Sunday, January 31, 2010

Adonai - Lord, Lord, LORD, master, or owner

Adonai
June 30, 2004

I bow before You as my Lord and Master. I acknowledge Your right to rule over me. Please take total possession of me and enable me to be totally submitted to You as my Lord and Master. As Your servant I have many benefits, but also responsibilities. As I submit to You, I have all I will ever need for the tasks You set before me. Benefits are:

Love, grace, forgiveness, protection, and rewards (Gen 15:1)
Your graciousness to me (Ps 123:2)
Sustain-ness and satisfaction (Ps 145:14-16)
Refuge (Ps 141:8-10)
Understanding (Ps 119:125)
Deliverance and victory (Judges 6:14-16)
And many more.

Responsibilities (some)
I must look to You – always
I must seek You
I must love the Lord my god with all my heart, mind, and soul.
I must lean on You
Be confident in You
I must allow You to direct my steps
I fear (stand in awe) and worship You (Prov 3:5-7)
I must honor You (every knee must bow and confess You Lord, to the glory of the Father Phil 2:10, 11)

Lord, Adonai, supreme ruler, the authority, controller, absolute ruler over all.

Romans 6:16-18 (New Living Translation)
“Don’t you (Jean) realize that whatever you choose to obey becomes you master? You can choose sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God – Adonai – and receive his approval. Thank god! Once you were a slave of sin, but now you are free from sin, your old master, and you have become a slave to your new master – Righteousness.”

I choose Adonai as my master! But in all truth, I have not chosen You, but You have chosen me. I acknowledge that choice and accept Your total ownership of me as a good thing. The best possible think in all the world. You are a loving and gracious master. There is none better. I am blessed!

Friday, January 15, 2010

I AM

July 2, 2008
God describes Himself as a verb – never a noun. The trinity, God, Son & Holy Spirit.
I AM – a verb. I Am that I Am. I will be who I will be. I Am alive, dynamic, ever active and moving!

Show me when I am holding back a part of me, for myself. I do want you to have all of me, all the time! Every part of my day and even when I am sleeping, especially when I am sleeping.

I need You to be involved in everything I do or encounter. The older I get, the less I do and the less I am involved. But I want and need you more than ever. You can help me cope with all the negatives of aging…the aging sagging body, and I have no energy for anything anymore. Everything tires me and I am breathing hard just to prepare a simple meal. Boy, I’m on a rabbit trail here! Get me back to where I surrender me, myself, and I totally to you!

I love you Lord and I lift my voice, my hands, my life to You in praise and worship. Knowing that these rabbit-trail thoughts are no surprise to you! You love me always!

Monday, January 11, 2010

by faith

June 21, 2008
Hebrews 11 – the Faith chapter. The history of the saint’s faith. By faith Cain, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and on and on. What does my life testify of my faith?

• By faith I believe that I am a sinner and I accepted Jesus’ sacrifice and offer of eternal life.
• By faith, I choose to grow in You
• By faith I prayed for my husband to be delivered from alcohol, and he was!
• By faith I have been blessed with a hip replacement that was expected to last 10-12 years and it has been 28 years already. WOW!
• By faith both daughters know you as Savior.
• By faith I am trusting you to do a further work of grace in other family members.
• By faith we are trusting our future to you – whatever that may be.
• And so much more that I cannot even recall. How you have blessed me. All I can do to say thank you is to “present anew my body as a living sacrifice, which is my reasonable act of worship, knowing I am acceptable in Your sight.” Halleljuah! and praise the Lord!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A Win-Win Situation

Nov 20, 2007

Romans 8:18-39

Paul talks about the present hard times and the coming good times. God is holding back the good times of rejoicing until all the creatures are ready.

I understand this to be saying that You, God, are patiently waiting for the last ones to be born into Your forever family. Then we will be ushered into the glorious times.

We are feeling the birth pangs now. Yearning for full deliverance. You say that waiting does not diminish us any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. The longer we wait, the larger we become and the more joyful our expectancy!

As I wait for my loved ones to return to You, do I wait in joyful expectation? I must admit it is more a frustrated cry “why is it taking so long?” Then I see in verse 20, “when we get tired of waiting, Your Spirit is right alongside, helping me along. When I don’t know what to pray, or even tire of praying, it doesn’t matter. Why? Because You do our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs and aching groans. You know our pregnant condition and keep us present before You. All the while you are shaping my life, conforming me in the image of Jesus – You’re beloved Son.

So, how can I lose? It is a win-win situation. There is absolutely nothing that can drive a wedge between Christ and me. Nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable.

Absolutely nothing can get between us and Your love because of the way that Jesus has embraced us. Hallelujah, Amen!