May God bless you with a restlessdiscomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truthboldly and lovedeep within your heart.
May God bless you with holyanger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may tirelessly work for justice, freedom, and peace among all people.
May God bless you with the gift of tears to shed with those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, or the loss of all that they cherish, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and transform their pain into joy.
May God bless you with enough foolishnesstobelieve that you really CAN make a difference in this world, so that you are able, with God's grace, to do what others claim cannot be done.
And the blessing of God the Supreme Majesty and our Creator,
Jesus Christ the Incarnate Word who is our brother and Saviour,
and the Holy Spirit, our Advocate and Guide,
be with you and remain with you, this day and forevermore.
Just stumbled upon this today. Didn't realize how blessed I am. Thank You Lord for Your blessings even those that don't appear to be blessings and thank You for Your Love, help me to rest in it and flow out of it coz apart from your Love I am nothing. Without You I can do nothing. I'm all weakness anyway. So yeah Lord, help me rest in You and then not to resist moving in the ways Your Love compells me to. Thanks Jesus! Amen. =)
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."-Joan of Arc.
I saw that quote yesterday and I decided to watch a youtube video to find out more about here. I watched a series of videos of Warrior Women- Joan of Arc. Check it out. It was super encouraging =) http://youtu.be/4anpGgBaMro
♫ I was staring at the sky today. Thinking back on when I was just a kid. 'Cause it seems I was more gentle then. Seems the world's traded me stone for skin. And I've tried and tried to fly But it's hard to wing away when you're weighed down
Oh mess that I am
Can You put me together again?...
Carry me high on the heights on the wings of the dawn
Lead me all the way to the place where You say I belong
'Cause You have the power to cover all my wrong
And present me as whole Only You can make me whole ♫
On Love by Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
p. 11
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
p. 11
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you
that you may know the secrets of your heart,
and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only
love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing floor,
Into the seasonless world where you
shall laugh, but not all of your laughter,
and weep, but not all of your tears.
p. 12
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself,
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed:
For love is sufficient unto love.
p. 13
When you love you should not say,
"God is in my heart," but rather,
"I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
p. 13
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; to return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
"Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds."-Jesus. (John 12: 24) -<3->
"If I ask to be delivered from a trial rather than for deliverance out of it, to the praise of His glory, If I forget that the way of the cross leads to the cross, and not to a bank of flowers, If I regulate my life on these lines, or even unconsciously my thinking, So that I am surprised when the way is rough, and think it strange, though the Word is "Think it not strange, count it all joy'. Then I know nothing of Calvarylove." -Amy Carmichael.
Cinderella: I've always wished for someone to come take me away from here.
Fairy
godmother: Cinderella if you want to get out of here you're gonna have
to do it yourself. The music's in you. Deep down in your soul. When you
find it. Nothing will be able to keep you from walking out that door.
Cinderella: You don't know my stepmother.
Fairy godmother: You wanna know what her problem is? She can't handle how fabulous you are!
Over the summer I was watching Cinderella 1997, the one Brandy acted in (it's all on youtube) and the above quote stuck out to me and spoke to my situation, my family's and the black community. Also at the beginning Cinderella sung the song, "Impossible" but later she sung a new song, "It's possible!" Then she watched all her dreams come true -> first her dream of going to the ball happened with the inspiration of her fairy godmother then later after some obstacles, her dream of marrying the prince came true.
"But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26) =)
Hey =) So I'm behind on sharing stuff again. I was busy and overwhelmed by a lot of things during session A (spiritual warfare. Stories later). But I'll get back in the hang of it this week. Just want to invite you to fast with me (and everyone else around the world who's fasting) this August. There's tons of reasons to fast and there's different kinds of fasts as well. I'm doing a Daniel fast. You can check out the links below and my previous posts on fasting. Also I want to work with other people this summer in organizing a group fast for like a day or three. I'll keep you posted! =)
After the Spring I was really burnt out and disappointed by my failures (how I failed to rest in God and to move in the way His Spirit lead me during the year. But God never gives up on us. We just need to pray and wait on Him to light the fire again. Letting go of the past and moving forward with His strength. It's hard for me to let go of the past... I was really struggling with that going into the summer. Thaddeus told me about this site: www.elijahlist.com/subscribe. I subscribed to it and I received a lot of encouragement and confimation from their emails. I copied and pasted one of them below.
♫ We are Your burning ones... We are consumed by You... We set our lives apart... We are consumed by You So let this love be like a fire. Let our life be like a flame. Fill our souls with Your desire. Let our passion bring You fame. ♫
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June 12, 2013
Last week God told me that He is pouring out "fresh oil" in this hour and the word He emphasized is "fresh" – meaning it's new. I know many in the Body are feeling out of their comfort zone right now because God is moving you into something new, bringing radical change, which usually means there's a faith walk involved.
