Joy - the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires: delight; the expression or exhibition of such emotion: Gaiety; a state of happiness or felicity: bliss; a source or cause of delight. To experience great pleasure or delight: rejoice.
(Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition)
There is great joy ahead!
There are great blessings ahead!
Promises are going to be fulfilled today, tomorrow and the next!
Blessings await!!
Draw nigh to the Father! Delight in Him and Him alone!
Access Him and Look to Him!
Look to Him and be enlightened!
The oil of Joy comes to replace the mourning that has been present!
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Do You Know Jesus
Do You KNOW Jesus?
I am not asking if you know "of" Jesus. I am not asking if you have heard of Jesus.
But, and consider carefully, Do You KNOW Jesus?
Have you accepted Him as the gift of salvation the Father provides? Have you placed faith, trust, & belief in Him as your Lord? Are you growing to learn more of Him? Do you spend more than 5 minutes a day with Him? 10? 15? 20? Have you been filled with His promise and seal (Eph1:13-14), the Holy Spirit?
In a Greek Lexicon, to know is translated from about 5 words, but I will use 2 here:
I. Epiginosko- to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know thoroughly to know accurately, know well to know to recognise by sight, hearing, of certain signs, to perceive who a person is to know i.e. to perceive to know i.e. to find out, ascertain to know i.e. to understand know fully1, known2, knows1, learned3, perceiving1, realized1, recognize5, recognized6, recognizing1, take note1, taking note1, understand3, understood1, well-known1.
II.Ginosko- to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel to become known to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of to understand to know Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman to become acquainted with, to know know how1, knowing3, known25, knows14, learn1, learned1, perceived1, perceiving2, put1, realize3, recognize7, recognized1, recognizing1, sure4, take notice1, unaware*2, understand11, understood6, virgin*1.
In light of these thorough definitions, consider how well you know Jesus. For I say unto you that you want to not only know Jesus, but to also be known of Jesus (see Matthew 7:23).
Today my heart just wants to make you sure. For out of all that you do and become for Jesus, and all that you gain from Jesus, it is most important that you learn of Christ (Matthew 11:29) and grow in grace and knowledge of Him (2Cor3:18).
Consider my words today and take time to get to know Him. He wants to get to know you and you learn of and know Him!
I am not asking if you know "of" Jesus. I am not asking if you have heard of Jesus.
But, and consider carefully, Do You KNOW Jesus?
Have you accepted Him as the gift of salvation the Father provides? Have you placed faith, trust, & belief in Him as your Lord? Are you growing to learn more of Him? Do you spend more than 5 minutes a day with Him? 10? 15? 20? Have you been filled with His promise and seal (Eph1:13-14), the Holy Spirit?
In a Greek Lexicon, to know is translated from about 5 words, but I will use 2 here:
I. Epiginosko- to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know thoroughly to know accurately, know well to know to recognise by sight, hearing, of certain signs, to perceive who a person is to know i.e. to perceive to know i.e. to find out, ascertain to know i.e. to understand know fully1, known2, knows1, learned3, perceiving1, realized1, recognize5, recognized6, recognizing1, take note1, taking note1, understand3, understood1, well-known1.
II.Ginosko- to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel to become known to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of to understand to know Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman to become acquainted with, to know know how1, knowing3, known25, knows14, learn1, learned1, perceived1, perceiving2, put1, realize3, recognize7, recognized1, recognizing1, sure4, take notice1, unaware*2, understand11, understood6, virgin*1.
In light of these thorough definitions, consider how well you know Jesus. For I say unto you that you want to not only know Jesus, but to also be known of Jesus (see Matthew 7:23).
Today my heart just wants to make you sure. For out of all that you do and become for Jesus, and all that you gain from Jesus, it is most important that you learn of Christ (Matthew 11:29) and grow in grace and knowledge of Him (2Cor3:18).
Consider my words today and take time to get to know Him. He wants to get to know you and you learn of and know Him!
Friday, April 6, 2012
The War of Confessions: Positve vs Negative
Do not allow your frustrations to cause you to speak against your confessions of faith.
Your negative doubtful confessions can, and often will, undo your positive faithful ones. And you will find that you waiver and don't receive what God is promising you! Stay in faith! Don't be moved by what you see!
Negative and positives don't mix. They bounce off of each other which is why you bless those that curse you instead of joining in with your own choice cusses and curses. It says when you bless them that curse you, you are heaping coals of fire on their heads. Why? because they are spewing coals of fire towards you, but you are blessing them. Those negative confessions and curses will return upon their heads, while your positive are being sown to you!
