Monthly Archives: March 2014

Holy Soap Box, PDF attached

Conflicts

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Conflicts require folks to take a side, pick a group. Why do we do that to each other? 

4 What is causing all the quarrels and fights among you? Isn’t it your desires battling inside you?

via James 4 KJV;CJB – From whence come wars and fightings – Bible Gateway.

I am attaching a poorly crafted diagram that speaks a message; not one pleasant to give or receive and perhaps this platform is not even the best place to present it because perhaps you have no conflicts in your Local Assembly of the Body of Christ. We have been praying for revival in the Christian Church. Perhaps this diagram gives a reason (among others) why revival has not come … yet. 

Three Groups in the Church

ABBA, I am so sorry for these conflicts, please forgive me for being timid when I should have been bold and for being loud when I should have been quiet and help me now to discern the bold, the quiet and the loud appropriately. I pray for group A, group B and group C, for all of us to lay down our agendas and crucify our own flesh and not one another. I know You want different and better for every local gathering of The Body of Christ and I  am confident the ultimate reason we are not unified in love is because we have not surrendered to Your Lordship. I am so sorry. Please forgive us; please correct us. Please bless us with HOLY SPIRIT conviction of sin, of righteousness and of judgment to come. And I don’t know how to end this prayer, ABBA, we need You to help us repent. I pray we do in JESUS name. 

Day 80 of 2014, praying for revival in the Body of CHRIST.

Kathie

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Grain & New Wine

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It takes less than half an hour of viewing a News Media and we are confronted with multiple issues to disturb us. Latimer Putin and Barack Obama to name one; Health Insurance, Unemployment rates, Constitutional violations, to name a few. It’s enough to keep a Body awake at night.  Unless . . .

9 (8) I will lie down and sleep in peace; for, Adonai, you alone make me live securely.

via Ps 4 KJV;CJB – Hear me when I call, O God of my – Bible Gateway.

ADONAI, The LORD GOD alone makes you and I live in security in this volatile and nothing about it secure world.  And how does He do that? And does He do it for all? 

Lets back up a couple of verses and look for answers. 

7 (6) Many ask, “Who can show us some good?” Adonai, lift the light of your face over us!
8 (7) You have filled my heart with more joy than all their grain and new wine.

via Ps 4 KJV;CJB – Hear me when I call, O God of my – Bible Gateway.

Here’s what I see. Folks ask Who can show us some good in this climate of turmoil, lack, want and lavish abundance? ADONAI can! And He is ready to fill our hearts with more joy  and to enable us to lay down and sleep in peace and arise in joy; but there is a catch (a condition). Are we willing to be satisfied with who He is, what He does and does not do about the grain and new wine of other folks? Are we satisfied with our own grain and new wine? Yes? Then we sleep well, don’t we? 

ABBA, thank You for the answers You have given; the healing(s) that are taking place; the situations that You are weaving into something splendid; the strength and courage You are supplying while Some wait; and the peace and comfort You are to Others grieving. Thank You, ABBA, in Yeshua’s mighty name. And we pray now for the Peace of Jerusalem, for Your resolution to conflicts there and in Russia, for repentance and correction and restoration for America and for the Christian Church; big problems as we see them but You are able, ABBA, and we trust You. And, ABBA, I pray for each Reader who comes here to read and pray, that You will feed them, that You will take my offering here and that it will be acceptable to You and fit for You to use to help and encourage them all in the name of Your Blessed and Holy Son, Jesus Christ the Righteous, Yeshua the Messiah. 

Day 78 of 2014, praying for revival in the Body of CHRIST.

Kathie

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Pretty Smart Cookie

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Just a little reminder this morning of a conversation Solomon had with the Father.  It’s a story from which we can gather wisdom.   :)

and there Shlomo and the community consulted him.
6 On the bronze altar at the tent of meeting Shlomo offered a thousand burnt offerings before Adonai.
7 That night God appeared to Shlomo and said to him, “Tell me what I should give you.”
8 Shlomo said to God, “You showed much grace to your servant David my father and have made me king in his place.
9 Now, Adonai, God, you have been faithful to your promise to David my father; for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth.
10 So now, give me wisdom and knowledge; so that I will be able to lead this people. For who is equal to judging this great people of yours?”
11 God said to Shlomo, “Because you set your heart on this — because, instead of asking for riches, wealth, honor, the death of those who hate you, or long life, you asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you would be able to judge my people, over whom I made you king —
12 not only are wisdom and knowledge being given to you, but I will also give you riches, wealth and honor such as no king before you has ever had; and no king after you will have as much.”
13 So Shlomo came away from the high place at Giv‘on, from in front of the tent of meeting, to Yerushalayim; and he ruled over Isra’el.

via 2 chron 1 KJV;CJB – And Solomon the son of David was – Bible Gateway.

Giv’on – a/k/a Gibeon
Yerushalayim – Jerusalem

They consulted Him! They consulted the LORD. I like that! I’d like a world of people consulting the LORD and determining in their hearts even before He speaks that we will do as He says. 

Can you imagine GOD saying to you, tell me what you want Me to do for you?  What would you say?

ADONAI was well pleased that Solomon (Shlomo) did not ask to be made rich times three (riches, wealth, honor); nor did he ask for the death of his enemies (if you ask me this is a big deal – some of us want our enemies’ heads on a silver platter or at least that is the way we talk sometimes) or for the promise of a long life here on planet earth. It seems to me, Solomon was a pretty smart cookie even before he applied for wisdom.  :)

Jokes aside. Tonight I was just appreciating Shlomo’s conversation with ABBA and I thought I’d just remind us how Shlomo became the wisest of men. 

He asked!

So can we!

5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

via James 1:5 KJV;CJB – If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask – Bible Gateway.

Thank You, ABBA, for humor, thank You for wisdom, thank You for loving us and for always answering our prayers in loving wisdom.  Thank You for a successful surgery for Carolyn and You know two doctor visits in particular that are yet to be for two lovely women, glorify Yourself in this I pray. Align our hearts so You can shine Your Face upon us in YESHUA’s name.  

Day 73 of 2014, praying for revival in the Body of CHRIST.

Kathie

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