MY RIGHTEOSNESS IS AS FILTHY RAGS

God keeps me humble and I am so grateful that He does. It is SO easy to be a “good Christian” in a place where your faith never gets challenged. Like at church meetings or at work, I know that for a lot of people the work place is where you get challenged the most, but for me home is the place I face the most challenges.
Very often I find myself judging family members on their behavior or the things the say or the way they react in certain situations and I find myself imagining I am better than them because I am saved. I get puffed up with self righteousness and with what I “know” to be right.

Thank God I am saved because the moment I find myself doing this He cuts me the heart immediately and I am forced (in a good way) to ask forgiveness. Who am I compared to Him, what is my righteousness when compared to His. He reminds me that we are all the same in His eyes. He doesn’t see race or colour or stature or wealth. He doesn’t see male or female – He sees our hearts and our minds and we are all wicked in those places. We may put up a “front” to the world – but God knows us so intimately He knows what goes on inside. He sees you crying and broken on the inside while the world sees you laughing and smiling on the outside. He sees your hate and anger and bitterness on the inside while the world sees your loving and gentle ways on the outside. But we can only hide our true selves from the world for so long because what is in the heart eventually flows from the mouth anyway.

The thing is God sees what matters. In His eyes we are all equal. Who am I to think I am better than anyone else? Who am I to think I am more righteous than someone else?

Thank you Jesus for keeping me humble. Help me Father not judge, lest I be judged. I never want to come across as self righteous or proud, I want Your love, peace and joy to fill my heart and overflow so that, that will be what the world sees.
Keep me on my knees Lord, and let the righteousness I have in You be the righteousness the world sees – not my own Self Righteousness.
In Jesus’ name
Amen

WHAT IS THE WORLD GOING TO DO

I hate pornography. I wish there was no such thing! It destroys lives and families. It tempts our men to sin and lust. It creates rifts and divides among couples.

People need to know what the Word says. Jesus said you cannot love Him but hate your brother – then you don’t love Him! If you are angry at your brother you have already committed murder in your heart. If you look on another person with lust you have already committed adultery in your heart!!

Jesus looks at your heart! What goes on in there is what counts to Him – not your actions!! To the world actions speak louder than anything – but to God your heart reveals the real you.

“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love” Henry Scougal

What is the object of your hearts love? Is it money? Is it sex? Is it power? Or is it Jesus?

You can hide what is in your heart from the world – for a time…..

But you ca NEVER hide what is in your heart from God. He is the Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent – all knowing, all powerful, ever present God. Even the dark is like daylight to Him.

Pornography is an evil trick of the devil. Convincing you its ok because you are only watching. When you watch pornography you may as well invite another person physically into your bedroom, because your are letting them into your mind and heart. Don’t allow satan to trick you by telling you the World says it’s ok!! By God’s standards it is not ok, it is immoral and wrong. Why do you think He destroyed Sodom and Gomorra? They were an evil, immoral people. Thank God he sent Jesus to die for our sins, because I shudder to imagine what kind of wrath He would rain down on us today for the way we live.

I have such a righteous anger within me today because of this evil, horrible, disease that man has made. Sex is supposed to be an intimate, personal and beautiful thing between to MARRIED not “consenting” people. And the World has turned it into a dirty, sordid, addictive, drug. Women are used as sex symbols to sell everything!

We need to educate our children against this worldly way of looking at sex. Teach them that Pornography is wrong, it is evil. Teach them God’s way and teach them that Jesus is the only way. And true happiness can only be found in Him, by His standards. Let’s not allow this filth to reach our children. Protect them and raise them under God.

Let Jesus be the object of your hearts love!!!!

ARE YOU READY?

Last night at our prayer meeting, our Elder read a passage from a devotional book – I cannot remember the books title or author right now, it was about being ready for God. But one line that stood out for me more than anything else was this

“Jesus expects to use us the same way God used him”

And you know, we can expect to be used. We must not disqualify ourselves because of our circumstances, whatever they are. God can use us right where we are, right now. And we need to be ready and expectant of it. We need to be faithful in the very little we have now and then we will be able to be faithful with much later.
We can’t have the attitude of “wait till I make my million Lord – watch me work for you then.” Or “Wait till I have my own house Lord, then I can do what I want to do for you.”
No, God is watching us now, and He can and wants to use us now.

Jesus expects to use you, the same way God used Him, so be expectant, be open and know that God doesn’t call the equipped. He equips the called. We are all equipped and qualified by Him. We are all part of the Royal Priesthood because of Him. So be expectant, be ready so that when God says to you “go” then you can go without hesitation.

Imagine an athlete training for a race. He works hard training and getting his body into shape and his muscles stretched and supple. Just before the race starts he is there behind the starting line ready, and waiting and keeping his muscles warmed up so that when the official says the word and he can get into his starting block he knows that when the gun goes off or the official says GO he can go with all his might and he can finish strong too.

We are like that athlete and our training is our quiet time and our prayer time and no matter how long we may have to train we must keep training and waiting behind that start line so that when God says we can move into the starting block and when He tells us to go we are ready and well trained to GO and to finish strong.

So, be expectant and keep training, because when God tells you to GO, you want to be able to GO!!!

TAKE YOUR MARK, GET SET...
GO!!!!

I SURRENDER...

HERE WITH ME – by Mercy Me

I long for Your embrace, every single day.
To meet You in this place and see You face to face
Will You show me, reveal Yourself to me?
Because of Your mercy, I fall down on my knees!

And I can feel Your presence here with me
Suddenly I’m lost within Your beauty.
Caught up in the wonder of Your touch
Here in this moment I surrender to Your love

You’re everywhere I go, I am not alone.
You call me as Your own to know You and be known
You are Holy, and I fall down on my knees

And I can feel Your presence here with me
Suddenly I’m lost within your beauty.
Caught up in the wonder of Your touch
Here in this moment I surrender to Your love

I surrender to Your Grace
I surrender to the one who took my place

And I can feel Your presence here with me
Suddenly I’m lost within your beauty.
Caught up in the wonder of Your touch
Here in this moment I surrender to Your love

This song has been in my heart all day!!

I will really try sometime to get to your blogs - just too busy

I WANNA BE USED BY YOU….

This morning I woke up with the Betty Boop song in my head but instead of the words going “I wanna be loved by you…” I was singing “I wanna be used by You…” and that was exactly my prayer, to be used by the Lord. I want Him to use me in every way He can and wants to.
I want to be a voice, a light, a servant – everything just for Him – boop boop beedoop, Ooh!

Here I am Lord – send (use) me!