heart talk per leo

Jesus wants to tell you again

2012-02-01T03:00:00.002-05:00

My children, you don’t have to be different for Jesus to love you…. ~~ Mother Teresa

Love

2012-01-31T08:26:00.002-05:00

Love;
1. Storge' Gr. = affection within a family. 2. Eros = Lat. erotic, to take and use, a strong passionate feeling between a male and a female, falling in love i.e. puppy love. 3. Philo Philadelphia the city of brotherly love. Love of friendship and common interest. 4. Agape Gr. = Love that causes one to sacrifice himself; to give himself up Rom 8:5.

Get a crowed

2012-01-30T09:20:00.000-05:00

When Jesus multiplied the loaves and the fishes, it was not to get a crowed but to feed the crowed that was already there. ~~ Rodney G. Lensch

Forget

2012-01-29T08:32:00.002-05:00

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F. Kennedy

Powerful words

2012-01-28T08:00:00.002-05:00

The greatest force ever bestowed on mankind streamed forth in blood and sweat and tears and death on Calvary... when Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on the cross. It was a power so great that it shattered the last fortress – death.
It was a power so great that it made atonement for all the sin of all the world. It was a power so great that it provided for those who would accept it the ability to live victoriously like children of God, in fellowship with him who made the world and the sun, the moon and the stars.
It was a power that would enable believers to do the mighty works of Christ, and to experience, following in and through their own lives, the energy of God.
Here is a power so tremendous that with it, nothing is impossible; and without it, nothing we do has any eternal value or significance.
It is a power so simple that a child may use it.... Yet we reach for that power only when our hands are clasped in prayer.
The prayer of faith can move mountains. It can heal the sick. It can overcome the world. It can work miracles. It “availeth much.” ~~ Peter Marshal

Apply yourself.

2012-01-27T08:42:00.000-05:00

Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. ~~ Lee Iacocca

The three men

2012-01-26T08:27:00.002-05:00

One man died with guilt in him and on him. A second man died with guilt in him but not on him. The third died with guilt on him not in him.

An intimate relationship between God and man

2012-01-25T08:36:00.000-05:00

In this hour, God is releasing a greater revelation as to obtain an intimate relationship with Him. From Genesis to Revelation, God has been seeking a people who would love him above everything else. He has always desired intimacy with His people.
In Ephesians 5:31-32, Paul compares the union of a man and a woman to Christ and the Church. It is a mystery how God and man can become one but this is the inheritance available to every believer who will lay down there lives for this great King. The Lord is longing for a people who perfectly reflect His character and nature on the earth as His ambassadors. ~~ Andre Asbly, Souls Cry Ministries

God does know us

2012-01-24T03:23:00.002-05:00

We cannot pretend we are something we are not with him. He knows us - inside and out, through and through. This should liberate us to share a remarkable degree of intimacy with him, but most of us run from such a close relationship with our Father. If our desire, however, is to become more like him, the only way to be transformed is by inviting him in to look at our hearts, our motivations, and our desires. ~~ Author unknown

Kingdom

2012-01-23T10:54:00.000-05:00

Kingdom of God: His way of doing business.

My head is in the sky

2012-01-22T03:00:00.001-05:00

O Lord my God I feel so helpless and weak. I know you are the only one that can help. Thanks so much for allowing me to talk nonstop unto the wee hours of the morning. I know you have heard this conversation over and over again. (2 Chronicles 14:11) I just heard someone mutter something like this that I am to be silent so I can hear God’s response. Stupid – my Holy God has the capability to get His thoughts through to me even when I am doing all the talking.”

