I WAS JUST THINKING...

HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN?

I heard the most beautiful thing today at the House of Prayer. A recent convert prayed and my heart just melted. The way that she described her love for the Lord, and the way she told him how much she loved Him, really made me jealous( in a good way of course). She kept saying how wonderful He was, she told Him,” From your feet to your head, you are wonderful!” I got a kick out of this. Every religious bone in my body kept thinking,” It’s from head to toe.” Her sincerity pierced my heart and caused me to bow down in reverence and awe.

I pray that we will come back to our first love. That we would come back to the place of being overwhelmed and grateful for who He is. Sometimes we can get caught up in doing this and doing that, but I want to encourage you to pause and think/ponder about when He first called you and He first came to you. Begin to thank Him, worship Him and adore Him. Allow Him to come NOW and fill the room. Allow His embrace to hold you close. Go ahead, breathe Him in… rest your heard on His chest. He is a good God, a safe Savior; He is your comfort, your joy, your everything!


Prayer: JESUS I COME BACK TO YOUR EMBRACE, I COME BACK TO YOUR LOVE. HELP ME TO KNOW HOW DEEP, HOW WIDE, HOW LONG AND HOW HIGH IS YOUR LOVE FOR ME.
AMEN

I WAS JUST THINKING...

ARE YOU GONNA LAY HANDS ON ME?

I was just about to go to sleep a few weeks back, and I felt like the Lord impressed me to get up go do laundry. I was like are you kidding me? But wanting to be obedient I went tired and all.

So I was sitting there listening to my ipod, and reading. I looked over and saw a lady with two kids doing laundry when the Lord begin to speak to me about her and her kids.

I texted my wife to let her know, asked her to be praying, and I wanted let her know before I ministered to a woman. Anyway....I approached the lady I said that I felt like the Lord wanted to encourage her. She said okay, and I begin to tell her the things that the Lord has placed on my heart for her and her kids. The Lord comforted her about something that were going on in her life, and the life of her kids. As I was ministering to her a guy was walking by us, by now he had stopped and was listening. After I was done she said thanks, and the guy who was still standing by shook my hand and said hey I will be right back, but I wanna know if you got something for me?

In my mind I was like WOW! He walked out, and I prayed and asked God if there was anything that he wanted to say to him? Of course God wants to speak, He is good like that. So the guy came back in and waved me over to where he was seated. As soon as I got over to where he was the first thing he said was ARE YOU GONNA LAY HANDS ON ME? I said no and begin to minister to him the word of the Lord. The man was totally blown away, he was like are you crazy? I was like crazy for Jesus! LOL! I gave him twenty bucks because I felt like the Lord said that He was gonna repay the man for the things that were stolen from him for the last twenty years.

After ministering to him the guy embraced me for a while ( I say embraced instead of hug because the dude was not letting go) I knew that he had felt the love of the Lord, and was clinging to me as if he was clinging to Jesus. He than let me go and said did you just lay hands on me? I was like I guess you can say that, and we laughed. I am not sure why he asked me that but I wonder if he felt something tangible as my hands touched his back? Who knows!!!

I left and continued to do my laundry, and he came back over to me and said that I had totally scared him! He said that no one had ever spoke to him like that before, he than said I don't think you are finished with me and he gave me his number. The dude gave me every number possible. He was like I am at this number between these hours etc... I thought this was great, the dude just didn't know what to do. He had encountered God is such a way that he was just baffled.

Of course all glory goes to God, God just placed me in the right place at the right time. He gave me his number because he said that he wanted me to call him from time to time to share scripture with him , and to pray with him. The very next morning guess who called? You guessed it! We talked for a while and it was really kool. I had no idea even if he would remember me because you can tell that he had been drinking the night before. So any way I just wanted to share this with everyone to encourage you to go out and be contagious!

I WAS JUST THINKING...

What's up with His eyes?
Sometimes God uses everyday life experiences to show how great He is. The other day I and Zion (my 6 year old daughter) was at a friend’s house. Zion was in the restroom, when we noticed a huge black spider was in the bathtub. I was torn between rushing in and killing the spider or just helping Zion move pass the state of shock that she was in. I chose to just help Zion because she was ceased with fear. I just begin to talk to her in a very calm voice reassuring her that I would not let anything happen to her. I told her to look me in the eyes, but she kept her head down; she wasn’t moving or responding. I again reassured her that because I was there she had nothing to worry about. Finally she looked up at me, and I told her to just keep her eyes locked on me. She was still terrified; she didn’t want to walk to the sink to wash her hands. I assured her again, just look into my eyes, and finish up. She finished washing her hands (looking at me the whole time) and walked out and hugged me.

This is such a picture of Papa God! When we find ourselves in scary or trying situations He just wants us to look into His eyes. When we stay focused on Him we can accomplish anything. Even when we are surrounded by crazy situations, and circumstances our focus needs to be on Him. Instead of Zion saying go take care of the spider she allowed herself to trust her Dad to comfort her, and walk her through a very real and scary situation. Sometimes when we are walking through a storm, or are surrounded by things we are tempted to get angry with God for not making the things around us change. I don’t know why He chooses not to act the way we want Him to but, during those times when our surrounding aren’t changing we can just look into Papa’s eyes, and listen to His voice reassuring us everything will be okay.

Be encouraged today, no matter what the situation may be look into His eyes, and allow yourself to trust Him.