Speak Blessings
Matt 10:27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak you in light: and what you hear in the ear, that preach you on the housetops.
What the Lord shares with us we need to speak out, not just to people, but into the atmosphere, where people will be. We should speak what the Lord has spoken to us, share the understanding he's given us. I know peace, I need to speak peace, I know God's love, I need to speak God's love, and I know his healing power, so I need to speak healing.
The Spirit that's within us is only stopped by our choice. If we choose to speak blessings and spiritual truth everywhere we go, then the enemy must flee, because darkness can't exist where light is. This gives people a better chance to do the right thing.
What Path Are You On?
There's a famous poem titled "Footprints in the sand". This poem describes a person's daily walk with the Lord. Sometimes there are two sets of footprints and other times there is only one set of footprints. This simulates how Christ is carrying us at the hardest times in our lives.
When we're walking in obedience, it's not us, it's Christ in us. We can't do it on our own, we don't have the power. It's not our call, to walk in righteousness on our own, we're called to emulate Christ, to do as he did. Jesus said if you want to come after me you must deny ourselves, take up your cross, and follow me. We are to follow him, not walk beside him.
Though we are joint heirs with Christ and though he calls us friend, we will always follow him. He's our savior, he's our example. he's our mediator, he's our lord, he's our king, he's our everything. And we will always follow him. The facts is, we are followers of Christ. And if we're walking in obedience, you won't see two sets of footprints, because we'll be walking in his. Also, lets not forget this, we're all covered by his blood. We all have the same opportunities because of what he did. We can do nothing right on our own, but we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
One thing we're told to do, actually, the greatest thing there is, is to love. We are to love as Jesus loved. We have the word love in our lives, but without allowance of the Holy Spirit, we don't really know what love is. The true love that Father loves us with is a selfless love, agape love. So I guess the thing we need to learn to do and do like Christ is to love. And I don't mean to love your family or friends or people you go to church with, though they're important too. What I mean is to love the homeless, the haters, the gangsters, the lost. In my mind this is a tall order, one I can't do. But, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I had a thought and wanted to share it.
Psalm 119:105 says, Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. At first thought, this means spend time in the word; reading and meditating. No doubt, that's very important, but I think this verse refers to Jesus. He is the word made flesh and every step he takes is in righteousness. So, as we walk in his steps and keep our eyes on him, our eyes are opened up to the path of righteousness, because his steps light up the path for us to follow.
God bless.
The Love of Christ
I'm reading "Tortured for Christ" by Richard Wurmbrand, he endured fourteen years in communist prisons for his faith in Jesus Christ. In this book he tells of the pain and suffering inflicted on them by the communists, many of which they led to Christ. He also talks about the underground church, that exists within communist prisons and without.
Reading this book has caused me to question my faith, do I truly believe? I've realized that I'm not going to any foreign country to preach the word. My call is here, so here I'll stay, and I'll be as good a witness as I can, surrendering to the will of God and trusting Him to direct my paths.
I've also realized that I need to spend more time and energy learning to love and worship Jesus. In this book, Richard doesn't talk about scripture and doctrine, they weren't allowed Bibles in prison. He talks of loving the ones who beat and tortured them, and this is done with the love of God. In our human mind, this is inconceivable, even maddening. When we stop looking at ourselves and start looking at Christ and Christ only, our character changes. We begin to hurt for the people we see who don't have faith in Jesus Christ. They don't know the love of God nor the peace of God, that surpasses all understanding. To know this love gives us the ability to love those who hate us. We are to love the sinner and not the sin, as Christ did.
How can you watch, as men rape and brutalize your wife and then be expected to love them. I don't know, I can't imagine it, but I'm learning to look to Jesus for comfort and direction and not myself. I want to know this love, the love that Jesus spoke of and that Richard spoke of in "Tortured for Christ". I want to love people, not because of their outward appearance or action or my personal gain, I want to love them, because it's our call, to love as Christ loved, unconditionally. This is the journey I'm on, actually, all who want to know God's heart, are on this journey. I feel like I'm still at lesson one, learning to trust God. I trust Him to bring me to the end of this journey, which will actually be the beginning of eternity.
Part of My Journey
Six and a half years ago, Sept 03, I became a child of God. Everything in the world was the same, but my life began to change. Not to say that things got easier, but my outlook on life and everything in it, changed. I learned that what we do is based on the spirits we allow in our lives, which create the thoughts in our minds. Like it says in Gal 6, if we sow to the flesh, we'll reap corruption, but if we sow to the Spirit, we'll reap eternal Life.
