It's Tough Being a Woman.....week 8
Often, when we thrill to the realization of a call from God, we picture going from our faces to our feet as He increasingly elevates our position. The reverse however, is often truer in the earthly realm.
(Esther 8:3)
Esther had come to royal position for such a time as this
To accomplish our call, we must be humbled far more than exalted, though God certainly lifts up His faithful servant in due time
somewhere deep inside our selfish selves we really don't believe that life is all about us
...whose passion for God only swells with time, hitting it's highest pitch with the last breath
I want this passion!
1Sam 8:20 - begging God for a human "king" who would lead me and go out before me and fight my battles. I didn't see my request as a replacement for God. I spiritualized my quest for an earthly hero by agreeing to see him as a gift from God.
He (God) not only see the desires of our hearts, but He also looks straight into the heart of our desires and knows when we are asking - even accidentally - for a false Christ
God is jealous for our true enduring hero to be His own Son. He answers my prayers to love Jesus above all else by allowing someone to disappoint me and prove insufficient for me
Sometimes God wants to show us what we can do rather than let us find someone who can do it for us
sometimes you and I are looking for someone to stand up and do what God wants us to do
...wanted someone to step in and break the chain of bondage....instead God started that process by breaking me
****...one reason God dissuades us from making champions of human kind is to keep us from falling in love with the night and paying no worship to the glorious Son.****
Sometimes God calls us to wait
Every morning God already knows each joy and concern that our day holds
God's timing is perfect
we must learn to fight an invisible enemy (Eph. 6:10-17) Sometimes we're exactly where we are meant to be - right in the middle of our spiritual Canaan - yet God tests us there to teach us a new level of warfare
One of the hardest parts of being a mother or a mentor is watching our children face a battle we can't fight for them. If God is going to raise our children to be mighty warriors of the faith, He must be free to teach them to fight. ....how can the person experience the exhilaration of victory in a battle they never had to fight. (mom)
Some of us with little previous battle experience have no idea why God is allowing us to go through such difficult times in a place we thought was His will.
God's trying to make warriors out of us
we are guaranteed the victory
God's providence is the theme of Esther, the absence of His obvious activity invites us to imagine the divine activities behind the scene. If we could only see what is happening around us in the unseen realm, our eyes would nearly pop out of socket.
(my water-baptism)
God wasn't forced to think up something new when the book of Malachi rolled to a close and the Gospel o Matthew pounded on His door. God's plan for Israel hadn't fallen through the cracks between Testaments.
(God's plan for me wasn't thwarted when I was moved from Montana back to California)
He will mount the fastest horse in the King's stables and burst through the barriers of human sight and sound with the armies of heaven "following Him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen white and clean (Rev. 19:1) "On His robe and on His thigh He will have written the name King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Rev. 19:16)
Every single time we pray the familiar words "Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven", we are praying for Christ to return in all His majesty.
We never have to leave the King's presence
And remember, "I am with you always, to the end of the age". (Matt. 28:18-20
When a time of happiness comes, I think we outght to take it and run
We often speak of happiness as a less noble term than joyfulness because the former is circumstantial and the latter less conditional.....but when God intervenes in our circumstances and we get a chance not only to know we're blessed but feel blessed, nothing is more appropriate than seizing the happy moment.
(thinking of my experience with RA and his music, "Lord, am I making too much of this?" His response "No, take it and run babe!"
...it is meant by God to be medicine for our weary souls. Times of happiness are glimpses of Heaven until we get there
God tookHis children's mourning, fasting, weeping, and wailing adn turned it into a time of happiness, joy, gladness and honor
Yahweh, the faithful covenant GOd, reversed every negative of His threatened people and turned it intop a postivice
God's people didn't suddenly aquire perfect conditions, they still lived on planet Earth and had fierce battles to fight.
God can reverse every negative element in His child's life and turn it into a positive. He just doesn't diffuse the circumstance, HE transfuses it.
Your God cares about you! He wants to show you what He can do with your life and your negative conditions.
