Do we throw this word around like confetti? Do we take these relationships for granted? We all know that there are degrees of friends… There are friends that become social media friends. Those only see your public persona. There are some that see your persona, but you let them in a few layers deeper and they get to know you just a little bit better. And then there are the ones that see past your fears, buy into your dreams so you let them touch your soul. Let's explore this word deeper ...
Come, join me as I travel back in time. And I open my heart and share a word from our Bible word study and meditation. I have fused them together to create a self-narrated story called
Tears flow silently through the soul and cleanse's the heart.
Meaning of the word cleanse, a process or period of time during which a person attempts to rid the body of substances regarded as toxic or unhealthy, typically by consuming only water or other liquids:
There are approximately 40 verses that mention the word cleanse...
Does life dirty our hands ?? Does our lack of compassion harden our hearts ??? Do our thoughts pollute our hearts and minds... Do we scar other hearts with callous actions or unkind words? Do we allow the pollution of our world to penetrate our very soul? Are we a sluggish society?Are we broken? Are we bruised ??
How do we find the beauty our world once had? How do we find that soft place to fall? How do we change our hearts...
Many of us try to wash the wounds of life... And travel on our way without healing. We become lost or maybe distracted and continue our daily routine without much change?? This action may result in a darkness that makes your soul silently grieve and your heart harden.
How do we change the heaviness we feel... How do we learn to trust again? How do we heal our scars? How do we learn to love again?
When we think of the word cleanse. Perhaps we think of washing...We think of restoring ... We think of the word refreshing ...
I can only share what I have experienced during my journey. And how I found the freedom to chase God's love with all that I am... At the time I did not know Him. I knew of Him... There is a beautiful difference...
I do not know why, but one day He whispered my name... And that Is how this amazing journey began.
As days passed, He began to share a beautiful love that tore down my walls. Walls that had been built to protect my heart. As the walls crumbled... I found myself meekly standing there alone, with only His love... I had never felt a love so pure, so warm, so heavenly.. There are not enough words to describe His love.
I felt that my heart was being circumcised... I felt stripped, bewildered, and confused. I did not understand the magnitude of His love or His plan for me. I could not run... I had no place to hide... He saw the raw me, the true me... Yet He lovingly held me as I faced my insecurities and fears.
And as He took my wounded heart in His loving hands He began to shave the layers of dirt from my life... He spoke words of love to my soul. I felt a freedom that I could not contain... Tears fell like rain from the deepest chambers of my heart...His love opened my soul and eased the chokehold I had placed on my life...
He taught me how to let go and breathe again...
It was at that moment in time I fell in love and surrendered my heart to the one who knows me better than I know myself...
His love runs so deep... His care is so gentle and kind... He sees us through our failures and helps us rise from the ashes. He revels in our victories. There is no one anywhere that can even compare!!!
I believe His love contains beautiful healing oxygen that frees our souls...
This cleansing process can be heartfelt. Facing your inner fears and yourself can be difficult at times. But I have found that with pain there is growth... There is an inner peace that comes from traveling this road of life with Him.
There is an amazing love transformation that happens within our heart and soul... When you began to love with no boundaries. This includes loving who you are becoming.
Over time I have learned to just close my eyes, open my heart and trust Him with my life... But I must say... Loving Him is the best thing I have ever done...
It’s Him... It’s always Him...
PS...I am a work in progress ... I am at the mercy of my Master’s loving hands... He WOWs me.
That’s where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me the right path and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness. so that I can bring honor to his name. Even when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness, fear will never conquer me, for you already have! Your authority is my strength and my peace. The comfort of your love takes away my fear. Psalm 23:3-5 TPT
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness. Nathaniel Parker Willis
The meaning of render To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
The word render is referred to in the Bible approximately 111 times...
Is rendering the act of delivering something? Is it a message?? Is it the act of surrendering...
I can relate to this word on many levels. During my amazing spiritual journey, I have been rendered speechless many times ...
