Enter His Rest and Enjoy Our Promise Land

God wants to do a new thing. He wants to make a way for you in the wilderness. He wants to give you water in your personal wilderness and rivers in your personal desert. God wants to do a new thing in your life as you get into the Glory through worship. He wants to pour out abundance of healing for your life.

  

Joshua gave the physical rest, but he could not give the spiritual rest. Only in Jesus, the greater Joshua, can the true, real rest be found. It is only when He Himself, who is exulted into heaven, comes by His Spirit, so fully to possess our hearts, as that He is in us, and we in Him, that we can enter His rest and enjoy our promise land. 

Even though you are in the desert, even though you can’t see what the future holds – You need to trust that He is at work and He has your best in His mind. You may be in a tough season right now, struggling to truly be happy where you are. But this is not the way God wants you to live. He tells us in scripture that even in the difficult times, He is with us. Even when you can’t see a way out, He will make a way through. Even when things don’t turn out the way you planned, He has a plan to turn things around for your good.

Only God can make the desert bloom with fruit and trees. Everything that you've lost will be restored back to you. Everything that you have lost physically, you will recover fully and everything you have lost financially, you will recover fully. You will receive double for what you've lost. You shall possess the land and you shall dwell in it. You shall possess a double portion and you shall have everlasting joy.

Even before you came before Me, I heard you. 

As you began to pray, the answer will be forthcoming.

You have been tested and found lacking in nothing.

You have set your heart on Me 

and I have set My seal on you, My child. 

Ask what you will and I will grant it, 

for you love Me and will not ask amiss. 

You have walked through many seasons with Me.

You have walked through the desert and through the wilderness. 

But I tell you this day, child of Mine, 

no more in the desert, no more in the wilderness. 

For as Paul came out of the desert to serve Me, so shall you. 

You have prayed to be used by Me and yes, child,

I will use you from this day forward. 

Do not think that life has passed you by

for you are right in season with My timing.

Just step out...and see the Glory of your God.

 

Healing is A Painful Process

Child abuse can leave you with a confused mass of ordinary human emotions. But this confusion can feel so painful that your primary defense will be to get away from it all and to turn your back on values such as love and forgiveness. Thus you will find yourself in a living hell with recourse to nothing but empty human solutions of pain, anger, bitterness, and fear.
 
If through God's grace you have the courage to face your pains, tease them apart, and understand how each one affects your behavior, then there is real hope for healing. Otherwise you will spend the rest of your life reacting automatically and blindly to your pains, blaming others and feeling victimized by circumstances that are really of your own making.

Don't blame others if you get frustrated or angry with them, it is only because it is triggering something inside of you. When your emotional pain is triggered by someone else, they are your emotions and your responsibility. When you feel those negative feelings take time to get present and to look within and understand what it is inside of you that is asking to be healed. When you blame others for your pain , you give up your power to change. 

All anger is, at its core, a dark and cruel wish for harm to come upon the person who hurt you. Once you acknowledge the core of your anger, and understand it, and stop unconsciously wishing harm on the person who hurt you, you can forgive them. Then you will be healed, and then you can turn to the whole world with true love in your heart. 

The greatest need we all have, what we are really searching for, is Love — to be able to receive and give unconditional love. But, many people do not even know what unconditional love is. They never fully experienced true love, the unconditional God-kind of love. However, they know the good feelings of romance and sex. So, lust for romance or sex comes forth and promises to meet their deep, inner need. Remember if you're the kind of person who are not able to receive and give true love, you did not decide to be this way. It got planted in you a long time ago as painful rejection — unloved. But I believe God can heal you because He has healed me.   

If you desire to be healed and become whole, you must be in continual fellowship with God so He can work non-stop in your heart and mind. You will be healed in proportion to the time you spend with him. And you must stop putting toxic waste into your mind. This isn’t optional. If you continue to pollute your mind, the only person you will be fooling will be yourself and your life will not improve, and spiritual blindness will be your destiny.

 

There is no pain in your life that cannot be healed. God is able to heal and make you whole.The only way that we can receive healing from our pain and to be placed on our journey to wholeness, is to give God the entirety of our being. 

