU speak to our hearts!! 

It will always witness with the WORD YOU have given us!!!  We are empty and useless without YOU and YOUR WORD!!  We are absolutely NOTHING without YOU LORD GOD!!!  BLESSED be the NAME of the LORD, in JESUS NAME!!!

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Why don't you understand what love is? 1 Corr 13 Revision!

Let's face it! We live in the age of acronyms. Some teens have a hard time understanding full sentences. That is not a judgement it's just a fact. We live in the technology age. A time where people speak in LOL, ROTL, Woot and BRB. 

My revised version of 1 Corinthians 13 

(With the Lord's expressed permission hehe)

1 Corr 13 (The Love Chapter) The modern day version for those of us who are confused on what God really said.

The Greatest Gift

Although I am totally cool with most people, I have a ton of facebook friends. I say what they want to hear, do what makes them happy all while having a smile on my face, but do not love you, I have become just as loud as a screaming child during a church service on a Sunday morning. A person on their cell phone in the library, forgetting they are in the Library. And even though I am born again Christian, serving in the church, prophesying what the Lord will do, and understanding all these things about God as well as memorizing scripture. Even though I have a ton of faith, It’s like I could totally remove all the problems I experience, but do not love you, I am NOTHING. And even though I give money to Save the Children and the Salvation Army every Christmas, and even though I give my body to be crushed and die on the mission field or even while ministering to people in the ghetto, but do not love you, all my works are worth nothing! I mise well have not even bothered. (mise well is a yorkism J)

Love suffers long, Love is Patient and it puts up with people treating you badly, it turns the other cheek when a driver cuts you off, or your bestie puts you down, it survives criticism and endures ridicule, it suffers problems with the boss and the wife without complaint. It is quiet when being yelled at. It keeps going when our children reject us. It preservers when it is exhausted. It does not quit. Love suffers long. 

Love is kind; love opens doors for others, love lets other skip in lines, Love gives without expecting in return. Love helps when there are more important things to do, love listens to a hurting friend when it has been a horribly long day, Love gives of itself and asks the Lord to be a vessel when its self is broken. love is kind.  

Love is not envious, love does not want its friend’s house because it seems better and is filled with more things, love does not want a husband like its friends because he spends more time with His children. Loves does not want what God has not ordained for it to have. Love is happy and content with what God has decided is best. Love is not envious.

Love does walk around trying to be noticed, love does not announce to world how great it is, how fast its car is or what a great employee it is, it does not share all its latest achievements but rather asks others what theirs are.  Love does walk around trying to be noticed.

Love is not all “look at me!” love does not think they are better than anyone else. Love does think more highly of themselves just because they have more knowledge, are cuter, funnier or wiser. Love is not all “look at me!”.  

Love is not rude, love is more content with listening then declaring what is “right” love does not exchange insult for insult, love it not greedy and love does not share based on whether someone deserves it or not, love does not jump in line at a concert and leave their cart for the clerk to put away Love is not rude.

Love is not looking on how to get its own way, It does not insist on being right or being first or being noticed but love doesn’t mind being last, it doesn’t mind being overlooked. Love doesn’t throw tantrums when things do not go their own way but rejoices in someone else’s blessings Love is not looking on how to get its own way.

Love is not provoked, the second someone declares you are wrong love does not come out swinging; it does not instantly believe the worst but believes and trusts God. Love does not budge when someone goes into the bathroom first in the morning or eats your favorite cereal without asking. Love does not hate back. Love is not provoked.

 

Love does not think evil things; Love does not plot revenge against an enemy or have mean thoughts towards a bully, nor does love dwell on negative emotions, opposite of God’s Word. Emotions that are destructive and full of death. Love thinks about things that bring joy and happiness. That bring life. It does not constantly think over and over about all the wrongs that have been done towards him.  Love does not think evil things.

Love does not get excited about evil, it does not consume itself with things that bring spiritual death but it desires Truth.. .Love does not get excited to break the rules but instead love gets excited to obey God and to walk in His ways. Love does not get excited about evil 

Love goes completely and joyfully bonkers when it is in the center of Gods truth. Love puts up with ALL things, every mean, horrible, rotten, unthinkable, unkind thing, Love believes all things, Love Hopes all things and endures all things.  Love never fails, it never ever gives up even in the most hideous, dire and painful of circumstances. But think about this, even where there are these great amazing people of God who speak prophecies and wisdom from above, even that they will fail; even when there are these supernatural spiritual gifts taking place around us like speaking in tongues, they will stop one day; whether there is this uncanny, incredible knowledge, it will also disappear. Done away! Can you believe it! It is true!

So then we are told to have a devoted faith, hope and love. But, Paul says, the greatest of these is love….

Words for His Glory. By.. Itsallofhim ("Who in the world is Heman", I asked)

(Names will not be changed to protect anyone :0)~~)

Words for His Glory By.. Itsallofhim

Thank you mom! For letting me post this. Your devotions to the Lord are always such a blessings to everyone. 

