Walking by Faith in Your Wintery Season

January 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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At this season of the year when the earth is blanketed in snow and ice, I am amazed as I consider the ugly  tulip and daffodil bulbs that are frozen under the soil which will soon sprout and bear beautiful flowers of hope as the earth is rejuvenated during spring time. And even in the dead of winter when shivering hope appears to be frozen God gives a glimmer of hope as the snowdrops pop their heads bravely through the fallen snow. Oh the joy of seeing that first fragile yet hardy snowdrop – what a wonderful window to our souls of His desire to feed our faith to believe for brighter days. I thank God for His faithfulness in the seasons and look forward in faith to the spring.

Dear Child,

I am also faithful in the seasons of your life! Each season has its own unique beauty and purpose, the same is true with the seasons of your life. The same is true in the ministry of your life.

A time to believe in naked faith, a time to sow, a time to water and tend the potential harvest, and then a time of reward and reaping! The winter season is a time of hidden dormancy on the surface, but oh! under the surface what preparation is going on to burst to life in the spring! Be prepared for the spring! child.

Every season of your life has its own winter of faith, planting time in spring, watering time in summer, and reaping time in the fall. But this winter time of dormancy and darkness without any fruit, is when you must walk by faith and trust my hand to be working in My sovereignty under the surface, to bring beauty to your life in the spring!

You trust me with the seasons of the earth, trust me with the seasons of your life!

                                                              Thus saith Papa

Ecclesiastes 3:1  To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

WINTER — The Season of FAITH

SPRING  — The Season of HOPE

SUMMER —The Season of LABOR

AUTUMN — The Season of FRUITFULNESS

CHALLENGE: If you are in the season of a fruitless winter, in faith hold unto hope, don’t give up, spring is on its way, for He is faithful!

 

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Bringing Balance to the New Year by Rightly Dividing the Word

January 6, 2014 by 1 Comment

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Dear Child,

If this day is not in balance, your week, month and year will not be in balance. Meet the needs of body, soul and spirit everyday, to mature to a whole person, living not only in harmony with Me but also with yourself. If you live in harmony, you will have the peace that passes understanding. To be healthy and strong in body, soul and spirit, you need balance in all roles and responsibilities of your life. Do all things in moderation. I need a whole person.

You are a steward of all I have given you, be a good steward of all I have placed in your care. You will have time for all I want of you, if you live a balanced life, and seek first My Kingdom.     

                                  Thus saith Papa

Philippians 4:5  Let your moderation be known unto all men. 

WHAT IS BALANCE ?

Balance brings steadiness and stability to all areas of our lives especially when we “rightly divide the Word of Truth” 2Tim.2:15. If we neglect to spend time studying and rightly dividing the Word, we will loose our balance, which could result in a fall!

The following are examples to give you some food for thought.

SOCIAL LIFE:-

Proverbs 18:24  A man that hath friends must show himself friendly:

Proverbs 25:17  Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

Are the above scriptures contradictions? No! They are teaching us balance!

MINISTRY:-

Galatians 6:9  And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Mark 6:31  And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

Are the above scriptures contradictions? No! They are teaching us balance!

WORK ETHIC:-

Ecclesiastics.3:13  And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Mark 8:36  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Are the above scriptures contradictions? No! They are teaching us balance!

FULFILLING YOUR DESTINY:-

Jeremiah 29:11  For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.

Proverbs 27:1  Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Are the above scriptures contradictions? No! They are teaching us balance!

HOLINESS OR LEGALISM:-

Exodus 20:8 – 11  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work……

John 5:16-17 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

Are the above scriptures contradictions? No! They are teaching us balance!

Surely the best scripture to teach us balance is:

Ecclesiastics 3:1 – 8 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

This is a New Year offering you the opportunity to live a healthy balanced life meeting the nutritional needs of body, soul and spirit! Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas of life. But can it really? Can success in your profession compensate for a broken marriage, ruined health, or weakness in personal character? True effectiveness requires balance. 

CHALLENGE: Don’t try to burn the candle at both ends! 

Psalm127: 2 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved.

In what areas of your life do you lack balance, which is robbing you of peace and harmony within?

 

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Have you Unwrapped His Gift?

December 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Christmas month is almost over for another year. And again I find myself trying to reach out to help people who can’t, by themselves, “unwrap” Christmas. It is, you know, “wrapped” for many.

……..Wrapped in bandages of bygone hurts and disappointments

……..Wrapped in plastic of sophistication which shuns childlike wonder

……..Wrapped in the tinsel of a materialistic binge

……..Wrapped in the confetti and streamers of empty partying

……..Wrapped in the busy-getting-ready preparations

……..Wrapped in the artistically designed whiskey box of bombed-out, so-called celebrations.

The wrappings represent the cluttered residue of a man or woman’s private history. They are the wadded packaging of Christmases ruined in other times, at other places. Sadly the impact carries on, souring year after year. 

I’m speaking of people who:

* Had a heartbreak one yuletide and now always associate the season with that tearful memory.

* Have been burned out over family stresses surrounding the holidays, so that now these days are dreaded instead of anticipated with joy.

* Became wearied with the carnality of superficial gift giving when love seldom attended the presents, and wince at the idea of Christmas shopping.

How many cases? How many varieties of death wrap a God appointed celebration of life?

I come to you today, my disappointed friend in Jesus’ name and I come with this word, “Be free!”

Confront and reject those ghouls of past pain. Refuse to let the prince of darkness smother the season of light. The one who sought to murder the babe of Bethlehem now seeks to ruin your celebration of His coming.

Jack Hayford’s book “Come…and behold Him!”

John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

CHALLENGE: Unwrap the gift of God’s love and be free as you step into a brand New Year.

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The Vital Truth of the Virgin Birth

December 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment

 

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Since we all are born with our Adam nature and born as sinners separated from God, where could we ever find someone who was sinless, who could take the penalty for our sin by taking our place of judgement? It had to be someone who did not inherit the Adam nature. The only way this could possibly happen was to have someone born physically without an earthly father since sin is inherited through our fathers’ bloodline not our mothers’. But everyone male or female inherits that Adam nature since we all have earthly fathers.

There was only one born who did not have an earthly father, that one was the babe in the manger in Bethlehem. Yes, even He did have an earthly mother who had been born of an earthly father, but biologically the blood of the mother never intermingles with the blood of the fetus, thus He could be born without a sinful nature. The chemistry is in the blood, sin is in the blood, and life is in the blood.

If this babe had an earthly father He would have been paying for the penalty of His own sin.

He had to be the perfect Lamb to be found worthy to take away the sin of the world.

If He wasn’t born of a virgin we are still in our sins for His sacrificial death would not have been an acceptable sacrifice when He presented His blood in the Holy of Holies in the heavens.

When the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit plants His seed in our spiritual wombs we are “born again” of a different bloodline through the New Birth as we now can become the children of God.

Surely the Christmas story is The Son of God becoming a man to enable men to become the sons of God.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

CHALLENGE:

Except we become as little children we cannot see the Kingdom of God.

Celebrate the miracle of the Virgin Birth this season with childlike wonder and faith.

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God’s Miracle on 34th Street

December 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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