Unless You Repent

2012-01-21T03:00:00.001-05:00

One of Jonathan Edwards sermons “It Is One Design That God Has Upon His Heart to Show How Terrible His Wrath Is” proclaims: As God will have it known how desirable and valuable His favor and love are, so `tis His will that it should be seen how dreadful His displeasure is. The general reason of the doctrine is this, that it is to the glory of God that the terribleness of His anger should be manifested…God is glorious on account of it, and the more anything pertaining to God is known and manifested, the more is God glorified…; it was His end in causing there to be any other beings besides Himself. ~~ Jonathan Edwards, Unless You Repent

Karl Barth

2012-01-20T09:40:00.000-05:00

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths. ~~ Karl Barth

Two-fased

2012-01-19T12:12:00.002-05:00

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? ~~ Abraham Lincoln

Questioning seeker

2012-01-17T10:18:00.002-05:00

Albert Einstein said, "The important thing is not to stop questioning." I tell you that God says you may question me as long you are a follower.

Kindness

2012-01-16T10:25:00.001-05:00

Kindness is the language, which the deaf can hear, and the blind can see. ~~ Mark Twain

The universality of God's work

2012-01-15T04:20:00.002-05:00

This revival among us seems to have been a very extraordinary dispensation of Providence. God has, in many respects, gone out of and far beyond His usual and ordinary way. The work in this town and others around us has been extraordinary on account of the universality of it affecting all kinds of people, temperate and corrupt, high and low, rich and poor, wise and unwise. It has reached the most considerable families and individuals, as far as anyone can tell, as much as it has reached others.
The people remain changed. Even so, those who have been converted in this revival generally seem to have had an abiding change take place in them. I have been particularly acquainted with many of them since, and they generally appear to be people who have a new sense of things: new understandings and views of God, the divine attributes of Jesus Christ, and the great things of the Gospel. They have a new sense of the Gospel truth, and they show this in a new manner.
Their hearts are often touched and sometimes filled with new sweetness and delights. There seems to be an inward ardor and burning of heart, which they never experience before. Sometimes, perhaps this is occasioned only by the mention of Christ’s name. There are new appetites and a new kind of desire in the heart and “groaning which cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26). There is a new kind of inward labor and struggle of soul toward heaven and holiness. ~~ Jonathan Edwards, A Call to United, Extraordinary Prayer…

Big

2012-01-14T03:00:00.001-05:00

Stop telling God how big your problem is. Instead tell the problem how big your God is. ~~ Author unknown

Biggest mistake

2012-01-13T09:09:00.002-05:00

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. ~~ Elbert Hubbard

Equality

2012-01-12T09:13:00.002-05:00

One of the striking things about the original Nicene theologians, in fact, is that by being faithful to the purpose of clarifying the divinity of Christ, they ended up undermining the ancient commitment to a metaphysical hierarchy of being. The ancient church fathers were hierachicalists to a man. They believed in hierarchical subordination throughout the universe women subordinate to men, servants to masters, subjects to ruler, inanimate to animate, animals to humans. But despite themselves, what they found at the utmost height of the chain of being was equality in the very essence of God. And the reason was Christ: the biblical witness did not allow them to make Jesus Christ less deserving of worship and adoration than God the Father. We too can expect countercultural results if we give up the willful reading of our own social agendas into the doctrine of the Trinity and submit ourselves to biblical teaching. ~~ Phillip Cary, The New Evangelical Subordinationism: Reading Inequality Into the Trinity

Whoever

2012-01-11T09:24:00.002-05:00

Whoever thinks he can practice a safe and judicious Christianity is a fool.

Galileo

2012-01-10T10:18:00.000-05:00

Galileo tells us that, “You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.” But I tell you this is true as long as you have the Holy Spirit within you which will review to you the truth.

Mosaic

2012-01-09T08:41:00.002-05:00

All the broken pieces of your life are nothing more than a beautiful mosaic of your future. ~~ David Day

Key

2012-01-08T08:38:00.002-05:00

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~~ Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Useful

2012-01-07T07:38:00.002-05:00

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~~ George Bernard Shaw

On your knees

2012-01-06T09:55:00.000-05:00

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~~ Victor Hugo

Death and dying

2012-01-05T03:00:00.001-05:00

Remember it is normal to experience anguish in the process. Love ones need to share the assurance of God’s Word to the terminally ill. We need to create an atmosphere where all can celebrate the life of the dying and the living. All in the supporting role will grieve, believe, hope, and look joyfully toward the future. Embrace the Cross through repentance and faith received through Jesus the Christ. Death has lost its hold on us.
Look forward to seeing that person again sitting down and sharing the joys of Heaven together.

