You Are Worthy of It All

 Hello my Father how are you ? 

MY Son, it is good to hear from you again it has been a while

I apologize for my absence, I have allowed myself to become distracted. I have missed you too. My Father I have been long in doing this because of so many reasons but the biggest is the one you know about. It is from my time at that other church and how my family was split in two. It hurt so much. They were my family...

I know my son and they are my family too, they are all my family, my sons and daughters and it hurts me so to see them not get along, to not behave and to not Hear each other. This is why I want to speak with you, it is about your healing. Has it been enough time that has passed that we can look at this together? 

Yes please my Father I would like that and I need you in this.

Tell me about what still hurts you, tell me about the open wound and how is it to be healed? 

Now my Father the pain of separation has been traded with pain of years gone by and pain of those who have passed on into your kingdom. The friends and their families whom I will not see until we are together in your house. I miss them so and I miss that period in my life when it felt as though you were opening up a door for me and making room for me at your table. So much growth went on there and so much revelation and I was in awe of it all. I was being accepted for who I was and what I could offer. The separation was like a closing of a door in heaven and I couldn't bear the hardest rejection of all. To possibly have the door of heaven, the blessings you poured out on me, stop and I be told I was too much this or too much that or not enough. Rejection Father from you is the deepest cut my heart could receive and I hurt for years and I cried for years and I cry now as I write this post. I know now that you did not and have not rejected me and that your tender heart is still soft for my love as your son. Dear Father I know time cannot be replaced and nor should it be because what lies behind is gone and in the dust but it is about what lies in front of me now is what I should be fixed upon. Father I feel as though I am starting all over again and I look at John and he has had to start over so many times and he just sees it for what it is, a time period gone and what is it that You have put before him? Such a loyal and loving son you have in John. 

Yes, John is one of my favorites but you are all my favorites 😄            

My Father I will end here but only for this letter, I will need to do this slow but I will do it. I want to be back where you had me (my mind still wants what was) but I see now I am to leave what was and embrace You in what lies before me. Father make me new again please? Father, what should I do and what should I say? Thank you Father for not closing that door on my heart. I love you. 

Are You a Cooking Pot or a Car Tire?

 Good morning one and all, this morning my angel of inspiration woke me with a word, refine....refinement...to cleanse and to clean up, to warm with the heat of pressure and circumstance. These are my short definitions but you are welcome to insert your own. 

At times people will use the word, "test" because we see it written and used in the Bible and it is a good word to describe a process which involves putting something through experiments of tinsel strength, of durability and use over and over to prove its loyalty to the user. But dare I state here when it comes to human beings, something of flesh and blood, bone and marrow that we need to quantify what the Holy Spirit works inside of us with a different term. Something more gentle, "gentle?" Yes. We are not a pair of shoes nor are we a kitchen pot, we are a lovingly formed creature developed within the palm of the Potter's hand. We are not a tire on a car or a shovel in a coal mine, we are people with hearts and with minds and a will and a soul. The Father's word tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, in today's vernacular we are complicated. I have a few scripture quotes to add here;

Ecclesiasticus chapter 2 verse 5

. 5For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity

1 Peter chapter 1 verse 7

 7so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Zechariah chapter 13 verse 9

9This third I will bring through the fire;

I will refine them like silver

and test them like gold.

They will call on My name,

and I will answer them.

I will say, ‘They are My people,’

and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’ ”

You may think I am cherry picking the Word but I seek to save time and to show that either in the Hebrew scriptures (old testament) or in the New Testament the term refinement is used and God's intent is not contingent upon our behavior but upon His promise. In an agreement there are two parties and both agree to do something for the other, there is an exchange. For a person who invites Christ Jesus into their heart to live there forever more Jesus states to us in the gospel of John that wherever He is invited along with the one who sent Him they will come and abide there and the three shall become one. If you called upon Jesus in your hour of need and you were sincere then He took you at your word and He and the Father have come to dwell with you in your heart and they love it there but they have noticed some spring cleaning needs to be done thus the necessity for the refining. You see they like the house but they don't care for the junk furniture you picked up along the road of your life and they are opening the door to your soul and the pressure you feel is them shoving those big ugly pieces out the door of your soul and shoving it to the curb. 

Finally in closing I leave you will the book of James, chapter 1 verse 2

2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Life brings along its own trials amen? Some we willingly walk into and other situations are brought upon us by outside agents but nevertheless we find ourselves undergoing "Refinement" amen? 

Remember, jewelers refine precious stones and precious metals.

You are worth much much more to God than a watch or a neckless, you are worth much more than any of that and He wants to show you off out of love that He has for you . You are being refined, remember that.

September 11, 2021

A word given to me from the Lord
two years ago and now I 
believe it is time to share

 

Are You For Truth?

Are you for dignity and independence?

Are you wanting to be free to go where needed to serve those who are desperate? I need committed people, men and women, all ages, nations and classes. I need souls who will run toward the cries of the poor. 

Are you ready for a challenge that few will accept, few would dare to trod where you will go but those in need will hold you dear. Are you ready to join my resistance? 

I resist loneliness and hunger, I resist disconnection and alienation from my love, I AM.... The Resistance

On the cross I resisted failure for the sake of the whole world.