Shake well! ..seperation is natural

I was given a Revelation the other day I wanted to share. As I was in deep thought I peered over to my fruit smoothie ..then I saw it!! God has been showing me lately how much we all need each other. It is so natural for us to separate our selves from one another and think we got it all figured out. Natural for the seed of Adam, yes but Jesus' seed in the natural will bring only unity, peace, joy, love, long suffering, faith, kindness, etc! The enemy knows how unity brings healing so of course his tactics are to bring in the little foxes to spoil the vine, bring division, destruction, then conquer, but praise God! ..he says, "to catch the 'little' foxes that try to spoil the vine." Jesus conquered all things!!! He did it on the cross (even death)! A Mighty God (indeed) we serve!!!

Just as the different kinds of fruit with all it's nutrients and vitamins can bring nutrition to the one who consumes it so can all our gifts bring glory to God and healing to the one who embraces it! Our human bodies are designed to heal itself. While we mend and blend we can reap all the health benefits for our souls!
I will not say, "antioxidants, I don't need you!"

 He said, "This is how they will know you are Christians, by your love one for another."

Gaurd Against Division

Gaurd Against Division

We are all a puddle of mess!

We are all a puddle of mess! He said, "And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, and I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live."
                                                                        Isaiah 16:6

 "Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I swore unto thee, and entered into a COVENANT with thee, saith the Lord God and thou becamest MINE. Then washed I thee with water; yeah I THOROUGHLY washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.   (...nough said!!!)
                                                                     Isaiah 16:8-10    

I realize we all need healed from this disease called SELF! We need to be healed of all of our "baggage". In our pasts we have been (or know someone who has been) hurt in one way or another. We fear that we'll get hurt again so we lock up and fall short of the work God so desires to do in us. ..to learn the secret of love! We are living in such a fallen world yet we have a Physician who knows we are but dust, a passing vapor that comes then is gone in a moment and He has formed us all in our mothers womb where in Psalms it says, "We were fearfully and wonderfully made!" He knew us before he formed us and knows how many hairs are on all our heads! These things are too unfathomable for me to wrap my tiny brain around. But as I have personally witnessed healing of the past in my own heart, I am now convinced He has power to heal anything! With Him all things are possible! ..and I will never settle for less! When I get sips of water, I will be thankful yes! but I will never settle for just sips because I know he desires to give me so much more (His ocean!!!) I remember one night after I was faced with an impossible situation, I was facing a mountain that only He could move, so I sighed then as I looked at his beautiful sky full of beauty (silver lined clouds) He spoke! He said, " Is anything too difficult for me!?" I agreed and said Amen! Yes, Lord Thy will be done! "Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27"

We don't need to settle for just enough strength to bite our tongues instead of lashing out. Or just love those who love us. Or keep away from doing the not so good things! Or keeping all the hurt stored inside and never showing it or be healed of it. Or settling for broken relationships. Or settling for idols in our lives He desires to remove. No!! and this is the victory that has overcome the world ...our FAITH!!!! "In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness (Jeremiah 33:16)." Where we can be a privileged people (blessed beyond measure) and we can reflect our Savior who has died for the world! Where we no longer have to be bound to our circumstances or past hurts but we can be free, free as the bird with the outstretched wings that glides where ever the wind blows.(Isaiah 40)
                                                                                                                                        

 The "GOOD NEWS" is we don't have to live in our hurts anymore but we can be healed and helped with the help of His Spirit (the same help Jesus had when on earth) to overcome ALL obstacles! "As God hath said, I will dwell IN them, and walk IN them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. wherefore come out from among them , and be ye separate, saith the lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I WILL receive you, And WILL be a Father unto you, and ye SHALL be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty. 2Corinthians 6:16"  I will do a new thing thus saith the Lord where I WILL put my law in their hearts. Amen! I'm experiencing these sweet freeing truths and I want to proclaim to anyone who is facing anything difficult, He said he HAS overcome the world and He so DESIRES to set the captives free! My life, I realize, is a continual walk of faith and freeing from captivity. A continual light to behold then to become. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven"
 Matthew 5:16. "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are CHANGED into the same image from glory to glory, even as the Spirit of the Lord. 2Corinthians 3:18" " 

These are all treasures that He desires to give us and perform in us. I opened to this one day and it just confirmed to what the Lord was trying to show me, "And I will give thee the TREASURES of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou may know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. Isaiah 45:3"  This also goes along, "That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their TREASURES. Proverbs 8:21" His heart is crying out for us to understand these plans he desires for us! ..To give us a future and a hope!   He is so good to us!!!

