Who bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord who has heard our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes, indeed:

Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. 

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says:

I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.

But Isaiah is very bold and says:

I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.

But to Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people, ( Romans 10:15-21).

God ways do not change, we are to change to align to His ways….. So if the plan of God is to bring to jealousy to the nation of Israel…. Do you not think that He is still bringing “some” to jealousy to maybe move us to seek the Lord much harder…. so to speak- take Him off of our comfort shelf? Maybe allow God out of the nice pretty box we put Him in? ( As though He would fit !).

He is a great God and has wonderous things for us and is still doing them…. But we have to have eyes to see them and heart that is searching after Him. What is the Lord showing you about His great plan that includes you?  Seek Him, love Him and He will reveal all!

There is great life offered to us by the finished work of the cross….. but the Holy Spirit is very faithful to put the cross in our daily path so we die daily so that there is room for the resurrected power of the Spirit to live through us…..

We hear from our Lord daily, He has not stopped speaking to His children….. If we are not hearing it is because we quit listening. There are too many voices louder in our hearts that have greater power over us than the Lord!

But then, look at verse 20 in chapter 10 of Romans: I was found by those who did not seek Me;  I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.

So the Lord has plans for who He wants to show Himself too…. We are not God, we cannot make a formula to follow to seek Him…. It is about the heart that He changes and moves in us towards Him…. But what we can do is be diligent in showing the Lord we mean business about learning about Him…. as we put Him first and ask to enlarge our heart to follow His commands as written in Psalm 119:32.

We need His Help, which He sent in the Spirit of God….. Now when I became committed to the Lord. I expected to hear His voice to guide me….. I did not want to listen to my own anymore because it led me to disaster and death.

So by faith, I heard and obeyed His sweet gentle voice. He became My ALL. Each day, I listened and watched for Him…. as I looked for food and water for my body. His voice settled this longing in my heart and soul. There is nothing better than to be in communion and fellowship with His Spirit which is our Helper and Comforter and Guide in this dark night of walking by faith in a corrupt world.

Why do you think Jesus said to us in Mark 10:15, Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.

Man says God only speaks through His word now….. Jesus Christ, the Son of God says, My sheep hear My voice……Man says their is no need anymore for the gifts of the Spirit….. God’s apostle Paul says— You must walk in the Spirit and be led by the Spirit.

Man says there are no more prophets or prophecy…. Paul, the Apostle, says do not despise the Spirit and do not despise prophecies.

Why is there such a contradiction between the preaching in the building of churches and what is written by the inspiration of men by God, who are building up the body of Christ. His church is a living breathing organism. This is the new creation in Christ, the body of Christ.

If we are the body of Christ, should we not live by the anointing of Christ in us, which is the Holy Spirit living within and on us? Jesus Christ gave us His Spirit to live by in Him as a command….. This was not left as an option from the Lord…. If there is question about that, then I suggest for you to read the Gospel of John 14-17.

Our ignorance of the written word limits our walk with the Lord….. Jesus Christ started His ministry on earth after He was anointed by the Spirit of God…..  We have been given the Holy Spirit to teach and guide us.   Before we trust in what man says…. we need to be sure the word lines up with the Word of God and know and hear that the man or woman was approved by God. How do we know that man was approved by God?

One way is to tell if the fire of God in you is stirred up to believe the unbelievable and live in the inconceivable life that is available to us in God.  That our faith grows larger in God and sees a greater vision of His love and power….We see the Father’s heart and know we can conquer all obstacles in the strength and power of Jesus Christ’s name.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and then was equipped to do the Father’s will when He was baptized with the Spirit of God…..We also need both the Word and baptism of the fire of the Spirit of God to live the Father’s will and walk humbly in the Spirit of God’s direction….in faith, because His direction is the Light though we see only darkness of night in the natural’s eye.

As we listen to the Lord and not man, the limits of the life that is available to us in Christ is limitless….. Man puts limits, but God says in Ephesians 3:20, Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Choose this day, who are you going to believe? Who died for you? Who provided the Comforter and Helper and Guide?

