Recovered In Christ

Thank you for the hundreds of e-mails and texts supporting this and for sharing your heart with me!!! Here is my prayer today that came from meditating on the Bible!

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

For my Friends!

Instead of multiple e-mails – a bunch of you have asked me for the same prayer I sent you a while back – so I put it on my blog instead. but I’ll e-mail you individually, what the next step is..xo
“Dear God, I offer you the eyes of my heart, please fill them with a divine flow of dreams and visions. I forbid any evil spirit from manipulating or interfering with my sleep or mind, body and soul tonight, and it is the Lord Himself that rebukes you, in Jesus’ name. God, please speak to me in my dreams, and if my nightmares are a warning to me to avoid some evil in my life or another’s, then make it clear to me what your message is. Help me to understand it. I cover my room and sleep with the Blood of Jesus Christ. My dreams and I belong only to God Himself.”
 
For protection:
 “God, I call upon your name to save me! I call on you now to surround me and this house, and wage war against all demonic activity going on here. In the name of Jesus Christ, come against every single evil spirit and demon that is attacking, harrassing or in any other way coming near me. I command you evil spirits, in whatever form you are taking (thoughts/feelings/fears/physical manifestations of any kind) to depart immediately. It is the power of Jesus Christ that compels you. BE GONE.
 
I cover myself and everyone in my home, with the blood of Jesus Christ, I surround us with a fiery wall of protection, it is the fire of God Himself that surrounds us, burning away anything coming near us, that is not the Love of God. Absolutely no Evil may enter into this sacred circle of the Power of the most High God. I thank you God, for surrounding us with angels, to watch over us, and protect us.
 
God, reveal to me where the spiritual opening is, that has allowed this demonic activity to come through. Show me specifically how I or someone else may have opened the door to the attacks from the spirit realm, inadvertantly exposing me to the forces of darkness. Open my eyes to the presence of Evil in my life, open my eyes to the reality of the Devil and his works in my life. Give me the courage to refuse every spirit of fear and terror that comes upon me. Give me the willingness to see, and the power to seal every opening with your authority. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray. Amen.”
  
This is all great first aid stuff!! But to expel Evil permanently from one’s life on a soul level – it’s about believing in and following Jesus. The Light…The One…the true exorcist!!! Love you friend! Amen!

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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

St. Valentine…
I hope you remember the real story of St. Valentine today…that because he worshipped Jesus openly as his King…back in those times, that was viewed by the emperor as treason…Valentine was beheaded when he refused to renounce Christ as His Only King, not because he was so brave, but because he literally could no longer deny the Love of his life! The story goes, that while waiting for his execution he healed the jailor’s daughter who was a deaf mute…..can you imagine, the kind of love it takes to literally give up your human life because you are that much in Love with Jesus….can you imagine having that much love…that you would heal your jailor’s daughter??

Now, can you imagine the burning Love and agonizing passion it would take for God to give up his life so that we could go free?

That is THE real meaning of Love…you can’t get it, you can only receive it!

I pray that today you experience the burning zeal, yet utter peace and clarity that can only be experienced through the presence of the King, Jesus the Christ.

“Authentic love involves sacrifice. Love involves the total giving of self.”

 Love can even mean “laying down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13)

“There is transcendent meaning in sacrifice and suffering. If endured for the good of others, it is truly sanctifying (1) and salvific (2). To a world that tries to avoid discomfort of any sort, this seems ridiculous. Instead, it is just one of countless examples of how the way of Truth runs counter to human expectations. This, by the way, has always been the case. The first people to hear the story of Jesus were just as struck as we are today at the strangeness of it. Saint Paul wrote 2,000 years ago, “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians:18)”

“Passion stems from the Latin work pati, meaning “to suffer.” The stem pass comes from the word passive meaning “capable of suffering.” Pass was coined in the early 16th century to denote “the suffering of Christ on the cross.” English also acquired the word through the Old French word passion meaning “strength of feeling.” This has been transferred in our modern times to denote sexual attraction and anger. Webster states the word passion “is a strong feeling, especially of anger, love or desire.” It says that passion “is an emotion, an intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction.” It also says that passion “is the sufferings of Christ between the night of the last supper and His death.” Interestingly enough one version states, “it is also the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces.” What stronger force is there than God? Wasn’t it God who wanted “The passion of Jesus” to be a reality?”

