The Rejoicing

These scriptures have relit the eyes of my heart for many months though studied in fullness many years. In these there is fullness. You find balance, integrity, the aim straight understanding your soul so longs for. You find abundance, protection, life, light, promise, righteousness, confirmation, peace, wisdom, prosperity, success, results and authority that are just and true. Here you find ‘The Rejoicing’.

Isaiah 54:11-17

Speaking of what is seen of God:  “O you afflicted one, tossed with tempest, and not comforted.

Speaking with promise: Behold I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of crystal, and your walls of precious stones. All your children will be taught by the Lord.

Speaking about results of the promise:  And great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established;

Speaking about protection: You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Speaking with both a ‘Word of Knowledge’ and a ‘Word of Wisdom’: Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.

Speaking of judgment against the oppressor and the accuser:  Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.

Speaking with truth:  Behold, I have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the spoiler to destroy.

Speaking with authority given with confirmation to the righteous:  No weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me says the Lord. (New King James Version)

Isaiah 54:11-17

“O my afflicted people, tempest-tossed and troubled (do you see the tears in the eyes of God for the pain and the hurt that has come to His?), I will rebuild you on a foundation of sapphires and make the walls of your houses from precious jewels. I will make your towers of sparkling agate, and your gates and walls of shining gems. And all your citizens shall be taught by me, and their prosperity shall be great (prosperous return of the harvest with prosperity to His children, that which He wants for you). You will live under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will stay far away, you will live in peace (Do you hear this? Peace and justice). Terror shall not come near (Divine Protection) If any nation comes to fight you, it will not be sent by me to punish you (Spirit of Encouragement and Discerning of Spirits). Therefore it will be routed, for I am on your side. (Protection to God’s children) I have created the smith who blows the coals beneath the forge and makes the weapons of destruction. And I have created the armies that destroy (Protection of God apart from usury). But in that coming day, no weapon turned against you shall succeed (Success belongs to the church!), and you will have justice against every courtroom lie (Justice will reign over the unjust and the law of love shall reign and the people will rejoice in the truth). This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. This is the blessing I have given you, says the Lord. (Living Bible)

Isaiah 54:11-17

“O storm-battered city, troubled and desolate (I call the storm over. Wake up ye of little faith! Don’t let those see the storm but do and say nothing about it. You are called to encourage, love, further and edify the church and bring those in who know Him until now!) I will rebuild you on a foundation of sapphires and make your walls of your houses from precious jewels (Who has believed that God owns it all and that He is provider of all needs and wants?). I will make your towers of sparkling rubies and your gates and walls of shining gems (He will make not only our homes of His riches but will build the church house gloriously!). I will teach all your citizens, and their prosperity will be great. (Peoples, family, friends…all those who draw near that are willing to listen to God’s message. Prosperity  to God’s people). You will live under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will stay far away; you will live in peace (In the atmosphere of worship the enemy flees. He cannot tolerate this kind of love. It is not in his heart because he knows not the difference in the turning from his evils….so you shall live in peace because the church God has shown me is a church house of worship and prayer). Terror will not come near. If any nation comes to fight you, it will not be because I sent them to punish you (In this one verse, found is God who loves us and discerns the difference that God does not author sickness, disease, lack, poverty and death. Dear Church (take note!): It is time to get ahold of this truth. Let the eyes of your heart be enlightened, that you might know the hope of your calling). Your enemies will always be defeated because I am on your side. I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals beneath the forge and make the weapons of destruction. And I have created the armies that destroy (Whose side do you believe God is on, heaven or hell? Why did the book survive for so long? Have you read the ending? How is it that you have and are all that you are if you do not believe that He is? Do you not read where it says “on earth as it is in Heaven”? What exactly does that mean to you? Unity speaks. The church is to be on earth as it is in heaven. Put your heart, mind, soul and spirit around this love…this powerful love!). But in that day, no weapon turned against you will succeed. And everyone who tells lies in court will be brought to justice (His justice, mercy and grace shall be very intensely full of God’s love and the wrongs shall be made right and the Spirit of God shall hold revival even in this truth). These benefits are enjoyed (victories to you) by the servants of the Lord; their vindication (What grand encouragement this is to know!) will come from me. I, the Lord, have spoken! (New Living Translation)

Isaiah 55: 12-13 says…

You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills, the trees of the field-all the world around you-will rejoice. Where once were thorns, fir trees will grow; where briars grew, the myrtle trees will sprout up. This miracle will make the Lord’s name very great and be an everlasting sign of God’s power and love.

