So, I've come to a place in my life where every moment in every day is guided and directed by the Word of God. I'm not sure if anyone else goes through the day like this, but here's how it works for me.
7:26 ..... Personal Promise
8:18 ..... You will remember the Lord your God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth to establish the covenant he made with my fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Deuteronomy)
8:28 ..... Everything the devil intends to use to hurt me, God will turn into something good for me. (Romans)
10:10 ..... Jesus came that I may have life and have it more abundantly. (John)
11:1 ..... Now faith is the substance of things hope for the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews)
11:22 ..... Personal Encounter
11:40 .... Did I not say if you would only believe you would see the glory of God? (John)
1:42 ..... In my Father's house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you. (John)
1:53 ..... Personal Promise
3:02 .... I prosper and am in health as my soul prospers (3 John)
3:14 .... I am .... Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh
When it rains or snows, I think of Isaiah 55:10 .... and the moments and the list go on and on throughout my days, nonstop. All day, everyday. I know no other way to be. I want no other way to be.
My Steps in Time,
Kalena
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Believing God
Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe HE IS, and He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
I love this verse. I love it because it is an entry verse to what Children of God consider to be the "Hall of Faith" chapter in the Bible. I love it, because it everyone mentioned in this chapter lived abundantly colorful lives, yet .... it is their faith in God that remained and is high-lighted for us to take note of, not their short comings and failures before God.
Settled on God is God. Jesus is Lord, and the Bible is Holy Spirit Truth .... I ask you:
Do you believe God?
When God says, "you are forgiven". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "you are my beloved". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "you are healed". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "you are prosperous". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "I will manifest a literal, physical 3John2, Psalm 103:5 in your life". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "I will open the windows of heaven over your house and pour you out a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it". Do you look up, or do you duck?
Me? I say "be it unto me!" and start planning to receive it. The Bible says, the blessing of the Lord makes rich, and He adds NO SORROW with it! Oh .... be it unto me! If I believe Him, and I trust Him in what He says .... be it unto me!
*Confessing Dangerously ..... In my meditation and prayer time with God over the past week, I have drawn some deep, deep water out of a dry well. October 2000, my husband and I were in financial distress with creditors calling constantly, shuffling payments and taking loans to pay loans ..... it was awful and ungodly. I prayed to the Lord about it, and asked Him for the exact amount we needed to get out from under the debt. To which, He answered that I had just prayed the most selfish prayer I had ever prayed. Why? Because I was only looking to my own needs. Then .... He promised me a billion dollars. A promise on which I still stand until it manifests. February 13, 2013, the Lord promised me a literal, physical, restoration. 3 John 2 ..... literally, nothing Spiritual about it. As He is, so am I in this earth .... Right NOW! Then, three weeks ago, He showed me 2 Corinthians 6:2 .... Behold NOW! So, with every NOW moment that passes, my expectation grows! I don't know how He's going to do it, don't know which NOW moment ..... but He IS! I am standing on it, and I am holding Him accountable to it. Like I said, Jesus paid it all. Jesus paid for me to inherit every promise God ever spoke. I did nothing. I can do nothing. Yet, by faith ..... I believe.
Understanding, how boldly I go before the throne of grace and how deeply I question EVERYTHING, you will understand this moment in time for me with Him. I only got as bold as I am AFTER God showed me a little known story about His relationship with Moses .... Moses being His servant, me being His daughter. In Exodus 4:10, Moses is explaining to God he can't speak for Him, because he is slow of speech. In Exodus 32:13-15, Moses spoke to God in such a manner that He repented, not Moses, GOD REPENTED!!!!! Moses reminded Him of His promise to Abraham, and God repented. Does that make Him any less God? Of course not .... all He did was change His mind. It didn't change the out come of the story. Even with David, when Samuel told him his son with Bathsheba was going to die at the Word of God, David fasted; because, he believed God may change His mind. He didn't, but clearly David was aware of the conversation Moses had in Exodus 32. For me, it wasn't about the outcome, it was about the availability to be that bold before the Creator of the Universe ... my dad!