I thank God for what I've experienced, though I didn't enjoy it all, especially being homeless, a door was opened for me to move into a house owned by High Point Church, this is part of their ministry. I realize being homeless was my fault, I reaped what I'd sowed. I sowed to my flesh and my flesh left me out in the cold, without a place to live.
On a typical day in my life, this was BC, before Christ, I'd go to work and when I got home, I'd get high and this happened almost every day. Sundays and Wednesdays I'd go to church, but when I got home, I'd get high. Do you see a pattern here? I thought I was loving God and I thought I was saved, but I put getting high way ahead of God. I could love God, as long as I could still get high. Sundays and Wednesdays were for God, until I got home from church, then I'd get high. Check the verse below, it's about me, thank You Father God. By Your grace and Your Sons sacrifice, I am saved from death. Hallelujah!!!
Rom 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? (ESV)
When I moved into the High Point house, I quit getting high. How big is our God? At first, this was because I was in a house full of guys seeking the Lord and there was no opportune time to get high, but after a short time, my desire to get high was no more. Again I'll say it, how big is our GOD? I was being filled with the Spirit and learning Spiritual Truths.
There are a couple of times in my life that I thought I was saved. Both were previous to me living at the High Point house and attending the High Point Church. Speaking with a brother the other day, I realized, at salvation, when my spirit was awakened to new life by the Holy Spirit, there should've been a noticeable change in my life, I mean, I should have started reading the Bible and praying, at least. Of course this didn't happen until I started going to High Point Church and began learning Spiritual Truth. I've since realized, I had a pretty big experience at my salvation. I remember having such a hunger for the Word of God and for His Spiritual Truth, so much so, that I got rid of my CD's, my books, and several of my t-shirts.
I love the Lord today, but I've realized the more you learn, the more your eyes are opened and the more your eyes are opened, the more sin you see in your life. Also, the enemy will attack you with so much condemnation, you'll think you deserve all of the pain you've experienced.
Also, I have a greater understanding of what Paul was talking about in Rom 7:15. I want to do what God says, but I'm still sinning, how can this be? Thank You Father for Your grace, mercy, and love, and thank You for Your Son.
Rom 7:15 And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do. (BBE)
I hope this helps someone.
If this witnesses to you, then please share.
If you have questions, then please ask.
If I said something wrong or incorrect, please bring it to my attention.
Thanks and God bless.
True Love Thru Christ
This article is a reprint from Hetty4Christ
by Christian Siebens @flyingchristian
He wrote this-a slip in of amazing words in the handout for our wedding.
Here it is:
We have all heard 1 Corinthians 1-13., but do we truly understand what it means? This passage gives the most complete description of love in the Bible. It sows us that love needs to be the one thing in life we seek more than anything else. For without it, whatever we do or say really has no lasting value. Compare the love described in the Bible with superficial love found in this world.
God says love should be directed towards others...
The world says love should be directed toward ourselves
God says love is patient love is kind...
The world says love satisfies your immediate needs
God says love is never jealous or envious...
The world says love isn't necessary to make people respect you
God says love is never rude...
The world says love lets you act as you please
God says love does not demand its own way...
The world says love gets in the way of what is in it for me
God says love is not irritable and holds no grudges...
The world says love takes a backseat when it comes to taking revenge
God says love rejoices in truth...
The world says love doesn't understand or ignores evil
God says love is loyal...
The world says love should be self serving
God's TRUE LOVE is a natural outflow of His presence in our lives. Seek Him. He will strengthen you and give you true peace. If we do this our relationship with Him and with each other will never be the same again!
The most important piece of clothing you MUST wear is love. Love is what binds us together in perfect harmony. And let the peace that comes only from Christ rule your hearts.
Colossians 3:14-15
It is our prayer as we begin our life together that God's love abides in us all and flows throughout our lives.
We love you,
Christian and Heather
That Ye Love One Another; As I Have Loved You
Matt 5;44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; KJV
Matt 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. KJV
Mk 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. KJV
Jn 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. KJ
We were created by God, the God of love. Everything about Him is love. We were created in love, because that’s who He is. His love is to flow through us making us examples of Him to those who don’t know Him or His Love.
There are many verses, a few examples above, in which He tells us what to do, what He wants us to do. He wants us to be like Him, like His Son, Jesus Christ. He is our example and He lived His ministry through love, we are to do the same. Read the verses above, He tells us over and over to love. We are to love Him, love them, and love ourselves.
I love you because you are a creation of His. I can’t say I love you and at the same time say I don’t like you. This is a untruth taught by many in the church. I can, however, dislike or hate things about you. I can hate your dress, your music, your character, the way you treat people, like your boy/girl friend, but I can’t say I don’t like you. If I’m walking as an ambassador of Christ, I must walk the way He walked, meaning I must love the way He loved. I can’t add to it or take away from it. Knowing that He is the God of love, how could I expect to do or think anything that isn’t saturated with His love. I can’t.
