Called me Higher.. All Sons and Daughters

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The lyrics of this song really hit me because it has been what I've been going through for a while now, and I am going to be open and honest with you. Most of you know that I am head-over-heels in love with Jesus and a Christian. But there has been something rooted in me that God has been trying to show me for a long long time. Because of what we are going through right now, has brought up that bitter root of anger, and revenge.  Now, I can hold onto who I am and not let him change me from the inside, but that just keeps me right where I'm at. Quite honestly, I don't like it.  Making excuses for how I feel, like it's OK to want to see these rioters hurt real bad. I don't even want to put into words how I feel about revenge for these innocent people.  But the horrible thing about it, is God told me I'm no better than they are with what's in my heart. Wow!!!!  Romans 12: 18-19.... Matthew 5:44...  Revenge is mine says the Lord.... Do not repay evil with evil.... Pray for your enemies.... When I look at the police and see them standing there with people screaming in their face and taunting them, I thought of Jesus. How he stood there, and got spit at in His face. Thorns pressed into His head, beaten and crucified and innocent!  I use the excuse that I'm human and God understands me. But honestly that's not an excuse when God wants to take you to a deeper level with him, and I pursue after that daily.  Well I wasn't going to go deeper so long as this was in my heart and I didn't really recognize how ugly it was to God. I know what all of you might be saying.... Oh Kim, your human, God understands and so on...   But I know that so long as I have life, God is continually creating the image of Jesus in all of us who call ourselves His.  Well I have been failing this part since  Calambine high school shooting years ago, World Trade Center, and all that is going on now.  Yes I'm going to get mad.  That is impossible not to. But what was in my heart is not good at all, and it drew me to repentance and the peace that I desire to have when I sit in my prayer Room with my Lord. I hope this helps someone else who is stuck feeling distant from God and not knowing why. He calls us all higher and deeper. 

All for You my Jesus

Kim D

Crown Him... I Am They

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I find it so fascinating when I read even in the Old Testament how it sounds so much, and looks so much like today. Reading Deuteronomy chapter 28 and the 1st verse.... If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on Earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you will obey the Lord your God.... Read the rest of that chapter it is amazing..   When you get to verse 15 it tells you the curses for disobedience. Everything you want to know is in God's word. You don't have to ask why things are happening. It's written in His word.  That led me into reading 2nd kings verse 5 and 6 and how it is explained in my Bible ...... God was doing what he said he would do in Deuteronomy 28. He had given Israel AMPLE warning, they knew what would come, but they still ignored God. Israel was now no better than the pagan nations it had destroyed in the days of Joshua. The nation had turned sour and rejected its original purpose, to honor God and be a light to the world... Wow, does that sound like today.... Heavenly Father, I personally thank you for being so patient with us. All we can do is pray for your mercy.

All for You Lord

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Changed ... JORDEN FELIZ

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We can go to church every Sunday or every day of the week. But unless there is a change that is evident, then we really aren't changed at all.....2 Corinthians 3: You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life...... Pass it on. Somebody might just get contaminated with life from Jesus.


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Glory to you Jesus
Kim D

Whole heart.... Hillsong

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Once I was broken
But You loved my whole heart through
Sin has no hold on me
'Cause Your grace holds me now....

 I remember the day when I accepted Christ as my savior and what it feels like to have his grace cover me.. I wanted everyone to experience what I experienced. But I had a very tough time with trying to force it on someone, rather then God's perfect timing.
 A relationship with Jesus is a person's choice. All we can do and hope for, is that they see a difference in the way we live. Christian growth is truly a lifelong process.
  The more time we spend in the word and prayer, the more we change.
 If I can give any advice at all, pray, and never cease praying. It is so much better seeing the power of your prayers at work. At the same time holding onto peace,  and trusting God. I know that how I handled it was very forceful. I could only thank God that He knew my heart and everything turned out the way I hoped for.  It might have taken longer then it should have, because God was also doing a work in me, on trust. I am also thankful for a family that new my heart, and we always had forgiveness and unconditional love for one another.
1 Thessalonians 5: 14-18...  Be joyfull, pray continually, and give thanks. Trust me, you begin to see people in a new perspective, through the eyes of God. AND HIS GRACE AND LOVE IS DEEP!  His patience is beyond ours.

For His glory
Kim D

Courageous.. Casting Crowns

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God calls us to swim against the flow. It's not easy and you may feel very alone, but it's the right thing to do. I was reading 2nd kings this morning. From the time I started reading my Bible again, every chapter, there is not one that you will get through without constant disobedience. Only few listened to the voice of God.  Society today is pulling everything downward to its way of running things. Are you being pulled along with it? Like salmon swimming upstream and the fight to get to their destination, i choose to be the few that fight the fight! You will be swimming against the current,  but remember Who has you. Gods desire is for us to be courageous and bold.  Set apart!  Jesus said, only few follow the narrow road. There is no other road that I want to be on, but the one where he is holding my hand.   I believe that we are experiencing the passive wrath of God. Those who refuse to make God their true leader. To make Jesus Lord of their life.  I ask you this, in all of your life time have you ever seen anything like this that has spread  over the whole world.  The Bible tells us to be prepared to give people an answer. God knows that this is my heart's desire.

All for His glory

Kim D

Open over us... Steffany Gretzinger

If you choose to see God any other way then Holy, then you have made him into your own depraved way of thinking. Roman's 1:18-32 .  These verses make it pretty clear, very clear, of what we are seeing today. Verse 18 starts off by saying.... The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them because God has made it plain to them...... .. So many people live life like this is all there is. Even those who believe in Jesus, turn him into a buffet type of God. They pick and choose what they want to believe, and how they want to live. All I can say, I am not perfect and never will be this side of heaven. But I choose to see HIM as Holy. I open up my heart to Him and ask Him daily to help me in my sinful ways, and thinking. If we open up our hearts to God, he will open up all He is to us. Give him access to your heart and see the  Wonders of his love. Heaven is open over us.
For His Glory always
Kim D

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Protector... Kim Walker

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I've read this Psalm 91, and its been one of my favorites for many years.  But the 4th of July evening it was in action. I really didn't realize it until the next day and i came to my right way of thinking. Because that night when a bottle rocket hit my window, completely making a hole, and glass all in my den, including the chair that God got me out of just in time to get up to get something, i went pretty nuts with the neighbors. 

 Now if that was a rock or any other thing that made a hole in my window, it would have wound up in my den. Verses 9, 10, and 11..  If you make the most high your dwelling, even the Lord who is my refuge, then no harm will befall you,  no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.... Well He sure did!

 Maybe you have never experienced spiritual warfare and the Lord's protection, but i have more times than i probably even know.  But this one was clear as day. If that rocket came completely in my den, it would have finished exploding and caused way more damage than I could possibly imagine. It was laying outside the window on the ground.  Also a lot of other things that must have hit my house that night because there was small holes in my siding .I have always prayed, and will continue to pray, the blood of Jesus's protection over my home and my family. 

 Every verse of this Psalm is powerful, true, and living...  I will live my life knowing this truth. Verse 1 and 2...  He who dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust...

My protector. Praise You Jesus.

All for Your glory

Kim D