I wrote:
“Sometimes you don’t need to explain why….
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I took a day to reflect. R & R. When I need it the most, I wont hesitate to take it.
The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14
An opportunity to try something that I didn’t think would benefit me and it is. I have done this for my spiritual state, mental and health. When I rest, I read and I write my best. Continue reading
“Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation. What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.”
Joel 1:2-4 NKJV
I remember delivering this sermon at one of our MUI Women’s retreats many years ago. I defined the four types of “storms.” As if they get any better. Continue reading
There is a word that stands out here– R E M A I N 💭
***Continue to exist, especially after other similar or related people or things have ceased to exist.***
Synonyms: continue to exist, endure, last, abide, carry on, persist, stay, stay around, prevail, survive, live on more; stay in the place that one has been occupying.
Synonyms: stay, stay behind, stay put, wait, wait around, be left, hang on; informal hang around; continue to possess a particular quality or fulfill a particular role.
Synonyms: continue to be, stay, keep, persist in being, carry on being!
I remember a few years back when I wanted to leave New York so bad, I went on the most extreme 21 day fastings that I had never embarked on before. I literally ate nothing but a one-time liquid to hold me through the work day but prevailed in a consistent pace of consecration and separation every single day.
I wanted God to speak to me and loudly at that! I waited for His voice. I expected His voice. I searched for His voice.
The days were passing and I heard NOTHING! As I approached the last day of the fast I think I felt to myself a little disheartened.
On that day, my previous puppy Biscuit had a procedure. In pain he cried through the night. My husband woke to tell me, go take care of him. I yielded and went to the living room, put Biscuit on the couch with me and prayed for him and continued until I drifted off.
I went in a trance praying until I could hear myself talking to God as if I was standing in front of Him. I said, “God I want to move to Florida. Can you just let me know about this.” I was in some agony really pestering about this. I heard a SHOUT. Almost like scolding me saying, “STAYYYYYYYYYY!”
I was shaking on the couch and couldn’t leave this trance. Still eyes shut, I kept moving and walked downstairs to discuss with my pastor. I shared about my petition again and then the pastor stood in an upright position and said, “There will be 13 people leaving but you I said STAYYYYYYYYY!”
The voice was so loud it really shook me from the trance. I cried. The next day I shared it with my husband and told him about the vision. I told him that the Lord spoke to me twice and said to stay.
My husband responded, “Yeah I knew that and so my prayer was that God would speak to you!” That day we both cried. That day we learned even more that our walk with God was never about what we wanted or about our feelings.
Most importantly, it was to stay where God placed us. As much as we wanted to book it truly was not what God wanted for us.
And so I reflect on the word remain. And the first definition that follows that word…
“Continue to exist, especially after other similar or related people or things have ceased to exist.”
I want to exist in a way that I can be bountiful, fruitful and faithful. I want to be in the very presence of God and in the purpose that He assigned for me.
I want to remain. I will stay. I will sit. Even if I am kicking and screaming. As long as I continue to remain in Him I know I’m going to bear much fruit. Apart from Him I can do nothing. So as much as it seemed like a wonderful idea to leave when everyone else left to Florida and other places of residence, it was the purpose of God for us to learn how to remain.
Each time you conquer a step there will always be another challenge waiting for you.
It’s along road. Let us travel on the one where He shouted out the uncompromised Word that shook our own personal world so that we will shake the world around us.
Remain in Him.
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10 NIV
When we allow so many things that try to distract, discourage or detour us we quickly need to go to the word!
Tonight’s teaching was amazing by Pastor Juan Mendez at MUI Church for Ignite Bible Study. May we know the truth by looking to the simplicity of this message.
How swayed that people are by words. It can make us sad, afraid, lonely, different, isolated and dismayed. This is not a time to lose focus but to keep moving FORWARD!!!
I can only pray more now….
May my words be pure words God.
May my heart be pure love God.
May my mind be pure thoughts God.
I can’t allow the frivolous feeds to derail me. Competition is rising. Appearance is rising. Product is rising. But let PURE HEARTS FILLED WITH FAITH rise up in this season we are in.
May my heart continue to be brought before you season after season as PURE. Away and away from the feeds, the noise, the doubt and negativity.
There is so much more we can listen to and engage ourselves in that will lead us through the purest seasons. We can do this is an excellent way.
Anything that we read in the Bible we need to listen to and by faith live it out. If the Bible says, “Do not worry about anything, but to pray about everything…” in Philippians 4:6, then living by faith we would take the worries to God and pray about them and trust Him to help us through them.
Here are some great notes…
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Faith doesn’t make things easy, it makes them possible.
We cannot dig up in DOUBT what we have planted in FAITH.
~PjM
So our focus now is to keep our faith, our hearts and our minds PURE before Him. Christianity is not competitive… it is collaborative.
God is doing the work. He is taking us through this season to EXCEL! He is going to move so powerfully at work in us because WE NEED IT!!!
Keep, keep FOCUSED!!!! It is not just about us but about the overall call to get our hearts aligned with His. God help us all. Help me. Help them. May we pass through a pure season so that we can collide with divine destiny that is absent of our personal agenda.
There is a prayer for pure seasons. I am going to follow that prompt. He will hear those that cry out. As this writing begins with Psalm 51, it will also close with it.
“My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.”
Psalm 51:17 NIV
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