“He mantled us with His Spirit and with authority to rebuild the ancient paths,
He gave us wisdom to restore generations,
He gave us might to repair the walls which were crumbling.
God gave us breath and understanding to speak
God gave us space and knowledge to create
God gave us counsel and dominion to write new decrees =>
and awe in Him to reverse illegal documents of confusion.
=> to release upon the earth what He has spoken <=
Dominion is ours
Begin by releasing the Logos (written) Word – the Spoken Word.
Believe Trustworthiness ==> Him.
“…He holds all by the power of His word…”
Hebrews 1:3
God first created with His Word and His creative power, the house which would facilitate the results of His Word/Will.”
How can it be said that, “God no longer communicates directly with humanity?” Jesus exemplified for us how He succeeded in daily living, and the key was 2-way focused conversation. He with His Father. Therefore, Jesus did those things He saw His Father doing-those things which pleased the heart of His Father. They worked in partnership with each other.
Heart yielded – son
Father’s love – received
Eyes open — seer
Response – greater works
As God’s children and Christ’s friends, we too must be able to see what God is doing, so that we in turn do likewise (John 5:20).
“Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself,
unless it is something He sees the Father doing;
for whatever the Father does,
these things the Son also does in like manner.
“For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all
things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will
show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.”
A healthy relationship between son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister will cause one to continue communications with one another. The lack of communication results in an abrupt stop in relationship development. God loves “healthy!” He would never stop communication.
Let the lie be uncovered, which says “God doesn’t speak to me.” This is based in fear, false perception of God, and/or false teaching. Fear of abandonment is produced from this. Believe truth by push through the fear by accepting His love. He loooovvvveeessss us!!! Say it, “He loves meeeeeeeee!” Let it go deep. Yay!
Stay Connected!
Practice!
Believe that He is communicating with you!
Look with the eyes of your heart!
“Let His words become flesh, through your actions. This way He will dwell among you!”
ps. He loves us too much to stop communicating.
love,
briskilla
“The earth is God’s footstool, and we are the “legs of God” upon the earth.
“You set the glory and the honor on his head.
And you have authorized him by submitting everything of your hands,
and submitted everything under his feet…”
Hebrews 2:7, 8
While standing in a city located in China, sharing a story with my new friends; to my right hand side, I kept being shown (in my spirit eyes) the feet of Jesus Christ. The ability to view the lower part of His legs and His feet, as they were nailed to the cross was causing such a brokenness within me. Such a painful, bloody, and moving reality.
In response to me asking God, why He was enabling me to see this, He allowed me to feel His answer within my heart. I knew that there was someone sitting in front of the cross who had paid the price through religious imprisonment/persecution and had accepted the invitation to “becoming His feet on the earth.”
The sufferings that we go through here on the earth (for the sake of the love of Christ) produce within us the faith and strength to be His feet on the earth.
Any limitations we perceive can either be self inflicted, demonically inflicted, human opinion, and/or generationally built by decisions spoken or acted out by us or those who have lived before us. God said He has released to us His resurrection power and no one or thing can stop us EXCEPT our own opposing view point.
“…that through death He might render powerless
him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
and might free those who through fear of death
were subject to slavery all their lives…”
Hebrews 2:14-15
Death, bondage, fear, slavery is not our portion.
(ahhhhh, can you see Him? Look inside the womb of His resurrection power)
To know Him and the power of His resurrection!!
Learn of the wealth of His limitless deliverance.
Let your feet journey on the mountain sides.
He gave us courageous hearts, and beautiful legs to carry us to the nations!!
love,
briskilla
God sent His Son into the depth of hell to retrieve the keys of the souls of mankind – death no longer the conclusion. The Accuser’s written and spoken plans crushed.
(All are invited into His house. Come on in!!)
The sting of words, created by darkness, destroyed.
Hell and the grave is not our portion.
The oath of death against mankind;
the separation from God,
the dark decrees — words of vial hate
dealt with once and for all.
Eternity.
Hell has no precedence over The Word of Life.
Allow the sound of His Words (His opinion) to dance through your heart and your atmosphere today! (All He is looking for is the heart felt spoken invitation)
love,
briskilla
God created the heavens and the earth and within that framework He said, “LIVE!”
