I sing praises to Your Name....

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I pray that my life shows the Risen Lord. The life that lives in me. We can all choose the tune of what our life song is. I want mine to be a song of worship and thanksgiving to Jesus. I've set my heart on the truth that lives in me, and I pray it shines out to all who know me. Those who don't, I hope they would be encouraged and want to know what's different about me.

I've read this scripture many times. Heard it spoken in sermons. But I love when the Spirit of God highlights on something He wants me to share. That's why it's called the Living Word. It never stops teaching. John 11: 14-27, Jesus not only is the Risen Lord, but He raises the dead to life right in front of every ones eyes! Yet some people still don't believe.

This is where it gets me..... In verse 14, you can see Jesus was glad that Lazarus was dead. Look what He says, "I'm glad I wasn't there, for now you will really believe." It's not just a story, it's truth! Many witnessed this miracle, and many other miracles that He did while His time on earth.

I know there is an enemy, and he is real. You can see him at work every day keeping the blinders on people. The bible is full of peoples choices, and it continues today. God has never changed. He has always loved, and still shows us His patience today with all of us.

It's a fact that we are all going to die. But the good news is, those who choose Jesus Christ as Savior, are going to live eternally in the presence of our Lord, and our loved ones who put their trust in this truth. God continues to show His patience with us all, and is waiting for many to accept the marvelous promises He has made.

I sing praises to Your Name oh Lord. For Your Name is great, and greatly to be praised. Oh how I pray that those who don't believe in Your Son will experience the Risen Lord. Your patience is limitless with all Your creation. I thank You that You never give up on us.

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Embers .... Hillsong

 

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Philippians 2: 12-13, The bible tells us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Take very serious the word of God. Work it out, because the power of the Holy Spirit is within, and it fights with the flesh to come out. Like the caterpillar, there is a beautiful butterfly inside this body that struggles from within to come out.

2 Peter 1: 3, "His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by his own glory and goodness."

Most people work out to get tone ,strong, and some to loose weight. This takes time, but the more you stay consistent at it, you will see changes.

Galatians 5: 16-18, This verse reminds me of when I was a personal trainer and people would tell me, "I want to turn this fat to muscle." You can't do that. They are two different identities. But you can build more muscle to burn the fat. Just like our flesh and spirit are always at war with one another. The flesh is never going away, but you can build your inner spirit by your intimate relationship with Jesus. Spending quality time with Him to melt away those fleshly desires. You can't just go to church on Sunday and expect to have a strong spiritual soul. It's going to become flabby.

1 Peter 1: 23, "For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God." In Christ we are a new creation in the making, 2 Corinthians 5: 17.

You see we have this living power of the Holy Spirit, but when we received Jesus Christ as our Savior, it was in seed form. That seed needs to be nourished to grow. Like a fire that's dying, but the embers are hot and glowing, fan the flame and bring the fire alive. His Spirit is within all who believe. He wants all the earth to see that He is Lord through our lives. Be a soul on Fire. Strong in Him from the inside bursting out.

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Throne Room..... Kim Walker

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Revelations 1: 12-20... verse 17, "when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid"....

Seriously,  so many experiences in my life make me want to fall on my face and say... " My heart can't contain the weight of Your Name....Holy, holy, holy are You God."

Day after day, God speaks to my heart. When I read His written living word, it's like breathing in His breath. The bible even tells us that every word is God breathed, 2 Timothy 3: 16-17.

I don't just run to the "Throne Room" when I am in need of something, or desperate for answers. I am daily in need of His presence just because I love Him so much.

I've said it before, that I've seen miracles that only God could have shown Himself in. I've seen Him even prove doctors and surgeons wrong. But I've also seen prayers answered in ways I didn't like. Like the death of my husband at the young age of 58. But He did heal him physically once, and spiritually for ever more. Gods will done on earth, for His glory. Grace upon grace, He brings peace to my soul daily. His perfect love remains my everything!

One look at Jesus and I'm undone....   

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Glimpse (into eternity) Kim Walker

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LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!!!

"I've encountered something I can not deny. Lord I believe it. Living water pouring into my life. Lord I receive it. You are moving, overflowing. I am changed by a Love that will never run dry.

John 7: 37-38, ..."Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me.....rivers of living water will flow from within them."

Let me share my experience, and then how these lyrics just make me dance....

Did you know a sub pump can be plugged in and have power to do what is meant to do. Pump water from a flooded area out with a powerful flow. But if there is a kink somewhere, the water will just trickle out.

All this rain we are getting, my yard floods every time now. But I got my sub pump out there for this season, ready to do what it needs to do. All I have to do is plug it in. The hose looked all good too. Well, except for a kink at the very top that I didn't notice. The water was just trickling out. I tromped through the mucky water and unplugged the pump and returned it to home depot for another one, of course thinking it was the pump. I didn't see the kink at the very top of the hose attached to the pump at that time. I get home just before the storm, tromp through the mucky water again, and connect the new pump to the hose. Well, that's when I saw it. I just had to laugh instead of crying. I said, "Oh God, what are You teaching me here?"

