Jehovah’s Covenant meets our Desires

 An encouragement to my sisters in Christ....guys will be edified as well.


November 24, 2010

This a a word that God inspired me to write in regard to the promises in Isaiah 54-55

Isaiah 54

If you have not seen your godly desires come to fruition, then God says "Sing; break forth into singing and cry aloud". This is the heart of worship that God wants to instill into your life. Praise and worship is healing ground in the kingdom of God. The act of worship calls forth God’s blessing from the heavens into this world of time and space. Worship is critical in aligning your heart to God’s will for your life.

God says that those who desire to walk in blessing should enlarge their vision; do not spare hope or faith. Have no fear or shame of your past or your present brokenness, because all has been forgiven and He will restore what the enemy has stolen beyond what you can measure. Praise your Father in heaven, because He has not forgotten His promise.

Here is the faith portion of the promise of blessing. You must step out into the promise. You must pray, believe, and act on the promise in whatever way God shows you. "All the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen . . ." (2 Corinthians 1:20)

He is your protector, provider, and husband. For a moment in your unbelief, you felt forsaken, but with great mercy He will gather you. There is no more rebuke, and His kindness shall never leave you. He will provide an abundant life overflowing in relational blessing in Him.

Those who have been oppressed and without peace, He will make your life a shining crown of glory to all who look on you; even the God’s natural creation will take notice. You will know that the righteousness of God is your foundation and rest in this fact.

The enemy will send his minions to threaten you, but these will fall because of your standard raised for His righteousness. The schemes of the enemy will not result in evil for your life, but God is sovereign and will deliver good to you from every evil scheme.

Isaiah 55

What you desire is always found in Him. No godly desire is fulfilled outside of life in the Father. When you thirst for intimacy, it is found in Him. When you thirst for romance, it is found in Him. All abundance comes from the Father, and He desires to fill you to overflowing regardless of your present state. He says "come and be filled". We are all empty when we come to His table, otherwise we wouldn’t have need of Him. There is no shame in this. "Let" your soul delight itself in abundance. "Hear" and your soul shall live.

Out of this abundant inner life, you will be sent to fulfill His will for you. You will go places spiritually and physically that you never knew were possible. Who you are today is vastly less than who God is making you to be. He will make quick work of these changes if you let him. People will come to you for shelter and understanding because of God’s blessing on your life; because He has glorified you.

If you have need of repentance, call on Him now while He is waiting for you. Forsake any evil thing in your life, and He will abundantly pardon. The world’s thinking sometimes seems harmless, but God’s ways are not the world’s. He is GOD and we should abide in holy fear of His awesome righteousness and powerful justice in all things.

Let His word abide in your heart, so that it may accomplish His will for your life. In this you will be joyful in all ways and ALL of God’s creation will reflect the glory that shines from your soul. You will essentially bring forth blessing in your world, because of that transaction of God’s life, living through you daily. His righteousness is revealed in and through you.

Should You Expend Energy Searching For A Husband?

How does a man find a great treasure; rubies, gold, and silver? A pearl of great price? He must have a vision of what he is looking for, a plan of how to get to the treasure site, the tools to mine for it, the faith and endurance to keep on course, the strength to dig deep or hammer into stone walls.  This is the man that you want pursuing you. The treasure does not seek the miner; it is always the other way around.

You must stay hidden in God until the right one recognizes your worth and comes mining for the treasure that only you possess. Your job is to recognize the man who God has sent; the one willing to put in the work required to prove his faithfulness to God and you.

Consider this: Eve did not have to look for Adam to be her mate. God delivered Eve as a perfect mate, without blemish, fully formed from the rib that God removed from Adam. When God delivered Eve to Adam, he recognized her as the missing piece from his body.

Neither man nor woman should be wasting time and money focusing on searching for a mate. Leave this to God to line up our daily path of service and abundant living, in order to present woman to man in due time.

Trinity Images and the Wounded Soul of Woman

We know from the word of God that He calls Himself our Father through the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, i.e. “Our Father, who art in heaven”. That in itself was revolutionary to Jews at the time. They had never heard that correlation of “Father”. In the same vein, Jesus described himself as the son of God. Surely Jesus wanted us to understand His and God’s role in this family unit for good reasons.

We know that the Trinity contains the person of God, the person of Jesus, and the person of the Holy Spirit. So, if God is the Father and Jesus is the son; could it be possible that the unidentified “Mother” is the Holy Spirit? It stands to reason that the Holy Spirit would be our image of mother in the spiritual; the comforter, the nurturer, the mystery. The Holy Spirit embodies wisdom, compassion, the quiet teacher, tenderness, ever-present helper, the path to deep knowledge, the breath of creativity, truth in action, and deliverer of God’s power.

Using this interpretation of the Trinity, how might we relate our brokenness and needed healing of self-image to God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and God the Son? If we know that God embodies all aspects of who we are, might we consider those aspects of God that relate directly to us as women for healing of self-image? By no means do I support the ideals of self-help and the constant introspection in Christians today that have led to the rampant neglect of actual service to the lost. What I do support is the renewal of your mind by the word of God for the direct service of the Kingdom of God.

