The Bridegroom's Voice: Constant Conversation W/God June 6

Monday, June 06, 2011

AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!

Make My Life Excellent In You-Constant In Your Courage!

n Christ and by His power, I, Kimberly Ann McCarthy, will serve His purposes and honor Him and Him alone with a whole-hearted love, from an undivided heart of deeply-attentive devotion… for Him only! I, Kimberly Ann McCarthy will diligently pursue You, Father God, this day as my constant connection, conversation and courage. Today, I Kimberly Ann McCarthy lay down my personal rights, plans, expectations and serve God for the sake of His Kingdom. I will cling to God's Kingdom Purposes that are in play all around me and put my personal expectations in His hands. In humble willessness, I will dream the dreams of God's Kingdom and put into play in my life-path today, His Kingdom purposes.

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Ephesians 3:14-21

A Prayer for the Ephesians

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This Verse! AWE GOD!

It is really a blessing to me as God's Daughter, that all He does for Me out of His great love is immeasurable in human worth. Infinitely So! I pray You fill us (Bob, Kim, Chris, Summer, Noah, Brad, Bonnie, Kiele, Ryanne, Kenneth, Tina) Lord Jesus this day with Your fullness, strengthen us in Your power and keep our hearts fully focused on You.

Notes From Listening To Ephesians 3

Prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you…. (We become a slave to God, a prisoner to Jesus Christ, laying down our rights, our desires, our wants for the sake of others, this is how we serve our God, in a willessness that does not hold on to any personal rights, that clings to Kingdom purpose) Administration of God's grace given to me for you… Insight into the mystery of Christ. Revealed by the Spirit of God… The mystery… we are heirs together, members of one Body in the promise in Christ Jesus… Gift of God's grace I am a servant of the gospel. Grace given to preach to the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Hidden in God Who created all things. Now, the manifold wisdom of God made known according to His eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. In Jesus we may approach God with freedom and confidence. Sufferings are God's glory. His whole family derives a name in Jesus through spirit in our inner being, Christ dwells in our heart through faith… rooted in love we have power to grasp the love of God…to know this love that surpasses knowledge that we may be filled in the fullness of God… He is able to do more we could imagine through his power at work in us.

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Today, I ______ lay down my personal rights, plans, expectations and serve God for the sake of His Kingdom.

Today, I will walk into God's Kingdom Purposes in play all around me- put my personal expectations in His hands.

In humble willessness, I will dream the dreams of God's Kingdom and put into play in my life-path today, His Kingdom purposes.

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Isaiah 62:6-7 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Here in the Land there has been a call to prayer and fasting in anticipation of Shavuot and its prophetic significance for believers in Israel, as we long for a fresh outpouring of God's Spirit.

At the same moment in time there is another call; this one, for an uprising or "intifada" to begin on June 7th termed, "Naska Day" intended to coincide with the day the Jews recaptured Jerusalem during the 1967 war. Naska literally means the "day of setback" and is held each year remembering the time Israel recaptured Jerusalem. The "coincidence" of these two "calls", one to prayer, the other to war, seems significant.

We believers in Yeshua are called to stand as watchmen. Interestingly, one of the ancient Hebrew words for 'watchmen' is the word 'notzrim' -- which coincidentally, is the modern Hebrew word for 'Christians'. Watchmen are called to vigilance and attentive awareness of the situation. Our present situation is a boiling pot threatening to overflow. Please keep watch with us; "do not keep silence, and give Him no rest, till He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise throughout the earth." This can not happen if Jerusalem is divided and overrun with those who hate the very existence of Israel. The Lord will use this pressure for His own purposes, to test nations and hearts, and to draw Israel back to Himself. Our heart cry is for another outpouring of His Holy Spirit on all flesh. Whatever peace we can hope for in this age will come from Him, and this Divine outpouring...then, finally, Yeshua will return to establish His Kingdom -- and the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God.

But for now, Kimberly, please stand as a watchman with us at this pivotal time..watch and pray fervently for a minimum of conflict....and for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit – the Lord will be faithful to answer our cries to Him.

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

There is so much I don't know about the end time prophecy, about Israel and Jerusalem. Teach me Holy Spirit and more importantly Father God, may I know the passion of Your heart and may I never let the lack of knowledge keep me from praying for Your Jerusalem. Father pour out Your spirit upon Jerusalem, upon everyone and may You reveal Jesus to us all, May we be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God. Jesus! So Be IT AMEN!

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Ancient Hebrew words for 'watchmen' is the word 'notzrim' –the modern Hebrew word for Christians. Be a watchman Is 62:6-7 #prayer

Pray for Jerusalem! Keep Watch! Do Not Be silent! #prayer 4 God to pour out His Holy Spirit on all flesh-fill the earth with God's Glory.

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Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem #Tworship They Shall Prosper That Love Thee! #Prayer For The Peace Of Jerusalem.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, They shall prosper that love thee. From the Ancient of Days And Jehovah. He who touches Jerusalem touches the apple of God's eye. Jerusalem God's Holy City where the Prince of Peace shall reign. God will not forget Jerusalem, He upholds it by His Holy Name. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper that love thee.

Psalm 147:2-6

God's the one who rebuilds Jerusalem, who regathers Israel's scattered exiles. He heals the heartbroken and bandages their wounds. He counts the stars and assigns each a name. Our Lord is great, with limitless strength; we'll never comprehend what he knows and does. God puts the fallen on their feet again and pushes the wicked into the ditch.

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#AWE-GOD! Our Lord is great, with limitless strength; we'll never comprehend what he knows and does. Ps 147 MSG

#AWE-GOD! God puts the fallen on their feet again. God heals the heartbroken-bandages their wounds. Ps 147 MSG

2 Kings 20:5 Thus Says The Lord, The God Of David Your [Forefather]:

I Have Heard Your Prayer. I Have Seen Your Tears; Behold, I Will Heal You!

God Will Heal You!

Jesus touch Stutts and deliver from the use of alcohol, draw Stutts to You, choice by choice be the strength of Stutts life.

Father touch Jeff Cox, heal his heart by Your healing touch

Jesus heal Sherri M by Your Spirit, heal her blood, cleanse it, use the antibiotics and clean out her blood of all infection. Strengthen and encourage her today.

Father be with Melinda, strengthen her for the time ahead with her dad, give her wisdom and Lord, heal her dad, touch his body, restore him. Jesus.

