Chars Chateau of Pensées: Dreaming from the Pit

Chars Chateau of Pensées: Dreaming from the Pit: I can't sleep. My mind is racing with dreams.  That is one of my gifts from God. To dream and dream big for his people. If ...

Dreaming from the Pit

I can't sleep. My mind is racing with dreams.

 That is one of my gifts from God. To dream and dream big for his people. If I told you what I was planning in my dreams you would think me crazy but I know that God plants these seeds in me that are way bigger than me, so that HE can bring it to pass. I want more than anything else; to lead people to Christ. To not talk about him till they want to say shut up but live the life that Christ intended so that they will WANT what I have. Jesus didn't just preach...He DID. I want to DO. I want to help people not hurt so much. Not feel so alone. Not feel alone in this world but know that their is God who loves them and speaks through me to help others. I may be in the pit today...BUT...don't close the book yet! God has not written the last chapter to my story. I will make it to the palace. I will be wise and allow God to bring provisions to help those in such a drought time as we live.

Genesis 37 tells the story of how Joseph was Beloved of his Father. He ended up being thrown into a pit and then sold as a slave.
That was the enemy's demise for him but God had another plan.

You can see in this story that through obedience Joseph was placed in a position to help people during the time of famine. I want to be the Joseph of this time and age.

Watch what GOD will do. Watch him deliver my family and bring us to a place of more than enough for HIS glory, to help others.

My Final Chapter will be: Joseph's Storehouse

56 When the famine was spread over all the face of the earth, then Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57 And the people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth. (Genesis 41:53-57).

Joseph's Story

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/theology/gn41.html

Fasting Information

http://21days.churchofthehighlands.com/fasting/

 FASTING:

    The goal of fasting is to draw nearer to God. Biblical fasting always has to do with eliminating distractions for a spiritual purpose; it hits the reset button of our soul and renews us from the inside out! It also enables us to celebrate the goodness and mercy of God and prepares our hearts for all of the good things God desires to bring into our lives. Remember, your personal fast should present a level of challenge, but it is very important to know your own body, your options, and, most importantly, to seek God in prayer and follow what the Holy Spirit leads you to do.

TYPES OF FASTS

COMPLETE FAST

This fast calls for drinking only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.

SELECTIVE FAST

This type of fast involves removing certain elements from a diet. One example of a selective fast is the Daniel Fast, during which you remove meat, sweets, or bread from your diet and consume water and juice for fluids and fruits and vegetables for food.

PARTIAL FAST

This fast is sometimes called the Jewish Fast and involves abstaining from eating any types of food in the morning and afternoon. This can either correlate to specific times of the day, such as 6:00 am to 3:00 pm, or from sunup to sundown.

MEDIA FAST

This fast is common for those who do not have much experience fasting foods, who have health issues that prevent the fasting of food, or who wish to refocus certain areas of their life that are out of balance. For instance, someone might select to abstain from using social media or watching television for the duration of the fast—and then choosing how to carefully bring that element back into their life in an orderly fashion.

TIMING OF A FAST

At Highlands, we encourage fasting corporately for 21 days each year in the month of January. This is part of a season of high-intensity prayer as a church family. You may also opt to fast at other times during the year for your own spiritual development. It's very typical to fast a single meal, a whole day, or three days or more. The timing of your fast is not as important as the strength of your focus on Him as you fast.

Scripture References

• Matthew 6:16-18
• Matthew 9:14-15
• Luke 18:9-14
• Acts 27:33-37
• Nehemiah 9:1-3

LOOK AT THAT FRUIT!

Ladies: Before choosing a husband, watch his walk with God. Check out the fruit he is producing. If he is not grounded in God and loyal to God; what would make you think he would be loyal to you.

      If he is committed to God and faithful to God, then you can trust his leadership in your relationship. Hooking up with an unstable man is like getting out of the drivers seat, handing the keys to your car and saying take me wherever. That is exactly where you'll end up.....WHEREVER. With no guarantee that you won't end up in a messy wreck along the way. He will take you off course and you'll sit and wonder how in the world you got there.

   If the man you choose has not learned to obey God, then he can't lead correctly. You'll end up having to carry loads that don't belong to you. You'll end up leading when he is meant to lead. Two drivers in a car don't work. One has to lead and the other follow, support and encourage.

 You must know that he not only hears God, but listens to God and then OBEYS God. That kind of man you can trust to lead you in God's perfect will and direction.
 

   Have the patience to wait for God to send you the perfect one. NOT someone perfect but someone that is designed for you and what he wants to accomplish through and for you.



"When God made you"



      Juzzzz saying Ladies.......be careful who you hook up with.


Check out what James had to say about an unstable man......

Scripture:

James 1:

1I, James, am a slave of God and the Master Jesus, writing to the twelve tribes scattered to Kingdom Come: Hello!

Faith Under Pressure

2-4 Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

5-8If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get his help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who “worry their prayers” are like wind-whipped waves. Don’t think you’re going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.

9-11 When down-and-outers get a break, cheer! And when the arrogant rich are brought down to size, cheer! Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don’t ever count on it. You know that as soon as the sun rises, pouring down its scorching heat, the flower withers. Its petals wilt and, before you know it, that beautiful face is a barren stem. Well, that’s a picture of the “prosperous life.” At the very moment everyone is looking on in admiration, it fades away to nothing.

12 Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.

13-15 Don’t let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, “God is trying to trip me up.” God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one’s way. The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust. Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer.

