HIS LOVE IS LIFTING ME HIGHER

RISE AND SHINE AND GIVE GOD GLORY! GIVE HIM A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE! SHOUT, AND LET THE HEAVENS RING WITH THE WORSHIP AND HONOR OF HIS NAME!...MINISTER UNTO HIM WITH A JOYFUL AND GREATFUL HEART...YES! REJOICE EVERMORE...

TUPPERWARE DRAWERS AND TOUCHING THE SKY

LORD, I JUST COULDN'T GO TO BED WITHOUT THANKING YOU FOR ONE OF THE MOST DELIGHTFUL BIRTHDAYS I'VE EVER HAD...I'LL NEVER FORGET IT.....

THE FIRST DAY IN MY LIFE THAT I ALLOWED MYSELF TO BE LOVED...WITHOUT ANY WALLS OF DEFENCE...AND BELIEVING THAT WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THEY LOVE ME...THEY REALLY MEAN IT.

IT ALL STARTED THE OTHER DAY WHEN WE HAD JUST ONE HOUR BEFORE WE WERE TO SIGN PAPERS TO BUY A HOUSE...AND I WOKE UP KNOWING THAT WE WERE MAKING A MISTAKE...

HOW DO I CALL THE REALTOR AND EXPLAIN?...

I'M NOT SURE THAT I SHOULD CALL...WHY AM I NOW SO CONFUSED WHEN WE WERE SO SURE THE DAY BEFORE?...

THEN YOU REMINDED ME OF THE WORD YOU GAVE CONCERNING WHERE WE ARE NOW...."DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE RENT...I HAVE GIVEN YOU THIS PLACE FOR A SEASON."...

AND OF COARSE, JUST LIKE ME, I WORRIED ABOUT THE RENT...AND FORGOT ABOUT THE WAY YOU PROVIDED EVERY LITTLE THING WE NEEDED TO SET UP HOUSE, AFTER LEAVING 40 YEARS OF "STUFF" BACK IN ARIZONA, WITH NOTHING BUT WHAT WE COULD PACK INTO OUR THUNDERBIRD....

I REMEMBER HOW EXCITED I WAS ABOUT THE HUGE DEEP AND WIDE DRAWER UNDER THE WALL OVEN....THE PERFECT PLACE FOR MY TUPPERWARE AND SMALL STORAGE JARS...THE LEAST OF THE DESIRES OF MY HEART, THAT YOU PROVIDED LORD...

WHEN WE FINALLY MADE OUR DECISION TO NOT BUY THE HOUSE, IT WAS LIKE A 1000 lb WHEIGHT WAS LIFTED OFF MY BACK...

YOUR DISCIPLINE FOR MY LACK OF WAITING ON YOU MORE FULLY, AND FORGETTING TO LET YOU LEAD IN THE WHERE, WHEN AND HOWS WAS DESERVED, REQUIRED AND JUSTLY GIVEN...

SINCE THEN, YOU HAVE WALKED WITH ME IN FELLOWSHIP OF A LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING THAT I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN...AND TONIGHT YOU CONFIRMED THAT LOVE IN THE MOST SPECIAL OF WAYS...

THE LAST FEW WEEKS I'VE HAD SUCH A DESIRE TO SWING IN A SWING...I ASKED HUBBY TO TAKE ME SOMEWHERE WHERE I COULD...I DON'T KNOW WHY, EXCEPT THAT IT IS AND ALWAYS WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO DO, AS A CHILD GROWING UP.

MY BIRTHDAY CAME AND WENT....THEN TONIGHT...A SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH FAMILY....AN EVENING STROLL THROUGH THE PARK WITH LOVED ONES...STRAIGHT TO A SET OF SCHOOL YARD SWINGS....

YOU'RE JUST AWESOME LORD...AWESOME!....AND I RAN LIKE A CHILD TO THE SWING...AND PUMPED RIGHT UP TO THE STARRY SKY!

THE BONDAGE OF THE CARNAL FLESH AND MIND

by Joy Lackey

From the day we are born, we learn or are taught to be slaves or visionaries...we bow to the bondages of the flesh, the mind and the spirit...or we follow that inner light that each of us are blessed with in the beginning. That Light which shines in the darkness, just enough to challenge us to come and investigate it's source.

Of coarse the enemy of our soul is perfectly aware of it's source, and will do anything to counterfeit it. He is a master at being an angel of light...a light that reaches only the flesh eyes and mind...the way to the soul. He would draw The Light from us through lies and deception and bind us with the chains of fear, doubt and unbelief...self doubt, condemnation, and pride....He knows that's the only way to keep us from the Truth of who we really are...and that he is not the Light that frees us from the darkness...

We do not perceive that his light is darkness... that his life is death, that it is the corrupted flesh... (DNA), and the mind, and spirit...he would have us accept the flesh life as the only true life there is...

He has convinced us that our emotions are our spirit...that our mind is our only reasoning whether sound or insane...that our flesh is our immortality, until we look death stark in the face...and that haunting and familiar lie that we have heard so many times before saying, "You will not die"...now laughs at our arrogant, and ignorant fate.

It is that same story of a beginning ions ago...In that perfect place and time where the eternal God of creation placed the first Adam and the best part of himself to love, in the oneness of his being...in the image of God....the Mind the Word...the Spirit. The masculine and feminine in complete harmony and purpose, in the fellowship of oneness and worship of God.

