I have to share this. Jesus has shared with me the cure to temptation...seriously. Its quite simple all you have to do is get more hungry for Jesus than whatever you are tempted with. Stir up your hunger for Jesus and you will will see temptation flee. If you are more hungry for Jesus than anything in the world it is a sheildthat nothing can penetrate. How can satan temt you if all you want is Jesus? He has no power over you. One way to overcome temptation and stir yourself up to seek God in the times of temptation is to write down goals. For example I want to be a freind of God and if I want that more than anything else I will choose it rather than choosing the sin.
Also I was recently vindicated by reading romans, when evil thoughts and desires come my way I just say our loud that "I am dead to sin," "sin does not have authority over my mortal body," "I am dead to sin,"! The truth will set you free! Halleluiah!
Anyway have fun overcoming the devil
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
reality check
back on the blog. What a couple days.
So Im working today and Im thinking on a few things and something just stuck out to me huge, I think its something that the Lord has been speaking to me lately but it really hit home hard today.
I was looking at our(the body of Christ) reaction to truth. We say almost whimsicaly "O yea the Holy Spirit is within me." and things like that....do we really know what were saying. When we look at truths in Gods word such as being saved from an eternal hell, having the Holy Spirit, the promise of inheriting the kingdom of God our reactions are so well....trite. This tells me either we:
A) dont believe it or
B) our hearts are still dull
Like when most people are saved they rejoice over being Gods child then over time they are looking here and there for something else to stimulate them. feeling unfulfilled at times we even look towards worldy entertainment. But God has wowed me lately with just His basic truths and beleive me they are enough to amaze and excite us for all generation.
I have the third person of God...inside me whooaaa!!!!!
Iv been saved from an eternal hell!!!!!!
I beleive we need our hearts awakened more and more each day to the beauty of these truths and they are enough to sustain us and excite us and keep us passionate and thankful for all eternity.
May God open up your heart and the eyes of your spirit to see these wonderful and powerful truths in deeper ways and may they become more and more real everday and may the beauty of the gospel saturate your very life and may you truly be a light in the world.
So Im working today and Im thinking on a few things and something just stuck out to me huge, I think its something that the Lord has been speaking to me lately but it really hit home hard today.
I was looking at our(the body of Christ) reaction to truth. We say almost whimsicaly "O yea the Holy Spirit is within me." and things like that....do we really know what were saying. When we look at truths in Gods word such as being saved from an eternal hell, having the Holy Spirit, the promise of inheriting the kingdom of God our reactions are so well....trite. This tells me either we:
A) dont believe it or
B) our hearts are still dull
Like when most people are saved they rejoice over being Gods child then over time they are looking here and there for something else to stimulate them. feeling unfulfilled at times we even look towards worldy entertainment. But God has wowed me lately with just His basic truths and beleive me they are enough to amaze and excite us for all generation.
I have the third person of God...inside me whooaaa!!!!!
Iv been saved from an eternal hell!!!!!!
I beleive we need our hearts awakened more and more each day to the beauty of these truths and they are enough to sustain us and excite us and keep us passionate and thankful for all eternity.
May God open up your heart and the eyes of your spirit to see these wonderful and powerful truths in deeper ways and may they become more and more real everday and may the beauty of the gospel saturate your very life and may you truly be a light in the world.
Monday, June 16, 2008
The cry
Man what a day. So much to be thankful for. well here Im at it again I was just spending some time thinking(uh oh) but also praying. What seems to be the message Im feeling God putting on me for today is for lack of better words "The cry".
All of us after being brought into the family of God are given a cry just like a baby being born...because well, we are still being born. Paul spoke in Romans that all creation groans for the children of God to be revealed and then He states that we to are given that groan deep within our spirits. For example the earth takes in a breath and it breaths in and its spring and there is life....and then as if breathing out it all dies and winter comes. Also like in Narnia the world was frozen. our world is subject to death, we as children of God our mortal bodies are subject to death. But each of us is given the groan of creation deep in our Spirits and its the groan of a universe subject to sin, its the groan for the manifestation of the king of glory and the day when death is swallowed up by life. Yet Iv noticed because of my desire for comfort I have stuffed down that cry and sometimes even mistook it for demonic oppresion.
But what would happen if we were to start releasing this cry in our prayer life? What if we were to take the lid off this thing and let it out. Im sure of one thing it would take us over. And without a doubt that is exactly what it does and your prayer becomes groans that words cannot utter. Deep calling unto deep.
The Spirit and the bride say come.
