Been having a lot of thoughts today as I'm reading friends posts on Fb.
As I look there is a common thread with complaints of single moms and single women all looking for the same thing. They want a relationship that is secure and stable and one where the man will take the responsibility to take care of them.
In some cases the answer is simple. Watch who you attract. If you want a relationship, be picky and don't let you emotions override what you want.
Do some things to improve yourself. Take a class if you can on something you enjoy and then if you have children, include them. Learning something will generally keep the dead beats away.
I know I'm being really opinionated today but when I do have a reference for this that will remain unnamed to protect their identity.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
New Journey
It may not be a new one, but still more of learning to seek His Heart. I'm coming off of one where for the past six weeks I've been trusting God in something, learning to walk on water so to speak and keeping my eyes on Jesus and walking in His footsteps across the wide body of water.
In it I learned so much and so many doors have opened because of learning to trust Him. Things over the past few decades that have been harboring my soul have been lifted mainly what was considered guilt and condemnation that I had buried deep had been removed and I've been learning to replace that with feeling of trust and regenerating feelings that were shoved out due to insecurities.
I'm in a study mode, and also making changing in my life style to better my health and life. (I will start adding things on my biggermess.blogspot.com blog that I'm doing in that area.
This however is the blog about my spiritual journey in seeking the heart of God. I'm in an online bible study http://onlineschoolofprayer.webs.com/ and learning more about being a prayer warrior.
A few months ago I heard in my spirit that my assignment was to be a pray warrior for the thing of the church, in other words a Maid of Honor to the Bride so to speak (there are several in the category). This study is helping me in learning how to pray God's heart for His Bride. There are so many things He desires for Her!
Something that was said to me recently was that some don't hear God like I do. God talks to us all the time. At a conference a year or so ago I felt as if God had been saying the same things over and over again over our lives and yet we only get bits and pieces of it because we are not at a level to comprehend it fully. Like an infant who as they grow first crawls then walks and continues to learn new things as they continue on with their curiosity. Its the same with us. The more we learn and get closer to Him the more He will reveal to us. He talks to us all the time. We just are learning how to listen!
We are each made in His image, and keep in mind His image is many facets, which means that the way am seeking His heart may not work for you. God has so many different personalities that it makes since that what one does to seek His heart won't work for others.
Its like when my daughter gives gift to her dad she knows what will bless her father's heart. For me she knows what will bless mine. God is the same way.
This is a short version of what I've learned in the past six weeks. But God is good. And I'll share more.
In it I learned so much and so many doors have opened because of learning to trust Him. Things over the past few decades that have been harboring my soul have been lifted mainly what was considered guilt and condemnation that I had buried deep had been removed and I've been learning to replace that with feeling of trust and regenerating feelings that were shoved out due to insecurities.
I'm in a study mode, and also making changing in my life style to better my health and life. (I will start adding things on my biggermess.blogspot.com blog that I'm doing in that area.
This however is the blog about my spiritual journey in seeking the heart of God. I'm in an online bible study http://onlineschoolofprayer.webs.com/ and learning more about being a prayer warrior.
A few months ago I heard in my spirit that my assignment was to be a pray warrior for the thing of the church, in other words a Maid of Honor to the Bride so to speak (there are several in the category). This study is helping me in learning how to pray God's heart for His Bride. There are so many things He desires for Her!
Something that was said to me recently was that some don't hear God like I do. God talks to us all the time. At a conference a year or so ago I felt as if God had been saying the same things over and over again over our lives and yet we only get bits and pieces of it because we are not at a level to comprehend it fully. Like an infant who as they grow first crawls then walks and continues to learn new things as they continue on with their curiosity. Its the same with us. The more we learn and get closer to Him the more He will reveal to us. He talks to us all the time. We just are learning how to listen!
We are each made in His image, and keep in mind His image is many facets, which means that the way am seeking His heart may not work for you. God has so many different personalities that it makes since that what one does to seek His heart won't work for others.
Its like when my daughter gives gift to her dad she knows what will bless her father's heart. For me she knows what will bless mine. God is the same way.
This is a short version of what I've learned in the past six weeks. But God is good. And I'll share more.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The wedding dinner will be ready soon
Come, I'm inviting you to a feast! You are welcome to come into my House, sit and talk with others that reside here, however I have House rules you must follow in order to enter into my Dining Room. You may come as you are and you can choose to shower in your own home, but your shower is not not going to remove all the dirt off of you that will keep my Dining Room spotless. I have a special Powder Room for you to clean up in and also new clothes for you to wear.