Father be with Tonya, heal her brain, take away the tumor by Your Spirit, bring glory to Your Name, strengthen her with Your peace. Be with the Dearman Family undergird them in the power of Your peace. Jesus!

Father touch BobS, help him today to have the patience and endurance he needs. Touch his dad, give his dad inner peace.

Father be with Joanne, strengthen her by Your Spirit and Truth. Be with her girls, undergird them in Your peace.

Father God bless the Benjamin family this week with angels all about them. For every mile they travel, may they know Your provision, protection and peace! Jesus! Keep them in the palm of Your Mighty Right Hand!

Father heal my son's hand, restore its strength back to more than 100%. Protect him and his future in the Marine Corps, be His Advocate, His Justice, His hope! Jesus.

Touch Kat, heal her body Lord Jesus, be her strength and joy today

Jesus touch Ashley as she heals, restore her health 100% by Your Spirit!

Father be with Rebecca, heal her throat by Your healing touch, be with her in the adjustment of her trach tube, Jesus be her healer. Give her a great breathing day.

Father God touch Kyle's brother Joey, by Your Spirit Jesus deliver him from drugs and alcohol, deliver him straight into Your salvation. Jesus so be it! Jesus!

Father God touch Patsy, undergird her in your comfort and strength and be with her brother, be His healer, His strength, His peace

http://wisdomhunters.com/ Boyd Bailey

Sustained By God

"The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground." Psalm 147:6

A life sustained by the Lord is secure and at peace. Fear is foreign to a faith filled focus on Jesus that flows from a humble heart. Humility positions a person for provision from the Almighty, while pride invites exclusion from eternal resources. True sustainability stresses humble submission to God. It looks for the Lord's leadership.

A self-sustainable existence is an illusion from the enemy. He makes us think we are in control and there is no need to call on Christ. But isn't it the pinnacle of pride to think I can sustain myself without my Savior Jesus? A Savior is not needed for someone who thinks they are self-sustainable. But He guides the humble into what's right and real.

"He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way" (Psalm 25:9).

(Psalm 25:9).

He leads the humble in what is right, and the humble He teaches His way.

Humility is a prerequisite for people who desire to be guided by God. He searches for servants of His whose humility invites His intercourse into their activities. It may mean what I thought was the right relationship, career path or financial plan—was not the Lord's will. He clarifies, corrects and confirms for His children. He sustains those who remain students of what's wise—and when wrong, they change before it creates a crisis.

Psalm 25:9 He leads the humble in what is right, and the humble He teaches His way.

God's track record of sustainability can be trusted. He sustains you during the sickness of your spouse. He sustains you in the middle of conflict and misunderstandings. He sustains your character in the aftermath of great accomplishments. He sustains your business and ministry by His grace. He sustains your faith when it comes under fire. Boyd Bailey http://wisdomhunters.com

"Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken" (Psalm 55:22).

Do not let the uncertainty of your financial future shake your confidence in Christ. He will renew your faith and He will not forsake you in your old age. Humility doesn't take on the mantle of self-sustainability; rather it's honored to rely on its heavenly Father. His sustainability isn't shaken. You can rest secure in the sustaining arms of your Savior Jesus!

AWE-GOD! I AM PROMISED!

Psalm 55:22 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail)

AWE-GOD! I AM PROMISED!

"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you" (Isaiah 46:4).

How can I trust my life with the Holy Spirit's sustainability and not my own?

Related Readings: Job 36:18-19; Psalm 41:3; 147:6; Hebrews 1:3

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

Wow did I need this today. I was so overwhelmed the other day with the task ahead of me of getting my book published. Writing The Website – Starting The Business – Getting The Book In The Right Format! OMGFR??? I don't feel like I can do any of this and I was overwhelmed not knowing where to start, but I realized that my start must be in a humble bow before The King Of All Knowledge, Understanding, My Sovereign Lord! I can't do this. I know I can't but I now am excited in my weakness and apparent lack of knowledge that God can do this. God's Got This! I am humbly seeking Your Face Lord Jesus, please teach me my next step and make a Way for Me in Your Knowledge, Ability, Power, Favor, Creativity be with me in the all of my everything and help me Holy Spirit be the vessel of Yours who publishes this work You have created, The Bridegroom's Voice! Jesus! So Be it!

Lord bless the start of this new business: Maxforce Publishing Company

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You Are More By Tenth Avenue North

You are more than the choices you make, You have been remade, given new life!

Don't you know who you are, you are more than the sum of past mistakes, you have been remade. You are more than the problems you create, you have been remade!

This is not about what you have done, but what has been done for you. Jesus!

Remember Your Redeemer Today! Remember You Have Been Remade By Him! Remember Your Future And Hope! Jer 29:11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgi-G-dHYkY

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QUOTES THAT ENCOURAGE-INSPIRE GROWTH-CHANGE ME

O let us prove our gratitude by our devotion, and live as those who, having claimed a privilege, are willing to take the responsibility connected with it. Charles Spurgeon

My Heart Thoughts From This:

This hit me hard this morning. I love being a Christian, I love it because the Presence of God is with me all day and having Him as my Advocate, My Justice, My Peace, My Wisdom, My Hope is so wonderful and being lavished with His Infinite Love is so amazing, yet I must remember my responsibility to the name of Jesus, to the reputation of His Kingdom. Today I hope huge to remember my responsibility to the name of Christian, to be all that this name embodies in truth, love and hope!

Be Found in a holy alliance with god and his word

Psalm 41

For the choir director: A psalm of David.

1 Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor!

The Lord rescues them when they are in trouble.

2 The Lord protects them

and keeps them alive.

He gives them prosperity in the land

and rescues them from their enemies.

3 The Lord nurses them when they are sick

and restores them to health.

New Living Translation (NLT) Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Gleaming From Daniel 3- Learning:Growing!

Daniel Week Three From Workbook of Beth Moore

One of the most beautiful summations of our life purpose in God's Word is in John 15:8,16

John 15:8 (NIV)

8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

John 15:16 (NIV)

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

What do these two verses say about God's desire for us:

God wants our lives to be full of His character, His personality, the all of His everything! Bear Godly Fruit!

Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful man alive on planet earth at the time. Yet he was also among the least secure. They lived in constant fear of insurrection.

What brings out territorialism in us?

I believe it is the quest for titles, titles that raise us up in status quo, titles that give us priviledges that others don't have, titles that make us self-righteous and prideful people. Human beings crave titles! We try to get them, strive to keep them and covet the one higher than where we are at!

