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When an ordinary woman meets an extraordinary God, normal life takes on a whole new meaning. Knowing God changes everything. We cannot encounter the living God and be the same. A personal relationship with Him produces a holy discontent with the status quo and compels us to live in such a way that miracles are a daily occurrence and i am one of those daily miracles. People are desperately looking for ordinary women like you and me whose lives have been changed by an extraordinary God. I want to be hungry and thirsty for God as never before. I want my normal life to be abnormally extraordinary because God is alive and well and at work in and around me. How about you? Are you ready to step out in faith? Are you willing to live a normal life filled with people and circumstances that can only be explained by the extraordinary power and presence of God? ~ estracted from Girlfriends in God..
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I have been reading on the
power of imagination a topic that Lester Sumrall has written on in-depth.
Based on Romans 12 “And even as they did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate
mind (a mind that could not think straight), to do those things which are not convenient”.
In other words all the sinners in the world became so by imagination. This sent
me thinking, we are creatures of thought; our mind is the organ of thought. My
mind has power to reason, decide, and imagine unborn things. As you know our minds occupies a large part
of our total life. We demonstrate what we imagine through the way we act and
live, it is said that imagination is the force of destiny.
As Christians we are
not to let our imaginations run loose, but harness them as Apostle Paul would
have us do by ,staying on the things that are pure things that are acceptable
,noble and of good report. Sumrall warns
“If your mind is empty, the devil will activate it. If you do not know what to
think about, the devil will give you something.
I now understand why the scriptures
keeps telling us to watch out on where our minds are they have great peace
whose minds are stayed on Him). As a man thinketh or (imagines) so is he. It is
our responsibility to imagine right.
Now am imagining myself size 8, am
imagining myself with arms like Michele Obama,
am imagining feeding my chicken in my dream farmhouse , eating veggies from my
organic farm food.
Before you judge me,
of being self-centred I am also imagining Africa saved, free from sickness,
poverty and ignorance. The list continues; remember there is tremendous power
locked in our imagination.
From now imagine the right, when wrong imaginations
invade you do as Paul said pull them down and bring to subjection……………let love
reign
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Charles Haun once stated that "knowing God requires personal loss"...
But that is a pill that not many people are not willing to swallow. To know Christ is to know perfection, to know blamelessness, it is to know life itself but many of us are not willing to get there.
You see my sisters and friends I have come to learn that they are many levels of knowing God and we decide the extent we are willing to sacrifice to know Him better.
I have also come to learn that Jesus is not only the great I am but he is the great Distuber, he disturbed the Sadducees,
he disturbed the Pharisees,
he disturbs the makers if the law,
by shedding His light too brightly and I guarantee that He will disturb you too!!!!.
He has personally interfered with me a lot, messed my perception completely, fixed my attitude and I can tell you the He continues. Through the many experiences I have had and my personal journey with God I have come to the realisation that if I can accept His disturbance, I can get to know perfection itself.
As we live this life we often try to balance pursuing Jesus and maintaining the status quo... by this I mean maintaining how we want to live, what we want to do and when as long as he disturbs nothing or re- arrange anything, but often times Jesus will bring the temple down to its purpose 'house of prayer'
As i write this I am looking back at the numerous times I had to go and apologize to people who should have apologized to me instead and it was just because Jesus said " when our brother offends you take heed of yourself'. And I often times at face value I am justified to be hurt and upset, feeling betrayed and let down but I remember my life should always be a testimony so just because of this DISTURBANCE I find myself letting go of my ego and pride but the reward is
always worthwhile!!!
So share with me and the many other ladies that read this blog and find inspiration- How Jesus has disturbed your life, how he has wrestled with you, thrown you according to your terms 'of- course' forced you to reflect on the perceptions you have held so dearly
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I entered the year 2013 with great sense of victory. I felt assured that this is the year of establishment , fulfilment of various promises and great victory. Irrespective of what or how the circumstances maybe currently. Am relentless in my confession that this is the year of the Lords favour . Looking at how God established the heavens and the earth, through his word , words then becomes paramount this year, if God will establish through his word then his word has to be in our mouth. We have to speak what we want to see. We have to be conscious of our confession. Our words comes from the abundance of our heart, the best thing then is to follow Pauls instruction where he instructs us to fill our hearts with those things that are lovely , of good report, noble, true .....if this floods our only good will come from our mouth eventually the good will overtake our lives. It is so easy to be swallowed up in the street language and talk like the word, but as believers we should be conscious of the power of life and death that is in our tongue. Let us be watchful in 2013 let us say what we want to see.
we win ....much love Ev Jay
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I entered the year 2013 with great sense of victory. I felt assured that this is the year of establishment , fulfilment of various promises and great victory. Irrespective of what or how the circumstances maybe currently. Am relentless in my confession that this is the year of the Lords favour . Looking at how God established the heavens and the earth, through his word , words then becomes paramount this year, if God will establish through his word then his word has to be in our mouth. We have to speak what we want to see. We have to be conscious of our confession. Our words comes from the abundance of our heart, the best thing then is to follow Pauls instruction where he instructs us to fill our hearts with those things that are lovely , of good report, noble, true .....if this floods our only good will come from our mouth eventually the good will overtake our lives. It is so easy to be swallowed up in the street language and talk like the word, but as believers we should be conscious of the power of life and death that is in our tongue. Let us be watchful in 2013 let us say what we want to see.
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