Monday, January 25, 2010

THERE IS FAITH, AND THEN THERE IS OBEDIENT FAITH.....




"I Am your God. Your Great Reward.  Yours to look Up and say, 'All Is Well'."

"I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing." 
John 15:5

 
For those who Serve Him, that constantly and consistently Seek the Lord, each day provided Is a day Full of Steady, Faithful, Progress.

Spiritual, mental, and emotional growth and maturity is occurring for the willing, the teachable, for those with obedient Faith...Even if I don't see it, I know it is happening And that the Lord sees it.

Our Complete Love for Him is our Impetus to continue to Persevere, to Love, to Stay Joyful...Ever more Enjoying Every Gift that He has provided that brings us laughter, truth, correction, wisdom, knowledge, Peace, strength and Increase.

The Fruits of The Spirit Are Always in Season, Always ready to grow and be used daily by us to honor and glorify our Lord through our Obedient Faith.

Remember, my sisters and brothers, that the Lord Is teaching us, and these teachings are Not always Only, His Spiritual Truths that gladden our hearts.  

Often, oh too often, there must be His Words of reproof as He reminds us of His commands that are Not obeyed.

The child that runs and tries to hide, or gets angry and annoyed at the times of necessary correction, Is a rebellious child.  Who creates a harder and longer lesson to learn.  a rebellious child is one who is immature and self centered and is seeking her/his own way...not willing or teachable, not committed to the main purpose, not wanting to give, just to take.

There is faith, and then there is Obedient Faith!

When we disobey His leading in even the smallest of places and moments, we create a gap, a rift and lost opportunities in a Plan that we did Not make.  And, having no idea what is to come with our next step of Faith, we have no idea about who else we are hurting, or causing an inconvenience to, that is connected at a point and time with us.  We have not been told the entire plan, we do not know How one thing we do will affect another, according to His Plans.  

To ignore His corrections He hands them to us,  is to deny that Your life Is in His Hands and not in your own, or in the hands of fate, or the enemy, or some other human you have given control over your life to.





Rebellious children are attempting to change the direction of the Flow of the Living Waters, which is also an attack against Love.  We are saying to Him, "i know best for me concerning this..."

The Good Shepherd knows that we must live within a Divinely Planned Balance concerning this natural world and the Divine Spiritual world.

He corrects us not just concerning His Commands that we have ignored, but also Any Resolutions made when in Contact with Him, that we have failed to keep.

He reminds us of Work done for Him where we had No Spirit of Love and Joy pouring forth which reveals to All that this Is His Work we do.

In times of our failure to obtain Supply, it is most likely because of our attitude-not our heart- that did question whether His Supply is unlimited and would Be Fully Provided.

True, many of His lessons are not easy to learn, but many times we push past the Way He has directed us to learn it and we complicate those that are simple and easy to learn; because of pride, ego, or laziness, and unbelief.

Sometimes, Our Lords leading is Not down a chosen flower bordered Path--But Remember, He does Walk With us regardless of which direction He leads us by.

Just as He did with Peter, even Peter when he denied the Lord.  and we are to see and follow the example of Faith that Peter left for us as disciples of The Lords......he had seen his sin, he asked for forgiveness, going out and he wept bitterly.

He always listens with an intensity of Love so to catch even the faintest of cry from the least of His children.

Many times in vain, He turns toward those who Love Him--often listening for those Spontaneous Words Of Love!

The Lord reminds us to Not only cry out to Him when worries and cares press and we are weary....He requires that those who profess to Love Him completely, TO SPEAK TO HIM OFTEN And to SHARE With Him All the little happenings, the happiness, the joy filled moments of our days, along with the frustrations and frets.

He wants to JOY with us in the glad moments...many times we will quickly call someone to tell them what good thing has happened to us, before we Call to Share the news with Him First!

Sharing with Him All things, every moment, good or troubling with the Lord First will increase and strengthen the Love of your relationship with Him--It will draw you closer to Him and Him closer to you.

Sharing every moment with Him, Living a Spirit Led Life, having and Using Obedient Faith...Think of it all as Compensation to Him for the neglect He suffered from His world for us.


