Let Love Begin

Love has no where to go when guarded by anger, bitterness, un-forgiveness and pain. How can you even receive love while harboring such feelings? What has occurred was true, it was real, and you’ll perhaps never forget it. But in order to let love begin again, you must make a way for it. You must create a portal in your soul, through your heart to reach out to some soul in dire need of what you have to offer. Be reminded, that the soul on the receiving end is doing all they can to let love begin as well. Remember, the one to whom you are giving love has just let their portal open and is learning again the process of giving and receiving. Most of us know how to give things, but learning how to receive has a direct connection to how healthy we are internally. To be uncomfortable with receiving gifts, praises and accolades is a sign that there is yet some growth to be done on the inside. Perhaps your love is bound. Giving and receiving is a direct connection to love. Love gives always, and if love gives, then there must be someone to give it to. There is no such thing as being a loving person and always choosing to be alone. Loving people must have people to give and share that love with. Again, a sign that you must let love begin is when you find yourself isolated and sheltered from friends, family and people in general (not due to uncontrollable circumstances, but things that you can change). When it’s your choice to live the deeper life that doesn’t include anyone else, I question how deep that life really is. The deeper life is a more giving and thereby more loving life. People often say I deserve to be happy, I’m going to live my life for me so I can be happy. That statement in and of itself lets me know how unhappy you are. Catering to self will never bring happiness. Happiness comes when you love yourself enough to love others. So to say you are living for you, is to kill the possibility of happiness altogether. When you can say I’m living for others, is when you are really saying I’m okay with myself. But you may be saying, I’ve tried that, and people have taken advantage of me. And I would say yes this is true, and they will again. The key to letting love begin is not expecting the type of return you want. Because if you do, then there again you are living for you on your terms. You must let go and open this portal so that true love can pour out of you. True love is selfless. I know people who have great love in their hearts and are potentially wonderful people. But their unhappiness makes them mean and undesirable. The best way to get past this self life and let love begin is to get a relationship with God. He will teach you what it means to live for Him. This is awesome training for those who have to live in this world for others, who may or may not even appreciate what you have done for them. Just know that when you live for God, He never forgets or dishonors your life as a sacrifice. Once you can see and grasp His faithfulness toward you, how others treat your love will not matter. Blessings to you today my friends! I challenge you to let love begin, open a small portal until the floodgates pour out all that stored up love inside of you. Have a great day!

HIS WAY, NOT MINE…

His Way, Not Mine, is a lifestyle, not a chore, task or duty. I have failed so many times at trying to be obedient. But obedience is not about complying with instruction; it is about surrendering to God. For most of the people I know, we have tried to live life our way, and it has had its moments of excitement and seemingly success, but deep within, we knew we were not in the place of true surrender. It is possible to know the Word of God, and simply try to apply willpower and disciplines to obey it. And for many disciplined and moral people this works. But still we are so very far from God. I used to think His way was to learn the Bible as best I could and try to not go against the things He wrote. But the closer I became to Him; I realized that I was still doing things my way. This had to change! What troubled me was how could I know so much of the Word, and still be losing battles, within and without. This didn’t add up. So rather than turn from the Word I turned to it again. But this time, I didn’t try to learn the letter of it, but the Spirit of it. WOW, this changed my life big time. It is hard to interpret the Spirit, so people prefer to interpret what is obvious. So often the Word is read and we are told to simply obey. Very few tell us how to obey it. So we live twenty years of our lives on a spiritual roller coaster ride failing and succeeding. It is easier to control others when things are in black and white. But when things are not, it requires each of us to be mature and apply the things we’ve learned in life. Most of us choose not to live this way, because it is easier to live the black and white. This way it is easier to judge others and condemn ourselves. My challenge to you, is to truly seek this lifestyle of Jesus’ prayer in the Garden, Not my will, Lord, but Your will be done. This is a way of life. It starts by surrendering old systems and selfish ways. Forget about how you used to do it, and be open to God’s unconventional ways of doing it. I guarantee that however God does it, it will be different. You will only be able to understand it by Spirit, not logic or reason. You may apply reason and logic in the application of it, but God’s purposes are beyond our comprehension. We must undo what church as the systemic religion has done. We must use the good as a foundation, and grow up into spiritual beings that operate from His unction, not the control of orders, instructions and systems. A truly surrendered heart does not act outside compliance of the systems which surround them, only when the system gets in the way of our doing things His way. Try it today. This is something you can start right now. Say today, it is not about getting things my way. Ask the Lord to help you and guide you in this day into His perfect and Holy will. I guarantee you will see a difference in the outcome. You haven’t known peace until you have learned surrender. And you haven’t learned surrender until you can embrace the lifestyle of HIS WAY, NOT MINE…

Be blessed!

I LOVE HIM

We were made to love Him. Our souls should crave Him. He must be the very essence of our longing. He is truly “to die” for, after all, He died for us. To love Him, is to know Him. To know Him, is to love Him. What further depth can we go than to His love? He is deeper than our thoughts, feelings and emotions. He truly creates the chase. He ebbs us out with His tantalizing words that draw us, that create deeper intrigue and interest. Oh to know Him, just to be with Him, to hear from Him, to be desired of Him; to think that God would desire me. When others reject me, He calls me. When I fail, He calls me. When I do well, He calls me. When He needs, me He calls me. We are WE! Together, we are. He loves me and I love Him. Together we love each other. Ooh to love Him, to be surrounded by Him, His very essence causes my heart to flutter, and my thoughts to dance. I am at peace when with Him. He alone satisfies. I am satisfied with Him alone. If no other relationship works, mine with Him, does. He creates certainty of it working. He has promised never to leave me nor forsake me. He has promised to be with me through the good and the bad. He won’t divorce me. If anything changes, it will be because I forsook Him, not that He forsook me. Awake, awake my soul, and love your God. He is at your door knocking. Surrender unto the passion and kindness and depth of grace that He offers to you. Why fight what you don’t understand, and you can’t get anywhere else. Come to Him! Lay at His feet, like a damsel crowned as Queen. We are His bride, adorned for Him. He is pleased to unite with us. In worship we share, we talk, we laugh and we learn, we listen, we grow stronger. I love to talk to Him, and He loves to talk with me. Sometimes we open our mouths, sometimes we don’t, but always we understand. What mountain top, what a field with blades arrayed in rainbows, He alone offers this. Love on the mountain and love in the field. He increases my courage. I love Him. I adore Him, I honor Him. He is mine, and I am His. Together we create a solemn and sacred vow of trust that challenges me to be faithful, when I feel like it not. He is my mentor, and my peer. He is whom I aspire toward, and my teacher. He creates in me a desire to become, ever more like Him. At all costs, I strive, and continue on. When I am deep out of breath, I crawl on to victory, for it is already won. He simply came back to run with me; to be with me when I cross the finish line. He has already overcome, so that I may overcome, but He came back to run with me reminding me if His holy name, Immanuel “God with us”. What a treat to be held by the Master. To know He loves and He cares. He loves, and I love, we love! Today, I love Him, more than any other material, physical or spiritual essence, I love Him. No doubt in my mind I love Him, and He loves me. You know how I know? I told Him this morning, and He told me as well. And when I’m acting out in fear or flesh, He still tells me, He loves me. Create in me a clean heart oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. Awake, awake my soul, and love your God.

Loving you always, my Father,

Cherry
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