Disowned Jesus

^{Mathew 26
31} Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written:

“‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

The compassion of Christ to forward the disciplines that they would disown the Christ.

Unclean

Leviticus 11-12

Clean and Unclean Food

11 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² “Say to the Israelites: ‘Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat:

I wonder what this is all about.  Lord why did you have all these tedious rules?  The only thing that makes sense to me is to cause us to be constantly be looking to you and the law for direction about our daily activity.  A constant reminder that we must be continually in your presence, lead by your spirit for the everything we do.  A way to keep up in the word.

Purification After Childbirth

12 The Lord said to Moses, ² “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean..."

This i just like.  Give the women a break and definitely some SPACE.  It may be hard for our western thinking to get around the idea of being unclean.  It sounds like you are bad, caught in sin.  But maybe that isn't it at all.  Maybe God is using this to remind us with all these unclean laws that as long as we live in this life we will never be without sin.  Sin will happen through us or to us.  Yet Christ came to set us free.  Not that we should forget these words but to live a live covered by the blood of Christ.  Maybe God is calling us during this time of being unclean to be closer to him, set apart to meditate, regroup and be with the Father.  Choosing to repent not just of what we have done but what is being done around us.

Feb 8, 2013

Thank you Lord for helping me this morning to come to the truth about something. Help me to keep better records so that my word can be more easily backed up.

Lord this day seems to have already gotten away from me.  ti is already 8:45 and my head is full of what needs to be done.  Help me to quite my thoughts so that I can be in your presence and follow in your steps this day.

Ex 28:1-43, Matt 25:31-26:13, Ps 31:9-18, Pr 8:12-13

Matt 25

⁸ The followers saw the woman do this and were upset at her. They said, “Why waste that perfume? ⁹ It could be sold for a lot of money, and the money could be given to those who are poor.”
¹⁰ But Jesus knew what happened. He said, “Why are you bothering this woman? She did a very good thing for me. ¹¹ You will always have the poor with you. But you will not always have me.
  
[Lord help me to be strong to do what you would have me even if it is misunderstood.  Lord help me to be so in tune with your ways that i would extravigantly love you.

Forgive me Lord for not making more time for you this day.  Lord help me to set aside more for you.  My mind is already full of what the day requires.  Please help me to carve out another time where i can truly rest with you.]

 

Feb 7, 2013

Exodus 26-27:21; Matthew 25:1-30; Psalm 31:1-8; Proverbs 8:1-11 (Easy-to-Read Version)

It is 6:50.  I have my tea, I have checked FB, I went to the bathroom.  I had a reasonably good night sleep.  At this moment I feel a bit sad but mostly good.  I at a bit anxious as I am about to start a strict diet that is quite costly.  I am going to need the Lord's supernatural strength and conviction to keep it up.  Yet this body is truly weighing me down and that needs to change.  So here goes.  Diving in Lord.

Dear Lord,

i pray that this day i am surrounded by a cloud of angles.  For your protection and for your glory.  i pray that I find myself singing your praises all day long.  Lord bring me your peace.  Forgive me that i let my mind be clouded with other things.  i know full well the grace, mercy, joy, peace and world rocking change that takes place inside me and even in my world around me if i just come into your presence daily and really spend time with you.  not much seems to happen when i keep one foot in my own thoughts or try and do my own thing while reading your word.  no you are jealous god that wants my full attention.  More importantly I need to give to to be able to retain what you have for me.

Worship at your feet and a wonderful way to awaken my spirit man.

Breath by Vineyard 

Matthew 25
⁶ “At midnight someone announced, ‘The bridegroom is coming! Come and meet him!’
⁷ “Then all the girls woke up. They made their lamps ready. ⁸ But the foolish girls said to the wise girls, ‘Give us some of your oil. The oil in our lamps is all gone.’
⁹ “The wise girls answered, ‘No! The oil we have might not be enough for all of us. But go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
¹⁰ “So the foolish girls went to buy oil. While they were gone, the bridegroom came. The girls who were ready went in with the bridegroom to the wedding feast. Then the door was closed and locked.

²⁸ “So the master told his other servants, ‘Take the one bag of money from that servant and give it to the servant who has ten bags. ²⁹ Everyone who uses what they have will get more. They will have much more than they need. But people who do not use what they have will have everything taken away from them.’ ³⁰ Then the master said, ‘Throw that useless servant outside into the darkness, where people will cry and grind their teeth with pain.’

Prov 8
¹⁰ Choose discipline over silver
    and knowledge over the finest gold.
¹¹ Wisdom is better than pearls,
    and nothing you desire compares with her.

Lord it is 8am and I must run.  Yet I will return to pen the words you will give me over these verses you have called me to meditate on.  I await the great truths you will write on my heart. 

Feb 6, 2013

Ex 23:14-25:40, Matt 24:29-51, Ps 30:1-12, Pr 7:24-27

Lord,  I did not have much sleep.  Feelings of sadness are all around me.  Father please be the lifter of my head this day that I may delight in you and find the joy and peace that only you can give.  Help me to find forgiveness and love.  Lord help me to rise above myself and worship you.  Let my spirit man lead me rather than my flesh.

