Your Journey to the Heart of God
You are invited to come on an amazing journey uniquely designed and different for each person, designed to heal any wounds in your heart.
141) How to Build Quality Friendships
Let us remember that friendships are gifts from God to us. We need to ask God to help us find the friendships that He desires for us. This is because we may or may not be immediately attracted to the people that God desires to be our friends.
Sometimes we are attracted to people who would not build or strengthen our character or our walk with God. For this reason, it is very important that we put a lot of thought and prayer into choosing our friends.
God puts people into our lives that we are primarily called to serve. This does not necessarily mean that they are called to be our friends. A quality friendship occurs when the people involved receive support, encouragement and refreshment from each other. It is not the kind of relationship where one person is always giving and the other always receiving. The rest of this talk will center on the aspects of quality friendships and how they can be developed.
Look for people who are sincere in their thoughts and actions. Our world is full of insincerity. We are being hustled and conned in a world that is in love with power and money. It uses half-baked truths or outright lies to tell us who and what to trust. God uses the insincerity of the world to show us the power of trustworthiness in our lives. Sincerity causes us to take a look at ourselves. It invites us to trust and believe in others. (read more)
142) The Time Has Come
The time has come to separate the weeds from the good crop and the light from the dark. The time has come for those to choose what side of the fence they are going to be on. The time has come for men to see clearly their own hearts and the hearts of others. The time has come for the Son of God and the Son of Man to be revealed in the hearts of men.
He will be revealed and He will rise up and banish the darkness. He will blow away the weeds. He will make men choose who they want to serve. His eye will fall on things, and what is not of Him will fall down.
Those who follow Him will find great strength and love. There will be times of deepest joy and deepest sorrow, times of sadness and times of laughter. There will be endings and new beginnings. New things will rise up that were never there. Old things will pass away quickly. Men will choose and armies will be formed; and there will be a battle. But those who behold the Son will find incredible strength and joy. The light will become lighter and the dark will become darker. (read more)
143) How to Handle Disappointment
God uses disappointment to lead us to His appointment. Disappointments affect all of our daily lives. As Christians, we need to learn to handle the disappointment we face. How we handle these disappointments will have an important effect on our relationship with the Lord and our brothers and sisters.
Disappointment can be specifically defined as not having happen what you want to happen. In fact, we experience disappointment because we feel that we have not had the appointment that we should have had.
We either lost our appointment with God or it seemed He did not want to help us. The truth of the matter is that Jesus had to walk through disappointment to get His appointment with the Father.
It’s not that the Father disappointed Him, it’s that Jesus had trouble with His supporting cast and other people around Him. It’s important to note here that the Father does not wish to disappoint us, but that we experience disappointment because of the world, our flesh and the devil. It’s because of our nature that we want things now, and this is always fertile ground for disappointment.
Our appointment is always to share in the Father’s will as Jesus did when He walked the earth. Our appointment with the Father and His Son in the power of the Holy Spirit brings us peace, joy and strength no matter what the circumstances. (read more)
144) Words for the Beloved
My Beloved Bride,
I no longer just call you sons, daughters, and children but today I call you beloved. You are a beautiful bride that I will bring into maturity. Soon I will introduce you to the world, and I will show through you the things of My heart and My mind.
My spirit will be rising up in you. Rejoice, I will be with you in a new way. Receive Me and receive My heart.
Today I offer you a deeper intimacy with Me. I will reveal Myself and do things that I have never done before. Be there with Me walking closer with Me. Do you want to know my thoughts? Do you want to learn My ways? I offer you this challenge. If you say yes, I will teach you things you have never known, and I will reveal My mind to you in a new way.
My beloved, I love you and I am calling you. Do you want to know who I really am? Can I sit with you? Can I talk with you? Sit here with Me and I will show you who I really am. I am looking for My love. Is it you? Say yes to Me. Will you talk with me for a while? Will you embrace who I am? Be ready to behold Me and to see Me. Will you take a chance on My love? I will walk with you and make you ready. Do you want to be ready My love?
My people, your words need to be filled with My love. Only you can choose love, loving Me, (read more)
145) Learning to Accept God
Many sins and lots of problems come by not accepting God and others. God asks us to accept Him and trust what He is doing in our lives. If we have trouble accepting God it is because we do not trust Him. Every work of God can produce greater love in our lives if we desire to trust and accept Him.
God uses problems and hassles in our lives to produce greater love and trust. God trusts and accepts you just as you are now. God is doing this for a purpose. This is always His desire.
God wants us to believe that we can be so close to Him that He can tell us that He trusts us. He wants the bonds of love to be so great between us that we would be able to accept His love for us. When you wake up in the morning, say “God trusts me even if I feel I messed up”. Our God is trustworthy and He will not fail. Because God is trustworthy, He can trust you. God is not checking us out with a microscope. When we trust God, then our hearts are open to God. God is always right and He does everything in love.
You can’t deal with God until you believe He is right, He is sovereign, and loving you all the time. We can’t grow if not we do not believe it. We need to believe God is right to have victory. Everything He does to us is in love. What we don’t know is often protection for ourselves. (read more)
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