Monthly Archives: March 2018

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A Word for Today: ONE

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Vital message! Please read and make ready.

Most of you do not know me, but if you posses and know the Spirit of the One and only living God, you will know of Him, if the following message is His voice coming to your ears through His mouthpiece. Father, grant discernment of truth to every ear, I pray. In Christ, amen.

Beloved, it is vital that we, the Body of Christ, be ONE in Him, the fulfillment of His John 17 prayer. Our differences and petty squabbles MUST be set aside. Any discord that separates brethren in Christ, great or small, is petty compared to what is ahead. A devastation is about to hit that will work a glorious good, and it requires our unity.

So get your heart ready, Beloved. Our unity with one another is vitally linked with each of our spiritual health in Christ. We must each be found walking as one with Father, Son, and Holy Presence, for our unity in His body to possess the necessary cohesion.

Trust in the leading of Christ is vital today. However strange the Spirit’s lead is, willing and effective, step-by-step obedience is vital to our readiness.

“…to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4:1-7‬ ‭NASB‬‬

Father, lead us. We are listening with ears set to hear.

My Lighthouse, by Rend Collective

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Tomorrow We Pray for School Security

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Good day!

I’m so excited for this first Day of Prayer focus, and so excited for you all joining us in it. I really appreciate all those sharing the event, inviting friends to join us (to help with that, see the links below). There are many more participants than evident in reported numbers. I am amazed at the move of God, calling His kids to join His heart for our schools. Praise His Holy Name!

If you are not following my page – Darlene’s Ponderings, Prayers, and Praises on Facebook – I hope you will become part of this branch of God’s army. The foci for future events are already coming together, and I would love for you to join us.

I hope you can follow posts today as we prepare our hearts for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will worship through the day together with songs and scripture thoughts for prayer posted about every hour. For those wondering how to participate while walking through the demands of your busy lives, here’s suggestions and encouragement for ways to be faithful through the day.

Prayer Reminder Tips for Busy Lives

With all the demands on our lives, many people struggle to give themselves to a day of prayer (and fasting). It is good if we are in a position to lock ourselves away from the outside world and give full focus to the Word of God and focused prayer. If you are able to do that, please do; and pray for the prayer warriors while you are at it.

For those who can’t do that, here are some suggestions to give yourself some focus in your participation with us:

1. Trust God! Trust Him to draw your focus and direct your heart and protect your time.

2. Find a physical reminder: set something nearby that can be used to prompt prayer when it catches your eye; set a timer to go off every hour; put a ring on a finger you seldom wear a ring on – it will draw your attention to prayer when you bump it.

3. When your reminder gets your attention, go to the next verse or series in Ps. 27 and let it’s Words inspire your prayer. Or come to our FB page to see the scriptures and/or listen to the songs with a prayerful heart.

4. Remember to BREATHE: Prayer is exhaling to God’s ear the faith and belief that He is the solution; and inhaling the peace and hope He gives. Give every breath to Him and watch Him do it!!!

Father, we are willing. Make us able by Your all-sufficient grace. In Jesus, BREATHE through us for the good of our schools. Amen.

Thanks again for joining in! Yay!

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Devotional Series, Holy Habitation

God Laughs!

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“He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them.”

Psalms 2:4 NASB

A missionary friend, who has since gone to be with the Lord, shared a testimony of experiencing this laughter of the Lord. Working among a Muslim population in the country God took him to, he was heading up the street to his home there, when a group a teen boys began stoning him. Calling out to God, he very clearly heard God’s Spirit say, “Laugh.” So he did, and God took over.

He said that the biggest, deepest laugh he ever experienced came up in him. The boys, stunned, stopped throwing the rocks. Steve turned away and continued on into his house. The boys, who had been on that corner for many days, bothering all who walked by, left that day, never to return.

Laughter does good, like a medicine, yes; and it also makes an excellent arrow when supplied from the arsenal of Father God.

Devotional Series, Holy Habitation, Kingdom Living, Light, Love

A Word for Today: LOVE

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“These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,” 2 Thessalonians‬ ‭1:9‬ ‭NASB‬‬

Our focal verse may seem not to fit the word for today, but bear with me a moment while I explain.

Remember the parable of Christ when He described the day all will stand before Father as sheep separated from goats. I had a dream years ago about that, in which God allowed me to experience the position of the goat.

