The Knowledge Of His Will.

-Meditation-

Colossians 1:9

--TheSecretPlace--

Hello all! My heart is so stirred about what the LORD is doing in the earth, and in Dothan right now. I just see how the LORD is moving among His people, and just how He is stirring so many people there for what He is doing as we are getting closer and closer to the end of the age, yes, but also for how He wants to break in with power to His people even now, and how even before Jesus comes back, we need to be found faithful, and true. I love the move of God, and I love how He is really even now giving, and anointing His people with boldness, and a hunger for His Word, and for truth. We are slowly but surely taking our stand as the Bride of Christ, and will not be satisfied with merely what others say about Jesus, but we will be ones to search Him out for who He is because we really do want to know Him.

That is truly amazing.

This scripture really is one of my favorites, and the LORD really just uses this verse to minister to my heart, as He uses it to minister to the hearts of many. So it is my prayer that the LORD will minister to you in His word, just as He has ministered to me so faithfully through it.

As I read the very first line as it says: "And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you..."

And the first thing that came to my mind is 1 Thes. 5:17, which says to pray without ceasing, and I just thought about how we are all instructed, and called as the people of God to pray without ceasing, we are called, and instrcted to call upon the Name of the LORD JESUS without stop. We have the privilege to call upon GOD just the way we are to have fellowship with Holy Spirit, and Jesus even said in Matthew 7:7 "Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you."

Which means to ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking. 

This is the call to intercession, intercessors aren't just a few people the LORD chooses because they have this really weighty burden from the LORD, but He has chosen ALL of His people to be intercessors, we are all called to pray without ceasing. One reason it seems so foreign to so many is because so few people actually walk in intercession, few actually walk as intercessors.

I believe that is about to change. I believe the LORD is raising up companies of intercessors, and He is revealing His heart for intercession, for PRAYER to many many people. Prayer is what fills the bowls of incense in heaven, and it is what fuels the fire in our hearts. Prayer is a gift-that WE-weak and broken people-get to talk with, and fellowship with Holy Spirit! With GOD!

It is His pure desire that we come to Him in prayer. With humble hearts, and with willing hearts to fellowship with Him. This is so amazing.

At times we all grow weak, and we feel so incapable of even lifting our eyes to the LORD, but it is in that place of weakness that He still meets with us, that is the place where He can usually move freely in the most amazing ways, although I believe that no matter what the LORD does it is the MOST AMAZING-because He is the Most Amazing, Most High God, so all that He does reflects who He is.

How can we begin to cry out to Him in prayer without ceasing? How can we take our continual stand before the throne of God with confidence, and boldness?

 I believe #1 That there is absolutely NO formula for this to happen in our lives.

I do not think that we have to be on our faces, and bowing our heads and closing our eyes every moment of the day to pray, that would restrict us from actually walking with God, we must have our times of prayer in our day, but here I think that this means having a continual fellowship with God, with Holy Spirit. It means to be listening to His voice throughout the day- to be sensitive to His leading, and to walk in His ways. Those are some of what I think practical ways to pray without ceasing, but as I said there is no formula way to pray without ceasing you just have to do it, the way the LORD leads you to do it, but the most important thing is that you do it. We need to have prayer lives we need to be fully immersed in the presence of God. We need fellowship with our maker-He made us to fellowship with Him, and that is why when we don't continually pray as He instructs us to in His Word, we become dependant on our flesh, and not the Holy Spirit.

I want to challenge you, and myself to get into your prayer closet, and set yourself apart to the LORD in whatever way you need to do that. He is our strong tower, and in Him we find rest, and peace, and we are strengthened in our inner man to depend on God, and to listen to His voice. When we get to the place of prayer the LORD makes Himself known to us in ways we would never expect.

ALSO as we begin to walk in the knowledge that the LORD instructs us to pray without ceasing we take on prayer with a different mindset, like it is a lifestyle of prayer. O that we would cultivate a lifestyle of prayer, and a lifestyle of  fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

So back to where we left off.

Colossians 1:9

"And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God in all spiritual wisdom and 

understanding,"

Paul and Timothy both focused on the things that they knew were important to pray without ceasing. They did not focus on "God, I really want a cool skateboard, and some Cd's, so please give me this stuff so that I can skateboard for you, and listen to these Cd's to your glory!"

