Thursday, August 26, 2004

Keep A Quiet Heart

The real test of the heart is not in failure but in success.



Suddenly, the wheels are in motion and I am ready to sail any ocean...

I will climb this mountain
I'll step off the shore
I have chosen to follow
Be by your side forevermore.

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and does of the field, not to arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

There are three words that I love in the Bible: Mine, Wait & Listen

I went to the Shadows of the Supernatural one Friday evening with my friends Amanda, Ikit, Karis, etc. When Pastor Steve Hollander stopped me and looked me in the eye and was commanding a spirit to come out. I remember his words until now, "You spirit that conforms to the pattern of this world come out in Jesus name." There was no Victory Weekend back then and I was less than year old in my Christian walk. Tears were rolling down my face and I knew that He was addressing something else and not me.
As I was driving home from Galleria I started praying to God, "Im yours, I'm yours, my soul, my heart, my mind, my body. I'm yours, I'm yours! I couldn't stop crying and I paused and asked God to send angels to drive for me coz I couldn't see the road anymore. I remember saying that I will not sleep until He speaks to me. Referring to my non-existent prayer life and a lack of understanding of the Scripture.
Before going to bed God spoke to me the first time...I saw you kicking about in your blood and as you lay there I said to you "Live!" When I saw that you were old enough for love I covered your nakedness with my garment... you became the most beautiful of jewels (footnote: mature) I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became MINE.

Never again was my prayer life the same again. The God who I always thought was somewhere up there exists. I became His daughter and He became my Father.

When you study a man, you do not just study him by asking questions. But you study his FOCUS.

A true gentleman and a lady is someone not just with good manners or breeding...but he or she is one who makes sure that the people around him or her are as comfortable as possible. Blast from the Past -hehe...I love old school!

It has come to pass, I am no longer in wanting or longing for anything else but what my Father has shown me. I have learned not to concern myself with matters too wonderful or great for me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother.Like a weaned child is my soul within me...Psalm 131

Amongst the things offered before you what makes you stop and look at your son or daughter? What pleases you, my Lord?
Obedience. "Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord!" will enter the kingdom of heaven. But only he who does the will of my Father."

When I consider your heavens, the moon and the stars which you have set in place. What is man that you are mindful of him. The son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings. You crowned him with glory and honor... Psalm 8

Law of Recognition by Mike Murdock

Anything that is unrecognized will be uncelebrated.
Anything that is uncelebrated will be unappreciated.
Anything that you refuse to appreciate will soon exit your life.
It may be a gift, a miracle or a person.

Remember that night we were cruisin' along Edsa? You know how You have given me the gift of perception and the gift of exhortation and how I so love to appreciate people and the gifts that You have given them? Then I asked when was the last time I appreciated You for all Your wonders. I can't wait to see You...remember my heaven's list #2? I want to have that dance with You, my Lord. I bet it will be perfect with all your holy angels as witnesses of your glory and majesty. I'm just so proud you're my Dad, I wouldn't have it any other way. You have shown me things I will never have known on my own. Did I tell you how much I appreciate You on how you designed me and created me? You formed me in my mother's womb...all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one them came to be. How precious concerning me are your thoughts O God, how vast is the sum of them. Were I to count them they will outnumber the grains in the sand... Psalm 139

To really know you is not just to read about you. But to know your heart...I seek your face, my Lord.

Hmmm...how I love to say my Lord, my Lord. Imagining Sense and Sensibility and Little Women. I love their dresses.hehehe...

Thursday, August 19, 2004

A Word of Exhortation

JUNE 10, 2004 2:07 am

John 3:29 “The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.”

I have discovered that when you are faced with turmoil and grief. When it seems as if the whole world has turned against you and you have nowhere else to go. You are given the option to call out to God and be in Faith. Remember, when you go into spiritual warfare, you have two weapons to fight with--praise and prayer.