Suddenly... It Stinketh!!

“He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us, he makes his sun to shine and his dew to fall upon us, and transforms the very things that were before our greatest hindrances into the chiefest and most blessed means of our growth. No difficulties in your case can baffle him, no dwarfing of your growth in years that are past, no apparent dryness of your inward springs of life, no crookedness or deformity in any of your past development, can in the least mar the perfect work that he will accomplish, if you will only put yourselves absolutely into his hands and let him have his own way with you.” Quote By: Hannah Whitall Smith Dear Precious Family! Jesus is Our Peace! He is a fresh fragrance that enriches our souls and creates an atmosphere of normalcy and security in our spirit; even if our world is suddenly out whack and really stinketh, Jesus Our Prince Of Peace, Is our Immediate Source of Life, Light, Fragrance and Help! Yes He Is! The Fragrance Of God Be With Us! So Be It! Yes, your life can suddenly be interrupted with a stench that encompasses your life-path with irreconcilable stink!!! In other words… suddenly the sh… well in honor of my relationship with the Lord, out of respect for Him…. I will say it like this… suddenly the “doo doo hits the fan” and your world is covered with the mess of it and the sickening smell of it follows you all around, clinging to your thoughts, attitudes and emotions! Yes, suddenly your enemy is shoveling it on you like no other and you feel like the situation is an impossible clean up, you thoughts keep nagging at you, establishing in a your head a mindset that says you will never get your life back to normal! You go to work, the smell is with you, you try to work it off and it still is just as strong, you try all kinds of remedies to clean up and it works temporarily, but then you get up in the morning and you are still stepping in doo, doo… reeking of it! “Just as the wise sailor can use a head wind to carry him forward by tacking and taking advantage of its impelling force; so it is possible for us in our spiritual life through the victorious grace of God to turn to account the things that seem most unfriendly and unfavourable, and to be able to say continually, "The things that were against me have happened to the furtherance of the Gospel.” Quote By Anonymous Okay, What now! Well… you have a choice to make! Here are your options: either you sit in it, grovel in it, try temporary air fresheners from today to tomorrow and forever; or maybe you could do the religiosity thing: “this doo-doo is not here”… “ this doo-doo does not smell bad”… “I bind this doo- doo In the Name of Jesus”… “I command you smelly doo-doo to be gone”; or you could cry out to Jesus and watch and see how He comes… immediately…. right to where you are… sitting right next to you in the middle of the stench, the mess and the impossibility…. He comes! Yes! You could tell Him the truth that He already sees, already smells! You could tell Him: “Jesus, my life is a mess, it really stinks and I can’t fix it, I have tried… but nothing has changed. I don’t know how this happened to me, but suddenly I am in this impossible life-situation and I can’t clean it up by myself and I feel stuck in this reeking mess and Oh boy does it stink to high heaven!” He will tell you: “I AM here with You. I will be with You through it and I will stay in it with you until it is cleaned up.” He will say: “Take My Right Hand and promise Me that you will not just “go” through this, but that you will “grow” through this with Me, by My power and My strength!” He will come along side of You and together you will sweep up the mess as you follow His lead, daily doing what He asks, what is right and working out Your relationship with Him until the reeking mess is gone! “Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.” Quote By Janette Oke Yes, He is the Right Choice! Whether You Created The Mess Or Someone Dumped It On You, The Only Permanent Solution to Your Sudden Stink Is Jesus! 1. He will purify your life path with the Presence of The Holy Spirit and He will fill your life with His fragrance that completely overwhelms any kind of “doo, doo” that hits the fan of your life! 2. His peace can and will carry you through, until your life path is pure, clean and new. It is Finished! After all… He is the Prince Peace! He is the Peace that surpasses all “doo-doo” and there is no “doo-doo” that He has not smelled, that He can’t deal with, that He can’t cleanse. He and only He can make your life clean, pure and fragrant again by His Holiness and Power. He can! He will! 3. He is Lord of the Impossible! Impossible does not challenge or even tap into His vast ability and mighty sovereign power! To Him, your clean up is far from impossible, there is nothing unfeasible to Him! What seems like an insurmountable situation to you, to Him it is already cleaned up and solved. He is the Master of the messes! There is no disarray that can challenge Him in any way. Nothing confuses Him, nothing stumps Him and nothing surprises Him! He created us, He knows the ways of man and He has seen firsthand what the flesh can “doo-doo”! WE do not challenge Him, He is after all… Almighty Creator God!! 4. He is Sovereign and in control of our environment and He can clean up any mess mankind creates by our fleshly failing and by the consequences of sin! 5. He is our Peace, our Fragrance that makes the stenches of this life bearable, purified and eventually brand new! “Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.” Quote By Eric Liddell Precious Family, when the “doo-doo” hits the fan on your life path, I pray that you will turn to Jesus… He is there…. Always with us! He waits for you to call out to Him from the pit of stench and He will pick you up, cleanse you off give you the tools, wisdom, strength, peace, perseverance and hope in quality and quantity; more than you could ever hope for dream for or imagine for your situation. He after all is, “The Price of Peace” and you will know His Peace that can surpass any “doo-doo” that the consequences of humanity’s sin, the consequences of your choices, the trials of life, the tempting of your enemy, the attack of your enemy…. All of it… Jesus alone is all you need. He is the Permanent Peace, the Ever present Fragrance that surpasses anything that for any reason, hits the fan and suddenly covers you in the “doo-doo” of humanity. YES…Jesus surpasses everything and anything and He can and He will make all things new! Jesus! Praise You! Prince Of Peace! Almighty God! You are….. You will be…. You can… You do! When Life Suddenly Stinks! Take Hope! The Fragrance Of God Rules! Jesus! Written by Kimberlymac “When circumstances seem impossible, when all signs of grace in you seem at their lowest ebb, when temptation is fiercest, when love and joy and hope seem well-nigh extinguished in your heart, then rest, without feeling and without emotion, in the Father's faithfulness.” Quote By D. Tryon Precious Family: I pray today for His Peace, His Presence, His Provision, His Protection And His Position of Grace To Be Yours Today In Abundance! Just Do It! Cry Out To Jesus every time your life-path suddenly gets littered by the stench of “do-do”! He will be with you through it all! Jesus! Luke 18:27 Jesus replied, "Things that are impossible with people are possible with God." New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Copyright © 1996, 1998 by International Bible Society