In Him there is all HOPE so lets grab on together and be a light in this dark world and heal all the diseases! We can then live this antidote out which is called LOVE and walk life in fulfilling Corinthians 13.  

love you all! Because of him,
                                       ~Jessica

This is incredible to me please take time to hear the testimony of a broken man that God got a hold of!!!

I have set out my heart to NEVER settle for less!! The Lord has unlocked this reality to me a couple years back and ever since it has revolutionized my life tremendously!

As I was sitting there in the pew pondering if "this" is what it was all about. I would hear one thing (the Love of God, the Power of God, the Healing of God) but experience another. I was so confused when I would read Pauls letter to the Ephesians in Eph 3:17. I wasn't seeing it experienced nor was I experiencing it myself. This set me out on a venture to find out if this mystery was even real to be found. I started by practically asking God questions that my human brain could make some kind of sense of. I started with the question, "Does the Bible exaggerate?" I thought maybe they spoke differently back then. I asked that simple question and God took it and grew that tiny seed into a growing tree! As I was sitting there thinking I might as well just sit back on the pew then God answered, "You're right Jessica "this" is not ALL it! No, the word is true! I do desire for you to receive ALL of it ...ALL of Me!!! I praised Him in my heart as he was answering my questions! Such a sense of joy and relief started rushing in! He gave me an illustration of what it was like. It was as though he gave us a fish tank and we explored this new treasure. It gave us great excitement yet eventually after turning over all the rocks and being awed at the beautiful creation and life it was teeming with. As time went by we started getting tired of seeing the same things so we attempted to explore it a couple more times and upon disappointment we just settled with the thought, "this is it!" So, of course with that hole in our hearts that God has placed in each of us (that is reserved for Him) we tried to fill it with other things. That day changed my life! God said, "My child I desire to give you much more then a fish tank I desire to give you my ...Ocean!!!!!!!

And ever since, my dear friends I have been so blessed to get a glimpse of  Heaven of His healing power in my own life and the life of others! As the the broken man I mentioned earlier (on top of the page of this post) has been able to see more of the LOVE of God it too has revolutionized his life, the mending of his shattered family, relationship with his wife, and healing relationships with his fellow brothers and sisters in Christ!!! When  I see these things it makes me once again fall more in love with the Character of my Heavenly Father! As it was well said on the very end of the message my heart leaps and says, "Yes and Amen!" God sent his son so that He can have His Divinity poured into our humanity!! This world is so broken! We see pain where ever we turn and God doesn't ever want us to settle for less and just say "this is it." He desires to heal all of our infirmities ..broken hearts,relationships,families,sicknesses etc (you can fill in the blank).



"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;   And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us." -  Eph 3:17-20

Jealous for the Testimony of the Lord by Denny Kenaston

Well... Here I am this still morning with a lil' time on my hands to post before work.

I was just pondering my amazment toward God and the way he leads me! I am greatful to be here (in MO) at a place that I can be surrounded by sweet friends and family who love me, have a job, live next to family, have a room mate that has been a beacon of light in my life!! I have all my needs met! Jehova Jireh truely is my provider!!!!! And if God should guide me else where I will rejoice too!!! Because wherever I go He says, "I will be with you ALWAYS!" Even through the fire! He has taught my heart to rejoice on the mountains and in the valleys!!!! If I didn't have valleys I wouldn't be here to declare His faithfulness and know His saving grace! I wouldn't have experienced His strong hand that has dug me out of the pit and hewn me out of the stone (grave of hopelessness) Isaiah 51 and has also pulled me out of the fire!

Ok, I really wanted to post more but this will have to do for now! Later, I will update on what has been transpiring in my life these past days! Gotta get to work! :)

Love ya all!



  

Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain.

"My God, I have never thanked thee for my thorn. I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross; but I have never thought my cross as itself a present glory.
Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to thee by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbows." George Matheson

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak then I am strong! 2 Corinthians 12:10

Can I say once more ...God is GOOD!

God has been amazingly good to me! I am so thankful that he is my Father! I have seen dross in my life and it has caused me to be afraid to run to him (feeling too unworthy) so I would try to get fixed by running to others but God (as a loving father) keeps calling me to himself.  I saw that no one has the key to my lock or the cure to my disease, they would say, "Go to the great physician, he knows!" the Lord would even bring testimony after testimony my way how someone would be in need and go directly to Him (The creator of all things, author and finisher of faith, perfect councilor, God of all comfort) then he would directly answer their prayer! He is sooo good to me, so patient, so longsuffering, see 1Corinthians 13 and that can give more of an idea of who he is! ...He is LOVE!  Therefore, I will say, "Yes Lord, here I am! Fix me and make me become more ino your image ...Love!