Wednesday, November 5, 2008

We Need His Grace Like Never Before

We need to see the need for the mercy of God like never before. This recent election has left us to ask where and whom does our hope lie in.We have forgotten that our main focus is to be one again with the one who created us. Our dependence on people and materials and even praises of other people is what keeps us from being able to have the full potential of a real relationship with God. Think about if you were always with someone else and never spent time with the one that you say that you care about, that relationship would be pretty shabby, most likely

non-exisistent. Now compare your relationship with your Heavenly Father.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

We Cry Out

Its time to cry out . What do I mean by that? Its time to get your voice back. So many have lost your voices to the cry of the street ,to lust ,perversion, sex, the darkness within and have conformed to a following leading to a mundane life and existence. We have been defined by the clothes we wear the cars we have driven and the houses we live in. We have been determined by the set we rock or the street we live on. The boundaries are limitless to how we have lost our voice. We now live in a society where individuality is far and in between and if you don't conform you are ostracized for it. I heard a great speaker say that were ever the majority lies there s the Enemy. You may be asking who is this enemy ,well the enemy of our soul is Satan. He doesn't want to be exposed so many of you he has you to believe that he doesn't exist. This is so not the case. Can you explain why you yourself have the desires to do some of the craziest things that have come to your mind.Can you honestly look over your life and say I have my voice and it hasn't changed for someone else , I know exactly who I am and don't need you or anyone to tell me different. Well, you can click off of this blog right now , but I know that just because you read this far that your life s never gonna be the same. For those of you who are still hear I must have you thinking. You know who you are your name use to be Cindy , but now you've dyed your hair red and black and your name is now Star . Or you use to be John and now you call yourself Jagged or your were Kelly and now your going by Kevin or you were Keith and now its Courtney.Not you ,how about the Size 3 who should reaaally for height and health reasons should be a 10 but now we can see all your bones in your face. Or those of you who take, oh weight doesn't matter and now you don't take care of yourself at all,so now your totally over weight and hide in behind that Big is beautiful. Broken homes , broken dreams , love affairs , poverty, have I touched everyone yet? No, CHURCH-GOERS since many of you feel that your luke warm relationship with OUR LORD and Saviour is o.k. Yet why is it that were not reaching these lost that fall into these categories, since you hide the fact that you fall into one of these categories behind a big hat or a three piece suit or a shout and a smile. We as a people all want to know that we are excepted for ourselves and that we wont be ridiculed for it.We have an Heavenly Father in Heaven who wants to accept us with all our hurts , pains and short-comings.For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have ever lasting life.John3:16. He is right there with His arms wide open to except us in all His Glory.He had us in mind from the very beginning . Just think the Creator of all things thinks on us all the time that He sent His son to redeem us from death and a life of hopelessness. Just like a father should do, take care of us and catch us when were falling. We have to understand wake up and look around at our fallen state as people and know that we need a God that is bigger and greater than the ozone layer ,than famine than the stock market. He is waiting for us to begin to cry out and let Him know that we need Him and we can't do this alone. Telling the truth of when you want to end your life, telling the truth about the drugs, the abuse , the eating disorder the,molestation, the rape. The worlds way of dealing with things is figuring out how to cope with it when Gods way of dealing with it is curing it, healing it ,making all things new. Havent you wished you could go back and make all things new, well God doesn't want the past to tell you who you are and what you can do. He doesn't want the world to tell you what your worth or your importance is to Him, cause the world can't tell you that . The bible says donot be conformed to this world ,but be transformed by the renewing of your mind Rom.12:2 . We have transformed homes,our families, and everything about our lives around according to media and culture and movies and etc. We've allowed for it to tell us what to do, how to talk, walk and dress.Not realizing that we dont even belong to this world and that it doesn't even know us. Picture yourself letting a total stranger telling youwhat you better do with your life or your nothing and then place a reject sign on you to tell you, you don't measure up. Well lets make that a reality and look at the decisions that have been made for majority of your life. Self included, but our Heavenly Father says I hate the things that have you trapped and weighed you down The things that separate you from Me. I love you but I hate the things of this world from the lust to the expulsion etc. I hate it because it keeps you from Me and I want you near Me. Cry out for me that I can locate you in the mist of the darkness that plagues you. Tell me what hurts you, trust me ,I care for you.I will not hide from you and will not leave you alone until you see me , just choose life and ask me in it's that simple and Iwill show myself to you. I will rescue you and that is My promise . Just Cry out . We must CRY OUT . We are fading away fast and our rest must not be in our bank account, our boyfriends /girlfriends ,our homes , or the next party, or album coming out, not even our next business venture ,but in a God who will not and Can not fail. OUR GOD REIGNS!!! WE MUST CRY OUT, to live its not an option. I leave you with the famous words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ , I AM the way the truth and the life .No one comes to the Father except through me. Peace

Monday, October 27, 2008

What is Radical Grace

Hi and I want to thank all of you who have taken the challenge of following this blog. Prodigal Sons and Daughters everywhere will really appreciate the wealth of Gods unfailing love that this encouraging ,challenging and some times painful words of ministry will bring. There is nothing more life provoking than the words that come from our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. So lets spark on this journey to find the blazing heart that God has placed on the inside of all us to bring liberty to the captives and healing to the sick and hope for those who are lost and hopeless. Lets start with "I". There probably isnt a more self centered and proudful word that you can come across than the word I. Then to top it off you come with the most selfish word known to man "ME". Put the two together and you have yourself a recipe for for a life of misery and the lack of the grace of God. You may be saying what are you talking about, what does this have to do with the radical grace of God. I don't understand. Theres that I word again. Anytime that we solely focus on what we want "I" we have missed what the purpose of Christ's coming was for.Grace is the unmerited favor and blessings of God upon our lives. Something we can never earn and definetly dont deserve. See we as human beings like to believe that we have done pretty o.k for ourselves and that we're not as bad as the next person. When we began to make those types of judgement calls(and they are judgement calls) we place ourselves in our subconcious minds as we really dont need God as bad as the next person, but the bible tells us that God searches the mind and heart of men and will reward them according to their conduct Jer17 :9-10. So really the only one who can make that judgement call and be completly accurate about what He says is God. Jesus didnt even cast judgement without the option of repentance and the understanding of God's love.Even at the cross where they mocked and spat and cursed at Him He didnt place a judgement of damnation ,but a cry for Radical Grace. His agenda alone was that of His father in heaven and their purpose alone was to give us the favor of God and the blessing of being with Him in eternity something we didnt earn. He loved us so to the point of Death and that He the King of Kings would and did make all things new. Oh how He made all things new! Let us cry out for more understanding of this radical grace of God. His grace was radical because He endured the cross and fought off death and scrounged threw hell to find some Keys that He knew we would need to unlock and get some stuff that we didnt deserve, so we could live a life that was bought with a price!Check this out unlike popular belief of that We sold and it really didnt belong to us in the first place and you dont think thats "Radical"! You try doing it than come and tell me how it worked out for ya. See we can never ever top what he did neither will we pay it back. We can choose to follow suit and become an example of what Christ did by first acknowledging He finished it, then be thankful for the Lamb who was slain on our behalf and is the only worhty to take the scroll and read it Rev5. Worthy to the Lamb who was slain!!! GLORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how We should love Jesus for His Blood washed us white as snow. Well untill next blog around I leave you with the words of the famous Smith Wigglesworth, "ONLY BELIEVE "