What does James 3:13-16 say about selfish ambition?

James 3:13-16 Two Kinds of Wisdom

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

Selfish ambition is an outgrowth of a life being lived out by human pride, propelled by pride and fueled by selfish ambition! Bitter envy is the result of selfish ambition. Wow what a death-cycle: pride2selfish ambition2bitter envy2disorder2evil practice! Ouch! Ja 3:13-16

The world says, "Seek position!" The Word says, "Seek God!" Matthew 6:33 A God given position=platform for God's Glory-A Sovereign Trust! Beth Moore

If in our humble pursuit of God we find ourselves with a fleeting moment's position, it's a platform for God's glory. A Sovereign Trust.

Great God! Great God traveling Adventure!

Job 36:18-19

But watch out, or you may be seduced by wealth. Don't let yourself be bribed into sin. 19 Could all your wealth or all your mighty efforts keep you from distress?

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

Yesterday someone told Bob about a job opening at a local company for a superintendent. Instead of being totally happy about it, I was distraught! I would love for him to be home with me everyday and every night, it would be so awesome. But I realize that our lives are not about our comfort as much as they are about stepping into the flow of God's Kingdom purpose. Talk about a change of heart! Oh My! I know that God opened the door for Bob to work with the traveling company, it was a God Thing, it did not happen by man opening the door, God threw the door wide open. I realize now, it had a dual purpose, one of course was provision, but the other was purpose. There was great Kingdom purpose in the opening of that door, that has separated us and made life hard for us. Yet given the opportunity to change it, I say no. I would rather follow the path of Kingdom purpose than the way of comfort or the way of my will. Father God, we want Your Will, we want to be used by Your Kingdom for Your Kingdom purposes, therefore lead us Oh Way-Maker by Your Spirit! AWE-GOD!

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

Matthew 9:13
13 Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Dear Bob and Kim,

Billy Graham was being interviewed on a news show some years ago. The host was very polite but tried to back the beloved evangelist and man of God into a corner. The interview turned to popular sin topics. He was asked, "Dr. Graham, how do you feel about homosexuality?" His answer, "It is a sin and so is adultery, gossip, and other works of the flesh". Then the host asked, "How would you feel if one of your children was homosexual?" His response, "That child would need a lot of mercy and love".

Friend, the church is a hospital for sinners. Let us never forget ALL, not some, but ALL are sinners and come short of the glory of God. Just as God looks past our sin and sees our need, so should the church be ready to minister and LOVE people into the kingdom. We cannot control anything in the life of another person, but we will be judged for our own choices. What have we done with the gifts of MERCY and GRACE? What does God desire from you?

Pastor Elliott

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

Oh Yes, this is one of the things God has been speaking to me lately. Not to list people, things or anything really in the order of importance... God does not make lists, neither should we! Why is it that we human beings have to have our lists and titles all neatly arranged in order of importance? We even list our sins. God doesn't make entitlement lists, He doesn't compartmentalize our sins and that is why He loves unconditionally. I think it is time to burn all lists that hold up entitlements, human rights and value under specific human conditions. The point is we all have the "human condition", we all are equally and unequivocally sinners. We all bleed when we are cut and we all die and we all will sit before our God, The Ancient Of Days, Who makes all things just, right and balanced. Sin is sin, no matter how small, no matter how wide, there is no human value to sin that we can list them in order. The only value to sin is to the destroyer of fellowship with God and our enemy doesn't care the shape, size, amount of sin, it just takes one to disturb the fellowship with our God that our enemy so hates, the holy alignment with our God! I hate lists, they make people feel invisible, less than they are and gets them focused on who they are, instead of WHOSE they are! We are more than the choices we made, more than the problems we create, more than the sum of past mistakes! We have been remade in the Image of our AWE-GOD! Thank you Jesus! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgi-G-dHYkY You Are More By Tenth Avenue North

Life is not about what we have done, listed and ordered in categories, it is about what Jesus did for us!

Matthew 9:10-15

While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Jesus Questioned About Fasting 14 Then John's disciples came and asked him, "How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?" 15 Jesus answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

Mercy is all about God's Kingdom purpose in play- it must go hand in hand with sacrifice-it validates sacrifice with redemptive Kingdom power.

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

Debbi Ray

Matthew 5 ~ The Message Bible

3-37"And don't say anything you don't mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, 'I'll pray for you,' and never doing it, or saying, 'God be with you,' and not meaning it. You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Just say 'yes' and 'no.' When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong.

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

That is such an awesome scripture to start my day with! Yes or No! When I fully face My God, it becomes clear that My choice is Yes for God, no for me. My choice is No for my culture excess, Yes for the Kingdom sacrifices. Prayer is a huge YES and when we promise it, we must keep it. I love how this scripture puts that. When it comes to a promise for #prayer mean what you say and say what you mean to #AWE-GOD!

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I love the Message Bible In Matt 5:3-37 on #prayer promising. "You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. If you say I will pray, then pray!

I give you my heart. By Hillsong

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All I have within me, I give You Praise! All that I adore is in You, Lord Jesus!

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Live for God alone today! Every breathe you take today, let God's Will be done in you! Desire God 1^st!

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Have You Bowed Today? Bow! Humbly-Surrender! Give Him Your All Today! Bow B4Him Reverently! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP_3rIwoBLU&feature=related

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THEE WORD FOR THE WEEK

The Fruit of Love

Galatians 5:22, John 15:9, 1 John 4:7-12

Monday: Read Galatians 5:22

A fruit of the Spirit is to describe the evidence of the work of God in a person's life. Paul list nine of these in Galatians 5. This list is not intended as an exhaustive description of the fruits, but is given to highlight the fruits. This list is meant as a contrast to the list of deeds of the flesh found in Galatians 5:19-20.

· How would you define love?

· What kind of love do you believe that God wants to produce in us?

· How can your life show evidence of God's leadership in your life through your love to others?

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

Love is giving the passion God has lavished upon us. God truly has lavished His love on us in so many ways. So love is never compartmentalized, it is always being in our speaking and doing. Love is not validated until it is given to someone else. Love is never held in, it is always extended out. Love is an extension of God's life in us to someone else.

God wants to produce in us a complete love, a devotion that is sacrificial in nature and giving in action. God wants to shape in us His Image, the character of His unconditional love and the actions that prove it.

To love others, I must not be self-focused. I must be giving, encouraging in words, actions and deeds. The love of God in me must be sacrificial in nature, never comfortable in self, but contagious in selfless giving.