***Immerse yourself in Isaiah 54:10-Isaiah 60***

“The Rejoicing” comes from the truths above being read, understood, believed, lived, breathed, furthered, clung to, indulged in, meditated on, encouraging with, preached about, studied in depth, becoming part of your very being, having the depth of ‘knowing’, an extravagant love gained from, a belief that there is truly ‘greater works to do’ that are likened to the gifts of God and not drudgery, a strengthening, an ability to rise above all that ‘was’ into the ‘is’. 

“The Rejoicing” finds joy in the Lord and knows that its strength comes from Him. For it is the ‘walking in the newness of His Spirit; and yes, it is rooted in truth, faith, love, wisdom, light, in Him and worthy of God!

“The Rejoicing” has the power to turn around a nation to a place of unity in love from a nation who once did not know that it has ‘power, love and a sound mind, rather than a spirit of fear’ when it is in and with God! “The Rejoicing” is a shouting message of fullness! “The Rejoicing” is a transforming life from what was once lethargic, lifeless, and loveless or less than what our God-given dreams have already told us they will be. “The Rejoicing” comes from being brought out, from the seeing what is to be, from what is believed on and for, derived from only the Spirit of God. "The Rejoicing" will turn this nation back to God!

“The Rejoicing” is not (...and I will not spend much time here because ALL can see this. Scripture validates that all can look and see a Creator God, therefore, there is nothing further to ad to this: ...false happiness, an unregenerate spirit, not hearing or being encouraged by the blessing of the Word of God, not sulking in fear and worse; being rooted in offenses that serve to take and not give to you and others and cannot be found if you will not give your heart and life to the Lord. You must have a ‘knowing’ that death already took place and a life was raised up so that you can receive life and life more abundant. (See Roman 10:9 and 10) Now believe it in your heart and speak it out of your mouth, telling everyone you know. Let this be your fresh belief that sickness and disease flees in the presence of Almighty God!

“The Rejoicing” is something that I can give to you from the perspective of a small child and a child-like spirit. My grandpa gave me this for Christmas one year when I was very young little girl. I found myself thereafter in an arena full of God seekers and full of the anointing of God hearing the Word of God being preached and worshipfully sung. This has been held in my heart very dearly for many, many years and proved worthy of the vision God has given me. As a small child this anointing became ‘The Rejoicing” in my heart and stayed with me all my life. “The Rejoicing” grew with great intensity in the love of the Word of God, fueled from the heart of a worshiper both in song and in prayer. It strengthened me and many as I taught my five children for seventeen years. It encouraged me as I have taught adults in the church. “The Rejoicing” has encouraged many as I served for years in the classroom, in school, in the home, in the church, in raising up a school, in worship, in prayer, in leadership, at the altar crying out for families, interceding for hours and days for healings and for the church vision given to come to come to pass, always searching, always believing for the miraculous to happen in “The Rejoicing” that I know so very well. 

