God you are beautiful

God you are beautiful!

Sitting in the train on my way home, I realize you are beautiful.
I'm not exactly sure what the trigger is to this realization, but perhaps it doesn't really matter.

You say:

Acknowledge me in all your ways and I will make your paths straight.

Prior to this you say:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Man looks at the outside, but God, you look at the heart.

People were led by you to write down what you told them to.

I am a writer, a talker, a communicator.

A worshipper.

God your grace is sufficient.

Lord lead me forward in you and deliver me from the evil one.

Jesus, you reign today and forever.

Lord I need you help... we all do. You are the helper. Indeed the giver of life.

Daily Journal

Lord, have your way in me.
I don't know what I am doing.
I have many desires that come and go, rise and fall.

Only you are consistent and faithful.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

My flesh and body wants to feel good.

My spirit wants to know you.

My spirit wants to be completely bare before you and indeed with and in you in every way.

Yet my flesh, wants nothing more than to be you, to be god.

My flesh is easily mislead.

Lord, you are good, and all of my life, indeed all of life itself has it's sustenance in you.

Please lead me beyond what my flesh wants.  It wants nothing more than itself.
My flesh, indeed, my heart is so deceived.

Please don't give up on me.

Please don't let me lead a life that has me at the center.

I don't know how to lose my life.
And in this, it seems like there is no hope.

I know there is hope, but it seems like there is no hope.

My eyes lead me astray.
My thinking lets me down.

You have put it on my heart to confess and be transparent.

You have given me a desire to communicate and express.

I want glory, and I want to know you.

For this, I cannot have both.

I really want to know you.
I want to sense your delight in me.

Please don't let me lead my own life.
Instead, help me to trust in you and find rest.

You have known me all my life, and even before I was born.
After I leave this world, you will still cherish every moment I was alive here, and the thoughts you had of me before I was even conceived.

Your depth of love for me is deeper than I realise, and I truly don't value or appreciate you and your ways.

I have sinned, Lord, and continue to sin.

I don't know how to stop.

Though I know your grace is sufficient.

How can I truly humble myself and let you receive the glory and delight that is your due?

Holy Spirit grant me wisdom from heaven today, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Lead me in Jesus, and let my hope not be in the things of this world.

Let my eyes be fixed upon heaven, upon the eternal King, and Kingdom, upon righteousness eternal.

You have indeed given me a heart, perhaps not too unlike that of your servant David.
A heart that has faith, yet is somewhat aware of my own weaknesses.

I have pride from which is full of deceit.

I don't know
I don't know

And yet I do know.

Lord, grant me your eyes, your ears, your joy, and your heart, and let me lose my life for your sake.

Do I truly care about people?
Even if I did, it is nowhere near that of your care, and this is indeed what is needed.

Don't let me settle for love that comes from me.
You ARE love.

Only you can overflow in me for your glory and the true eternal blessing of my neighbours.

If I were to write a book about life, it would be a silly book.

You are the author and perfecter of my faith.  Lead my eyes to you Lord Jesus this day.

Today is the day of salvation!

You make us beautiful :-)

God created me for His perfect beauty. He will not let me be given over to anything else. Because He loves me. When I believe the truth I walk in the truth. When I walk in the truth it helps me believe in the truth. Your word is a light to my path and a lamp unto my feet. You will not give me second best. You will satisfy the desires of my heart with good things... this I believe... This I receive... All for your glory. I love you Lord. You make people beautiful. You do. You do. You do. You making me beautiful like Jesus. :-) In him I rest alone.

Opposites

Love and lust don't go together.
They oppose one another.
You can't have both.
Choose the one you want.

