Inspiring Intimacy with God
January 20, 2013 by 1 Comment
Dear Father,
Thank you for your Word and for ears to hear it. Thank you for the Holy Spirit to teach it, and your grace available to live it. Help me daily as I read your Word, to hide it deep in my heart, lest the enemy comes and steals it away. Help me daily to faithfully spend my time with you that I might have deep roots through my secret history alone with you. I know it’s only with these deep roots, the enemy cannot pull up and steal the word from my heart. It’s buried deep in the soil of my heart and hidden! With your help, Lord, it will with patience bear good fruit that has been brought to perfection.
In His loving Name, Amen!
Dear Child,
That is the hidden manna of your heart! Your secret history is that path I walk with you that nobody else knows of, that secret history is time spent with the One who knows you the best and loves you the most. Only I know all the motivation of your heart and thoughts, only you and I know your innermost being. Your history and communications with Me, will be the path we can share, as I alone can deal with those motivations that are not of My Spirit, and daily transform you into My likeness as we spend time together.
Thus saith Papa.
Page 127 “Developing a Secret History with God”
CHALLENGE: If this is the prayer of your heart as you start the New Year this book will inspire and encourage you on your journey.
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Gifts with a Prophetic Meaning
December 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Over two thousand years ago wise men offered Him gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.
This Christmas we can also offer Him gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. But these gifts have much more than monetary value for they cost us the treasures of our hearts.
GOLD prophesied His royalty as King of Kings
And he hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Revelation 19:16
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. I Timothy 1:17
We present unto Him the Gift of Gold out of the treasure of our hearts when we submit to his Kingship and Lordship in our lives.
FRANKINCENSE prophesied of His everlasting priesthood after the order of Melchizedek
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek Hebrews 6:20
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us]. Hebrews 9:11
We present unto Him the gift of Frankincense as we daily offer Him our thanksgiving, prayers and praise at the Golden Altar of Incense where we present ourselves as living sacrifices holy and acceptable. It will be a sweet incense to Him.
MYRRH prophesied His suffering as the Lamb of God.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. I Peter 2:24
We present Him the gift of myrrh as as we willingly identify with His suffering and take up our cross daily and follow Him.
CHALLENGE: Make the Christmas pageant come alive this year in your heart as you present unto Him, gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. As you confirm that He is your King, great High Priest and the Lamb of God that takes away your sin.