When He said “Live” His Words were not bound by the capabilities of earth, but measured by His limitless nature, and the availability of heaven’s parameters.
God sent His Son to show us the “what’s”, “how’s”, ” who”, “when’s”, “where’s”; which means that heaven was open to us. (He wouldn’t show us and then keep the door closed).
He opened the DOOR
He tore the VEIL
HE LIVES
no shut door
no reinstated veil
His life not lost
Our life won
The throne room of God and all that is within the heavenly realms is our open heavens, where we are seated with Him who is LIFE.
LIVE in His playground and Worship Him.
love,
briskilla
“He said, “I have given you the mind of Christ,” and in so doing it wasn’t for us to guess our daily life’s work, but it was for us to accept His delegation of responsibilities and privileges; which is to create with Him on the earth. Creativity a gift.
He is looking for those who will see what Jesus sees.
He is looking for those who will believe their position with Him.
He is looking for those who will trust His acceleration of life on earth =>
the reality of Resurrection power.
Stepping into what Resurrection really is!
(How lovely are the feet of Him who brings good news.)
Be the Living (resurrected) Word made flesh! =>
We are filled with Him, He is resurrection power =>
make room for Him to manifest!
(“If our decisions, our answer, our movements are not framed in the reality of Resurrection power and life, than we are aiming too low. Our work will not produce it’s highest capability.”)”
*Check out: 1 Corinthians 2, 1 Peter 1, 2 Peter 1
Love,
Briskilla
Our God is the God of Creativity
His Light is the Seed that leads to Life
Words He spoke more than a millennia ago are still creating …
He created Adam and Eve … today humanity still births.
He called forth the galaxies … today astronomers still discover new galaxies.
He created the stars and their life cycles … today this continues.
He created vegetation … today seeds still bear the fruit of their kind.
He established seasons … today the seasons still turn.
He designed nations with boundaries … today every nation
established by His design has a boundary.
His voice creates.
His sound resonates in every living thing.
All of creation still responds to His sound and presence.
All of creation groans for the revelation of His sons.
We live inside this world—His spoken creation, “the Word spoken.”
Can you hear Him speaking, creating, calling?
“And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.”
Col. 1:17
Love, Briskilla
Edits by Ali
You empower me to create with a
tool unseen by the natural eye,
yet daily heard—my words.
Words spoken down through the ages have constructed edifices/structures above, beneath, around, and in us. Many words, merely conceived in our hearts, create the paths we find ourselves walking today. The mind is the womb of the heart. Thoughts are seeds that gestate to full term. The evidence of what is enthroned in our souls becomes our reality.
Where LIFE has been granted room (by our own will) and spoken—where life thoughts are formed—we partake of the joy, peace, and fruit of the strength of our words believed … LIFE, there He is present.
Where our thoughts agree with the demeaning of self-and/or circumstances we often sense the inability to move, work, or complete tasks. The emotion of inner sadness, perception of being less than average, and constant wheels spinning result in a perceived emptiness … and we birth the wind of lifeless gestures. DEATH. There God waits for us to turn.
The power we hold is magnificent in authority, whether it be displayed in our hearts, seeded through our thoughts, or acted upon verbally to self or others. Edifices built either by agreement with Light and Life or with Darkness and Death (the world absent of Light) are our two options. Which do we choose?
Our words become “flesh” and dwell among us.
(adapted from John 1:14)
“For all who are being led by the Spirit of God,
these are the sons of God.”
Romans 8:14 (nasv)
LOVE, briskilla
Edits by Ali
If one sees the treasure and importance of womanhood, one has seen how much God celebrates the creation of the female side of His family.
Creator God, is the founder of creativity. When He constructed the DNA of womanhood, He was releasing into her a most treasured and hidden essence of Him. It was the essence of convergence.
There is a precise gathering moment when all the materials needed to bring to life the Designer’s dream takes place. These “materials” are engineered carefully to fit together, function together, and produce a genuine “article” of excellence and beauty. This is usually built in a “safe place” “creative place”-“a place true freedom, light, and life.” And until that “piece” is completed the Creators thoughts and intentions of heart continue to bath the final outcome with faith in what is coming forth; working through ideas which keep coming, love, assisting in the “protecting and development” of the Designer’s Dream. The wait. The gestation. The nurturing.
