Is your life a stench or sweet savor to the Lord?

June 13, 2012 by 1 Comment

 

Dear Father,

How can I present myself a living sacrifice that will be a sweet savor to you?

Dear Child,

It is at the place of choice that your life is a stench or sweet savor to Me! The fire is the tests of life! The sweet savor is the obedience that is caused by the fire.

At a time of testing do not rebel, rather submit to My sovereignty, and that will cause a cloud of sweet incense that will be pleasing to Me.

Without the test there is no fire!

Without the choice there is no obedience!

Without obedience there is no sweet savor!

                                                   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.

Deu 30:19  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

Challenge: Everyday life is full of hundreds of so called insignificant choices, but 

                        are they really so insignificant, when they are the place where our

                       lives can be a stench or a sweet savor to the Lord?

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Don’t pull His Body out of joint

May 28, 2012 by 2 Comments

Dear Child,

You know Me better as you spend time with My Body on earth. That is why unity is so important, then you can hear clearly from the Head and the anointing will flow!

My Body is so pulled apart in one direction or another, lay aside differences that are often only opinions, for the sake of unity. Would you cut My Body asunder for the sake of an opinion and wanting to be right!

If you love Me do what you can to protect against splits that hurt My Body, be the healing ointment to the weaker parts, that they may be healed, and that healing will knit them together again as one.

How can the anointing flow from the Head down over the Body of My church if there is not unity?

Child, do your part and be an influence to unit My Body in these last days, that there might be a great harvest, and a mighty move of My presence among My people!

                                                               Thus saith Papa

Psa 133:1 -2 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

John 17:20  -21 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Our heavenly Papa has invested a part of Himself in each of His children. As we get to know each other and recognize that investment, we realize just how much we need our brothers and sisters if we are going to know Him more fully. As we grow to know Him more fully we will grow to be more gracious than righteous towards each other, thereby protecting His Body from division. The word of the Lord concerning His death is prophetically declared in  Psa 22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; and even today His bones are still being pulled out of joint by divisions within His Body.

Challenge: How can we say we love the Head if we do not love His Body? What opinion or right could you surrender today for the sake of unity in His Body? 


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How to have 20/20 Spiritual Vision

May 15, 2012 by 3 Comments

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 knew I was called to teach God’s 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”.

Be looking for Maggie’s book “Developing a Secret History with God” at Rhemapublications.com  then look for “religion” also on Amazon.com

This book will revolutionize your quiet time with God

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Finding Gold in the Valleys

May 3, 2012 by 2 Comments

 

Dear Papa,

Does humility lead to obedience, or does obedience lead to humility?

Dear Child,

Humility leads to obedience, for only when you humble yourself before Me will you have the grace to be obedient. Even My Son learned obedience through suffering. And suffering will reap humility. Learn of Him, the expression of humility.

                                                            Thus saith Papa


Heb.5:8  Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

Heb.12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Peter 5:5-6 For God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He might exalt you in due time. 

Suffering leads me to dependence on Papa, for then I realize my weakness. When I am weak, then I am humbled to rely on His strength, which is sufficient.

Suffering will teach me humility

Humility will teach me obedience

Obedience will teach me maturity

“God never intended that tribulation should have no fruit. His purpose is that all pressure lead to growth and all poverty lead to wealth. His destiny for His people is not continuous distress and poverty. Distress and poverty are not an end; they are the means to the end. The New Jerusalem is a city of infinite wealth. However there is not a nugget of gold in that city which has not been tried in the furnace of affliction, not a precious stone which has not passed through the fires, and not a pearl that has not been born of suffering.” Watchman Nee

Rom.8:17-18  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Note: Surely our spiritual wealth comes from trials!

CHALLENGE: May we all realize that the pure gold of our faith is extracted from the valleys of our lives and not from our mountain top experiences.


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Preparing our Hearts for Easter

March 20, 2012 by 2 Comments

Dear Papa,

Help me to die daily as I present my life and body as a living sacrifice. May I die to self this day and live unto to thee.

Dear Child,

My Son died once and for all, but to identify with His resurrection life, you must die daily, that daily you may walk in resurrection life.

He died once but you must die daily.

Resurrection life can only follow death! No death, no resurrection life!

Only resurrection life has power and anointing.

Only resurrection life can produce fruit for eternity.

Each seed and fruit produces after its own kind.

Only that which is birthed by resurrection life will never die.

Child, it is not about power, it is about more dying!

And then power will automatically flow from the resurrection life that follows.

                                              Thus saith Papa

Phil 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

2 Cor 4:7-12 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.  For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

 

We must first die to self if the power of the resurrection life is to flow from our lives. 

By His sovereignty, God uses circumstances of verses 8 and 9 above, to break us, that resurrection life may flow from us. “He who puts his trust only in spiritual gifts is being foolish, for such gifts do not necessarily work that transformation in the inner man. It is only out of brokenness that there can come forth life.” Watchman Nee

Challenge: If we do not die to self, we cannot bear the mark of resurrection power in our lives or ministry..

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