I have a Friend who wrote a song and one of the lyrics was "turn these abstract desires into something beautiful". Especially this time of year we see people overrun with so many desires. Its a never ending parade of greed and indulgence that doesn't allow the human soul any peace. We have so many desires inside of our soul that we cant seem to discifer or sort out in any way. they overtake us and cause us to fall into so many pains and hurts. How many scars are on our hearts and bodies from the our various longings.
I was looking in the word and I was amazed at how God took the desires and dreams of a man named Abraham, God took his simple normal, human desire for a child, for a son to carry on his name and God took it farther than Abraham could ever imagine. God said, "Abraham look at these stars. So shall be your descendants." from Abraham's simple desire for a child came Gods people, His Holy nation, His royal priesthood, His special possession and a blessing to all the earth.
Then I read about Hannah in the book of Samuel. How she to wanted a child and how God used that desire and her prayer to do something so much bigger than what she prayed for or desired. God used this woman's simple desire for a child and raised up for Himself a faithful priest in the land and a prophet who would anoint David the king who would prepare a line for Jesus in the earth, the saviour of us all.
Is it that God also shares with us in our simple desires? could it be that our desire for children was actually Gods desire that He placed in us? could it be hidden in our hearts are the desires of Gods heart and that they have just been misplaced by the world? Could it be that our simplest desires could hold amazing spiritual potential?
So many people with so many misplaced desires destroying there lives. Let us come to God with our desires and lay them at His feet.
"Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ever ask or think"
Your desires that may have been used to cause you to sin or be hurt could be the very seed of God in the earth. After God cleans up those desires and sanctifies them they could be the very seed of HIS desire coming to pass in the earth.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
hidden wisdom
I love it. I was looking at a Friends photo blog recently and I just started to get revelation. I had been meditating on 1 Corinthians 2 about the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages, the chapters all about the hidden wisdom that is only discerned by those with the Spirit. I started to realize how art allows us to see past the ordinary and allows you to see the hidden wisdom all around us. Like Jesus spoke of the wisdom of a simple common flower that had more beauty than king Solomon in all his glory.
The words of Jesus were brought to my mind about the lamp of the body filling the whole body with light and how the lamp is the eye to the body. So our perspective is what fills us with light, like Paul prayed that the eyes of there understanding be enlightened. Wisdom is perspective, walking in the Spirit of truth and letting Him bath us in revelation of God. Its amazing how that hidden wisdom is everywhere and how God teaches us the ways of His Kingdom which we cant see with the things that we can see. There are parables all around us.
Then I started to think the greatest parable, the greatest revelation of GOd is us, its humans, we carry the image of God, but its also the hardest thing for us to do sometimes is to see God in each other. As the scales fall off my eyes and my heart becomes more pure I am beginning to see Christ everywhere. Its such an adventure pursuing God while He pursues me.
May God give us more of this wisdom from above which is like the snow.....first pure.....then peaceable......gentle......
The words of Jesus were brought to my mind about the lamp of the body filling the whole body with light and how the lamp is the eye to the body. So our perspective is what fills us with light, like Paul prayed that the eyes of there understanding be enlightened. Wisdom is perspective, walking in the Spirit of truth and letting Him bath us in revelation of God. Its amazing how that hidden wisdom is everywhere and how God teaches us the ways of His Kingdom which we cant see with the things that we can see. There are parables all around us.
Then I started to think the greatest parable, the greatest revelation of GOd is us, its humans, we carry the image of God, but its also the hardest thing for us to do sometimes is to see God in each other. As the scales fall off my eyes and my heart becomes more pure I am beginning to see Christ everywhere. Its such an adventure pursuing God while He pursues me.
May God give us more of this wisdom from above which is like the snow.....first pure.....then peaceable......gentle......
priceless
you know what the amazing thing is about someone who is crucified to this world? He cant be bought. Nobody could buy Jesus, they couldn't make Him king He didn't want it, they couldn't manipulate Him to teach what they wanted, He didn't compromise His message to please the Political or the religious. Even in Gethsemane He resisted the temptations of the devil and submitted to God.
I don't want to be bought by this world, I don't want to be purchased by the religious system or the political systems of man pleasing. This world is crucified to me and I to the world. It had to be this way, it has to be this way to follow Jesus
Here lies Louis....finally free
I don't want to be bought by this world, I don't want to be purchased by the religious system or the political systems of man pleasing. This world is crucified to me and I to the world. It had to be this way, it has to be this way to follow Jesus
Here lies Louis....finally free
Monday, December 22, 2008
If I had wings like a dove Id fly away and be at rest
Id fly behind the veil into the desert
I can hear something I havnt heard in a long time
I can feel a breeze that takes me back to eternity
sending a simple sighn on uneven times
a new frame to fly out of
I can hear it if I strain my ear its just behind me
A still song flying over these mountains to meet me
I had this vision as I was worshipping at a meeting once, I saw the most beautiful mountains covered in lush green trees and jungles, I saw rolling, perfectly green hills but what was far more beautifull was what I did not see. In this vision the song of the Lord was rolling over the mountains and hills. The Spirit was saying to me through this that His song would be with me, no matter the mountain or hill.
So I say to you Jesus:
"Make haste my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountain of spices."
I can hear it......I can hear him coming.......