Worry

2012-01-04T09:11:00.002-05:00

Worry, Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~~ Leo Buscaglia

Hard teacher

2012-01-03T09:19:00.002-05:00

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ~~ Vernon Saunders Law

Old

2012-01-02T03:00:00.000-05:00

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~~ C. S. Lewis

Happy New Years

2012-01-01T03:00:00.001-05:00

Thanks to all who have followed my Heart Talk though the past year.

To say what

2011-12-31T10:06:00.002-05:00

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. ~~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Entrust Yourself to the Physician

2011-12-30T09:34:00.000-05:00

Learn to make your needs known to God, entrusting yourself to your Physician to do what He judges best. Confess your illness and let Him apply the remedy. It’s for you to hold fast to love. He’s going to cut you and sting you. If you cry out and He doesn’t listen while He is cutting and stinging and making you suffer, it’s because He knows how far the disease reaches. You want Him to take His hands off you, yet He knows how deep the wound is and how far He has to go. He’s not listening to what you want, but granting what will bring you good health.
You may be sure, my friends, that what the apostle says is true: “We do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words… for he is interceding for the saints” (Rom. 8:26). What does [this] signify, if not that love is brought about in you through the Spirit? And so the same apostle says that “God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, which has been given to us” (Rom.5:5).
Love itself sighs, love itself prays. The One who gives [such love] can’t close His ears against it. Be at peace. Let love ask, and God’s ears are there to hear. ~~ Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430)

Statement on the Trinity

2011-12-29T03:00:00.001-05:00

We believe that the sole living God who created and rules over all and who is described in the Bible is one Triune God in three coeternal, coequal Persons, each Person being presented as distinct yet equal, not as three separate gods, but one Godhead, sharing equally in honor, glory, worship, power, authority, rule, and rank, such that no Person has eternal primacy over the others.

Godliness

2011-12-28T10:02:00.000-05:00

Godliness may sound dull, scary, and unattainable, but the essence of godliness is simply self-giving love – caring more for others than we care for ourselves. This kind of love is hard to come by, but it’s one that grows in the presence of love. We grow loving and more lovely by sitting at Jesus’ feet, listening to Him, talking things over – gaining in likeness to the One who is love (I John 4:8).
Life is a journey into love, it seems to me, and there’s nothing so beautiful as a godly soul. Physical exercise is good, no doubt, but there is something far, far better: It is to love. ~~ David Roper

A morning prayer

2011-12-27T09:20:00.002-05:00

Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought me in safety to this new day. Preserve me with your mighty power that I may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all I do direct me to the fulfilling of you purpose; through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen. ~~ http://explorefaith.org/prayer/prayer/index.php

Francis Schaeffer

2011-12-26T12:19:00.002-05:00

I can remember seeing Francis Schaeffer (1912 -1984) at the Mac Cormack Place in Chicago, IL. He stood up on stage without a podium and not one note. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind he was an exciting speaker. I recently read an article on Francis and his influence on the world around him as an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher and Presbyterian pastor. This article mention that James I. Packer described Schaeffer this way: "Schaeffer was a reading, listening, thinking man who lived in the present, learned from the past, and looked to the future, and who had an unusual gift for communicating ideas at a non-technical level.” I agree with all except the last “at a non-technical level”. I was not alone in this observation; he left a lot of intelligent persons scratching their head. Did you ever read the Christian Manifesto?

Jesus the Christ

2011-12-25T03:00:00.001-05:00

If your Jesus isn't empowered by the Holy Spirit, try mine.