All of us after being brought into the family of God are given a cry just like a baby being born...because well, we are still being born. Paul spoke in Romans that all creation groans for the children of God to be revealed and then He states that we to are given that groan deep within our spirits. For example the earth takes in a breath and it breaths in and its spring and there is life....and then as if breathing out it all dies and winter comes. Also like in Narnia the world was frozen. our world is subject to death, we as children of God our mortal bodies are subject to death. But each of us is given the groan of creation deep in our Spirits and its the groan of a universe subject to sin, its the groan for the manifestation of the king of glory and the day when death is swallowed up by life. Yet Iv noticed because of my desire for comfort I have stuffed down that cry and sometimes even mistook it for demonic oppresion.
But what would happen if we were to start releasing this cry in our prayer life? What if we were to take the lid off this thing and let it out. Im sure of one thing it would take us over. And without a doubt that is exactly what it does and your prayer becomes groans that words cannot utter. Deep calling unto deep.
The Spirit and the bride say come.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Thirsty?
This is the cry of the heart of God the Father to you:
"Come everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; he who has no money come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? "
We are such a hungry and restless people we have desires that cannot be quieted these desires we spend our lives striving and working ourselves to the death to try and fulfill. But it doesnt work, we draw from the water of this world and it leaves us empty and thirsty again everytime. Look at the woman at the well; she drew from the waters of this world all her life thinking that the right man would satisfy the thirst inside her. It left her empty and thirsty, five men and her soul was not yet satisfied. Jesus said " If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, 'give me a drink,' you would have asked Him and He would have given you living waters." and "Everyone wh, but whoever drinks of this water will be thirsty again but whoever drinks of the water that I give will never be thirsty forever."
We labour and spend our lives for things that will not satisfy as a child of God so many times I have gone to broken cysterns and dry wells to try to fill that longing for acceptance and the emptiness inside my heart. Endless books and teachings and different prayers and meetings, striving for accpetance by man and endless rhetoric. I have got on the Christian roller coaster and it made me sick and empty and cold.
I worked and spent money and laboured for what could not satisy and my head hit the pillow once again in loneliness and exhaustion. What started as a whisper slowly turned into a scream.
On the last day of the feast, that great day Jesus stood up and cried out "Whoever beleives in me as the scriptures have said, out of His belly will flow rivers of living waters!"
Jesus cried out and that cry is still ringing in our souls 2000 years later, Iv tried so many things to run from that cry and keep myself occupied with Christian activities but now I feel that cry getting louder than I can ignore. "Come to me" He sais "Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink His blood you have no life in you."
"Come to me." You who have no money can buy from Him wine and wilk without price, you who are poor in Spirit, mourn, and hunger and thirst for righteousness can be filled. It will cost you not money but you.
What Hes saying is "come". thats all we have to do. Just come and sit before Him you dont even have to talk. Sit before Him in the morning and late at night sit before Him in the quiet, or with some nice music playing, just sit before Him presenting yourself to Him, you are what He wants. Just come to Him by faith beleiving you are with Him. Just simply coming to Him I have had depthes of pleasure that words cannot describe
I pray that God would grant you the revelation of the person of Christ. I pray for the strength in the spirit to calm your soul and I pray for the patience to wait for Him. I pray for the HOly Spirit to woo you away from any "Christian" tasks, or striving and I pray the God of all comforts may capture your mind and heart in hours of waiting on Jesus
"Come everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; he who has no money come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? "
We are such a hungry and restless people we have desires that cannot be quieted these desires we spend our lives striving and working ourselves to the death to try and fulfill. But it doesnt work, we draw from the water of this world and it leaves us empty and thirsty again everytime. Look at the woman at the well; she drew from the waters of this world all her life thinking that the right man would satisfy the thirst inside her. It left her empty and thirsty, five men and her soul was not yet satisfied. Jesus said " If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, 'give me a drink,' you would have asked Him and He would have given you living waters." and "Everyone wh, but whoever drinks of this water will be thirsty again but whoever drinks of the water that I give will never be thirsty forever."
We labour and spend our lives for things that will not satisfy as a child of God so many times I have gone to broken cysterns and dry wells to try to fill that longing for acceptance and the emptiness inside my heart. Endless books and teachings and different prayers and meetings, striving for accpetance by man and endless rhetoric. I have got on the Christian roller coaster and it made me sick and empty and cold.
I worked and spent money and laboured for what could not satisy and my head hit the pillow once again in loneliness and exhaustion. What started as a whisper slowly turned into a scream.
