The Israelites prayed and prayed for freedom and when they received it, they complained!? This freedom involved plagues, leaving at midnight, facing the Red Sea, seeing the Red Sea part and the miracles just continued over a life time, yet where was the gratitude? Where was the love? Only two of them made it into the promise land.
In life if you are like me you pray, prayers are answered but there is always another prayer that seems to be ignored. Daily you see miracles and receive them yet in the next sentence complain because something else didn't turn out right and the miracle, well it is already yesterday's news. My kids remind me daily that I am not fair and that the world is not fair; this is no surprise as I could have told them the world is not fair I have been living it almost 40 years and I want to see them just try to raise 4 boys (fairly on a daily basis, not a chance, but the funny thing is, it is always fair when it favors them)!!! But with all this said is God enough? If life isn't fair, if things go wrong, if miracles loose their pop, is God enough????
Will you remain faithful???
Is God enough? Is his son's death on the cross enough to offset the dog days on this earth that just want to destroy our faith in him? Does the love of the cross allow us to praise when praise is not on our lips? Does the love of the cross allow us to love when love is not in our hearts? Does the cross sustain us during the hard and dry seasons of our lives, when life is just not fair?
Oh, how I pray that the cross is enough in my life and that he will find me faithful. Jesus has to be enough or peace, love and forgiveness will always be one bad day, one self pity trip, one unaswered prayer away. May the love of Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross be enough to sustain this life for you and for me until we meet him.
Psalms 118:24, This is the day that the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Your love is amazing LORD! I praise you!
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Common Man
The common man, I find myself as one most days. Exemplifying the traits of a rat race mom, in a mad world trying to get more done in one day than a man can achieve in a year. With all of this said I sit down for my morning devotions, during prayers and reading the Word wondering why my heart feels so distant, so empty needing to be filled up once again. Why??? Why does it get so empty so fast???
I found myself in James 4 this morning and in those words we are instructed,
verse 4, You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes a enemy of God. Verse 7 Submit yourselves then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Verse 10, Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Loving the world, friendship with the world?? Submit to God, flee the devil??? Double-minded and humble??? In this fast pace life as the day goes from morning to night, it is hard to see when the transition happens but somewhere between the phone calls, errands and kids, loving the world becomes easier, double-minded becomes a way of life and I forget who my King is, who my Savior is and this world eats me alive from my heart to my mind to my spirit.
Today I will live for Jesus I pray that Jesus will find me faithful throughout this whole day and that from head to toe, heart to mind and hands I will glorify HIM.
Lord help me to remain faithful to love with your heart, to be passionate with your eyes, to listen with your ears and to know that you are God. I know that you are Alive, Active and in love with me. I pray that my life and all my sisters and brothers in Christ will be focused on you, help us to stay focus on you within our life of choas and strife of weariness and sometimes lonilness Holy Spirit grow within us so that we will not be common man but men worthy of your Name.
I love you Lisa.
I would love to hear from you:
www.lisapricewarrior@yahoo.com
I found myself in James 4 this morning and in those words we are instructed,
verse 4, You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes a enemy of God. Verse 7 Submit yourselves then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Verse 10, Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Loving the world, friendship with the world?? Submit to God, flee the devil??? Double-minded and humble??? In this fast pace life as the day goes from morning to night, it is hard to see when the transition happens but somewhere between the phone calls, errands and kids, loving the world becomes easier, double-minded becomes a way of life and I forget who my King is, who my Savior is and this world eats me alive from my heart to my mind to my spirit.
Today I will live for Jesus I pray that Jesus will find me faithful throughout this whole day and that from head to toe, heart to mind and hands I will glorify HIM.
Lord help me to remain faithful to love with your heart, to be passionate with your eyes, to listen with your ears and to know that you are God. I know that you are Alive, Active and in love with me. I pray that my life and all my sisters and brothers in Christ will be focused on you, help us to stay focus on you within our life of choas and strife of weariness and sometimes lonilness Holy Spirit grow within us so that we will not be common man but men worthy of your Name.
I love you Lisa.
I would love to hear from you:
www.lisapricewarrior@yahoo.com
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Worship and Enjoy God
Question: What is the chief end of man? Answer: Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. -New England Primer In the Pursuit of God by AW Tozer
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created". Revelation 4:11
I have been reading the Pursuit of God as I have been facing hurt, disappointment and a crisis of faith that ask, "What am I doing?" As I read these words this morning my spirit was reminded that all I am to do is worship God, and enjoy Him FOREVER. But how often do I ENJOY God??
Like a child to a mother or father so often we take them for granted and most of our negative, abusive attitudes are acted out towards them. Today in prayer I left refreshed as I spent it concentrating on worshiping and glorifying God and remembering that it is about Him and them not me.
One day in Heaven my life will be filled with perfect worship and I believe that we will implusively fall to our knees in enjoyment and pleasure of his love and the eternal life that he has for us but today we are distracted, weighed down and worn out it takes (at least for me) intentionally focusing on worship and joy of the Lord. Not just prayer or reading the Word but intentional worship and joy.
John the Baptist understood as he told those that asked him, "I must decrease so he can increase".
May God draw you to the throne of worship and joy as he allows his presence to surround you and may his glory shine through your life. - Lisa
I would love to hear from you:
www.lisapricewarrior@yahoo.com
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created". Revelation 4:11
I have been reading the Pursuit of God as I have been facing hurt, disappointment and a crisis of faith that ask, "What am I doing?" As I read these words this morning my spirit was reminded that all I am to do is worship God, and enjoy Him FOREVER. But how often do I ENJOY God??
Like a child to a mother or father so often we take them for granted and most of our negative, abusive attitudes are acted out towards them. Today in prayer I left refreshed as I spent it concentrating on worshiping and glorifying God and remembering that it is about Him and them not me.
One day in Heaven my life will be filled with perfect worship and I believe that we will implusively fall to our knees in enjoyment and pleasure of his love and the eternal life that he has for us but today we are distracted, weighed down and worn out it takes (at least for me) intentionally focusing on worship and joy of the Lord. Not just prayer or reading the Word but intentional worship and joy.
John the Baptist understood as he told those that asked him, "I must decrease so he can increase".
May God draw you to the throne of worship and joy as he allows his presence to surround you and may his glory shine through your life. - Lisa
I would love to hear from you:
www.lisapricewarrior@yahoo.com
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