PERFECT, ENTIRE and WANTING NOTHING

Perfect
Entire
Wanting Nothing
For about 6 months now, I have been trying to arrive at this image.
I have been sitting before the Lord asking Him to please help me envision myself this way.
I mean, in this day and time, that seems absolutely impossible.

As I sat meditating on this image, I felt like a kid making a Christmas list...let's see, ok,
I need a house, a big house (making image of the house with the giant mudroom for all the dogs)
I need property and I really want a water feature, preferably a river and/or pond.
How about the veterinary clinic I hope to have...and all the equipment...good lord!!
What if I want to have children, what about all the things they will need...
And the list and the worries would go on and on and on...

I would get frustrated and stop my meditation and just begin to pray.
"Lord I know this state of WANTING NOTHING must be possible because You tell us to arrive at it right there in Your Word."

I am a visionary. I think BIG. I can't think one day at a time, I have to think 5,10, 20 years into the picture. This way of thinking overwhelms my husband. He can say one thing and in an instant, I have an entire life planned out.
Yet, When I tried to envision this state of being,
Perfect
Entire
Wanting Nothing
It was just too much. There was literally NO way I could arrive at this state without knowing what the future held.

But that's not how God wants us. He wants us to plan and look forward to the future but He wants us to be in the moment.
Ah ha...I figured it out. What will it take for me to be perfect and entire and WANTING NOTHING for one day...
And then the list would begin again....and again...and again...
Morning after morning, I would spend some time trying to arrive at the state of
Perfect
Entire
Wanting Nothing.

UNTIL
This morning.
Well, it began arriving last night.

Last night while sitting in a Transformation Ministries' class we were discussing "How we SEE God."
We discussed that most of us view God in the same way we view our earthly Father and/or Mother in case of an absentee Father. This can be positive or negative.

I am blessed to say, my father tried his hardest to mimic the heart of our Heavenly Father.

So what was my earthly Father like? 

He loved me unconditionally. He may not have always been pleased with me, but that never changed his heart.
He was also my provider and my protection.
Growing up, I never had to worry about ANYTHING.
I knew my Father would take care of me.

But as I grew older and stronger and more self-sufficient, I wanted nothing more than to be an independent.
I wanted to care for MY self!
I didn't want to depend on ANYONE.

Well guess what? That independence and self-sufficiency has grown and grown and grown.
When we become self-sufficient, we become self-reliant. We lack dependency.

BUT, God wants us to be dependent. He wants to be our Provider. He wants to be our Protection. He wants to be our EVERYTHING. He created us solely for communion with Him. He created us to love and be loved by Him.

So this morning as I began my meditative exercise, "Lord please help me to begin seeing myself as 

Perfect
Entire
Wanting Nothing."

And He did.

This is how PERFECT and ENTIRE and WANTING NOTHING should look to us, our hand IN His hand.

We will NEVER be able to provide all the things we need for ourselves.
We can NEVER reach the point of enough.
We are human.
We have a mind with an insatiable appetite for more, more, more.

BUT,
We have a Father who can not only provide ALL that we will ever need
but who can BE ALL that we will EVER need.

When we TRUST in Him, we can truly live one moment at a time and one day at a time. We become like children, knowing we have NOTHING to worry about or NOTHING to want for.

This is how we bring Heaven to Earth.

"But let patience have her perfect work that you may be PERFECT and ENTIRE and WANTING NOTHING." James 1:4

God in a box

"One time I thought I had the Holy Ghost. Now I know the Holy Ghost has got me. There is a difference between our hanging onto God and God lifting us up. There is a difference between natural compassion and the compassion of Jesus that never fails. Human faith fails but the faith of Jesus never fails." Wigglesworth

This day is the beginning of days, a day when The Lord will not forsake His own but will He will meet us. 

Why does He want to meet us? 

He wants to show His glory strong in the earth. He wants to show the world that He is everything they need. 

He is the light in dark places. 

He is the love they have never known. 

He is the joy during times of mourning. 

He is salvation for all who are lost. 

He is freedom for those who are bound. 

He is the healer for those who are sick. 

He is abundance for those who are poor. 

He is the sight for the blind, the legs for the lame, the ears for the deaf, he is the God that healeth thee! The Holy One of Israel! 

He is the alpha, the omega, the beginning and the end. 

He is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

He is "able to do abundantly above all we can ask or think!"

So don't limit him. 

He limitless. 

He is infinite. 

Don't put him in a box. 

Don't store him in your mind. 

Don't reason away His supernatural strengths. 

God will meet us but only if we want Him too. 

Don't miss out on what God wants to do through you for this lost and dying world. 

Don't humanize the omnipotent and  omnipresent God of the universe. 

Don't get caught putting God in a box, rather ask God to take you out of your box and into the deeper things of Him. 

Ask Him to show the workings of His mighty power through you. 

Then you can begin bringing heaven to earth! 

A time is coming...

I had another disturbing but very enlightening dream last night. I feel strongly that it is a revelation of the days ahead. 

A time is coming.. 

There will be a great division of people on the earth. 

There will be a separation between the sheep and goats. 