Even though those things can be used to God's glory, they did not focus on their wants, or themselves, but their focus was on what the LORD desired, and what He stirred them to pray for, and that doesn't mean don't pray for blessings, but lets make it our goal to focus on God in prayer, and to focus on how He wants us to move closer to His heart, and how He wants us to pray for others to move closer to His heart.

Lets make it our ceaseless cry to the LORD that He would even fill us with the knowledge of His will in ALL spiritual wisdom, and understanding.

I will be spending more time on this verse tomorrow, but as we wait for tomorrow to roll around dig into this verse! Find these verses in the word that are prayers, and that you can form your own prayers after.

The LORD is moving, and I believe we are the people He has chosen to partner with in this hour!!! And that is such a HIGH HONOR!!! How blessed are we to be living in this hour that we would get to pray for, and usher in the second coming of Jesus. Our prayers go up before the throne of God, so I encourage you to make ceaseless prayer as the LORD instructs His people to. Be so blessed this day, and my prayer for you is that your heart would  be ignited with the fire of God.

Be blessed Children of God.

---Intercession---

Jesus, You are the hope of glory, and right now we want to make this our ceaseless cry that you would fill us, Your bride, Your people with the spirit of wisdom, and revelation, and that You would also fill us with the knowledge of your will in all spiritual wisdom, and understanding. Jesus we love You. Thank You for loving us. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

In Our Face

-Meditation-

Jeremiah 1:9-10

--TheSecretPlace--

Today will be the last day in this passage of scripture--unless the LORD leads me further in it-but as far as I know this is my conclusion to this passage, and I'm sure I will be coming back to this.

As I have read into this passage I have been so blown away at the creative hand of God, and how amazing His leadership is.

As I was reading over this today, and I thought upon it, and meditated on this last little portion of this big portion of scripture I just thought about how the LORD will do what needs to be done in us to pull us into His will. He is so kind to us, and His love reaches out to us in every way, and I think that is one reason why Jeremiah was so pulled into the will of God because of His kindness in His correcting. Revelation 3:19 says:

  "Those whom I love, I correct, and discipline, so be zealous and repent''

And so here you can just see the LORD's loving kindness even minister to Jeremiah's heart, and sometimes when the LORD corrects us, we don't like it, so in our minds He is attacking us, but He is a loving Father, and still at the same time a burning jealous Bridegroom. So however the LORD deals with us I am just stirred that He comes after us, because He loves us, and when we understand that we can so easily respond to Him. So many have this picture of an angry grouchy God who is mad at everyone for being sinners, but He is a kind, gentle, and compassionate. He takes us as we are, and welcomes us into His embrace with open arms.

It is just so amazing the depths even the LORD is willing to go to win our hearts, and to anoint His people with boldness. It blows me away how the LORD spoke to Jeremiah, and He put His words in Jeremiah's mouth, and He so delighted to do so-because He loved Jeremiah.

  Also, because it is on the LORD's heart to bring us, and pull us into His will, we need to have open and willing hearts to do be zealous and repent in the areas we need to repent, and we need to open up our hearts to what the LORD has for us to do. He speaks to us in different ways, and however He is speaking to you, and whatever He is calling you to do, are you open? Are you willing to let Jesus pull you into the center of His will? Are you willing to let Him ignite your heart no matter what?

The LORD wants to do this in us by filling us with Holy Spirit. When Jesus left He said that He would send a comforter who is the Holy Spirit, and we can daily be filled with the Holy Spirit with fire, and the LORD wants to fill you. He wants you to reach your full potential in the LORD. The Holy Spirit gives us words to speak, He gives us ears to hear, and eyes to see, and He gives us strength to contend and intercede.

The call on your life is extraordinary, and the amazing thing is, is that you, and I both, need the Holy Spirit to do whatever we do in life, whatever our calling may be we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you are a garbage man, or a pastor, or the waitress at Apple Bee's. And the amazing thing is, that no matter what you are doing, when you are following the call of God on your life, then that is a divine calling, and with that calling you need anointing, even if you don't have a name, and even if you have a lowly job, in the LORD's eyes you have an important job, because you are His child.

I just want to call you, and encourage you that no matter where you are in life, to go deep in your calling, go deep in the LORD, He has called us to be intercessors, and OVER ALL! We are called to love Him, and be loved by Him, and there is nothing greater to go deep into than the love of God.