Galatians 5:22

But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

John 15:9-10

"I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in my love. That's what I've done—kept my Father's commands and made myself at home in his love.

1 John 4:7-12 God Is Love

My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God. 11-12My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!

A Minute With Maxwell

Presence!

Presence is something we all want, because when we see it, we feel it. God's Presence in people is very attractive. Presence is the result of confidence and confidence can be felt before it is expressed. If you want to be followed, it begins with confidence.

My Thoughts By His Holy Spirit About This! AWE GOD!

So very true! Confidence that is grounded in God has that special God Favor-Flavor going on. I believe as we daily bow before God and we fully face our Awe-GOD, we have this confidence that you speak of today. Apart from God, I do believe we can have confidence, but it comes off flavored with a touch of self and sometimes arrogance and is not usually looked at favorably again. The confidence that tastes so very good to people and creates a desire for it, is the God confidence that is seasoned with humility at the feet of Jesus!

Tuesday, June 1, 2011

AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!

Make My Life Excellent In You-Constant In Your Courage!

Developing My AWE-GOD Through Gratefulness

Thank you Jesus for this new month. I am grateful for May, for all You accomplished in my May. You are amazing in all Your Ways and I am grateful for Your Kingdom purposes at play all around us.

2 Kings 20:5 Thus Says The Lord, The God Of David Your [Forefather]:

I Have Heard Your Prayer. I Have Seen Your Tears; Behold, I Will Heal You!

God Will Heal You!

****My Prayer! I Place All My Expectation In You, Almighty God!*****

Psalm 62:5 (amplified) My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him. He only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be moved.

Father guide Bob and I this month. We pray for Your wisdom to know our next steps for our lives. Jesus show us what to do and open the door for our mtgs for health insurance. Guide us about our home whether to keep it or sell it. Jesus guide us by Your Spirit

Jesus be with Vic, I pray for Your hand upon her life, draw her to You

Lord Jesus touch Debbie H, heal her ankle, help her through this season, grow her through this time of healing inside-out.

Father be with Amy's friend, I pray you would guide her and direct her by Your Spirit- be her Way-Maker

Father touch the Dearman family by Your Spirit, heal Tonya, this brain tumor, Jesus take it away by Your powerful, miraculous touch. Jesus. Undergird this family in Your trust-hope-belief. Jesus heal Tonya, heal her Jesus.

Father guide Rhonda by Your Spirit this week, draw her to You, be the all of her everything

Father be with Sherri Moore by Your Spirit heal her body, heal her blood stream, purify it with the medicine she is taking. Jesus draw her family to You.

Father touch Jeff Cox, heal his heart, strengthen it and restore his health

Father be with Rebecca, give her a great breathing day today, heal her Jesus

Father God undergird Joanne and her family in Your healing power, in Your strength

Father God reveal yourself to Olly this week. Help Olly to know just how much You love him. Saturate Him in Your love Jesus.

Father God touch Kyle's brother Joey, by Your Spirit Jesus deliver him from drugs and alcohol, deliver him straight into Your salvation. Jesus so be it! Jesus!

Father God I pray for BobS Dad and ask that you give him inner peace this week, undergird him in the stability of Your mighty right hand.

Father God touch Patsy, undergird her in your comfort and strength and be with her brother, be His healer, His strength, His peace

Father be with Ashley, show the doctors what is wrong, open the door for her healing, undergird her in Your healing hands.

Father be with Melinda's Dad, hold him in Your healing hands. Jesus touch Melinda, undergird her in confident belief in You

Father touch Derrick, give him persevering love for his wife, draw him to You in relationship with You, draw his wife to You, heal their marriage by Your healing power. Jesus.

Touch Kerri by Your Spirit Jesus, guide her to the right doctors, be with her in Spirit-Truth-Discernment

Lord touch Gary Carter, hold him in Your healing hands. I pray for a healing miracle of his brain. Father I pray the same for Tonya. Be with the Dearman family, undergird them in Your healing strength and your mighty peace.

Jesus be with Alek as he graduates High School. Thank you for keeping him and drawing him to you, be his Way-Maker through this next season of life. Jesus!

Touch Fabiola Lord Jesus, heal her body, help her to persevere through the consequences of her sin, be with her in Spirit and Truth.

Father God touch Karin, heal her body, be her Healer, Way-Maker and Provider

Father touch Sherrie, guide and direct her day, draw her to You, help her to desire more of you, a better relationship with You. Heal her from the inside out. Strengthen her from the inside out. Jesus

Father touch Velda and Steve's daughter and help her to reach out, break the silence between them, open the doors of communication, draw Amanda to You, completely to know You, to trust You, to believe in You. Jesus.

Father be with Pam, strengthen her this week. I pray her hearts desire for her husband will be fulfilled by Your power and strength. Draw her husband to You, direct him by Your Spirit. Jesus. I pray her husband would be the head of their home as He submits himself to You. Jesus.

Father touch Cholbert by Your spirit, direct his life, draw him to His call to You, in You and through you, open the doors for him. Heal his spirit, body and soul and prepare him for the purposes You have for Him. Jesus.

Father heal family relationships by Your Spirit.

Jesus touch Rhonda who gave her life to You yesterday. Thank you Jesus for her salvation. I pray Lord God You would be her Way-Maker. Draw Rhonda to You today, put a hedge of protection around her, keep her in Your Word, be the strength of her life! Jesus! Father touch her family, draw them to you, protect and keep them and give Rhonda the desire of her heart to be reunited with them. Jesus! Heal her inner person, heal her hurts, draw her to Your Word, the strength of her life.

Jesus be with Monica, guide her by Your Spirit, draw her to You, Jesus help her to be reunited with her family.

Father be with Lynn by Your Spirit, open her to You, be the Lord of her life, help her to trust You, to know You. Jesus.

Exaggeration blurs the truth and makes way for white-lies to masquerade with ease.

Quote By Kimberlymac

Gleaming From Daniel 3- Learning:Growing!

Work Book Study Notes Chapter 2 and Three

Our God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is no less in charge when the world seems in chaos. Beth Moore

Matthew 13:12

For whoever has [spiritual knowledge], to him will more be given and he will be furnished richly so that he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away

Daniel 2:21

He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

As we seek God with all our hearts, in pursuit of Him, to be like Him to live for Him, He gives us wisdom. I believe as we walk out the wisdom He gives us, it becomes understanding to us and the more we walk in God's understanding and wisdom, the more He keeps giving us.