Id fly behind the veil into the desert
I can hear something I havnt heard in a long time
I can feel a breeze that takes me back to eternity
sending a simple sighn on uneven times
a new frame to fly out of
I can hear it if I strain my ear its just behind me
A still song flying over these mountains to meet me
I had this vision as I was worshipping at a meeting once, I saw the most beautiful mountains covered in lush green trees and jungles, I saw rolling, perfectly green hills but what was far more beautifull was what I did not see. In this vision the song of the Lord was rolling over the mountains and hills. The Spirit was saying to me through this that His song would be with me, no matter the mountain or hill.
So I say to you Jesus:
"Make haste my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountain of spices."
I can hear it......I can hear him coming.......
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
your sons and daughters prochecy
this is something I found that I wrote in the night out in a cabin in bc years before I was aved. I was shocked when I read it and i know it came from the Lord because this was years before I was exposed to Christianity.
Though the sun doth shine on all of creation
not through the working of hands of men but throught the divine fingers of almighty God the Father of all creation, through blood and dirt under foot comes true creation. The creation the son the son of life who's name is truth
set ou for us through His own pain and anguish
a place among the heavenly partakers of good and peace
rain has begun to drop, the cloud is above and as these good deeds rain on us
as the sun shines we shall not feel the winds of disaster those who find love in there hearts,
faith in the one.
One who through all weather gives us wings for feet and finds fine foods and clean linen inded did find in us whom He loves Himself, not as a reflection but living flesh.
floating above all sinking desires not looking down but towards the colors seen by eyes of life as of eyes of a child. Let all living creation know of one. Let all heaven and earth sing praise of power without greed, mind without independent thought yet one state with one border leaving out all death for Jesus Christ has choose for us life.
So let us choose love with peices of truth as hairs on a head. with feet walking thousands at one speaking tongues of what life knows and understands as the language of angels hears with one ear. let the stealing of towers begin with the leaving of all unholiness.
Let the beggining of wind, snow and ice freeze the tenticles of fog and bring an end to injustice in all. For a few who God in all Holy Glory has set free. Let all go to His own and tell them of notold but current and imagining fires burning a light so calm and understanding overcoming. Flames know ways of displaying change without names. Personal to all a change comes to find life in heights and valleys not for who you are but what you are, let feelings of truth rain free not for fall but as sails gently guiding through waves of blame. for no heart fails who finds leaven of speed sending men to levels of space above time mending senses. Let His name be writing in the means of His will for ours is shaken. HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST LET ALL BELEIVE!
Friday, November 21, 2008
walking backwards
I was led to Joshua 4 recently, it is when God told Joshua to build a monument of stones for future generations to remember how the Lord parted the Jordan river and Israel crossed. I started to remember what the Lord has done in my life to draw me to myself and how the love He showed me when I did not yet know Him has been a memorial to remind me who He is and how He looks at me. He loved me as a sinner, how could He not love me now? Also it brought to me memories of dreams I shared with the Lord that at first seemed so close yet now seem so much farther... I remembered the drive to medicine Hat where I was born again and how I saw a cross in the starts that I stared at the whole way there. And in the midst of the emotion of this moment as I was sitting in my car before work today, I wrote these words:
I feel like Im clutching so hard to hold onto a dream that once layed hold of me. An inescapable longing, a breaking desire and a consuming blaze...the first things.
The reminder of the cross in the stars, re-creation from the cross to the stars. these memorial stones are boundaries, not to go back over the Jordan.
A man on fire, I came to burn, and I found myself in you.
How long O Lord until I see the dreams of my heart?
The reminder of the cross in the stars, re-creation from the cross to the stars. these memorial stones are boundaries, not to go back over the Jordan.
A man on fire, I came to burn, and I found myself in you.
How long O Lord until I see the dreams of my heart?
These are the lyrics to a song by Jason Upton:
When you were a child I called you my own
and you were mine
when you were a child you could not stand alone
but you were fine
I want to know that child again
maybe time has changed but love remembers when
you called my name and like the wind I carried you away
seems like only yesterday
when you were a child
and you were mine
when you were a child you could not stand alone
but you were fine
I want to know that child again
maybe time has changed but love remembers when
you called my name and like the wind I carried you away
seems like only yesterday
when you were a child
Iv been meditating on the early days of being saved and my heart breaks and I hear Him calling me back.
“When Israel was a child, I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My son.
As they called them,
So they went from them;
They sacrificed to the Baals,
And burned incense to carved images.
“ I taught Ephraim to walk,
Taking them by their arms;
But they did not know that I healed them.
I drew them with gentle cords,
With bands of love,
And I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck.
I stooped and fed them.
Hosea 11: 1-4
remember
“When Israel was a child, I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My son.
As they called them,
So they went from them;
They sacrificed to the Baals,
And burned incense to carved images.
“ I taught Ephraim to walk,
Taking them by their arms;
But they did not know that I healed them.
I drew them with gentle cords,
With bands of love,
And I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck.
I stooped and fed them.
Hosea 11: 1-4
remember
Saturday, November 15, 2008
This is a portion of a letter written from a missionary after loosing his wife and three of his children in the cause for Christ, alone and with failing health he wrote this letter to a freind:
Praise God for those who went before us. Praise God that we are the posterity of such men as this who followed Jesus all the way to the cross. Let us stand in the momentum of these men and women and take the batton that has been handed us in this last leg of history and "run the race with endurance". It is written Jesus set "His face for Jerusalem", where he was to fulfil that for which he came, laying down His life for His own. let us set our faces for the cross and let nothing stop us.
Jesus is heaven.