You are welcome to move about my House, but I've set up my House Rules for a reason. I will not let them be defiled again. That's why I put in the Powder Room that I did. It was a hard decision as it required the work of My Son to install it, but I'm glad I did. I want a relationship with you and as you can see I have that relationship with others through out My House because they have prepared themselves by following the House Rules.
Once I open the doors to my Dining room, I can't let you in as you are. This is as far as you can go. You have to accept what I've written as My House Rules in order to enter.
You say that I don't love you if I don't change them. Or you take out of My House rules to comply to your own way of thinking, doesn't change what I've already written. They are My rules and they are written on My Heart and the hearts of those that choose to follow them. They have hidden them in their hearts once they have entered into the Powder Room.
Soon I will open the doors to the Dining Room but I will then have to ask you to leave if you don't choose to abide by My House Rules. Its the way I've declared it to be. You have a decison to make. If you abide by My House Rules you may enter in and abide with Me because you know My heart. If you choose not to abide by My House Rules, the things of the Dining Room if I let you in as you are now with out taking a shower in My Powder Room, you will defile all that I have prepared for those that have followed My House Rules and what good will they be?
I can let you in to My House as you are, but I can't let you in my Dining Room until you wash in My Powder Room. As much as it pains me do make this declaration, I must. But make your decision soon as I will be opening the doors soon, and I want you to join me.
You are welcome to move about my House, but I've set up my House Rules for a reason. I will not let them be defiled again. That's why I put in the Powder Room that I did. It was a hard decision as it required the work of My Son to install it, but I'm glad I did. I want a relationship with you and as you can see I have that relationship with others through out My House because they have prepared themselves by following the House Rules.
Once I open the doors to my Dining room, I can't let you in as you are. This is as far as you can go. You have to accept what I've written as My House Rules in order to enter.
You say that I don't love you if I don't change them. Or you take out of My House rules to comply to your own way of thinking, doesn't change what I've already written. They are My rules and they are written on My Heart and the hearts of those that choose to follow them. They have hidden them in their hearts once they have entered into the Powder Room.
Soon I will open the doors to the Dining Room but I will then have to ask you to leave if you don't choose to abide by My House Rules. Its the way I've declared it to be. You have a decison to make. If you abide by My House Rules you may enter in and abide with Me because you know My heart. If you choose not to abide by My House Rules, the things of the Dining Room if I let you in as you are now with out taking a shower in My Powder Room, you will defile all that I have prepared for those that have followed My House Rules and what good will they be?
I can let you in to My House as you are, but I can't let you in my Dining Room until you wash in My Powder Room. As much as it pains me do make this declaration, I must. But make your decision soon as I will be opening the doors soon, and I want you to join me.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
God's temple is us on earth as it is in Heaven-Kingdom thinking
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a PRICE: THEREFORE glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which ARE God's.
Why do we forget this? I don't mean this in the manner of eating and being healthy which that is also another aspect of letting God use our bodies.
But we neglect to keep it a Holy place for Him when we use it for things of the world. When we rely on relationships that are more of a physical nature outside of the boundries of what God intended in His word, we are not living under Kingdom principles as we may think, even though we are trusting in Him.
He wants what He is residing in to be kept pure and Holy for His purpose. We have been bought with a price of Christ's death on a Cross. The things of the world can not partake of our bodies when we are asking Christ to reside in us. It isn't going happen.
God created us for His pleasure and for His fellowship. To put it bluntly keep in mind that when satan was trying to give Christ the kingdom of earth, it was only in his hands until Christ took it from him at His resurrection. satan is decieving us into thinking he still has it, but Christ took it over. Therefore, its is in Christ's hands not satans. However, when we sin we have turned our backs on Christ and what He has done for us. Our bodies can not live in the Kingdom of Heaven with sin on its heart. We are the ones that make the choice to reign with God and fellowship with Him fully with all we have of ourselves as a pure spotless bride.
And to be a pure spotless Bride we need to keep our bodies pure for Him, and live under the guidlines of His Word, as they are written as a guide in living in the Kingdom.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a PRICE: THEREFORE glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which ARE God's.
Why do we forget this? I don't mean this in the manner of eating and being healthy which that is also another aspect of letting God use our bodies.
But we neglect to keep it a Holy place for Him when we use it for things of the world. When we rely on relationships that are more of a physical nature outside of the boundries of what God intended in His word, we are not living under Kingdom principles as we may think, even though we are trusting in Him.
He wants what He is residing in to be kept pure and Holy for His purpose. We have been bought with a price of Christ's death on a Cross. The things of the world can not partake of our bodies when we are asking Christ to reside in us. It isn't going happen.