Notes From Workbook Beth Moore Daniel Week Two

Psalm 18~ David, the psalmist and theman after God's own heart, switched back and forth between references about God and references to God. He almost seemed unable to keep talking about God without talking to God

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

My journals from the early years of my walk with God were like that and there came a time where God challenged my relationship with Him and I became for intimate with God, opened my heart up to God more and then my journals changed to references to God, became much more personal and a lot less religious.

God is sovereign and watchful over His child as well as the nations. Beth Moore

Daniel 2:20-23

Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever! For His wisdom and might are His

He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals the deep and secret things: He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him! I thank you and praise You, O God of my fathers, Who has given me wisdom and might and has made known to me now what we desired of You, for You have made known to us the solution to the King's problems

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

These verses can speak to me personally as they spoke to this nation. God's name is blessed forever and no one can diminish it. His wisdom, His might are mine, because I am His. He changes the seasons of my life, He orchestrates every moment. He sets me up in this life and positions me exactly where His kingdom purposes mean to take me for His intentions to be worked out in me. He gives me wisdom when I need it and helps me understand beyond my natural comprehension. Whatever I think I have hidden in the dark, He knows, He sees it and when the time is right, He brings it out in the open, brings it to His light, healing and truth. He will answer my prayers, He will solve my problems with His wisdom, love, light and compassion. There is a solution, it belongs to God and the timing of it will be perfect in Kingdom purpose for me and all those connected to me. God's solutions are perfect because they are not rushed by impulsive human conditions, their timing maximizes Kingdom benefits!

Harper's Bible Dictionary: This God has a plan and purpose for his world. Providence is not a principle of orderliness or reason, rather, providence is the will of the Creator who is actively involved in moving his creation to a goal. History is not a cyclical process of endless repetition; History is being moved toward the predetermined end.

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

God's Got This! I got really panicked when Bob lost his job… again! Then I got really sad when I realized that we were going back on the road. It was obvious, so very obvious that we did not open the door to getting hired by this company. God did. He has a plan. I know I am supposed to stay home this summer. God has a plan in that. I know I will be going on the road again. God knew that, He has a plan. Knowing that God is in control, I don't have to have all the answers, I don't have to see ahead and know where I will be living. I know He is orchestrating this. When I know He holds my future, that He has it all Sovereignty planned out, I can live my today much more focused and with Godly excellence because I am not distracted by what my future looks like, I know it looks like the Sovereign Will of God. I can apply this to not knowing how I am going to get my book published. I have been fretting about this, about my next steps. God knows them. God's Got This. I don't have the wisdom that I need to set up a publishing company, I don't know how to get my book online and I don't have a website designed for it yet… But God does. I pray Jesus for this wisdom, by Your Holy Spirit, I pray for the wisdom, understanding and creativity that I need to get this work, these Words of Yours out to the people Who need it for a time such as this one. Make a way for me Way-Maker. Jesus. Holy Spirit make a way of wisdom, Jesus make a way of favor, Father God make a way of Provision. This book is Yours, You have a plan for it. AWE-GOD!

Daniel 2:44-45

And in the days of these [final ten] kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but is shall break and crush and consume all these kingdoms and it shall stand forever. Just as you saw that the Stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made knowsn to the king what shall come to pass hereafter. The dream is certain and the interpretation of it is sure.

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

The Kingdom of God will crush all nations and set up a forever Kingdom to reign

Notes From Daniel Chapter 3 Workbook By Beth Moore

Our culture is obsessed with lists! Do we constantly feel listed by our culture in order of importance? Overlooked? Underestimated? Do you remember the approach the serpent took when he tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? In essence he asked, "Why worship God when you could do it yourself?

Genesis 3:2-5

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die, [11 Cor 11:3] For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessings and calamity.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But [now] I am fearful, lest that even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted and seduced from wholehearted and sincere and pure devotion to Christ

Daniel 3

1 NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE king [caused to be] made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits or ninety feet and its breadth six cubits or nine feet. He set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, the governors, the judges and chief stargazers, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and lawyers, and all the chief officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had [caused to be] set up.

3 Then the satraps, the deputies, the governors, the judges and chief stargazers, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and lawyers, and all the chief officials of the provinces were gathered together for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

4 Then the herald cried aloud, You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,5 That when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, dulcimer or bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall that very hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.7 Therefore, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, dulcimer or bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Image Builders Only In Christ Likeness!Where did such a concept as of 90 foot statute come into his mind? King Nebuchadnezzar error was at its zenieth. The inspiration for building this image does not come from the spirit. What inspired him to build it. If Babylon is about anything, it is about building an image. Our culture offers us all manner of image consultant. Magazines, TV, Internet…. All kinds of advice to build up our own image and this is Babylon. Build an image for yourself that is much taller, grander, brighter than present reality. How would we know we are image builders? Has this kind of cultural Babylon defiled us. Conviction, not condemnation, just start to be aware of how Babylon surrounds us so we can have God open our eyes to recognize it. How would we know it? Are we image builders. Are we any different from what we seem? Then we are image builders. In truth in sincerity, in the black of the night are different from what we seem. WE are deliberate about presenting ourselves out that we are not in. WE need to be true. Authentic, we are the same person in the church as we are in the car coming to church. Consistency being the core the heart of integrity.. Nebuchadnezzar was an image builder. Daniel 2:36-40 He built the monument out of gold… 16 years had passed, he knew another kingdom was coming, no sign of it coming. He decided that His kingdom would be the reigning Kingdom. He felt that he had overruled God. He built a monument to himself, an image of gold that said: I am the enduring kingdom. Those He foreknew, He predestined to become like Jesus, we have an image, it is Christ likeness-

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

My image is not a personal image, it is not a natural image that I must build, it is a supernatural image that God is shaping in my heart, it is the image of His Character, His Truth, His Life. I don't need to build my reputation, my self image can be seen from the Image of God's character He is etching in me. Recognize It! My culture offers me advice to build my image to make me different from what God has created me to be. Don't be an image builder, live truthfully in all sincerity be a person where what you see is what you get! Live Consistently! Am I am image builder? Do I purposely present myself on the outside for what I am not on the inside? Be True To God's Image! The core of my heart of integrity is the consistency of God's Truth lived out in sincerity through me.

#prayer that I don't compartmentalize my life, it all belongs to God – every minute from moment to moment I choose to serve my AWE-GOD! Consistency- Make It So In Me!