Much of Eileen Fisher's words ministered and resonated inside of me, and there is one part in particular that I feel is for the majority right now: "You will come to know who you were called to be and why you are here."
I know He's speaking to many about this now, and a word like this comes with radical change as you'll read below. Some of you are going to walk into something so new and radical that it will be a sign to others to move forward as well. Your change will cause others to move into theirs.
When God moves you into something new – it's not always easy but necessary to walk into the fresh future and assignment He has for you. As you walk into the new, remember that He is faithful. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it (1 Thessalonians 5:24).
Make sure and share this word with others – it's a must read... and tell your friends to SUBSCRIBE to the Elijah List right here: www.elijahlist.com/subscribe.
The following corporate prophetic word was given by Eileen Fisher on April 23, 2013 during her weekly Prophetic School of the Holy Spirit meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
I heard the Lord say, "That is My desire also; to fall fresh on you. I don't bring stale manna. I want to give you freshness – fresh visions, fresh dreams, fresh anointing, fresh strength. I am not the day-old God. I'm the God of the Bread of Life. Fresh. Fresh. Fresh. Fresh. I'm throwing away stale visions. I'm throwing away stale dreams."
He said, "Fresh anointings; fresh visions; fresh work; fresh ideas; fresh of My presence; fresh provision; fresh understanding; fresh wisdom – freshness in My Word; freshness in My presence. Fresh. Fresh."
He said, "In My freshness, there is joy; there is strength; there is health; there is understanding; freshness of wind upon the gifts. Fresh – fresh relationships; fresh alignments; fresh agreement – fresh."
He said, "I am taking off the old that would pull you down, and I'm giving you the 'fresh' – this will bring you the strength to lift you up. I am causing circumstances to come down and freshness to arise."
He said, "Fresh bread rises up trying to reach its full potential. I am putting the 'yeast' in you tonight – the anointing of My presence. And I'm going to cause you to come to the heat of My Spirit, and the fire of My Spirit, and bring forth fresh manna. For you have baked in My presence, and My presence will come forth from a fresh heart," says the Lord your God.
The Lord said "I'm going to release a cloud over you right now. I'm going to dry your tears, for," He said, "I have seen your tears in secret and I want to heal your heart. Pain would bring torment; disappointment would bring depression. My Spirit bares life. Let My Spirit bare witness to your spirit that I have come to give you a new life. Old things have passed away, let them go. Let them go, so the freshness can come forth by My Spirit. For in Me there is life."
Radical Change
The following corporate prophetic word was given by Eileen Fisher on April 30, 2013 during her weekly Prophetic School of the Holy Spirit meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
The Lord says, "Breathe in My presence."
He said, "Let My presence breathe over you. For," He said, "just as I blew over My own, I caused the Spirit of the Lord to come upon them. He made a way where there seemed to be no way, and so today I will make a way where there is no way, for I am going to do a new thing.
"My Body is going to go through a radical change – radical change. It will be so radical that the world will know it is My Body, for Mine will be so set apart from the world that they will seem peculiar. For I am calling My own to come into holiness. I am calling My own to let go of the past, for what was, was.
"Many of My own are living as if... (CLICK HERE to finish reading).
"Many of My own are living as if I have not risen, and they are tarrying in the garden, in the tomb. For have they not yet heard the good news? I am seated in Heavenly places interceding for My own, I have sent My Spirit to empower them, I have sent My Spirit so that you would be sent out with power that would be fresh from on high, for I am about to bring down the old works of man. You will hear of crumble, after crumble, after crumble, for man is reaching from soul to soul. But My Spirit draws from spirit to Spirit.
"Cling to My Spirit, and let My Spirit cling to you. For in this you will find the fullness of joy. You will come to know who you were called to be and why you are here. For My Spirit is wooing you into a new assignment.Assignments of the old, let go; let men go about men's business. The assignments of the new – My Spirit will bring them forth in a fresh wind, for I am going to cause My wind to blow staleness off of My Bride. For she has been slumbered, and as she has been slumbering, there has been wave after wave after wave of apathy that has been causing her to slumber.
"I am going to address apathy in My Body, and I'm going to command it to bow its knee. I'm going to cause a holy zeal to rise up in the hearts of My own – to where their hearts will burn within them with a fresh fire. They will not look to one another, but they will look to Me, and only to Me, for they will come forth with contagious fire in their eyes, contagious fire in their hearts, contagious fire in their feet and their hands. And what they put their hand to, so My fire shall set ablaze, for I am calling My own to be fire starters.