For I know what “The Rejoicing” holds and the power of love it has in the love of God and how “The Rejoicing” floods the church with His love with that child-like spirit. “The Rejoicing” is the positive prophetic word spoken apart from offense and it is a prayer that will bring the hardest heart to their knees immersed in the love of God. “The Rejoicing” holds nothing back in worship. “The Rejoicing” causes people to repent bringing them into the anointing; adults, children, families and those not knowing God. “The Rejoicing” is a river of blessing fueled with the energy of God’s love. “The Rejoicing” is the dynamite ‘dunamis’ power-filled love. “The Rejoicing” is the ‘excusia’ power that is a powerfully liberated kind of love. “The Rejoicing” is the ‘energia’ power that is the effectual working of love. “The Rejoicing” is the vigorous loving authority. “The Rejoicing” is the ‘ischos’ having great strength and ability in love. These that know of “The Rejoicing” have been given in vision to work love and to not only build up and edify but to build a church from the vision of love God has given. Yes, I know that "The Rejoicing" kind of anointing can bring that which I seek and for not only my own, but for many. For "The Rejoicing" shall employ many in their giftedness and it shall be "The Rejoicing" to them, in them, toward others. "The Rejoicing" has the divine power to turn up the love of God in the pulpit to the place of emmense and intense love. 

"The Rejoicing" has the power to give my own children back every lost blessing, every drop of anointing, every calling that looked as if it were stolen, every ounce of peace taken wrongfully from them, every dream stolen or in the unaware. Every deception will be made right by God and without further wait. For as the prophetic word goes forth, "My children, shall live and not die"...both my own children and my children in the Lord. God does not intend for anything less than a blessing, therefore my children and the children of God and children just now coming to know God shall come to realize how to receive the gifts of the love of God and in greater measure.

I believe in "The Rejoicing" because it has protected my children from the deceptions and lies they live amidst and it has protected us all as they lost their home, not once but twice and then three times and then was taken from their mother to live with a confessed murderer. "The Rejoicing" has kept them when they tragically were taken from their home, burnt with cigarettes, choking on cigarette smoke, not allowed to attend church, having things taken from them continually, lied to continuously, cursed at, forbidding me from visitation when they were to be with me, chiding them not to be with me and discouraged in doing so all while it was being called right, where they have been bitten by children whom I knew needed loving oversight and care. 

"The Rejoicing" always brings us back to the anointing and believes for the blessing. "The Rejoicing" is what has given us the power to go on, to look up and believe in the very power it is full of. "The Rejoicing" has the power of the love of God to bring my children home to me, to bring my grown children and young to the table of blessing rejoicing with one another like the turmoil and tragedy has not taken place (prophesied and believed), protected and healed and into each of their callings that they were raised up by this that I call "The Rejoicing" to go forward and bless many. Nothing less is acceptable in the eyes of God! "The Rejoicing" has to power to protect, to love, to honor, to bring all of these arightly and prosper not merely myself and my family but the church gloriously! The scriptures have spoken and I have believed when many have been deceived, for myself, my family, children, the church and the many who have not truly known what this love of God is that "The Rejoicing" kind of love break every yoke of bondage. Nothing less is acceptable!

Make it your greatest aim this year for "The Ninth Year Vision" to come to pass for you, for me, for mine, for the church, for those that are near and for those that are far off all for the glory of God. Because it has always been about "Glory To His Name".

The Word of God says, “Listen carefully to Me and eat what is good; and let your soul delight itself in abundance.” I know something about “The Rejoicing”. It has become wisdom to be greatly treasured. 

I bless you with a very Happy New Year. Have your heart available to the Holy Spirit! There is a great rejoicing on the way!

Precious Freedoms

The Word of God supported by sound defense speaks of faith's aquittal and considers the actions validated by illustustrated principles with said victory. 

Peace loving, gentle, patient, respectfilled and sweet love describe such precious freedom. These are received with a spirit of gratitude and the thankfulness of the love of God. Sought after and found. Longed for and known. Fought for and won. 

...Precious freedom...knowing the vision and seeing the compromise that has been made, with full assurance that it is written for the benefit of all that victory belongs to the church. Those who do not see or will not to hear...we pray for these. 

Dancing across a large area amidst a worshipfilled setting. In a sweet spirit in an ever so loving manner of grace filled worship never taking my eyes of the object of our song and manner of movement, I saw myself take her hand, as a sweet sister and flow gracefully across this open area, twirling in circles, caught up in the moment, teaching  and sharing a spirit of worship, she did not yet know. This was not in a wrongful, not God-honoring manner and not in a lustful dance, rather one of graceful worship. 