No language can express what he has been and is to me. never does He leave me; constantly does he cheer me with His love. He who once wept at the grave of lazarus often now weeps in and with me. he who once on earth rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "Even so Father: for it seemed good in your sight" (Matt 11:26), daily, hourly, rejoices in the Spirit with me, and says so still. His own rest, His own peace, His own joy He gives me. He kisses me with the kisses of His love, which are better than wine. often times I wonder if it is possible for her, who is taken, to have more joy in Hiis presence than he has given me. If He has taken her to heaven, He has also brought heaven heere to me, for he is heaven. there is no night, no gloom, in His presence. In His presence there is "fullness of joy" (Psalms 16:11).
At times He does suffer me to realize all that was, but is not now. at times I can almost hear again the sweet voice of my gracie, feel the presence of little Samuel's head on my bosom. And Noel and His mother-how sweet the recollection, yet how it makes the heart ache!....And then, he who will soon come and wwipe away every tear, comes and takes away all bitterness from them...and fills my heart with deep, true, unutterable gladness. I have not to seek Him now; He never leaves me. At night He smoothes my pillow; in the morning He wakes my heart to his love. "I will be with thee all day long: thou shalt not be alone, nor lonely"
Praise God for those who went before us. Praise God that we are the posterity of such men as this who followed Jesus all the way to the cross. Let us stand in the momentum of these men and women and take the batton that has been handed us in this last leg of history and "run the race with endurance". It is written Jesus set "His face for Jerusalem", where he was to fulfil that for which he came, laying down His life for His own. let us set our faces for the cross and let nothing stop us.
Jesus is heaven.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
I just love Hebrews 11 its one of my favorite books in all the bible it is just amazing to me to read about these guys from our past who dreamed and lived and poured out there lives in hopes of a better city, a city that is not going anywhere a country where God is the king. They all died waiting to have what we have and to see the things we see. what is it we see....
what if heaven is not that far away, what if its not some far away place? What if its just behind the veil? just one step away? just one breath away? doesnt what Jesus said make so much more sense that way? doesnt the bible make more sense that way? what if Jesus really meant what He said when He said "the kingdom of God is inside you?" What if it really is that close, what if it really is that accessible? what if all we have to do is close our eyes and believe like a little child, after all Jesus said to enter the kingdom of God you must be like a little child.
Just a little something to chew on
God bless people of God
p.s. I also noticed how often the apostles prayed in the epistles ( not to mention Jesus) that we would have our spiritual eyes opened. Like if we could just see into this kingdom we would have no problem rejecting hating the things of this world and we would live only for that kingdom.
Jesus said " I only do what I see my Father do."
and it is testified about Him by the psalmist "I saw the Lord always before my face and always at my right hand that I might not be shaken
Hebrews 11 says moses saw the Lord who was invisible.
Lord Jesus may you open our eyes and hearts to your beauty. As the old hymn says "turn your eyes upon Jesus and the things of this earth grow strangely dim"
what if heaven is not that far away, what if its not some far away place? What if its just behind the veil? just one step away? just one breath away? doesnt what Jesus said make so much more sense that way? doesnt the bible make more sense that way? what if Jesus really meant what He said when He said "the kingdom of God is inside you?" What if it really is that close, what if it really is that accessible? what if all we have to do is close our eyes and believe like a little child, after all Jesus said to enter the kingdom of God you must be like a little child.
Just a little something to chew on
God bless people of God
p.s. I also noticed how often the apostles prayed in the epistles ( not to mention Jesus) that we would have our spiritual eyes opened. Like if we could just see into this kingdom we would have no problem rejecting hating the things of this world and we would live only for that kingdom.
Jesus said " I only do what I see my Father do."
and it is testified about Him by the psalmist "I saw the Lord always before my face and always at my right hand that I might not be shaken
Hebrews 11 says moses saw the Lord who was invisible.
Lord Jesus may you open our eyes and hearts to your beauty. As the old hymn says "turn your eyes upon Jesus and the things of this earth grow strangely dim"
Sunday, November 9, 2008
back to blogging
Hello whoever!
Ok Louis here again starting my blog back up again. I just have so much on my heart i just have to share it and since I dont know where to start im just going to break it up into small messages each time I write. And just maybe someone will come on a check it out!
So heres a recent meditation: Spirit upon us or Spirit in us
I always had this suspicion there were two kinds of annointings, like an inward one and an outward one, but I couldnt proove this scripturally apart from Where Jesus talks about those who did sighns and wonders and prophecied but He said to them "I never knew you". They had an annointing for ministry no doubt but still missed Jesus.
I realized to be empowered into ministry you must be "clothed with power from on high", just as the apostles were told by the Lord. Jesus Himself started His ministry after the Holy Spirit came upon Him, and He would come upon Him for healing as well as we read later in the gospels, so that is outward, like wearing the ability of God to do the impossible.
Yet we are also told "be filled with the Holy Spirit" to be filled must be inward its not possible to fill the outside of something. 1 John talks about an inward annointing that teaches us all things. So I realized that the outward annointing can be present without the inward annointing. For example you can go out and do annointed ministry and go home feeling empty inside.
One thing i do know is that our inward annointing is based on our relationship to our Father. Someone who is filled with the Holy Spirit loves. period. Thats the mark of someone filled with the Spirit. We dont just get filled once we gotta keep getting filled with His love and keep that lamp burning!
Ok Louis here again starting my blog back up again. I just have so much on my heart i just have to share it and since I dont know where to start im just going to break it up into small messages each time I write. And just maybe someone will come on a check it out!