On the last day of the feast, that great day Jesus stood up and cried out "Whoever beleives in me as the scriptures have said, out of His belly will flow rivers of living waters!"
Jesus cried out and that cry is still ringing in our souls 2000 years later, Iv tried so many things to run from that cry and keep myself occupied with Christian activities but now I feel that cry getting louder than I can ignore. "Come to me" He sais "Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink His blood you have no life in you."
"Come to me." You who have no money can buy from Him wine and wilk without price, you who are poor in Spirit, mourn, and hunger and thirst for righteousness can be filled. It will cost you not money but you.
What Hes saying is "come". thats all we have to do. Just come and sit before Him you dont even have to talk. Sit before Him in the morning and late at night sit before Him in the quiet, or with some nice music playing, just sit before Him presenting yourself to Him, you are what He wants. Just come to Him by faith beleiving you are with Him. Just simply coming to Him I have had depthes of pleasure that words cannot describe
I pray that God would grant you the revelation of the person of Christ. I pray for the strength in the spirit to calm your soul and I pray for the patience to wait for Him. I pray for the HOly Spirit to woo you away from any "Christian" tasks, or striving and I pray the God of all comforts may capture your mind and heart in hours of waiting on Jesus
Saying Goodbye
Two maravian missionaries heard that there was an Island owned by a British landowner. He took slaves from Africa to work on His Island. This man was an athiest and hated God and vowed no clergy or preacher would step foot on His Island. These two missionaries in there twenties knew that all those slaves would never have the chance to hear the gospel, so they sold themselves to the planter and with the money they recieved they bought the ticket to sail to the Island. They gave there whole future so that those slaves could hear the gospel. the two young men watched there families get smaller and smaller as the boat left the harbour ....they would never return they sold themselves to a lifetime of service.
That story really touches my heart I feel as though I have been leaving that same harbour for the past two years since I encountered Christ. Encountering the call of Christ I could give nothing but myself and I bought with myself a one way ticket to follow Him, I sold myself into His service. Everyday as this ship takes me farther from everything that is familiar to me I look at those people who I knew before following Christ and they seem to get smaller and smaller.
I look at all the things my heart wants...
to be respected
accpeted for who I am
to be cool
to be noticed
to have the right woman
the right body
the right words
Its slowly slipping from my fingers all of these things that I have tried for so many years to gain there now slipping away into the mist. Iv played with them and imagined them and thought long hours on how to get them. as a Christian... I let them go but not out of my sight like im still at the harbour. But this divorce between me and my desires is growing and its time to say goodbye.
That story really touches my heart I feel as though I have been leaving that same harbour for the past two years since I encountered Christ. Encountering the call of Christ I could give nothing but myself and I bought with myself a one way ticket to follow Him, I sold myself into His service. Everyday as this ship takes me farther from everything that is familiar to me I look at those people who I knew before following Christ and they seem to get smaller and smaller.
I look at all the things my heart wants...
to be respected
accpeted for who I am
to be cool
to be noticed
to have the right woman
the right body
the right words
Its slowly slipping from my fingers all of these things that I have tried for so many years to gain there now slipping away into the mist. Iv played with them and imagined them and thought long hours on how to get them. as a Christian... I let them go but not out of my sight like im still at the harbour. But this divorce between me and my desires is growing and its time to say goodbye.
My First Entry
Hey whoever you are who is reading this! This is Louis' blog the place where I pour out my heart and see what happens. I asked God for the gift of being honest yesturday and I actually felt it being placed inside me... I cant explain it but I felt it. So by the grace of God Im going to try to write on here current revelations and thoughts and meditations. If nobody reads it thats alright because I know that Jesus you will read it Im in awe that you are so interested in my life Lord That you are so interested in me? What is Louis that you think of Him......
I pray you will have revelation that God is interested in you and that Hes calling you by name I ask that the Father would fill that void of rejection in you as He has done in me. I pray that you would not look around you but you would look up. That you woulr see Jesus on the cross every time that the world makes you feel like your not good enough that you would remember and see clearly that His death His anguish was to make you beutiful whoever you are. Jesus makes u beutiful
I pray you will have revelation that God is interested in you and that Hes calling you by name I ask that the Father would fill that void of rejection in you as He has done in me. I pray that you would not look around you but you would look up. That you woulr see Jesus on the cross every time that the world makes you feel like your not good enough that you would remember and see clearly that His death His anguish was to make you beutiful whoever you are. Jesus makes u beutiful
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