You see, my heart was open and free and amidst this arena of honor. One never takes away from this precious time as it is to be honored with love in the fullness of explanation. She walked in taking her seat looking around as if not to know that there was honor taking place as the entire church was on their feet. Worship happens in many different ways and hearts are touched in the moment as movements take place in a spirit of worship at different times and places and certainly with much less regulation than in times past, though always honoring the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God spoke in this moment and said to me...What you see is what she needs and what they as a church need to see though not at this time. The understanding is not there without the hearing of faith. I would not be received with full enough understanding without full knowledge. 

Galatians speaks of gentleness and self control. The fruits of Spirit that spoke plainly of this visual and hearing. I have been loving, joyfilled, peaceful, patient, kindly, good, faithful, gentle and have carried much self control. These do not come easily and there would be ascertained deception to think to operate in these does not warrant correction. Profitable is this. Faith's acquittal and considers the actions that are validated by illustrated principles. 

I have told you of many plans given for you and I have told you that there are many things I have been unable to share. I have told you that there are many things to tell you that you do not know. I have declared peace and love and great joy and healing to every hearts' ail and it has been shared with overt love. Sharing a vision to raise up a church to bless and to glorify cannot without hearing hear my joyfilled tears in explaing the love poured into this.

In this spirit of gentleness and precious freedom the church needs to know that there are amongst you a spirit that does not want the truth told, the testimony shared, life to be furthered and vision to take place. There has been a spirit that is anything but gentle and loving that devours rather than gives. A spirit of wickedness that is not for the church, deceivers to the both the flocks among you and desires to, rather than create a revival spirit, very subtly wants to take out leadership. The church needs to know that displays of ingratitude and lack of respect to the Spirit are not Godly or to be revered in a moment such as this. The more you know of this great love the more you understand the sweetness intended to truly build the church with. We have tools. Be reminded to stand watch, to honor, to love and to worship. 

For all of my children shall be taught by the Lord and great shall be the peace Isaiah says. To get lost in the spirit of worship, allowing God to have this one in worship, I would pray the spirit of God would inhabit her whole heart, soul , mind and strength and she would see. I have lived my life explaining to you with a deep need for you to understand in this manner, full of edification. Paul says he longs to see you to impart some spiritual gift useful for strengthening you. My whole heart...precious freedoms in the lives, precious freedoms in the families represented, precious freedoms in the leadership, precious freedoms in marriage, precious freedoms in homes, precious freedoms in ministries, precious freedoms in the heart of the worshipers. 

Go to the river of these precious freedoms, that place of worship, that place of prayer, that place of honor and respect and enjoy these precious freedoms.   

There Is Freedom

Happy Independence Day!

There is power in liberty. There is union in the spirit of the Lord where there is agreement. It is His heart. It is His heart for His people. When people He longs to know and people that know Him gather about there is power in this liberty. There is love. There is a sweetness that was previously less or lost. It brings with it a stirring. It brings with it a corporate unity less the ‘less than desired’ religiosity. It cannot be gained by works, nor kept by such. And when freedom seeks you it will love you always until you come to know of its great truth and even more thereafter.

...Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 
2 Corinthians 3:17 …make this a part of your faith. There is a blessing in this that which is His perfect law.

Write this great statute on the doorposts of your house and on your gates! (Deuteronomy 6:9)

For I desire to see liberty come to you as great and meaningful blessing as Deuteronomy 8:7-10 tells us, "For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose hills you can dig copperl When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you." 

I will give "Glory to His Name" forever and always...

There is so much life in this wall that longs to be the blessing bringer of the liberty of love to many aligned of God's Holy Spirit. He wants to love you toward the freedom of His love!

