I feel like I haven't blogged in years. But, I'm back! Honestly guys, I just want to share my heart with you and where I've been with the Lord and where I am now, and just things that are in my heart.
To begin with, God is awesome. There's times in life where we feel far, and we feel that God is far away from us. The truth is, we control the weather in our spiritual realm. We are the sons and daughters of the most high King, we have his spiritual DNA in us. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7) One thing I love is that we serve a God who is all these things,love, power, and WISDOM. When we begin friendship with the Holy Spirit and we take time out of our lives to get to know Him, He showers us with love and wisdom. "What do I do in this situation of my life?" Ask the Holy Spirit. He is there to guide us into all truth and understanding. The Holy Spirit is sweet and a gentleman, he comes inside of us and works deeply and gently. Since he guides us into all truth, He WILL be honest and straight forward, ha! Only because He is our friend and counselor. His words shake and stir our hearts on the inside. When the Holy Spirit speaks to you, He speaks in the way that's best fitting for who you are. Thank God! Always there to help, and never to discourage.
We need to have faith, and truly walk in it. Believe me, I know it's hard, sometimes I feel like I don't even know what's up or down. God has given me the spirit or power to prophesy over myself that things will get better, because they WILL. When we are in the center of the glory of God, the only person who can take you out, is YOU.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. (Psalm 84:11 NIV)
When we are under God's shield and will, he bestows favor and honor over us. We have everything we need under His shelter, when things get tough, will we just run out and see what the world can offer us? Or trust in Jesus and have faith that He is who he says He is?
People have their own views of God, I love viewing God as my daddy. Because that's what He is. He's loving and protective, and watches out for me. One passage of scripture I love is Romans 8: 26 MSG!
"Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."
When we don't even know what to say or think, God's spirit is already praying for us, because He knows us better than anyone, He is our loving creator, He's El Roi, He sees us for who we are, and loves us, with the good, the bad, and the ugly. He wants us to be honest in our worship, and live our lives loving on Him, and growing in friendship. God trusts his friends with His lovely secrets.
"God-friendship is for God-worshipers; They are the ones he confides in."(Psalm 25:14 MSG)
This verse changed my perspective, and its self-explanatory. When your friends with someone, you take time to hang out with them, and you share your heart, you laugh with them, you cry with them; That's what we need to do with the Holy Spirit. He's always there and longs to hear our stories, and about our heartbreaks, and our every-day things, because He wants to be in it, He wants to get into the middle of everything, ha! The good thing about the Holy Spirit is that every time He gets in the middle of the situation, He can't make things worse, He only makes them better! The Lord loves when we trust in him, because when we truly devote our lives to him and identify ourselves as children of God, He begins to trust US. Can you believe that such a beautiful, and perfect God would tell us His secrets from heaven?! It's mind blowing.
"My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?" (Galations 5: 16-18)
The Holy Spirit really just moved inside of me when I read this. So much of this relates to even me. We cannot be selfish, and that's such a natural thing for the human to want to be. That's the kind of society we live in. The thing is, part of God's character is a giver, He GAVE His one and only son so He could have friendship with me. Selfishness preserves for self, selflessness gives. If God is a giver, and His spirit lives inside of us, why are we not surrendering our lives? Why are we being selfish? When we learn to live being spirit-led, then we are truly being a little Christ. It hurts sometimes, but worship is this thing where we give to Him, but in return he fills us with His spirit, His love, His peace, His compassion, and everything we need. Just like God gave His son, but Jesus became the King of heaven and gave us eternal life. It's a two way thing. When we spin ourselves on Him, He gladly spins over us. He longs to be FOUND.
"God is stirring our hearts because He longs to be found." - Banning Liebscher
"He treated us as equals, and so made us equals. Through him we both share the same Spirit and have equal access to the Father." (Ephesians 2: 18 MSG)
We have the same access to the Father as Jesus did, it's just we need to seek Him in faith, even in our days where we don't feel Him, He is there. Don't give up on Him, he never gave up on you.
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name's sake. (Psalm 23: 1-3 NIV)
In the Father's heart, we have everything. He longs for us to jump into His could of glory and go away with Him. That's all He wants. He wants all of us freely because in return He gives us all of Him freely. In God's presence we are renewed, and crowns us with love and compassion (Psalm 103) Daddy-God wants to love you, and hold you, and share His secrets with you :) Just reach out him, because He is already reaching out His mighty hand to you.