"For I will say the world is going to become colder and colder toward the Good News, but My people are going to become the burning bush. They will be ablaze with the presence of My Spirit. They will be ablaze with the warmth of My love. They will be ablaze with the vision that I will plant deep within their spirit. When they look at man's vision, it will be something of the past, for they will come out of Egypt, and they will come to the mountain. And I will download their assignments, Spirit to spirit, and they will know it has been given by the hand of the Lord their God, for it will be written by My finger,"says the Lord your God.
The Good Shepherd Is About Your Business; He Has Not Left You Alone
The following corporate prophetic word was given by Eileen Fisher on May 14, 2013 during her weekly Prophetic School of the Holy Spirit meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
I heard the Lord say, "I am the Good Shepherd. I do know My sheep, and I call them by name. I am not the shepherd that comes and leads his sheep into confusion and doubt. I am not the shepherd that puts barbed wire in their thought life, nor upon their feet, to where they are misled. But I am the Shepherd of their soul; that heals their mind, their body, their soul, their spirit. I am the Shepherd that goes before them, but I am also the Shepherd that encircles them, and captivates their heart with My love.
"For," He said, "I am going to pour out My love upon you with 'renewness' – 'renewness' of your mind, My 'renewness' to where I come and renew you. The newness of faith, the newness of a thought life, newness in you, to where I said even in My Word, 'I have come that you may have abundant life,' and, 'I make all things new.'
"Some of you have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting. And you have cried out, and you have said 'Lord, where are You? Where are You?"'
He said, "As I was about My Father's business, so I am about your business. Do not think that I have left you alone, to mind your own business. I have not left you alone. I am bringing you unto Myself. I am taking the thorns off of you, to where I will put over you a crown of favor. To where the favor you will need will be the favor you will receive. To where you will walk, and you will walk with dignity, and security. And you will walk with hope that will no longer be deferred so that your heart becomes sick, but that you will walk in My hope, My new hope. For I will not have a hopeless people who will think they have a God of abandonment. For I have not abandoned My own; I have adopted My own.
Learn To Rest In His Goodness
"Learn to rest in My goodness. Learn My facets: I am good. I am kind. I am gentle. And I am long-suffering. For I have allowed some circumstances, even around you. And it has to cause others to grow. It is not to punish you. It is to test you – to show your own heart before Me, to where you could come closer and closer, because you will be drawn to Me out of necessity.
"I will take you any way I can get you. I will take you out of necessity, and I will take you out of abandonment. For I have taken you unto Myself. I have locked you away into My heart. And I will not allow the enemy to come, to badger, to torment, to accuse you, and to accuse Me.
"Command Me to come in as the Lion of Judah, to call those voices to be still and naught. Allow Me to come in as the Resurrected One to where death would try to come in and set up housekeeping; but My resurrection will come and turn over the tables, because of My glory.
"Call Me to come in as the One who multiplied the fishes and the loaves of bread. I am the One who will be a financier and multiplier for all of your needs. Know that I'm about to move upon My people. For My people are coming out of a season of dryness. For they have been in the wilderness because I have been dealing with hidden sin. Not only in My own but in hidden places in the hearts of others.
If You Lay It Down, He Will Make It His Business
"Honor the free will of man, as I too have chosen to honor the free will of man. For I say to you, your free will will cause you to come closer to Me; just as other's free will will cause them to turn away and run.
"Choose Me. Lay down at My feet, right now, what you are carrying. Lay it down. Lay it down. As you have laid it down, I have picked it up. It will become My business. Give Me time. My ways are not your ways. Yes, they are higher. But I have seen your tears; I have seen your pain; I have seen the betrayal, and the hurt. But I am also the Eternal One who heals the hearts of His own.
"Give Me your heart, so I can start from the inside out. For I will take a stony heart – for it's been hardened and hardened by the world, by disappointment. It became hard to protect itself from pain. Let Me take your heart. Let Me cause it to become flesh, where it can beat again in My presence with love."
"Cling to My Spirit, and let My Spirit cling to you. For in this you will find the fullness of joy. You will come to know who you were called to be and why you are here. For My Spirit is wooing you into a new assignment.Assignments of the old, let go; let men go about men's business. The assignments of the new – My Spirit will bring them forth in a fresh wind, for I am going to cause My wind to blow staleness off of My Bride. For she has been slumbered, and as she has been slumbering, there has been wave after wave after wave of apathy that has been causing her to slumber.
"For,"
"Call Me to come in as the One who multiplied the fishes and the loaves of bread. I am the One who will be a financier and multiplier for all of your needs. Know that I'm about to move upon My people.