So heres a recent meditation: Spirit upon us or Spirit in us
I always had this suspicion there were two kinds of annointings, like an inward one and an outward one, but I couldnt proove this scripturally apart from Where Jesus talks about those who did sighns and wonders and prophecied but He said to them "I never knew you". They had an annointing for ministry no doubt but still missed Jesus.
I realized to be empowered into ministry you must be "clothed with power from on high", just as the apostles were told by the Lord. Jesus Himself started His ministry after the Holy Spirit came upon Him, and He would come upon Him for healing as well as we read later in the gospels, so that is outward, like wearing the ability of God to do the impossible.
Yet we are also told "be filled with the Holy Spirit" to be filled must be inward its not possible to fill the outside of something. 1 John talks about an inward annointing that teaches us all things. So I realized that the outward annointing can be present without the inward annointing. For example you can go out and do annointed ministry and go home feeling empty inside.
One thing i do know is that our inward annointing is based on our relationship to our Father. Someone who is filled with the Holy Spirit loves. period. Thats the mark of someone filled with the Spirit. We dont just get filled once we gotta keep getting filled with His love and keep that lamp burning!
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Its not ok
Does anyone care about Gods heart? Do we care at all anymore about how the Lord feels? We miss our devotional time or we ignore God sometimes all day. Were told if we dont spend time with God we wont grow or we wont be as blessed. How about spending time with God because He loves us, how about spending time with Jesus because He enjoys it? Do we care anymore about how God feels or is it all about us. Forget about blessing me today Father all I want is to be with you. Forget about my spiritual growth forget about my ministery, all I want is to be with you. I just want to feel your presence, I just want to touch your heart. I love how it sais in acts they ministered unto the Lord. Sometimes I think the only time Im truly honest is when I'm in silence before the Lord, not saying anything and just letting Him look into my heart. Next time were praying and we feel like stopping because we feel satisfied, how about asking Jesus if He is satisfied yet? How about being a servant of the Lords heart? how about seeking holiness deep in our hearts and motivations simply because the Lord delights in it. The Lord loves us with an everlasting love, does anyone care? When you love someone you are making yourself vulnerable to that person, a loved one has the ability to hurt you. Many poeple dont love because they are afraid of being hurt so they close there heart. How about our Fathers heart when we ignore Him. When we seek fellowship with Him simply so we can "get ahead", or treat fellowship with Him as simply a means of spiritual growth. "well if you dont spend time with God you wont grow" how about " If you dont spend time with God your breaking His heart?", Lets stop looking at everything from our perspective and start looking at it from Gods perspective.
Its not ok Gods heart is in agony over the sin in the world. Its not ok when millions of babies are being slaughtered, its not ok when billions are going to hell, hundreds by the day, the world is about to be thrown into the worst war, famine, and disease it has ever seen, its not ok. Peace! Peace! and there is no peace! Is it possible our hearts are so dull to Gods heart that we think there is peace when there is absolutely no peace. Is it possible our heart is so far from Gods that we can live in peace and comfort without agony or sleepless nights while all of creation is in agony groaning under the weight of our complacency. Could it be were afraid to see what God sees, To hear what God hears, He hears every cry of every babies blood that has been slaughtered on the alter of convenience, He hears the cry of billions of souls being tormented in hell, He hears the cry of every poor child, and every orphan. He sees countries ravished in aids, He sees every drug addicted prostitute, He sees every act of child molestation. Could you imagine that...now imagine Jesus on the cross suffering all of those things and not just seeing or hearing about it but actually experiencing and taking upon Himself the full weight of it all. Then when we get a handle on the cross in a way thats not a cliche, we can begin to understand Gods heart.
SPIRIT OF GOD! SPIRIT OF GOD! I PRAY RIGHT NOW YOU DO AS YOU PROMISED AND TAKE OF THE THINGS OF GOD AND DISCLOSE THEM TO US! POUR OUT THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF SELFLESS SERVICE TO THE HEART OF GOD! WAKE US TO THE TRUTH AND BURN IN US A PASSION TO SEE THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF YOUR SONS BLOOD WORK IN THE EARTH! SPIRIT OF GOD LET US NOT GO TO NICE MESSAGE AFTER NICE MESSAGE RAISE UP PROPHETS WHO WILL KNOW THE TIMES AND WHAT WE MUST DO! GOD MAKE US A PEOPLE AFTER YOUR OWN HEART!
Its not ok Gods heart is in agony over the sin in the world. Its not ok when millions of babies are being slaughtered, its not ok when billions are going to hell, hundreds by the day, the world is about to be thrown into the worst war, famine, and disease it has ever seen, its not ok. Peace! Peace! and there is no peace! Is it possible our hearts are so dull to Gods heart that we think there is peace when there is absolutely no peace. Is it possible our heart is so far from Gods that we can live in peace and comfort without agony or sleepless nights while all of creation is in agony groaning under the weight of our complacency. Could it be were afraid to see what God sees, To hear what God hears, He hears every cry of every babies blood that has been slaughtered on the alter of convenience, He hears the cry of billions of souls being tormented in hell, He hears the cry of every poor child, and every orphan. He sees countries ravished in aids, He sees every drug addicted prostitute, He sees every act of child molestation. Could you imagine that...now imagine Jesus on the cross suffering all of those things and not just seeing or hearing about it but actually experiencing and taking upon Himself the full weight of it all. Then when we get a handle on the cross in a way thats not a cliche, we can begin to understand Gods heart.