God created the earth. It became formless and void. (Some believe this occurred when lucifer was removed from his Throne Room position). At this point He who is the ultimate Creator/Architect of creation, did not abandon what He had created, but send His Spirit to brew over the void and formlessness of what He had made. His Spirit hovered over the face of the waters (which covered the earth). His Spirit was not silent, but nurtured the earth until it was time to once again bring light and order to what was created.
The Spirit of God and the water wombed the earth until the set time of breakthrough: when God broke the hold of the waters and sent them to their designated place; vast waters pulling away from the earth, revealing the beautiful land which was waiting to be displayed with incredible forests, deserts, rivers and creeks, the highest of mountains, crops, creatures of the sea and land, , lights in the sky for the day and night. This the home of man and womankind.
Woman is a facilitator who loves to brew over, create, nurture, discerns, foresee, cultivate her spirit, cultivate what is given to her, loves to be close to the Spirit Life of God, loves to be loved, loves to build, loves to war and defend the weak, and loves to love. She has the capability of carrying within her womb the convergence of all ingredients necessary to bring forth to full term the beauty of ultimate life – humankind. And when it is time to birth; pain is no match for her, she will travail with all her strength, fighting to bring into this world the outcome (the fruit) of love — the Designer’s design.
The woman and her God-given ability to be a carrier of the Designer’s creation is incredible. Her womb (both natural and spiritual wombs) is the safest place on this earth. This “secret place” which every creator needs is EXEMPLIFIED most beautifully through the life of a woman. The ingenuity of the female race is magnificent by design.
He is man and she is woman. Without her, what He desires to birth cannot see it’s moment of convergence. It is only through convergence that His and Her dream can be witnessed. Her Womb is the safe place for His seed – Her travail is the war needed to see what was created come to life in it’s full form.
Esther’s, Deborah’s, Jael’s, Hannah’s, Mary’s womb was needed for destiny’s fulfillment. ____________ (place your name here) you are needed in your life time. You are invited to display the beauty of the outcome of your union with God. You are invited to exemplify what Kingdom Designing is. You are a creator, a facilitator, an administrator, and executioner of God’s world on earth.
Cultures are shifting. Safe places created through His Word and Spirit, His righteousness and justice, dance and joy, freedom and peace, truth and wisdom, deliverance and healing are necessary for the healthy birth. The execution of the design was exemplified through the first mother formed, Eve. Redemption birthed into the earth through Mary the Mother of Jesus. And Woman’s restoration proclaimed through the woman known as Mary of Magdala. The final execution will be exemplified and carried out by the final bride-mother-queen. Her name is the Bride of Christ. That is you (both male and female) and all those who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, conceived through the Holy Spirit and brought forth through the womb of His woman-His Bride.
🗝👑🗝
“المرأة”
إن رأى المرء أهمية الأنوثة، فقد شهد كيف يحتفل الله بخليقته في الجانب الأنثوي من عائلته.
الله الخالق، هو مؤسس الإبداع. عندما قام ببناء الحمض النووي للأنوثة، كان يطلق في داخلها جوهر منه مخبّأٌ وغالي الثمن. وقد كان جوهر التقارب.
هناك نقطة ما فيها يتم جمع كل المواد اللازمة لإحياء حلم المصمم. هذه “المواد” صُممت بعناية لتتناسب معاً، تعمل معاً، وتُنتج “مادة” حقيقية من الجمال المتميِّز. وعادة ما يتم بناءه في “مكانٍ آمن” “مكانٍ إبداعي” – “مكان مليء بالحرية، النور، والحياة.” وحتى تكتمل تلك “القطعة” فإن أفكار المبدعين، نوايا القلب، “تُغطِّس” النتيجة النهائية بالأفكار الصامتة – الأفكار التي تتوالى، بالمحبة، للمساعدة في “حماية وتنمية” حلم المصمم.