---Intercession---

Jesus, I just thank You for how you bring us into the center of Your will, I just pray, and I ask that You would wake us up, and reveal who You are to us. I pray for those who do not fully understand that You just want us to love You, and be loved by You, and I pray that You would open the eyes of their hearts to understand, and to know what is needed, and that is to love you, and be loved by you. Thank You Lord for this divine call to love, and I just ask that You would our hearts to love You, and to just soak in the fact that You love us. Love You Jesus! In Jesus' Name. Amen

Blessings!!

Kasey

By HIM We Are Free.

-Meditation-

Jeremiah 1:8

"Do not be afraid of them(men), for I am with you(the LORD's presence) to deliver you, declares the LORD."

--TheSecretPlace--

The first thing I want to talk about concerning this scripture, and Jeremiah is the fact that Jeremiah was a sinful human being, and he realized that, and also realized his need for salvation-and/or- atonement for his sin, and so the LORD addresses that here in this passage. The LORD speaks to Jeremiah by His VOICE, which is already pretty amazing, and the LORD tells him 

"Do not be afraid of them. for I am with you to deliver you-to SAVE you!"

And that is an amazing thing. This was before Jesus came to earth as a baby, it was before they had the Holy Spirit, and it was before they had baptism of any sort, so here God tells Jeremiah that no matter what happens, be assured you are already delivered, before anything even happens, do not FEAR, because they are defeated, and YOU have eternal life. 

For us the LORD doesn't tell us that we aren't going to be saved from dying here on earth, because whether you want to believe it or not, we are going to die, whether it be by martyrdom, a freak accident, or if you just pass away one night while you are sleeping. We will die, but the LORD here is telling Jeremiah, and He tells us over and over-DO NOT FEAR-I AM WITH YOU. 

DO NOT FEAR-I WILL DELIVER YOU.

Jeremiah feared man, but when the LORD spoke His words over him of deliverance, and He touched His mouth, and put His words in Jeremiah's mouth, Jeremiah didn't say anything more here about fearing-Why? Because the LORD dispelled Jeremiah's fear, and Jeremiah did not turn back to his own will, and his own way, he didn't continue through the whole book saying "I am only a youth, and I don't feel like risking my life for you LORD, can you go to the guy down the road? He has grey hair and a beard and everything." But instead he walked in the will of the LORD for his life, and trusted in His leadership.

What a great example-

We all have mountains to move, and we all have battles to fight, but when Jeremiah came to the LORD with all of his junk, there was a divine trade that occurred. Jeremiah no longer held to his weaknesses, but instead he made it a lifestyle(his way of life) to cling to the LORD's strength.

This is what we were all made to do, and how blessed are we to know that the LORD's patience does not wear thin, and He is just waiting to trade us His strength for our many many weaknesses!

Now we ourselves can know for sure that the LORD has delivered us as well! When Jesus died on the cross, He made the final devine trade, and now we ALL have access to Jesus! And just as Jeremiah had full assurance in the LORD's voice, and the LORD's hand, we need, and I mean we really need to in the same way leave all of our baggage behind, and lean on the LORD's strength.

Now by His hand and His voice by Holy Spirit, He will lead us into all truth!!

There is one more thing I want to cover before I turn the cpu off, and that is that in Jesus there is NO reason for worry, and fear->Whoever the Son sets free is free indeed. When we choose to fear and to worry we are choosing to put our trust in the things we are worried, and afraid of, and about. We need to make it our habit to say no to trusting in man, and say yes to trusting in the voice, and the hand of the LORD, because when we do that we truly will be led into all truth, and that is such a gift.

I pray that you would be blessed in all of this, and I hope all of you are walking in the LORD's plan for your life, and if you are not my prayer is that you would search out His will so that you may have assurance in what the plan of the LORD for your life is, and that you would be content with being a lover of God, and being loved by God.

---Intercession---

Jesus, I want to thank You for your kindness, and how You minister so gently to our hearts, I just ask that throughout the earth You would continue to call forth prophets like Jeremiah, and that we would all be able to understand that in You we are all called LOVED by God and LOVERS of God. Thank You so much Jesus for Your faithfulness, and Your kindness. You are good. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Be Blessed in the Name of the LORD!

Kasey

Even When You Feel Weak.