Heman was one of 3 Levites assigned by King David to be ministers of music. He was a grandson of Samuel the prophet.He went on to become King David's seer, and to have 14 sons. The title of Psalm 88 ascribes it to Heman. This Psalm seems to have been written in a state of despair. According to Martin Marty, a professor of church history at the University of Chicago, Psalm 88 is “a wintry landscape of unrelieved bleakness.”

Psalm 88 ends by saying:
You have taken my companions and loved ones from me; the darkness is my closest friend. (Psalm 88:18, NIV).
Indeed, in Hebrew, the last word of the Psalm 88 is "darkness".

This reminds me of what we spoke of yesterday @ House church….or maybe it was another time….People that go through things for a long timeeeeeee (and ‘why’ Lord, is it so) ….I think we all get ‘fed up’ with things being dragged out in our lives…..the pain goes on and on and on and on….BUTTTTTT – we have a SAVIOUR to run to – we have the ability to ‘choose’ life or death…..joy or not….LET HIM …resonate in our spirits.  LET HIM…take control of each situation…HE will be super pleased with us, or as the ‘kids’ say nowadays “Jesus is SUPER STOKED!!)  – when we finally get to the point that we are on our knees – surrendering all of it to HIM, HE is full of JOY!!

My soul is full of troubles. —Psalm 88:3

We should marvel at Heman, (or the LORD inside of HIM…enabling him to withstand the adversity and the afflictions) the poet who wrote Psalm 88. His lot in life was unrelieved distress. “My soul is full of troubles,” he lamented (v.3). He was fed up with suffering!
Heman looked back and remembered poor health and misfortune. He looked around and saw adversity and abandonment. He looked up and found no solace. “I am distraught,” he complained (v.15). He was “adrift” (v.5), “in darkness” (v.6), “afflicted” (vv.7,15), and “cast off” (v.14). He could see no light at the end of the tunnel; no resolution of his sorrow.

Heman’s honesty sould warm our souls.  It should show us – that ‘nothing’ and ‘everything’ is common to man.  As Dennis would say…’it’s the same for all of us”…( I LOVEEEEE IT!!!!)  It was even the ame for JESUS!!!   Christians who never struggle confuse me. There’s balance, of course: No one wants to be around those who babble on all day about their troubles, but it does my heart good to know that someone else has struggled.

Yet, there’s more to Heman than mere candor. He also had a stubborn, intractable faith. Oh Lord….if you gave us all the ‘gift of Faith”!!!  How wonderful that would be.  But it’s ok LORD – Because it’s YOUR Hand that gives to some – and YOU’RE Hand that gives other things to others. I am satisfied with what YOU have chosen to give ME!!!  Despite Heman’s many problems, he clung to God and cried out to Him “day and night” (vv.1,9,13). He didn’t stop praying. He didn’t give up. And even though he didn’t sense it at the time, Heman acknowledged God’s lovingkindness, faithfulness, and righteousness (vv.11-12).

I like folks like Heman. They strengthen my grip on God and remind me never to stop praying.  But more than ‘folks like Heman’…I LOVE JESUS who enables me to do it all…HE enables me to cling to HIM…..HE has shown me over and over in HIS WORD – what to do – in every situation.  THANK YOU LORD!!!  BE MY GOD – In the midst of every storm.
In solitude, on wings of prayer
My soul ascends before the throne;
My only hope of strength is where
My heart and His meet all alone. —Anon.
JESUS is the soil in which hope grows best.  OUR HOPE is in YOU TODAY LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!!!

David asked, Why oh soul are you downcast.. Ps 42

With the impending divorce & separation. Assuredly upcoming court dates with no finances coming in right now and bills looming. The trip to Ohio in two weeks for Greg's conference. House still needing be done and remaining in a consistent pursuit of work after being a housewife for many years. My soul became downcast today. I felt an extreme sense of sadness and loneliness throughout the day and eventually I broke. 

I slammed a door and I became ever increasingly violent with the ritual of slicing the 4th of July watermelon. 

David and in all his wonder, devotion to God and tenderness of heart cried out, 

Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.

 In the New Living Translation it says...

Why am I discouraged?

Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!

I will praise him again

my Savior and ⁶ my God! 

I think I cried for a good 3 hours after the incident until it dawned on me. I had began to put my hope in people, in my circumstances and in the future again. Yes, I said it, "Again". I needed to ask God to forgive me and to please restore the peace I am so often, graciously granted from Him. I feel like an alien, completely out of sorts when I am not walking in that Peace. 

I am not talking about the peace that comes from everyone being kind to me or the peace that comes from the bills being paid, nor the peace that comes from the children being so lovely and obedient. I am speaking of the peace in Philippians 4:7 that passes all human understanding, the peace that can't not be manufactured or created by circumstances. The immovable, unshakable peace that takes residence in every fiber of your being. The peace that passes all understanding, that guards your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. 

In order to remain in that peace, I needed to take my Hope and place it back in the one who never fails me. The one who loves me when I act ugly and when I act beautiful. The one who cares so deeply for me that He gave His life for me. 

And now, Lord, what do I wait for and expect? 

My hope and expectation are in You. Psalm 39: 7

May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope. Romans 15: 13

Happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) is he who has the God of [special revelation to] Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. Psalm 146: 5

Be inspired today to place your Hope in the Lord.