Taking your pain to God and allowing Him to expose what is inside of you can be uncomfortable even painful. Healing is a painful process. It causes you to dig to the deepest parts of your heart to push everything out. But after you let God heal you, a glorious new life begins.

God will not answer your prayer when there is bitterness in your lives. You must forgive everyone in your life who has done wrong to you. Forgive, let go and let His love heal you.When you forgive, you heal the situation that you judged in the first place to be amiss. You heal the person you forgive, and most especially you heal yourself.

It doesn't matter what the scar and how you fell. Somewhere along the way, there is healing for your life today. There's a river that flows from the fountain of God and it heals everything along the way. I have tasted and known that for every broken heart, there is healing in Jesus' name.



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Praising God With a Pure Heart

Merlin Carothers has written many books on the power of praise to God. Praise God for every good and bad thing that happens in your life. This may seem nuts to praise God for the bad things that happen in your life, but the secret is that it works very effectively to bring good into your life.

Carothers once saw a vision:

On a summer day the air was filled with light, and he had a sense of everything being very beautiful. Up above was a heavy, solid black cloud beyond which nothing could be seen. A ladder extended from the ground up into the black cloud. At the base of the ladder were hundreds of people trying to get a chance at climbing the ladder. They had heard that above the blackness was something more beautiful than anything a human eye had seen with unbelievable joy to those who reached it. As person after person tried to ascend, they quickly climbed to the lower edge of the clouds. The crowd watched.
In a short while the person would come wildly sliding down the ladder and fall into the crowd scattering people in all directions. They reported that once they got into the blackness, they lost all sense of direction.

Finally Carothers’ time came and as he made his way up the ladder into the blackness it grew so intense that he could feel its power nearly forcing me to give up and slide back. Step by step he continued upward until suddenly his eyes beheld the most intense brightness. It was a brilliant whiteness too glorious to describe. He found he could walk on top of the dark cloud. As long as he looked at the brightness he was able to walk without difficulty. However, when he looked down to examine the nature of the cloud, he immediately began to sink. Only by looking at the light could he stay on top.

The scene changed and he was looking at all three level. What does this mean? He asked, and the answer came:

"The brightest sunshine below the cloud is the light that many Christians live in and accept as normal. The ladder is the ladder of praising Me. Many try to climb and learn to praise Me in all things. At first they are very eager, but when they get into things that they don’t understand, they become confused and cannot hold on. They lose faith and go sliding back. As they fall, they injure other people who have been hoping to find a way to live in continual joy and praise.

Those who make it through those difficult times reach a new world and realize that the life they once thought of as normal cannot be compared to the life I have prepared for those who praise Me and believe that I carefully watch over them. He who reaches the light of the heavenly kingdom can walk on top of difficulties no matter how dark they may seem as long as he keeps his eyes off the problem and on My victory in Christ. No matter how difficult it may seem to trust Me to work in every detail of your life, keep climbing to the ladder of praise and move upwards!"

Carothers said he found his vision described in slightly different words by Paul in Ephesians, Chapters 1 and 2. Carothers goes on to say, "Praising God with a pure heart means we must let God cleanse our hearts from impure motives and hidden designs. We have to experience the dying to self so that we can live again in Christ in newness of mind and spirit. Dying to self is a progressive journey, and I have come to believe it is traveled only through praise." 

Walk in The Fullness of The Anointing

The olive tree takes seven years before it produces any fruit. Only a mature olive oil can produce oil. A mature olive tree produces nine gallons of oil each year. Whenever we open our hearts to God, we receive spiritual nourishment and grow more and more into the likeness of God until we reach spiritual maturity. And once we mature, we will see the full-grown mature fruit of the Spirit in our lives. And then we can begin to flow in the anointing all the time — bringing life and healing to others.

As you daily seek the Lord, He will abundantly pour upon you newness and rich growth and you will become flourishing, richly perfumed and fruitful. The Hebrew word for flourish "parach" means to break-forth, breakout, as a bud, bloom, to spread to fly as extending wings, spring up. I don't know about you, but I need His fresh oil anointing, every moment of everyday. In light of the uncertain times we are living in, we need to run into His presence and receive His unfailing love and protection, comfort and fresh oil anointing.

