Thank God for the beauty and joy of springtime!
May the gratitude you offer Him bring appreciation to your heart,
a smile to your face and a spring in your step.
Weeds of Discouragement
April 2, 2018 by 1 Comment
Dear Child,
Do not be deceived for I and My Word are not mocked, whatever you sow, you will reap in due season, whether it be good fruit or evil fruit.
Do not wait until harvest time, the choice is made at sowing time. You know the principle well from your own garden, sow what you want to reap. Weeds from this fallen world may grow and try to choke the harvest, be consistent in tending your crop, take care of it, sow only in good soil where I am working. Do not let weeds of discouragement choke and zap the life from the crop. When you see a weed appear, pull it up from the root, don’t just pull the head off, you must get to the root, that the crop will not be hindered but flourish!
Of all the weeds in the garden of your life, discouragement is the most destructive. Pull it up, and sprinkle your garden with a doze of faith. Weeds of discouragement belong to the family of doubt and cannot survive in a garden of faith.
Weeds of discouragement bear the fruit of low self- esteem, procrastination, depression, lack of focus, apathy, doubt and will eventually extinguish your passion, suffocate your faith, thereby strangle that precious crop.
Attend not only to your physical flower garden but also the spiritual garden of your life, for the devil is like a roaring lion going about seeking whom he may devour.
Thus saith Papa
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Challenge: Are you feeding and pampering those weeds of discouragement or are you putting the ax to their root by encouraging yourself in the Lord?
The Power of the Resurrection
March 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This is the glorious day of the resurrection and victory over death!
I Corinthians 15:54 -55 “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory?”
I want to paint a picture of this victory through the window of typology.
The story takes place in Pharaoh’s palace where Aaron obeys the Lord and casts down his rod to see it miraculously become a serpent. Pharaoh calls for his sorcerers who through their enchantments do the same thing. But what a victory over the enemy! Exodus 7:12 “For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.”
A rod represents authority, and Aaron’s rod represented delegated authority from God, which swallowed up the sorcerers’ power from their false gods. This beautifully confirms how the Lord Jesus lay down His rod i.e. His authority to become the brazen serpent for us, to swallow up death that we might rejoice in the reality and victory of Calvary.
I Corinthians 15:54-55 “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory?” After the victory of His glorious resurrection, Jesus declares in Matthew 28 : 18 “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” This power He delegates to His church in Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
A Thought Provoking Meditation for Holy Week
March 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Becoming a believer will cost you nothing but becoming a mature disciple may cost you everything, since whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:27. There is no painless path to maturity, the flesh must be crucified by daily taking up the cross.
We will never learn obedience without daily taking up our cross.
We will never mature without obedience.
We will never be conformed to His image without maturity.
Excerpt from “Developing A Secret History With God” page 187
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Spiritual Palm Branches
March 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The palm branches bent in worship as they were laid before Him on His way into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Today may we all offer spiritual palm branches as our hearts bend in surrender and obedience as they are laid before Him as we cry out Hosanna in worship from our hearts on our pilgrim way to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you”.
Isaiah 29:13 This people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me.