Jesus the Christ

2011-12-24T03:00:00.001-05:00

If your Jesus isn't empowered by the Holy Spirit, try mine.

...God meets us

2011-12-23T03:00:00.001-05:00

...God meets us in secret, so on our part there should be the childlike simplicity of faith, the confidence that our prayer does bring down a blessing. ‘He that cometh to God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that seek Him.’ Not on the strong or the fervent feeling with which I pray does the blessing of the closet depend, but upon the love and the power of the Father to whom I there entrust my needs. ~~ Andrew Murray (1828-1917)

I died

2011-12-22T12:06:00.002-05:00

I died with it, love that is.

Mistake and failures

2011-12-21T09:58:00.000-05:00

William Durant tells us to "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." And I tell you God has chosen to forget and is saying get on with it.

Grace

2011-12-20T08:11:00.002-05:00

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. ~~ Rosemarie Adcock

Walter Hooper

2011-12-19T07:33:00.002-05:00

Walter Hooper, Lewis’ private secretary, reflected on the impression the Oxford professor had on him: Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met. Christianity was never for him a separate department of life…. His whole vision of life was such that the natural and supernatural seemed inseparably combined.
Hooper’s description of Lewis as “the most thoroughly converted man I ever met” is a provocative tribute to the extent to which Lewis was changed by his faith. ~~ Mart De Haan, C.S. Lewis: The Story of a Converted Mind

Srrategy

2011-12-18T03:00:00.001-05:00

Strategy that will enable your church to grow... come Holy Spirit, come. The issue is church health, not church growth!

Paul's writings

2011-12-17T10:13:00.000-05:00

If anyone studies them attentively, I am well assured that he will be amazed at the understanding of this man, who can clothe great ideas in common language. ~~ Origen

The One

2011-12-16T08:15:00.002-05:00

The One
All across the distance in space that is between us, you love to show me that you’re the One – God. This dates from eternity itself.

We can't see yet is He not?

2011-12-15T12:24:00.000-05:00

We perceive God from his power, operations, and creation, although we cannot see him with our eyes. The voice, the wind, and the sense of smell are examples of things that we cannot see with our eyes. What is stronger than the wind? What are more compelling than odor? Yet none of those things can be seen with the eye. Instead, they are perceived by other parts of the body. In like manner, God is not to be perceived by us through our eyes or other feeble sensory organs. Rather, he is beheld by the eyes of the mind, for we can see his illustrious and wonderful works. ~~ Lactantius

Begin and continue

2011-12-14T11:15:00.000-05:00

Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons. The important part of forgiveness is to begin and to continue. The finishing of it all is a life work. ~~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

From childhood

2011-12-13T08:58:00.002-05:00

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Work of God

2011-12-12T07:00:00.001-05:00

Our public assemblies were then beautiful; the congregation was alive in God’s service, everyone earnestly intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to drink in the words of the minister as they came from his mouth. From time to time, the assembly in general were in tears while the Word was preached, some weeping with sorrow and distress, others with joy and love, others with pity and concern for the souls of their neighbors.
In all gatherings on other days of the week and on whatever occasions people came together, Christ was to be heard of and seen in the midst of them. Our young people, when they met, were inclined to spend the time in talking of the excellency and dying love of Jesus Christ; the glory of the way of salvation; the wonderful, free and sovereign grace of God; His glorious work in the conversion of a soul; the truth and certainty of the great things of God’s Word; the sweetness of His perfections, and so on.
Those among us who had been formerly converted were greatly enlivened and renewed with fresh and extraordinary touches from the Spirit of God. Of course, some were affected much more than others, according the measure of the gift of Christ. Many who before had labored under difficulties about their own state had their doubts removed by more satisfying experiences and clearer discoveries of God’s love. ~~ Jonathan Edwards, A Call to United, Extraordinary Prayer…

