'time - irreplaceable

Hello people, today is the day that God our Father ordained. Since the beginning of Time, this day was on His agenda. People will be born today and who knows who they may become. Be nice to children, you know not to whom you talk. People will die today and others will mourn their loss. The truth is you, reading this, may not be alive this Time next week, where then will you be. HOWEVER, this is the day that our gracious Lord has given to us, 24 hours of Life, a gift to each of us. What will you do with it. If you were a visitor to this planet for just 24 hours what would you do. Run, laugh, enjoy, meet people, breathe deeply of the love from those around you. Oh how God must be so patient with us when we don't realize what a Gift each day is.

Today I am at a very close friends home. I come here every week, just to be with her. She is young and beautiful. She has 2 beautiful daughters and Cancer. Her body carries multiple tumours, all inoperable. Hopeless in physical terms. Each day a gift. Cherishing conversations, remembering beauty, relishing laughter and love. This is the Day that the Lord has made let us REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT! We use up our lives in 'day sized compartments' or we live each one fully for others and for His pleasure. Teach me Lord to number and name my days, to choose to fully live in each one, letting go of stuff that binds me to yesterday and blurs my vision of the spectacular beauty of TODAY! If I have questions Lord let them first be filtered through this knowledge that sufficient for the day is the trouble therein.

Thank you for leading me into all Truth, by Your Holy Spirit, Your daughter, Julie

Love, Power and What!

Talk, talk, talk, that’s what we do. We are good at it, especially if we are preachers by calling. But if we ever shut up, we hear a sound. Be still for long enough and it is undeniable. The voice of the Holy Spirit. Ever ready and graciously persistent, reminding us of God’s love and of the grand purpose of our lives, which is to know Him and release the power of His resurrection into our world manifesting our ‘sonship’ and demonstrating His love.

On a recent reading of Paul’s admonition to Timothy to stir up the gift of God in him, he reminds this spiritual son of his; “For God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind” (one translation renders sound mind as self discipline). As I meditated on this idea I thought about you and me. We all have plans and goals and dreams. We want to do more for the Kingdom and lose weight and be a better spouse and read more or less or whatever, right. The great obstacle to the manifestation of these desired realities is ... lazy! We sometimes call it ‘self’ or ‘the flesh’. But call it what you will, basically we are lazy.

See I like to be fit, but Christmas has me not exactly in my prime. I went and bought a German Shepherd dog to be my running partner. I am equipped. I like running so I have desire. I definitely value my health, so I have motivation ... do I run? No. The dog is now 2 years old and has never run with me. This same attitude can leak into our good intentions and our God dreams.

You see, Love and Power as spectacular as they sound, are absolutely worthless with out self discipline. Do not spiritualize these and think that your faith won’t need some serious work to accomplish what God intends. The Church must find her will to be and do all that God has hardwired her to be. We must gather up our cloak like Elijah and run. The prophet Isaiah wrote it like this, “Arise, shine, your light has come ... the glory of the Lord is risen”.

God is not reluctant to release His promises. His power and His love reside in us, so overcoming first the fear and then the overwhelming inclination to remain comfortable, daily.

We have the ball, so some offensive moves are necessary to extend His rule. The gates of hell are buckling, and I am going for a run.

Your Kingdom come and Your will be done, on earth as it its in heaven,

Yours for Revival,

Julie Blase