God's Heart

Song - Run to You by: Smokie Norful

When I awake daily my heart is to hear the heart of God and what he is saying.  With all the new technology there is always chatter and noise.  TV's. radios, cellphones, ipads, computers, ipods, etc.....
It is in the silence of the morning that I ask what God longs for my day to be.  What he desires to take place.   What life does he desire for me touch, encourage and reach out to.  

There is so much stress in people's lives.  Jobs, or lack of.  Losing homes, cars, families, divorce, no food.  People's needs are God's concern.   His passion is people, and their souls.  He longs to save them, change, bring peace, love and provision to their lives.

When we learn to reach out to our co-workers, the lady at the checkout, next door neighbor, family, friends....we are fulfilling God's heart to reach all.  When we focus only on ourselves, and our lives, we tie God's hands to move through us.  My prayer is that we learn how to allow God work through us.  

Teach this hurting world to run to God. Allow God to heal them.  They know not because we haven't taught them.  Teach them, show them through your life.  Your life is the only bible, many will ever read.  Live God's word.  Let God's word activate in you. Make it come alive through your life.

Just a little encouragement ....

Song - "Miracle of the Moment" by: Steven Curtis Chapman

I just want to take a moment and encourage some of you.  I know that everyone has their battles that they are facing today.  Some are facing foreclosures, some have lost jobs, cars, some have lost family and friends.   Others are going through divorce, breakups, and hurt.  Some are facing sickness, disease, and illnesses that only God can make better.

I want you to understand today that no matter what you are facing.....it is NOT impossible with God.  Whatever you are in need of God will help you.  He is faithful to hear your prayers and faithful to answer.

I spent alot of my time counseling people, trying to encourage them and lead toward God, but it is one thing to teach it...and then wake up and have't to really live what you have taught.  When I lost my job in 2008, then my car.   I spent 2 and half years declaring that God would provide me with a car again.  I didn't know how, when or who...was going to make this happen but I knew my God was able.  On those days I sat with no way to go anywhere, I found it easy to cry, feel sorry for myself, and want to give up.  BUT....the Holy Spirit always whispered...it's not over....keep pressing...keep pushing...it's coming.  I wanted to scream  "When"?????  I need it now.  My walk was not a perfect walk of faith but I kept hanging on and refused to believe that my God had forgotten me.

When God did align things and I got my 96 Lexus for $200.00.....the devil had to sit down and be silent!!!  My God came through and I am still driving this car today.

I have seen miracle after miracle come forth. 

Momma had breast cancer 23 years ago.  They had to do a mastectomy on her left breast and lymph nodes.  She went through harsh chemo and conquered it.  Today still cancer free.

When my Momma went in with pains under her right breast....they found out her lungs where filled with clots.  So much so that she shouldn't be able to breath......BUT GOD!!!!

Then a couple months later she had a horrible headache and we rushed her to the hospital upon her dr's suggestion.  To find that her brain was bleeding.   In one hour she went from talking to starring into space.  We were losing her fast.  The doctor had to do brain surgery and drain her brain.  He gave me no guarantees.  He said that even if she made it she may not be the Momma I knew.  BUT GOD!!!!!  God brought her through.  It was a rough long road but she is now back to her self more and more.  She can't go alot but she is alive and we have our long talks late at night and pray together.  God is a miracle worker.  

So whatever you are facing today....understand God is bigger than it!  Don't tell God about your mountain....tell your mountain about your mighty miracle working GOD!  Remind God how awesome was, is, and always will be...and watch him flex his spiritual muscles for you.
Keep believing!
Keep trusting!
Keep declaring!
Keep praising & worshiping!

Love ya'll and praying for ya'll.

Song - "Send Your Rain" By: Clint Brown & Marvin Winans


Before

After God's divine miracle!

In Our Weakness.....He is made Strong

Song - Never Would have made It By: Marvin Sapp



2 Corinthians 12:9-10  (NIV)


9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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God does not hold you accountable for what he has forgiven you for. There are always consequences from reaping what you sow, but just knowing that it is not present in God's mind any more should bring peace.  We all make mistakes and poor choices, but there is life after that.   You live, you learn. You can go into a bright future knowing alot more than you did before.  Wiser, stronger, better!

When we are at our weakest,  God, sees an opportunity to get glory through us. He becomes strong through us.  Our flesh may be weak and worn, but our spirit Man can arise with God's help to get us through anything. 


When something is difficult, or seems impossible, God can show HIS strength in you and your situation.  It allows us, in our flesh to be human, and God to be God.  He knew when he created us that we were going to be human.  Yet....he still created us.