Worship and the word has restored my soul.  Bring it Lord.  For I am ready to take this day by storm.  Lord let it be you that lives within me that speaks.  Let your spirit be the keeper of my gates.  Open to what is good and closed to what is evil.  Lord let the gates of my eye's and ears work as you intended.  Let no weapon formed against me prosper.  Lord cover my thoughts that they would glorify you.  For out of the heart a man speaks.  May my heart be filled and directed by you.

27 “When you fight against your enemies, I will send my great power before you. I will help you defeat all your enemies. The people who are against you will become confused in battle and run away. 28 I will send the hornet in front of you. He will force your enemies to leave. The Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites will leave your country. 29 But I will not force all of them out of your land quickly. I will not do this in only one year. The land will be empty if I force the people out too fast. Then all the wild animals would increase and control the land. And they would be much trouble for you. 30 So I will force them out of your land very slowly. I will do this as you grow and eventually take the land to be your own.


 [What a rich passage.  I would love to break this down among friends.  He is going to confuse those in battle against me.  Father make it so.  Lord who is my enemy this day?  Bring on that hornet to go before me and my sisters in Christ.  Yet he will not strip the land of my heart quickly of these enemies for the wild animals would increase.  Who and what are the wild animals?  Lord cause me to grow so that the evil can be evicted from this land where I live.

We must grow in numbers in proportion to those that he is removing from the flock.  For not all that are among you were yet called by name.  The enemy is among you.  Yet as you come closer to me they will feel the heat of my fire and yes the hornet will force them out.  Fear not the decrease for just as you must become less for me to fill you.  I must weed out the people that are the enemies of the vision I have cast for you.  For it is when they have been cast out of the temple courts and where their is much gnashing of teeth they will find their need for me.  Coming back weeping, repentant and ready to follow me.  For if you keep sheltering them from their own wickedness they will never know me.  For without repentance I can not come in.  Many Saul's live among your flock that I desire to change their name's to Paul.  The whores have found comfort among your men and the drunkards have no shame.  Yet these are my people.  They need a wave of my Spirit to come over them, bringing them to there knees that they will want to turn from their ways.  If you make it easy for them to continue to sin, by holding the Spirit off, there will be dead bones among you.  The road to redemption is not easy.  I had to die a torturous death but I have risen.  My redemption is at hand for all those that will put to death there selfish desires and follow me.  Let me say to your congregation what needs to be said that repentance can occur.  I beg of you, leader of my flock.  I have healing for them, I have hope, I have strength for their weary bones.  Hold not back the fire that must burn through this house.]
 
33 Each branch must have three flowers. Make these flowers like almond flowers with buds and petals.



[What joy it fills my heart that the Lord had so many things decorated with flowers.  Lord let my flowers adorn his people that we may glorify him.]





Matt 24
42 “So always be ready. You don’t know the day your Lord will come. 43 What would a homeowner do if he knew when a thief was coming? You know he would be ready and not let the thief break in. 44 So you also must be ready. The Son of Man will come at a time when you don’t expect him.


[Lord forgive us as we are sinful people that has found more pleasure at the hand of our sin than in the presence of the Lord.  Lord let us run into your presence for covering, for joy for peace and for the pleasure that our soul so deeply longs for.  Lord let us experience all that this body would ever need, that no counterfeit would ever satisfy.  Forgive us for the lies we have believed about you Lord.  That pleasure was the enemies idea.  Lord if we need to be thrilled, if we need to be swept away or if we just need to forget.  Your presence will supply all our needs.  Yet without the bitter regret that sin births within us.  Coming out of a love fest in the Lord, bathed in his blood we will be stronger, clearer, bolder, at peace, seeing this world as God sees it.  Seeing the lost for the Children of God they are.  Yes lord give us times that we may be swept away by you.]

Psalm
11 You have changed my sorrow into dancing.
    You have taken away my sackcloth
    and clothed me with joy.
12 You wanted me to praise you and not be silent.
    Lord my God, I will praise you forever!

[This is my song.  Lord I thank you that my situation does not dictate my dancing.  Lord that just as your passage above states.  You are weeding out the evil in my live slowly that the jackals not overtake my land.  Thank you Lord that even in the mist of a sinful generation, in the mist of sinful people I can praise you.  I can help lead your people to safety and wholeness while I am also being lead out.  My wholeness is not a prerequisite for my joy.  As long as I am clothed in you no weapon formed against me will prosper.  Lord let the covering you have placed over me extend to my children that they not be temped to sin by all that they see around them.  Keep their heart close to you.]

Feb 5, 2013

Exodus 21:22-23:13; Matthew 24:1-28; Psalm 29:1-11; Proverbs 7:6-23 (Easy-to-Read Version)

 

I pray Lord that my heart will yearn for your word as it has in the past.  That I would see you face to face in the pages of your word.  That I would meditate on what you are saying.  That I would find hope, purpose and direction for the path you have before me.  Lord, I pain for the trial that still lay before me.  I pain for the struggle of my flesh to look for happiness rather than your peace and joy.  Hold me fast.  That I may not sin against you in thought or deed.  Help me Lord for this season of waiting is long and I am weak.

Lord I thank you for the proverb today.  It so eloquently describes the temptation of the flesh.  Thank you as I have just written up instruction/boundaries for my kids in regards to the opposite sex.