Love like this... Lauren Daigle

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Ephesians 3: 18-20.... God's love reaches every corner of our experiences in life. It's wide, it's long, it continues the length of our lives. It's high, it's deep, it reaches to the depths of discouragement, despair, and even death.

I can't believe God's timing of when I stumbled upon this writing from a son who wrote it in memory of his dad that just passed. After reading the scripture above, and this song playing in my head all morning, I stumbled upon it. It's amazing how Jesus spoke to my heart and turned it to Him through song, and scripture, and this young mans writing.

I'm going to start this blog by using his writing, but I'm going to put Jesus where he put dad, and use the present tense instead of past tense.

"I would like to express my relationship with my Jesus. My Jesus is always there for me when ever and where ever I need Him. No matter what the reason is. When I stumble in life He always tells me, "you'll be fine, and do you know why? It's because you are mine." My Jesus loves me unconditionally. He believes in me when I don't believe in myself, and has confidence in me when I don't have any. My Jesus always says, "Kim everyday is a new day. Appreciate and be grateful for everything around you. You never know your last day."...... I have to say, what great words of wisdom to his son.

It will take me my whole lifetime to understand love like Jesus. I didn't do anything to deserve it, and I certainly can't earn it. I will never be good enough. I am just a sinner saved by His amazing grace. He loves us so much, and wants us where He is when our time and purpose is done here. I will spend the rest of my days letting Him fight the darkness that tries to pull me down. He is my light, my truth, my way. No weapon formed against me will prosper, Isaiah 54:17.

Jesus overcame, and He told me I will too. My story is already written and He is my Dad. I love you Daddy God.

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Much love

Kim D

New Wine.....Hillsong

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Romans 8: 17...."we share in His sufferings"....

Life will bring many of us through crushing and pressing. Nothing good comes easy. Just like a nice fine wine. Picking the finest grapes, and then crushing them to make a fine wine.

The scripture clearly states, that if we are His children, then we will share in His sufferings. But the best part is we also share in His glory. All for Him. All to build His kingdom. To share with others where our hope comes from.

I know that I have prayed fervently for God to please change something's in my life. But rather than Him changing them, He was changing me. This made me understand the scripture, 2 Corinthians 12: 8-9 so much more. Paul never had his prayer answered the way he expected either. He even pleaded with God. But through God's grace, His power was being made perfect in Paul's weakness. I mean it truly is amazing how this happens, but it does. You praise and love on God no matter what you're going through, and He shows you just how strong HE IS!

It's easy to want to give up, get mad at God, fall off the path He's got you on because you just don't understand it. But, like Paul's thorn, God is using it for His glory, and we get to share in that. What ever you're thorn may be, don't give up. God is breaking new ground. He's going to bring new wine out of the crushing. And where there is new wine, there is new POWER!

Ephesians 3:16 ...."out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with POWER through His Spirit in your INNER being"...2 Corinthians 5: 16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet INWARDLY we are being renewed day by day....so we fix our eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal." I love that!!

One more great promise of God's spoken word in Philippians 3: 20-21, "But our citizenship is in heaven....the Lord Jesus Christ....will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body." Oh that glorious day!!!!

So while I'm still here, like the lyrics say: "God I came here with nothing, but all you have given me. Jesus make new wine out of me. I lay down my old flames to carry Your new fire today." Be a light to this dark world like Jesus was.

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Kim

Spirit Lead Me....Michael Ketterer Influence music

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2019: Spirit lead me in what I see, hear, and do. I choose to trust You.

I think the biggest lesson we learn as believers in Jesus Christ, and the hardest, is to trust what God is doing, even when we can't see or understand why.

The hardest thing for me to realize in my faith walk was, that God allows suffering. He doesn't cause it, He allows it. All you have to do is look what He allowed to happen to His own Son. I am so grateful that Jesus offered Himself up for us. Never turning back. Knowing the reason why He had to do it. Or look at the book of Job. Read the New Testament stories of His true followers. Here's a few scriptures you could look up on this: 1 Peter 3:14...1 Peter 4:1...1 Peter 5:10....2 Corinthians 4:17.....Hebrews 2:10....Romans 5: 3-4....Isaiah 43:2.

I've talked to many Christians that feel we don't have to suffer because Jesus did it for us already. That's not even scriptural at all. A Christian shouldn't live by feelings, but unfortunately many do. Like, "If it feels good do it. As long as you're not hurting anyone." That's a lie right from the pit of hell!

Jesus talks about suffering in many scriptures: Matthew 10:38...Matthew 16: 24....Mark 8: 34, If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me." Or Matthew 20: 22, "Are you able to drink from the same bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?" Jesus spoke truth that was, and still is hard. Even many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed Him, John 6:66. Is it a coincidence that that number is 666? The mark of the beast, Revelation 13: 18.

I don't live by feelings anymore. They use to make me mad at God, and always questioning Him, why? Feelings can steer us off the way God is leading us, even if it is hard. I have friends that are carrying heavy, heavy crosses, such as cancer. Not even knowing the outcome yet. Some who are no longer with us. Yet the way they carry this cross of suffering, is pointing many people to Who Jesus is in it with them.

Our life is truly an alter. Once you really grasp that, He begins to take us further into our written story for His Glory.

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