Psalm 18:36
Proverbs 3:6-8
Luke 16:10
Romans 12:4-10

Philippians 4:8


On feet of Faith & Peace
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52
Resting In His Faithfulness,
One Day At A Time By Faith.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

WALKING AND LIVING IN THE SPIRIT




I hope that you have awaken to the beholding of the fullness of life, love and peace on this New Day that the Lord has made for us to Enjoy!
I have been soaking up the depth within the teachings of the Lord from the Red Letters that He spoke and lived as an example to us all.

The Spirit of the Lord told me to give you A short burst of Encouragement and Clarity to Carry with you & Think about today as you go about your daily duties, and the fulfillment of your Calling....


God Does 'A New Thing' Throughout Every Day! Many Small new things, and Many large new things....but 'His New Things' are missed by so many who are not believing for example, that God Will Do them, or because people's self will & desires Are Not the same as God's are for them.

John 8:31-32

" To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really My disciples. Then you Will Know the Truth, and the Truth Will set you Free."


NEVER lose heart, NEVER lose Hope!

We have to continue to kill the proud and fearful self, as we Courageously Go On day after day!

From that dead self--The True You Arises!

Those that have lived Through And Gained knowledge, Wisdom, & Understanding from the transitions that have been created to help in the Changing of our hearts and minds; for those within His Will for them  Remember, that all New beginning come with changes.  You are not prepared to do what is ahead of you, so therefore you must be changed, prepared and made ready...mentally, physically, emotionally, and of Course, Spiritually.

I know that the Lord has moved many of you up higher--(some of you refused to be moved)-...and before you take one more step into the depth of this new Spiritual level....you MUST go through some refining fires, some remolding on the potter's wheel by the Master potter...
We ALL have to do this...it Is His Way.

And, It is to be Rejoiced about...this LOVE from Him that is infinite!

Let me tell you something I know Is the Truth about the Lord....
In the Beginning of Every thing, God wins, Even if It is Not seen, till the end of the thing.
Give some good deep thought to that.....

 Let Us Go On, ever more with Him, our Lord day by day...starting And staying in Today!

Remember that doing 'good deeds' in an attempt to mask and cover the truth about ourselves that Are in dire need of change, does not work.  That is something people thought up in an attempt to fool the Lord..and or, to fool other people....Sorry, you can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

Many do this all too often...it is not about the humans that see you from the outside appearing to belong...but it Is About the Lord seeing us all from the inside, And Knowing We Belong!

If there is Any self-importance in your motives, then rest assured that the Lord Is Not Able to use you--you have blocked His Power in and through you.
Our main goal and purpose Should Be to Bring Glory to God.

I encourage you to Not allow the earth's frets and troubles, to trick or disturb you and give you any reason to fear anything thus disobeying the directions He has given to you.

Keep focused on staying Spiritually Calm, wrapped in the Peace and Trust that the Good Shepherd Is With us and is Always directing those of us that depend completely on Him .

This Is one of our weapons against fear! 

The Lord knows that it takes Courage for us to want to change, to say 'Yes' to Him when He first Calls to us to COME! 

He knows, that it takes Courage for us to stay with Him All The Way Through into Eternity!

We have to check ourselves daily to make sure we are within our Faith in Him.  DAILY! At all times of the day.

“But I say, walk and live in the Spirit ; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).” (Galatians 5:16)

To make sure that we have not blocked His Power, His Love, from flowing Into us And Out of us!
To make sure that we have Not become stagnant in our Spiritual, emotional, and mental Growth...What the Lord Gives to us, Should GROW.

We have the Gifts of the Spirit--All of which Should grow daily.
And then once we have matured in them, we  are able to Live out His teachings within the Beautiful Beatitudes!
The Beatitudes Are His directions to us abotu how we should live through the Gifts of the Spirit.

So many have it twisted...some are trying to use immature and stagnant in growth- Gifts of the Spirit to try an accomplish the Promises, the Work/Directions that He gave to us within the Beatitudes...and then when what they try does not work...many get mad at God.
If you are attempting to do His Work without Him in the center directing and you obeying...what you are doing will Never positively work.

If you are attempting to do His Work through motives of self-importance,  what you are trying to do will Never accomplish positive life giving and growing results, that Give Him the Honor and Glory through your actions.