خلق الله الأرض. أصبحت خربة وخالية. في هذه المرحلة ذاك الذي هو الخالق النهائي / المهندس المعماري للخلق، لم يتخلّ عن خليقته، بل أرسل روحه لما هو خرِب وخالِ والذي قد صنعه. روحه رفَّ على وجه المياه (التي قد غطّت الأرض). روحه لم يكُن صامتاً، بل قام برعاية الأرض حتى حان الوقت مرة أخرى للإتيان بالنور والنظام على ما تم إنشاؤه.
الروح والماء احتضنا الأرض حتى مجيء الوقت المحدد للاختراق، عندما أرسل الله المياه التي كانت تغطي الأرض إلى مكانها المحدد لها، وكشف عن الأرض الجميلة التي كانت تنتظر إظهارها بالنباتات المذهلة، الحيوانات، البشر، الأنوار للنهار والليل، الخ الخ.
المرأة هي التي تُهيئ، تُغذي، تُميِّز، تعتني بروحها، تعتني بما هو لها، تُحب أن تكون قريبة من روح الله الحي، وتُحب لتكون محبوبة. لديها القدرة على أن تحمل داخل رحمها التقارب بين جميع المكونات اللازمة للتتميم الكامل لجمال الحياة المُطلقة. وعندما يحين الوقت للولادة، فإنها ستمر بالعناء بكل قوتها، مُحاربةَ للإحضار لهذا العالم نتيجة (ثمر) المحبة – تصميم المصمم.
إن المرأة ومقدرتها المُعطاة لها من الله أن تكون حاملة لخليقة المصمم لا تُصدق. إن رحمها هو المكان الأكثر أماناً على هذه الأرض. وهذا “المكان السري” الذي يحتاجه كل خالقٍ يتمثّل بجمالٍ أكبر من خلال حياة المرأة. إن براعة سباق الإناث هي رائعة منذ التصميم.
هو رجلٌ وهي امرأة. من دونها، ما كان يرغب في ولادته لا يمكنه أن يرى لحظة تقاربه. فقط من خلال التقارب يمكن مشاهدة حلمه وحلمها. رحمها هو المكان الآمن – عناءها هو الحرب لرؤية ما تم إنشاؤه يأتي للحياة في شكله الكامل.
كانت هناك حاجة لقوة أستير، دبورة، ياعيل، حنة، مريم، جان دارك في زمانهن في التاريخ. ____________ (ضعي اسمك هنا) هناك حاجة لكِ، في زمانكِ، لعرض ما سيكون عليه جمال نتائج الإدارة الرئاسية الإبداعية وتنفيذ تصميم الملكوت.
الثقافات تتغير والأماكن الآمنة التي تأثرت بالبر والعدالة، بالرقص والفرح، بالحرية والسلام، بالحق والحكمة ضرورية لولادة صحية.
لقد تمثَّل تنفيذ التصميم من خلال أول أم قد تم تشكيلها. سيتم تمثيل التنفيذ النهائي وإنجازه على يد العروس – الأم – الملكة. واسمها عروس المسيح.
Written by briskilla
Translated by Lina
A beautiful friend, Katye, sent me this postcard . I hope you enjoy this art piece created by Eleatta Diver as much as I do.
Could it be that the “Awe in God” is returning to the conscience of many?
He caught my attention this morning. Demonstrated was one aspect of His power….
“Hear, O peoples, all of you;
Listen, O earth and all it contains,
And let the Lord God be a witness against you,
The Lord from His holy temple.
For behold, the Lord is coming forth from His place.
He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
The mountains will melt under Him
And the valleys will be split,
Like wax before the fire,
Like water poured down a steep place.” Micah 1: 2-4
First of all not only people are called to hear, but the earth AND ALL that is within the earth is called to listen to the voice of the trumpeter and subsequently to He who is God! Can you sense the “ear” of the earth and creation, or the turning to listen of the “noise” throughout the earth?
For me right now, it feels like “One” who is wayyyy mightier than “one.” The “One” who is larger than all human intellect combined is about to make Himself more tangible than He already has, and when He does everything and everyone will STOP, just in time to bow minds, hearts, and bodies before Him who is Holiness.
The Highest of mountain peaks are smaller than one grain of sand in the perspective of God (His hugeness!!!!). If a mountain is so humble through His lens, what would a valley be? Governments in scripture are often symbolized by a mountain or hill depending on their measure of power. Valleys, graced along the edge of these mountains are the receptor of either the abundance of rain resulting in harvest or the lack of rain causing bitterness of soul.
