A simple song...

Tonight I write again... Not sure what it is I'm to share, but knowing the Lord is moving me to do so. I'm so completely overcome with wonder about the work the Holy Spirit is doing in me...and around me. I can sense a big change within myself - totally a prompting from the Holy Spirit, no question about that - as well as over this city and, such as a pebble causes a ripple effect, throughout this nation, and as it is written, all over this world. There is a presence more evident than ever I feel, and I don't know about you, but I'm going to run with it! "Awake oh wake you sleeper", He IS coming! Are we preparing ourselves and sharing with others? Or just living our comfortable lives and 'passing time'? I mean people!...how can we not want to further God's Kingdom here on earth in return for the most completely wonderful sacrifice he's done for us?! Think about it...really think about it! When I stop and think about things that friends and family have done for me and how much I always appreciate it and know they do it because they love me, it completely blows my mind to know life was given as an atoning sacrifice for everything 'I' have done (and will do) in sin. Me...MY sins did that and in return, I'm loved and accepted unconditionally; given grace and mercy...in abundance at that!; am given strength beyond anything I could ever muster up on my own in times when I'm weakest, and the list goes on and on. The picture that Jesus is standing at the top of the ascending stairs with his hand outstretched saying "YOU are my daughter, I want YOU to come with me", humbles me to the point of getting down and flat-faced, releasing it ALL to him. Then in the next breath putting on a great set of music while singing and dancing in all-out praise glorifying my Father for all he has given as well as taken away. I can't help but be in awe. I praise you Lord, I bless your name. All the glory and honor to you Abba Father. You are Almighty God, the solid rock in which I cling white-knuckled to. You are my only source of Truth, THE Living Water. Thank you for loving me. I praise you Lord!

In Christ,
K

The privilege of having our needs met day by day.

It's been a pretty fast-paced time since I last had the time to actually sit down and devote the needed time to write here. I've really missed it. What has been filling my days since as been wonderful, and muchly needed! I've fallen in love with the best ever!!! And continue to each and every day! The best part is that I KNOW this IS a 'forever' thing! Aren't you completely stoked for me?!! With no one else have I ever felt this loved and accepted - unconditionally - especially when I'm not the easiest person to be around, he's quite ok with that. Whether I'm on top of the world or in the lowest valley, he never wavers. I'm sure those reading this blog have met him already...and for those of you who haven't yet - he ROCKS! - and you really should get to know him! Those who do know him will agree, I'm quite sure of that! So now that I've got your curiosity peaked, I'll leave it at that :) Some may figure out who he is...will you be one of them?!

I'm not really 100% sure what I'm to blog today, but I do know that the Lord is doing a MIGHTY WORK. I just 'know' it....I can feel it - and it's an amazing feeling! While reading my Bible, I came across something a friend of mine had given to me a while ago that I thought was written very well, and so very true. It's in regards to something the Lord has put on my heart the past several months - discipleship. It's for us ALL...not just those who have been to seminary or who have studied theology. Praise the Lord he equips us with what we need at exactly where we are! May we all glorify his Kingdom while we remain here on this earth.
(I'm just going to start typing is out here, and we'll see if anything comes to mind to add afterwards.) Enjoy!

GOD IS AN INFINITE SOVEREIGN

During a difficult and traumatic year (1874), when he had seriously injured his back and had many lonely hours in which to think and pray, Hudson Taylor wrote these unusually challenging words - even for him. He was forty-two at the time, but the meditation, written in his own hand, was only found after his death. As Jim Broomhall has observed, the words 'opened a window on his soul, on the true Hudson Taylor who wanted to be like Christ, cost what it might':

'If God has called you to be really like Jesus in all your spirit, he will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put on you such demands of obedience that he will not allow you to follow other Christians; and in many ways he will seem to let other good people do things that he will not let you do. Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires and work schemes to carry out their schemes, but you cannot do it; and if you attempt it, you will meet such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent. Other may brag on themselves, on their work, on their success, on their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to say any such thing; and if you begin it, he will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.

'Others may be allowed to succeed in making money, but it is likely God will keep you poor, because he wants you to have something far better than gold, and that is a helpless dependence on him, that he may have the privilege (the right) of supplying your needs day by day out of an unseen treasury. The Lord will let others be honoured and put forward, and keep you hidden away in obscurity, because he wants some choice fragrant fruit for his coming, glory which can be produced in the shade. He will let others do a work for him and get the credit for it, but he will let you work and toil on without (others) knowing how much you are doing; and then to make your work still more precious, he will let others get the credit for the work you have done, and this will make your rewards ten times greater when Jesus comes.

'The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for the little words or feelings or for wasting your time, over which other Christians never seem distressed. So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign and has a right to do as he pleases with his own, and he may not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in his dealing with you. He will take you at your word and when you absolutely sell yourself to be his slave, he will wrap you up in a jealous love and let other people say and do many things which he will not let you say or do.

'Settle it for ever that you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, and that he is to have the privilege of tying your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways that he does not deal with others. Now when you are so possessed with the living God that you are in the secret heart pleased and delighted over the peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of Heaven.'

YES AND AMEN! That last paragraph....sigh...there's just no words to describe! I'll just say, with tears in my eyes and joy overflowing in my heart, I'VE FOUND MY EVERYTHING!!...

K