God created us for His pleasure and for His fellowship. To put it bluntly keep in mind that when satan was trying to give Christ the kingdom of earth, it was only in his hands until Christ took it from him at His resurrection. satan is decieving us into thinking he still has it, but Christ took it over. Therefore, its is in Christ's hands not satans. However, when we sin we have turned our backs on Christ and what He has done for us. Our bodies can not live in the Kingdom of Heaven with sin on its heart. We are the ones that make the choice to reign with God and fellowship with Him fully with all we have of ourselves as a pure spotless bride.
And to be a pure spotless Bride we need to keep our bodies pure for Him, and live under the guidlines of His Word, as they are written as a guide in living in the Kingdom.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Things that happen while learning to walk in Kingdom pathways
For the past three years our church has been going through Wellsprings Ministries out of Anchorage Ak. Its a powerful teaching of breaking off strongholds in your life that some go back to even grade school where we've taken on things in our personalities like a passive agressive personality when we we not taught how react to the situation due to other circumstances.
I have been working on changing this part of my personality for a long time. Its tough when you start to realize that at times when you didn't have a strong voice to speak out when things were coming at you because of either how you were raised that you were seen and not heard or other things along the lines. After I learned that I needed to fogive those that didn't let me speak out when I was hurt, scared or even times when I knew I was right in something but retreated, another part of me emerged. I didn't know that what would emerge would now be a personality that would lash out when I was confronted.
I am learning now to humble myself in apoligizing for those times that arise. That's another Kingdom trait is humility.
We are sometimes so sure that we have to be right all the time that we forget that humility gets us further in our journey then pride does. Pride keeps us locked outside the gates where we see joy and love and all the other fruits of the Spirits that we desire, but we can't admit that we were wrong.
Humility unlocks the Gates of Heaven to let Love invite you in. Pride will keep you outside of the gate.
I have been working on changing this part of my personality for a long time. Its tough when you start to realize that at times when you didn't have a strong voice to speak out when things were coming at you because of either how you were raised that you were seen and not heard or other things along the lines. After I learned that I needed to fogive those that didn't let me speak out when I was hurt, scared or even times when I knew I was right in something but retreated, another part of me emerged. I didn't know that what would emerge would now be a personality that would lash out when I was confronted.
I am learning now to humble myself in apoligizing for those times that arise. That's another Kingdom trait is humility.
We are sometimes so sure that we have to be right all the time that we forget that humility gets us further in our journey then pride does. Pride keeps us locked outside the gates where we see joy and love and all the other fruits of the Spirits that we desire, but we can't admit that we were wrong.
Humility unlocks the Gates of Heaven to let Love invite you in. Pride will keep you outside of the gate.
Monday, March 4, 2013
What it means to be a Kingdom seeker
I'm a Kingdom seeker.
I have always loved the whole idea of castles and kingdoms and how they work and in this journey have been learning how The Bible is a book on Kingdom.
Its another one of those life long journeys that you get on and the more you seek what is in God's kingdom and what He established in Heaven is to also be on earth.
When we come to know Christ, we have begun our own journey in seeking the Kingdom and discovering its lifestyle of peace, joy, long suffering, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Anything less then this is not Kingdom accessible.
Have you ever noticed that when you do something out of the kindness of your heart for someone, it begins to spread? That is true kingdom kindness. Some may take advantage of the situation, and try to gossip and back stab you but one of the key rules of being in the Kingdom is to be dead to yourself. Once you achieve this you conquered a great wall that hinders us from seeing into the Kingdom fully as to how the situation you are in is playing out in heaven.
In the Kingdom just doing one thing that is from the Fruits of the Holy Spirit can change an entire atmosphere. It lines up with the things in Heaven and it does play out here on earth. However because of the things of this earth are not the things in Heaven, it takes time. But when you are obedient to what God calls you to do on earth, its taking place in Heaven.
For example, restoring a relationship that has been broken. On earth we have a tendency to do things our own way, looking out for ourselves and trying to do it all on our own. However once you put the relationship into Heaven and build a altar to the Lord, the selfishness gets burned off and its restored in the Heaven. It takes time on earth for it to be restored, but in Heaven its done and it is being completed on the earth. We can see into Heaven what is taking place and because of the fruits that we are walking in it will be restored on the earth.
Being a Kingdom seeker is all about faith. That's how it works. We have to walk in faith on the earth for things to manifest itself first in Heaven and to come down to earth. Because of the way we see things in other relationships that don't know how to seek the Kingdom we will tend to follow in their footsteps. That's why we have to have faith and diligently seek the Kingdom through God's word. God will show us what to do because He is about relationships. That's why God sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins. Because the things of this world that have entangled us have separated us from Him. Christ brought back to us the Kingdom lifestyle while He was walking the earth and gave us access when He took our sins with Him on the cross. His resurrection opened the doors for us to walk into Kingdom principles.