It has been reasoned mindfully of the loss desiring that you be in bondage of religion rather than serving God in all the ways He calls you to and in the given ability to do so. You are called to liberty to love one another. There are ‘have beens’ to make known to your hearts, your minds and your spirit of the freedoms that have been stolen (John 10:10) that has had a divinely set time for return of all the loss. Legalism and spiritual fervency have nothing in common. It wants you for its sake to control and to demean and to oppress, to tell you that you are less and that you must meet one more requirement, one more condition, one more thing to prove yourself worthy.  The very oppressor has no blessing; he has his. He shall cut himself off apart from liberty because....

Freedom carries with it miracles. Liberty walks towards seeking all that it has to offer. It is in the anointing of freedom. It gives to you freely, proclaiming as such. This is the place of His presence where freedom reigns. It heals and has allowance for healing. Its make up is receiving of freedom, of all things good. It brings into present understanding what is necessary for unity. It is strong and valiant and the breaker of oppression. It shuts off all else. It breathes in God’s spirit and exhales what does not make up authority, which has been rightly given. Freedom that gathers round about knows each other and its unity grows ever stronger until it cannot be broken. How do you know its truth? The enemy resides outside of its glory and joy. Here in its midst you find peace. You find life. You find abundance of His presence. It is as the water of life (Revelations 22:17) given freely.  Receive it freely.

There is a glorious liberty for the children of God…a beautiful manifestation of this powerful love. Be open to the Spirit who gives the access to the independence of such love. Allow liberty to fill your heart of God's great love.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.                           1 Corinthians 2:12  …make this a part of your faith. You are loved and there is a blessing in this perfect law of liberty.

The Price

These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual, but the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:12-16

Isaiah 58:2 says…Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching God.

…the absolute truth of the desires of God’s heart tucked amidst His great loving discipline for His people. The prospective anointing carrying a mountain moving faith seeks you to be full in the Lord where injustices no longer destroy.

Chains of oppression, yokes of injustice and offenses like the bars of a castle have never had a place in God; dropping from you as if it never were…Isaiah 58: 7-9 says… (Good New Bible) Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear, and do not refuse to help your own relatives. Then my favor will shine on you; my presence will protect you on every side. When you pray, I will answer you. When you call to me, I will respond.

The Word goes onto say…I will always guide you and satisfy you with good things and you will always be like a well watered garden, having plenty of rain and never run dry.

…Your healing will break forth speedily and your righteousness shall go before you.

The price has been paid, will you now hear what is being said?

Nehemiah 5:5 says… Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

… Nehemiah knew the power of unity, though the message was not only centered around redemption, but also unity. Who are these that have that which does not belong to them? The apple of God’s eye, His children, oppressed?! Recall that there are no requirements of age to all whom belong to Him. But you who have oppressed My children…Whoa unto you, The Lord says. Justice will surely spring forth speedily.

The days of evil are coming to a swift halt. The wealth of the wicked in every area will cease as it is laid up for the righteous and the righteous and just cause to further His church. Who desires the harvest blessing? God is moving past all of the vast unbelief and beginning a new thing even amidst the newness. Skepticism has had its place and has been found lacking.

We have a gravity problem and its healing is in the Word. Romans 16:20 says the enemy will be crushed swiftly. What is under your feet? Hebrews 11:1… This is a swift remembrance of realities’ expectation.

He has comforted. Redemption’s love is the cross. Redemption bought you and freed you and because His great love has kept you from wickedness that desired you. God loves you more than you have previously known. Let it only grow in your understanding.

Seeds of faith are turning into fruitful harvests. He keeps going and those who desire Him will run the race together. Generations of love that has been poured out for the sake of those who have a harvest and some unknown. Repentance gets that which you seek …I have written before. No more deceptions. Children coming to understand that which was seemingly lost, given back within the grasp of His will with no regard at all for the thief of stolen blessings which was never God’s will no matter. He has blessed you and kept you and you are loved….loved beyond words.

If you have forgotten the language of gratitude, you will never be on speaking terms with happiness. Find out His great love was given to others from the beginning to bless you. Receive it. This will bring you happiness. Receive the love and the comfort. It was wrought for you. It is your joy and no man ever held the authority to take it away; not through great deception, not then, not now. God’s desire was always for sweet fellowship, loving relationships and all things good.

