Compelling Love

Love is compelling. My love is compelling. My love is compelling you unto Me, unto My Son Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. When you sin, when you fall, come quickly to Me, come quickly and find forgivenss, grace, and mercy. My mercy is extended unto you; but you must come to receive. Receive My forgiveness, receive My love in you.

Start your day with Me

Dwell in My presence. As I was with Adam in the garden so shall I be with you. As a friend longs to hear the voice of his companion, so I long to hear your voice. Let us walk together, two by two, side by side in the cool of the day before the day dawns, before the worries of life creep in. Keep them at bay, worries, scratching at your door, begging to come in. Receive from Me in the early hours and I will give you a word to keep the world at bay. Adam had already started without Me. Don't. Take the time, awaken your soul, and start your day, My day, with Me.

In the hands of the Potter

"Allow yourself to be molded, allow yourself to be shaped. Allow yourself, will yourself, put yourself willingly on My Potter's Wheel. For I know the shape and destiny of your life. I know the design and purpose I have created your life for. Mot man, but Me; I'am. I have created you for a purpose. Stop looking to the world to create and mold you, look to the living God. I create and mold different individuals for different purposes. Some are in the beginning stages, some are in the refinement stages, some have taken themselves off of My wheel. Don't be hard, don't be bitter, I can't work with a hard heart, it will just break on the wheel. Allow your heart to be soft, moldable and pliable. For I have created you for a purpose. To be a willing, moldable creation of Mine for a purpose to display My glory and My glory alone declares the Lord!"  



"I am my Beloved's"

"It's not so much saving ourselves from something, but saving ourselves for someone; a relationship with our Bridegroom; our Father-God. A father who desires a rich, loving, relationship with us: His children." Song of Solomon 6:3, "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine."

"You are not forgotten"

   As we begin to enter the last part of 2010, I wanted to remind all of us that we are not forgotten. With all of the hustle and bustle that is about to begin this holiday season, God has chosen not to forget us, “Can a mother forget the infant at her breast, walk away from the baby she bore? But even if mothers forget, I'd never forget you—never. Look, I've written your names on the backs of my hands.” Isaiah 49. Our names are written on the back of God’s hands as a continual remembrance before Him. I believe that we serve a God that is so intimately acquainted with us that we won’t know the full extent of His love until we enter His presence in Heaven. “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.” Psalm 139. I believe that God is for us, loves us, and is continually thinking about our well being. We serve a God that desires a rich, full, intimate relationship with His children!

Hiding out at the movies

After watching “Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps” with Maryann, I was waiting for her outside of the movie theater. Out of the corner of my eye, one movie patron caught my attention. Why? Well she had purchased one movie ticket for a movie that started in ten minutes and she was asking the movie attendant if she could buy another movie ticket for the next movie after the first one ended and then she asked if she could buy a third ticket for the next movie after the second movie ended. I know some of you have secretly wished you could just sneak away and watch one movie by yourself, but two movies, or three movies? Maryann told me that she probably had a day off and wanted to catch up on some new movies. But my spirit told me otherwise. She was lonely. How could I tell? I just felt the Spirit of God tell me that she was lonely. Was she lonely enough to buy three movie tickets in a row and hide out in the movie theater all day? Yes she was. I often think of the biblical story of the woman at the well; the lady that went to the well to gather her water in the middle of the day, in the absolute heat, at the worst possible time to gather her water. Yes, that lady. I believe that water represents life’s nourishment and that without water to our soul, we die. Maybe not all at once, but we die over time. Without friends, without loved ones, without others to check up on us, we die. If I had been able to talk to the lady, I would have liked to have reminded her of Psalm 68:6, “God places the lonely in families or another version reads, “God makes a home for the lonely.”  What did Jesus tell the lady at the well, in John 4:14, “But whomever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  We have the nourishment of Jesus Christ inside of us and it is up to us to remind others that it can be inside them also. They can have the nourishment, friendship, and love of a Savior that is beyond time, beyond reason, and beyond human hope. We have that hope inside of us. Let it out and allows others to experience the same freedom you experienced at one time.