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Live Deep-Love Deeper-Be Found In Jesus!

• I was raised in the Catholic Church and taught a deep reverence and dutiful respect for God! As I grew up in the Catholic Church, I experienced “working for God”, doing all I could do to please Him, to be approved by Him and yet never truly feeling I could come close to Him.
• At nineteen years old, February 14th 1975 I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior. I received a joy, a light, a new kind of love that totally encompassed me. I opened a bible for the first time in my life and began partaking of a new manner of soul nourishment, saturating all the barren, parched places of my heart. The Lord gifted me with the primary gifts of intercession and exhortation and gave me undergirding gifts of hospitality, giving and administration to motivate and activate my primary gifts. I “lived to serve” to do, as my childhood heritage demanded, instead of what my new life in me testified of: “loving to serve” being found in Jesus, loving deeply!
• I left the Catholic Church a year after I was saved. My first real pastor that I encountered on my journey towards Lordship, just fed into my childhood “religiosity” and I became a full-fledged “doer”. I strived so hard to please this pastor, but to no avail. After years of really hard work, he ended up telling me that I would never amount to anything because I was uneducated! He assured me that I would never rise higher in his staff or be given a title or a position, no matter how hard I worked or how much I accomplished. I had hit a dead end! My dreams were destroyed with a death blow as he continued to share with me that the gifts God had given me could not be used by me, because I was not good enough or smart enough for them. I had no title, no position and no earthly certification. I was once again finishing 2nd best… something that had dogged me throughout my life! My dreams died hard that day!
• Working!! Doing!! I was left with no hope and deep regret that I had worked so hard… all those years… that it had kept me from loving deeply. I did not have the time to love deeply! I was working too hard… doing! I thought I had to work hard to be excellent, yet I only ended up performing shallowly! I had moments and glimpses of loving deeply, but only to be unbalanced each time by striving harder, trying to achieve a title, trying to be positioned higher and pushing myself beyond my human limits to keep up the image of doing Christianity at a “cut above” all others; which was a requirement of an elders wife in this church, a duty that was totally exhausting for me as I sought a success that was approval based and way out of my reach.
• All during this season of my life, Jesus was wooing me towards Him! He was using the disappointed hopes, the second best self image, the unfilled religiosity, the death of my dreams for approval, the unattainable title and position and my people pleasing mentality… for my good!
• My gifts were bubbling up inside of me, but I willed them down by a self image that was barricaded with “you are not good enough”. I pushed down the gifts God freely gave me, waiting to use them when I was good enough for them, when I had gained approval and I continued to work harder to prove that I was good enough, to try to please this pastor and gain his consent! I did my utmost not unto God’s Highest, but to be rewarded with approval, title and position. I became steeped in religiosity, regret, guilt and self-abasement! I pressed myself to work harder, instead of love deeper. I pushed myself to attain the standards I was held to: “You must dress a cut above others; you must be at prayer every morning at 6am, you must do this and do that, be this way, act this way to be approved!” Yet doing all of what was required of me, never led me to a deeper love, but to be led by duty, tasks and doing more and more to try to please, to try to be good enough. Yes, I did end up in a heap on the floor of the foundation of my personal dreams!!! But God….
• Jesus used all of these life-experiences and He took these things and worked in the unseen to shatter my childhood life-perceptions that had gripped my self image in dead works. My Potter was breaking me and shaping me, molding me anew!
• On my path to Lordship, God used the associate pastor of this church to begin me on my road to true freedom. I was standing in a prayer meeting full of words of exhortation that God had given me, I felt them bubbling up in me, yet my self-image kept willing them down because I knew I was not approved to speak them. This associate pastor freed me as he said to me: “be found in God…. you have His gifts in you… He is with you…. don’t be afraid…speak out the Words He has given you… it is His Voice in you… use it…. speak it…” His confidence in me, gave me the courage to speak out, to use the gifts God had given me. From that day forward, I began an exciting adventure as I yielded to the Lord, and began to be found in Him, not myself but in Him! In His Presence, my relationship began to be moved out from under the task master of doing, to the Love of God, to being His and being positioned in His Grace!
