Remember Janet Jackson's song back in the day??
Well, I fell of the truck and onto something else... pun intended... practice
purity versus be pure... sermon yesterday was way more helpful than I initially
perceived but I endeavor to always remain greatly open to the Holy Spirit and
to how GOD chooses to talk to and through me.
"Separate Yourself."
God's message for me in a nutshell. All the things that I don't want to do and be tempted by... I need to separate from those things... I am not going to get all overly churchy and preachy and talky... just separate yourself... Separate NOT isolate.
Isaiah 40:27 to the end...
"Separate Yourself."
God's message for me in a nutshell. All the things that I don't want to do and be tempted by... I need to separate from those things... I am not going to get all overly churchy and preachy and talky... just separate yourself... Separate NOT isolate.
Isaiah 40:27 to the end...
Why do you complain, Jacob?
Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
my cause is disregarded by my God”?
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
This was the scripture from the sermon yesterday... but as I look back over the preceding verses... I feel tears in my eyes when I realize I tried to make my difficulties impossibilities that GOD can’t even reach.
Remember this ShaTina: Isaiah 40:21-24"
Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
my cause is disregarded by my God”?
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
This was the scripture from the sermon yesterday... but as I look back over the preceding verses... I feel tears in my eyes when I realize I tried to make my difficulties impossibilities that GOD can’t even reach.
Remember this ShaTina: Isaiah 40:21-24"
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
God used me yesterday… in spite of my sins and recent almost fresh adultery again OUR covenant relationship. God has a covenant relationship with me, individually, I am Gomer. Even though I want to be an Esther or a Dorcas... I relate to Gomer and Rahab... but GOD loves ME!! In Spite of and in the mist of all of my mess... I am so glad that GOD ALONE can use my acts of stupidity to redeem others and to comfort them. We don't know why Gomer did what she did... but we DO know she was loved. GOD I want and desire to be truly right with you. You have made me righteous through the life, death and resurrection of your Son. Thank you for seeing me. The real me. Flaws, insecurities, anger, jealous, spiteful, stingy, hateful, cursing and uncaring as I am... and still use me for your glory. Thank you Lord.
Revelations 5:5
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
God used me yesterday… in spite of my sins and recent almost fresh adultery again OUR covenant relationship. God has a covenant relationship with me, individually, I am Gomer. Even though I want to be an Esther or a Dorcas... I relate to Gomer and Rahab... but GOD loves ME!! In Spite of and in the mist of all of my mess... I am so glad that GOD ALONE can use my acts of stupidity to redeem others and to comfort them. We don't know why Gomer did what she did... but we DO know she was loved. GOD I want and desire to be truly right with you. You have made me righteous through the life, death and resurrection of your Son. Thank you for seeing me. The real me. Flaws, insecurities, anger, jealous, spiteful, stingy, hateful, cursing and uncaring as I am... and still use me for your glory. Thank you Lord.
Revelations 5:5
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