You all do know that the Courage and Strength that I am speaking about that it takes us to allow His changes to be completed, Come from Him--Through the Lord Jesus....right?

All we give is our desire of Love,  of Faith and Trust in Him and He does the Rest.   If you are disobeying the Lord, then your will is being served, not His.

Through His Courage poured into us, we Are able to face  and kill off the enemy of 'self'.  It is Not our circumstances that are our enemy--But our selves.
This enemy will hold your back in the darkness without Him and hinder you from believing.....

A person's foes are those in their own household.  Our households Are actually us, our bodies and our dwellings that we live in.
We take ourselves everywhere we go.
We have to keep learning to face the lies that we believe, replace them with His Truths, and continue to LOVE ourselves enough to make it through from each beginning, middle till the end of All the changes and transitions.

The Lord Is our purpose.

The changes that are necessary, Always begin within us First!


 Psalm 25:17-22

 Eph 4:11-13


On feet of Faith & Peace
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52
Resting In His Faithfulness,
One Day At A Time By Faith.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Would King Have Spoken Out On LGBTQ Justice?

 “If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother , he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen. And this command (charge, order, injunction) we have from Him: that he who loves God shall love his brother also.” (1 John 4:20-21)


I hope that you are doing well, full of prayer, strength, praise, peace and joy!


I enjoy the writings of the Rev. Irene Monroe, and I hope that you will also.


Would King have spoken out on LGBTQ justice?
by Rev. Irene Monroe January 13, 2010


As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this weekend and next week we no longer have to hold King up to a God-like standard. All the hagiographies written about King immediately following his assassination in the previous century have come under scrutiny as we come to understand all of King — his greatness as well as his flaws and human foibles.

As I comb through numerous books and essays learning more about King’s philandering, sexist attitude about women at home and in the movement, and his relationship with Bayard Rustin, I am wondering would King be a public advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights?


James Cone, father of Black Liberation Theology and author of a book and several articles on King states that we must understand King within the historical context of the Black Church. And in so doing, I find it ironic that the public King we witnessed on a national stage talked vociferously about social justice and civil rights for all people yet his personal life did not reflect the same ethos concerning women and gays. And would the public King have spoken out on LGBTQ justice, risking his already waning popularity with the African American community and President Lyndon Johnson?

In my public address I gave at the Gill Foundation’s National Outgiving Conference in 2007, I said, “If Dr. Martin Luther King were standing up for LGBTQ rights today, the Black community would drop him too.”

King understood the interconnections of struggles. And an example of that understanding is when Martin Luther King said, “The revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place. Eventually the civil rights movement will have contributed infinitely more to the nation than the eradication of racial justice.”

This statement clearly includes LGBTQ justice but would King have spoken on this subject at that time and even now?

King’s now deceased wife says yes.

In 1998, Coretta Scott King addressed the LGBT group Lambda Legal in Chicago. In her speech, she said queer rights and civil rights were the same. “I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King’s dream to make room at the table of brother and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people,” she said.

Sadly, Bayard Rustin, the gay man who was chief organizer and strategist for the 1963 March on Washington that further catapulted Martin Luther King onto the world stage, was not the beneficiary of King’s dream.

In the Civil Rights Movement, Rustin was always the man behind the scenes and a large part of that had to due with the fact that he was gay. Because of their own homophobia, many African-American ministers involved in the Civil Rights Movement had nothing to do with Rustin, and they intentionally set out rumors that King was gay and used his close friendship with Rustin as proof.

In a spring 1987 interview in “Open Hands,” a resource for ministries affirming the diversity of human sexuality, Rustin recalls that difficult period quite vividly.
“Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality,” Rustin stated. “Martin set up a committee to discover what he should do. They said that, despite the fact that I had contributed tremendously to the organization, … they thought I should separate myself from Dr. King. This was the time when [Rev. Adam Clayton] Powell threatened to expose my so-called homosexual relationship with Dr. King.”

When Rustin pushed him on the issue to speak up on his behalf King did not.
Gay historian John D’Emilio, author of “Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin,” tells us: “Rustin offered to resign in the hope that his would force the issue. Much to his chagrin, King did not reject the offer. At the time, King was also involved in a major challenge to the conservative leadership of the National Baptist convention, and one of his ministerial lieutenants in the fight was also gay.”
And, one of Rustin’s associates recollects: “Basically King said I can’t take on two queers at on time.”