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Monday, February 13th, 2012

To My Girls!

Part of my daily prayers is that I sincerely thank God for ALL of the amazing women he’s put in my life! Some I see almost everyday, others we see each other once in a while, and some live really far away! Thank you God for the visits we get to have, a blog where I can be inspired by the dozens of powerful women who share with me, and all the different ways you keep us connected! We’re all wildly different, and yet I mean this from the bottom of my heart – I love you as my sisters!! Thank you for the hours of hilarious fun we’ve had, for putting up with 1am cleaning blitzes and rearranging my furniture until 4 in the morning!!! Thank you for loving God with me!!! I tell God everyday, and I’m sure you know this – but I have to tell you again! Thank you, for not stepping on me when I was weak, for not gossiping about me behind my back when we’ve argued or grown apart! Thank you for walking the path with me – how boring and meaningless would my life be without you!!

I seriously feel so blessed to have met so many women who really rock! And who are committed to the narrow path of The Truth with Jesus – I can’t wait for the rest of our lives to give Satan more things to worry about – being living breathing words of God!! I love you all so much!!!!!!!!! Thanks God! Amen.

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Thank you for the hundreds of e-mails and texts supporting this and for sharing your heart with me!!! Here is my prayer today that came from meditating on the Bible!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Storm…
The Storm…has no real chance in my life! Why? Because Jesus is on my boat! One of my favourite stories in the Bible is that the disciples were in a boat with Jesus sleeping in it somewhere. They got scared when the storm hit their boat. I can imagine – winds tossing them around, swirling waves, the boat filling with water, they got scared enough to wake him up…after he calms the storm He basically asks them “What’s up with your lack of faith – why so fearful?” what really explains things for me and how they could be worried when JESUS was with them, is HOW they woke him up – by asking Him “don’t you care if we die?”

You can have an experience with awesome miracles, you can be convinced of the reality of an All Powerful God – but you have to know Jesus personally to believe that He cares about you, and about your life – enough to trust that He is with you, like a real Captain. A Captain never abandons his crew, he goes down with His ship. That’s what Jesus did on the cross. Being filled with the Holy Spirit of God, He was was able to overcome even death! That’s the Jesus that I know. And the One who waits for you. No matter what storm is beating against your life, even if it’s howling inside of you, this is a promise to you, put your faith in Jesus and you will say the words of this story as a personal autobiography!! “And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” Mark 4:39 Amen!

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Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Grunt vs. General…
There are about a handful of men in total that I have known in my life that I would follow into battle! A handful that I trust with my life – men that I have met throughout my life that I believe wholeheartedly are true Leaders. Men who’s authority I would yield to. You would think that it must be their power – or maybe even their ability to be fair and take into consideration everyone’s opinion that makes me trust them. That they are great decision makers, important and popular to me.

In fact, they all have one thing in common. They are servants. Real ones. The kind that aren’t hiding personal ambition and self promotion just under the surface of their help. They are grunts! And they follow the ultimate Grunt! Jesus Christ!

Most Christians that I meet have a burning desire to be a ‘General’ a Captain! They want to lead – and preach, and build! They want to start churches and volunteer efforts! They want to write a book on their Christian ideas and haven’t even finished reading the Bible!! They want to go to  the front of the line and take charge!!

And they will never EVER know the Power and Authority that God bestows on people who are truly the servants of the Lord! He exalts the humble and he puts down the proud!! He really does!

Please stop thinking that the rest of us who are TRUE servants of God don’t know what you’re up to! We do – and so does God! If you have a spirit of ambition and a need to be self important you have never even met Jesus – let alone be in a position to represent Him. Take that home and chew on it!

“Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28

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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Made a Decision or Are You Following?

Almost 11 years ago, about a month into my pregnancy I found out that I was going to be a mother – it was unplanned, and I was as freaked out as someone who had just survived a plane crash. I rememeber crystal clear, that I went and sat on a picnic table and cried to God – telling Him that I didn’t think I had it in me to do this. I just didn’t think I was cut out to be a good mother. I remember that God told me that I’d have to make a decision. That if I followed Him he would lead me and my child into a destiny that I couldn’t even dream of. That if I let Him, He would give us a relationship that would be unending joy and love. But the decision was mine. Not to decide whethet or not I’d be a mom, or whether or not I’d ‘believe’ in myself or some other crazy stuff. I had to make a decision as to would I put God as the leader of my parenting, and at the centre of our relationship? He would then take me all the way!