SPIRIT OF GOD! SPIRIT OF GOD! I PRAY RIGHT NOW YOU DO AS YOU PROMISED AND TAKE OF THE THINGS OF GOD AND DISCLOSE THEM TO US! POUR OUT THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF SELFLESS SERVICE TO THE HEART OF GOD! WAKE US TO THE TRUTH AND BURN IN US A PASSION TO SEE THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF YOUR SONS BLOOD WORK IN THE EARTH! SPIRIT OF GOD LET US NOT GO TO NICE MESSAGE AFTER NICE MESSAGE RAISE UP PROPHETS WHO WILL KNOW THE TIMES AND WHAT WE MUST DO! GOD MAKE US A PEOPLE AFTER YOUR OWN HEART!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Thanks to jesus.
Well Im wrapping up my time here in Poland and I have to say Im not ready to come home yet i see such an amount of work that needs to be done here. The harvest is truly ripe and I feel as though I will be leaving much of my heart here with the Polish people and I think it will be terribly difficult to leave but I must follow the lamb wherever He goes. if I can say one thing it is that i have learned that i am no Chrisitan hero as much as i long and strive to be one. Im just me and I have to deal with all my failures and my immaturity and short comings. But I have learned something so profound my heart will never be the same. And that is the language of love the love for human beings, I mean just loving human beings. I cant explain this to you I can just say it. I have learned...well more than that I have experienced Gods love for ordinary people. He just loves me, Im not Charles Spurgeon, Im not Smith Wigglesworth, Im just me. And He loves me and died for me I heave really learned to understand alot of His love since i came here, i dont think there are many days where i have not cried just thinking of how much he loves ordinary people. I have felt the sile of God over my heart and His arms around me and He wont let go and as He holds me I just give up and give in to His love. How can you love me Lord? dont yousee my failure? dont you see my struggle? dont you see how unspiritual I am most of the time? And He just holds me until I cant think and I cant reason and I just cry. How can you just such ordinary people as I have met in poland? I love Jesus.
Well Im wrapping up my time here in Poland and I have to say Im not ready to come home yet i see such an amount of work that needs to be done here. The harvest is truly ripe and I feel as though I will be leaving much of my heart here with the Polish people and I think it will be terribly difficult to leave but I must follow the lamb wherever He goes. if I can say one thing it is that i have learned that i am no Chrisitan hero as much as i long and strive to be one. Im just me and I have to deal with all my failures and my immaturity and short comings. But I have learned something so profound my heart will never be the same. And that is the language of love the love for human beings, I mean just loving human beings. I cant explain this to you I can just say it. I have learned...well more than that I have experienced Gods love for ordinary people. He just loves me, Im not Charles Spurgeon, Im not Smith Wigglesworth, Im just me. And He loves me and died for me I heave really learned to understand alot of His love since i came here, i dont think there are many days where i have not cried just thinking of how much he loves ordinary people. I have felt the sile of God over my heart and His arms around me and He wont let go and as He holds me I just give up and give in to His love. How can you love me Lord? dont yousee my failure? dont you see my struggle? dont you see how unspiritual I am most of the time? And He just holds me until I cant think and I cant reason and I just cry. How can you just such ordinary people as I have met in poland? I love Jesus.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Kracow!!!!
Thanks to Jesus Im here in Kracow at an internet cafe with my latest update. Bogdan, Henric and myself have been trveling southern Poland in the last few days visiting prisons and speaking at them. We went to 4 in all and theres so much I want to say about it but I dont have much time so youll have to email me or talk to me whn I get back home. So 4 prisons in 3 days and it was amazing to experience the presence of jesus behind bars with some of the most dangerous people in Poland. Some men were serving 4 death sentences!!! ( the death sentence is no longer active in Poland so that is equivilant to a life sentence behind bars) But in these prisons with some of the ruffest looking men I have every seen even at street church we have seen the Jesus move and bring these men to tears, Praise God!!!!!! Like I said there is so much I want to say but anyway right now we are staying with a family in the town where auwshwitz is located, we met the daughtewr and her boyfreind at the Christian camp and we called them up when we were planning to go to auwshwitz and they invited us to stay. So we went to auwshwitz and burkinhow ( wrong spelling I know) yesturday and now we are hanging out in krakow and earlier today we went to the salt mines. It was all very amazing and wow Im just in awe of how hospitible the Polish people are. Thje only hotel roome we have stayed in was in Holland. Anyway tell you much more and will have pics when I get home(by Gods grace)
Ok God bless!!!
Ok God bless!!!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Warsaw! ok Louis here reporting from capital city Poland... hmmm what to say, well God is good what a beautiful city. So with the youth group in the church here in Poland we organized an outreach involving a very powerful drama and alot of trcks. so what happened wasthat they did the drama then i spoke and henric interpreted. There were some great conversations and one of the people who heard the gospel came to church the next day and ended up going for a couple days with sopme people from the chhurch so he now has Christian freinds...which is not easy to come by in Poland. Other than that many tracks, but I beleive the most important thing that happened was that someof these people from the youth group caught a glimse of what it means to stand for Jesus in your own city where your freinds may see you making a fool of yourself for Jesus. So they ot a chance to see what it means to reach out to a dying world...and how sinple it really is. I beleive God is looking for people who are simpl, we get so complicated sometimes and the devil gets us so confused but its simple really. Just go, grab some tracks some freinds, pray, make a drama if you want and just go. " but should I? Shouldnt I? is it Gods will? is it not Gods will? What if I push peole away from God...ahhh!!!!!"
hahah lets be simple people and just go.