So, yesterday and today, I have been in constant communication with Him over what exactly NOW means to Him. I know what it means to me. It means NOW! and NOW! and NOW! And, in that, I had one of those revelatory AHA moments, where I said .... God, You have to do what You said. If there is anybody who ever existed who has to be true to Your Word ..... it's You.
Simply because He is God ..... and for no other reason ..... He has to keep His Word. He has to do what He said. It's His nature. He says it. He does it. The devil lies. Man lies. God doesn't. God can't. So .... regardless of what it looks like right now, facts change. Truth doesn't, and God is Truth. The desires of my heart were given to me by God. The vision of a new normal was given to me by God. the ability to believe the impossible and expect the supernatural were given to me by God. I did nothing to earn them. They were free, and, by faith, through His grace, they will come to pass NOW!
Dangerously Confessing,
Kalena
I love this verse. I love it because it is an entry verse to what Children of God consider to be the "Hall of Faith" chapter in the Bible. I love it, because it everyone mentioned in this chapter lived abundantly colorful lives, yet .... it is their faith in God that remained and is high-lighted for us to take note of, not their short comings and failures before God.
Settled on God is God. Jesus is Lord, and the Bible is Holy Spirit Truth .... I ask you:
Do you believe God?
When God says, "you are forgiven". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "you are my beloved". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "you are healed". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "you are prosperous". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "I will manifest a literal, physical 3John2, Psalm 103:5 in your life". Do you believe Him?
When God says, "I will open the windows of heaven over your house and pour you out a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it". Do you look up, or do you duck?
Me? I say "be it unto me!" and start planning to receive it. The Bible says, the blessing of the Lord makes rich, and He adds NO SORROW with it! Oh .... be it unto me! If I believe Him, and I trust Him in what He says .... be it unto me!
*Confessing Dangerously ..... In my meditation and prayer time with God over the past week, I have drawn some deep, deep water out of a dry well. October 2000, my husband and I were in financial distress with creditors calling constantly, shuffling payments and taking loans to pay loans ..... it was awful and ungodly. I prayed to the Lord about it, and asked Him for the exact amount we needed to get out from under the debt. To which, He answered that I had just prayed the most selfish prayer I had ever prayed. Why? Because I was only looking to my own needs. Then .... He promised me a billion dollars. A promise on which I still stand until it manifests. February 13, 2013, the Lord promised me a literal, physical, restoration. 3 John 2 ..... literally, nothing Spiritual about it. As He is, so am I in this earth .... Right NOW! Then, three weeks ago, He showed me 2 Corinthians 6:2 .... Behold NOW! So, with every NOW moment that passes, my expectation grows! I don't know how He's going to do it, don't know which NOW moment ..... but He IS! I am standing on it, and I am holding Him accountable to it. Like I said, Jesus paid it all. Jesus paid for me to inherit every promise God ever spoke. I did nothing. I can do nothing. Yet, by faith ..... I believe.
Understanding, how boldly I go before the throne of grace and how deeply I question EVERYTHING, you will understand this moment in time for me with Him. I only got as bold as I am AFTER God showed me a little known story about His relationship with Moses .... Moses being His servant, me being His daughter. In Exodus 4:10, Moses is explaining to God he can't speak for Him, because he is slow of speech. In Exodus 32:13-15, Moses spoke to God in such a manner that He repented, not Moses, GOD REPENTED!!!!! Moses reminded Him of His promise to Abraham, and God repented. Does that make Him any less God? Of course not .... all He did was change His mind. It didn't change the out come of the story. Even with David, when Samuel told him his son with Bathsheba was going to die at the Word of God, David fasted; because, he believed God may change His mind. He didn't, but clearly David was aware of the conversation Moses had in Exodus 32. For me, it wasn't about the outcome, it was about the availability to be that bold before the Creator of the Universe ... my dad!
So, yesterday and today, I have been in constant communication with Him over what exactly NOW means to Him. I know what it means to me. It means NOW! and NOW! and NOW! And, in that, I had one of those revelatory AHA moments, where I said .... God, You have to do what You said. If there is anybody who ever existed who has to be true to Your Word ..... it's You.
