The Lord Speaks Himself into Hearts

For love, peace and joy, ask the Lord to speak Himself into your home.  He'll start with your heart, then it will spread to others!

Taking Time to Believe

There's no power/life in reading God's Word without belief.  Take time to consciously consume each verse into your deepest heart-belief as you read.

Urgency of the Harvest

The urgency of the harvest is uppermost in God's heart!  As you get to know/love Him, you'll feel this urgency....and excitement!  Press in!!

The evil "I am" of Fallen Humanity

God's love won't let you succeed by fleshly efforts.  Flesh is death; it's the evil "I am" of fallen humanity.  Love translates us into Life!

Reconciliation

Pour all the power of your soul into reconciliation, leaning hard into God, with all desire bent toward His will.  Glorify Him in your relationships!

Love/Serve Passionately

Issues/activities/doctrines/studies were never Jesus' focus.  It was loving/serving passionately!  We must do likewise!  In eternity it will be ALL that mattered.

Maturity of Love

There's nothing more important to Jesus than repairing your relationships.  Until this maturity of love is accomplished, all types of religious activity are only escapes.

Love Perfectly

Unless you love perfectly, you think/act crookedly.  Loving perfectly is God's goal for you NOW, not later!  Don't believe a watered-down Gospel.

Knowing What's Enough

If you have God, you have enough.  We don't know what we need, so how can we know what's enough?  Only through His grace/wisdom.

How to Really Love

To really love your children/spouse, give full time/attention to know them.  Refusing is relational sin, refuting the Gospel; treading Jesus' blood under foot.

Feeling Worthless

Feeling worthless isn't humility.  It comes from being abused, self-pity, unbelief.  Find out what God says He thinks of you. Believe Him and be healed!

When You Fail

When you fail, God is loving, pitying, holding you.  He never withdraws because you fail.  That's a sinful human habit - to withhold approval as punishment.

Trust

God works in you only to bring about love.  If you believe He's worth worshiping, you should believe He knows best what's required for that.

Fixing What's Broken

Fixing broken relationships usually involves extensive work in your own heart first.  This is a great miracle, for it requires that your blindness be healed.

Our Exciting God!

Destroy the false images you've formed of God!  He's joyful, approving, hilarious, loyal, supportive, loves parties/giving surprises, exciting, smiling, and planning good,...FOR YOU!!!

No Disapproval!

Disapproval of anyone isn't love.  Since God is love, He's never disapproved of you!  Your sins are forgiven and His power to live holy given!

Unloving Behaviors

Put your own oxygen mask on first, then your childrens'.  Until God deals with your unloving behaviors, you can't deal rightly with theirs.  Seek Him.

That Others May Hear!

Ask God to sing His song of ownership and salvation over precious souls you know.  Your faith activates their ability to hear God's eternal music.

Miry Pool of Self

Why dwell in complaints/sadness/discouragements/oppressions of your fleshly heart?  Rebuke them!  Come out of your miry pool of self and listen to God!!

Small Matters

Small mice pollute the whole pantry.  As you mature, God refines your course.  Give loving attention to these small matters brought to light with grace.

Love in the Darkness

In times of deepest failure/sin, Jesus finds you and scoops you into His arms!  The Father sends Him, because He's in love with you!!

Get Rid of the Slides

If you don't want to backslide, get rid of the slides!  Those slippery, hidden, growing bits of self you're not permitting God to deal with.

Only Mist

The darkest storm has no power over the sun.  No matter how you feel, come to God, for Whom every bad thing is only mist.

Be Like Aaron's Rod (Num. 17:8)

Unrepented appetites control you, and block the Spirit's work.   The old life must be annihilated before God brings blooms and fruit of the new Life.

What Burns

How hard to straddle the fence above God's smelter, wrestling with which bits you'll burn.  Throw yourself in!  The only thing destroyed is your flesh!

Don't Carry Anything

A foolish person buys a pack-animal for a journey, then carries the burden himself.  Not giving your burdens to Jesus is foolish AND disobedient.

A Wonderful Sign

God's Love is entirely offensive to the world. His children are entirely pleasing to Him.  Losing the world's esteem is a wonderful sign of this.

The Eternal Now

Having decided to follow Jesus, you're in ETERNITY!  Your past is GONE, and you're in the eternal NOW of being God's beloved child.  Live rejoicing!!