Can you imagine if that was it? If I had just made a decision and then went on my way! That’s most people’s spiritual life – they make a ‘decision’ to turn their life to God in a real way, and then carry on – no follow through! They think reading books or going to church on Sunday is following through with that decision!! That is equivalent to my changing diapers once in my life – or attending a school play a few times a year and thinking I’m a real mother!! Umm No!

The decision I made on that picnic table was extremely important! The decision you make when you turn to God and accept Him as your Director is also very important. But that also means you accept the director’s script! And his direction, and vision!!

The last 10 years of raising my son has been the most incredible and soul stretching time of my life. God has kept His promise. We are living out a destiny that I could never have dreamed up! The Love we share has actually changed my heart – I love and enjoy my life in a way that was impossible before I knew my son! And all of this is impossible apart from my daily willingness to FOLLOW God.

Reading about God is great, talking about it is great. Hearing about it is great. Making a decision is great. BUT NONE of that can be a substitute for Following God!

“Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.” A.W. Tozer

“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.” – Jesus; Mark 8:34

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Unflattering Truth…
Almost 5 years ago I got one of the first cavities I’ve ever had – up until that time, I was pretty impressed with myself for never having had one, I loved the reaction that dentists gave me when they’d realize I’d never had one! Better still, was the reaction from friends who’d had many. Somehow – I had taken a no cavity situation into a trip to superiority land!!! It bugged me when I lost that title! Worse still, was the dentist’s news that in fact it was so deep that I would need a root canal. What? Me? I sat there, close to arguing with the specialist surgeon that my dentist had sent me to. It felt personal. Like an insult! He on the other hand was simply sharing with me his diagnosis. An unflattering truth to my tooth’s reputation, but not a ‘moral judgement’. He investigated my teeth. He looked at pictures taken with a device that could see things invisible to me, and he had made a judgement about what needed to be done, using his knowledge and expertise to explain the FACTS about my situation. How silly would it have been for me to argue with him. Or to go to an unlicensed friend who knows as little as I do and ask them for a second opinion!

God – you are The Great Physician..everyone else’s opinion is insanity compared to yours. You see all of the facts about me, you use your Holy Spirit to see things invisible to me, and your judgement is Holy and Perfect. Help me not to be ridiculous in taking it personally when you show me unflattering truth about myself. Help me to understand that you want to heal me, and to make me right with you. Help me God to be more interested in the Truth than in defending my position – about anything! I love you. Amen.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. (Job 23:10)

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests hearts. (Job 17:3)

I have learned alot from working for a gold and base metal exploration company. It’s cleared up alot of misconceptions I’ve had about how the process works. My crude imaginations of 20th century men with long beards and picks wading into streams looking for gold nuggets has been replaced with the knowledge of what it actually takes to look for gold. And then what it takes to extract it from the ore – and purify it so that it will actually be the ‘gold’ you know to be gold. When I used to hear Christians talking about God testing them, it made me angry, furious. Like what kind of a God do you believe in that sets people up with spiritual quizzes – that if they fail or get a below average mark they’ll be rejected? I had no idea what ‘to be tested’ meant. I didn’t know that they were talking about the same kind of testing a manufacturer will put his product through before distribution. Not to see if it will pass or fail in some moral judgement, but to see if it’s ready to be the final product he had in mind at its creation!

God – what can I say, I had alot of noise inside of me, noise produced from a rebellious mind that wanted to make up its own truth, be its own God, and alot of noise from the Devil ruled world – that whispers constant twisted interprestaions of the Bible to accuse you God to your people. But. You reached through the noise. You reached into my life and silenced the accuser. You showed me that every attack and crisis in my life was the fire that separated the impurities from the GOLD you created me to be. You used the furnace of my life to test my heart. To make it like yours. It was probably the most excrutiaing time of my life. I thought I would lose my faith for good. But you then gave me true faith. Not the blind leap kind, but the kind based on having confidence in the ONE. The kind of faith that has seen the face of The Way, The Truth and The Life. The kind that has told my heart that I Will Come Forth As Gold. Amen.