16-18 So, my very dear friends, don’t get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.

Act on What You Hear

19-21Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

22-24 Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.

25 But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.

26-27 Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.

ISALEER HORUS & THE MAKERS OF GUIILLOTINES

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As the age of darkness approaches; Evil has begun to arise like never before. Marshal Law has been declared and Illuminati soldiers are going door to door apprehending anyone without "The Mark Of The Beast." The masses are fearing an all out holocaust: As riots begin to form a global resistance army called "The Rebellion." All the while the mainstream media head adviser "Isaleer Horus" has been taken to "The Bohemian Grove" for "The Cremation Of Care." Thinking this was just a luxurious vacation retreat for the worlds elite... NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE DEMONIC OCCULT RITUALS. Plunging the world into utter darkness, 'the worlds elite' are driving themselves to madness as they seance and sacrifice in demonic occult rituals harkening for The Dark Lord to show them a way to use 'Black Magic' to turn the whole earth into a 'prison planet.' The story thickens when Isaleer discovers he is only part human. His birth father is The Dark Lord Satan himself. Isaleer Horus is a Demonic Gargoyle Prince. Having true Satanic blood flowing through his veins; The Illuminati hold him in the highest regard. Isaleer Horus will soon learn what he is capable of conjuring as The Son Of Satan.

Meanwhile; hundreds of millions of people just vanished off the face of the Earth. Where did they go? Who took them? Those that remain are left to face the terrors told about in the book of Revelation...

Genre:	Action / Adventure / Love / Horror / Suspense / Thriller / Fictional

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5 Traits of A Good Man

BY: FARRAH GRAY

1. PROMISES –  A man’s word is his currency.  A respectable  man is a man of his word. He says what he means and means what he says. His word is his bond. A good man will keep his promises to his woman. He won’t break dates and be a no call and no show. He will not play with your emotions.  He remembers to call you when he says he will. A man who values his woman keeps his promises. That is the way he shows that he cares.

2.  Intimacy is something that is natural to human nature. However, pressuring a woman whom he just met for sex is not of a good man’s nature. A man who has any intentions of being a good mate to youdoes not pressure you for sex when he meets you. A woman is not a vehicle to be driven. Her bodydoes not need to be test driven. A woman is a gift from God, and her time, attention and affection should be appreciated, not taken for granted. If a woman meets a man who wants to test drive her physical body, emotions and feelings, it’s best that she point him to a car dealership, bid him goodbye and don’t look back! A woman deserves a good man who will respect her. 

3. A good man will let a woman know what place she has in his life. He will give you a title, whether that title be friend, girlfriend, boo, woman, lady, or wife, he will introduce you as such. He will introduce you according to how he feels about a woman, no surprises. Good men in general tend to be very protective. We mark our territory. If a good man loves you, he is willing to profess it to others.   

4.  A good man is not a selfish man. He puts his woman first and is always sure to address any issues or concerns that she may have. A good man desires to do things that make his woman happy. The opinions of his lady count to him. He understands that a happy wife means a happy life.   

5.  When a good man wakes up in the morning, his mission is to make sure that his family is taken care of in every way, to the best of his ability. He wants to make sure his woman is happy and satisfied. Providing for the people he loves and cares about, whether it’s financially or with sweat equity, it’s all a part of a good man’s DNA. A good man has no limits to the things he provides for those he loves.* A good man believes in uplifting his community, whether that be in terms of mentorship, volunteering his time or allowing himself to be an image that youth can look up to.  The people in his life label him as a good man. 

* A good man has a desire to protect and provide for his woman. Even if he may currently not have the financial ability to provide for a woman he still has a deep desire to. If he doesn’t want to see his mother working diligently chances are he does not want to see his woman work diligently either.

Contentment

Psalm 16:5

Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.


Contentment  is essentially a matter of accepting from God's hand what He sends because we know that he is good and therefore it is good.
(words of theologian J.I. Packer)



Calm My Anxious Heart
By: Linda Dillow


Insert of the book:

"Teacup Theology"

     Let's go back to our teacup analogy. God has lovingly assigned each of us to be a uniquely special teacup. Perhaps we're an antique cup, painted with dainty roses set in gold. Maybe we see ourselves as an everyday cup--useful, but a little chipped around the edges. Or we could be a heavy duty mug--rugged, unbreakable, and able to hold much.

     Then God fills our cup with our portion, what HE determines best. Our portion is our physical and emotional being, our abilities, circumstances, roles, and relationships.

     Sometimes we don't like what's been poured into our cup. Remember the Lord Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane? When He saw the suffering He was about to endure, He pleaded, "Father if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done" (Luke 22:42). Christ grasped the handle of His cup and lifted it to God and said, "I accept my portion. Infuse me with YOUR strength that I may drink."

     Every cup-- whether dainty china or rough heavy-hewn pottery--has a handle. God has placed our portion in our cup. We either choose to grasp it by the handle and lift it to Him saying, "I accept this cup," or we choose to smash our cup to pieces, saying, "God, I refuse my portion." This cup is not the right size for me and I don't like what You've put in it. I'll control my life myself.


**This is an awesome book. It is helping me understand that even though something may be God's will, not everyone excepts God's will. We have a choice. Some people chose to do things their own way because they have not let God work his perfect work.

I want more than anything to always embrace what God has for me. To wait upon HIS will and learn to always be content in whatever state I am in.