Start this new week afresh by going to the church of your choice this morning.
It will prepare you for the gift of the week ahead and whatever it may hold.
Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord
Are You Wrestling with God?
February 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
When does surrendering lead to victory and blessing?
The story of Jacob reads almost like an oxymoron.
“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: 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 (Genesis 32:28). So in losing in the flesh, Jacob actually won in the spiritual realm to be blessed.” Excerpt from “Developing A Secret History With God” page 200.
Win that victory by living the words of the old hymn:
I surrender all, all to thee my Blessed Savior I surrender all!
Who Will Win the Battle Today in Your Life?
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
As the Lenten season begins, we look forward to commemorate the victory of the greatest war ever fought through the glorious resurrection of our Lord, may we be reminded that we must die daily to self that He might be resurrected in us. We all want to see victory in the battle between the flesh and the spirit. But as with any war there are many battles and we only win one battle at a time. In order to have a victory either the flesh or the spirit will have to die. Who will be the victor in our daily battles today? The flesh or the spirit?
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh:and these are contrary the one to the other.
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Preparing Our Hearts During Lent
February 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
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 only unto 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 more power, it is about more dying!
And then power will automatically flow from the resurrection life that follows.
Thus saith Papa
Philippians 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 Corinthians 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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The Valentine card that changed Destiny
February 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
A young 19 year old girl while serving in the Women’s Royal Air Force in England and based at R.A.F. Hereford, which was the School of Catering for the Royal Air Force, met her destiny. With a base of 7000 men and only 200 women she was never shy of a date but as yet had not met her Mr. Right. Every 6 weeks there would be a new class of potential chefs brought in for training. At a fall dance on the base she won a twisting contest and met one of those trainees who not only won the same contest for the guys but also won her heart. From that night they saw each other most evenings for the next few weeks until his training was over and he had to return to his base on the other side of England.
This is where our story takes a turn as she waits to meet her Knight in Shining Armor at the canteen on the base to say goodbye as he is leaving Hereford the next day. Much to her embarrassment he doesn’t show and stands her up for all their friends to see.They try to console her but her anger overcomes her hurt.
The next morning at breakfast she had to sit in a different dining room as she was permanent staff and he had to sit in the trainee’s dining room. He sees her as she gets up to leave but doesn’t have the courage to face the tearful hurt in her eyes. He lets her walk away to a life without him as he boards the bus to take him hundreds of miles away.
But as Providence would have it, it was Valentine weekend, and to her chagrin she had already mailed him a Valentine card which of course she could not retrieve. When he receives her card back at his base he decides to take the risk to write and try to explain. His excuse for standing her up was that he didn’t want to have to say goodbye. Now who would ever buy that reasoning? Well she did and they have been married now for fifty years!
That Valentine day was 51 years ago and John and I are still thanking God every February 14th. for His providence in our lives through the card that saved the day and our destiny in each other’s lives.
Psalm 78:41 Don’t limit the Holy One of Israel
CHALLENGE: Never underestimate the Providence of God in your life!