I have surrendered my heart and I have been asked to deliver a message. A message that was not for me alone... It was given to me to share by a soul that with time I have learned to love with all that I am...
It was a message that seem so simple... But yet so confusing. It was hidden deep within my soul...He was the only one that had this kind of power. He had to gently and methodically unlock my once bound heart.
I had never felt a love so deep or with such intensity... It was so difficult to contain..... But as I tried to understand why me ?? I felt so inadequately equipped to deliver such a beautiful message...
But as I listened to my Creator's gentle persuasion, I learned to wholeheartedly trust Him. He has taught me to love without boundaries... He has given me the joy of laughter... He has guided my heart on an amazing journey... He taught me to treasure the beauty of each day. He has given me the gift of people... Some were fleeting moments in time... Some decided to stay and learn more about this gift... All of them were an important part of growing this LOVE ... Some even taught me the art of forgiveness... Some shared in the beauty of sharing life.
My life changed, my love grew, and my confidence and His message of LOVE grew stronger in me each day... I no longer worried about what others would think... And on that pivotal day, I decided to throw caution to the wind and live life...LARGE
By rendering my heart and soul to the one who gave me life...
I came to the realization... That I had been soulfully lost ... and He was the only answer.
He has been chasing me for a long time... But one day on a lonely road in middle Tennessee. I must have stood still long enough to hear my Shepard’s voice gently calling my name...
And it made me wonder ...
Was the “ONE" referred to in the Bible Scripture Luke 15:4 "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
He knew it was time to capture my heart! He knew I desperately needed Him... He knew my heart was primed and ready to accept His LOVE ...
But most importantly my heart was ready to LOVE Him back with the same intensity He LOVEs me.
It's Him, It's always been Him.
He renders me speechless!!! ❤❤❤
And they were astonished above measure, saying, He does all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak. Mark 7:37
Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.- Patrick Swayze...
Meaning of hesitation the action of pausing or hesitating before saying or doing something:
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions... life is full of decisions ... But wait ...I am not ready yet... Hold on..what about tomorrow? What makes us hesitate? Fear? Over analyzing? Rejection? Doubt? Worried what others may think?
What is it that makes us have any hesitation when we speak of our Creator, His amazing Son, and the beautiful Holy Spirit? I have found that many people hesitate or even hide their true feelings or only worship Him in the silence of their mind for fear of what others may think?
There are times in our lives our hesitation can and will paralyze us just where we stand. ...This can hinder us from becoming everything God intended us to be...
How do break the chains? How do we embrace freedom and cast caution to the wind ??? How do we become publicly confident in showing our love for Elohim? How do we learn to travel this amazing freeing journey to a brighter God-given destination? How do we let our light shine without any hesitation??
Truly it’s Him, for with Him all things are possible... The more time you spend getting to know His beauty and love, the braver and stronger your faith in Him becomes.
As your relationship grows, You will begin to wait on Him. You will learn to heed His guiding whispers... You will trust Him with all facets of your life... It's at that pivotal moment in time you will throw caution to the wind and let the world know how you truly feel, knowing full well that if you fall... He will catch you without any hesitation!!! There is an amazing freedom that comes with letting go and LOVING HIM.....
Cast your fears to the wind...
And JUST JUMP... Feel that freedom to live life large and love with all that you are !!!
It's HIM... It's always Him... Catch me I am falling in LOVE...
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Mark 12:40
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. Matthew 21:43
The heavens proclaim the glory of God...night after night they make him known (Psalm 19:1,2).
At Even Ere the Sun Was Set
As the sun is setting in the evening sky. The colors are bright orange and red. Spectacular visions to our eyes. How can He show such rare beauty? It is His gift of love for us to behold.
Father, though the evening of this world is here, we come with the hurt, the sick, the prisoners, and all who need You.