When Rustin was asked about King’s views on gays in a March 1987 interview with Redvers Jean Marie he stated, “It is difficult for me to know what Dr. King felt about gayness….”

King’s popularity was waning before his assassination. For example, many observers argued that the plight of black America was not improving with King’s theopolitical ideology of integration. The rising Black Power movement thus challenged his movement of non-violent direct action.

Followers of King felt he gave more attention to loving the enemy than doing something about the suffering of black people. Young urban black males in particularly felt alienated from King’s Civil Rights leadership because his non-violent ideology relied too heavily on the largess of the white establishment, concentrated too much on eliminating segregation and winning the right to vote in the South, and ignored the economic problems of blacks in the northern urban ghettos.

And King’s interpretation of Black Power as “a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can’t win” lost him these urban black males as followers when race riots broke out across the country in 128 cities during the period of 1963 to 1968.
Disaffected observers identified the causes for the riots as high unemployment, poor schools, inferior living conditions, the disproportionate drafting of black men for the Vietnam War, and the assassination of Civil Rights activists, none of which they saw addressed by King’s theopolitical ideology of non-violent direct action.

Given all that waning popularity, I am beginning to ponder now if King really would have raised his voice on our behalf.

— Rev. Irene Monroe, a self-described “African-American feminist theologian,” is an ordained minister, religion columnist and motivational speaker.

*SOURCE *
goqnotes.com

 

On feet of Faith & Peace
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52
Resting In His Faithfulness,
One Day At A Time By Faith.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

...BECAUSE MY HEART IS HIS HOME....HE COMES....

....notes of encouragement for myself.....because I asked my Father in Jesus' Name to receive...I Will....




To God Be The Glory in the name of Jesus!

My family needs the Lord's miracles...does your family?

I asked the Holy Spirit what do I need to do to help my family's situation, to set right our circumstances...Tell me Lord, what I need to do...I asked...

...Who do I need to call, what do I need to get up and do?
Sometimes our mind will try and go back to the old things--tries to trick us to allow fear and confusion to come in...I know some of you know about the ways of our minds......I thought of the things that I as a human can do, the things I have done in my past times of need...before I got saved, washed by His blood, and filled with His Holy Spirit, before the Good Shepherd found and Called to me To Come To Him and be changed and filled with His Love...the things I did before I began to trust in Him by a full amount of faith...
 I am not led by emotions, or by impulsive human nature, Because I belong to Him, In His Fold,  I am Spirit Led & have been for many years....
And,

The Fragrance of His Knowledge spoke to me and reminded me of How I got to today...Because of His grace, His Love His Way made, because of my trust and faith in Him...totally relying on Him......

In the Quiet of Resting with Him....I heard HIm say..."Do you Remember the time, when I came to help you last week-last month, last year when I gave you the money for the taxes and the medicine and the gas and the food and... Do you Remember the Time, when those people lied on you and I was right there...Do you my daughter, Remember the Time you adn your family were in need?  Was I not right there on Time?"

My Beloved Joyfully Reminded me of what I need to do...Yes Lord!

So Then, I speak the truth to myself....there IS No One I can call to help us But Jesus, There Is No one to come see about us But Jesus...The Lord has placed me and my family away from our past...cut us loose...He Alone is our Way, our Help, Our LOVE!
 To God Be The Glory in the name of Jesus our Good Shepherd! Amen! 

Full of faith, I pray in the name of Jesus, Knowing that He has released everything that we are in need of Right Now. I have bound up in the name of Jesus, every work/assignment sent by the enemy to be against me and my family...And I know the Lord has bound up and reflected every fiery dart sent to cause us to fall & fail as we Walk His Way!  Yes Lord!

And I Expect Him to Come and reveal to me what He has done for us.
Just as He Must Do For us Every day, Every month, because He knows where He has placed us....and we know, that it was He Who did the placing.....I REMEMBER what He has done in past difficulties when I did Exactly What He told me to do...

As I Rest in Him, I have a Spirit of expectation.....Rejoicing, I Praise Him, I Thank Him for all that He has already done....I thank Him for the strength, the wisdom, the knowledge, and His Presence always being upon us....

