Are You Living in Spiritual Survival Mode?

August 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Several summers ago we suffered a severe drought and I noticed the effect on my rose garden. The roses appeared to be healthy with deep glossy leaves but to my disappointment, there were only a few blooms, and those blooms were smaller than normal and lacked their normal heavy fragrance. This circumstance was a window to my soul and the Lord spoke this parable to my heart.

Dear Child,

“Look at your rose garden! They look healthy enough yet no blossom and therefore no fragrance! Because of the lack of water and the scorch of the sun they are in survival mode, doing all they can just to stay alive.

Likewise My people stay too long in survival mode, and there is no fruit from their lives. Yes, they are spiritually alive and look and appear to be healthy, but where is the blossom and fragrance from their lives? They are not drawing near and supping with Me where I can give them rivers of living water to sustain them during the scorching heat of  the trials of life.

Many will spend their lives at the Brazen Altar in survival mode, where, yes they are believers but they are not disciples and priests ministering unto Me at the Golden Altar of Incense.”

Thus saith Papa 

(Excerpt from “DEVELOPING A SECRET HISTORY WITH GOD” Page 83)

Mark 11:12 -14 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:  And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.  And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.; Mark 11:20-21  And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

CHALLENGE:  Does the fruit of our lives satisfy His need or does He just find leaves?

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Freedom From the Bondage of Pride

August 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Dear Child,  

Pride is a terrible slave master! If you are meek and lowly, then you are humble, and will not have to carry the burden, which pride causes by having to prove oneself. You won’t need to prove anything and therefore no stressful burden trying to prove it.

Just know who you are in Me! Walk in it, don’t be anxious or concerned about proving who you are. Let your confidence in Our Relationship be sufficient.

Learn of Me for I am meek and lowly.

                                                    Thus saith the Lord Jesus 

(Excerpt from “Developing a Secret History with God” Page 163)

Mat 11:29-30  Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

CHALLENGE: Unload that subtle yoke of pride and take His yoke upon you! Jesus didn’t try or need to prove who He was, because He was so confident in His relationship to the Father.

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Develop a Lasting Love in your Marriage

July 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment

As we celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary on July 18th this year

we rejoice at God’s blessing and grace on our years together.

 1964 AGAPE, PHILEO AND EROS LOVE led us to 2014

                We are brother and sister in the Lord, we are best friends and we are lovers.

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In the Greek language AGAPE – PHILEO – EROS –  are all words for love, yet each displaying a different character of love.

AGAPE – Displays the character of God for God is love. It’s the love that cannot be earned, an unconditional love with acceptance and  forgiveness.

Agape love is displayed in a marital union of two good forgivers who learn to seek forgiveness and offer forgiveness, accepting the shortcomings in each other. As both spouses move towards God they are also moving closer to each other as His character is formed in them.

It is available to us through the power of the Holy Spirit.

It is the power of being like-spirited as we pray together, minister together and serve one and other.

PHILEO – Displays the character of friendship. Unlike agape love phileo love has to be earned as it involves trust. It is earned as we learn to trust one another through communicating from the depths of our hearts. Trusting our spouses with our deep wounds, our aspirations, passions and dreams. Never leave your heart unspoken for it displays your heart to your spouse.

Your spouse should be your most trusted and best friend. A relationship where you laugh together, cry together, play together and support  each other’ dreams.

It has been said that “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”. Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the power of being like-minded as you have fun together sharing and supporting each others’ hobbies, passions and dreams.

EROS –   Displays the character of romantic and sexual love. Eros love is like a phileo friendship love caught on fire. Keep the fire lit in your marriage and your life will be filled with warmth.

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”  ~Mignon McLaughlin

The Eros love is the only love that makes your marriage different and unique than any other relationship, that is why it is so important to keep romance alive. Light the candles, turn on the music and keep that flame burning brightly.

It is the power of physical attraction and the consummation of body, soul and spirit.

“To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule:  Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart – about a finger’s breadth – for breathing room.  Good fire, good marriage, same rule.”  ~Marnie Reed Crowell

 A  successful marriage needs all three “loves” to hold it together. As we love God with our body, soul and spirit, likewise we need to love our spouses with our body, soul and spirit. Now we’re talking unity!  In fact the unity in our marriage is a witness to the world of the mystical union of Christ and His church according to Ephesians 5:23

 

CHALLENGE: “A marriage is not a noun. It isn’t something you are. It is a verb. It’s the way you love your partner everyday with AGAPE, PHILEO and EROS love.

 

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The Cross is My Statue of Liberty

July 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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There is no better song than the one penned by our personal friend, Neil Enloe of the Couriers, to celebrate the 4th.July which reminds us not only of  National freedom but also Spiritual freedom.

In New York Harbor stands a lady, With a torch raised to the sky;

And all who see her know she stands for Liberty for you and me.

I am proud to be called an American, To be named with the brave and the free;

I will honor our flag and our trust in God And the Statue of Liberty

On lonely Golgotha stood a cross, With my Lord raised to the sky;

And all who kneel there live forever As all the saved can testify.

I am so glad to called a Christian, To be named with the ransomed and whole:

As the statue liberates the citizen, So the cross liberates the soul.

Oh the cross is my Statue of Liberty, It was there that my soul was set free:

Unashamed I’ll proclaim that old rugged cross Is my Statue of Liberty!

 

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I Really Want to Change But I Need Your Help, Lord!

June 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Dear Father,

Help me, Papa, to overcome, deny and not to feed that which is not of You in my temple!

I cannot, in myself, overcome attitudes that are of my fallen soulish nature. Help me! I can’t change my own attitudes; only you can! Do whatever it takes to conform me to the image of Christ.

Dear Child,

You lay it down, by not trying to preserve it and save it. Don’t even try to use attitudes of the old soulish nature to try and uphold the spirit, the spirit doesn’t need the fleshly soul to uphold it. In fact the fleshly soul will grieve the spirit and stunt the growth of your spirit.

Lay it down and lose it, that*old fleshly soul life; and you shall gain** spiritual life everlasting.

If you are feeding the soul and ego, you are starving the spirit! 

How often have I told you that your frustrations and attitudes are out of a desire to be pleasing and acceptable to man, be content with doing all things as unto Me, and these attitudes will have nothing to feed on! Do not feed attitudes that are not of my Spirit, starve them and do not dwell on them or give them life and they will wither and fall away like dead leaves on a tree. Without those leaves there will never be a manifestation of the fruit of the flesh.

                                                          Thus saith Papa

John 12:25  He that loveth his (psuche) life shall lose it; and he that hateth his (psuche) life in this world shall keep it unto (zoe) life 

This almost reads like an oxymoron “If I lose my life I will find my life” ??? until we look at these Greek words for “life”.

* “PSUCHE” is the Greek word used for our fleshly soul life

** “ZOE” is the Greek word for spiritual everlasting life 

1 Cor 5:7-8  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Challenge: Remember that to have a victory in the Spirit in this Great War you must have a defeat in the Flesh. Spend a few moments reflecting, with your heart totally naked before God, and list the attitudes that you need to put on a starvation diet!

Find inspiration and help from “DEVELOPING A SECRET HISTORY WITH GOD” as you daily visit the Potters’ House Jeremiah 18:2

This Book and accompanying Study Guide will revolutionize your quiet time with God. Available now at Amazon/ Barnes & Noble/ Walmart/Kindle Nook / Ibooks/ Lulu/ Rhema Publications/ Cl France or a bookstore near you.

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