Stay in faith! Stay in agreement with God. Let Him be True. Set your face like flint and do like David, who asked the Lord to set a guard over his mouth and keep watch at the door of his lips. He was so serious about what came out of his mouth. God says that he will not alter the things that have come out of his lips concerning his covenant with us. Even Jesus held his peace when he was on trial. He would not let any false or frustrated confession alter the plan and purpose of God. He even told his disciples (us) when they would be tried to possess their souls in patience! Let patience keep your soul! Harness your soul-mind will intellect emotions personality-with your patience. Don't run off at the mouth based on what you see and feel and hear.
No....this is not easy. Faith is a fight. But the apos Paul says Fight the good fight of faith! The enemy does not want you to possess the plan of God! But he's a liar. Jesus calls him the father of lies. Consider Ps 103:20 that says the angels hearken to the voice of the word. They hearken, meaning they listen with intent to obey. They are not hearers only. So if the angels listen to the "voice" of the word, then fallen angels listen as well. But they try to stop the word. They try to make the word of no effect. This is where we come in with our attitude towards our confessions of faith! The apos John says that we overcome the world with faith. So our faith causes us to win and be in rightstanding with God. There's so much peace there!
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus! Allow yourself to do what he did and say what he said. Let Him live big in you! The greater one lives inside of you! He wouldn't tell you to do these things if He didn't know what he put inside of you. Cast away your frustrations. Pick up your promises, speak those things and, though it tarry, wait!
God has never lied and He will not start! -
Prophetess Miriam aka Lighthouse loves you too much!
Your negative doubtful confessions can, and often will, undo your positive faithful ones. And you will find that you waiver and don't receive what God is promising you! Stay in faith! Don't be moved by what you see!
Negative and positives don't mix. They bounce off of each other which is why you bless those that curse you instead of joining in with your own choice cusses and curses. It says when you bless them that curse you, you are heaping coals of fire on their heads. Why? because they are spewing coals of fire towards you, but you are blessing them. Those negative confessions and curses will return upon their heads, while your positive are being sown to you!
Stay in faith! Stay in agreement with God. Let Him be True. Set your face like flint and do like David, who asked the Lord to set a guard over his mouth and keep watch at the door of his lips. He was so serious about what came out of his mouth. God says that he will not alter the things that have come out of his lips concerning his covenant with us. Even Jesus held his peace when he was on trial. He would not let any false or frustrated confession alter the plan and purpose of God. He even told his disciples (us) when they would be tried to possess their souls in patience! Let patience keep your soul! Harness your soul-mind will intellect emotions personality-with your patience. Don't run off at the mouth based on what you see and feel and hear.
No....this is not easy. Faith is a fight. But the apos Paul says Fight the good fight of faith! The enemy does not want you to possess the plan of God! But he's a liar. Jesus calls him the father of lies. Consider Ps 103:20 that says the angels hearken to the voice of the word. They hearken, meaning they listen with intent to obey. They are not hearers only. So if the angels listen to the "voice" of the word, then fallen angels listen as well. But they try to stop the word. They try to make the word of no effect. This is where we come in with our attitude towards our confessions of faith! The apos John says that we overcome the world with faith. So our faith causes us to win and be in rightstanding with God. There's so much peace there!
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus! Allow yourself to do what he did and say what he said. Let Him live big in you! The greater one lives inside of you! He wouldn't tell you to do these things if He didn't know what he put inside of you. Cast away your frustrations. Pick up your promises, speak those things and, though it tarry, wait!
God has never lied and He will not start! -
Prophetess Miriam aka Lighthouse loves you too much!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Stay the course!
It's of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed...
Not consumed by what? The complexities and perplexities of life. The despair that attempts to drown you in doubt and unbelief. The words of the naysayers and dream killers and those that attempt to darken your eyes. The loneliness (but you're not alone). The rejections and misunderstandings. Your own dark reasonings. Your own lack of vision. Your own way of thinking. Your own weights and sins.
What do we do? We cast those things aside. We believe anyway. We walk by faith and not sight. We keep believing to the saving of our soul. We cry but we say...I will believe the report of the Lord! I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
(Lam 3:22)
Not consumed by what? The complexities and perplexities of life. The despair that attempts to drown you in doubt and unbelief. The words of the naysayers and dream killers and those that attempt to darken your eyes. The loneliness (but you're not alone). The rejections and misunderstandings. Your own dark reasonings. Your own lack of vision. Your own way of thinking. Your own weights and sins.
What do we do? We cast those things aside. We believe anyway. We walk by faith and not sight. We keep believing to the saving of our soul. We cry but we say...I will believe the report of the Lord! I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
(Lam 3:22)
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