Thursday, September 19, 2013

Good morning and happy Thursday. I'm not sure who God is talking to today, but I know they will hear this. A few years ago I was going to a meeting in Pueblo Co. and the radio doesn't work out in some parts. So listening to a cd a song came on. "You're Still Here Waiting". Well it's been in my head all night and it's message is today's. It's about how we find ourselves feeling ashamed of what we have done and feel out of the light of God and can't go back to Him. The devil does this to us so we won't. It's an old message, one that's been heard before but it needs to be kept going. We have never walked too far or sinned too much for God not to meet us right where we stand. If we've taken a million steps from where we were before with Him, it only takes one to come Home. Just turn around. Just turn around. JUST TURN AROUND. He has walked with you the whole way and He's standing there waiting right behind you. He doesnt want you to have to walk back down that road again just to get back to Him. As He walked along in His Holiness, the path was made clean. Your past is gone and He's waiting for you to have a new road ahead. The choice is yours and yours alone. So when you begin to make that turn to God, the devil will ring your phone, send you a text, ring the door bell or alert you to a new email. Don't answer it. Go Home. We have found ourselves feeling ashamed of what we've done to hurt our Father. Don't let the devil have that victory in your life. Just turn around and go Home where you belong. You feel it deep inside and you know it's right. Just go Home. Everything will be made right. God can do anything, and He's bought us all with the price of His Son's life. You're not a cheap trinket. You're a valuable jewel, worth the blood of the King of Kings. Do not let anyone tell you different. If you find yourself just a few little steps from where you know you should be. Just pray and go back inside the House. We're all sinners, all of us. None better or worse than the other. It's easy and hard at the same time, depending on where you are to admit our shortcomings but it must be done. You will be stronger and it will be easier and life does get better, not perfect but better. He's still there waiting. In love always. <><

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Good morning and happy Wednesday. I just love my little dogs. They are so funny. But what they really are is loyal and loving unconditionally. Think about your relationships over the years, the good and the bad. They've had conditions of some kind. Very few have sustained themselves on the premise of unconditional. Not only do we do this with our friends and family, but we do this with God as well. "Oh God if you can just get me through this I will never do this again". Really? What does it feel like to be giving and loving to someone unconditionally and they don't reciprocate? Well, that's how we must be making God feel. But unlike us, He has a heart of true forgiveness. He forgets about it and does not hold it over you. Oh, the consequences of the choice you made will still be there, that's so you can learn from it, but God will get past it when you give it to Him and let Him. Our past is what we and others hold against each other. With that in mind, knowing my own past, I guess there are plenty of things to hold against me. That's the devils biggest and most powerful weapon against us. The crazy thing is, it's the easiest to defeat. God is God and nothing is more powerful than Him. He wants to fight for us, and does when we let Him. Say that again, when we LET Him. Yes, He's not gonna do anything on your behalf if you're not letting Him into your heart and surrendering your life to Him so that He can take care of you. The world can't see this and doesn't want to. That's why you'll be " persecuted for His name". To that I say, welcome Jesus freak. Unconditional love, so easy a dog can do it. Try it for yourself and see what happens. I dare ya. I double dog dare ya. In love always. <>< 

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Good morning and happy Tuesday. What and why don't I hear the voice of God?  I've never heard heard God talk to me. I think people who say they "hear" God talk to them are crazy. How many of you feel that way?  How many of you have heard some of that? Do you have an answer? Yeah, me either really. I know that God speaks to us in many ways. It's when we have that relationship with Him, that we know what it sounds and looks like. Our conscience we hear say "don't do that", God?  Satan? Self?  How well do you know the voice of God? He talks to us all the time. It's not the big flash of light and burning bush with the booming voice either. He wants us in relationship with each other. We've talked about that before, but the relationship with Him is the most important thing we can have. It's everything. Without it we can't hear Him through the Holy Spirit who dwells inside us. In the same way Jesus did not want to be out of the presence of God on the cross that day, is the same way we should be feeling about our closeness to Him. It's a must. It's the very cornerstone of the life He has for us. When we leave our old ways behind us and put on our new creation, we have laid that very stone. The problem is we forget about it has we build this new place in our walk with God. The place we're building becomes our focus. We have to always go back to the core, the cornerstone of our faith in Him. Never forget what really matters and keep it out front, everything else will take care of itself. Lean in close to Him and hear God speak over you. Remember, there is nothing He can't do. Nothing He can't use to reach you right were are. It's never too late and we're never too far. Covet that relationship with Him and never let it go. He has never let you go, and never will. In love always. <><