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left. (Matthew 25:31-33NLT)

A Time is coming..

There will be a deciding factor: 

Offending but not taking offense. 

This dream was too dark to speak of in detail but that which The Lord spoke to me about was this: 

"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." John 10:27 (NKJV)

As His sheep, we should not aim to offend but we must never compromise in hopes of not offending. 

We ONLY follow our Shepherd. We must live and breathe his Word. 

His Word is Spirit and Life to us. 

As His Sheep we need be God-conscious not Self-conscious. 

We must begin to be led by The Spirit and not our pride. 

The sheep must NEVER take offense. Offense breeds resentment and resentment breeds un-forgiveness. 

This is the enemy's greatest tool in making us back down or most importantly push us to quit.

BUT,We must never quit! 

Walking and leading with a pure heart is our protection. 

Nothing can touch us in this dangerous world if we live this surrendered life. 

On the other hand, un-forgiveness blocks the Lord's hand and all His blessings in our life.  

It dirties our spirit. It restrains our heart from loving fully and completely. 

Throughout my dream, the people I encountered were so confused, so lost, EMPTY.
They were grasping for straws, for anything, unknowingly grasping for Truth. The world had become void of all that we once knew as Freedom. I was walking among those imprisoned, held captive by their minds and by the lies they had been fed. The oppression blanketed the atmosphere like a heavy wet blanket.

I cried out, "Lord, how can I help them?" 

I heard the words well up from my spirit, "They will know you by your fruits." 

The Word says this" Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.” John 13:35

As we abide in Him, and He in us, His fruit of LOVE radiates through us. 

Love is the guiding light for those who will need it the most. This will be the drawing force to show the lost the way.
 

God's manifested Love will separate the sheep from the goats!
 

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’ (Matthew 25:34-36 NLT)

If you could have seen what I saw, you would understand, a very important time is coming. 

A time none of us want to see but a time in which we were chosen to take part. 

We can choose to be part of the problem or the solution. The choice is ours.

We can bring heaven to earth through carrying out one simple command: Love our Father and love our neighbor. Or we can choose to ignore it and continue on in this world of darkness.

“Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

“And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’ (Matthew 25:37-40 NLT)

Let's examine ourselves, our motives and our actions. We are His sheep and His sheep hear His voice.
His command is LOVE. "Love each other as I have loved you." John 15:12

We must seek pure hearts and steadfast spirits.
We should sit before the Father and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any hurts, resentments or areas of unforgiveness that may be holding us back from loving fully. 

We must die to self or ego daily, remaining humble in all that we do.

We must begin our journey to be as we are told:
"As Christ is, so are we in this world." 

We must get ready to take our places in this age, this "climax of all the ages."

"And this is the plan: At the RIGHT TIME He will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. "(Ephesians 1:10, NLT)

So get Ready, get Set and GO take your places...

A Time is Coming and only YOU can do your part. 

A Time is Coming to bring heaven to earth!

God WITHIN

We are a million times bigger than we know. 

When God manifests His glory within us, he turns our weaknesses into holiness. The smaller we become the larger He becomes. 

Love is of God. 

Love is God. 

Love is the Trinity working in the human to break it up that it may be displaced with God's fullness. 

The only thing God has for a man is to be extraordinary. God has no room for an ordinary man.

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God."

To fully understand this magnitude, we must become as Paul spoke of, living epistles. In doing so, we become the revelation of God, "the incarnation of the personality of His Presence" until we KNOW, without any doubt, that we are sons of God! 

Fear will try to creep in, fear of failure, fear of natural weakness, fear of our inability to carry out something so grand, BUT we must remember, God is made perfect in our weakness! 

God's supernatural power works best through a  withered ego. We must swallow our weakness to allow Him, who has never failed, to shine through. 

We must remember, we fight FROM victory, NOT for victory. 

Not fade away

Everything you cannot see is eternal. Everything you can see is natural and will fade away. Everything you can see will be consumed by that which you cannot see. The eternal is more real than you, it is the substance of all things, it is God and it's mightier than you by a million times. 

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1

"God is not able to get the best through us until the human is dissolved. 

The Holy Spirit wants the world to see the unveiling of Jesus. The unveiling of Jesus is to take away yourself and to place Himself in us; to take away all your human weakness and put within you that wonderful Word of eternal power, of eternal life, which makes you believe that all things are possible!" - Wigglesworth

Don't get in the way, BE THE WAY! 

Answer the CALL. 

"For many are called, but few are CHOSEN." Matthew 22:14

Destined for NOW

You are ORIGINAL.
There will NEVER be another YOU.
No other person was designed for your DESTINY.

Find your life's perfect plan TODAY. All you have to do is ask....

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7:7-8


 

How to Beat the Devil

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If you waste your time a-talking to the people who don`t listen

to the things that you are saying who do you think`s going to hear?

And if you should die explaining how the things that they complain about

are things they could be changing, who d`you think`s goin` to care?

There were other lonely singers in a world turned deaf and blind who

were crucified for what they tried to show,

And their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time,

`cause the truth remains that no-one wants to know!