Mary

2011-12-11T16:07:00.002-05:00

When Mary finally gave birth to Jesus and suckled him, the Son of God was fed and sustained by the milk from her breasts. She tenderly held him. She changed his diapers and bathed him and sang him to sleep. She taught him and instilled in him faith in his heavenly Father. She feared for him, cried for him, and more than anything, love him. And, thirty-three years after his birth, she stood by and wept as her son died on a Roman cross. ~~ Adam Hamilton, The Journey; Walking the Road to Bethlehem

Wise words

2011-12-10T03:00:00.001-05:00

Do more than exist - live.
Do more than touch - feel.
Do more than look - observe.
Do more than hear - listen.
Do more than listen - understand.
Do more than talk - SAY SOMETHING. ~~ John Harsen Rhoades

Always do right.

2011-12-09T03:00:00.001-05:00

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~~ Mark Twain

Attitudes and Relationships

2011-12-08T03:00:00.001-05:00

Bob Bosworth in his booklet, “Attitudes and Relationships; A key to successful prayer and Christian living,” says “It is sin in our nature that separates us from God; yet, we cannot help ourselves. It is necessary that God miraculously recreate us to conform to His image. This transformation is regeneration through God’s Spirit. As the result of God’s Spirit working in our hearts, we must renounce our sin, and accept Christ’s Lordship and total authority over our lives.
Christ’s love for us is spiritual. Because it is so high, beyond man’s comprehension, He uses the tenderest love, that between a bride and bridegroom, to illustrate to us His passionate longing for us. The complete body of God’s people, the Church, is compared to a bride. Those who belong to the Church through repentance of sin, lovingly surrender all of their being to the bridegroom. In this relationship, the bridegroom, Christ, lovingly gives all of Himself to the Church. This release of His life to the spirit of the penitent brings about the transformation that creates the true Christian, fully equipped for a lofty fellowship with a holy God.”

World Trade Center

2011-12-07T03:00:00.001-05:00

Father Mychal Judge lost his life in the World Trade Center. He shared with a friend the prayer he prayed every morning.
“Lord, take me where you want me to go, let me meet who you want me to meet, tell me what you want me to say, and keep me out of your way.”

Simply ordinary

2011-12-06T14:26:00.000-05:00

Simple is not being simple. Simple is not ordinary. Ordinary is not normal in kingdom living. Kingdom living is simply out of the ordinary.

Ministry

2011-12-05T19:52:00.002-05:00

Brethren in my ministry I have given two-third of my time to Bible study and only one-third to prayer. But if I had my life to live over again, I would give two-third of my time to prayer and only one-third to Bible study. ~~ Dr. Samuel Chadwick

Healing a wound

2011-12-04T03:00:00.001-05:00

You open the wound by magnifying the problem. Creating such a disturbance in your reader’s life that they are begging to purchase your product is the world’s method. Healing is God’s method.

Afterlife

2011-12-03T03:00:00.001-05:00

When we begin to talk about life after death, we’re like two infants in a womb discussing the nature of their future life. The difference between our present knowledge and understanding of what it will be to share God’s glory is no less great than what exists between unborn babes and a man in the strength of his days. . . . As Christians, we know it is indescribable and thus we can rejoice, but it will be even greater than our wildest imagination. ~~ Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

Annihilation

2011-12-02T03:00:00.001-05:00

You can be lost in Him only by the annihilation of the self. And what has that to do with prayer? The annihilation of self is the true prayer of worship! It is a prayer you must learn – learn in all the totality of its deepest possible meaning. This is the experience the renders to God, and to God alone, all “blessing, honor, glory, and power, forever and ever.” (Revelation 5:13) ~~ Madame Guyon

Learn well

2011-12-01T04:16:00.002-05:00

Father made me learn so many Bible verses every day that by the time I was 11 years of age, I had learned about three-fourths of the Old Testament and all of the New by heart. ~~ John Muir (1838-1914)

Kiss

2011-11-30T09:41:00.000-05:00

The kiss is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It pre-existed, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it. ~~ Thomas C. Halibuton

Good thing

2011-11-29T03:00:00.001-05:00

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~~ John Wesley

Christmas

2011-11-28T08:33:00.002-05:00

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more? ~~ Dr. Seuss

What happens happens?