Get in the word of God and see the benefits that you may be missing, especially the hearing of His voice….. because if you are His sheep, you hear His voice. God said it, I believe it and I live it…. What about you?

Grow in God’s grace and knowledge of the Lord—— Woe to the ones who are speaking God does not want to speak and guide His children today by His Spirit.

God’s love never fails…… Let us continue to climb the heights of His majesty of love and the depths of His sufferings of being misunderstood by His own.

God’s love never fails….. Who do You say that I AM? He is asking today—– Hear His cry of His heart of love toward you? Do not fear, just believe!

Selah

And every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another, ( Mark 9: 49-50).

In prayer one day, I saw the Lord’s hand shaking a container full of salt. The salt was popping out all over the place while the little white container was upright in the Lord’s hand. The container was not turned upside down as He was shaking it.

I asked, why am I seeing this and He said, My shaking of vessels is good. The vessel and I see what comes out as I shake. 

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

Let you light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify you Father in heaven, ( Matthew 5:13-17).

Salt is a purifying agent. We have been born again with the Incorruptible Seed. The Lord’s Spirit is the salt that comes out of us when we are shaken…… or not…… the fleshly spirit of man can come out of us too, when we are shaken by the Lord’s hand.

So when I saw the Lord’s shaking a salt shaker and white grains of salt  coming out and spreading all over the earth. I have to say that is good and it is God’s work in us and through us to the world. But we have to check to see that our flavor and fragrance is of the Lord. As we maintain ourselves in the word and in prayer of His presence, we keep our focus on the Lord. This keeps our season or fragrance of Christ. We then have not been corrupted or spotted by the world’s spirit, we will remain seasoned with the flavor of Christ.

In His presence is the seasoning to keep the fire of the altar burning within. May the world then see and know God is here today in our midst. God is watching and God is wanting to talk to them…. then may they turn to Him today as it is the day of salvation.

So do not fret when the shaking starts…..because: whose voice then shook the earth; but now has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven. Now this, yet once more, indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire, ( Hebrews 12:26-29).

If we have been faithful in walking in and with the Spirit, when we are shaken the seasoned salt of the Lord’s presence will come popping out of us spreading His knowledge for His glory.

This is a good thing! This is one of our purposes, beloved. The spreading of the Incorruptible Seed, Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God…..as Savior of the world, their Savior.

If we are shaken and some things pop out that are not of Him, well, thank God for His mercy. He will give us the grace and fire of His Spirit to keep going and eradicate the carnal parts that have been crucified at the cross in Christ. In other words, the Holy Spirit will cut at the root that which is taking up space which is owed only to Christ. He expects our obedience in the death of ourselves at the cross….. as things pop out, He is faithful to purify us for the fullness of measure of Christ…..but He also expects our agreement and humility in this process. This is good.

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not, as so many peddling the word of God; but we speak in the sight of God in Christ,      ( 2 Corinthians 2;14-17).

I know when I shake the salt shaker to season my food, I expect to taste the salt! If I don’t, something is wrong and I throw the salt out….. Does not the Lord do the same thing?

Maybe this helps explain the words of Jesus Christ in John 15;2-8, Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vines, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

I AM the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

As we abide in the Lord, our Source is Him. Our strength is His and we are strong as we abide in Him…..Christ in God will continue to become all and our all. Then our heavenly Source is as salt or fire in our lives and pours out from our lives…. He is incorruptible. So as we take our new birth from heaven and our only Source that we live by is God’s power. We do not go to rely on the world’s wisdom or ways and take strength from other sources, including ourselves. We shall remain seasoned for such a time as this, His light through us will not be diminished by corruption.

He answered and said to them: He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels,and they will gather out of His kingdom things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

I much rather be pruned and corrected by the Holy Spirit now then let any corruption reside in me that I refuse to die to and leave behind. I pray that His love always draws us so close, we would rather suffer the pruning or chastisement now, then lose our seasoning of the hand of the Lord on our lives. May our drawing towards the Lord in His righteousness be our choice always. Lord, we need more grace and to live and abide in as Your great mercy surrounds us in Christ Jesus.

