Enjoying Peace in His Peace & Assurance

Have you noticed how God loves me and you regardless of how well we “think” or “feel” we are performing; Regardless of our feeling anxiety in performing? Generally, I admit my anxiety comes from being moved out of the familiar, out of my own comfort zone, and into the unfamiliar.

Isn’t it crazy how sometimes we feel uneasy, wondering if we are doing enough to be worthy of our Father? We know that no matter how exemplary our behavior, the answer to that question will always be no. Yet, our performance and His love are totally different issues, which we need to sort out in our belief system.

God says that He loves us with an everlasting love that will flow out from within Himself - through eternity with no limitations, and absolutely no conditions. That He has clothed me and you in His robe of righteousness – oh my! It is an eternal transaction of the kingdom of heaven. Nothing can reverse that transaction. No one can reverse the transaction. As Christian women, our accomplishments have no bearing on God’s love for us. Our ability to even assess how well we are doing on a day to day basis – it is flawed from our human perspectives; our emotions and feelings; the conditional health of our bodies – all of that can distort our personal evaluation. Yet because HE never changes and HE is always faithful, HE is unfailing in HIS love!

Jeremiah 31:3 states, “The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you” (NKJV).

Thankfully, we have an Abba Father who desires that we bring any anxiety before Him and receive loving kindness and unfailing love of the Father. We can be assured each day that His loving presence is within us as His deposit, to be with each of us in all that we do. When we ask of Him to direct our steps, our anxiety should no longer exist – as He is sure to answer our request in faithfulness. We can rest in His love, if we chose to enter into the rest because of His presence and peace. The quiet moments with the Lord bring us into rest and peace. My feelings and emotions, or negative thoughts about my self-image in any other regard, do not move God’s mind about His will, His plan or His purposes for us, nor His love for me and you.

Hebrews 4:9, 11, 16 states, “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Rest assured of your worthiness because of identify in Jesus Christ.

Giving Voice

I have been pressing into the study of what it really means to be created in the image of God. To be walking here on the earth as His image.

I have been thinking about satan and his demons and their hatred for God as they opposed Him and were cast down to this earth. Here I am, in the image of God, and I know the principalities of this world seek to kill, steal and destroy every creation that is God's image, you and me, - who have been purposed and planned by Him.

I'm thinking about being a reflection of His image, and how because Jesus suffered here on this earth to restore humanity after the Fall. As His image, we learn of sufferings and we suffer - yet we know we have the ultimate in freedom.

It is no wonder the one who walks about seeking whom he may devour, is diligently looking to silence humanity through the atrocities of war, famine, horrendous terrorism, sexual abuse and trafficking, child pornography, weather events that destroy... satan wants to silence those who have been created in His image - and destroy His image in us so we do NOT reflect it to others.

Go ye therefore into all the world!!!

Yes, because I am in His image, I have His Light in me - I walk in His power. I walk in His given authority to me. As a result, I am in position to minister, to give voice back to those who have been captured to bondage - to give freedom.

Help me to trust in you Lord as you do your best work in taking the darkness of silence and speaking LIGHT into those places. And, as You use me, help me not be afraid to get out of my own comfort zone and move into the unfamiliar. I know YOU are with me. I know YOUR Holy Spirit is guiding me. I KNOW your Son has given me access through the blood to every created tool of your kingdom as Your image - to be, to do, to serve, to reflect and to minister from that position. Where ever I have been afraid to surrender and commit it all to You - forgive me - and set me courageously on the path with your Light. Light that YOU have already spoken into my life.

You are the Alpha and Omega - and I rest that you will finish every good work (and God given image, purpose and plan) in me!

Search for Freedom

Dear Lord,

Help me understand more about my own personal true identity - that I am made in the image of God, and I am Your child - created by YOU for Your pleasure. I desire to experience more, more, more of YOU through freedom bought and purchased by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Show me the areas where I continue to be bound; areas that have been silenced to freedom I should have. Help me to let go of things and the areas of my life that do keep me bound. Help me to let go of anything I have not committed to you, or that I have been unwilling to surrender to you.

Even though it may not be easy, I am more desperate than ever to be free in You and manifest that freedom here on earth in all that my hands find to do. I have You, and want to walk in your ideas and perspectives of what freedom is - not in the fear of man.

God, I have noticed you do some of Your best work creating from the places of darkness. I think you get excited when you are Elohim - the Creative One. I know You hover over me and get excited to take those places of darkness and chaos and void (just like in Genesis 1) and speak your LIGHT into those places. The WORD spoke forth - Let there be light - and there was! And at the end of the day - YOU declared that it was good.

Since I am created in Your very image, from your Word, from your Elohim creativity - I claim that I walk by Your authority with power given by You - to be all that YOU have created me to be; all that YOU have purposed and planned for me - as I serve in the calling and anointing upon me.

Lord, Help me trust in YOU more - not in my own strength, my own mind, my own power - but that it is all in YOU - all in Elohim who desires I walk in victory and freedom in my life here on this earth as it is already portioned out from heaven.

Voice

Thinking about God, The Word...

God's WORD makes Him accessible; our word makes us as human beings accessible...God's essence is found in the WORD; our essence is expressed in and by our voice. To be created in the image of God is to have a voice and speak our voice out into the world. Anything that silences someone's voice destroy's God's image within that person. Forced silence essentially destroys personhood.

When it comes to domestic violence, abuse, patriarchal control in churches, fear and control - it would seem sin in these areas do force a "be quiet and do not tell" atmosphere through its intimidation to be silenced. Something to consider when we are told to go - to be disciples - and yet we can be controlled or limited because of things such as an abusive situation, our gender, our denomimational beliefs....