Knowing what I do about my Beloved, I can do nothing except enjoy the smile that arrives to my lips sent from His Love...my face is warm from His Love that Powers my life.....
I know that if you believed Him yesterday, then you can believe Him for today and tomorrow and so on...
If you are consistent in what you say and know that you believe...then you will not give up on Him...walking away faithless, with a spirit of being defeated.....Not happening that way my sisters and brothers!


I am Waiting in the faith that He has grown in me....And,  He Is renewing my strength to help me through this...He has shown me-Placed in my heart His Desires,  His visions for my life...Therefore,  His plans, His purposes for my life have Already been Done in Heaven...I Rejoice! I Know there is No Way I can fail if I am dependent on My Lord!  Yes Lord!


Waiting, consistently in Love, knowing that my heart Is His Home....

Waiting, Resting in the Truth that my Lord Is my Good Shepherd.....

The Lord spoke and said that I am to Pray for those that He brings to the eyes of my heart....that is what I need to do to better my situation, to correct my circumstances...Love and Pray for them in His name.  And that is Exactly what I began to do,  and I am still doing it...That is how this message, this note of encouragement came to be...to help you!




My heart Is His Home, His Garden..... and In my nakedness do I stand before my Lord, nothing is hidden from Him.  From deep within me does my Love, Trust and Faith for Him cry out to HIm.
He Alone Is the solution for the impossibilities that we face....He Will come through for us in Ways never imagined nor thought of...and I thank Him for His other Obedient Followers who listen for and obey His directions....Amen, Thank You Jesus!

My prayers and praises are the Trumpets in my heart sounding out a sincere faith and unquestionable belief in Him...

I am not...but God Is Lord...

As each outward obstacle bears forth against us, I do nothing but allow them to uncover in me a deeper trusting, the Truth that my life is Not in the hands of fate, the world or the devil...
But that my life is in the Hands of my Good Shepherd...Yes Lord!

As each crisis comes and passes by, try to distract me as they might...I do Not take my attention off of Him!
My eyes are focused on Him, my ears attuned to His voice...

His Calmness blankets us as does the dew on a sun parched field.....

The continued pushing of outward obstacles against us ...I allow them to push us even Closer to our help provided...And, as I look... I recognize that my Good Shepherd is standing in between the obstacles-the impossibilities and myself- of my family....

The seeds of fear that these obstacles & impossibilities spread, trying to make me think that I am overwhelmed, shall not be received in the ground of my heart because His Truth Lives in my heart.

As I grow In Him higher & deeper, the refiners' fire in the furnace gets hotter, the testing becomes intense...He is burning off and remolding the pure that is left...And I know there is Another in the furnace with me...

At every moment,  the strains and burdens of this world-of this life are so small and powerless against the Greatness and Vastness of my Good Shepherd who is between them and me...
They are of no worry to my heart...

This is how I see and know it to be....How could the Master instrument maker Fashion me to break or to play tunes that Are Not pleasing to His ear? He Knows just what I am able to bear without straining and breaking....He would not ask of me anything that would destroy or strain me...such a delicate instrument of His Design.

No! He would not do these things....And if i feel strained or near breaking, then I must be trying to serve two masters, or achieve the worlds standards and fame, or I'm seeking the good opinion of other people...or I am trying to carry two day's burdens on one day....
And None of those is True for me...

For I rest in the Lord and I wait patiently in Joy, Praising Him, for He Is the Good Shepherd who Takes Full care of His Fold!


Psalm 9 "I WILL praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your marvelous works and wonderful deeds!"

Psalm 27:4

Psalm 37:4





On feet of Faith & Peace
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52
Resting In His Faithfulness,
One Day At A Time By Faith.

Friday, January 8, 2010

MY JOY IS THE RESULT OF FAITHFUL TRUSTING


Matthew 10:32-33

And Jesus said;

32"Therefore, everyone who acknowledges Me before men and confesses Me [[a]out of a state of oneness with Me], I will also acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven and [b]confess [that I am abiding in] him.
    33But whoever denies and disowns Me before men, I also will deny and disown him before My Father Who is in heaven."


  John 10:7-21



Greetings to you on this very cold day.  I hope that this warms you up completely!