We never get upset when our mechanic says there is a leak in our brake line, do we? Well, I hope not. We are appreciative that they found it today! We gladly pay them what is the value to fix the car correctly! Why? Because our lives and those we love are at stake in a faulty brake line in our car……….Hello……….!

When our Holy Spirit advises that there is a leak that is allowing the incorruptible resurrected life to run out and our life in Christ is at stake….. Should we not be appreciative also of the great awakening that He gives us to correct our lives before it is too late……Is it not more valuable as our eternal future is at stake?

Lord, may we have eyes to see and hears to hear and a heart to receive what bread You are giving us today!

Father God,

May You bestow upon us greater vision of the value of Your grace and mercy we have in Your Son, Christ Jesus. May we seek Your Heavenly Guidance as You shake us to see what comes out, may it be pleasing in Your sight…… Help us be faithful and be Your salt in this earth in Christ Jesus.

We know the Acts was the book written of the new dispensation of God by the actions of the Holy Spirit through those that believed in Jesus Christ…. Well, let it be said of us, as the followers of Christ in Acts 17;6, But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.

As Paul states and we learn and walk in a greater measure daily from strength to strength: I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me,                                      ( Galatians 2:20).

Check list for realizing your gift from our Heavenly Father for 2015….. Lest we forget to press in:
Are you walking daily as a recipient of your gift from the Lord for 2015? Do you realize the increase of God’s gift in you?

When the shaking occurs, now who do you say I AM ?

Are you enjoying the shaking as well as the peace as the shaking is going on simultaneously?

That is a God way! You are blessed, beloved. Be enveloped in His great love!

He is still holding you in the palm of His hand, even as the shaking occurs….

because He never lets go. Trust Him and see His infinite love that never fails for you!

I am anxious and anticipating as the new creation is continuously being revealed that the Lord has planned for His beloved!

Selah!

Clearly, you are a epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on the tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we think the sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life, ( 2 Corinthians 3:3-6).

For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

So then death is working in us, but life in you. And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke, we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God, (2 Corinthians 4:6-15).

We all know the scripture of the beloved John the Baptist spoke of which songs and prayers have been declared many many times….. Lord, You must increase and I must decrease…. right? The above scriptures show how that is manifested in our lives…. the glory of God is shown through our lives as the reflection of the Lord’s image is displayed. However, to have that happen, our carnal life and attitudes have to be declared dead at the cross and removed….. as wind of the Spirit is blowing through us so Christ may increase.

How does that happen? By many afflictions, the glory of God increases because the deliverance of the hand of the Lord moves in our happenstances. As Paul states the truth revealed in the mystery of Christ in 2 Corinthians 2:9, Yes, we had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us.

This godly principle is true in all our happenstances that the Lord allows for our faith to grow in His ability to pull us through all darkness and death and allow the power of His resurrection to rest in and upon our lives….. This is living the mystery of godliness….

But woe, it is not for the strong of heart or self confident, or independent….. It is for the weak in spirit, the down trodden, the oppressed, the incapable, the least of the best and the most despised…. if that is you, come and be taught of the Lord and live in the power of His might….. for we already know our power and might is without any merit…. We already know we are failures in need of the love and strength of our Savior. We gladly lay down our lives for His work in us as His new creation.

Paul confirms how the Lord can use the nobody’s of the world to be His warriors as stated in 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.

But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us the wisdom from God- and righteousness and sanctification and redemption- that, as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

The last verse is the reason why all this struggle is pursued hotly by the Spirit of God….. that no flesh may glory in His presence….. in fact, in His presence, seeking His face, we disappear as we see Him…. after all, He is God…. and He is awesome, but He is good.

So as we continue to seek the Lord in ways that we never have allowed to venture…

Did you ask the Lord a question as what you desired from Him for 2015?

Did He respond?

Did you receive the answer by faith?

Did you start living the response by faith?