Simply because He is God ..... and for no other reason ..... He has to keep His Word. He has to do what He said. It's His nature. He says it. He does it. The devil lies. Man lies. God doesn't. God can't. So .... regardless of what it looks like right now, facts change. Truth doesn't, and God is Truth. The desires of my heart were given to me by God. The vision of a new normal was given to me by God. the ability to believe the impossible and expect the supernatural were given to me by God. I did nothing to earn them. They were free, and, by faith, through His grace, they will come to pass NOW!
Dangerously Confessing,
Kalena
Underselling God
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
In the grand query of things ... land of the ever running poll place that gallups daily through questions we didn't even know needed to be asked ... by a vast percentage, the majority of Americans believe in God in some form or fashion. I, personally, don't know any other way to explain the majesty and miraculous way in which the universe exists, apart from God, and it is my uneducated opinion that belief in God is the wrong question to ask. I believe in order to gain a more accurate understanding of what the answer about believing in God is trying to get to, the question should more appropriately be worded .... Do you believe God?
Which begs to question .... which God, right? There are soooooo many! How are we ever to know which God is THE God? Well, I, personally, believe in the God of the Bible, and I believe He is the One True God, and there is no other besides Him. Here's why:
Christianity of ALL the religions of the world is the ONLY one based on a
personal relationship with her God. Christianity of ALL the religions of the
world is the ONLY one who worships a resurrected, living Savior and Lord.
The God of the Bible, the God of Creation, when He saw that His people had been led astray, unto death knew we could never save ourselves from the eternal punishment out of Hid Presence, so, in His infinite wisdom and glory, knowing ONLY HE could save us .... did just that. In the man, Jesus Christ, came down to this earth and died in our place to reconcile us unto Himself. Sin separated us from Him, and the penalty for that is death. By definition, a Savior is one who saves. By definition, a martyr is one who dies for his belief. Christ died in His belief that we were worth saving. The thing that makes Him so beautiful is not the shame and ugliness of the cross on which He died, it is the glory and power in His resurrection that assures us that He is Messiah, the Lord of Lords and Kings of Kings. All religions have a martyr, only Christendom has a resurrected Lord of Hosts! That is why I believe IN the God of the Bible, and no other!
It is also why I believe Him. Though written by men, I believe that the Holy Bible is the Word of God, breathed by the power of the Holy Ghost into the minds of men, as a written testament for those of us who would come after to know Him and learn from Him. I believe every Word He spoke. I believe every Word that is written. I believe the glossary and concordance! I believe that there is not an issue or circumstance that we face these millenia later that has an answer not found in the Bible. I believe every answer to every question is found within the pages of the Bible. Somewhere between Genesis and Revelation, God has already provided the answer for us, and, for His fore thought and wisdom, I believe we undersell Him at every turn.
Here's what I mean:
Those of us who have received the gift of salvation that Christ provided 2000 years ago, erroneously blame God for everything that ever happens in our lives. Although I could write an entirely separate dissertation on that statement, I'm gonna keep it down to one simple thought. Christians have an ungodly habit of giving God credit when we get sick. We say things like, God made me sick to slow me down or because he knew it was the only way I would rest! We are insane! 1000 years BEFORE Jesus hung on that cross, Isaiah prophesied (Chapter 53) that "by His stripes we are healed".... are healed is in the past perfect tense meaning it was finished BEFORE it happened. The Apostle Peter reaffirmed this in the New Testament by saying "by His stripes we have been healed". Again, it is finished. So, it has to make me wonder why for the sake of ALL that is Holy we would ever think God gave us a sickness or disease when Christ died for us to live in divine health. He bore our sicknesses and infirmities .... ALL OF THEM ..... so we wouldn't have to!!!!! Divine health???? Oh Absolutely!!! In this year of Confessing Dangerously ..... I, as a Child of God, can claim that I will never be sick again! EVER! And .... expect that I will never be sick again! Any sickness or disease that tries to attack me come out of hell, and NOT down from the Father of Lights!!!! Now, you can believe this or not, but we all need to understand that anything evil, hurtful or harmful that tries to attack us does NOT come from God.