Let this great joy fill you like a well watered garden. Let it wash away your every tear, your every fear, assuring you of a sound mind, filling you afresh with the comfort of love you have not felt in so long. Let the medicine of joy, of a healing balm have your heart’s grasp anew. Be loved…just because you are.

The price has been paid. 

The View From My Heart

This is that which has been given to me and I give to you....

Genesis 24:10-28 (Message) tells this story of the heart this way…^10-14 The servant took ten of his master’s camels and, loaded with gifts from his master, traveled to Mesopotamia and the city of Nahor. Outside the city, he made the camels kneel at a well. It was evening, the time when the women came to draw water. He prayed, “O God, God of my master Abraham, make things go smoothly this day; treat my master Abraham well! As I stand here by the spring while the young women of the town come out to get water, let the girl to whom I say, ‘Lower your jug and give me a drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and let me also water your camels’—let her be the woman you have picked out for your servant Isaac. Then I’ll know that you’re working graciously behind the scenes for my master.”       ….Notice that this man knew God. The text says he was prepared to give. He knew and took authority over the animals as he had been instructed. He was a prayer warrior and with definite requests he made his wants known to God (Philippians 4:6 Amplified)

^15-17 It so happened that the words were barely out of his mouth when Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel whose mother was Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came out with a water jug on her shoulder. The girl was stunningly beautiful, a pure virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up. The servant ran to meet her and said, “Please, can I have a sip of water from your jug?”   ….The favor of God was on this man as his prayer was answered with Godspeed. She was everything he asked for and more. He recognized his answered prayer.

 

 ^18-21  She said, “Certainly, drink!” And she held the jug so that he could drink. When he had satisfied his thirst she said, “I’ll get water for your camels, too, until they’ve drunk their fill.” She promptly emptied her jug into the trough and ran back to the well to fill it, and she kept at it until she had watered all the camels. The man watched, silent. Was this God’s answer? Had God made his trip a success or not? ….She didn’t hesitate. She went the extra mile. She graciously served him and promptly. She not only did as he asked but more than he asked. He was watchful of her blessing. Verse 21 (NKJV) says that he wondered at her. Moreover, being discerning of how his prayer just got answered.

 

^22-23 When the camels had finished drinking, the man brought out gifts, a gold nose ring weighing a little over a quarter of an ounce and two arm bracelets weighing about four ounces, and gave them to her. He asked her, “Tell me about your family? Whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay the night?” ….His gifts were generously given though he gave also treasure of his heart in conversation. This proved his gift of any value was worthy from a heart cultivated of God.

 

^24-25 She said, “I’m the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah and Nahor. And there’s plenty of room in our house for you to stay—and lots of straw and feed besides.” ….She graciously responded and the generosity was returned once again as she offered him her blessing.

 

^26-27 At this the man bowed in worship before God and prayed, “Blessed be God, God of my master Abraham: How generous and true you’ve been to my master; you’ve held nothing back. You led me right to the door of my master’s brother!”  ²⁸ And the girl was off and running, telling everyone in her mother’s house what had happened. ….Notice that His gratitude was instantaneous as he was exceedingly thankful. He was led of God because it was in his heart. This kind of attitude of heart is almost a rush to give thanksgiving for what he had received.  She was giddy and told everyone of the great blessings. The woman at the well realizing the blessing she just spoke with in her Savior ran telling everyone she knew.

 

This is that which God gives…love….salvation, generosity, gifts that are exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask, think or imagine. We receive His heart and we go forth doing likewise.

 

Proverbs 18:14-24 Message says….

¹⁴ A healthy spirit conquers adversity,
but what can you do when the spirit is crushed? (You must have God in your heart to give of his blessings of love. There is healing for a crushed spirit!)

¹⁵ Wise men and women are always learning,
always listening for fresh insights. (This is wisdom)

¹⁶ A gift gets attention;
it buys the attention of eminent people. (Notice that if there is a gift. Gifts are given from on high. If there is a gift to give there are those that are in need.)