 

As you getting closer to God and growing spiritually, you will be able to surrender more to God. Once you attains the state of surrender, then God can work through you. This principle becomes progressively more and more manifest in you. The more you surrender to God, the more you are able to experience God’s presence in your life, and the more of God’s anointing flowing through you.

God is doing a mighty work in your life, but you must allow Him to do it. He is working in you, detaching you from this world and one day you will be set free to come away with Him into the secret place, into the Most Holy Place. There is a time of preparation that is needed before He can release you into the full flow of the anointing He has placed upon your life.

If you want to achieve a spiritual higher level, a higher understanding, a new promotion, a greater blessing and anointing, you must be willing to pay the price. A beautiful life does not just happen. It just does not happen like that, but it will first cost you. Everything you are going through is working in preparation for you to walk in the fullness of the anointing. 

One of the most painful things about walking with God is the fact that you will often lose many so-called "friends" and have to let go of many things which you have put your trust in. At a certain time in your life and having paid the price, you will feel yourself lonely, misunderstood and rejected by someone. This is the cost of the anointing, but in the end it will pay off. It is at this very moment that the blending process by the Lord starts. He will be your real partner and will bring genuine and faithful friends to your side. He will become so real to you. Then your life will be tasteful and a pleasant aroma unto Him.

The purpose of my writing is to stir within your heart the deep passionate desire to seek to know God more and daily experience His presence, faithfulness, peace, love, grace and power as He draws you unto His Heart. Together we journey through the everyday stuff of life with it's ups and downs and receive encouragement and strength from Him and a fresh anointing to boldly rise up and go forth as mighty sons and daughters of the Most High God. Every moment of everyday He's drawing us to that place — to that secret place within His Heart that He's reserved just for you and just for me. It's in that secret place He will settle us with His love, encourage us with His promises, and strengthen and empower us to victoriously rise above the stresses and messes of everyday life.

There will be a great revival, that will spread throughout the whole world and usher in the second coming of Jesus. This will be the final revival before the coming of the Lord. God will rise up men and women who will lead this move of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. There will be a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This move of God will be the greatest move of God ever known in mankind’s history.

   

God wants you to walk with Him and know Him intimately. He wants you to be a carrier of His anointing. You may have some struggles, pain, challenges, tensions and trials but today is a brand new day. So let us step in and look for new beginnings, new anointing and new strength. Let the Holy Spirit breath in you and receive new anointing from Him. Let the very life of God Himself flow through your being and you will be refreshed, renewed, ignited, fulled of passion and the love of God. 

There is a new anointing about ready to be poured out upon you. The wind is blowing and the anointing is on the way.


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God Can Turn Your Mistakes Into Miracles

Life is just the same as learning to swim.  What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, don't you? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning  and some of them many times over. Then you find that you can swim. So do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live.

You may have made mistakes, but God still believes in you, loves you and has an amazing future in store for you. Frankly, I have made many mistakes in my life. If you learn from your mistakes, God can turn your mistakes into miracles. Instead of weeping or regretting for the life that has passed, learning from it to find your joy in the Lord. Don't regret your past, it has shaped you. There is nothing you can do about the past except learn from it.

You can't change what happened to you in the past. You can't go back and manipulate things to the way you wanted them to happen. But you can choose to let go of the past and go on to have a fulfilling life. Healing is possible and life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past. 

For me, life is a journey toward my ultimate blessing, to experience God to the fullest. I believe that God is the source of blessing, goodness, and security. I believe He is working everything out for my good and nothing — not even my own mistakes will stop Him from freely giving me every blessing He intends for me. 

When God restores you, He does so in a way that suddenly you are walking in the light and you can hardly recall how dark your life was. When you move into the fullness of your appointment with God's destiny, you won't think about your past anymore. You won't have the time to regret your failures, your mistake and your former life.  You will so busy rising up your miracle and living in your blessing. You will be free. You will be loosed at the last to do and to be God has appointed to you to do and to be.