8 Therefore at that time certain men of Chaldean descent came near and brought [malicious] accusations against the Jews.9 They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever!10 You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, dulcimer or bagpipe, and every kind of music shall fall down and worship the golden image,11 And that whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed and set over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.

Picture all the officials that have gathered, waiting for the band to play. The Horizon goes flat except for three men standing up. Picture this silhouette. We are missing one of them. Where is Daniel? Daniel 2:48 Daniel was placed in a high position, at Daniel request the King appointed his friends as administrators. Daniel is at His post. They are having to stand up and stand firm knowing this is the risk of their lives without their leader. Daniel has been the strong one so far, but now we see them standing without him. Daniel is exalted to great power and authority. The conspicuous absence of our resident " strong one" is a divine set-up to step up. Often we get ourselves into roles in our group and we stay there. We have a friendship in Christ where one person is strong and you are weak, or other friendship where you are strong and they are weak. Who is our strong one? What happens when the strong one isn't there? Can we receive that it is a divine set up to step up. You will have no idea, what you have in you until that person moves aside and you allow God to show you what He can do through you. Divine set up to step up. There comes a time to step up. When your strong one is not there, step up, you are on… If you have been the weaker party, you don't have to stay that way, if you have always been in charge, step down, let others lead. Respond to circumstances God puts us in. It may be you feel weak, but the circumstances may ordain a time of weakness so you can see the strength of God in you. You have had a divine set up to step up.

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

In this last trial with Bob being gone and me staying alone, I have had to step up. God has allowed loneliness to overcome me and I am having to learn to step up and fight a good fight of faith. I don't have Bob to lean on anymore for comfort, protection at night, I am learning to lean on God. I am stepping up to a place I have never experienced in my relationship with God because God allowed me to grow through this trial. When the two of us are together, I am the weaker party and I leaned a lot on Bob in ways I did not realize until God separated us for this season and the 1^st thing I did was fall to fear, loneliness and unbelief. I did not stand, I bowed to these images. I have accepted my divine set up to step up and I begin that by bowing down before my God.

13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; and these men were brought before the king.14 [Then] Nebuchadnezzar said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image which I have set up?15 Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, dulcimer or bagpipe, and every kind of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, very good. But if you do not worship, you shall be cast at once into the midst of a burning fiery furnace, and who is that god who can deliver you out of my hands?16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, it is not necessary for us to answer you on this point.17 If our God Whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up!

O Nebuchadnezzar, notice the missing title. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, God will save us… even if He does not, we will not serve Your God or worship an image of Gold. They stepped up! It is probably the fire where the image was made. It is one thing to take a stand, but another to stare into the face of an extremely painful death. Immediate death, 10 minutes you will be ashes if you don't worship this idol. Appreciate that. We face fires and some of us are in those fires now. Like finding a lump or mass of some kind and a doctor telling you that it is probably cancer.
Senario A: Delivered From The Fire. So we pray for deliverance. Apostle Paul ask over and over again for the thorn to be removed. He did not remove it. We agree in prayer and ask God to deliver us from the fire. We believe God with everything we have because we know He is able. He is able. We know that. We pray for deliverance. You can be delivered by God doing something miraculous. Delivered from it completely. We want to believe God for this, God can do it, this happens, believe Him for miracles, He works them continuously. His priority is the inner man as He prepares His Bride for Himself. Dividend of Deliverance is our faith is built. In time this miracle will fade if we let it, we start thinking maybe it was a conincidence. For a short time our faith is built
Senario B: We can be delivered through the fire. We pray and we begin believing God. WE ask God to deliver us through, get us on the other side of it. John 11:4 Lazaraus. It is for God's Glory so God's Son will be glorified. It will not end in death. 1 Peter 1:6-7 In this you greatly rejoice, for a little while you suffer grief, these come so your faith, refined by fire is proved genuine. Our faith is refined. Senario A is what we naturally want. It will boost our faith, but not refine it, this takes a fire. We will never escape trials entirely because fiery trials burn the fake out of us. We want to prove genuine and fiery trials bring that about
Senario C: We pray and persevere in prayer, doing whatever we have to do until God tells us He has a plan in mind. WE can be delivered by the fire straight into God's arms. If we understood what is before us, we would be more anxious for this. The fact that we don't understand what awaits us, makes this one less desirable. This is a shadow of reality, this is nothing but a breathe, a shadow of the true. This Senario is to live is Christ to die is gain. This is a very difficult place because we don't know about it 1^st hand. Hebrews 12:1-2 We are surrounded by a great cloud of witness, let us throw off and run with perseverance, fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, enduring the pain because of the joy set before Him. Jesus is the author and perfecter of our faith. Jesus hates the pain death has caused. The last enemy, foe He defeats is death. Jesus appreciates the pain of looking death straight on, He understands. Our faith is perfected, it is made complete, it meets its goal. He chooses this scenario because rewards are at stake, He wants to James 1:12 give us the crown of life, to those who persevere in the face of trials. WE have to get home someway, we are going home some day. As certain as we are born, we ill die it is a process of like dropping a coat and walking straight on. Your inner man never dies, we drop off our physical body and walk on without out it. It is staying awake. Daniel 3:17 Our God is able to deliver us, but if He chooses not too, in perfecting our faith, his goal is another, we still won't worship your God. Even if He does not, we will worship our God. They had death before them, and they still chose to worship God. What Gods are we tempted to bow to when we are not delivered from or to out of. What kinds of Gods: Bitterness, unbelief, anger, self-pity, despair, resentment It does not take a 90 foot image for us to be tempted to bow down. All it takes is for us to think He is not coming through for me and we bow down to the God of unbelief. If death overtakes us and we will be ashes soon, we will not bow down. His circumstances have become a servant of the gospel. When we refuse to bow down to bitterness, despair, doubt, self pity, then our circumstances bow down to become a servant of the gospel. This is faith being perfected. I am going to believe God the last breath. I know my God is faithful, wonderful and good. There are some things worth dying for. Values that transcend our temporary lives.

19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury and his facial expression was changed [to antagonism] against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times hotter than it was usually heated.20 And he commanded the strongest men in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.21 Then these [three] men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics or undergarments, their turbans, and their other clothing, and they were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame and sparks from the fire killed those men who handled Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the burning fiery furnace.24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king [saw and] was astounded, and he jumped up and said to his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered, True, O king.25 He answered, Behold, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt! And the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods! 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the midst of the fire.27 And the satraps, the deputies, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered around together and saw these men--that the fire had no power upon their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed; neither were their garments scorched or changed in color or condition, nor had even the smell of smoke clung to them.