In John 10:10, one of my cornerstone verses, Jesus said ..... I am come that they may have life and have it more abundantly. There is no sickness in that. There is no disease in that. There is no infirmity in that. Jesus did NOT die on that cross to leave us struggling with death, disease, lack or any of thing that prohibits us from an abundant life. God does NOT need to make us sick to get our attention. God is love. God is light. God is our Father. God is our Everything, and we have the right to say that and stand on His Word with earnest expectation, because Jesus died to give us that right.
Settle this in your own hearts, and live in Him exceedingly and abundantly ABOVE the world and all that you can imagine: God is God, and exactly who the Bible says He is. Jesus is Lord, and is exactly who the Bible says He is. God cannot lie. God will not deny Himself. All of the promises in the Bible to Him (Christ in you) is yes and amen. You are, right NOW, the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. God sees you as perfect, right NOW, because He sees you as His child through the perfect work of Christ on Calvary. Live your life in favor, grace, mercy and love .... NOW! There is NOTHING anywhere in the Bible that says you have to wait until you get to heaven to reap the harvest of being a child of God. Actually, it says the opposite!
The manifest presence of the Glory of God! We need nothing more. Lord, let us accept nothing less!
In Jesus Name, For Jesus Fame!
Kalena
In the grand query of things ... land of the ever running poll place that gallups daily through questions we didn't even know needed to be asked ... by a vast percentage, the majority of Americans believe in God in some form or fashion. I, personally, don't know any other way to explain the majesty and miraculous way in which the universe exists, apart from God, and it is my uneducated opinion that belief in God is the wrong question to ask. I believe in order to gain a more accurate understanding of what the answer about believing in God is trying to get to, the question should more appropriately be worded .... Do you believe God?
Which begs to question .... which God, right? There are soooooo many! How are we ever to know which God is THE God? Well, I, personally, believe in the God of the Bible, and I believe He is the One True God, and there is no other besides Him. Here's why:
Christianity of ALL the religions of the world is the ONLY one based on a
personal relationship with her God. Christianity of ALL the religions of the
world is the ONLY one who worships a resurrected, living Savior and Lord.
The God of the Bible, the God of Creation, when He saw that His people had been led astray, unto death knew we could never save ourselves from the eternal punishment out of Hid Presence, so, in His infinite wisdom and glory, knowing ONLY HE could save us .... did just that. In the man, Jesus Christ, came down to this earth and died in our place to reconcile us unto Himself. Sin separated us from Him, and the penalty for that is death. By definition, a Savior is one who saves. By definition, a martyr is one who dies for his belief. Christ died in His belief that we were worth saving. The thing that makes Him so beautiful is not the shame and ugliness of the cross on which He died, it is the glory and power in His resurrection that assures us that He is Messiah, the Lord of Lords and Kings of Kings. All religions have a martyr, only Christendom has a resurrected Lord of Hosts! That is why I believe IN the God of the Bible, and no other!
It is also why I believe Him. Though written by men, I believe that the Holy Bible is the Word of God, breathed by the power of the Holy Ghost into the minds of men, as a written testament for those of us who would come after to know Him and learn from Him. I believe every Word He spoke. I believe every Word that is written. I believe the glossary and concordance! I believe that there is not an issue or circumstance that we face these millenia later that has an answer not found in the Bible. I believe every answer to every question is found within the pages of the Bible. Somewhere between Genesis and Revelation, God has already provided the answer for us, and, for His fore thought and wisdom, I believe we undersell Him at every turn.