Jesus - At evening they brought all the sick to You. You took all pain and sickness to the cross as well as man’s sin. With every blow, wound, bruise, and touch of the spear you took it all. And at the end, You said “Father forgive them.” The thunder sounded in the darkness and the earth shook as You breathed your last breath and said, “It is finished”.
It was evening.
As watchers of this scene went home. So sad. They did not know that Jesus had fulfilled His assignment, the Lamb of God had been slain. He was slain for you and me. The redeeming price had been paid. The evening sacrifice had been made.
Soon the evening and darkness would turn to dawn. He was raised by our Holy Spirit. And early that morning on the third day He appeared. They had last seen Him in the evening on the cross.
Now He is alive and He is still healing the hurt, the lost, and those without hope. He says come, In this evening of time, His touch is the same as in ancient times. Come to the One who loves you with eternal love. Love this One who gave His all. Love Him with all your heart, soul, and mind.
Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised.
Psalm 65:8 They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs: You make the dawn and the sunsets shout for joy.
The soul of Man must quicken to creation. T. S. Eliot:
Meaning of quicken: make or become faster or quicker: to stimulate or become stimulated:
The word quicken seems to appear eighteen times in the Bible.
When I started to peel back the pages on this word, my mind deferred this word to my soul. My understanding of this word pointed me to memories within my own journey...
Before my Holy Spirit Encounter I can say I did not feel my soul ... I knew she was in there and she existed within my human frame. But I really did not give my soul much thought.
My soul was dormant.. my soul lived in the darkness deep within... hiding quietly just waiting to be set free.
I do believe many Christians call this amazing event being born again. A concept that many nonbelievers truly do not understand.
But from my experience and many others that I have spoken to in my journey, there is one very important common denominator. It’s our amazing Creator ... He comes to us as our Heavenly Father, perhaps Jesus, or maybe even the Holy Spirit... Our Creator comes to us in a way that is unique to each individual and how they will relate and respond to Him...
Being born again seems to be a deeper soulful state of consciousness. It's when our soul is set free to love our Creator with all our heart, soul, and mind... When this awaking or quickening happens, that is when our Creator ignites a fire within our dormant soul...
As always I must state I am not an expert I can only speak from my heart and from my own experience...
When the Holy Spirit touched my life... The event blew me away and over time I gained a better understanding of being born again ... This heavenly gift seemed to heighten all of my senses... I became awe-struck and I had a renewed sense of appreciation for the beauty of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I began to see life in a new exciting light... Little did I realize it was His light shining from within my soul. I spoke many times of feeling like a child and tasting life as never before...
To feel His amazing love has been beyond my earthly understanding... But my soul has been set free... There are not enough words in all the world to adequately describe it... It is a taste of Heaven and He leaves our souls craving more!!
This process I know as quickening is when a heavenly experience ignites the dormant flame of life within your sleeping soul... He sets that once dormant heart into a flame that yearns for more ...
Once you have been given this gift you will travel on the most enlightening journey of your life.. and it does not stop there... He will take your heart places you never thought possible...
It’s Him, it's always Him.
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth Psalm 119:88
When we think of Everlasting love. We began to search our souls for answers. And as we try to understand this timetable. And if we are lucky our soul will enlighten us.
But I feel as long as we are in our earthly bodies we will never truly understand the dynamics and full beauty of this word our Creator so graciously put into His heavenly plan.
Come, join me as I travel back in time. And I open my heart and share a word from our Bible word study and meditation. I have fused them together to create a self-narrated story called
In worship, God captures your heart; when he’s got it, then the real work begins. ― Matt Redman.
There are numerous definitions of the word worship. Yet, one, in particular, encapsulates the priority we should give to worship as a spiritual discipline: Worship is to honor with extravagant love and extreme submission.
The word worship seems to be used approximately 40 times in Leviticus when it describes how to sacrifice and bring offerings to God.
The word worship can reflect a few different actions that could constitute and be viewed as types of worship. For example, there is praise, song, dancing, spiritual gifts, sacrifice, daily devotionals...