¹⁷ The first speech in a court case is always convincing—
until the cross-examination starts! (Examining the cross helps examine the heart)

¹⁸ You may have to draw straws
when faced with a tough decision. (Ask for a verse and be led of the Holy Spirit)

¹⁹ Do a favor and win a friend forever;
nothing can untie that bond. (It is in your power. Ask for the gift of love. Give. You have a blessing to gain. A cord of three is not easily broken!)

²⁰ Words satisfy the mind as much as fruit does the stomach;
good talk is as gratifying as a good harvest. (There are many gifts to be given of good conversation and much harvest to be reaped in its doing)

²¹ Words kill, words give life;
they’re either poison or fruit—you choose. (Choose this day whom you will serve and be as the giver of life)

²² Find a good spouse, you find a good life—
and even more: the favor of God! (Do not be among the deceived in the latter days, holding back the plan of God for these precious relationships)

²³ The poor speak in soft supplications;
the rich bark out answers. (Carry joy with you! There is a big difference in a bark and a rebuke. One carries unregenerate anger. The other carries the Spirit of God)

²⁴ Friends come and friends go,
but a true friend sticks by you like family. (And precious are these!)

 

John 12:1-8 Message says this….^1-3 Six days before Passover, Jesus entered Bethany where Lazarus, so recently raised from the dead, was living. Lazarus and his sisters invited Jesus to dinner at their home. Martha served. Lazarus was one of those sitting at the table with them. Mary came in with a jar of very expensive aromatic oils, anointed and massaged Jesus’ feet, and then wiped them with her hair. The fragrance of the oils filled the house….The friendship of God brought Lazarus from the tomb to the table of fellowship. Martha was serving with her gift. Mary brought her own gift and at the shock of those watching poured it on his feet and bowed down low and washed his feet with her hair. The fragrance of love filled the whole house. Her humility was her greatest gift. From this love gift she had there was no cost too great to give to Him.

^4-6 Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, even then getting ready to betray him, said, “Why wasn’t this oil sold and the money given to the poor? It would have easily brought three hundred silver pieces.” He said this not because he cared two cents about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of their common funds, but also embezzled them….one not carrying love always wants an account of how you spend, often has a better plan with different intentions at heart and usually does not act out of love. The fruit is evident.

^7-8 Jesus said, “Let her alone. She’s anticipating and honoring the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you. You don’t always have me.” ….Honor speaks. In this day it is spoken of his upcoming burial. Though love of the heart was the greatest message in this gift, the greater gift is asking Him into your heart.

 

John 4:1-14 Message says…

^1-3 Jesus realized that the Pharisees were keeping count of the baptisms that he and John performed (although his disciples, not Jesus, did the actual baptizing). They had posted the score that Jesus was ahead, turning him and John into rivals in the eyes of the people. So Jesus left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee…Rivalry is the breeder of strife, used to destroy rather than to be giver of love.

^4-6 To get there, he had to pass through Samaria. He came into Sychar, a Samaritan village that bordered the field Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was still there. Jesus, worn out by the trip, sat down at the well. It was noon. ^7-8 A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, “Would you give me a drink of water?”….His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.)….There was much to learn of this age old well. And there is much to learn from the giver of spiritual drink, a gift to be given.

⁹ The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, “How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” …these were that which set itself up against the knowledge of God, but in the asking, brought about love.

¹⁰ Jesus answered, “If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water.” ….To know God and those who carry this generous heart he speaks of is to know what freely give and freely receive means from the enlightened eyes of the heart.

^11-12 The woman said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water’? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?” …there much to be learn from the life of this water.

^13-14 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.” … an ever flowing spring of goodness full of life never ending.

Deuteronomy 8:5-18 Message says….^1-5 Keep and live out the entire commandment that I’m commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land that God promised to your ancestors. Remember every road that God led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don’t live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God’s mouth. Your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t blister those forty years. You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child. ….these are producers of this same heart of generosity, both by less and by plenty, learning that he is always more than enough holding the ever present reminder of his loving goodness.