Our lives as believers in and followers of the Way that Jesus set forth in Truth for us; is Not some type of 'designer religion or quick fix' to be changed at our will for our purposes.  
There is no  joking and playing around when it comes to God wanting all of us to get on His agenda.
Many people are Praying 'for Jesus to come into their lives and to make them the person that God created them to be.'  Many think they can put on their two cents concerning His Work in them.  Sadly they are very wrong.

Among the many Spiritual changes that are done in our human minds and hearts, God begins to do His Work in us, many run away when they are shown who they are to be; He tells them what and who they need to cut loose from,  He is changing us from relying on the impulses of human nature and ways,  to us living by leaning on and relying on a life of being Spirit led.  I know this is one of the biggest challenges that we face in being saved, born again, washed by His blood and filled with His Holy Spirit.


One of the important New Beginnings that we are to do is to Share our Faith at every opportunity that The Lord provides to us. The person that God wants us to be is a person that knows Faith in Him is Not a private thing.  To have a heart so Full of Love and Faith and Truth from Him And for Him, that you have got to tell somebody How Good He Is!  


Sharing our faith was never meant to be private, but for some it is a feeling of discomfort of making their faith publicly known.  I'm not talking about standing on the street corner with a bull horn, or passing out tracts; but stepping into every opportunity God provides us whether small or large to confess from our hearts Who we love, have trust and faith in.



 



To shrink back from doing this is to refuse God's control of your life.  It is to follow emotional fears of being looked at differently and treated differently by those who do not Follow and belong to Jesus....and you know....that is alright also..becasue we Are different...in a Good way.

Here are some of the opportunities that the Lord Will provide in your daily life to have a chance to share your Faith with others.  Not running folk down screaming they are going to hell, not judging them for being who they are, not acting So strange that they are fearful of learning about the Lord...NO, none of that...But through the way we live, act, re-act, and speak will others see our Father and want to know about His Son.

WHEN BY THE NATURAL EYE AND EAR--ALL SEEMS LOST AND A LOST CAUSE....

This is how we are known as belonging to the Lord....

By our unfailing Trust in Him...

 By our Joy--Fully released, especially in the difficulties that we encounter along The Way...

By our tender and sincere compassion and concern for the weak and the wandering....

By our total acceptance of His Eternal Life

By our immediate and complete obedience to the Leading of His Holy Spirit, Especially when we do Not fully understand why, and when unbelievers say It can't be done!

By the Growth in our Spiritual development--This is proof of inner life which alone can engender it.

By our unflinching, honest adherence to His Truth, which makes Him known more and more to others.

By the way in which we Wait on the Lord after we give Him our issues and concerns--waiting in Joy, in anticipation and assurance that He Is taking care of our needs, and not waiting full of worry, doubt and fearful, or by getting in the way...

By our conduct and speech, ever bearing Witness because of His Spirit dwelling wihtin and round us--Bearing Witness to The Power and The Wonder of His Presence.

And, 
Because we are re-learning the definition of what True, Unconditional Love is--

Because we have let go of and continue to let go of living by the conditions, constraints and oppression that human love is governed by....

Because we have tasted the Sweetness of His unconditionaLove for us ...

Because daily we are being changed by His Love, Into His love...And we rejoice in this truth!

Because we know and understand that life with Jesus is not immunity From difficulites--But is Peace in difficulties...

Because our Joy is the Result of Faithfully Trusting and Accepting His Will, especially when it appears to Not be a Joyous direction that He sends us in....

Because He teaches us through our suffering, through our afflictions, through our tests and trials,,,,through our times in His Refiner's fires...burning away all that is not acceptable to Him and will hinder and/or stop His purposes for our lives..

As Paul learned and then shared with all what he had learned, he said, "our light affliction, which is But for a moment, works for us a Far More Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory."

We are to expect the Lord's rebuffing in us what is not acceptable to Him  until we deeply have learned this Truth.....It is the only way.

JOY Is the daughter of Calm!

Psalms 125:1

 1[a]THOSE WHO trust in, lean on, and confidently hope in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides and stands fast forever.
There are not any Luke Warm Believers in Heaven!



On feet of Faith & Peace
Joshua 1:9/ Isaiah 52
Resting In His Faithfulness,
One Day At A Time By Faith.