Even when we don't feel like it.

I have been going through a time where my wants surpass my feelings, and it is hard sometimes.. Not really it's hard most of the time for me. BUT!! I know that it gets easier. I have been wanting God, and I have been trying to let His character and acceptance mold and form my heart. I have been trying to let His hearts want to be mine. Jesus didn't exactly feel like dying on the cross and being crucified. But because He saw that the Father wanted to happen, Jesus Himself wanted it to happen. He wanted to be with us. He wanted me. He still wants me. I want Him too, I am just letting that more and more overcome my feelings. I just a lot of times want to stay in bed and sleep(and don't get me wrong rest is very important)but I want God more, and He is looking for His people to choose Him over their feelings, and He rewards us so greatly.

I have been very just, and I don't know how to explain this well) I just want God, and I want Him to overflow out of me in everything I do, but it will never happen in abundance like He desires and I desire if I don't make personal sacrifices to give myself to Him.

I am learning more and more of how to do that, but it is a journey, but I am so blessed that He is with me every step of the way.

I just have to, and want to, bless the LORD, with all of myself.

It's a journey, but we have His LOVE to get us through.

ALL BECAUSE HE LOVES US!!!!!! He loves us so intensely.

It's simple "NO!!"

I have had such a time this year getting my quiet times more frequent, and by that I mean more than just an hour and 15 minute type deal, but instead I have been trying to instead of getting on the cpu or watching T.V. that last 5 minutes I have at home before I leave to go somewhere. Living a consecrated lifestyle is centered around reckless abandon to Jesus and the Father's heart. His banner-standard-over me is love, so when I could love Him with my time so many times I choose other things, as I think we all do and go through at one time or another. But with my lifestyle I am saying no to that. I am saying no to the T.V. or the internet and instead spend time with my Beloved. Why we have such trouble saying "no" to the things of this world, I believe, is because we have been used to wasting our time. That is how most of us grew up, we wake up go to school get home and then get on our facebooks or myspaces. When was the last time you ran into your room after doing school and just poured out your heart and your love to the LORD. Maybe never, maybe you don't even know how that goes, maybe He isn't first place in your life. The only thing that will make Him #1 is to say NO to the worthless things of this world. I have decided I could talk about my convictions forever, or I could not say anything about them and begin to make changes in my life and say no to all of the things of the world pulling at my attention. God is the only ONE WORTHY of my time and attention, and He doesn't get mad at us when we hang out with friends, but if it becomes an idol to your heart sometimes we need to give it a break. The only way to a consecrated lifestyle, holy to Jesus, is to say no. And it is time to start saying no, instead of talking about saying no. It is sometimes really hard to say no. But here is what I propose to you, that we be such a lovesick people for God that that one word, the key to radical abandonment, to be screaming inside of us in the inmost of our beings, AND

we let it out.

Right now, I say no to all of the things of the world pulling at my attention. 

I say YES to God, to all He has for me.

No to the world.

YES TO GOD.

What is screaming inside of your heart right now?

Bless you!!!!

We are His dwelling place.

We are the dwelling place of God, my question is how well kept are we. We are His garden. So many people neglect that, which is the most important aspect of our lives, the place where LOVE dwells. LOVE dwells within me, and He wants to explode within me, I don't want to be found putting a cap over the well. I don't want to be found with a dry garden. I want a well-watered garden. I want His Spirit to search me. I want to go deeper and deeper with Him, and let His Spirit be all over me. The Father is looking for those who will worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. We worship with the Spirit because He dwells within us, and when He dwells within us we do everything together. God is love, and this life that we are living is so much deeper than I have been perceiving it to be. God lives in me. God is love, so LOVE is within me and I desire for Him to spew out of me in my actions and in my life and in all I say. He dwells within me in a place where no man can go.  Where it is me and Jesus alone. This is where we find ourselves. This is where we find who we are->In HIM. Where all else doesn't matter. Where all else fades away. Because it's me and Jesus. Nothing else matters. It's a place where we don't care about anything else. Where all that matters is the LOVE of God. All that matters is God alone.

.MY SOUL FINDS REST IN GOD ALONE.

.AND THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

Today.

God has great plans for us.

He is dreaming over us.

He is so in love with us.

So I have been thinking lately, and just praying for God to pour out His Spirit.

And really last night I was praying about Joel 2 and how when it says blow the trumpet in Zion, it is talking to the church.

Jesus won't sound the alarm except in us individually but we must corporately come together and sound the alarm and blow the trumpet in Zion.

When I think of that verse, I think of the fact that we are in such an urgent hour to pray and fast, and that Jesus is coming quickly.

Jesus is coming quickly. It's not this scary "aaahhh Jesus" for us, for His people. Just for the enemy and all who are against Jesus.

So its like we are declaring war on the enemy and also making the people of God ready.

It is so important to understand that(obviously)if we do not prepare ourselves, we will not be ready. For His second coming, or for His Spirit to be poured out.

Let's make ourselves ready, what do you say.

Spiritual Blindness

The LORD has really been showing me lately in really awesome ways about our eyes and how what we look at and what we look for are really the definition of our hearts.

It's something to think about, I mean if my heart is all vanity, then all I will ever care about is how I am looking and my object is to find everything that can make me look the way I wan to. I can not even count the amount of people who have given themselves to vanity.

If I am concerned about relationships with the opposite sex.... Haven't you seen that really just posses a person??? I mean come on who are we fooling. How about a Jesus possession, where all we are about are the riches of His glory. How about a God-obsession.

What are we known by, a flirt? A player? A thief? We are sinners, but in Jesus we have life and we have life to the fullest=John 10:10=.

What we set are eyes on tells the most about us. I don't want to waste my life looking upon worthless things, I want to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD all the days of my life.(Psalm 27)

Turn my eyes away from worthless things, and preserve my life according to your word.

(Psalm 119:37)                                

The Lord has really been showing me lately about how, well, awesome He is. How He loves me and blesses me so much even though I do not deserve it. 

We are blessed people.

 

I want to apologize for not posting earlier, I have been busy, but not too busy! God is doing so much in Dothan right now, and I want to encourage you to be praying for Dothan and for God's kingdom to come. Also, DHOP has started!!!! SO if any of you are wanting to pray the kingdom down, come!!!!! E-mail me and I will give you the down-low! =]

It is December 1st, and I do believe it is the season for giving. So let's have a blessing war!!!  You don't have to spend a ton of money, just give love!! Jesus gave like all the time it wasn't just a once a year season of giving, I have personally been trying to let it be a lifestyle to give. So let's do it.

=] Jesus loves you guys, I just want to say that whatever you are going through or doing this holiday season, when we commit our ways to Jesus, He makes us prosper.

How awesome is that!!