God Stuff

The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man (or woman) who is fully and wholly devoted to Him.”
I used to live in a space where I watched God open up opportunities for me share about his love. It is wonderful to see people’s response and enthusiasm when God is the one that has prepared their heart.
It is so freeing to set aside my needs and concerns and even my dreams so that I can become an active part of Gods bigger picture.
God doesn’t put aside those things that we have been praying for. Those things that are important to us. He just presents them to us in a different way, at a different time and we can see from this new perspective that God’s plans and provisions are always perfect. And so much more we could have ever dreamed of or imagined.

As I was running and praying, I was overwhelmed by my own brokenness. This is not something that I am aware of in my every day. In fact, I thought that I had dealt with all of it and was over all of it.
But while I was running, my tears were flowing and my cry was guttural.
What is this God? I thought that I was healed!
And then the Lord gave me the most beautiful and clear explanation of what I was going on.
Yes, I was healed and I was made whole. But Christ is my healer. He is the one that makes me whole. With his love. And the presence of the Spirit.

We are living in a very broken and very fallen world. As much as we would love to live in that wonderfully euphoric space, the realities of life plunder our ‘joy reserves’ and eventually we find ourselves feeling exhausted and quite simply ‘out of faith’.
God is our father in heaven and his very nature is to pour out his love in our lives. With that love, comes blessing upon blessing.
We need to make time to spend in his presence, to be affirmed by his love and to be re- assured of his faithfulness.

Gods love just keeps coming at us and it will keep coming at us right up until the very last day. Yes, that either means the very last day of the world as we know it, or the very last day of our lives.
The bible tells us that God wants everyone to be saved.
The Revelation unequivocally declares that God is sovereign. There is no greater power in all the universe. He cannot be compared with any leader, government or religion.
For me, I believe that the bible is the living word of God and that it is very literal. When Jesus took some mud, spat on it and rubbed it on a blind mans eye – he was literally healed. Not figuratively healed.

Gods love never stops coming towards us just like the waves of the ocean never stop rolling onto the beach.
It is the character of the ocean for the waves to keep rolling onto the beach, and it is the character of God to keep loving.
If you turn away from Gods light, which is Gods love, effectively you are turning into the shadows.
It’s in the shadows where doubt and disillusion sets in. Where the created stops believing that they are utterly loved by the creator and eventually they stop believing that they are created at all.