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Posted on February 24, 2017October 4, 2017

Single does not mean FOREVER

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I had lost sight of the invisible for the seen. The love for the loss. The destiny for the disappointment. And I wanted it back. This past season has been a longing, a pursuing, a digging back up the treasures hidden deep. For after all, I may have lost it but He hadn't. My words have been few for all that God did at the Awakening, but rightly so, I was awakened. And mostly to the love of God and how even when my steps feel missed, He still orders them. When darkness seems to win, He is forcefully advancing. And most of all. My heart will never forget the love of God that loved my family so well through @tomiarayomi My heart was forever changed, rather healed, as the people closest to my heart were moved by the overwhelming knowing, present love of an adoring Father. You are truly seen and known and loved by a Father who knows no measure. For He has made all He is available so that we could be overcome by the height, the width, the breadth and unending depths of His love. Father, open our eyes to see you, our ears to hear you, touch our hearts to feel you and awaken our spirits to the unrelenting pursuit of your presence. I will never be the same. @southavenvictory
“Then you will take DELIGHT in the Almighty and look up to God. You will PRAY to him, and he will HEAR you, and you will fulfill your vows to him. You WILL SUCCEED in whatever you choose to do, and light will SHINE on the road ahead of you." Job 22:26‭-‬28 NLT (emphasis mine) I don't always expect success. More often I actually envision failure, embarrassment and disappointment. Life has taught me this. Not my Father. The more I'm with Him, the more this perspective changes. He desires a relationship with us that we take delight in. Where we talk and He hears. That relationship brings a "knowing" to our lives in what we should do. Then when we do it we find success because He lit the way before us and we recognized it and followed through. If you're living in scarcity of... wisdom, love, affection, light, truth... He is the Father of abundance and desires far more. He is lighting the way. If you can't see it, press into Him.
I mean they had no needs. None. Think about it. They prayed (talked with God) and had need of nothing. Not healing. Not provision. Not wisdom. Not repentance. What does your prayer life look like if you took out all the need-based topics? I get it. He loves to be asked for things. He tells us to ask. But He never said "only ask." So maybe prayer is far more about developing relationship than it is getting our needs met. I wonder if we would know God more fully, have a heightened awareness of His presence, understand His Word and live by faith more if we simply talked with Him. Got to know Him. I bet His heart would delight in y'all talking this way. 💛 I heard this and it rocked me. Definitely redefined prayer for me.
"Salvation" commonly means a prayer we prayed to get into Heaven. But it's so much more than that. It's more than sins being wiped clean. It's more than the hope of a better future. It's more than getting into Heaven. Salvation is an answered invitation to nearness, oneness; unity with Love itself through Christ. This intimacy with Christ is not earned by our level of goodness. In the same light, the goodness that flows from our lives should not come from "being + doing better" to better deserve this or that, but from a desire to foster a deeper connection with Him. For instance, many start the new year with grand goals to be better, do more good, less bad... You too? Maybe to read your Bible every day. Or eat healthier. Or dig into a new hobby. All good. All honorable. But if we do any "good thing" apart from the pursuit of Christ we lose the greatest potential of our effort. "He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago." Ephesians 1:10 You were made new by salvation so you could do good things... from His good plans for you... in Him, with Him and for Him. Yes, even the gym, your job and eating kale. There's so much more in store. So, root your "good things" in knowing Him deeper in and thru it all and you'll gain far more than just achieving another "good" goal.
"If you didn’t get my email this morning, I shared my heart on the best way to read your Bible this year. I want to encourage you to not set time goals, chapter goals, or verse memorization goals without your main goal being BECOMING the Word. In John 1:14 it says, "The Word [Jesus] became flesh" (NASB) We are to read the Word to BECOME it and, as we walk it out and display the reality of our Father, people will know Who we serve. The best way to approach reading your Bible is to open it up and ask God to help you become what the Word says! When I first got saved, I stayed in Ephesians for almost a whole year!!! I just wanted to be everything God said I was and to really get it. My prayer for you this year is for the same thing—- that your time with the Father is to know Him and you pursue His image; just as He created you to be! Bless you all this year!" Repost: Todd White with Lifestyle Christianity
There is so much more in store behind the door of... your life your story. the year you've just had. the year that is soon to come. Maybe there are still questions, buried beneath mystery. Maybe there are rooms still unexplored. Maybe there are seasons too long still coming. But maybe there is also more. More in the process. More in the discovery. More in the unfolding. More in the making. Beauty in the grit. Fragrance from the ashes. There is still so much more in store.

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