Amen.
hahah lets be simple people and just go.
Amen.
Friday, July 25, 2008
7 ways to stay in the presence of God
The Lord last night helped me with seven ways to saty in the presence of the lord especially while your busy out and about or traveling. These are for times when you arenot in a prayer time but you are out in the world doing whatever it is you are doing:
1) Soften your heart to the Lord: This means to acknowledge the presence of the Holy Spirit in you, to acknowledge Gods love for you and to simply soften your heart to His love and His will. (This is the hardest one to explain)
2)Say the name of Jesus:
As you are walking along or doing whatever you are doing to simple say the name of Jesus in a loving way. This is a tender and intimate way to inite the lordinto your situation and it also brings Him closer. Jesus...just whisper it under your breath with all the love in your heart.
3)Speak in tongues:
you dont have to do this out loud but as a whisper in such a way your lips may scarcly even move. You will feel your Spirit move in you as you speak mysteries to God and build up your Spirit man.
4)Talk to Jesus:
Just simply talk to Him in your thoughts. Talk to Him about people you pass or places, pray prayers or simply talk about the weather. God is a God of relationship.
5)Give feelings,emotions, desires to Jesus:
What I am speaking about here is keeping watch over your desires, your affections, what you covet and what your emotions are doing...etc. This is the practice of giving all things to the Lord i.e. I am feeling angry so i say in my mind(in faith) "Jesus I give you this anger" or Jesus Im feeling pulled toward materialism "Jesus I give you those desires etc...etc...etc...
6)Pray:
More specifically to talking and praying in No:4 this is the practice of noticing when someone pops into your mind. Like say your walking along and you suddenly start to think of someone, it is my theory that it is the Hly Spirit many times prompting us to pray for them. So next time someone comes to mind say a prayer for them and if you feel to pray something specific for them..do it.
7) Focusing your energy and love outward:
This is simply taking your mind off yourself and making a conscious effort to serve and love those around you, if we can train properly (by Gods help) our eyes to see the need, and our mind to get off ouselves we can serve those around us and simply allow God to love them through us.
Anyways i thought I would share these things God has blessed me with and I am being tought By Jesus. Please remember all these things are not carnal but spiritual in natur so they have a depth to them that cannot be understood without personal revelation by the Spirit of God. So start to pray for the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the Know;edge of Him.
And remember when the devil tries to pollute your mind you tell Him that the bible sais that we have the mind of Christ, so that means he has no authority in it you can tell Him to leave and take his bad thoughts with Him.
May God bless you
Love in Christ
1) Soften your heart to the Lord: This means to acknowledge the presence of the Holy Spirit in you, to acknowledge Gods love for you and to simply soften your heart to His love and His will. (This is the hardest one to explain)
2)Say the name of Jesus:
As you are walking along or doing whatever you are doing to simple say the name of Jesus in a loving way. This is a tender and intimate way to inite the lordinto your situation and it also brings Him closer. Jesus...just whisper it under your breath with all the love in your heart.
3)Speak in tongues:
you dont have to do this out loud but as a whisper in such a way your lips may scarcly even move. You will feel your Spirit move in you as you speak mysteries to God and build up your Spirit man.
4)Talk to Jesus:
Just simply talk to Him in your thoughts. Talk to Him about people you pass or places, pray prayers or simply talk about the weather. God is a God of relationship.
5)Give feelings,emotions, desires to Jesus:
What I am speaking about here is keeping watch over your desires, your affections, what you covet and what your emotions are doing...etc. This is the practice of giving all things to the Lord i.e. I am feeling angry so i say in my mind(in faith) "Jesus I give you this anger" or Jesus Im feeling pulled toward materialism "Jesus I give you those desires etc...etc...etc...
6)Pray:
More specifically to talking and praying in No:4 this is the practice of noticing when someone pops into your mind. Like say your walking along and you suddenly start to think of someone, it is my theory that it is the Hly Spirit many times prompting us to pray for them. So next time someone comes to mind say a prayer for them and if you feel to pray something specific for them..do it.
7) Focusing your energy and love outward:
This is simply taking your mind off yourself and making a conscious effort to serve and love those around you, if we can train properly (by Gods help) our eyes to see the need, and our mind to get off ouselves we can serve those around us and simply allow God to love them through us.
Anyways i thought I would share these things God has blessed me with and I am being tought By Jesus. Please remember all these things are not carnal but spiritual in natur so they have a depth to them that cannot be understood without personal revelation by the Spirit of God. So start to pray for the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the Know;edge of Him.
And remember when the devil tries to pollute your mind you tell Him that the bible sais that we have the mind of Christ, so that means he has no authority in it you can tell Him to leave and take his bad thoughts with Him.
May God bless you
Love in Christ
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Warszawa
Praise God! Im in Warszaw and Im super excited! Bogdan is back in Sohatchev with his family but I wanted to spend some time in warsaw so right now Im staying in the church...sort of. so if your in this church and you walk past the pulpit the is a huge cross against the wall and if you walk behind it you go through a door and up a staircase and you get to an apartment. only in Europe. So right now Im staying with paul and His wife ania and they have a sapre room! They know little English and I know little Polish but its working out great they are wonderful people. So today I have a freind who speaks english who will show me around Warszaw and hopefully i can get a camera so I can post some pics. God is so good and Hes given me a love for the Polish people Im really looking foreward to doing some street ministry here and get some of that agapae Jesus love all over the place, just let the love of God mess up peoples lives like it did mine, lol halleluiah! Praise God! Im in Poland!!!! Also next week God willing, Bogdan, "the gangster", Henric, and myself will be doing some prison ministry in the south of Poland.