In the sense of my Spirit, He said, "You are asking to be full of Me. You are totally plugged into Me, but, there are kinks I am working through so you will experience the full flow of Me." Oh my sweet Jesus. Isn't He awesome!

He wants us to experience Him at deeper levels. Some people are satisfied where they are. I'm not. I love experiencing Him more and more. It's like little glimpses of heaven. Living water pouring into every situation, every circumstance, every fear, every anxious thought, loneliness, healing...... let it flow!

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Just One Touch.... Kim Walker

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Absolutely Beautiful Song!

You can search so many different avenues for happiness, but there is truly only "One" that brings everlasting joy. "Just one touch" and you will never be the same. Your eyes become wide open. You begin to see things differently, and begin to get a better understanding of the time and space you are in now.

Some of us have experienced prayer request that were not answered this side of heaven. But you can count on one that will be for sure. Praying for Jesus to make Himself comfortable and at home in your heart.

There is something that our Creator God is after and He lets us choose to desire the same. He is after the genuine, surrendered, desperate after Him heart, no matter what the outcome of our prayer request turned out to be.

Life teaches us this unconditional love for Him. You begin to realize that He has a purpose for everything that is allowed to come into our lives. He loves us, and the enemy hates us. It's really that simple. No middle area unless to choose to camp out there and stay at a comfortable, leave me alone distance. Truth is, you won't be left alone. One day you will make a choice. If it's not the right one, you may stay comfortable for a while, but it won't last.

You can search all other comforts, but there is none that comforts like the Living God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit alive in you. I am recklessly abandoned, continual desperation, to know Him more.

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Flood....Jars of Clay

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Oh how the lyrics of this song fit how I felt Spiritually for a few days drowning in my own thoughts....

Well as I began to write this, on the side in the little pop up bar shows a water drop with a big smile. I wish I could copy and paste it but I couldn't. The caption said... When water attacks find a plumber. It was a Roto-Rooter add. Well my daughter and I found a Sub Pump that did a great job. In the mess of all that was happening with the "Flood" in my back yard, Jesus stepped in my drowning thoughts and my joy was back.

When water is stagnant, you don't have to invite the mosquitoes, they're just going to come. The same with our Christian walk. Stay stagnant in your relationship with Jesus, you don't have to invite the enemy, he'll just creep in.

Due to all the rain we have been getting day after day, and the way the guy behind me built up his structure, and the horrible drainage, well really none, my back yard was a swimming pool! No exaggeration! My mind was giving into negative thoughts, and not so nice ones about the guy behind me either. Even thoughts to the point that I was wondering if I should just sell my home and go into a condo. This was as I was just having a new floor put in, and just put up a new privacy fence. Talk about stupid thoughts. Every time the dark clouds would roll in, I would panic. Psalm 30:5, but joy comes in the morning! Even if the storm clouds continued to roll in.

Happiness is based on circumstances you are in. Joy is no matter what you are in, it doesn't leave you. That's because it's within you. Hebrews 12: 2 says, "For the joy set before Him He endured the cross".... Joy before being crucified. Can you wrap your mind around that?

Now since Jesus walked that path before me, He shows me how in every circumstance. He lifts me up when I'm falling, when I'm weak and feel like I am dying. He keeps me from staying under and drowning in my own negative thoughts. You need the water stirred up, and the Sprit of God will do that if you continue to seek Him, cry out to Him. He's got BIG, BIG shoulders, and He's without a doubt, a GOOD, GOOD, Father.

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Perfect Wisdom of our God.....Keith and Krystin Getty

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Ephesians 1: 17........Confused, don't understand what's happening in your life, "where are You God" you cry out? We can look at things from our point of view, which is never the full view that God sees. Do we want to continue to see things from our level, or from High above it all? That's God's view. He sits above it all, through it all, and already at the end of it all. That's the view I want. I pray for this spirit of wisdom in all things.

"Oh grant me wisdom from above. Each strand of sorrow has a place, within the tapestry of grace. So through the trials I choose to say, "Your perfect will, Your perfect way."

If we live our life by what makes sense, we will never walk by faith. I don't have to understand everything to obey God. I have a choice to put my full trust in the Creator of my story and purpose in this gift of life He has given me for a time. Better to obey than live with regret.

Romans 5:2.....James 1: 2-5.....

Persevere, even when it doesn't make sense to you, it does to God. He's got the view from above the woven tapestry. If I was to answer the question, "does God make sense the way He does things?" I would have to say "NO." But when I seek and ask God for wisdom, I get His perspective. I see things from the eyes of His loving patient heart.

When you look at this world for what it is, it is filled with awesome purpose for our eternal home. When you really see it for this truth, and eternal truth is God's truth, you see just how faithful He is in how He answers prayer. Keep your hope in that and you will never be disappointed.

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