I believe it’s a personal choice between you and your Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit... They know our hearts intimately.. I do feel there are degrees of intensity depending on where and when the action of worship takes place...
In my opinion, there is no wrong or right way. It's that deep personal relationship that most of us crave and are chasing. If you are truly blessed to feel His amazing love or you have a strong conviction in your soul you are most likely on the right track...
Emotions from the heart must be fully engaged or you will be just going through the motions... Are your actions sincere? Or are they for the show? Where is your heart? That is a question that only you and our Creator can answer...
We have been given scriptures that direct us to love God with ALL our hearts, soul, and mind...
When we worship we should be “fully engaged” and in “total surrender.” The action of LOVING Him should be our only thought... When we can achieve that “extravagant love exchange” with our Heavenly Father it should tantalize all of our senses... We are placed in a state of being fully immersed in His love... The word consumed seems to best describe the relationship our Father desires from His Children...
However, the operative word is ALL ... He desires every part of who we are. All of our LOVE All of our devotion. All ....?
The question becomes what is your definition of ALL? The full hour on Sunday ?? Or is it more ??
How we relate and how we achieve this goal is a personal commitment between you and our Creator... It takes time and discipline and a yearning heart to totally surrender to His All-consuming LOVE... He is the only one that is truly worthy of a love that is so sovereign, so extravagant...and yet so intimate...
He has been reaching out, He has been tugging at our hearts... He has been whispering ALL of our names!!! He is gathering and waiting for His children to be ALL in!!
It’s Him, It’s always Him...
His love is so difficult to contain!!... I worship the Holy ground He walks on!!! He WOWs me! 😍🙃🔥
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16
Elohim, touches hearts with an unforgettable love, from here to eternity.
Meaning of unforgettable impossible to forget; very memorable:
Ops I forgot to find out how many times the word unforgettable is written in the Bible...
The mind is such a fascinating gift... We seem to run on long and short-term memories. Our daily tasks are stored in our short-term memory and deeper memories make up highlighted times in our lives. And then they are stored in our long-term memory...
How do these memories affect our hearts, our emotions, and our mood???
The emotional memories have what are known as emotional memory triggers. This help guides our lives by protecting our hearts, our mind, and our physical being. For example “ Don’t play with fire you may get burned” a memory of getting burned could stop us from making the same mistake... However, a “feel” good memory will keep us yearning for more of the same”
I question if we know our Creator at birth is there a memory built at that moment in time? Has it stayed hidden deep within our minds? Has it laid dormant, just waiting for that memory to be ignited by special triggers He Himself planted in our minds...
These “feel good” memories of knowing Him so long ago... leaves us with an empty yearning, and a desire to fill a void that has haunted our soul?
What is it about our Creator that makes Him so unforgettable? He has so many outstanding qualities... But do we only scratch the surface ... Do we take the time to make long and short-term memories of Him???
I believe rituals and devotionals, and reading the Bible becomes a special part of our short-term memories... However, when we close our eyes and can “feel” His presence, We can open our spiritual mind to amazing wonder. We can see with our spiritual eyes His true beautiful brilliance. We can be swept away into His heavenly realm. By spending spiritual time with Him we can create long-term intimate memories. These beautiful heartfelt memories leave us with a thirst and a yearning in our soul to return to His unforgettable LOVE, time and time again...
I can only share my thoughts and my own experiences that have built with Him... Many will think of it as being odd... Some may think that I am losing my mind... However, I would not change one day, one minute, or even one second that I have spent loving Him and growing to know His beauty...
He has gifted me with such beautiful memories, memories that have tapped into emotions that I never knew even existed. He has open my heart to His world of wonder.
But as the lyrics of a beautiful song states “ He thinks I am unforgettable too” Now looking back on my journey He has been chasing me with such a relentless heart... I can not thank Him enough for never forgetting me...
The question becomes am I in His short or long-term memory? Is His love permanently ingrained in my heart and mind? Will I chase Him with the same relentless vigor He has shown me?
