whispers

i couldn't sleep last night...but it hasn't stopped the joy in my heart when i got up.

this morning...all morning long the Lord has whispered in my ear many things:

you are not an outcast.
you are beautiful.
you are MINE.
you were created for me.
you have My mercy at any time.
My love is constant and pure and real....for you!

i cannot seem to get over...nor will i ever...
that He reached down and saved me. delivered me. rescued me.

my life is beautiful.
that's what i'm screaming from my roof today!

starving

now that you are out of Egypt, walk (mind, body, spirit) towards the promise land!

"stand fast in the liberty where Christ has made you free...and be NOT entangled again in the yoke of bondage". Galatians 5.1

"if you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight and give ear to His commandments, i will put NO diseases on you, I am the Lord, I am Your healer...then they came to Elim where there were 12 springs of water and 70 date palms and they camped there beside the water." ex. 15.26-27

after leaving Egypt and all that they "thought" was comfortable to them...their flesh for the "Egypt" was screaming out. they complained and thought they would die for not getting the things of Egypt!!!
i think about my flesh of man...and all that screams out: anger, jealously, lust, pride, selfish ambition, and the list goes on.

after we have fed our flesh so much with the things of this world we crave...our flesh craves...we feel as if we don't feed our flesh we will waste away...die..
"for you have brought us out of Egypt into this wilderness to kill this who assembly with hunger" ex.16.3

BUT....He doesn't leave us stranded, hungry, empty, lost, confused...
He fills us...and fills us to completion...

I've failed to see this throughout my life. i've failed to let the Lord fill me....instead i've let the things of this world fill me and i'm left begging for more, still hungry, still thirsty, still longing...

however, lately...
i've walked upon an oasis...and i have "camped" out to receive only what Jesus can fill.
will you choose to starve?

if...

there's a great little book out there by my favorite writer of all times called "IF". this book will make you think! i recommend it to those who desire a deeper walk with the Lord. this little word has made me consider a passage of scripture...

Isaish 48.18 "if only you had paid attention to MY commandments"

i know that the Lord's commands are not there to harm us but to ultimately protect us. AND protect us indeed. the closer i get to the Lord the more i realize i am in a battle NOT of my own. yet, if i pay attention to His commandments i'm safe. very safe....
so many times though i think i can do it on my own and it just makes a bigger mess. today i'm thinking of this little word and being grateful that today i'm paying attention...

for i know that IF,
" i was sold for nothing and i will be redeemed without money" (but by His blood) Is. 52.3

victory chant

on many occasions in the old testament after a war a victory chant is sang. i love reading these victory songs...and almost wish i could hear them. music is healing for me...
a couple months ago i was introduced to a song that i now call my "victory chant". today and everyday i sing it from my rooftop.

Thank You for the way that You love us
How You love us
Thank You for the way that You made us

We were created
For Your pleasure
For the glory of Your name

Thank You for the way that You love us
Jesus, faithful King
Lord with grateful hearts we sing
How great is the love
Of our Savior

The weight of the cross, the curse of our shame
You carried it all and rose from the grave
Thank You for Your grace that has saved us
You forgave us
Thank you for the way You have freed us
We have been ransomed
We have been rescued
We have been purchased
With the price of Your own life

Thank You for the way that You love us.
(meredith andrews/paul baloche)

foreign gods

in the past several months i had let myself be entangled in my certain "gods", if you will.
but...the Lord has..
allured me
captured me
rescued me
called me back.
in the secret Jesus has spoken truth to my ears where before i was believing everything but His truth.
deut. 32. 10 says "he found me in a desert land (of gods), and in the howling waste of a wilderness; Jesus encircled me, He cared for me, He guarded me as the pupil of His eye...The Lord alone guided me and there was no foreign god with me."

why do we run from the One who will ultimately protect us, shield us, and give us everything we need pertaining to life and godliness? i'm learning everyday that no wonder God used the Israelites as a foundation of "who" we are as people. For the Israelites wondered off, rebelled, were confused, scared, lonely, afraid, hungry, beaten, wounded people....just like you and me....but the Lord called them out and rescued them....to the promise land.

today...on my rooftop, i exclaim God's goodness in my life....and i exclaim that there are NO FOREIGN GODS with me...because it is Him who has fought for me...who is jealous over me...and sings victorious songs on my behalf. (ps, 103)

how could you NOT be captured by Him?

secrets

everyone loves a good secret, right? you hold it in...bursting to tell someone, just anyone! but we keep it inside and locked up because we will break a trust of some sort.

not with God.
i'm a bit eager to start this blog on my daily rooftop secret that i "get" to share...
His secrets to me are mysterious, passionate, loving, correctional, guiding, and constant.

Jesus says, "what He speaks to you in the darkness, proclaim to the light,
and what He whispers in your ear, proclaim to the rooftops." matthew 10:27

He speaks...to me
and i'm excited to share what and how He speaks!

Join me...on the rooftop!