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Thank you for the hundreds of e-mails and texts supporting this and for sharing your heart with me!!! Here is my prayer today that came from meditating on the Bible!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Agreements…
Did you know that most agreements that we make are unsaid, maybe even unconscious? I mean, there isn’t enough room on this blog to get into how many social, political and day to day agreements we make by default by simply following the status quo. Waiting at the street lights is an agreement! Standing in line at the grocery store is an agreement! This is not a criticism, these are necessary ‘agreements’ for the simple continuation of life as we know it! There are other types of agreements – these are the ones that I’ve been thinking about lately. The kinds you make with yourself – that then LEAD you to seek out other people who will make an agreement with you not to ACKNOWLEDGE your secret agreements. I don’t know how many people over the years I have met who have sought my help – and when I’ve refused to ignore their secret and perhaps unconscious agreements with themselves, they have turned on me. And then – like clockwork, go and find the other people upset with me for the very same reason!!! To agree with them!! LOL!

Do you have secret agreements? Perhaps you have settled for a mediocre life, that’s an agreement to settle. Perhaps you’re dishonest, or sleep around, or are negative, but avoid looking at these things inside you – that’s an agreement that you’ve made with your self. An agreement to avoid your hypocrisy. Look  at your friendships. Your relationships. Have you cut everybody off who might call you out on your secret agreements? Are you in a relationship with someone you know you shuldn’t be? Do they know that? Or do you have an agreement not to rock the boat? Do you have people in your life that you gossip with? That you have non verbally agreed with to be lukewarm towards God? Look at the groups you are a part of. The places you go too, the FRAMEWORK in which you live. Is this framework a bridge to freedom, or invisible prison walls?  I too, have made many, many secret agreements – all in the hopes of making my life more pleasurable, more comfortable – ALL of them were pacts with the Devil, that kept my soul enslaved.

How did I get out? One of the most powerful agreements I ever made with myself was over 12 years ago, I made an agreement with myself to stop lying. It started by telling the truth about how full of crap I was…almost immediately it began to nullify all of those secret and evil agreements I had made! There is nothing more powerful than the Truth. I made an agreement to tell the truth. I then made an agreement with God. I agreed to let Him rescue me – AT ANY COST! No matter what it cost me in my life, I agreed for Him to rescue me and lead me to The Truth! And He did. What is The Truth? It isn’t unknowable as Pontius Pilate believed. The truth isn’t an idea, or a principle. The Truth is a person. Jesus. He is the author of the new contract I have with God. He signed it with His blood. I refuse to make any agreements without Him as my lawyer being present. And the result? I.Am.Free. Amen

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Take It To The Cross Of Jesus Christ…And Leave It There…
Random verbal attacks are on the increase. Simply minding my own business on the street is no longer a guarantee of protection against vicious remarks and spewd insults against me – as if Satan’s turned the heat up under those he influences to react with such boiling point venom. It still startles me how complete strangers will talk to me and try to taunt me about details in my life they could know nothing about. I feel bad for people who have no idea why their life is under siege. There is such peace, such confidence in knowing the Truth. In knowing Jesus. The more you see, the more you see. The more people you lead to Christ – the greater the retaliation. When God revealed to me the Truth years ago about the real story behind the scenes of this battle – I no longer wondered why we come under attack – from the most unsuspecting places! I understood!! But it still made me angry! So God has showed me something!

It transformed my mind! He told me to take any thought good or bad, to take any person, idea, belief, accusation, to take them all to the cross of Jesus Christ. They will either be put to death forever like the Sin that Jesus buried – or they will be resurrected to Eternal life with Him. It is not my concern. At first it seemed like a tedius exercise. Until I placed myself at the Cross of Jesus. I am willing God, that you put to death everything in me that must die. Thank you for utterly putting to death addiction in me. Thank you that my lonliness is dead. That my lust has been put to death. That my disloyalty was killed off! And I trust in the Eternal life you have given me.  I put the cross of Christ between myself and anything that would try to exalt itself above the Knowledge of The True God. I place the Cross of Jesus Christ between myself and everything and everyone in this world. To slice with accuracy anything that might lead me away from the Heart Of God. And I place the Cross Of Jesus Christ between me and and all other Christians and those being called to God – not as a divisive weapon – but as the centre piece of our lives. My prayer God, is that you give me the humility and the power to take every inch of myself to your Cross…and to leave it there. Amen.

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