God is Looking At You

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Pray for the country of Mali

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You Gave, Now Be Ready to Receive

God put me through a study today of receiving “pressed down, shaken together and running over …men pouring things into my bosom”. Look! If you want to Give – and you do, and you want to Give as Christ leads – and you do, then you better be ready to receive. Because here it comes.

Luke 6 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

As many of you know God has had me on this faith walk in which He told me to quit my job and walk on through life trusting Him to provide everything for me. He has. Of course Satan has been messin’ with me and I have no home, car, money…but God is blessing me abundantly with everything I need and there is always somewhere for me to live and definitely food to eat.

The walk and provisions come with Him putting me places where I am a blessing…you know like Elijah and the widow of Zarephath scenario. Along the way here lately, more and more and more people are giving me things. I was getting uncomfortable, but Father said I’d better get used to it. Since I had agreed to give up my life and do what He said do and therefore lost everything (doesn’t happen to every believer), I’d better get very comfortable with receiving a lot of stuff ‘Man’ was going to (and is) pouring into my bosom. Get ready if you have allowed yourself to be led into the wilderness. Get ready if you have given up your life to follow Christ. Get ready. Heaven is open over your head and people are going to start pouring things into you bosom (your life). Get ready! It’s not always as easy to receive as you think. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable.

I Funny Thing Happened On the Way To This Blog

Oh my! I should have been blogging. Where is the year going. Look folks, you might have to keep up with the other blogs because by mistake I blogged on http://childrenswriter100.wordpress.com/ what I was supposed to blog here. Stuff about my post-abortion trauma healing session I’ve been in. Well not all about them, but starting to talk about them. Post Abortion Trauma! Ever heard about it? Me neither. Anyway it’s out there.

Well the Faith Journey continues and is certainly in the NOW. Living and Loving the now moment with the Lord. The design of the http://childrenswriter100.wordpress.com/ blog has changed and WordPress has changed alot of their designs and I was just about to change the design here, but then I discerned it again…and I like it. Driving in a tunnel, I love them, going round a bend and not knowing what will be around the bend. But the tunnel is lined in the color green. The color of money! The color of wealth.

We work for and live with an abundant Father who deals extravagantly with us! What we see as waste is extravagance for Him. He has plenty and so do we.

God laughs and jokes

God is encouraging me today to go on. To trust Him. To not turn back. The Lutheran pastor (Jeske) is talking about Jesus in the wilderness and how it seemed God was going too far to almost starve Jesus. At this point, I’ve been having little times of thinking this is just ridiculous. I need to get out of here. But God is saying wait. Let the SOLG do what He is supposed to be doing. He will do it well and thoroughly. Papa, wants me on His lap, NOW!!! Get there and stay there and snuggle down.

As I do I see how worried everyone around me is and how down they are. How attached to flesh and how hard they are trying to save themselves. I’m talking about Christians. Then I look at myself. With my size 18 stretch jeans, self

Excuse me if you can. I’ve lost about 50 lbs over this faith walk I’ve been on and was a size 22w.

Oh my! God has made me someone who has to always joke around and laugh with the truths of the gospel. God is hilarious, funny. God laughs a lot and jokes a lot and tickles us until we laugh. He is the Lord of the Dance and He wants us to laugh and dance and joke around. To tease. Come on Christians, we’re supposed to. Get with the joy of the Kingdom. Get used to it. There is going to be sooooo much laughter in Heaven. Get used to laughing down here.

Faith Journey Now

As I said this is the seventh blog, the Lord has told me to start and I think it may be the most important right now. Like many of you, I am on a wilderness journey and in this blog He is revealing how my journey looks. Hopefully, it will be an encouragement.

As I look back over the year, I’m relieved that those times have past and looking back they don’t seem that hard. Maybe that is the point of those times that stretch you. The next time you are confronted with them or situations like them, you don’t see it as so hard. It’s the change that comes over us, qualifying us to go on to the next leg of the journey.

Right now I’m in a situation where I’m living with people and they are taking care of me, just like the widow of Zarephath and Elijah. In fact she is a widow friend of mine. A dear friend. One who doesn’t totally understand why I’m going about things this way and isn’t sure this is really the Lord’s will, but she keeps on feeding and housing me. I wonder if anyone else is going through this. I would love to hear from you. I won’t blame you if you’re embarrassed that you are homeless at this time. I know how you feel, but choose to rejoice and praise God, knowing He has a purpose in this and Satan is not winning even though he might be grinning now.

Even with my friend’s care and acceptance I’ve been waking up in the morning struggling to keep myself on an even keel. To not feel like I’ve lost my mind, that Jesus is still with me, that I’m still in the will of the Father. Often I wake speaking in tongues and that’s a stabilizing force.

Today, however, the Lord said to me that I am free. I have the victory already. I’ve got the ball in this game and I can out run Satan because of Christ and get a touchdown and raise my arms in victory. I’m not under, but on top. I’m not beneath, but above. He says He will soon escort me out of this narrow place. He will not disgrace me. My naysayers will not have the last word. He will get the praise and glory. The kingdom will realize a good crop for God of souls saved and Christian’s encouraged. And He is letting me see some of this good crop for Him.

Recently, Holy Spirit said “you have endured the trauma of your change”. And truly I have. That tells me I’ve made it. It harps back to earlier this year, when I told the Lord I needed a full court ‘medical’ team around me in the spirit realm with all He was putting me through. And He said why do you think I have all these angels around you?

Be encouraged saints. The end and joy of the morning, is coming as in Job 42:11 – All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.”! That’s better than a pat on the back! Folks, be encouraged. Of course we know Job went on to have the Lord bless him so that the latter part of his life was more than the first.