Forgive me as I settle into a meditative state and make sweet memories with my Creator ... His presence will ignite my emotional triggers and my heart will be freed to FEEL His grace and everlasting love ... He is an unforgettable force of amazing wonder...
He wows me!!
It’s him, It’s always Him! He posses that relentless love we seek...
“Ask, and the gift is yours. Seek, and you’ll discover. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. Matthew 7:7 TPT
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix....
Meaning of world the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features:
There are approximately 62 verses that refer to the word world in the Bible.
What kind of mind can create such wonder. When we stop and think of the elements that make up our planet .... land, air, water... and all living things ...
Including you and me...
Personally, I can't wait to meet the Creator of such amazing beautiful wonder... I deeply admire His creative mind... His thoughtful heart...I Love His LOVE and kindness it is such a heavenly gift ...
As a limited creator myself ... I can only imagine how He feels ... He poured His heart and soul into His work and created this masterpiece of wonder we call home... And then He handed His legacy to us, His children... We were given the honor of being the caretakers of His world... Do you think He is proud or disappointed?
I feel It must break His heart to see how we have abused His beautiful gift...
We as a people have polluted and eroded a once beautiful giving world... However the sun continues to shine, flowers continue to bloom, fish continue to swim, and mankind continues to grow...
Will we ever get it right? Will we ever truly appreciate our Creator's work. Will, we right the wrongs in my lifetime, or will I see sadly the days of our final demise ... I can only pray not...
Many of us think the end of our world is God's will ??? Is it? Or has He placed it in our control?
Are we are failing Him? Is there time to turn things around? Is there time to LOVE our world and learn the art of caring for all of mankind.. Not just chosen few? He created His children to LOVE? Is there time to care for all things... Is there time to right all the wrongs? We can not control all things but perhaps we can make a difference where we stand... ❤
Truly it is in our best interest to not disappoint Him. He has always wanted the best for His children... We have been set apart... We are all loved deeply by our Creator. We are such an important part of His masterpiece... We are all a part of is master plan.
It's His Love that has brought us this far... Its is with Him all things are possible.
It's Him, It's always been Him.
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only Matthew 24:36
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? Matthew 24:3
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2:5
The meaning of GAP: an opening or breach in a fence or a wall.
In times like these, God is looking for those who will stand in the GAP. What is it He is wanting these people to do?
My thoughts go to the verse “If my people will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked way. Then I will hear them.”
As I thought about the word GAP. I remember something I would watch my father do when I was a child. When our car was not running right my father would take all the spark plugs out of the engine and take a small wire brush and clean all the carbon and build up around the GAP of the spark plug.
Then he would take a “feeler gauge” and make sure the space in the GAP was just right. And put the plugs back in the engine. When the electricity came from the battery and hit that clean plug there would be a spark that would ignite the mixture of fuel and oxygen and the car would run perfectly.
What lesson did I learn??
We are much like that spark plug. We should yield to the Holy Spirit to teach us how to clean the sludge and darkness from our lives while bringing us closer to our Heavenly Father.
We must be ready, we must be strong. We may be called upon to be that missing link in the chain of someone's life.
We must tune in to God's frequency and listen to our Heavenly Father's voice. He may appoint us to be that missing link. He may ask us are you ready to stand strong in my name, for a family member, a friend, a city, a situation. The question will be... are you ready?
Spend time with Him. Grow to know His heart and learn to heed His call... Let's open our hearts and love Him with all of our hearts, soul, and mind...
I urge you... be ready to be His GAP - God's Appointed Person
Timothy writes to believers:
“Most of all, I’m writing to encourage you to pray with gratitude to God. Pray for all men with all forms of prayers and requests as you intercede with intense passion.”
1 Timothy 2:1 TPT
PS
Our God loves worshipers.
“I am overcome by merely a glance from your worshiping eyes, for you have stolen my heart.”