We need more love in the church, in the body of Christ.
I love you guys, even though you’re different than me and there may be things about you I don’t like and I may mess up and not treat you right. Regardless, I love you.
I hope this speaks to someone. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
God bless
He’s My Father
I was saved in 1990-91. I didn't start going to church until the middle of 2001 . I went to a church for a year and a few months, where I learned little or no Spiritual Truth.
In September of 2003 I attended a different church. I now know and understand that this was a move of God and I'm grateful for it. As soon as I moved to this church, I started hearing things that I didn't know or understand. I was taught Spiritual Truths, my Spiritual eyes and ears were opened and I was allowed some understanding. Thank You Father. Since I've been at this church, I've learned so much that proves everything in the Bible is for today. Not only do I have book knowledge, I also have a good bit of experiential knowledge. I've seen and done what most people in the church, say and believe is impossible or was for another day.
I also know now, that God is my Father. This isn't because I heard it or read it, but because He showed me and He told me and He let me understand and feel how much He loves me and cares for me. I call God Father, He is both my God and my Father, but right now He's my Father and that's what I need Him to be.
What I want and one day will have, is to be in total surrender to Father and to have a level of intimacy with Him that is so intense and pure. I want to be in total surrender to Father. A relationship this close to Father, is something I've only dreamed of, when I get there, maybe then I'll call Him Dad, but now is not the time. I was told several years ago, that I was calling God Dad for the wrong reason. Maybe that's true, but I'm in a better Spiritual place now, than I was then. Maybe my intentions were selfish and I was looking out for my own gain. That's just one of the bumps in the road of my past, that are apart of me.
How close are you to God? Is He your Father? Would you like Him to be? Are you afraid of Him? Think about it. I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'd love to pray with you or for you.
God bless
Our Journey
Ok, here's the news, Colleen and I, who just became boyfriend and girlfriend 31 days ago, are now engaged to be married. The day I asked her to marry me, we'd been boyfriend and girlfriend for 28 days
If you've read the comments of the "Colleen and I Are A Couple", then you've read Colleen's comment and you already know this. It was last Sunday, Sept 28, right after services, Colleen and I were standing in the isle. And out of the blue, I asked her to marry me. This is very uncharted territory for me, I don't know how to do this. So, as you may think, I'm sure I did this wrong. Although, Colleen's heart melted and flowed out her eyes, so I did something right after all. Yea me.
I'm sorry it took me so long to write about this, though it's only been three days, but I should've written about this, Sunday night.
Here's some irony or something similar, as much as I wanna write and I'm not writing, how bizarre. Also, how does this fit into this article, again, I say, how bizarre.
Well, at least I've written something. Also, I'm gonna change the name of a category. I wrote the "Colleen and I are a couple" article and created the category "A Beginning" for that article. Now I'm gonna replace "A Beginning" with "Our Journey", watcha reckon? Thanks for being patient and still reading my blog, I'll try to do better, by that, I mean write more often or more regularly.
God bless
Wesley
We plan to get married next Spring.
Can I Pray For You?
I was thinking about this girl I work with, she came to work the other day and looked really sad and alone. I asked her if she was ok and she said no, so I asked if I could pray for her and she said it wouldn't help.
Well, there was nothing more I could've done,so I let it go. She'd already decided that prayer wouldn't help. I guess if you don't know God or only know Him in a small measure, you don't know or understand how great He is or what He can and will do.
I hope I'll offer to pray for her again and I hope this time she'll let me, cause I know God would love to have her as His.
See, I sometimes have a problem doing what our Father says. Like when I get an understanding from the Holy Spirit to pray for someone, I'll immediately freeze up, I get scared. Sometimes I overcome fear and sometimes I don't. So, sometimes I do what my Father tells me to and sometimes I don't. This is not acceptable.
2 Tim 1:7 says, " For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. So, when I'm told to do something by our Father, I need to recognize who my Father is, by not allowing the spirit of fear to quench the Holy Spirit in me. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I still mess up.
As it says in Isaiah 55:8-9, His ways are not our ways and His ways are higher than our ways. I'm thankful for this, because every time I mess up, I can count on my Father. He's in control and knows what needs to be done and how much testing it'll take for me to overcome this present evil in my face.
So, all I can do is trust our Father, so when He wants me to pray for someone, I will. I'll simply rebuke the enemy and walk in the doonamis,and exooseah, power and authority, He's given me and speak to the mountain of fear and cast it into the sea, Matt 21:21. Amen.
God bless
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