As we were ushered in to His presence, upon seeing the Father, we all were overwhelmed and filled to the full with understanding of His essence. Many, knowing their vehement rejection of Him, instantly knew they missed the boat; others who trusted a false salvation were just figuring out that they were on the wrong side of the gulf. The thing that overwhelmed us all was full understanding of God’s pure love for us even in that moment, and that we were finally complete – made whole by His love.

We watched as the names of saints were called one by one, greeted by Jesus, and ushered into His Kingdom by angels. Then came the time when the goats were cast into the outer darkness. I woke with realization that the hottest flame in eternal damnation will be the knowledge of never knowing God’s great love so clearly again.

God used that dream to call me to two major foci in ministry: one being the importance of calling others to the Cross of Christ before it’s too late; the other being the importance of making God’s love known now, while there is time to make an informed decision.

God calls us to be love as He is love. God is the love we are to have and walk in, allowing Him to be love in us, so people can see while they still have a chance of changing sides. This is why Jesus warned us, “”You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect (complete).” Matthew 5:43-48 NASB (author’s note)

The most dangerous prayer I have ever prayed is for God to be love in me, loving a person in my sphere of influence with His unfailing love. I say “dangerous” because when God answers that prayer – and He will do so to the sincere heart cry for it – no matter what that person we love does, our love for them does not stop. We keep knowing God’s love for that person as our own. We feel a portion of the pain God feels for those who refuse Him. Their rejection hurts, and it’s hard, and the love keeps pouring out for them with longing for a right and true relationship fueled by and filled with the unity that is only found in mutual relationship with the Father. Only the brave, with true love for the Father that desires His love be found by all who need it, can face the heart of rejection experienced by God’s love for all. Are you ready to love in Jesus’s Name? He will supply the power for it, if you are willing to walk in His love-supply for all.

My prayer for us today, Beloved, is for our Strength to go forth and love in Jesus’s Name and in the power of His supply before time runs out. The eternal clock is ticking.

Devotional Series, Holy Habitation

The Power of Grace and Peace

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1 Thessalonians 1:1b “…Grace to you and peace.”

As I read this common greeting given by Paul in most of his letters, it dawns on me how full of power that is. I am finally learning what Paul long knew about Grace and Peace.

I used to tell God that I did not want to take His grace for granted. Now that was a correct desire as far as not wanting to sin, thinking that God’s grace would cover me, so it would be okay to choose sin. But I am learning that God wants us to walk in His grace as I am now learning is the work of grace in us.

God led me to realize my need of His sanctification in the area of my diet. Being sanctified, set apart to God in that area, requires me to learn to walk in the grace Paul speaks of in 2 Corinthians 12:

“7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9 And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG.”

God’s grace imparts true and lasting strength and, through my diet, surrendered to His grace, I am learning just how strong and FREEING His grace is in me. Praise the Lord!

God’s mercy frees us from sins penalty: death – separation from God. His grace cleanses us of that sin, removing it from us, and replaces it with His strength in the area of need, filling up the vacuum of space left there.

Remember when Jesus said to cleanse a house, only to leave it empty, opens up a place in which the evil removed can not only return to possess the place anew, but it can bring seven others, more evil than it, to help him hold his place (Luke 11:24-26). Grace cleanses us, removing the evil tendency, but it also fills us with His Spirit of Strength to hold the house, and maintain the cleansing. We need God’s strength if we are to stand against the temptations of this life. The way of escape from temptation is this GRACE (1 Corinthians 10:13). We can do nothing apart from Him, so this grace is vital to our successful journey to the righteousness of Christ that sanctifies us.

When we are walking in this grace of God that strengthens our commitment to His Lordship, true peace fills us. The agitation of our want for something that is not His will for us is overridden by this peace gifted to us through Christ. It is much easier to “Be still and Know that He is God” when peace acts as umpire (Colossians 3:15, AMPC). That said, I see Paul’s greeting of “grace to you and peace” as his desire of heart for this work of the Spirit in the people of God.

Here am I, O God. I rejoice in this lesson, learned and growing strong in me. Thank You for Your grace sufficient that produces Your peace of heart, bringing about true freedom from the flesh in me. In Jesus, Amen!