He alone is the author of reversals
...ask the one who has begun a good work in you to complete it
(Esther 8:3)
Esther had come to royal position for such a time as this
To accomplish our call, we must be humbled far more than exalted, though God certainly lifts up His faithful servant in due time
somewhere deep inside our selfish selves we really don't believe that life is all about us
...whose passion for God only swells with time, hitting it's highest pitch with the last breath
I want this passion!
1Sam 8:20 - begging God for a human "king" who would lead me and go out before me and fight my battles. I didn't see my request as a replacement for God. I spiritualized my quest for an earthly hero by agreeing to see him as a gift from God.
He (God) not only see the desires of our hearts, but He also looks straight into the heart of our desires and knows when we are asking - even accidentally - for a false Christ
God is jealous for our true enduring hero to be His own Son. He answers my prayers to love Jesus above all else by allowing someone to disappoint me and prove insufficient for me
Sometimes God wants to show us what we can do rather than let us find someone who can do it for us
sometimes you and I are looking for someone to stand up and do what God wants us to do
...wanted someone to step in and break the chain of bondage....instead God started that process by breaking me
****...one reason God dissuades us from making champions of human kind is to keep us from falling in love with the night and paying no worship to the glorious Son.****
Sometimes God calls us to wait
Every morning God already knows each joy and concern that our day holds
God's timing is perfect
we must learn to fight an invisible enemy (Eph. 6:10-17) Sometimes we're exactly where we are meant to be - right in the middle of our spiritual Canaan - yet God tests us there to teach us a new level of warfare
One of the hardest parts of being a mother or a mentor is watching our children face a battle we can't fight for them. If God is going to raise our children to be mighty warriors of the faith, He must be free to teach them to fight. ....how can the person experience the exhilaration of victory in a battle they never had to fight. (mom)
Some of us with little previous battle experience have no idea why God is allowing us to go through such difficult times in a place we thought was His will.
God's trying to make warriors out of us
we are guaranteed the victory
God's providence is the theme of Esther, the absence of His obvious activity invites us to imagine the divine activities behind the scene. If we could only see what is happening around us in the unseen realm, our eyes would nearly pop out of socket.
(my water-baptism)
God wasn't forced to think up something new when the book of Malachi rolled to a close and the Gospel o Matthew pounded on His door. God's plan for Israel hadn't fallen through the cracks between Testaments.
(God's plan for me wasn't thwarted when I was moved from Montana back to California)
He will mount the fastest horse in the King's stables and burst through the barriers of human sight and sound with the armies of heaven "following Him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen white and clean (Rev. 19:1) "On His robe and on His thigh He will have written the name King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Rev. 19:16)
Every single time we pray the familiar words "Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven", we are praying for Christ to return in all His majesty.
We never have to leave the King's presence
And remember, "I am with you always, to the end of the age". (Matt. 28:18-20
When a time of happiness comes, I think we outght to take it and run
We often speak of happiness as a less noble term than joyfulness because the former is circumstantial and the latter less conditional.....but when God intervenes in our circumstances and we get a chance not only to know we're blessed but feel blessed, nothing is more appropriate than seizing the happy moment.
(thinking of my experience with RA and his music, "Lord, am I making too much of this?" His response "No, take it and run babe!"
...it is meant by God to be medicine for our weary souls. Times of happiness are glimpses of Heaven until we get there
God tookHis children's mourning, fasting, weeping, and wailing adn turned it into a time of happiness, joy, gladness and honor
Yahweh, the faithful covenant GOd, reversed every negative of His threatened people and turned it intop a postivice
God's people didn't suddenly aquire perfect conditions, they still lived on planet Earth and had fierce battles to fight.
God can reverse every negative element in His child's life and turn it into a positive. He just doesn't diffuse the circumstance, HE transfuses it.
Your God cares about you! He wants to show you what He can do with your life and your negative conditions.
He alone is the author of reversals
...ask the one who has begun a good work in you to complete it
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