Here's what I mean:
Those of us who have received the gift of salvation that Christ provided 2000 years ago, erroneously blame God for everything that ever happens in our lives. Although I could write an entirely separate dissertation on that statement, I'm gonna keep it down to one simple thought. Christians have an ungodly habit of giving God credit when we get sick. We say things like, God made me sick to slow me down or because he knew it was the only way I would rest! We are insane! 1000 years BEFORE Jesus hung on that cross, Isaiah prophesied (Chapter 53) that "by His stripes we are healed".... are healed is in the past perfect tense meaning it was finished BEFORE it happened. The Apostle Peter reaffirmed this in the New Testament by saying "by His stripes we have been healed". Again, it is finished. So, it has to make me wonder why for the sake of ALL that is Holy we would ever think God gave us a sickness or disease when Christ died for us to live in divine health. He bore our sicknesses and infirmities .... ALL OF THEM ..... so we wouldn't have to!!!!! Divine health???? Oh Absolutely!!! In this year of Confessing Dangerously ..... I, as a Child of God, can claim that I will never be sick again! EVER! And .... expect that I will never be sick again! Any sickness or disease that tries to attack me come out of hell, and NOT down from the Father of Lights!!!! Now, you can believe this or not, but we all need to understand that anything evil, hurtful or harmful that tries to attack us does NOT come from God.
In John 10:10, one of my cornerstone verses, Jesus said ..... I am come that they may have life and have it more abundantly. There is no sickness in that. There is no disease in that. There is no infirmity in that. Jesus did NOT die on that cross to leave us struggling with death, disease, lack or any of thing that prohibits us from an abundant life. God does NOT need to make us sick to get our attention. God is love. God is light. God is our Father. God is our Everything, and we have the right to say that and stand on His Word with earnest expectation, because Jesus died to give us that right.
Settle this in your own hearts, and live in Him exceedingly and abundantly ABOVE the world and all that you can imagine: God is God, and exactly who the Bible says He is. Jesus is Lord, and is exactly who the Bible says He is. God cannot lie. God will not deny Himself. All of the promises in the Bible to Him (Christ in you) is yes and amen. You are, right NOW, the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. God sees you as perfect, right NOW, because He sees you as His child through the perfect work of Christ on Calvary. Live your life in favor, grace, mercy and love .... NOW! There is NOTHING anywhere in the Bible that says you have to wait until you get to heaven to reap the harvest of being a child of God. Actually, it says the opposite!
The manifest presence of the Glory of God! We need nothing more. Lord, let us accept nothing less!
In Jesus Name, For Jesus Fame!
Kalena
Nothing Else Can Fill It
Thirteen years ago ... November 22, 2000, to be exact ... I had a personal encounter with God that changed everything in my life, and, by everything, I mean every single thing; the way I think, the way I talk, the way I live, the way I AM. I was a ship wreck of Titanical proportions in serious need of a life line. Nothing I was doing was working to change anything, and bad turned to worse with every passing second. Something was missing, and I knew in my heart that something was actually someone ... God. Though I had received Christ as my Savior years before, I was not living my life in such a way that anyone would notice. Yet, the emptiness I knew in my heart I had tried to fill with so many other things could only be filled by Him. Then ... in one single moment of miraculous "immediately", He showed up and the power of God swept through my life and changed everything.
Today, I find myself sitting in a familiar seat. There is an emptiness that has manifested itself in my life that only He can fill ... again. I suppose this is what the Bible is referring to when it speaks of growing from faith to faith, because, unlike the one from 13 years ago, God created this one. Though, it's not so much of an emptiness this time, as it is a hunger and longing. The feeling is the same. The aim is different. Over these 13 past years, the past 13 months specifically, the Lord has stretched my faith to paper thin, transparent even. From Genesis to Revelation, stretching, stretching, stretching! I have wrestled WITH Him. I have wrestled FOR Him, and, Truth says, I have wrestled AGAINST Him! I make no apologies for any of it. God, and God alone, has walked me across the waters of these past months and currently stands with me over the Mariannas Trench. Only in His Presence is it possible to be frustrated beyond human comprehension and in confident expectation of divine promise at the exact same moment, with fullness in understanding of both emotions.
