Holy Spirit..... Jesus Culture

Subject: Holy Spirit....Jesus Culture

 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFByOX8Fb0M

 

Ephesians 5: 18... "be filled with the Holy Spirit"...

Acts 4: 31 "they were all filled with the Holy Spirit"...

 

There is no way that I could live this life in my own strength. I can only press on because of the gift of the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised us. My flesh fails everyday in so many ways.

 

I am here to tell you that I have tasted the sweetest of loves. God's presence around me, and in me. I would not be able to handle each day knowing my husband has been labeled with terminal lung cancer if God’s Spirit wasn’t alive in me. Even still, there are days I just want to crawl up in a big ball. God shows me how much I need to drown myself in Him daily!

God's promise was to raise His Son from the dead and He did. He will also, daily, raise me from the death I feel in this storm with my husband. I am learning how to draw strength from God, and the power switch is faith. Hebrews 11: 1, "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for".... verse 6 "and without faith it is impossible to please God"

 

I sing this verse over and over throughout my day. I sometimes wake up with it on my mind..."Holy Spirit You are welcome here. Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere. Your glory God is what our hearts long for. To be overcome by Your presence Lord."

This may be a long song if you take the time to listen to it. But it is so powerful, and I sure need it!!!

 

If we as followers of Christ are not filled up with the Holy Spirit, than what are we partly filled with? Spell flesh backwards and leave off the h. Yup that's it, "self." I want to be overcome by His presence. Not overwhelmed by my flesh in the circumstance. In self, statements rise up in you like.. "I can't it's too hard.. This just seems impossible... there is no more hope in this... and any other negative statement Satan wants to rip you apart with.

 

Are you full of the Spirit of God? That is what gives us real life, strength, and everything else we need from Him that the flesh can't give. Galatians 2: 20, You see, it's not I who lives, "but Christ Who lives in me." But here's something very important from Hebrews 11: 6.... "anyone who comes to Him MUST BELIEVE that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him."

 

Do you believe that He exist? Are you seeking Him daily? Everyone of us, at one time or another in our lives, will find ourselves in a desperate, maybe devastating situation. Who are you going to call on when no one else seems to have an answer, SELF? Good luck.

 

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Sovereign .. ... Chris Thomlin

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=092EJCNU


I have been spending a lot of time in the hospital as my husband fights stage 4 lung cancer. This song is absolutely awesome!!! When you can't find the words to pray, you can't seem to read His word, listen to this, it will bring you peace.....


Also Some scripture that is carrying me through. I pray it encourages you, or someone else you can share this with..
1 Peter 5: 6-10 //// James 1: 6-8  //// John14: 27  ///// Isaiah 26: 3-4 //// Psalm 46:10


When all is said and done, we really have no other choice than to trust the God of the universe!!!!


In the strength of Christ
Kim .....

When the tears fall....Newsboys

Subject: When the tears fall.....Newsboys

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySeBu7hJDmQ

 

Isaiah 58:11, "The Lord will guide you always: He will satisfy your needs...and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail."

 

This scripture is a desire of my heart, but how do I get it? I spend time with my best Friend. I want be well watered with Godly wisdom so I can overflow and encourage others who are loosing hope, or hurting and searching for answers. There are things that God has brought me through, and things I know are coming that He will bring me through. He is the same God in every storm I go through.

 

Matthew 22: 37 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind." This scripture has more and more deep meaning to me the more I read and meditate on it. Don't wait to spend time with God just "when the tears fall." The soul demands fellowship with God at all times, good and bad. Unless you feed the soul, and exercise it daily in quietness with God, it becomes depressed, confused and restless. Many people turn to alcohol to try and calm down and drown out the reality of life. Some turn to new sex experiences, drugs, anything that satisfies their deep longings of their soul. Nothing but God can completely satisfy, because the soul is made for God. It will always be restless and in some kind of torment without Him.

 

Lessons during loss, trauma, and disappointments, are never easy. They are uncomfortable, and they can be very devastating. This is when the reality of what we are really made of comes out. Especially your relationship with God. Do we love and worship Him only when times are good?

We need to face the reality that life is going to throw us many curve balls. Loving and going deeper with God is a choice. I choose to continue to go deeper with Him. To allow these curves to become a testimony for Him, and to help others who are going through heart crushing times. He will take my life and make it a masterpiece for His glory,

Ephesians 5: 19-20.

 

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Touch the sky...... Hillsong

Subject: Hillsong... Touch the Sky

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RQciil7B0

I am in love with this song!!!!

 

Do you find yourself at His feet again? Then reach up and surrender it all, all that He asks. You truly do find heaven when your knees hit the ground.

God has showed me so much in my walk with Him. I believe everything I read in the bible because He is what Revelations 1: 8 says. Not to mention God said it. "I am Who is, Who was, and Who is to come."

 

He's healed the sick, caused the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the crippled to walk, brought the dead to life again. All of this is a piece of cake for God.... What God has no control over is, free will. Free to do drugs, be an alcoholic, get an abortion, sex addiction, murder, same sex relationships, and the list goes on. How you choose to live, or abuse your body and the gift of life is a choice.

 

Take a look at this world, and I don't know how people can say that the bible is just a story book. It's a book of life. The living word of God. Ask me how I know? I've seen what God can do in my own life, and my loved ones. He's healed sickness,  healed marriages, brought my aunt back when the doctors said "call the family, she's going." He's proved to me that He is the God of the impossible. So "Woe to me"... if I have seen, and confess Jesus as my Savior, and still look like the world, Isaiah 6: 5.

 

God is a good and loving God, but we have to choose for ourselves how we are going to serve a Holy God. He gives us many chances to get it right. That's grace. But just like a loving parent, there comes a time when you tell your child, "enough is enough!" Then there comes the punishment for their choices. Think about that. We don't want to punish our children, but it teaches them, and protects them from harm. God teaches us too. Sometimes the hard way because we just don't listen or submit to authority. God will never insist that we obey anything He's told us in His word. But if we don't, than we have made a decision that we are Lord of our own lives. Again, He gave us free will. We are free to, to it bluntly, spit in His face and trample on grace, and yet He will never say a word. But once that ray of light shines into your heart, and penetrates deep into your soul, this is when you realize that He has the right to have complete authority in your life.

I guess that's why so many people today disobey authority, because they don't recognize it. So to them, they are doing nothing wrong. How could they be doing wrong if they don't recognize higher authority, and have no conscience.

 

God didn't create any of us with a list of, "you must do this and not that." The will of God is to be one with Jesus Christ. He said for us to learn from Him, and that's what I live for. He created me to recognize  His Son Jesus Christ. When I see how Jesus loved and obeyed His Father, I want, and choose to do the same. I am not forced to, and no, I am not brain washed. I choose to!!

 

Revelations 4: 11, He captured my heart and is so worthy of all my praise, for ALL MY LIFE! I found my life when I laid it down.....

 

 

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