My little bit of Polish is being stretched but praise God its coming along, they tell me my accent is very good.
Anyway May God be with you whoever reads this and thank you to whoever is praying, God is good!
My little bit of Polish is being stretched but praise God its coming along, they tell me my accent is very good.
Anyway May God be with you whoever reads this and thank you to whoever is praying, God is good!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
wow
Hello Christian people!
ok heres whats new... wow God is good. we have just returned to sohatchev from the Christian camp we were a part of. it was absolutely amazing both me and bogdan had the opportunity to share with the young people as well as the camp leaders. The camp had over a hundred youth that were from different parts of Poland, some were Christians and some were from orphanages and difficult homes. It was absolutley amazing and personnaly it was a time of huge growth for me. there were several salvations and everyone heard the gospel. It amazed me how much I connected with young people I could not understand, even though there were many who spoke english at different levels. Today was the day we left the camp and said our good byes, it was actually really hard to leave you know, I was amazed at how much you can connect to people after nine days even with a cultur gap. It proves that the love of Jesus was present how else would this even be possible. So we had church together every morning and every night and played games during the day. i will have some cool vids and pics to bring back. I love these kids Im gonna miss em.
Some other good news is that "the gangster", a man who was well a gangster in Poland got saved and was released from prison 8 days before coming to the camp. Henrick (our connection in Poland) had done a documentary of his testimony. So the young people got the chance to watch it and hear first hand this mans story. That was amazing and on top of that Bogdan, "the gangster" and I went to "teen challenge" and Bogdan gave the alter call and 4 people came forward to receive Christ.
Thank you all so much for your prayers, love you all and see you soon
ok heres whats new... wow God is good. we have just returned to sohatchev from the Christian camp we were a part of. it was absolutely amazing both me and bogdan had the opportunity to share with the young people as well as the camp leaders. The camp had over a hundred youth that were from different parts of Poland, some were Christians and some were from orphanages and difficult homes. It was absolutley amazing and personnaly it was a time of huge growth for me. there were several salvations and everyone heard the gospel. It amazed me how much I connected with young people I could not understand, even though there were many who spoke english at different levels. Today was the day we left the camp and said our good byes, it was actually really hard to leave you know, I was amazed at how much you can connect to people after nine days even with a cultur gap. It proves that the love of Jesus was present how else would this even be possible. So we had church together every morning and every night and played games during the day. i will have some cool vids and pics to bring back. I love these kids Im gonna miss em.
Some other good news is that "the gangster", a man who was well a gangster in Poland got saved and was released from prison 8 days before coming to the camp. Henrick (our connection in Poland) had done a documentary of his testimony. So the young people got the chance to watch it and hear first hand this mans story. That was amazing and on top of that Bogdan, "the gangster" and I went to "teen challenge" and Bogdan gave the alter call and 4 people came forward to receive Christ.
Thank you all so much for your prayers, love you all and see you soon
Sunday, July 13, 2008
POLAND
Hey Canadian people! Bogdan and I have made it to the camp and we are having a good time right now I am in Gdansk it is a city that was heavily bombed in WW2 but it is so beatiful right now, i had no idea poland was such a nice place! so we are at the christian camp and I am releived to find out that they hear a gospel message twice a day and there are lots of fun games and things like this. Bogdan and i have also had the privilage of sharing with the camp people about Jesus and you will be happy to know my Polish is improving as well. Anyways there will be lots of things to come and pls keep us in prayers as we are conquoring new ground! Miss you all!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
CZEść!!!
hELLO FORM pOLAND WE MADE IT!! driving through germany was beautiful and now we are in Bogdans hometown at his mothers place. Wow is her cooking ever good, dont be suprised if I stay here. Anyway we are on our way to the Christian camp in 2 days so in the mean time we will hang out here and in warszaw. My Polish is being tested big time but I dont think I have offended anyone yet. Thanks again for all your prayers and please pray for devine appointments.
Lord willing I will update again when I have more to tell.
Lord willing I will update again when I have more to tell.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
amstradam
Praise God! so Im sitting with my strong Dutch coffee at my hotel in some town outside amstradam after a quite a long day in the city. I have never been to such a demonic wicked and evil city in my life. such perversion and ungodlyness that I have never before experienced.
Bogdan and I spent the day on foot exploring downtown amstadam and it was basically all sex and drugs. men with men women with women, prostitutes in the windows like shopping for clothing.
In dark room a candle burning lights up the room so shines the gospel in a dark city. Bogdan and I were shocked and marked in our Spirits by the hunger for the gospel in this wasteland, these hearts are ready for the gospel! They are tired and sick inside having tried all the pleasure this world can offer and the only christ they know is an outdated relic made of stone on an old catholic church. There is such a hunger for this strange Jesus, this Jesus who is alive this Jesus who has the power to change a human heart. again praise God!
Also in the Spirit I hear the urgency of the hour and the cry of the heart of God that none should perish. There is a definate urgency in these the last days and it is the cry of the creator going over amstradam. Multitutudes, multitudes in the valley of decision on the day of the Lord.
Bogdan and I got some footage of evangelism in Poland as well to share when we get back.
Pray the Lord of the harvest to send workers into the harvest!!!!!
Bogdan and I spent the day on foot exploring downtown amstadam and it was basically all sex and drugs. men with men women with women, prostitutes in the windows like shopping for clothing.