• Over the years that followed, the Lord taught me so much about loving deeper; He began to work out His salvation in me day by day, teaching me and showing me how to “be” instead of “do” and how to “deeply-love-being” instead of “shallow-dutiful-doing”. I began loving God deeper and loving others unconditionally, I learned what it was like to “grow” (live) through life, not just “go” (dutiful) through it!
• I was saved on February 14th, 1975, but My road to Lordship culminated in my youngest daughters junior year of high school after we had been in a car accident and had to be rescued by her boyfriend’s family. It was their act of sacrificial love that cut deeply at my “religious heart”, laying it open and showing me the critical, judgmental, religious, dutiful, heartless person I truly had been. At two o’clock in the morning, I sat cross-legged on the bathroom floor of this home in Atlanta, bowed before God. I wholly faced My God and I threw off the hindrance of “religiosity” that kept me from loving God deeper, loving others unconditionally! Immediately, I experienced an undeserving love so unfathomable, that it cut away all the remaining strings of an unforgiving, critical, merciless, judgmental spirit and I surrendered my life totally to the Lordship of Christ Jesus, to “be” completely His! Life was no longer about me trying to prove myself, trying to be good enough… and me trying to make my family good enough… and me trying to make others live up to my standard of “religiosity”; it was all about Him, being found willessly in Jesus, serving only Him.
• I changed that fateful night, from a dutiful-affiliation to God to a heart-relationship with God; Spirit-to-spirit from doing-performing to being-living! I was no longer an overwhelmed servant with a long task list; but a spirit-led “seasoned servant” with a “living legacy” who was no longer tasked by approval, but tasked by the Spirit of God by His power and might!
• The first noticeable change was in our home life and it began to change dramatically. My children say AMEN to that! In our home, it was all about doing for approval! Performing religious tasks! Our family “doings” yoked our “being found in Him” with a heavy performance bondage, that set “religiosity” as a precedence in our home! There was no mercy, no forgiveness, no forgetting, no unconditional love! “I told you so!” was a commonly used phrase. I used to make my kids have devotions, make them read their bibles and keep journals… and I would check that they had written in their journals each day before they were allowed to do anything else…. doing… AHH Lord God… But now… it is about being… being in relationship with Him and each other and sharing Jesus…. Loving deeply! We are free to love Jesus and love each other deeply! No regrets!! I know I am leaving a Living Legacy for my children and grandchildren because I am being found in Jesus, loving deep!!
• To this day, I am still a servant who loves to do, but my do now has a common denominator of being! I am being found in Jesus! My legacy is no longer dead works but it is a living legacy of love!
• One day, a long time ago an associate pastor obeyed God and encouraged me to be found in Jesus. It changed the course of my life! So today I pay that forward and encourage you to: Love Deep! Be found in Jesus! Humble yourself at the feet of Jesus because the successful life is not about striving to do human works, to get a higher position or a better title… it is all about Jesus and His Love! Success is being faithful to love Jesus, being found in Him, led by His Holy Spirit each day being God’s broken vessel of Light that pierces the night with His redeeming power and love! Love Deeply! Glow His Glory! God Bless You Much… Indeed! Kimberly Mac PS.........Dear Family and Friends: I heard a sermon today from www.gochristfellowship.com called “Love Deeper” by Pastor Tom Mullins. This sermon is definitely what I call “The Bridegroom’s Voice”. The Church is the Bride of Christ and now is the time that Jesus, The Bridegroom is preparing His Bride for the Wedding Celebration. Please pass on this sermon to everyone you know… it is The Bridegroom’s Voice, it is the Holy Spirit dressing-preparing the Church for a season of time such as this! I strongly encourage you, family and friends to make a divine appointment for your spirit to be “dressed”, take time out of your schedule this week and listen to this sermon. Go to the website above, look down on the left hand side of the web page and you will see: “check out the archives”, click on this and find the sermon called: “Love Deeper” Tom Mullins 4/13/08. Listen and be blessed, be prepared and be changed in Christ Jesus!