2011-11-27T03:00:00.001-05:00

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ~~ Aldous Huxley

Love the truth

2011-11-26T03:00:00.001-05:00

We say we know and love the truth. Rejecting the truth brings strong delusions. Religious spirits sponsored by the dark side make something seem like what it isn’t. Because of the spirits that dominate our line of thought, we choose not to recognize truth. Truth will lead one into Salvation. Salvation is never a matter of education, but of revelation, manifestation of divine truth. Those of us that specialize and are bound by intellectual property have erected a wall between mind and truth, wavering between hope and fear. ~~ Darrell Durham

Be sure

2011-11-25T07:56:00.001-05:00

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. ~~ Abraham Lincoln

Waste

2011-11-24T10:08:00.002-05:00

...but the principle of waste is that which satisfies the heart of the Lord Jesus. You can get something for yourself out of your consecration, but often real satisfaction can only come to the heart of your Lord when you seem to be “wasting” yourself on the Lord, giving too much and getting noting back for yourself. ~~ Watchman Nee

Sai Zhenzhu

2011-11-23T08:24:00.002-05:00

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~~ Pearl S. Buck, Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (1892-1973)

Pray a prayer

2011-11-22T09:06:00.000-05:00

A Pilgrim’s Prayer
Lord of all pots and pans and things...
Make me a saint by getting meals
And washing up the plates!
Thus, Brother Lawrence was able to turn even the most commonplace and menial task into a living hymn to the glory of God.

Love

2011-11-21T09:57:00.002-05:00

Love
Only one thing is required – love. “Love, then do what you please.” ~~ St. Augustine

Act of kindness

2011-11-20T03:00:00.001-05:00

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. ~~ Princess Diana

Travailing

2011-11-19T14:02:00.002-05:00

Today where is the travailing of souls. No wailing, no sorrow – dried eyes what ever happen to the weeping and crying in conversion.

Costly

2011-11-18T09:50:00.001-05:00

What I have to offer the world is not myself as a gifted or moral example or even my spiritual integrity. There is not health in me. However, what I do have to offer is my broken life, which has improved only slightly through these many years. In reality, I am a real person fully aware of my shortcomings and want to deal with them openly and honestly. I continually call out to my Father to empower me to change me by the Holy Spirit. Through the humbling grace of forgiveness, I can share my life showing grace to others. While doing so I tell other that God forgives and help them to share in this grace as I continue to receive. May I tell other that God forgives and encourage them to go on after messing up.
Make no mistake this is not cheap grace. It is free but certainly not cheap. It is the most precious gift we have to offer the world – Jesus the Christ and him crucified.

Pursuit of God

2011-11-17T14:27:00.003-05:00

The man who has God for His treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness.
Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose, he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever. ~~ A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Empty at the Core

2011-11-16T07:59:00.002-05:00

Man at his core is a spiritual being; love is the manifestation of his spiritual and biological self at the core. Without love man feels empty at his core, half alive and half dead. ~~ Ledwidged Asher

Prophet?

2011-11-15T09:36:00.000-05:00

About fifteen years ago, a well-known preacher in New York writes, “I ask you, please, hear my heart as I say this: The time is not far away before we all will be deeply affected by the economic flood coming to the whole world. Great trials are ahead for all of us who deeply love the Lord.
Here is what I am led to do by the Holy Spirit. I ask it of my family, all of whom work with the church body. I urge you to pray to see if the Lord is leading you to do the same:
1. No more buying of luxuries. Cut all spending except absolute necessities.
2. Sell every unneeded item. Turn it to cash and give it to ministries to the poor and needy.
3. Downsize as much as possible. Be willing to let it all come to this: ‘Having food and raiment [covering], let us be therewith content’ (1 Timothy 6:8).
4. Build up you faith by reminding the Lord daily of his promises:
• ‘The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever’ (Psalm 29:10).
• In thee O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness’ (Psalm 31:1).”