This part of my walk with Him has been both glorious and infuriating at the exact moment a multitude of times, and, dare I say ..... I have been angrier and more disappointed with God through this period than at any other point with anyone else in my life ..... EVER! I know it, and He knows it. He knows it, because I tell Him. I don't apologize for it, because HE created me this way, He knows the end from the beginning; and, NOTHING I do, or say, comes as a surprise to Him. I am as real with God, as I am with the people I see physically everyday. In return, He is more real with me today than I ever knew was a possibility, so, when I'm angry about something with Him, I tell Him. It makes no sense to me to start a prayer out praising, when He knows I don't mean it. I get to that, but, how I am when I talk to Him is how I am. I'm not going to lie and spout out a bunch of thank you Jesuses when I don't mean it, and I am NOT thankful for some of the things I see and experience. Yes, I am aware that the Bible says be thankful in ALL things, not just the things my finite little mind understands ...... but, I'm sorry ..... I refuse to go to God in deceit. If I'm not happy, or I'm angry, that's the way I go to Him ..... and I STAY there until I'm on the other side of it.
Make no mistake .... there is no disrespect here, no heresy, no lack of reverence .... I am gloriously, and painfully, aware, God is God and I AM NOT! As a matter of truth, precisely in THAT Truth, God is God, that I am the way I am. I AM ... THE WAY ... I AM! He has told His children to come boldly before the throne of grace to receive His help ..... boldly doesn't mean panicked, whining and crying, hopeless and unbelieving. It means BOLDLY! So, in obedience to His OWN Word, that is exactly what I do. I expect for Him to be WHO He says He is. I expect Him to be HOW He says He is. Anything less than Him to be who the Bible says He is ..... unacceptable to me! I expect everyone of the promises He has spoken in His Word to manifest in my life ON THIS EARTH! I expect Divine Angelic Protection every single moment of every single day of my life ON THIS EARTH! I expect miracles! I expect blessings! I expect signs and wonders! I expect visitations and manifestations! I expect to be blessed BY HIM, so that I can be a blessing .... in abundance. I expect His grace to flood my life every single second of every single minute of every single hour until He calls me home to glory (2086) or the rapture, whichever comes first!
I am not diluded. I am not misguided. I am not confused, and I am NOT mistranslating the Bible into something it was never intended to be. God is a God. He is Holy, and He is full of promise. He made His ways known to Moses, so He will make them known to me. he has given me the desires of my heart, and He will absolutely manifest them exceedingly, abundantly above the way I think on them. This is His promise to me as His daughter. I stand on these promises like a ROCK, because He cannot lie, will not deny Himself and, in Jesus' finished work at Calvary, I am a co-heir of all of this. God would NEVER ask me to be obedient to His Word, and not be obedient to it Himself. He knows I live in a sin-filled society, where few actually consider His ways and His will. If I, being the least, can, with my finite understanding, lack of ability and limitations by time and space, simply believe Him ...... He is WELL ABLE to bring to pass the Word He has spoken to me. Exceedingly great and precious promises, specifically designed FOR ME, inside the multitude of promises He has spoken for ALL of His children.
I know His voice. I know Who I believe, and I know where I sit with Him. The windows of heaven are undeniably open over my house, His Kingdom has come and His will is done at 20 Somerset Lane .... EXACTLY as it is in heaven!
In the Prison of Hope,
Kalena
Today, I find myself sitting in a familiar seat. There is an emptiness that has manifested itself in my life that only He can fill ... again. I suppose this is what the Bible is referring to when it speaks of growing from faith to faith, because, unlike the one from 13 years ago, God created this one. Though, it's not so much of an emptiness this time, as it is a hunger and longing. The feeling is the same. The aim is different. Over these 13 past years, the past 13 months specifically, the Lord has stretched my faith to paper thin, transparent even. From Genesis to Revelation, stretching, stretching, stretching! I have wrestled WITH Him. I have wrestled FOR Him, and, Truth says, I have wrestled AGAINST Him! I make no apologies for any of it. God, and God alone, has walked me across the waters of these past months and currently stands with me over the Mariannas Trench. Only in His Presence is it possible to be frustrated beyond human comprehension and in confident expectation of divine promise at the exact same moment, with fullness in understanding of both emotions.