Family Prayer: Willessness=Revival

Excerpt From Family Prayer: “Willessness=Revival” Written By: Kimberly Mac Precious One, today if you are stuck in a riptide of life circumstances and tired of striving and beating the air…. Be revived in Him! Discipline yourself to willessness and be found in His purposes! Psalm 69:32 The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live! Amplified Bible (AMP) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation I have been learning over the past year to live a life of “willessness” before God. My nature used to pay forward a disrespectful-cocky arrogance, as I made my own plans and clung tightly to my personal dreams! I have experienced by my many “willful flesh fits” that personal dreams, plans and wants tightly held on too, is like swimming in a rip tide desperately striving to make it to your safe place, where you know your feet will be anchored in pleasant sand! If you have ever fought against a rip tide, you know that all you get is very tired, frustrated, defeated and nowhere fast! Precious Family, Jesus is placed over our all in all! It is our place to be willess before Him, positioned in His Grace: silent, still, trusting and honoring Him first; only then will we safely reach the Kingdom Shore and step out confidently in the big footprints of God! The cool thing is… willessness-obedience always leads to a better way and has totally surprised me many times as I have realized God’s Kingdom purposes, plans, dreams and visions and seeing through heavenly hindsight how they have yielded more than I ever expected, hoped or dreamed for! Willessness! Just Do It! Glow In The Glory Of His Reviving Presence! *My Prayer-HIS-THOUGHTS: KimberlyMac Shining 4-Him-Always-4Ever!* · Jesus revive us, this family… each one from the inside (our hearts-Your will) to the outside (our life-walk-Your plan)! May we glow Your Glory in our lives as we submit to You in our all in all! Jesus, Lord of our all! · Father God cause us to be a family whose reputation states: approval needed daily and sought after not by our might, power, deeds, actions but by our spirit connecting with the Spirit and Truth of our God… heart-to-heart! · Father I pray that Your Countenance will shine upon our character, giving Your life-reflection as the façade of our human nature. Make it so upon us. To Dig Deeper, Pray Deeper and Live Deeper email me bridegroomsvoice@bellsouth.net and I will send you the full document prayer for: Willessness=Revival! Remember To: Talk It Up! Live It! Glow God’s Glory! Leave Your Comment To Encourage Others! Talk It Up! God Bless You Much Kimberlymac

Live In And By God's Genuine Truth

This is an excerpt from: Family Prayer "Live In And By God's Genuine Truth" By Kimberlymac

Isaiah 45:18-19! I loved reading this today! It just renewed my soul! In a world where truth is whitewashed by relativity, rationalization and reason, this truth is a refreshing cleansing-detox to our spirit! God is pure, wholesome truth! How thankful I am for The Spirit of Truth! How much of what we hear each day is 100 percent truth and how much of it is stereotyped white-lies used selfishly to manipulate, control, flatter or impress? Genuine truth is such a rarity in our culture! Christians: I wonder if we speak it, live it or portray it? Do we live in and through God’s truth? Are we genuine to the core of our spirit? Are we real head to toe? Are we a reflection of this majestic truth of God? I hope and pray so! · God’s Legitimate Truth! Make it so in this family Lord Jesus! Make us a family that seeks genuine truth first and foremost in our all in all! · Holy Spirit create in us a pure hearts that speaks from holy lips, only that which is untainted truth, motivated by holiness and controlled by the Holy Spirit! · Jesus keep us from exaggerating, stretching, white-lying and rationalizing that we might be people of living, legitimate truth! · Holy Spirit cause us to be a family who walks in the wholeness of truth; saturated in our souls by the Object of genuine reality…. Jesus Christ! · Make it so in this family Lord Jesus! Make it happen in us, a genuineness of truth prevailing over our cuturalism of white-washed deceit!

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Unexpected Things

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief, and yet in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which His supernatural power is demonstrated. Quote By Charles Stanley When I look back on somethings in my life, I have had some "ground shakers"! Things that happen that are so totally off the wall and unexpected, things that truly challenged my foundational strength. When you look back on your life, can you agree with the above quote? I can! God always surprises me! He does things that I would never think of to make a bad situation good. He is an amazing fixer! I tried most of my life to be a "fixer" but things never turn out quite as good as when the Lord's ways are demonstrated in my life! He is good!