Baptisms

Baptism
What is baptism?
To be honest, I don't fully know nor understand what baptism is.
The only thing I know for sure, is that it is a wonderful thing.
It is like going from death to life, or breathing fresh and clean air for the very first time.
Baptism is like saying goodbye to loneliness, and hello to eternity with God.
It is like letting go of everything that is attached to self worth, and all of a sudden receiving God's worth.
It is saying to sin, pride and lies;
"No, you will not have your way with me...for there is only one who deserves me, and that is the one who, created me, was born for me, lived for me, died for me, and overcame death for me."
Baptism is all about the love and power of God.
It is about the nature of the perfect one who took upon himself our imperfection and rebellion, and said, "Let me take it from here."
The day after I was baptised I was sitting in an area that I last saw my dad about 8 or 9 years before. I was but a young child then, but now I was a young man. I was sitting down when I suddenly felt the desire to ask my dad in heaven for a favour. Having just been baptised and with faith of and as a child, I asked my heavenly dad if He could help me do three things.
I wanted to:
1. See my earthly dad
2. Hear my earthly dad
3. Touch my earthly dad
I'll fast forward two weeks and let you know what happened.
I got to see my dad, hear his voice and touch him.
Because that very day, my heavenly father led me to get in touch with my earthly father by way of His leading and love for me...it was a miracle.
I just want to share with you today, that salvation and baptism go hand in hand.
What I mean is this:
God has done the work of salvation for you, and in so doing this you go from death to life. Baptism is not about what you have done, or what you can do for God...it's about God's love for you based upon His very nature being love.
Yes, baptism is ALL about who God is. It's about what God has done for you, and that all that He requires of you is that you would simply trust in Him. Yes, trust Him...
will you trust Him today? Baptism was not necessarily meant to be a seperate act apart from salvation, as a kind of "graduation". No, it was meant to be a new beginning, your very opportunity to say no to sin, and yes to God's love.
Now let me clarify this; I am not saying that if you haven't been baptised you are not saved. No, I am simply stating that the intention was always that baptism would follow or be a part of the beginning of your new life with Christ.
Jesus did this, though he had no sin...will you do this, and look forward to blue skies?
Finally, baptism is acknowledging that there are blue skies, and sunny skies beyond the trouble and darkness found in this world due to sin...yes, baptism is saying yes to Jesus.
Jesus says this: "In this world you will have trouble, but take heart for I have overcome the world."  

Inner beauty

A friend once told me that when you meet a special someone that there will be a sense of blue skies, or the sun shining.  I actually believe that 100%.

Yet, at the same time, perhaps it is not only special someone's where we are blessed to sense that.  Perhaps it is also with people who you will one day serve with.  By serve I am referring to serving in the work of the gospel with.

Perhaps there is also a sense of blue skies or sunny skies when God is putting a particular country into focus.

At this stage there is a sense of blue skies over a particular country of which I won't go into detail right now but basically it's very much an interesting feeling or sensation.

I am keen to simply learn how to walk in obedience and end up where I end up by the grace, mercy and leading of God.

I am grateful that I am not alone, and that the Father has sent the helper the Holy Spirit to be with me and guide me into all truth in Jesus name.

Will hopefully be able to update you on any further clarity when it comes.  Until then, each day is a sunny day in Jesus, even if there are clouds in the sky, because the sun\Son is always shining.  Yes, Jesus is always shining.

Be blessed today my friends in Jesus name.

living a lie

So I'm here sitting in my room having just had an after midnight walk to the 24hr combini.
I start to think about how life is summed up by people in their sub-conscious and conscious mind.
I think that in reality when you are missing one piece of information that has to do with life itself, in actuality you don't actually have a true understanding or view on life.

As such living would be a lie.
If you have all truth but one lie, that lie makes the whole thing...you, and your understanding, and even how you are actually living out your life, a lie...or at the very least...unstable.

As humans we somehow (generally speaking here) think that we are really quite smart.
But in reality, when you compare what we as both individuals and as a whole actually know with the reality of how life is life...ie understanding how life runs in EVERY angle...you know what?
We just don't even come close to having it covered...no, not even close.

Why do I say this?
Well for one thing, when you look at how we cannot even overcome death itself...that says ALOT.

Not one person in human history has overcome death as part of a will-ful act...

Well, there is one.

It's no accident that time itself is based upon someone who overcame death.

The very life...the birth of Jesus is what our time, or calendar is based upon.

But the very fact that Jesus died and rose again to life isn't necessarily the whole picture in regards to the BIG miracle...as BIG as it is...

The truth is this...the BIG miracle is the very person of God who is OUTSIDE time, putting the very nature of himself through the birth of his son into this world.

The story of the love of God, the miracle of God, is revealed in many ways but is displayed through something all of us have had happen to us...

being born.

If there is one who has no lie, and lives completely in truth, it would be God himself, through His son Jesus.

Jesus referred to himself as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

In Jesus there is no other spirit
In Jesus there is no lie
In Jesus there is no death

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

So what I am saying is this:

If we are living our lives outside of Jesus...our life is a lie...it's not based on truth.

Jesus welcomes you and I into himself...into the Way, the Truth, and the LIFE.