^6-9 So it’s paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect him. God is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It’s a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey. It’s land where you’ll never go hungry—always food on the table and a roof over your head. It’s a land where you’ll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills….This land will be gracious to you because of the fruit within, the glorious goodness of God that generously gave and now lavishly provided because of the humility of respect and adoration of a love that has been formed within your heart. The fruit is not only fruit of the vine but fruit within the heart; a heart that looks more like the one who formed it.

¹⁰ After a meal, satisfied, bless God, your God, for the good land he has given you. ^11-16 Make sure you don’t forget God, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—make sure you don’t become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God, the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery; the God who led you through that huge and fearsome wilderness, those desolate, arid badlands crawling with fiery snakes and scorpions; the God who gave you water gushing from hard rock; the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never heard of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of you…. This is the place that hold the generosity in your heart. A place that makes you steady, the place that reckons the fruit of the heart. This is a place you hang onto always, carrying with you all that has been gained in the walk along the way, pulling it out in times of need.

^17-18 If you start thinking to yourselves, “I did all this. And all by myself. I’m rich. It’s all mine!”—well, think again. Remember that God, your God, gave you the strength to produce all this wealth so as to confirm the covenant that he promised to your ancestors—as it is today. …When you think of it, the blessing overtakes it cannot be measured by a pharisaical standard, nor by what you have always considered enough….because this shall be called ‘a more than enough’, ‘a cup running over’, ‘a blessing that cannot be contained’. This is that which we have waited on, worked for and prayed in order to bless. Anything less will not be that which this means.

 

Luke 21:1-4 Message says…^1-4 Just then he looked up and saw the rich people dropping offerings in the collection plate. Then he saw a poor widow put in two pennies. He said, “The plain truth is that this widow has given by far the largest offering today. All these others made offerings that they’ll never miss; she gave extravagantly what she couldn’t afford—she gave her all!”  …She had cultivated the exaggerated and poured out kind of love. She knew what love really meant. She knew what to do with the love she was given.

Hebrews 6:1-3 Message says…. ^1-3 So come on, let’s leave the preschool finger painting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on “salvation by self-help” and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we’ll stay true to all that. But there’s so much more. Let’s get on with it! ….Only generous kind of love, the developed kind of heart can know that this does not mean not to make use of your gifts but rather to bless others with that which has been given.

 

Nehemiah 2:4 Living Bible says….⁴ “Well, what should be done?” the king asked. With a quick prayer to the God of heaven, I replied, “If it please Your Majesty and if you look upon me with your royal favor, send me to Judah to rebuild the city of my fathers!” ….He was speaking to a leader and regarding his place of authority and asked for that which he desired.

….and then he said….And the king granted these requests, for God was being gracious to me….As God grants great blessing hang onto the attitude of gratitude and thankfulness.

It has been said…God’s generosity finances imagination. Can it not also be radically said…God finances the true believers heart. He finances a righteous Word. He finances mighty acts and exploits for Him.

Can His love and needs come from the seemingly nowhere? Can the love of God still touch hearts? Has the Word of God changed?...or has a foul, to- be- despised spirit overtaken the dreams of the hearts of the people?...has mere circumstance taken anything from you? …for these were dreams to become true because of what God has done already in your heart.

….unless you have not given your heart to Him.

Mediocrity won’t meet with imagination, no matter what is in another’s pocket full of gifts or the gifts to be lavishly given from their heart because….because it is found out and found fearing. Know this….fear is not of God. It is associated with punishment. Fear of God changes all that into receiving His love. There is a fear that hasn’t yet found true love and true generosity of heart. Here something  profound happens.  God be found and in one another, and gifts be given and love be poured out. And life be furthered. ….and God’s Word be done and friends be made. This is the ever flowing river of God that flows from the view of my heart. It is that which was cultivated and that which is to be freely given. This…this is a love that cannot be forgotten from the view of my heart.

Receive His heart of love! It is being freely given! Will you freely receive?