Thoughts on Paper (so to speak)

Lord, break my heart for what breaks Yours.

Support group - for women who are sexually confused as to their orientation.  Maybe gone as far as attempting to change who God created them to me - female to male.  I can't imagine the confusion in their minds.  Especially when God begins to shine His light on their situation.  He loves them.  Inside, deep inside, they know they are women.  That moment when they feel that they have gone too far for God to forgive them and commune with them.  They will need someone to wrap their arms around them and tell them that someone cares and God cares.

His love endures forever,...

Jesus - Forever

Please, click on the link below and be blessed!  It is Kari Jobe - Forever.  It is a 12 minute video but ohhhhhhhhhhh, so worth the time.  A man speaks close to the middle and it is very powerful.  Our Jesus is beyond words,...  Our Jesus is the Word.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huFra1mnIVE

New Mercies - New Day

If no one ever reads this but me, that's OK.  I am declaring that today is a new day.  Today - TODAY - I begin a new study of the Word of God.  My study.  Well - me and the Holy Spirit.  I have completed so many Bible studies I can't begin to remember them all.  I have sat under many preachers and teachers.  I have had a quiet time for years and I mean years!  I habitually, without fail, got up at 5:00 am to have my time with the Lord and I do that now.  Yet - sometimes I just feel like a hamster on a wheel spinning and spinning and spinning.  The Word says one thing and my life says another.  This preacher or teacher says one thing and another one says something else.  I try very hard to listen to the Spirit of the Lord but sometimes it gets confusing.  I want to know what God says.  I want to know what God wants for me in this life.  I want to know what I need to do to walk in victory.  I want to help others walk in victory.  I do not want to leave one thing under the tree (so to speak) that Jesus wants me to have.  SO - I say that to say this.  TODAY I am beginning my own personal in-depth study of the Word without any outside influences, as much as that is possible in life.  In Proverbs the Word says that the Word is "life to those who find it and health to one's whole body".  I need life and I need health.  I believe God's Word is infallible.  I believe God's Word is Truth.  I believe Jesus is the Word.  So, I am going to stop trying to change me and I am going to see the Word work in my life as I truly give It first place - above man's knowledge.  I am seeking the Wisdom of God.

Have Nothing To Do With,...

In our humanity, when there is a problem, we want to step in and fix it.  If we do nothing we feel that we are in error.  That somehow we are "less than" because we are not physically doing anything.  But I have found that sometimes there is nothing we can do.  In the natural realm anyway.

2 Timothy 2:22 - 26 ESV
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.  HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.  And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness.  God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.   

Oftentimes, the more we try to fix a situation, the more we fall into the snare of being quarrelsome, stirring up anything but peace, gentleness and kindness.  Our protective instincts will cause us to lash out and say hurtful things that cannot be taken back once cast upon the airwaves.  And the more you stir, the thicker it gets.  Tensions grow stronger and it just gets deeper and deeper.  Misunderstandings and misrepresentations of your words or reasons become a maze that is impossible to find your way through.  And the plot thickens,…

The best thing to do is not always the easiest or the most natural thing.  The best thing to do is pray, and pray, and pray.  Allow yourself the time and the quiet to hear what God wants you to do in a particular situation.  Then do it.  Take your hands off and trust in the hands of God.  Trust that He is able to work in situations where you cannot.  Trust that no one and no thing is beyond His grasp and His ability to handle.  He knows all about it.  He is the only One who knows every minute detail from the beginning to the end.  When He works in a situation there is hope - unending hope.

Today I choose to have nothing to do with a very tender situation in my life.  I am bowing out.  Stepping back.  I am going to live and love like there is no tomorrow.  Because there may not be,…  But there is a God Who holds tomorrow.  And I place this very tender situation, once again, into His very capable hands.  I will pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1. ’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
   Just to take Him at His Word;
   Just to rest upon His promise,
   And to know, “Thus saith the Lord!”
   • Refrain:
     Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
     How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er;
     Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
     Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
2. Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus,
   Just to trust His cleansing blood;
   And in simple faith to plunge me
   ’Neath the healing, cleansing flood!
3. Yes, ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
   Just from sin and self to cease;
   Just from Jesus simply taking
   Life and rest, and joy and peace.
4. I’m so glad I learned to trust Thee,
   Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
   And I know that Thou art with me,
   Wilt be with me to the end.

Amen.