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Saturday, September 29, 2007

As I returned home from the gathering, I read this, and I was surprised at how it fits. I mean, you can read it and not get the same thing as me.. But what I got from the meeting and reading this kinda fits. Wherever you go, the peace of God stays with you. It doesn't matter you are here or back there. What the Spirit has taught you, what is deposited in you stays, and when you hear something, the peace or absence of peace within will confirm what you know on the inside. Be the one who gives now, as you have received abundantly, serve out of the overflow of the grace and liberation that you have received. I feel that they are willing to receive the message, but just that no one has unveiled it to them. So feed it to them slowly and over time, they'll be open to it and be liberated too. There's a place for you here and it's to show them what you know of your Abba father's heart, Jesus's finished work on the cross and the destiny to reign in their life. But don't fly on the high and lose the foundations, there are truths in the teachings that we hear of now. Discern what you hear and learn together with what you already know, check them out and seek for yourself what's the truth. And as Uncle said, it's true, because we go with expectations, but no, there're different things we draw from different people. I've learnt certain things from here, but I retain the things I learnt from back there. It gives me a more balanced perspective rather than flying on a high that is not stable. I'm not saying to mix. No, you can't mix old wine into new wineskins, but to learn and put it into the right perspective. And if there's someone with the wrong perspective, teach them to see it in the right perspective with the right attitude that you're teaching out of the love.

“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go.”Genesis 28:15 NIV

When God calls us into the deep valley of death, he will be with us. Dare we think that he would abandon us in the moment of death?...Would the shepherd require his sheep to journey to the highlands alone? Of course not. Would God require his child to journey to eternity alone? Absolutely not! He is with you!

What God said to Moses, he says to you: “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest” (Exod. 33:14 NIV).

What God said to Jacob, he says to you: “I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go” (Gen. 28:15 NIV).

What God said to Joshua, he says to you: “As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Josh. 1:5 NIV).

from Traveling Light by Max Lucado

Don't be worried/"frustrated" why people are not knowing of this, because they are millions out there who don't yet, but God is working. Working through his servants and through you! Ministry doesn't have to be 1 pastor to a congregation..ministry is 1 person to 1 person. Bless others by being a source of encouragement, a source of affirmation in their troubled times and their confusion. And of course, pray for the heart of the loving father and only ONE sacrifice that has done it all to be known!



Crap. Forgot to take poto. HAHAHA.


An Unearthly Love

Your goodness can’t win God’s love. Nor can your badness lose it. But you can resist it. We tend to do so honestly. Having been rejected so often, we fear God may reject us as well. Rejections have left us skittish and jumpy. Like my dog Salty. He sleeps next to me on the couch as I write. He’s a cranky cuss, but I like him. We’ve aged together over the last fifteen years, and he seems worse for the wear. He’s a wiry canine by nature; shave his salt-and-pepper mop, and he’d pass for a bulimic Chihuahua. He didn’t have much to start with; now the seasons have taken his energy, teeth, hearing, and all but eighteen inches’ worth of eyesight.

Toss him a dog treat, and he just stares at the floor through cloudy cataracts. (Or, in his case, dogaracts?) He’s nervous and edgy, quick to growl and slow to trust. As I reach out to pet him, he yanks back. Still, I pet the old coot. I know he can’t see, and I can only wonder how dark his world has become.

We are a lot like Salty. I have a feeling that most people who defy and deny God do so more out of fear than conviction. For all our chest pumping and braggadocio, we are anxious folk—can’t see a step into the future, can’t hear the one who owns us. No wonder we try to gum the hand that feeds us.

But God reaches and touches. He speaks through the immensity of the Russian plain and the density of the Amazon rain forest. Through a physician’s touch in Africa, a bowl of rice in India. Through a Japanese bow or a South American abraço. He’s even been known to touch people through paragraphs like the ones you are reading. If he is touching you, let him.

Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can’t win it by being winsome. You can’t lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it.

Don’t. For heaven’s sake, don’t. For your sake, don’t.

"Take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:18–19 MSG).

From 3:16, The Numbers of Hope
Copyright (W Publishing Group, 2007) Max Lucado

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