Did you make mention of the new revealed knowledge of Jesus Christ because of this response in thanksgiving?

If not, start and if you have, see what He has in store for you this coming week….

After all is said and done, keep watching…… for He looks for those that He can show Himself strong on their behalf….. but we also have to keep watching and waiting for His appearing…..As He does, let us tell Him, we want to know and live in the knowledge of His presence 24/7…..

So….. therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and work of faith with power, that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ( 2 Thessalonians 1;11-12).

We are called by a great God to be His vessels…… What kind of vessels are up to us….As we grow in the knowledge of the Lord and the power of His might, may we also grow in our love…. When we grow in our love towards Him, the fear of the Lord is also growing so that we might not take lightly the work of the Holy Spirit.

So as Paul also states in Romans 11:22, Therefore consider the goodness and the severity of God; on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

Our God is an awesome God….. He is worthy of all honor and glory from His children.

So, let us rejoice in the mercy of our great God who has called us to be His living epistle of His great love and grace.

Look for Him as He is looking for you looking for Him!!!!

Selah !

The Lord asks us this question today. May our knowledge and growth in the Lord in 2015 be strongly established. May our experience of allowing the Lord “to be the Lord” be greater on 12/31/15 than today. However, I have to caution you, the ride will be challenging in our faith…… and why not…. if we are bowing to our awesome God. Faith is an action that needs to be worked like muscles….. So let us grow in faith mightily in 2015 as He reveals Himself.

Some say they know the Lord. But the most important question is…. does the Lord know you? Is He involved in our everyday life or are our days so tightly booked with our own agenda, that there is no room left for Him…. We tend to be very controlling in our lives in order  we do not have to handle the unknown of the next minute, hour, day or week or year. In so doing, we are sadly forsaking the life in the Spirit learning Christ as Lord.

If we are that controlling of our lives, then we miss out on the wonderful experience of the revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives, acting as Lord and King. We miss out as His great love  pulls us higher in His ways and plans. He puts us in tight spots so that our faith moves His hand. Then we know Him in a different Light. We then grow in the righteousness of the Lord and not our own….. May we allow ourselves to see there is nothing about us that is good but His neverending love for us. We can do nothing good without Him.

Instead of making resolutions of the coming year, I double dog dare you to answer the question of the Lord to yourself. Every tight spot or circumstance we are going to be in the coming year, instead of being upset about it, let us look for the place that He allowed so that He may show Himself strong in our weakness.

Let us look for the unveiling of a new revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in our daily stuff! Get out of the boat and let Him teach us to walk on the water- new heights, new depths, new widths, new lengths of His love surrounding us and catching us and lifting us…. in the Father’s arms.

Today, as He is looking to enter your life to bring you into His realm in greater measure, He is asking…..

WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?

What is your answer and I pray that the lists are as many and neverending as eternity.

Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might.

May the prayer of Paul be our way of life in Christ as he said in Phillipians 3:8-12, Yet, indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God through faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

But to get to the place, where we can live with the heart position of Paul’s towards the Lord, we have to also live this prayer also….2 Corinthians 12:9-10, And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

As the Holy Spirit enters our churches and homes, may He find us reflecting the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts and living the adventurous life of His. Jesus Christ alone is worthy of all our bragging rights!

I have asked so many souls if they know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. Sadly, their answers are that they go to such-such a church….. Their savior is the church they go to and are involved with, they do not know the Lord…..What is the reflection in their answer?

God help us in America, but what if one day, it is forbidden to go to any assembly forming to worship the One True God and His Son…. What will happen if our dependency is on the gathering instead of the One who we are gathered to center on?………. Who Do You Say That I AM ?

That question needs to be answered by each one of us. So when the Lord’s Day is here, He can say, I know you with His loving smile.  Hey, when the storms come, then we will be fully equipped to stand strong in the power of His might because we know He will carry us through…… We already have the Testimony of Christ within us….. Be sure of this, the storms are coming!