The right time

2011-11-14T10:00:00.002-05:00

The time is always right to do what is right. ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Statement on the Trinity

2011-11-13T03:00:00.001-05:00

God hates sin

2011-11-12T10:29:00.002-05:00

My God is the giver of life, giving it in abundance. He has never been in the business of annihilation. He has given us guidelines so to stay on trek. In fact, we set ourselves up for self-destruction by breaking laws of nature and man, which are created by God. God hates sin for what it does in separating him from his people who he loves daily.

Things Work Out

2011-11-11T08:32:00.002-05:00

I have had this poem in my journal for twenty-eight years.

Things Work Out
Because it rains when we wish, it wouldn’t
Because men do what they often shouldn’t
Because crops fail and plans go wrong —
Some of us grumble the whole day long.
But somehow, in spite of the care and doubt,
It seems at last that things work out.

Because we lose, where we hoped to gain,
Because we suffer a little pain,
Because we must work when we’d like to play.
Some of us whimper along the way.
But somehow, as day will follow the night,
Most of our troubles work out all right.

Because we cannot forever smile,
Because we must trudge in the dust awhile,
Because we think that, the way is long,
Some complain that life’s and our sky grows bright,
Everything seems to work out all right.

So bend to your trouble and meet your care,
For the clouds must break and the sky grow fair.
Let the rain come down as it must and will.
But keep on working and hoping still,
For in spite of the grumblers who stand about,
Somehow, it seems all things work out!
-- Author Unknown

Gift

2011-11-10T03:49:00.002-05:00

As to myself, I would tell you how it is with me if I could: at the best, it would be an inconsistent account…I am a sinner, believing in the name of Jesus. I am a silly sheep, but I have a gracious, watchful Shepherd. I am a dull scholar, but I have a Master who can make the dullest learn. He still bears with me, He still employs me, He still enables me, He still owns me. Oh for a coal of heavenly fire to warm my heart, that I might praise him as I ought! ~~ John Newton in a letter to D. West, Esq. (August 29, 1774)

Discover

2011-11-09T08:26:00.000-05:00

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. ~~ Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

You are special

2011-11-08T08:17:00.002-05:00

God has a particular way of establishing his presence in your life. To develop an ongoing walk with God by the Holy Spirit is a discipline. Before time he had this laid out understanding your weakness and strength. It has no bearing on when you feel God’s presence and His touch upon your life. These are good to experience and essential. Nevertheless, you must know He is just there! He wants you to know in faith he is always close to you, as your skin is to you body. Remember, it is about experiencing all that God has for you. When you are somewhat aware what God is doing, feel the accomplishment and completeness, the assurance of His presence and His commitment to you, you will know life in its fullness. Then you are living in God’s perfect will.

Forgiveness

2011-11-07T09:58:00.002-05:00

Seek your Father’s forgiveness
“Gracious is the Lord, and [rigidly] righteous; yes, our God is merciful” (Ps. 116:5, AMP). “How kind the Lord is! How good he is! So merciful, this God of ours! (Ps. 116:5, NLT).
We desperately need to hear these words, “All is forgiven, I love you.” Forgiveness is a God who will not leave us after all we’ve done! ~~ George Roemisch

My father

2011-11-06T07:52:00.000-05:00

My father he has mellowed. Such kind words to hear. Through many difficult situations and difficult years may my children witness soften and gentleness coming through. I want Daddy “dear” not “fire of fear”, being warmed by embers rather then fire. Father God may I hear my children reminiscing my Daddy is not just well meaning but has become this gentle, kind, thoughtful, gracious gentlemen. That is when you know you are giving out real Love, real Hope, from a real God who is Lord of your life.

Prayer

2011-11-05T10:29:00.000-04:00

Fire!