What carries authority in our intellectual perceiving, and what has the result been within our valley (the place of receiving)? Is there anything that carries such a massive place of prominence within our intellect or life experience causing God to seemingly be crowded out of ones sphere?
The Lord told Micah that He was coming, and when He did, the mountains would melt and valleys split open. The mountains would become like hot wax and the valley would receive the water pouring down into the steep place.
Hmmmm, I myself (as are you) are made of earth-clay. Upon this earth the soul and our spirit are alive. When God comes to visit, every aspect of our being responds to His presence. For He is the Ultimate “mountain of authority”. He comes to melt away anything that is attempting to kill our spirit, steal from our soul, or destroy our body. In other words, what we allow to govern us must answer to God. What we allow into our personal receptors will answer to the Lord. What is of Him will remain and what is not will melt loosing its grip of influence.
Jesus said,
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
I came that they may have life,
and have it abundantly.” John 10:10
When one first reads Micah 1:2-4, the impression of God being angry might prevail in thoughts. But, in reality, He is. He is angry at strongholds which are hurting, affecting, accusing, traumatizing, and belittling people and everything He created. Towards humanity, He has a powerful never ending reality, and that is LOVE. But this love is not sappy and accepting of transgressions and iniquities.
Let us make room for Him to come, and let His foot find a place to land, for when He does our spirit, soul, and body will be free. The protective heart of God. The restorer of generations. The giver of life is on our side. The “One” offers His heart to us!
“Let’s humble ourselves in the presence of the”One”and He will exalt us.” James 4:10
Micah, the book depicting the Compassion of God.
Scribing with hope in the future.
January 2017 – Morning Thoughts
by briskilla
(photo by kellepics)
Alignment, Repentance, Clarity ….
“A safe place to land“
It’s been with great joy that I’ve had the privilege of mentoring a dear friend who happens to be Asian living in her motherland of Mainland China. (This is a nation which has become a part of my life, a nation which has been used of the Lord to change the course of my life.) We have spent hours per day listening, training–sharing hearts. Here is a letter which was recently shared, in response to a dream (shared with permission). We thought that maybe this would help someone else as well. This is part 1. For those interested in part 2 …. It’s simple, just ask.
P.S. A friend of mine helped me. In turn one in China is being encouraged in the same way… Let’s keep it going….
“Good morning, friend.
Some of the thoughts which I have had about your dream is regarding the need for refreshment/alignment/”settling in one’s spirit and soul”.
When we are involved in public service; tasks, meetings, conversations, events, corporate prayer, travel, and/or lots of interactions with people we often need to “pull away”–take time away in our place of prayer and meditation for the purpose of realignment to the Lord. This helps our soul (mind, will, and emotions), our physical well being, and our spirit to find rest and refreshment in God (Psalms 65:2, Philippians 4:6,7). Each person has their own strength, their struggles, their anointing, their opinions, and in the midst of a corporate setting much is taking place (lots of activities) both in the natural and in the spiritual realms.
It is normal–common–natural to engage people and events daily. This is life. There is no problem in this. God created us for communication, interaction; along with, building relationships events, and the Kingdom of God together. This is a beautiful sign (usually) that things have life. But, in the midst of such movements there needs to be a “realignment moment” when each person individually (with the Lord) goes through a recalibration/refreshing through prayer.
This condition (or need) is not “bad” or “wrong”. This is a common occurrence. The majority of the body of Christ does not realize that this step is necessary, yet. But, as someone is growing in a life directed by Holy Spirit, this step becomes more and more necessary. Often times the awareness is acute when the person begins to feel depleted, pulled in all directions, the feeling of agitations, scattered, etc.
The healthy part of realizing our conditions is that as someone is directed more and more by the Holy Spirit their lives are more and more sensitive — discernment is heightened — the individual will have an innate desire to be directed by God more and more. When this happens the influence of others can be good, or it can be too much IF the Holy Spirit has not been given “His space” in a person’s thoughts, spirit, will, or emotions. This can cause a person to feel “scattered,” not restful, unable to align their strength, nor process thoughts adequately. If we are bond servants then it is good to be able to hear the Lord–the Master–The King of our hearts and His wisdom–His timing–His way.