Maybe we should look to God the Father for our worth as a woman to be corrected and our mind to be renewed. There is no woman born that is fully intact in self-image at the point of womanhood. That being the case, I believe all women have reason to call on the Father to tear down lies and replace them with the truth from Holy Scriptures.

We would do well as women to climb up into our Father’s lap and listen to what He has to say about how special we are as women. What we have to offer those we nurture and influence each day. The power of truth and wisdom that He bestows on those who have need and request these freely-given gifts. Look how the Holy Spirit (spirit of woman) operates. Women should be vessels of this aspect of God. We should embody wisdom, compassion, a teachable spirit, tenderness, helpfulness, deep knowledge, creative life, truth, and holy power.

If we as women would understand our worth, we would have no need of schemes and devices to get our way. We would know that our Father in heaven sees our heart’s desire; that He would not give a stone when we asked for a fish. We would know that we must pray and obey in order for God to produce fruit in our lives. We would know that we serve “The Almighty” who moves mountains; not a tiny, illegitimate god who spews “Hollywood” plots that wreak self-destruction and ultimately destruction of the image of the Trinity. God is waiting for you to say yes to His renewal and the beginning of freedom and power in your role as a Godly woman, to do His will.

On the Subject of Worldly Rejection and Personal Agenda

Experientially, I have always found it difficult to weather rejection from any source in my world. I have failed in overcoming the negative impact on my spirit when faced with closed doors in all areas of my personal life. This is due in large part to wrong thinking based on the world’s ideals of rejection and what it says about one’s ability to make things happen in regard to personal agenda.


If, as a Christian, one’s thinking is correct about rejection from the world, your perspective is wholly opposite of the world. Where the world says you have failed to make it happen, the Christian should be saying, thank you Father for closing that door. When the world says “I have got to accomplish this goal, because it is practical and logical”, the Christian must say “Father, I trust your hand in my life, and if my decisions do not lead to open doors, I will submit it all to you and wait for your voice to move me in a new direction”.


I just read in Oswald Chambers today the following applicable quote to our godly perspective:


“The greatest thing for us to remember is that we go up to Jerusalem to fulfill God’s purpose, not our own. In the natural life our ambitions are our own, but in the Christian life we have no goals of our own. We talk so much today about our decisions for Christ, our determination to be Christians, and our decisions for this and that, but in the New Testament the only aspect that is brought out is the compelling purpose of God. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you . . .” (John 15:16).


If we truly believe that all things work together for good for those that love Him and are called according to His purpose, our agenda is a moot point and so is rejection for that matter. We must become so Christ-focused and bound that rejection is not a mitigating factor in our lives. We must have a vision of His purpose for our spiritual existence. We must have a reason to sacrifice our flesh for His kingdom.


This ideal sounds lovely, but how do we take this lofty wisdom and make it reality when, if we are truly honest, we must confess that the selfless life in Christ is not THAT attractive to our flesh? Well, if our hearts say yes to this life, yet our flesh says hold on, we must pray for our godly spirit-desire to overwhelm our corrupted flesh-desire. “You have not because you ask not!”


What I am really talking about here is inviting the manifest presence of God to abound in us daily, more and more. Jesus must increase, so that we may decrease. Once this transaction takes place, we will never be satisfied with status quo again. We will be those who usher in the larger revival in the world, because we are open vessels for His Glory to reside. “Come near to God, and He will come near to you.” Are we willing to bow down, so that Christ may rise up?


I am asking the church body around me to pray with me for God to be manifest in our lives for His glory in the world. I am asking the body to repent of its agenda, and tradition, and love for this material life (however humble we may live); so that God will see our repentant hearts, and send His reviving presence, and heal this land. I am asking all that will listen to give up the status quo of “doing church” on Sundays and Wednesdays as being enough.  God wants to spend time with you daily in power.  Start praying for His presence to abound in your life.


I know that what I have in my life of His presence is not enough, and I want more. I am greedy for more of Him. I am hungry for more of Him. Jesus is the bread of life, yet there is very little fresh bread in our lives on the whole. Sometimes only crumbs! Why would the starving lost people of this world come looking for bread in our churches, when there is so little?


Our spiritual bodies have need of fresh bread regularly to revive us and to live abundantly. It is all too often that church leadership becomes aware of the fresh aroma of the bread of Christ during worship service, but tries to keep a lid on it for fear of a stampede of all who hunger. This is wrong every time, and we should be praying for God to overcome our agendas.


Jesus, the living word, desires that we be free to receive Him in His holy scriptures and in His manifest presence. We need both in order to be filled with His glory; in order to be bread to a lost and starving world. A world that is either hell bent on believing in false teachers and prophets or setting themselves up as idols in their atheism.
 
If I were lost and deceived, I would truly not be attracted to the church today, unless the Almighty took up residence and shook all who entered to their very essence for His glory.