If you did not feel scared enough, imagine being bound up when you are thrown in a fire. This was not uncommon, burning your enemies during this culture. The onlookers were able to see through the sides of it. The furnace was so hot it killed those throwing them in. Many miracles happened around the big miracle. They lived to get through the mouth of the fire, this was a mini miracle. There are now 4 men in the fire… it looks like the Son of God. There is a fourth man in the fire. Nebuchadnezzar was saying the 4^th man looks like the son of Diety. Commentaries say: The Son of God. There are scholars that believe that this was Gabriel or an angel. The Rabbis believe it is Gabriel. They called it A Son of God or The Son of God. Isaiah 43: God can speak symbolically or literally VS 1 He who created You, fear not for I have redeemed you, I have summoned you , you are mine, when you walk through the fire You will not be burned, because I am the Lord, VS When you walk through the fire… WHEN… we will walk through fires, this is a given. Notice He says: Fear not I have redeemed you, You are mine, when you go through I will be with you. God is always with us, but understand when we go through fiery trials, God is with us. He is in the fire. Theophany: a visible manifestation of God. This could be a preincarnate appearance of Christ. Jesus said: No one has seen the Father, so when Scripture records a visible man like form, it is an appearance of Jesus Christ. Fear not, I have redeemed You, I have summoned you by name: He called them my name in the fire. He called them the names they were given. When we go through the fires, we are the forth man in the fire, we are with the Godhead: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. VS 25 Suddenly they are unbound and walking around in the fire. They are walking in the fire, putting their feet right in front of the other. Keep walking in the fire. The fire only had the power to burn one thing. Only their ropes were burned. Sometimes God will allow us to grow through afiery furnace of tribulation to free us from a long standing area of bondage. We will come out of the furnace unburned but our bonds-chains will be burned. 1 Peter 4:1 Therefore since Christ suffered in His body, because He who suffers in his body is done with sin. What does this mean? A willing cessation from sin. When we grow through a fire, where we suffer for a while, we will come out on the other side with our bonds-chains burned off of us. A dividend of passing through it, we will be freed up from something. Celebrate in advance that He is loosing you from bonds… trust Him. The King calls them out of the fire. Not even a hair of their head was singed, there was no smell of fire on them. They did not even smell like smoke: full deliverance means we do not smell like smoke. When we are embittered and tell others we smell like smoke. You hear their story and you say, I would never have known, you don't even smell like smoke! Believers consider western Christians to be light weights because we are surrounded by our western culture of ease. We smell like smoke because we did not get a new car. We smell like smoke because we did not get the promotion. We smell like smoke because we hold on to bitterness of someone who hurt us for years. We smell like smoke. God wants us to not be lightweights. He wants us to handle tribulation with faith, worship and faith, to have crowns to cast at His feet. We are going to be in eternity forever, we can handle trials for a temporary time. We need to handle the Babylon without becoming a Babylonians. We need to not be defiled by the self indulgent- self centered culture that surrounds us.

28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who believed in, trusted in, and relied on Him! And they set aside the king's command and yielded their bodies rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

This is the only time the Aramaic word for Trusted is used in the old testament. Why this word? Rehas- Hebrew corresponds to a root that means to lave, wash self, but it is a word that means to trust, so how is it connected. Ministering as a servant at the bath. The hands of the priest were washed before they worshipped God. Ministering as a servant at the bath, to attend upon to trust. It has connections in its root to a lave, bath or a washing at the laver. The way to avoid getting burned is to bathe in God's Presence. If we want to get through a fire without being burned- bathe in His Presence

29 Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, and language that speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be cut in pieces and their houses be made a dunghill, for there is no other God who can deliver in this way!30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

This is their last mention in the Word of God, the mention was not to say anything against God. The last mention was in the context of God's fame. What a way to go out. The last sight we have of them is of a God made famous by them. This is how we want to finish up. It is not about us being protected from difficulty. Lord we do not ask you for ease, we want Your fame. Have mercy on us, Lord Jesus. This world is full of trial and suffering. Father may the last context of our names are ever spoken, be Your Fame. Jesus! AMEN!

Week Three Workbook Study Of Daniel By Beth Moore

"Integrity does not develop apart from consistent resolve" God is pleased when we study and pursue His Wisdom, He has great purpose in it!

"My prayer is for the pursuit of God and His Word to become your "magnificient Obsession".

"My heart aches for myself for, though I can talk a big talk, I've mad a small walk toward unshakable security. In one way or another, an woman in our media-driven, imperfection-defying culture has an invitation to insecurity. In my natural personality, I am fraught with fears-insecurities that are the subject of consistent dialogue between God and me. As much as I've prayed to be completely free of them, God appoints some as thorns in my flesh to insure intimacy, dependency, and humility

My Thoughts About This:

I can really relate to that! Only I need to be more like Beth, I need to take them to God, that is one area I still have compartmentalized. I know Jesus wants my whole life, He does not want me living from compartment to compartment…. He wants all of me. Nothing should be off limits to God. Jesus wants my whole life! No compartmentalized living. God wants all of me=nothing should be off limits to God. http://kimberlymac.blogspot.com

I so can relate to the thorns in the flesh. One of my biggest one now is loneliness, I have begged God to take it from me, to bring me friends here in NC. I have a lot of friends online, but no one here. Since I moved back, my old friends have just disappeared. I have tried to make new friends but have not been successful. Loneliness is my constant thorn, yet now I see the neediness of loneliness presses me into the Presence of God… hmmmmmm it is a good thing! Who would have thunk it! LOL! I may seem light now, but God knows how many times I come to Him, bowing down in tears, completely overcome by loneliness. Every time I come, He meets me, He reveals Himself to me in a new way and gives me the strength to overcome. Yes God does! He appoints some thorns in my flesh to insure intimacy with Him, complete dependence upon Him and of course humility!

The inspiration for building an image does not come from the Holy Spirit!

For us, image building is any way we intentionally make ourselves seem different – usually more than we really are. Image building is the attempt to make impressions that are bigger than we are.

We don't' want to confuse image-building with an honest attempt to look and do our best, but I won't kid you. A fine line separates the two.