In hard times, hurting times, that is when we have't to grab hold of God, like Jacob, and not let go until he moves and does HIS work.

How bad do you want to please God?  Do you want your life to be different?  Than grab hold of God in prayer, fasting, and reading his word and refuse to except anything less than God's will for your life.  He will answer when you show your tenacious love for him.

Willing Vessel

Song - Until the Whole World Hears By: Casting Crowns

When you are walking through rough times, it is easy to pull away, sometimes that's ok,  for a time. Eventually though, you need to let people in to love you, comfort you and walk through things with you.

I have seen God love me so deeply through friends.  I could feel his deep love for me, through them.  Their hands that reached out to me, were his hands,  their arms that held me, were his arms.  

That is an amazing feeling to experience.  That is what I long to be.  A vessel that God has emptied so HE can fill me up with himself to pour out onto others.  If we are full of ourselves....our thoughts, opinions, cares, education, theology...then we can miss what God is wanting to do and say through us.  Because his ways are NOT our ways.  He does things so differently.  So he empties us, allows us to go through a time of stripping us, to purify us to be a vessel that will depend on him, be obedient to him. 

My Prayer Today:

Pour me out today on someone.  Speak your words through me. Let what I say and do be what you would say and do.  Change someone's life, help someone, love someone, heal someone "Through me".

#Willingvessel

"WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT YOU GET"

Song - Psalm 18 By: Clint Brown
God will be whatever you need him to be.

Song "What you say is what you get" by: Reba McGuire
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Whatever you are facing or dealing with, God has a word for you.  If it is sickness ....HE is your healer.  If you are weak....HE is your strength.  If you are living in poverty....HE is your provision.  If you are hurting....HE will heal you and protect you.  Nothing is impossible with God.  When you call him, he will answer.
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SICKNESS-
*Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast:‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

*Deuteronomy 7:15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

*Exodus 23:25 You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

*Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.


* Psalms 105:37 (KJV) He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
* Psalms 107:20 He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
* Matthew 12:15 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all
*Matthew 14:14 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

WEAKNESS-

*Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. (Psalm 105:4)

*The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. (Psalm 145:14)

*You give me your shield of victory,, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great. (Psalm 18:35)

*Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD. (Psalm 31:24)

Poverty-

*Deuteronomy 15:11 For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

*Matthew 5:42 Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
 
* Matthew 25:35-40 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

* Luke 3:10-11 And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

HURTING-

*Psalms 9:9 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

* Psalms 27:4-5 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock

* Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
1 Peter 5:6-7 (KJV) Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

The Dawn is Near

Song - This is how we Overcome By: Hillsong

God will allow life to stretch you until you feel you will snap, then release you and send you soaring in the direction he knows you will succeed.  

When you understand that God is not against you but doing what is best for you, no matter what you are facing, you can know that the outcome is going to be good.

You can feel like you are going to bleed to death inside, hurting and God will send someone to rush you to the greatest spiritual hospital....God's presence.  God will nurture life back to your bleeding soul.  He will hold you and rock you in his presence until peace comes.

They say it is the darkest just before the dawn.  I believe it is because God knows that in the dark of our life we will finally have't to trust him completely.  We no longer will be able to direct our courses.  

We often trust God with our money.  We trust God with provisions.  We trust God with our spirituality, but often...we don't trust him with our hearts.  It is because we have been hurt so, and are still trying to guard our hearts and think we know whats best.  It is in some of the darkest times that God will take charge and bring you to the brightest places your life has ever been.  

I pray that in the darkness of your lives, for God to direct you, speak to you, bring peace to you as he guides you to a brighter day.  All the confusion, will surrender to day light, and clarity will come forth.  God is going to shine his light on you and the path he wants you to take.

God's Plan

Song- Psalm 18 By: Clint Brown

Blessed beyond expression.  That is how I live.
Sharing God's love and provisions is what I give.

As he blesses me daily, more and more
I'll keep letting it flow through me and allowing my giving heart to soar.

The key is never forgetting where you come from, today
And looking back to remember and realizing this really is a new day.

Don't stay where you are or dwell on the things of the past,
but understand their only stepping stones that's why they didn't last.

God will use the things we see as mistakes,
He'll use them to make us strong, for what we prayed...Lord whatever it takes.

Lie in the valley where the pastures are green,
Take your time and let God heal you in all those places not seen.

For when you get up and are ready to leave your cave
You'll be stronger, wiser, and know in trouble times how to behave.

Cry, sit in silence, grieve or whatever you need to do
Just know that you are not forgotten, and that God has a perfect plan just for you.

Written by: Char S. Allen