Daily and Weekly Christian Inspiration
BBC interview with my niece Dr. Stacey Mearns as she and her team use their medical training to help with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. We are so proud of you Stacey and want you to know that your cousins Patsy, Angela, Kathleen and their families as well as Uncle John and myself are praying for God to watch over you all. I’m asking all my followers to remember you in pray also.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29803323
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Dear Child,
All My creation was created for a purpose and to work in harmony and peace on the earth. You were also created to live in harmony and peace, that is why My word tells you, to live at peace with all men where possible. Most of all live in harmony with your own being, may your body, soul and spirit be in harmony, that you might know peace! Be led by the spirit and you will know peace! When you have this harmony and peace in your own being, it will be easier to live at peace and in harmony with others.
You cannot love others if you do not love yourself,
You cannot have peace with others if you are not at peace with yourself.
You cannot forgive others if you can’t forgive yourself.
Be led by the spirit and you will like yourself and have peace and harmony within.
Thus saith Papa.
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Self forgiveness is a necessary step in self acceptance leading to self love.
Self love is a necessary step in loving others as ourselves.
CHALLENGE: Are you still holding yourself captive in a prison of guilt from mistakes from the past? God has forgiven you, have you forgiven yourself? Forgive yourself that you might be able to forgive others.
Dear Child,
Have assurance of My love for you, which is displayed in only wanting the best for you!
Humbly submit to My sovereign workings in all seasons of your life. If you do this you will find rest for your soul, for you will then be dwelling in harmony with My will for your life.
Trust Me! If you do not trust Me, you do not really believe that I love you! Love is built on trust.
Have I not been faithful in the past?
Believe in my faithfulness today in all things.
Trust my faithfulness for the future.
I am the Lord, I change not.
Build upon my faithfulness of the past, and you will have a solid foundation to build your hope for the future upon.
I am the Rock, I will not move, I am called Faithful and True.
I am dependable.
Thus saith Papa
Genesis 8: 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
CHALLENGE: Build a foundation of trust in His love towards you for the future, by listing all your past and current blessings from His Faithful Hand . You can see the evidence of His faithfulness during each new season on the earth. Likewise you can also trust His faithfulness in each new season of your life.
PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW
It was such an honor and privilege to have pastor Dan Mariano ordain me at the Assembly of God International Fellowship Conference only a few days ago. Although his sudden passing away yesterday to be with His Lord is such a shock to us all and grieves us for he shall be so sorely missed, it makes my ordination even more special yet mixed with such sweet sorrow. Although I am not sure but I do believe that ordination was his last official assignment here on earth, which makes the words he spoke when he prayed over me even more impactful on my life and ministry. May those words and example of his life cause me to follow Christ as he followed Christ.
Dear Child,
Your life is hid in Me. Your life is hid in our intimate times together. The source of your life is hid beneath the soil in your root structure. From that root structure sprouts the potential for every season of your life.
Thus saith Papa
I was sitting under the shade of a large willow tree while I was having this communion with my heavenly Papa. I noticed leaves falling prematurely from the tree due to the lack of rain from a summer drought, and I asked the Lord,
“But, Papa, what are the leaves that often fall from my life grounded in you?”
Dear Child,
If you do not water, nourish and protect consistently your spiritual root structure, the leaves that begin to fall are the leaves of FAITH, followed by dried up leaves of HOPE, and the discolored leaves of OBEDIENCE!
Without leaves, which nourish a plant, there will never be fruition of your destiny. A plant without leaves will never blossom and bear fruit. Feed and water your root structure daily and consistently that healthy leaves of FAITH, HOPE and OBEDIENCE, in due season, will reap the abundant fruit of your destiny.
Do not let the garden of your life of faith be covered by fallen dried up leaves of lost opportunity, lost time and lost potential.
A warning from Papa
Hebrews 11:6 But without FAITH it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Romans 15: 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in HOPE, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
James 1: 22 But be ye DOERS of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
CHALLENGE: Invest daily in your spiritual root structure by communing with your heavenly Papa that you may have FAITH to trust, confidence to HOPE and discipline to OBEY in all seasons of life.
A flower always leans towards the sun blooming in its presence.
Likewise our lives will only bloom as we spend time in His presence
Excerpt from “DEVELOPING A SECRET HISTORY WITH GOD” page 21 Available also on Ebook and Kindle from Amazon/Barnes/or a bookstore near you