My Thoughts About This:

I just realized how much I used to do this… especially before I began a seasoned servant, yet even now at times I fall into it. Exaggerating something that really did happen, to the point of you don't know what is truth anymore. Kind of like saying there was 300 people at the service, when in all truth there were only around 150, but if you keep saying it, you begin to believe it yourself. Exaggeration blurs the truth and makes way for white-lies to masquerade with ease.

"WE are thoroughly programmed in image building-it is hard to recognize the difference between excelling and self-selling."

My Thoughts About This:

Ouch That One Hurt! I have been there and Beth is right, I did not even recognize it. Hmmmmm very interesting. Self-Selling! Lord I pray I stay out of that occupation and always remain humbly in my Kingdom Trade!

Daniel 3:1-7

NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE king [caused to be] made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits or ninety feet and its breadth six cubits or nine feet. He set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, the governors, the judges and chief stargazers, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and lawyers, and all the chief officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had [caused to be] set up.3 Then the satraps, the deputies, the governors, the judges and chief stargazers, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs and lawyers, and all the chief officials of the provinces were gathered together for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.4 Then the herald cried aloud, You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,5 That when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, dulcimer or bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall that very hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.7 Therefore, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, dulcimer or bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

VS 2 Nebuchadnezzar invited all the important people – all the leadership and titled people of Babylon. It says nothing about the normal citizen being there.. If you have a Babylonian mentality, important people bowing down to you is the height of self importance. Babylon represents a philosophy. A mentality. We're looking at it somewhat symbolically.

The Babylon Motto: Isaiah 47:8, 10

8 Therefore now, hear this, you who love pleasures and are given over to them, you who dwell safely and sit securely, who say in your mind, I am [the mistress] and there is no one else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.

10 For you [Babylon] have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart and mind, I am, and there is no one besides me.

My Thoughts About This:

You love pleasure and with excess partake to gross self indulgence, so much so, you have given yourself over to self pleasing. Your life is all about you. You look out for yourself 1st. You make a way for yourself to have everything you want, sparing nothing, all for yourself. You do whatever you want, without any accountability or thought for anyone but yourself. Your head is so big, all you can see is yourself, therefore you are very easily deceived by the enemy. Your morality is whatever I want goes and anything goes. You do as you feel when you feel, as you are lead solely by what makes you feel good, comfortable and satisfied at the moment. You only see yourself and you only take care of yourself, life is completely all about you and what you want being fulfilled in any way you want.

Babylon could be compared in the early chapters of Daniel as a woman trying to lure four young Hebrew men away from their convictions. She seductively tried to woo them into unfaithfulness through ego strokes and over-indulgence.

How does Christ's teaching fly in the face of Babylon's self-absorbed, ego-stroked, over-indulgent mindset?

Mark 10:42 But Jesus called them to [Him] and said to them, You know that those who are recognized as governing and are supposed to rule the Gentiles (the nations) lord it over them [ruling with absolute power, holding them in subjection], and their great men exercise authority and dominion over them.43 But this is not to be so among you; instead, whoever desires to be great among you must be your servant, 44 And whoever wishes to be most important and first in rank among you must be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man came not to have service rendered to Him, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for (instead of) many

My Thoughts About This:

Servants are not self-absorbed! Jesus said to be great you must be a servant. The Babylon mentality is the opposite, to be great others need to bow down to you. Bablylon says take everything you want from people, Jesus says give all, even your life.

Luke 9:24-25 For whoever would preserve his life and save it will lose and destroy it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he will preserve and save it [from the penalty of eternal death].25 For what does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and ruins or forfeits (loses) himself?

My Thoughts About This:

To be self-indulgent is to lose your life, destroy your life. But when you give your life away, God will preserve it. If you gain the whole world at the cost of losing yourself to it, what good is that. The Babylon culture says to get all you can get, lose yourself in pleasure and gain all of the world you can reach in your grasp. Success to Bablyon is getting and indulging, Success to Jesus was losing your life to Christ not the culture.

Babylonian thinkers need others to bow in order to feel tall. Nebuchadnesszr didn't bother bending the knees of ordinary people. Babylonian size egos need bigger strokes than that. They need the strokes of VIPS. Nebuchadnezzar's display heralds some loud questions: do we feel more important when surrounded by those we deem important? Do we feel more important when someone important notices us? Do we like to be seen with those who seem important? Are we name-makers? Or name-droppers? Even the most timid yes to any of these questions nots it s head to Babylonian indoctrination.

My Thoughts About This:

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! I do feel more important when someone important recognizes me. I have been there before, looking to be named by someone important, looking to be recognized by someone important. OUCH! Please change my heart Lord Jesus. It is not a huge thing with me anymore, but like Beth said, it is still there in some measure. When I first became a Christian, it was all over me! I wanted to be recognized, I wanted a title, a name for myself. Now, it is different, yet this in some ways still plagues me.

The need for identity and a sense of significance is as human as our DNA. WE begin this search in pursuit of ourselves only to arrive sorely disappointed. Cavernously empty. The honest sojourner cannot stop there no matter how high he's climbed or what position he's attained. If he does, he will forfeit his soul. In search of truth, he is driven beyond himself until all he finds is God. And in bowing down, he is lifted up.

My Thoughts About This:

Oh this is so very, very true. I have been there and done that and seen so many people do the same. I have seen people so trashed as they realized the messes they have made of their lives and wondered, how did I get to this place? Before I accepted Jesus, I got into bad places in my life, basically because my search for significance dead-ended in myself. In finding Christ, in bowing down I have been lifted up in ways I could not even begin to hope for or imagine! AWE-GOD! At one point of my life I had a pastor tell me I would never account to anything because I did not go to college. He told me basically I would never be promoted any higher on his staff because I had no degree. Everything I did, I did seeking after this pastor's approval. I worked so hard, I was the most hardworking of all his staff. His religiosity, foolishness and cruelty crashed my world and for that I am grateful, because it led me to Jesus Christ Who has always loved me unconditionally, always believed in me and is today all of WHO I have become! Failure! No! AWE-GOD had different plans and purposes for me. God is always being in us and nothing can stop His power, creativity and purposes in our lives. No fools and no one's foolish words will prevail in my life. What God has designed for me will come forth, He will finish this creation by His excellence and through His power. I may only have a high school education, but God is still creating a masterpiece out of my life. I am so humbly aware that without God in me, I truly am nothing! AWE-GOD! He is the all of my everything!

1 Peter 5:6 Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you,

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