In dark room a candle burning lights up the room so shines the gospel in a dark city. Bogdan and I were shocked and marked in our Spirits by the hunger for the gospel in this wasteland, these hearts are ready for the gospel! They are tired and sick inside having tried all the pleasure this world can offer and the only christ they know is an outdated relic made of stone on an old catholic church. There is such a hunger for this strange Jesus, this Jesus who is alive this Jesus who has the power to change a human heart. again praise God!
Also in the Spirit I hear the urgency of the hour and the cry of the heart of God that none should perish. There is a definate urgency in these the last days and it is the cry of the creator going over amstradam. Multitutudes, multitudes in the valley of decision on the day of the Lord.
Bogdan and I got some footage of evangelism in Poland as well to share when we get back.
Pray the Lord of the harvest to send workers into the harvest!!!!!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
the old world
I made it! I thank God for eveyone who supported getting me out here by prayer and by finance. We have arrived in Holland today...or this morning I dont even know anymore. me and Bogdan are staying for two days in a little town and then on monday we will pick up a car and drive to Poland. As for right now i am just blown away by the beuty of the scenery in this little towh like I couldnt imagine. Praise God for His grace. It is so nice here I wish i could take it back to Canada. Anyway Im going to bed now so God bless and i will keep updating this blog by God's grace with updates on ministry and whatever else comes to mind. So goddnight and thank each of you for your prayers.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Long time no post so here goes. My latest God thoughts: question:
Is Christianity a religion of commitments?
It would defanently seem so, I mean lets be honest everything seems to come down to commitments nowadays. How often have you heard a preacher end his sermon and then call on anyone who wants to respond to recommit or commit his life to Christ, or they will make a similar call to get serious with a certain sin, or to do something they know they ought to be doing. Many times they ask us to silently make the commitment or even they ask everyone to bow there heads and those who make the commitment keep there heads up so as to avoid being embarrassed.
Does that remind anyone of the old testament? Remember when the people of Israel cried out to moses and before God that they would keep all of the law? It was a complete failure.
This is not the way in the new covenant. How much failure have we been a part of and how many broken commitments have we struggled through? True new covenant Christianity is not a religeon of commitments or promises to God. Jesus taught not to make an oath at all.
Its not about men making a commitment as in the Old testament. Its about God making a commitment to us.
Christianity is not a religion of men making commitments, it is a family of people literally approaching the throne of God to receive grace and help TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT THEY DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THEMSELVES. All the commitments no matter how much you mean them will lead to failure until you approach the throne of God through the blood crusted way of our Saviour, our high priest, behind the veil, and receive for free the grace in time of need, will you see victory. I have come out of great sin in my past and upon my conversion I have seen great victory over addiction and bondage and none of those victories were by my commitments but all were given freely when I approached the throne of God with nothing to say for myself but "please help Father."
Please see Jer 31& 32, Ezekial 36, and the book of Romans. As long as a citizen does not know there rights the authorities can abuse them, but when you know your rights they cannot bother you. In the same way in the Spirit a child of God is a citizen of heaven and unless they know there rights they will continually be harassed by the enemy and will not be free.
Its not what we do but what God has done through Jesus Christ.
Protocal : The only appropriate way to approach God is through the blood of Jesus. Don't approach with your commitments, its not your ability to hold onto Him but His ability to hold onto you. Put your trust in His hand not yours and when you see failure and sin in your life take the hand of God and go to the cross together.
Is Christianity a religion of commitments?
It would defanently seem so, I mean lets be honest everything seems to come down to commitments nowadays. How often have you heard a preacher end his sermon and then call on anyone who wants to respond to recommit or commit his life to Christ, or they will make a similar call to get serious with a certain sin, or to do something they know they ought to be doing. Many times they ask us to silently make the commitment or even they ask everyone to bow there heads and those who make the commitment keep there heads up so as to avoid being embarrassed.
Does that remind anyone of the old testament? Remember when the people of Israel cried out to moses and before God that they would keep all of the law? It was a complete failure.
This is not the way in the new covenant. How much failure have we been a part of and how many broken commitments have we struggled through? True new covenant Christianity is not a religeon of commitments or promises to God. Jesus taught not to make an oath at all.
Its not about men making a commitment as in the Old testament. Its about God making a commitment to us.
Christianity is not a religion of men making commitments, it is a family of people literally approaching the throne of God to receive grace and help TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT THEY DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THEMSELVES. All the commitments no matter how much you mean them will lead to failure until you approach the throne of God through the blood crusted way of our Saviour, our high priest, behind the veil, and receive for free the grace in time of need, will you see victory. I have come out of great sin in my past and upon my conversion I have seen great victory over addiction and bondage and none of those victories were by my commitments but all were given freely when I approached the throne of God with nothing to say for myself but "please help Father."
Please see Jer 31& 32, Ezekial 36, and the book of Romans. As long as a citizen does not know there rights the authorities can abuse them, but when you know your rights they cannot bother you. In the same way in the Spirit a child of God is a citizen of heaven and unless they know there rights they will continually be harassed by the enemy and will not be free.
Its not what we do but what God has done through Jesus Christ.
Protocal : The only appropriate way to approach God is through the blood of Jesus. Don't approach with your commitments, its not your ability to hold onto Him but His ability to hold onto you. Put your trust in His hand not yours and when you see failure and sin in your life take the hand of God and go to the cross together.
Monday, June 23, 2008
victory!
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
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
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
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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