For more information on Kingdom check out Myles Munro videos as he talks about the Kingdom and its protocol.
Learn how to walk in Kingdom and be a Kingdom seeker. Its a fun place to explore!
I have always loved the whole idea of castles and kingdoms and how they work and in this journey have been learning how The Bible is a book on Kingdom.
Its another one of those life long journeys that you get on and the more you seek what is in God's kingdom and what He established in Heaven is to also be on earth.
When we come to know Christ, we have begun our own journey in seeking the Kingdom and discovering its lifestyle of peace, joy, long suffering, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Anything less then this is not Kingdom accessible.
Have you ever noticed that when you do something out of the kindness of your heart for someone, it begins to spread? That is true kingdom kindness. Some may take advantage of the situation, and try to gossip and back stab you but one of the key rules of being in the Kingdom is to be dead to yourself. Once you achieve this you conquered a great wall that hinders us from seeing into the Kingdom fully as to how the situation you are in is playing out in heaven.
In the Kingdom just doing one thing that is from the Fruits of the Holy Spirit can change an entire atmosphere. It lines up with the things in Heaven and it does play out here on earth. However because of the things of this earth are not the things in Heaven, it takes time. But when you are obedient to what God calls you to do on earth, its taking place in Heaven.
For example, restoring a relationship that has been broken. On earth we have a tendency to do things our own way, looking out for ourselves and trying to do it all on our own. However once you put the relationship into Heaven and build a altar to the Lord, the selfishness gets burned off and its restored in the Heaven. It takes time on earth for it to be restored, but in Heaven its done and it is being completed on the earth. We can see into Heaven what is taking place and because of the fruits that we are walking in it will be restored on the earth.
Being a Kingdom seeker is all about faith. That's how it works. We have to walk in faith on the earth for things to manifest itself first in Heaven and to come down to earth. Because of the way we see things in other relationships that don't know how to seek the Kingdom we will tend to follow in their footsteps. That's why we have to have faith and diligently seek the Kingdom through God's word. God will show us what to do because He is about relationships. That's why God sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins. Because the things of this world that have entangled us have separated us from Him. Christ brought back to us the Kingdom lifestyle while He was walking the earth and gave us access when He took our sins with Him on the cross. His resurrection opened the doors for us to walk into Kingdom principles.
For more information on Kingdom check out Myles Munro videos as he talks about the Kingdom and its protocol.
Learn how to walk in Kingdom and be a Kingdom seeker. Its a fun place to explore!
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Another wake up call
2013 started out with making some new changes in my relationship with my husband and also in learning to accept the person that he sees and as God sees.
Earlier this week,while I was doing something I felt this yearning to think back to high school when there were things I would do like others my age in as far as dressing and make up and such. I remember how self-conscience I was during that time because I felt I would never be able to stand up to the mocking and such as I was learning.
This week God showed me that it was my right as a young woman to take care of the person that He created. I had fought for years because I had taken on the things that were said that make up wouldn't help that the ways I was taking care of who I was then I laid aside.
Over the years I still kept fighting a healthy lifestyle because in the back of my mind I felt "what did it matter?" I didn't know that it was still something that I was fighting in me for most of my life.
I have seen that God is waking me up to rise up to be the woman He created. That even though the teen years were just that, teen years. It truly doesn't declare or decree the person that God had created in me. Not that I hung on to those things, but it had been going since that time and buried deep into my inner being.
Working with DAG and Days for Girls and the things we are teaching the young girls to be women of purpose for God and for their country I've been more aware how this area if my life is changing. Its a good change.
Earlier this week,while I was doing something I felt this yearning to think back to high school when there were things I would do like others my age in as far as dressing and make up and such. I remember how self-conscience I was during that time because I felt I would never be able to stand up to the mocking and such as I was learning.
This week God showed me that it was my right as a young woman to take care of the person that He created. I had fought for years because I had taken on the things that were said that make up wouldn't help that the ways I was taking care of who I was then I laid aside.
Over the years I still kept fighting a healthy lifestyle because in the back of my mind I felt "what did it matter?" I didn't know that it was still something that I was fighting in me for most of my life.
I have seen that God is waking me up to rise up to be the woman He created. That even though the teen years were just that, teen years. It truly doesn't declare or decree the person that God had created in me. Not that I hung on to those things, but it had been going since that time and buried deep into my inner being.
Working with DAG and Days for Girls and the things we are teaching the young girls to be women of purpose for God and for their country I've been more aware how this area if my life is changing. Its a good change.
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