Daily and Weekly Christian Inspiration
Since I’ve had some toe joint problems I can no longer wear the latest fashion in shoes. Being someone who enjoys fashion I’ve often thought “oh! if only I could wear those beautiful shoes.” Having suffered a stroke 18 months ago and unable to walk I now can be soooo thankful that I can walk again regardless of my footwear. “Lord, may we all be lifted to an attitude of gratitude today” Amen
Philippians 4:11 for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content
Dear Father,
Help me to get “life” into perspective that everyday living may not consume my time leaving nothing for my unique purpose.
Dear Child,
Do not loose focus!
Focus brings life into perspective.
Focus directs your steps.
Focus sets your boundaries and protects your treasure.
Without focus your time, resources and abilities just drift through an
hourglass like grains of sand, without accomplishing eternal purpose.
Don’t pour out your life without focus and purpose.
Day by day stay focused and add daily to fulfilling your purpose!
To receive a calling takes a moment.
To fulfill a calling takes a lifetime.
Thus saith Papa
1 Cor 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Neh 6:3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Nehemiah was enticed, misunderstood, questioned, lied about, offered a safer way, and even the religious leaders tried to fill him with fear, and yet he stayed focused and never once deviated from “his great work” of building for God!
Challenge: Oh Lord, may I have the same spirit of steadfastness of purpose that marked the life of Nehemiah.
Personally I know this to be true. As a young woman I always knew I was called to do a work for God by teaching His Word. But it wasn’t until now in my later years I culminated this calling into a book. It has taken a lifetime of mountain top and valley walks with the Lord to have an authentic voice to pen the message of the book. “Developing a Secret History with God”.
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Dear Father,
While admiring the beauty of the work of your hands, as I see the hills and mountains ablaze with vibrant shades of yellow, orange and red, and marvel at the fruitful harvest from your faithful provision, I am amazed, for surely all this declares your majesty and awesomeness!
As I reflect, I have to question who am I that you would be concerned with me? I will never fathom Your love and mercy and yet I believe it with all my heart.
Oh, Papa, may my life declare your majesty and faithfulness as much as the creation of nature echoes your awesomeness!
Dear Child,
Creation just naturally fulfills the purpose it was created for. It doesn’t strive to do anything else! It never doubts My sovereignty but without effort awaits each season, knowing each season has a unique purpose.
But I cannot commune with nature, I cannot fellowship with nature. Only man was created in My image, to fellowship and commune with Me!
All of this beauty was created for man! And man was created to relate to Me!
As you commune and fellowship with Me, your life is declaring My majesty and mercy, for by faith in My mercy, you are trusting My sovereignty and majesty! You are a vessel to display that majesty and mercy, but you must allow Me to fill the vessel daily or you will run dry.
Thus saith Papa
Psalm 8:3 -4 / Isaiah 64:8 / Jeremiah / 18:2-4
Just as creation brings glory to His name by simply fulfilling its purpose, even so, as we fellowship with and wait on the Lord, we are fulfilling that for which He created us. He created us to fellowship with Him!
CHALLENGE: Are you making that journey each day to the Potter’s house, are you yielding as He molds you season to season, that your life might display, not only the signature of the Creator, but also His majesty and faithfulness.
Remember He has a reason for this season of your life!
For more on this topic see my book “Developing a Secret History with God”
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If you are, you can rejoice, for you have found favor with God.
It has been said “Don’t trust a person who walks without a spiritual limp” for they have not had a defeat in the flesh as they wrestled with the Spirit of God.
To gain a victory in the spirit we must have a defeat in the flesh. In the physical realm we may think we have lost, but in the reality of the spirit realm we have won a great victory by surrendering to the spirit.
In Genesis 32 We read of Jacob’s wrestle with God. Jacob surrenders after God touches the hallow of his thigh. Now this may have looked like a defeat in the physical realm but God declares in Genesis 32:28 “thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed “.
So in losing in the flesh, Jacob actually won in the spiritual realm.
Genesis 32: 24-28 And a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the Man saw that He did not prevail against Jacob, He touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with Him. Then He said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let You go unless you bless me.” And He said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
CHALLENGE: In what area of your life do you need to surrender to God in order to gain a spiritual victory?
Excerpt from “DEVELOPING A SECRET HISTORY WITH GOD” page 200
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Dear Papa,
Help me to understand “laying down my all” on the altar, that I may walk in Your power and might. As I offer my life as a living sacrifice, I want it to be holy and acceptable to You, that the fire from heaven may fall, for only then will I know that my sacrifice is acceptable to You. Help me that it might be a sweet savor to You, Papa.
Dear Child,
Sacrifice has cost! Something must die! Self must die! The flesh must die!
Present your whole being on the altar and My fire will consume that which is of the old man, and that living sacrifice which remains will burn with power but not be consumed and will be a sweet savor to Me.
A living sacrifice doesn’t have to stay on the altar, as My Son didn’t have to stay on the cross, except by cords of love!
When you present yourself as a living sacrifice, it is only the motivation of love for Me that will keep you there. Regrets and ‘should haves’ will not secure you there. Good intentions will only slack the cords of love! Disobedience will break the cords of love!
Only obedience will keep you secure in My presence, and will be a sweet savor.
If you love me keep my commandments.
Obedience born out of love for Me is a sweet savor!
Obedience to Me will nourish the spirit and starve the flesh. Lose your soul life that you may have everlasting life in the spirit.
Thus saith Papa
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
He was a willing sacrifice as He hung on the cross, He could have come down from the cross and saved Himself! Likewise, when we present ourselves as a living sacrifice, we could crawl off the altar, only a dead sacrifice doesn’t have a choice! A living sacrifice must be a WILLING sacrifice! A dead sacrifice has no choice!
As I reflected on the oxymoron of the words “living sacrifice” the Lord impressed the words of the following prayer on my heart. I pray these words will be your prayer.
CHALLENGE: Pray this prayer as a yielded vessel:
“ A living sacrifice,
Dying to self and alive to You.
In losing my life, I find it.
In dying I live,
A living sacrifice.
Consume that which is not of You
That You may fill me with that which is of You.
Salt the sacrifice
That I may thirst for more of You.”
Excerpt from my book “Developing a Secret History with God” Page 80-85
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