Week away and a referral

While I am gone and my computer is staying home, (it's in the hospital being de-virused) I want to refer you to one of the BEST reads on the internet. Rheinhard Bonnke's "Notes".

They are full of life and inspire at the very core.

You should be able to see them all here: http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=210552700257

Unrealistic Faith

I clearly heard the Lord say to me his morning that if you depend on anything but JESUS in every area you are being unrealistic. If you don't believe in miracles you are being unrealistic. If you try to balance faith with unbelief and walk a center lukewarm line you are being unrealistic. If you try everything else and then fall until you end up with Jesus it's unrealistic.

It is unrealistic to be tentative in faith toward God. Your angels on assignment will hang their heads and wait for faith to be released before they can go into action. Angels cannot move in response to doubt and unbelief. Only Faith will move them.

There is no middle of the road in Faith. It's all or none.

Sometimes the Subject of your Prayers will Talk to You

We need to listen to the voice of those people and things as they speak to us. Sometimes God will use situations to help us understand what his purposes are.

So, we need to be ready to listen.

God speaks in ways we do not understand.

The Enemy ALWAYS overreaches

In pondering what's happening in the world. Iran, USA, even Europe.

I see the enemy's hand.

He plays hard. Mean.

But he has this flaw. He becomes confident. Cocky even.

And he always overreaches.

Not that he doesn't do damage. He does. But he always overplays his hand and when God calls him. Goes all in with Jesus. The enemy is bankrupt.

He always was. It just looked bad. 3 aces are like that.

I have a sense that is what is going on RIGHT NOW.

You were created exactly as you were for the Glory of God

In a discussion regarding the whole problem of birth defects, genetic issues, even ugly, even short, or anything else these conclusions came out.

If you believe for a second that God didn't know what he was doing when he brought you into the world, that you are or were a mistake, that he could have done better.

You are exactly what you are supposed to be. You are God's best. You are his favorite.

Am I a Spiritual Desperado?

This morning I read a stirring post from Nancy Minor. It hits me in a place I am right now. She seems to be speaking to me and many I know who are of Heidi Baker's situation in mindset:

Desperation
1 a: having lost hope b: giving no ground for hope 2 a: moved by despair b: involving or employing extreme measures in an attempt to escape defeat or frustration 3: suffering extreme need or anxiety 4: involving extreme danger or possible disaster 5: of extreme intensity

Desperado
DESPERADO, n. A desperate fellow; a furious man; a madman; a person urged by furious passions; one fearless, or regardless of safety.

The Lord spoke to Pastor Rusty during intercession last Sat and asked him, "How desperate are you?" He seeks the Lord steadily, hungrily...so if God is asking him that question... I sit up and take notice!

How desperate are you? How intense about Knowing Him? How Hungry? To what extreme will you go to escape the status quo? Will people say you are a madman, in your pursuit of God? Are you urged on by furious passions of the Spiritual kind? Or are you plagued with passions of the lesser kind?
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Heidi Baker talks of living a lifestyle of " If you don't show up God, we're all dead." Since she lives in Mozambique in a Moslem Nation,caring for 7000 orphans, I think she has hit on something!

Read the whole thing.

Repairs not Replacement

I became aware of the reality of healing and restoration. God repairs. He could replace. Just create a whole new you. Of course he does that when we are born again. We are a new creation.

But then we get sick. We are injured. We suffer.

Seems like Father is in the constant repair business.

But even in the ultimate there are scars in His hands and a wound in His side. And sometimes we walk with a limp.

He is repairing us. Restoring. Healing. And he wants us to remember. So sometimes we limp.