-Meditation-

Jeremiah 1:7

--TheSecretPlace--

The LORD just as He called Jeremiah has called each and everyone of us to do a great work, and right now I want to focus on the one thing we are all called to do, and that is to love God, and be loved by God. That is really His plan, and His will for our lives-that we would love Him, and be loved by Him, because when we walk in just the state of loving God, and being loved by Him our days begin to brighten up, and through the hard times, we are strengthened, because His love is what carries us on.

 What is it going to take for us to realize that loving God, and being loved by Him is the greatest calling? So many times a day our focus is on other things, like our appearance, and our job title. I believe the LORD is wanting a people to be content to be LOVERS OF GOD. When we walk in our identity we are uniquely energized in our spirits to be bold, and to be all that we were created to be. I want to walk in my identity as one who belongs to the LORD, because no one else can claim my life, because the LORD has already done that. He has paid the highest price so that I may be HIS. I belong to no one else, and that is the greatest gift. I get to spend the rest of my life being known by God, and knowing God.

The LORD wants us to understand the joy in that, and He wants us all to enter into that reality every day of our lives.

When the LORD calls us it is so easy to throw up our doubts, and we without trying push away what the LORD has for us, but the LORD's response is that He knows what He is doing. So why bother talking Him out of what He knows is what is best for our lives. I don't know what the LORD is calling you to do, and sometimes what He calls us to do is not really what we want to step out and do FIRST, sometimes we say, 'well.... I can obey you AFTER I....' 

But who are we to underestimate the LORD? He knows what He is doing.

We have a choice when He calls us to obedience...

We could either

A)Submit to His will and plan....

OR

B)Reject His will and plan for what we think is best(-not smart-)

There is no A1/2 We can't be lukewarm in this, we either follow Him, or we don't.

If we do choose to submit to His plan, then one thing we have to constantly remind ourselves to do, and what we need to continually do is trust in HIS leadership. We must realize that we cannot accomplish any good thing without submission to the LORD's leading. I have tried to be spiritual by myself, and it does not work. Our options remain the same-Surrender completely to Jesus, or try to earn His approval, but I want you to know that in Christ, you are 100% approved, and perfect in His sight. You do not have to try to please God with what you do, just by being yourself He is pleased by you.

This is a crucial thing I believe to walk in, and I hope all of you grab hold of what the LORD is calling you to do. He could use you to change the world, or those around you at least. The LORD is with those who call on Him.

---Intercession---

Jesus, please make yourself known to us LORD, You are so good, and I just ask that You would reveal Jesus to us Holy Spirit. We love You. In Jesus Name.Amen

Be Blessed in the Lord Jesus.

Kasey

His Ways Are Not Our Ways.

-Meditation-

Jeremiah 1:6

--TheSecretPlace--

I love this passage of Scripture!!! Honestly, just digging through it has been so wonderful. The LORD has so much to teach us through His Word, and I want to encourage all of you to get into every day! Every time you get a chance, I encourage you to plunge yourself into it.

When I read over this verse today the first thing I thought about is that when we criticize or even discourage ourselves we are pulling away from, and criticizing the LORD's handiwork. Here is Jeremiah, and he is probably my age, around 15 or 16 maybe older maybe younger, and to me it seems like he is not very confident in who he is, or in what he was made for. Who knows who criticized him, and who knows who built him up if anyone did. Where were his parents? Where were his friends? He needed to be encouraged, and he needed to be told by one who knew Him-who he was, and there was only one who could do that. 

 So the LORD spoke to Jeremiah, and told him who he was. We know that Jeremiah needed the LORD to tell him these things, but why did the LORD need tell him that he knew him before he was formed? Why would God need tell him that he was set apart before he was born?

Jeremiah  felt like a nobody, and he felt insignificant, and you can tell he did by the way he spoke to the LORD saying "I am only a youth" Jeremiah thought so little of himself and thought himself disqualified because of his age. But the LORD made known to him how HE felt about Jeremiah, and the LORD put His words in Jeremiah's mouth, and that is what we all need. We need to be told by the LORD who we are, and as much as we tend to not like it, we need to be rebuked-corrected in all of our wrong thinking, because when we look down on OURSELVES, and we criticize ourselves, and anyone else for that matter, we are criticizing the work of the LORD, and we need to understand that no matter what our weaknesses, and no matter how problematic we think we are, we need to know and understand that, our weaknesses do not disqualify us from the work the LORD has for us to do, or the plans he has for our lives.

