Fresh Manna

The Lord Jesus wants to be your Lord of your life. He wants to be your Source. We have a  habit of going to Amazon to find books and to Facebook to here from God through other people. But God would like to speak to us direct. He would like to speak to us face to face. He would like to speak into our hearts and reveal Himself to us. The Lord Jesus and the Father would like to be the Ones that we run to. Instead of getting up and searching our Facebook feed, God would like it if we got up and came to Him in prayer and let Him speak to us and direct our day.

The thing is that God has emotions. He cares about our life and our welfare. He has things to say to us each day, to counsel us and direct us in the way that we should be going. His  Word is alive and we have the Holy Spirit to interpret it for us. God wants to speak to us each day and wants to be our source rather than Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. God does not want or need all of our attention, but He does want to be first in our lives.

I know God would love it, if we could  not make it through a day without coming to Him for a time. Like Manna each day, He wants to be our daily bread. He is a mighty and powerful God but He wants to be a deeply personal God to us. He wants to be a God that matters in our lives.

Rest in Jesus' love

Do you know that Jesus loves us with a love that cannot be measured? If we only knew how much Jesus loved us and cares for us, we would have little room for worry in our lives. I know when I prophesy to a person and say that Jesus really loves them and is so proud of them, they always get tears in their eyes. We are so needful of knowing that Jesus loves us. So many of us see ourselves through our failures and our own guilt and condemnation.

Jesus wants us to know that He loves us.  We need to know that all our sin is nailed to the cross. As far as the East is from the West is how far our sins are removed from us. We need to forgive ourselves and embrace Jesus and rest in His love. We need to know His love for us, before we can be His love for others. We need to relax and breath in and accept His love deep into our spirits and learn to flow and live in His love. When we are at rest in His love then we can be Jesus to the world.

Won't you invite Jesus and His love into your life in a greater measure today? Cry out to Him and receive His love for you!

Fresh Ideas

Each day of your life, God wants to speak to your heart. Every day, if you will allow him, God wants to show you things. I know myself,  being open to the Holy Spirit, is an exciting journey. Each day, if I am open to it, God has something new to tell me. He could speak to me about something I am doing, like give me the words for this post/chapter, or he could be giving me ideas for something completely new. Each day we serve a God who runs a universe and His Son and they both want to make changes in your life and make changes in the world that you know through you.

The thing that is important is that we have to be yielded. We have to surrender our lives to God and His purposes. For God to allow us to change the world, we first have to be ready and willing to make changes to our world. That may be as simple as being open each day to let the Holy Spirit give you a thoughtful and meaningful post on Facebook. Wouldn't that be great to be faced with a Facebook news feed that was full of Holy Spirit inspired posts?

Yes each day God has a message for you. Each day Jesus has new ideas for you. With faith, practice and patience we can wait on God and bring those new ideas to fruition.

Fresh Thoughts

We serve a God that wants to do a new thing in all of us. God wants to lead us into new ways of doing things. He wants to give us fresh thoughts and instructions to do. He wants to remove our old thought patterns that are dictated by our flesh and Satan and He wants to introduce us to a new thing. Perhaps doing things by following the Holy Spirit is new to you. God wants to hold your hand and lead you out into new pasture.

Even for those of us that have been led by the Holy Spirit for years. God wants to do a new thing. To some of us, we might need to have more faith in healing or provision coming from God or any other supernatural thing or occurrence. God will give  us fresh thoughts about the way that He wants to move us. He will give us testimony of others who have moved in the way that God wants to move us. Then will come the day that God will ask us to act and move out in faith.

It is possible to be led by the Holy Spirit. It is possible to overcome sin. It is possible to live and move supernaturally like the first church did in Acts. It is possible to overcome in this world and survive whatever comes. The Bible says all of this is possible when it says "All things are possible to those that believe." 

Tears in Heaven

Some people assume that there are no tears cried in Heaven. They might be looking to the verse in Revelation where it says that all the tears will be wiped away. I know that as long as people are going though trials and hardships on earth that Jesus and His Father will be crying on our behalf. I know at one time I was praying for a person that has been effected with a migraine for seven years, and I simply broke down with tears. It was those tears of compassion that I had that accomplished her healing. Tears of intercession are very powerful and I believe that is how Jesus intercedes for us.

I have two sisters in Heaven and a lot of other people that seem to know me in Heaven. I have become quite close with one of my sisters from her visiting me on earth in visions. She has told me that she has watched me my whole life. I know I have been in some truly sad situations and I know that she would have been crying as I cried my heart out on earth.

It is my personal belief that tears won't stop following in Heaven until all sin,  pain and sickness has been taken off the earth. Up till then, I believe that Jesus and the saints will be crying and interceding for us. I know  that when I pray for some people that I cry for them. Why should that be any different in Heaven?

The Daily Grind

Life on earth can be very hard with trial after trial and bill after bill. I remember growing up and seeing my mother with bills spread out on the dining table trying to organise them and her budget to work out how she was going to pay them. Some people have more money going out each month then the money that is coming in. Some people have to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.

Some people are so busy that they don't find the time to get alone with God in the secret place. Some people are so stressed that they never "feel like" they are able to approach God. Some people assume that God is busy enough without their worries and concerns. There are many reasons why a person does not spend time with God, but God is waiting to meet with you. No matter how busy things get, taking even five minutes out each day to talk to God can have an amazing effect.

I am fortunate that most days I live in the presence of Jesus. From the time I get up, to the time I go to bed the presence of God is on me and I feel the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit. Each day, all day the Holy Spirit is directing my steps. I love how Jesus directs me through the Holy Spirit and supplies my every need. Life for me is one of joy and even when I go through depression I know that with prayer of my friends that I will soon come out of it. Take the time to learn how to walk in the Spirit and you will be in a good place and you will find relief to the daily grind.

Hope Floats

Life can have its challenges. It seems that you just recover from one trial and you come around the corner and another trial springs up in front of you. Trials are not just for the poor and impoverished. We might be surprised to know that even the rich and famous have their trials and challenges. We see just as many breakups and divorces among people with plenty of money. Just look at Hollywood for example.

One thing that I know is when you have hope in your life, that hope floats above the trials and hard times. When you have hope in your heart and you return time and time to stoke the fire of hope in your heart then you can endure anything. Hope is an amazing thing is it is like faith, it just helps you go on with life.

I had a vision once of Heaven and I saw a bookcase with fifty books in it. As I was looking at all the books in the bookcase, Jesus told me that they were books that I was to write in my life. As a writer, that image and my memory of it has sprung hope in my heart. On days that I struggle with depression and I can't seem to do much, the Holy Spirit only needs to remind me of the fifty books and hope floats up in my heart above the depression.

Do you have something to hope for.? Do you know what your purpose on earth is for? Do you have dreams that you want to achieve? Is there anything good about your life? Think on these things.