They walked in His Light...the whole of the garden was filled with the Light...it was all they did see and know...The Word of Spirit was what they heard and obeyed...their flesh, their mind and their spirit was pure and free of bondage in that Light...They were one with Him...made in His image, yes, but they COMPREHENDED Him not...

Therefore did He subject them to vanity...according to His own will and purpose...

The darkness could not confound God's Light...and in the subtleness of that serpent heart, that creature of iron matter, Lucifer conspired to reflect the image of Eve, that she might see her own beauty...and she was made subject to vanity...not willingly, but by the fore-knowledge of God...

Eve took of the fruit of vanity and her heart was lifted up, as she beheld her own image and imagined it to be her own...and she was filled with the lust of the flesh, and offered herself and the fruit of her body in the knowledge of carnality which had corrupted her...and beguiled Adam with her flesh and suffered him to surrender to her flesh and not the Spirit...

And they fell into darkness...and fear entered their hearts and minds...and they knew shame...and condemnation...as they came to hear that serpent lier who was a lier and corrupter from the beginning...who was filled with the deception of his own being, thinking himself to be of Spirit, and he was not...for he was God's tool of matter, created in the beginning to bring those who He had predestined in His foreknowledge to become members of the fellowship of His Spirit...

through the Last Adam who was the firstborn of the creatures from the corrupted flesh to Spirit...from death to Life by the choice of the Comprehension and faith in the Word of the Living God who was manifest in the flesh of His only Begotten Son...that One who was born of a virgin having the fullness of the Godhead manifest in Him from the beginning, for in Him dwelt the Alpha and Omega...The Spirit Word, the Pure Truth, the Way of Faith and Justice and Love...there was no shadow of turning in Him...He saw and heard with comprehension the Word of his Father who dwelt in Him in all authority and power...even as Patience had her most perfect work established in Him through his growing years under the tutoring of his flesh family...he set the example before us in all obedience to His heavenly Father, even unto death...

It is this bondage to our flesh, through carnal thinking, and emotion that blinds us to the reality of the invisible God...who requires the surrender of our god-ness to The Living and True God that longs to redeem us from the penalty of death...by reason of breaking the Law which corrupted us and separated us from a Holy and Just God, who's laws are immovable and fixed in the heavens and the earth...that bring Life or death through the operation of Faith's Seed and the conception of Spirit Life, or the corruption of the flesh, mind and spirit through the disobedience of God's eternal laws...

All that the Father God of heaven had...he gave, in and through His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON...to bring us back from death, to LIFE...Nothing we do or say will obtain this priceless and eternal place in God's kingdom...IT IS A GIFT...CHRIST IS THE GIFT... and to reject Him is to reject Life!

I can remember when this was first was presented to me...and I thought to myself..." How does this have anything to do with REAL life?...And it wasn't until mine was literally falling apart, and there were NO ANSWERS...that I turned to the ONE who has promised...the ONE who gives His WORD and keeps it...Maybe not in the way I think it should be done...but always for my good, and always for His glory...

I've said a lot here...but nothing is so important as that which draws you to the "REALITY of Christ Jesus"...God manifest in the flesh, crucified by His own creatures, brought back to life, by His Father, to show who and where THAT LIFE comes from...

The One who offered that Life to ALL who will turn to Him in faith, believing, with complete and obedient surrender to the Life of Spirit and His Word...It is the intercourse of His Spirit that births in us the Life of Christ, and the hope of all He has promised in bringing us to His fullness, ....in the knowledge and wisdom of the Truth which will give Light and revelation that will set us free from the bondage of our carnal flesh, our carnal mind and spirit to the freedom of the sons of God, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit...

jOY

NO TONGUE CAN TELL

No tongue can tell

There's just no way I can put into words, what the deepest and best part of me wants to tell or say...that part of me that the Lord in His mercy and grace made alive and brand new...where there was sorrow and sadness, he gave me joy...where there was fear and doubt, he gave me peace...where there was turmoil and struggle in body, mind and spirit...he gives rest...It's not like what the world gives, or promises...it's foundation is sure and eternal...it is built upon the Word of God...that which is written, and that which He himself speaks to the listening heart, the hungering heart, the desperate heart, that longs for His presence and loving embrace...

I want that for you...you who might be reading this...I want that for you as much as I've ever wanted Him for myself. There is no other Love like his...there is no one as faithful and true...there is no one who will keep you in all your ways like Him...If you could only feel my heart, then you would feel His...for I have no heart without him...that was taken from me at an early age...but He came and held me like no one else ever did...He didn't speak...yet I heard Him, I felt His Love, it's not like our love...

Lord...please take what is on my heart and make it alive to this one who reads this...build a hedge around them and protect them from those unseen forces that would prevent them from hearing your voice, and feeling your loving arms...be their burden bearer...wipe their tears, ease their pain, whether it is physical, mental or spiritual...BE REAL TO THEM...in this sacred moment, this now moment...

Open their eyes and heart to your Truth...It is your Word that speaks in them, that is Truth...give them ears to hear....I ask this in Your powerful, Holy and righteous name...Amen

He loves you beloved...with an everlasting love...no matter what...no matter what...just crash on Him...surrender...all and everything...He will work all things together for your good...trust Him, believe, wait, rest....and REJOICE!