The LORD knows us, and He is the one who formed us, and He formed us to do a great work. No matter how insignificant it may seem to be. We do not need to belittle the LORD because we do not see how the work He has called us to do is great, we need to trust, and surrender to His leading, and just believe that what He calls us to do does make an impact, and it is important.

I believe we need to get a firm grip around 1 Corinthians 1:27

For God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

The LORD loves to use weak, and broken people, and we are all weak, and broken, so I do believe you and I are just the people He looks for.

 And once the LORD told Jeremiah who he was, he had the confidence to do what he was being called to do. When the LORD spoke to him who he was, and what he was created for Jeremiah was encouraged, and he was strengthened! The LORD wanted him to know that He LOVED to use him just the way, and just the age he was, and I believe the LORD is saying the very same thing to us.-To my generation, and ALL of the generations no matter how weak we are--because the LORD knows we are weak.

The LORD wanted Jeremiah to know how valuable he was to the LORD even in his weakness, and when Jeremiah began to walk in his identity as one fully, and completely known by the LORD-the God of the universe, and when he began to walk as one set apart by the LORD-before he was even born, Jeremiah was strengthened in the LORD to do the work he was called to do, and he walked before the LORD, and men with confidence.

This is what Jesus is even wanting us to do, He wants us to believe that He has chosen us to do a great work, and He wants us to believe that He will strengthen us, and empower us to do what He has called us to do even in our weaknesses, no matter how hard it may seem to be.

My prayer is that you would wrestle with the LORD, and seek for your calling, and how the LORD wants to use you-Because He does want to use you, even if it is just by loving people. 

---Intercession---

Lord Jesus, I pray that You would reveal Yourself to us, and show us how You want to use us, and reveal to us new ways to love others better. We love you so much, and I just ask that You would rend the heavens, and come and reveal Yourself to Your bride. We love You! In Jesus' Name.So Be It.

Be blessed, and found in the LORD!

Kasey

Lover of God.-

-Meditation-

Jeremiah 1:5

"I appointed you a prophet to the nations."

--TheSecretPlace--

  I want to go straight to the scripture, purely because the WORD of God is so necessary, I believe, as Christians to understand it. I don't think many 0f us, and I don't really think I have a good grip on the Word of God, there is so much that I have never dug into, and there is definitely not much that I have gone far into. But I do know that, that will soon change, for me, and for many. 

So when I think of this portion of scripture I first recognize the position the LORD has appointed to Jeremiah, and I think about all of the positions the LORD gives to His people. positions positions positions....... When I think about this I think about how their are positions in the church, and positions in the marketplace, and the sad thing is that SO MANY PEOPLE find who they are in their position-in their title, and some put themselves down because they don't work in the church or they don't have a good job with an awesome pay, my heart is really concerned for these people, because it is a very unhealthy thing, and a very bad thing to find your identity in what you do. #1- I believe that if you are a Christian, then you are a minister of Christ no matter what your earthly occupation is-We read the same Bible, and we read the same gospel of Jesus. Also to those who are working in the marketplace, I believe God can move in power through you, and you could even do more for His kingdom than an unwilling minister in the church, and by that I mean just reaching out to people for the sake of Jesus.

We cant define who we are by our position, or our title, the truth is that no matter who the LORD calls to be a prophet, or a watchman, or a singer, or a musician, or a business man, or a college teachers, or the waitress at outback, the LORD calls ALL of His people to be LOVERS OF GOD.

And when you don't feel like you can love God all that well, He calls His people LOVED BY GOD.

Honestly when we stand before the LORD, He is NOT going to look at our earthly position, He will look at how we were faithful with what we were given no matter what position we served in. 

How wonderful is that!!!! So you could have the lowest job on earth, but if you are faithful, you would end up with an abundance of heavenly treasures!! And we on earth compared to heaven are living in poverty anyways, so why focus so much on the name which we so often want to make for ourselves, when we focus on Jesus, and what He calls us to, and in the long-run store up treasure in heaven.

 I see so many people get so worried about what is happening in the economy right now, because they don't know if their job(or jobs) will provide, and some have lost their job(s). But some have taken their eyes off of who is really in control, and the truth is that the LORD is, and will ever be Jehovah-Jireh-Our PROVIDER. In Him, there is no economy to worry about.