This part of my walk with Him has been both glorious and infuriating at the exact moment a multitude of times, and, dare I say ..... I have been angrier and more disappointed with God through this period than at any other point with anyone else in my life ..... EVER! I know it, and He knows it. He knows it, because I tell Him. I don't apologize for it, because HE created me this way, He knows the end from the beginning; and, NOTHING I do, or say, comes as a surprise to Him. I am as real with God, as I am with the people I see physically everyday. In return, He is more real with me today than I ever knew was a possibility, so, when I'm angry about something with Him, I tell Him. It makes no sense to me to start a prayer out praising, when He knows I don't mean it. I get to that, but, how I am when I talk to Him is how I am. I'm not going to lie and spout out a bunch of thank you Jesuses when I don't mean it, and I am NOT thankful for some of the things I see and experience. Yes, I am aware that the Bible says be thankful in ALL things, not just the things my finite little mind understands ...... but, I'm sorry ..... I refuse to go to God in deceit. If I'm not happy, or I'm angry, that's the way I go to Him ..... and I STAY there until I'm on the other side of it.
Make no mistake .... there is no disrespect here, no heresy, no lack of reverence .... I am gloriously, and painfully, aware, God is God and I AM NOT! As a matter of truth, precisely in THAT Truth, God is God, that I am the way I am. I AM ... THE WAY ... I AM! He has told His children to come boldly before the throne of grace to receive His help ..... boldly doesn't mean panicked, whining and crying, hopeless and unbelieving. It means BOLDLY! So, in obedience to His OWN Word, that is exactly what I do. I expect for Him to be WHO He says He is. I expect Him to be HOW He says He is. Anything less than Him to be who the Bible says He is ..... unacceptable to me! I expect everyone of the promises He has spoken in His Word to manifest in my life ON THIS EARTH! I expect Divine Angelic Protection every single moment of every single day of my life ON THIS EARTH! I expect miracles! I expect blessings! I expect signs and wonders! I expect visitations and manifestations! I expect to be blessed BY HIM, so that I can be a blessing .... in abundance. I expect His grace to flood my life every single second of every single minute of every single hour until He calls me home to glory (2086) or the rapture, whichever comes first!
I am not diluded. I am not misguided. I am not confused, and I am NOT mistranslating the Bible into something it was never intended to be. God is a God. He is Holy, and He is full of promise. He made His ways known to Moses, so He will make them known to me. he has given me the desires of my heart, and He will absolutely manifest them exceedingly, abundantly above the way I think on them. This is His promise to me as His daughter. I stand on these promises like a ROCK, because He cannot lie, will not deny Himself and, in Jesus' finished work at Calvary, I am a co-heir of all of this. God would NEVER ask me to be obedient to His Word, and not be obedient to it Himself. He knows I live in a sin-filled society, where few actually consider His ways and His will. If I, being the least, can, with my finite understanding, lack of ability and limitations by time and space, simply believe Him ...... He is WELL ABLE to bring to pass the Word He has spoken to me. Exceedingly great and precious promises, specifically designed FOR ME, inside the multitude of promises He has spoken for ALL of His children.
I know His voice. I know Who I believe, and I know where I sit with Him. The windows of heaven are undeniably open over my house, His Kingdom has come and His will is done at 20 Somerset Lane .... EXACTLY as it is in heaven!
In the Prison of Hope,
Kalena
Manifest
Every year I start the year with a watch word ..... the word that I intend to focus on and see come to pass. The 2014 watch word is ..... MANIFEST! In my heart, meaning Manna Fest!
I intend to walk so closely with the Lord this year .... starting NOW .... that all promises, visions, blessings, miracles, signs, wonders and visitations Christ died for me to have and promised in His Word are going to manifest themselves constantly and continually in my life!!!!!!
Happy New Year World!!!! The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine on you and gracious to you. The Lord lift you up in His countenance and give you, His beloved, His peace!
Pressing In,
Kalena
I intend to walk so closely with the Lord this year .... starting NOW .... that all promises, visions, blessings, miracles, signs, wonders and visitations Christ died for me to have and promised in His Word are going to manifest themselves constantly and continually in my life!!!!!!
Happy New Year World!!!! The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine on you and gracious to you. The Lord lift you up in His countenance and give you, His beloved, His peace!
Pressing In,
Kalena
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