Thursday, June 30, 2011

bankrupt without love

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

questions

Why can't I just let things go and be at peace in every circumstance? Why do I have to ask why, how, what, who, when? Why? What am I battling? What do I want to win? What do I need to know? What answers am I lacking? What insecurities am I allowing to overwhelm me? Today I'm praying for revelations of wisdom.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

fathers

He will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared. Luke 1:17
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction. Malachi 4:6

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

issues

This is what satan often says to me. But I don't listen to him or his lies.

Monday, June 13, 2011

convinced

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:31, 35, 37-39

Friday, June 10, 2011

mended

The tradegy is not that things are broken. The tradegy is that they are not mended again.

Thursday, June 09, 2011

angela

When God wants to do something wonderful, He begins with a difficulty. When God wants to do something very wonderful, He starts with an impossibility.

last

I want to be a woman devoted - energzied and fearless. A woman who won't back down and who loves without reservation, insecurity or shame. I want to live so conscious of what's mine and declare to darkness that nothing can be stolen from my hand. A new season of power is upon me; these are the sweetest days I've tasted yet. The sword of the warrior is raised.

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

delivered

I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. This poor woman called, and the Lord heard her; He saved her out of all her troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and He delivers them. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him. Psalm 34:4-8

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

declaration II

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20

Monday, June 06, 2011

declaration I

To Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen
Jude 1:24-25

Thursday, June 02, 2011

waiting

It's waiting for me at home this moment. Branching out. Expanding and experimenting. Delighting in the life of color around me. Delighting in little gifts God gives with the journey. (Pink nails and cobalt included.)

Himself

And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To Him be the power for ever and ever. Amen. I Peter 5:10-11

I've come through something huge. The battle of overcoming myself. I can be very irrational, very impatient and very scared. But I am restored. Strong, firm and steadfast. Amen.

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

awakened

Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again. Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive. Isaiah 52
I'm at last latched on to Freedom. Confessing and declaring. God is entrusted to correct everything else that is ruined and damaged. A holy Father found me and fought for me. I am now in His relentless control. For the Lord will go before me, the God of Israel will be my rear guard.