Jeremiah 1:5, as we have been going through it, obviously it is the LORD speaking to Jeremiah, and He tells Jeremiah that before He was formed or born He was consecrated-set apart-and known by the LORD, and in this last little part the LORD makes it known to Him, that even way back when, before he was born the LORD appointed Him as a prophet to the nations, and the LORD told Jeremiah that 'now'(back then) is the time to step into and walk in what I have called you to be, the LORD put the call on Jeremiah's life to be a prophet to the nations, and Jeremiah, being a youth, brought up his age(excuse), saying "Lord, I am only a youth" but the LORD knew Jeremiah, He knew what Jeremiah was to accomplish, and anointed his lips, and sent him out. God helped Jeremiah to overcome his doubt.

In the same way the LORD has called each and everyone of us, His people to be lovers of God, and we shouldn't bring up any excuses about our age, whether you think you are too young or too old, the LORD calls ALL of us to abide in His love. His banner over us IS LOVE(SOS 2:4)

And also in our earthly callings, we ought not to bring in our excuses to deny the call on our lives, to be faithful in what the LORD has called us to be faithful in is the highest calling, and we should be honored, and bold in our calling, instead of rejecting it with doubt, and excuses.

Receive the anointing the LORD wants to pour out on you, and walk in it, be filled with Holy Spirit, and get into the WORD of God, because when we get into His Word, most of the time I have noticed that it ignites our heart with truth, and purges the evil  out of our hearts.

My prayer for you is that whatever you do in life, you would be faithful with the small, and you will indeed be given much in heavenly treasure. How blessed are we to call on the Name of the LORD!!!

One more thing, and that is when I sometimes feel like I don't know who I am, and I feel like a nobody, I automatically speak over myself(sometimes putting my hand on my head), "I am loved by God, and I am a lover of God", and as funny as it may sound to others I say it over and over until it is engraved on my heart, soul, and my mind, and until I believe it, because I know it is true. 

This is one of the few things we can do to find who we are in Christ, I also speak scripture over myself... Seriously try Jeremiah 1:5 on for size, or Jeremiah 29:11..... It really fits what we are talking about. ;)

I just declare over you that YOU are the BELOVED of JESUS CHRIST.In Jesus Name.

---Intercession---

Jesus, I just want to call on your Name even now, and I pray that you would engrave your words, and your thoughts about us on our hearts. Please help us to be people who will walk boldly in the callings which you have put on our lives to walk boldly in. You are Beautiful, and You are Worthy of all praise. Thank You for breaking the barrier between God, and man, and thank You for letting weak and broken, and poor people come to You Jesus, in our weakness. We love You LORD, and will declare our love for You all of our days. Please pull us into the depths of Your heart. Lord Jesus, we love You. In Jesus Name. 

Be blessed in the Name of the LORD.

Kasey

Before You Were Born, I Consecrated You.

-Meditation-

Jeremiah 1:5

"...and before you were born, I consecrated you."

--TheSecretPlace--

Hello all, first I would like to apologize for not posting yesterday, I was gone all day, and then fell asleep, which is irresponsible of me, so I do apologize.

As I read Jeremiah 1:5-8, my heart was so captivated, and I couldn't help but take a few days on this scripture, simply because there is so much revelation in it, and I want to touch on as much of it as I can.

So I want to take some time to focus in on this next phrase, because it is so awesome!!

"Before you were born I consecrated you"


Have you ever had that feeling that you were created for greatness, and it was just so engraved on your heart that you knew you were created, and ---set apart--- for something amazing?
Some have some haven't, but whether you feel it or not, God= The God of the universe, before we were born, set us apart for what has been set apart for our lives, whatever His plans for our lives may be.

To think about the time before we were born, or formed may seem pointless to some, but the truth is, if we don't understand that the LORD God Almighty has had set aside plans for us, and if we don't understand that He knew us, and consecrated us before we were here, we would have more of an excuse to not believe the LORD loves us and cares about us so much. It is just such an amazing thing to have been wanted by God before anyone else, before we were born, and before we were even formed!!!

We are truly blessed as sons, and daughters of God, and I just think about how loving parents are before they have a baby, and it is so amazing because before the baby is born they love him-or her, and they would never abort him-or her, but they love the baby with all they are. It is truly an amazing picture of love, that the parents would devote themselves to this human being that they have never laid their eyes on, that they have never touched, and that is how the LORD is with us, He would never abandon us, or forsake us, but with every step we take He pursues us, and cheers us on towards Himself, the prize-Jesus Christ.