2011-11-04T16:12:00.000-04:00

Welsh Revival Fire
In the white heat of the Welsh Revival, Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, the well-known Bible teacher and expositor, made a special trip to Wales to get his own first-hand impressions of the awakening.
“‘I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy,’ is the promise now at all matter that some regular people are objecting to the irregular doings. ‘This is that.’ If you ask me the meaning of the Welsh revival, I say, without one single moment’s doubt, ‘It is Pentecost continued.’

Family

2011-11-03T13:28:00.000-04:00

The head man of any family, like the head man of any business, holds importance only so long as he isn’t unduly impressed with it! ~~ Oren Arnold

Fellowship with God

2011-11-02T03:00:00.001-04:00

Living in the supernatural isn’t only about fulfilling God’s assignments. It’s also about opening the door to the kingdom of God that Jesus said is within us – the place we will find righteousness, peace and joy. It is even more about fellowship with God. He dwells in the supernatural realm, and to have true fellowship with Him, we must be where He is.
How do you get there? Simple – by developing intimacy with Him through worship and prayer. ~~ Joy F. Strang

My Father

2011-11-01T05:23:00.001-04:00

He has mellowed. Such kind words to hear. Through many difficult situations and difficult years may my children witness soften and gentleness coming through. I want Daddy “dear” not “fire of fear”, being warmed by embers rather then fire. Father God may I hear my children reminiscing my Daddy is not just well meaning but has become this gentle, kind, thoughtful, gracious gentlemen. That is when you know you are giving out real Love, real Hope, from a real God who is Lord of ones life.

Difficult times

2011-10-31T17:19:00.000-04:00

I would like you to know that God does not send most of our difficult situations. They come about because of the “sin factor” in our lives. When the doors of adversity shut in our face, life seems to have dealt us a bad hand and there seems to be no hope for us, we do not need to look around to blame someone we look to God. Whatever God wants you to do, you need His direction and power to do it, ask him to reveal His presence. We do this by entering His chambers – you know the “secret place.” Trust me, the Holy Spirit will. He graciously leads. In order to live as God’s sons, we must be led by the Holy Spirit, thereby walking in the “way.”

Life of contemplation

2011-10-30T02:36:00.000-04:00

There are no hard and fast rules to go by in order to be connected to God. I have read more books than the ordinary believer has yet I have no secret pathway. I usually start by focusing in on God and enjoy His presence. I do not use New Age imaging but I simply practice the presence of my Father, Jesus and the Holy Ghost.
Richard Foster says, “As we grow accustomed to the unifying grace of recollection, we are ushered into...Contemplative Prayer what Teresa of Avila calls, ‘The prayer of quiet.’ We have through recollection put away all obstacles of the heart, all distractions of the mind, all vacillations of the will. Divine graces of love and adoration wash over us like ocean waves. ...At the center of our being, we are hushed. ...There is stillness to be sure but it is a listening stillness. Something deep inside us has been awakened and brought to attention. Our spirit is on tiptoe – alert and listening.
There is an inward steady gaze of the heart sometimes called beholding the Lord. We bask in the warmth of his presence.”
And we wait before the Lord.

Kind words

2011-10-29T10:42:00.002-04:00

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

Henri Nouwen

2011-10-28T04:01:00.002-04:00

“In the face of the oppressed, I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor, I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.”
Henri Nouwen, pastor for the L’Arche Community of Daybreak

The secret

2011-10-27T09:03:00.000-04:00

Albert Einstein said, “The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” I say if you look at it the way you should you will want everyone to know your source. My source, Jesus the Christ.

Be sure

2011-10-26T03:00:00.001-04:00

Be sure your heart is right with God before you take a step in Faith.

Worry

2011-10-25T03:00:00.001-04:00

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~~ Leo Buscaglia

Think

2011-10-24T03:00:00.001-04:00

Where all think alike, no one thinks much. ~~ Walter Lippman (1989-1974)