28. June 2010 by admin.

We have as much of God as we want.  I’ve never really thought about that, or rather thought about it in that way.  In the past, since I’ve given my heart to the Lord Jesus, I’ve been priviledged to experience the presence in very powerful manifestations, and quite frankly, I’ve taken that for granted in times past.  Towards the end of the chapter in Kansas, I believed that the presence was a normal thing in any church that was “spirit filled”  but when we left Kansas and came to Arizona, I was somewhat disproved.  Don’t get me wrong, there was still a presence in the church, it just wasn’t to the level I’d been used to.  This caused me to hunger and thirst for more, because I knew there was more to be had.  Lately we’ve been experiencing the presence in a more tangible way, and I have to say I’m hungry for more.  The only thing that could or would limit the hunger, is if I were to fill myself up with lesser things…….entertainment, idleness, hobbies etc.  Stuff that would steal away my time spent with Jesus.  What I need, and we all need more of, is an appetite.  If we don’t eat, we’re hungry, it’s as simple as that.

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21. June 2010 by admin.

There’s something that I’ve been blessed to experience that most people will never know, that being the very presence of God manifesting in our church service.  I’m not indicating just the tingle on the back of your neck, or the goosebumps, though those are nice to experience.  I’m talking about the tangible presence, where God shows himself to us through signs and wonders, through healings both in the physical and the spiritual, through the comfort of the Holy Spirit.  God is moving and He desires to encounter a hungry people to call His own.  I’m hungry……and I want to eat off of Him.  I Thirst…..and I want to drink deep.  I don’t know just exactly how the God of the universe, Jesus Christ is going manifest Himself in our church services, that’s not really for me to judge, but I know what I’ve seen so far!  He’s always so kind, and gentle, never rude, never condemning, always desiring to restore His children, and sometimes He does that in way’s we’d never  expect.  I guess, since He is the Preeminent Lord, He can do that, and who am I to object to something like Him growing a limb out or restoring health to someone.  He is God and to Him be All the Glory.

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7. June 2010 by admin.

The thought of humility isn’t often viewed by a majority as being a positive trait instead often times people think it to be weakness or apathy.  However, things work differently in the Kingdom of God!  His word teaches that God will not share his glory with anyone, His son’s and daughter’s, in order to have any lasting effect in the Kingdom, must humble themselves to be perfected into the image of Christ Jesus.  In doing this God himself, exalts the Christ in them, using them mightily as he desires.  If we’re to be truly abandoned to Christ, it shouldn’t be so that we can be a new and improved us, rather he wants us to cast off the old man, the old nature and take upon ourselves the nature of Jesus himself.  This can only be done by humbling ourselves, realizing the vileness of our human nature and allowing through the Holy Spirit, to put on Christ and Christ alone.  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He shall lift you up.- James 4:10

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1. June 2010 by admin.

With all that’s been happening in and around the world, we can sometimes get too focused on the things of this world.  Just last week after a series of events, I was feeling very frustrated and found my thoughts continually going back to things that I could have handled better or ways to improve the situations around me.  I was so intent on these thoughts that during my prayer time, it was quite the distraction.  However, as I spent time in prayer before service, Jesus provided the answer to my concerns.  I had been so focused on the very temporal and uncontrollable situations going on in my life, when in reality, I should have held to the Eternal Perspective.  That view being that God is in control of my life, and I should rest my hope in His power to affect my circumstances through prayer.  In fact I shouldn’t focus too much on circumstances at all, rather to place my hope in what Jesus has in store for us.

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