As I think upon this verse, I think about how the LORD really wants us to walk as ones who are consecrated to Him, and who are known by Him, and I believe we need to realize how much power is within one who walks in the knowledge that he(or she) has ever been consecrated, and known by the LIVING-LOVING-ETERNAL-GOD.

That would cause a chain reaction of events in the people of God leading to revival, and it would ultimately lead to the second coming of JESUS.--Because once we (truly) know who we are, we realize what we were made for.

We were made for God, and to get God we need it to be the lovesick cry of our hearts to be with God, and do everything we can possibly do to so move our Beloved Bridegroom to rend the heavens and come down to be with Him-Because it won't be right on earth until He splits the sky and comes down. I am so convinced that when we begin, as the body of Christ to understand what we were made for-fellowship with Jesus-, and we actually begin to cry out for Jesus' second coming, the churches in the earth will be shaken, and will not look the same. Jesus' bride will more and more begin to look like, and be the PURE and SPOTLESS BRIDE He has been so kindly, and intensely waiting for. For 2,000 years Jesus, our FAITHFUL BRIDEGROOM has been waiting, and I believe that this is the generation, and this is the time to take our stand as the lovesick Bride of Christ, and cry out for our Bridegroom.

Who knows how the LORD will respond if we cry out.

Jeremiah 33:3 says

CAll to me, and I will answer you, and tell you great, and unsearchable things that you have not known(do not know).

1 Samuel 1

Hannah prayed, and cried out for a son-to the glory of God-, and the LORD gave her Samuel, the prophet Samuel, who was close to the LORD, and whose words The LORD did not let fall to the ground. The LORD even gave her more sons and daughters because she was faithful with Samuel.

2 Chronicles 7:14

"If my people who are called by my Name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will forgive their sin, and heal their land."

Moses continually cried out to the LORD, and relentlessly went to Pharaoh on behalf of the house of Israel, and the LORD set them free.

And one of my favorites.

Joel 2:12-14

"Yet even now" declares the LORD, 'return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning, and rend your hearts, and not your garments.'

Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents over disaster. Who knows whether He will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, and a grain offering, and a drink offering for the LORD your God?"

So much happens when we cry out to God, but the best result is the END result. ;)

When Jesus walked, His confidence was sure in who He was. Jesus knew who He was. Jesus knew He was the Son of the Living God.

And if you have a hard time knowing who you, and walking as one with confidence in who you are, just rely on the firm foundation that You are loved by God, and that is really all we need.

I just want to let you know that the LORD is so captivated by you. He calls you beautiful. He calls you lovely. He sees you HOLY. He doesn't expect you to be what you are not. He has good plans for you, that you yourself will love walking in. He is your helper. He holds your right hand when you need Him-Isaiah 41:13-

May the LORD BLESS you and KEEP you as the apple of His eye.

---Intercession---

Yeshua, You are the LORD Most High, and it delights me to serve You, the Great, and Living God. You are so BEAUTIFUL!!! You are so Holy! You are so Majestic, and Awesome. Thank You so much for how You make Yourself known to us. God, thank You Lord for being here for us, You are so High, I can't even describe YOU! You are Jesus! You are the Christ! You are LOVE.! Thank You for being LOVE, we desperately need Your touch, oh God of Jacob, O God who is love, we need YOUR TOUCH ALONE!! Thank you JESUS for who you are!! The One who was, and is and is to come. Blessed are you who comes in the Name of the LORD. Halelujah! Praise You God!! Jesus you are Glorious.

Thank you Lord, in Jesus Name.

Lastly I just feel like the LORD would say to you, to continue to seek His face, and continue to press in to know Him. What He calls us to is for our good, and He loves to work His good through our bad. In our bad circumstances, and every area of our life, and truthfully, every area of our lives are bad until we have Jesus working His good through our bad.

We see His good in what He does, but we can also see HIS good through the work He does through us. 

Isaiah 1:16-17 says

"Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, LEARN TO DO GOOD; seek JUSTICE, correct oppression; bring JUSTICE to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause."

The LORD is with You who are His. Be blessed, and stay in the place of prayer-The Lord will meet you, and will bless you for coming to Him, and crying out to Him, and for Him.

Be blessed

In Jesus Name

Kasey