Let 2015 be dramatically different than all other years…… Filled with His Divine Presence in the Resurrected power of His life abundantly acting in our lives and through our lives.

May this year be the year that has never been before as we reveal the Lord Jesus Christ as our reflection in greater measure just as the moon reflects the sun….

May we shine HIM…. as He knows who we say HE IS…… our Great I AM.

Selah!

I might suggest that most of this coming year resolutions will be forgotten by the end of 2015 or we just start them again on 1/1/2016…… If you think I am mistaken, do you remember what your new year resolutions were made for 2014? Hmmmm……My question is why do we need to make adjustments at the end of a year? Yet, we even do it over and over again, thinking that we might get different results but the same results occur, right? The reason is we are using the same methods- relying on our own strength.

If the day is the day of the Lord’s, are we not to live to seize the day? The discipline we lacked last year, will be the same this year and the next unless we terrorize ourselves into the truth of God…..without Him we can not do anything.

Yes, the Lord is awesomely terrible and terribly awesome…. That is our God. However, He is mighty and we need His might to overcome anything in our human realm. He is strong and we need His strength to overcome anything in human nature. He is wonderful, but He wants our all, so what is holding us back? So until we lay our all down and let Him who is All, be our all…. we will continually fail. In our weakness His power is made perfect. His word will always establish His word! In the flesh there is no good thing, we can do no good thing without Christ. If we do any good thing, it is because of Christ, not us…..nor should we give glory to any but God.

May I make a suggestion to change the tradition of failure over the past New Year’s Day….. Ask the Lord, what He wants for this day…. because He only gives us the day we live…..

Ask Him, then spend the New Day with Him in quietness. Let Him be God in directing our day and our days to come…. for remember He knows the end from the beginning because He is the Alpha and Omega….

Let us ask Him for His guidance for discipline, for giving, for forgiving, forgetting the past, for being made into His new creation and resting in Him…

Offer ourselves as a living sacrifice this day and let Him show Himself strong through you and me and become victorious in Him…and conquer through His power. His strength to realize and know our helplessness so He can be our Help. So then we can have this year be His best through us.

Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings to the Lord at Gibeon in 1 Kings 3:4-6, Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

At Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask! What shall I give you?

We have our lives to give now as a living sacrifice, an acceptable offering. When we seriously meet the Lord with “true grit” intent, He meets us with the same intent. As written in numerous places as well as 2 Samuel 22:26-28 and Psalm 18, With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; with a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless; with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd. You will save the humble people; but Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down.

Solomon requested in verse 9, Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge the Lord’s people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours? The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him, because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.

Now here, God spoke with a condition—— So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statues and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days, ( 1 Kings 3:3-14).

We have all been called as our God’s priests and kings. So we all also have the same responsibility and honor to offer ourselves to the Lord…. We all know what is in our lives that needs to be eradicated. But to receive the heavenly gifts is in the hand of the Giver….. He gives as we ask with a pure heart of faith in His love…. Not for our gain but for Him, then for others. When we lose ourselves we gain all, because we gain Christ.

So in diligence, let us meet the Lord everyday, for everyday we live is a gift. In receiving life, let us offer ourselves to Him and wait. What will we ask for if He awakens us in a dream one night and says- what is your desire, my child?

What will be our answer…. Do we want to grow bigger or greater? Why? Whose eyes are we trying to please?

May everyday of 2015 be of divine grace and His Resurrected Life in His fullness upon and in us.

Or we can stick to your resolutions and be in the same state on 1/1/2016.

Choose Life or death this day. If we choose today and then again tomorrow, to draw near Him, it is written He will draw near to us….. In the Lord and in His day, He will grow us into what He has designed for each one of us in His plan….. He will prune this and burn this and let more light shine on this and that in our hearts and the fruit of the Lord will grow in and off our lives… for Him and His glory…. We will show ourselves in Him as we grow from glory to glory…. What a year in the Lord to live when we live for the Lord in each day we are given….. Let us look boldly for the adventure He has planned each day, before we know it all things are made new! Happy Lord’s Day, each and every day!

Selah!