Even Jesus had to pull away and find time away with His Father. He often did this during the third and fourth watch of the night (Mark 6:46, Luke 6:12). I don’t believe He was only praying for the world during this time, but He was also spending time with His Father (I’m sure He missed Him), continuing His Union with Him. This Union would be the place of joy, with the result of alignment. Seeing His Father would be such a beautiful moment of connecting and hearing His mind and receiving His will, and engaging His emotions. It would also be during this time that the Father would strengthen His Son’s physical body. His time with God: where He opened His Spirit to His Father; was the place of the open heaven where heaven would come to earth, filling Him with all that was necessary and beautiful. Jesus did say that He only did what He saw the Father doing, so I always think that the Father then showed Him the things He would do that day. These things would be done through the servant gifts which the Lord gave Him. So, His spirit, soul, body, and gifts were strengthened by The Father while He was with Him. There was a transfiguration which took place as a result of the Father and Son unity.
Remember when Jesus wanted to wash the feet of the disciples (John 13)? He did not want to wash their bodies. Do you remember that? That was because they were already in the Kingdom, but only their feet needed to be cleansed. This is because (this act was a sign) of their daily journey on the roads of what is today modern day Israel and Jordan. The sole of their feet became dirty through the paths journeyed. So too, the soul of their person needed a tender touch of the pouring out of Holy Spirit’s waters. Jesus wanted to show them that they would need to wash each other’s feet from the labor of ministering in the lands they walked. This would not only be a natural washing of sand off of the sole of their feet, but also refreshing to their body, their soul (mind, will, emotions), and spirit. There is a statement that says, “first in the natural and then in the spiritual.”
In your dream you were not settled nor calm. You were trying to get to the plane for your next goal/assignment, but a few things were missing. For example, clothes were left at camp, you saw your friend but didn’t have the focus to complete your heart conversation with her, you didn’t have the desire to carry a small lightweight suitcase, you couldn’t find that luggage, no brush, and then you couldn’t find the desk necessary to get on the plane. This dream is not to cause you to feel bad, but simply to show you that you need some, what we call “alignment work.”
Our thoughts, emotions, and our will can be influenced or “pulled on” by other people’s visions, thoughts, opinions, conversations, activity, etc… This is not bad (if it is healthy), but at the end of each day we must return to the Lord and allow Him to have final say. This means that we refocus into the Lord and ask Him to amend our ways in the way that He desires. Honoring God, King, and Teacher of our lives is good and healthy. Loving ourselves enough by taking the time to do this “recalibration” is so good for us–healing–strengthening.
The Lord says that there is fresh manna for everyday (Exodus 16). To me this means that the provision of one day will not work for the next day. The fresh manna fell at the door of each person’s tent. Each family then had to open the tent door and pick up the fresh manna. The old manna could not be eaten and needed to be removed before the new would come.
To me this means that there needs to be a cleansing of the day, a refreshing, a realignment of our hearts so that the fresh manna will find a fresh place to land. This fresh manna comes from the Spirit of God, and influences our mind, our will, and our emotions. His food–His love–His presence–His fire–His will–His thoughts–His direction– desires to land on our spirits and loves to affect all of who we are. When this takes place there is an abiding rest which takes place. It is a confession of our faith that vibrates our desire for Him not only to dwell in our earthly tent with us, but also to reign in our spirt, take His throne in our soul, and to walk with us throughout the spheres of our authority.
If we were together, I could walk you through this, but because we are not, please consider what has been written. If you see truth in what I have written let me know.
Once you respond I will know what the next step is.
I Love and Bless you today,
briskilla
On my social media pages, these thoughts that come to me at the crack of dawn are usually simply titled, “Morning Thoughts”. This specific one is a little painful, but worth the read…. Well, at least I think so. My words are not being written with a loud decibel in volume, but with sadness in my heart towards anyone who is experiencing the rebuttal of another’s rejection and sadness and hope for the one who is in a place of internal self-rejection.
