My heart has been reworked and I am grateful that God would spend the time to reach me where I am. I'm so needy and God's answer to that is... "GOOD, I want you to need Me."
If I slow down just enough to hear His voice, it not only transforms my heart, but I'm then able to help others. ONLY THEN. I often try to help others before listening to God. I can pray to Him, but to LISTEN? To wait for Him to bring to me the people He desires me to talk to and possibly have part in some form of healing??? AWE-SOME!
God is so good to answer my feeble prayers... I suppose my heart is in, or at least close to the "right place" in this. Thank you for instilling in me Your strength, because mine certainly falls short every time. It may be a slow process some days for me to remember where my source of Life is, but please keep whopping me over the head if you need to or to whisper gently to get my attention. Oh, Lord, thank you for your everlasting patience. :)
Isaiah 6
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Meekness
I don't think I've ever really understood the word meek. Being meek is not being weak. When we look at scriptures and see Moses, David, and even Jesus thriving in meekness, being weak is certainly not in our thoughts.
Meekness is teachability. Really, it's another form of humility.
"It is the readiness to be shown, which includes the readiness to lay down my fixed notions, my objections and "what-ifs" or "but what abouts," my certainties about rightness of what I have always done or thought or said. It's a child's glad "Show me! Is this the way? Please help me." We wont make it into the kingdom without that childlikeness, that simple willingness to be taught and corrected and helped." E. Elliot from Keep a Quiet Heart.
Oh, how I could use meekness in my life...
James 1:21
Isaiah 29:19
Matthew 11:29
Psalm 25:9
Meekness is teachability. Really, it's another form of humility.
"It is the readiness to be shown, which includes the readiness to lay down my fixed notions, my objections and "what-ifs" or "but what abouts," my certainties about rightness of what I have always done or thought or said. It's a child's glad "Show me! Is this the way? Please help me." We wont make it into the kingdom without that childlikeness, that simple willingness to be taught and corrected and helped." E. Elliot from Keep a Quiet Heart.
Oh, how I could use meekness in my life...
James 1:21
Isaiah 29:19
Matthew 11:29
Psalm 25:9
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Words from my dear friend Elisabeth Elliot:
In reference to "Spiritual Opposition". I have been holding onto this tightly this week:
E.L. Langston:
The devil does not like that paper nor its articles, and is evidently attacking you in your inmost heart, not causing you to doubt so much as causing the spirit of discontent. Fortunately, we both know that temptation is not a sin, it is yielding to temptation that causes us to sin and I feel that you must count it joy that you are passing through these times of difficulty, for they are sure signs that the LORD is blessing you...
There is another reason, I think, for the cause of the feeling within us. It comes from the flesh and self-introspection. It is good for us to look at self and know how loathsome it is, but with one look at self we must take ten looks at Christ...
No one goes to Church more than the devil does, and no one appears as an angel of light as he does. We are in the thick of facing powers of darkness who are determined to rob us of Him and rob God of us, and you and I, my brother, have just got to hope in Christ and rely on Him for His Spirit to direct our thoughts, our ways, and our works so that it is not us but Christ in us.
E. Elliot:
Wasn't it wonderful that that letter be preserved so that I "chanced upon it" in the hour of my need? But that is so like the LORD, for it is through the tender austerity of our very troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He want to fill with Himself, His joy, His life. The more unsatisfactory my "performance," the more He calls me to share His yoke. I should know by now that mine makes me tired and overburdened. He urges me to learn of Him: "I am gentle and humble in heart."
I have been needing this prayer this week and have been praying for these words for years. It's incredible that an answer to prayer BE a prayer. I see this as joy... no matter how hard or terribly painful. Jesus suffered more...
E.L. Langston:
The devil does not like that paper nor its articles, and is evidently attacking you in your inmost heart, not causing you to doubt so much as causing the spirit of discontent. Fortunately, we both know that temptation is not a sin, it is yielding to temptation that causes us to sin and I feel that you must count it joy that you are passing through these times of difficulty, for they are sure signs that the LORD is blessing you...
There is another reason, I think, for the cause of the feeling within us. It comes from the flesh and self-introspection. It is good for us to look at self and know how loathsome it is, but with one look at self we must take ten looks at Christ...
No one goes to Church more than the devil does, and no one appears as an angel of light as he does. We are in the thick of facing powers of darkness who are determined to rob us of Him and rob God of us, and you and I, my brother, have just got to hope in Christ and rely on Him for His Spirit to direct our thoughts, our ways, and our works so that it is not us but Christ in us.
E. Elliot:
Wasn't it wonderful that that letter be preserved so that I "chanced upon it" in the hour of my need? But that is so like the LORD, for it is through the tender austerity of our very troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He want to fill with Himself, His joy, His life. The more unsatisfactory my "performance," the more He calls me to share His yoke. I should know by now that mine makes me tired and overburdened. He urges me to learn of Him: "I am gentle and humble in heart."
I have been needing this prayer this week and have been praying for these words for years. It's incredible that an answer to prayer BE a prayer. I see this as joy... no matter how hard or terribly painful. Jesus suffered more...
Food for the day...
Toaster Strudels
Cherry Coke
Cheetos
Oatmeal Cream Pie
I don't know why I ate crap all day... and not much either. But I thought it was really funny. I forgot to take a break at work tonight even though I brought dinner with me. I ate the Cheetos and Oatmeal Cream Pie though. :)
I'm a really big dork.
Cherry Coke
Cheetos
Oatmeal Cream Pie
I don't know why I ate crap all day... and not much either. But I thought it was really funny. I forgot to take a break at work tonight even though I brought dinner with me. I ate the Cheetos and Oatmeal Cream Pie though. :)
I'm a really big dork.
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