Shake off your dust...

Isaiah 52 2
Shake off your dust;
RISE up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem.
FREE yourself from the chains on your neck,
O Captive Daugther of Zion.

What holds you captive? What mindset are you stuck in? What have you not believed the Lord for? What are the chains on your neck? Is it attitude? Is it unbelief? Is it just a pattern of "self-pity" and discouragement? What is it?

Whatever it is...the Lord say's to SHAKE IT OFF!!!! To RISE UP! and to FREE yourself!!!
Those are powerful action words if you ask me! Life is too short, time is too short to wake up everyday wishing you hadn't. To wake up every day looking for that expectation in others only to find yourself captive to disappointment and chained to bitterness and lack of forgiveness!

The Lord died on the cross for us, for ALL our stinking sin! Why is it then that we choose the mentality of bondage? We have a choice! We can choose to walk out our salvation with fear and trembling! We decide to choose LOVE, LIFE, FORGIVENESS, etc...When we line our hearts up in line with what the Lord already provided...there is power there my friend!!!!

Many times I would feel defeated, stomped on, spit on, accused falsely, gossiped about etc...and I have stayed under the LIE of it's ugly affects but the Lord is saying SHAKE IT OFF!!!!! RISE UP!!!! FREE YOURSELF!!!! Why? Because He knows that when we line our thoughts and actions up with His word....we are actually walking in the FREEDOM He has already provided for us!!!! Has it taken me this long to learn this? Or is it that I am finally CHOOSING to act on it. Who know but I am getting it!!! It's in my spirit...it's jumping out at me and I want you to get it too!!!!!!

SO....do you feel judged? Shake it off!!! Are you holding on to offence? FREE yourself!!!! RISE up my friend and don't stay in it!!!! Speak the word freedom until freedom gets in your Heart!!! Until it is what you feel! Until it is what you are living!!!!! Get it from your head into your bones and watch the Lord empower you because of it!!!!! Wow, I'm getting fired up just typing this!!!!

Spend time with the Lord today and ask Him to reveal to you what holds you captive...then line your mind and heart up to receive His word of truth and WALK IT OUT!!!! SHAKE IT OFF and FREE YOURSELF!!!! It is your choice!

Sonja

The Pure in Heart...

"Blessed are the PURE in heart, for they shall see God." Matthew 5:8

The Lord always does a work on our hearts. Just when we think we are walking in HIS love or in forgiveness, situations will come that prove we "still" have more impurities that need to be scraped away!

The Lord is coming for a PURE and SPOTLESS bride, so it does not suprise me when I feel the thorn of pain in my heart as HE alone purifies it with His presence. He desires to dwell in our vessells to FULNESS but He knows what part of our heart He can trust and what part He can not with His gifts. Wow!

Let the Lord begin a deep purification in your heart as you confess your sins to Him, spend time letting Him wash your spirit, and then POUR love in your heart like you have never experienced. Yes, it is supernatural for sure! But Oh how sweet it is. When you can cast your eyes on someone who has hurt you or betrayed you and you FEEL love and compassion for them? That is GOD.

Be still in His presence and learn of Him so He can perform His Word in and through your heart! The more you draw near to Him, the more He washes you and gives you of His "living waters", you will never stop wanting to drink it and it will always satisfy you!

Sonja

PEACE!

The Lord BLESS you and KEEP you;

the Lord MAKE His face SHINE upon you and be GRACIOUS to you;

the Lord TURN His face toward you and GIVE you PEACE.

Numbers 7:24-26

What a scripture! Words like the deepest pearls of the sea!

In turmoil, confusion, frustration, fear, doubt and unbelief there is a Power that overcomes it all and that is the CROSS! Jesus died so that He would live His life through us when we accepted Him and repented of our ways. He died for our sins so that we would have a way of redemption through Him!

Peace comes when we accept His merciful gift of salvation and walk in His daily counsel. Every day we must lay aside our deepest wrestle and surrender it to the Lord. He alone has PURE wisdom and counsel to give that ultimately leads to Peace! Ponder on this the next time you find turmoil inside...it could be that you need to "Get with HIM!" It could be His way of warning us of impending danger, or possibly letting us know that a change is coming and caution is at hand.

What ever the signs, He is well able to KEEP us and SHINE His face on our path way...

Sonja

Encouragement...

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

To be encouraged by some one is always a powerful example of love. When we encourage or are being encouraged it helps us to receive strength inside. It makes us feel valued and puts a spring in our steps to move forward!
Today...let the Lord guide you to encourage someone. It could be a smile, an act of opening a door for someone, writing an encouraging note, etc...He will show you how and who needs it! And as long as today is called TODAY then just do it!

Lord, today I ask you to show me who needs encouragement. Who needs that special word to lift them up and boost them in this time. My ears are listening, my heart is willing! Amen.

Sonja

Boldness....

Wow...this is the time to be BOLD. Boldness does not have to be rude, it just has to be rooted in TRUTH and motivated by love!!!! This is the day to stand Christians. This is the day we cry out and REJOICE in the Lord always! Proclaim His Name, Proclaim His ability to deliver, and Proclaim Him as the VICTORIOUS WARRIOR!

Remember....His name is King of Kings and Lord of Lord! He is God and there is NONE beside He.

Psalm 138:3

When I called, You answered me;

You made me BOLD and STOUTHEARTED.

Yes Lord! Today we look at fear in the face and say NO MORE! You are a defeated foe. You will face your day! For EVERY knee will bow every tongue confess that Jesus IS Lord. Like it or not.

Lord, have mercy on the blind in spirit. Help us to cease every opportunity to open their eyes to YOU our creator. Today...give us Boldness and Love so that FEAR will be disarmed! In the precious Power of Your Name...JESUS.

Sonja

Seeking Wisdom....

"But the wisdom from above is first PURE then PEACEABLE, GENTLE, REASONABLE, FULL OF MERCY, and GOOD FRUITS, UNWAVERING, without HYPOCRISY, and the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown IN PEACE by those who MAKE PEACE." James 3:17

How often I find myself in a situation where Wisdom is required. It is good to know that answers do not depend on my own intellect...but that the Word of our Lord gives in abundantly solutions to our problems, answers to our needs, a light unto our paths. Every word of advice that is given to me is checked by the word of the Lord so as to not be led astray. I usually trust the people giving advise but at times because we are humans we may tend to give advise based on "opinion" and not breathed by the spirit of where wisdom and direction come.

Today, spend time reading and meditating on the word of God. In doing so a situation later in the day may come up and you just never know how it will help you.

Sonja

Forget the former things.....

Isaiah 43:18-19

Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a NEW thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland.

The message today is to LIVE for today. What good does it do to dwell on the past. Yes, at times we need to work through hurts, memories, pain...but there comes a point when we will need to LET GO...letting go is hard to do but when it is the right time only then can new life spring forth in ones soul.
I believe the Lord is saying that HE wants many to forget the former things...things that keep a vessel bound to experience New Life. Trust when LETTING GO...and Trust that the Lord will guide you. That is faith. Not being able to clearly see the path ahead but keeping your eyes on the light regardless...He will make a way in the desert and provide for you springs of living water when your soul feels dry.
Believe Him today...live for today, yesterday is gone...tomorrow has yet to come. This is the day the Lord has made...rejoice dear one and be glad in it!

sonja