Our society today is not allowing for “clear talk” everything needs to be “politically correct” or acceptable to all thoughts of life. How confusing to the generations. Since Jesus is the creator of mankind and in Him and through Him all things hold together, well than I think that His teachings and His directions provided are the best to emulate. SO, here we go.
Opportunity to evaluate:
If someone’s negative experience is our invitation to “stand taller”–to feel better about our identity-our self evaluation-our circumstances, it is time for a “love check.” If someone’s dark moment has given us permission to spurn the other then it is time to diagnose our heart condition.
Self rejection, jealousy, anger, comparisons, unresolved issues, and/or unhealthy wounds are painful, but they are not reason to abandon those who God has placed in our lives. Abandoning them in their darkest moments is proof of our internal self struggles. If we are not able to reach out and help in times of need (because of our personal weakness) that is one thing, but to make decisions against the individual based on the feeling of relief (that the other person is “finally experiencing pain”) is an expression of darkness–light cannot be found in it.
Love covers, love protects, love grieves with another, love touches and embraces, love is kind, love is gentle, love weeps when another is in crisis, love prefers the needs of another, love____________….
If we know someone who is struggling today we should knock on their door with flowers, a hug, a tear, and strength in hand; embrace them and letting them know we adore them. Because, whether we truly love them or not this act of kindness is proof that we have determined to set our insecurities aside; in order to, manifest true love. In doing so we are allowing LOVE out of the prison of our own self measurements.
Our personal self definition does not improve through another’s pain. If our reaction is quiet resentment, intolerance, inner freedom, then we ourselves need healing and deliverance. If that is the case, then these moments of testing can be a perfect opportunity for self change.
True love is:
“We are bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies…..”
1 Corinthians 13 (the message bible)
The best self evaluation tool:
From the moment He was placed in His mother’s womb demon’s wanted Him abandoned. It took an angel approaching Joseph to save Mary and her baby from being stoned to death or shamed for life (placed in an obscure place for her remaining days on earth).
From the moment He was born they tried to kill him. Millions of babies were slaughtered in attempt to stop Him from living a full life — breath in His lungs.
From the moment His announcer opened his voice, governments tried to stop His coming. The announcement temporarily stopped by John the Baptizer’s beheading. It was too late though, He was already walking the land.
From the moment He demonstrated a life of favor, they tried to find fault with Him. They exaggerated, fabricated, and left Him with no place to rest His head. He did not hide behind self righteous acts of surface behaviors, but conquered every weakness.
From the moment He announced His destiny, religious leaders tried to throw Him off the cliff. His favor would mean their need for transformation–exposing their leadership flaws was too difficult for pride. God hid Him beneath His wing and He past right thru them unseen.
From the moment His moment came to carry the transgressions of the world onto Cross’s Alter, they laughed at Him with internal anger and outward mockery. His blood poured freely, as if in defeat. Little did they know….
From the moment LIFE won, they continued in the lies of their heart–unchanged, they tried to find death and could only fabricate the lie that He still remained in a tomb. This even though resurrection power’s light blinded the eyes of those who were watching tomb’s stone through the night.
Jesus never gloated in another’s failure.
He never cheered while another was sick.
He never feasted glory while another fell in sin.
He never sang while another wept.
Jesus released miracles to those who were in their dark moments.
Jesus released mercy to those in need.
Jesus expressed love to those who hated.
Intentionally, unintentionally, subconsciously or consciously why would we choose a different standard, than that given to us by The Father; who loves us beyond description, and demonstrated our highest potential through the life of our elder brother, Jesus Christ?
Do we expect to be treated right by demons of rejection and self abasement? Are we attempting to altar light by agreeing with darkness? Is rejection our defining ruler? Is it true that how we handle our weakness defines us? If any of these answers are found to be ,”yes,” then rather then cheer when another is in pain or blame another (even like Adam and Eve blamed each other), we will benefit greatly if we take responsibility for our part and begin the “redeemed path” walk.
For God so loved the world that He gave His own begotten son. God is not asking us to die upon a literal cross, but He sure is inviting us to walk a daily life of the fruit of the cross. It is no longer I that liveth but Christ who lives in me.
Light shines in darkness beautifully. Let Him shine!!!
Isaiah 60:1-2
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