Your Love
Because of Your love You changed us and brought us up out of the dust. You blessed us and showed us Your Way, The Way, the path is easy and straight. You washed us clean and set us free like the eagle soaring above. You are our Lord, our God and You love us with a love that is steadfast, You will not be moved. Mountains melt in Your presence, the seas swell at the sound of Your voice. You set a bow in the sky, painted by Your hand, and all creation rejoices.
Your love is the answer for change, Your love transforms me, holds me steadfast. And remembering what You sacrificed to prove Your love is more than I can comprehend with my finite mind. You are here with us always. Your Spirit You left us and He is gentle, and His voice is Your voice.
We have a choice. The day is new, all things are new. Let us go about our day rejoicing in Him. He will guide our every step in the direction He desires if we don't resist. And as far as resistance, it is not an easy thing to release. Let Him have it 'all'. As far as 'me', I step aside and say 'My Lord and My God, show me'.
I am in awe!!
'Because of Your Love' Paul Baloche
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YyMFL-CGzwg&feature=related
Sunday
June 29, 2008 Now
Now
Yesterday we should not go, tomorrow we cannot know.
From age to age, family to family there is only one place to be, today. It's not as easy as all that to put away the cares of the world, the past and the future. Stop and really see your spouse, your children, your family, stop and breathe, stop and watch the sun rise, the rain drops on leaves, stop and look, really look at the beauty of your life. There is no time like now, and this moment will be gone by the time you read to the end of this email. Time is fleeting and cannot be contained. It can't be put in a box and restricted. Clocks cannot be stopped (unfortunately, right?) Don't we sometimes wish we could start over, go back and do it again as a means of correction or erasing our lives in order to start over? All this isn't necessary. Being renewed and refreshed and receiving all that we need for life in this moment, receiving all that is available for abundant life. This is the way to the kingdom of heaven, life and a more abundant life. Not of things and worldly pleasures, but of this moment. Not holding onto beautiful memories of the past, or beautiful dreams for tomorrow. The beauty and pleasure of this life can only be experienced in this moment. It's not in the past in long geneologies or wonderful memories and it's not in the future when wishing for peace or extravagance. It is today and now.
Instead of omitting everything I just typed there is also this side of 'now'. To stay in this moment with our Lord, loving Him, adoring Him, listening to His voice. Not asking Him 'why's' for the past, or 'what's' for the future. He is renewing us when we stay with Him in this moment. It is in 'this' stillness with Him; don't let this moment go by; He is with you this moment; now.
Can we stop a clock? Can we stop time? Did I say 'now' enough? I'll say it again..The Kingdom of God is now. Be still, now, with Him and soar with Him, experience beauty all around you. Now, this very moment we have a choice to slow down, this moment is priceless.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2283/1951565227_514a730221.jpg?v=0
Video & Song
'Still' Hillsong
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DlUN-TEP7gw&feature=related
Yesterday we should not go, tomorrow we cannot know.
From age to age, family to family there is only one place to be, today. It's not as easy as all that to put away the cares of the world, the past and the future. Stop and really see your spouse, your children, your family, stop and breathe, stop and watch the sun rise, the rain drops on leaves, stop and look, really look at the beauty of your life. There is no time like now, and this moment will be gone by the time you read to the end of this email. Time is fleeting and cannot be contained. It can't be put in a box and restricted. Clocks cannot be stopped (unfortunately, right?) Don't we sometimes wish we could start over, go back and do it again as a means of correction or erasing our lives in order to start over? All this isn't necessary. Being renewed and refreshed and receiving all that we need for life in this moment, receiving all that is available for abundant life. This is the way to the kingdom of heaven, life and a more abundant life. Not of things and worldly pleasures, but of this moment. Not holding onto beautiful memories of the past, or beautiful dreams for tomorrow. The beauty and pleasure of this life can only be experienced in this moment. It's not in the past in long geneologies or wonderful memories and it's not in the future when wishing for peace or extravagance. It is today and now.
Instead of omitting everything I just typed there is also this side of 'now'. To stay in this moment with our Lord, loving Him, adoring Him, listening to His voice. Not asking Him 'why's' for the past, or 'what's' for the future. He is renewing us when we stay with Him in this moment. It is in 'this' stillness with Him; don't let this moment go by; He is with you this moment; now.
Can we stop a clock? Can we stop time? Did I say 'now' enough? I'll say it again..The Kingdom of God is now. Be still, now, with Him and soar with Him, experience beauty all around you. Now, this very moment we have a choice to slow down, this moment is priceless.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2283/1951565227_514a730221.jpg?v=0
Video & Song
'Still' Hillsong
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DlUN-TEP7gw&feature=related
Saturday
June 28, 2008 Transformed By Our Own Words
Transformed By Our Own Words
'I am here for you'. What a powerful thing to hear! What a powerful thing to say! Sometimes we hold back in saying these five transforming words because the perception is, it requires something. When we have free time available, or it's a joyous occasion it is easier. When there is a deeper need involved, hurting, desperation and pain, fewer are available because it does require something.
Who am I that I would say I can't help when time and time again I've been helped? Time and time again I've heard these words which turned my insides out and made my heart beat, 'I am here for you'. And speaking of love (and this is), when it is unconditional and requires nothing in return, Love doesn't need to move mountains or calm seas, but it does. Love Just 'Is'. How the masses scatter and few stand when love is required to allow this transforming return. Love is not laborious and if we really do love and listen and give time it isn't sacrifice either. When we give love, in return we are filled with love and this time we become the ones transformed. This is 'what measure you give you will receive'.
There is One Who loves always, One Who says without ceasing, "I am here for you, 'with you and in you'. He freely gave His life for us that we would come to experience His Love's transformation.
5 Powerful words, transforming words, for every one on the face of the earth, for every loving/loved soul.
1 Peter 5:2 Here's my concern: that you care for God's flock with all the diligence of a shepherd. Not because you have to, but because you want to please God. Not calculating what you can get out of it, but acting spontaneously.
And what does it require to say 'I am here for you'? Time only time, time.
For those who have said, 'I am here for you', who have transformed my life,
stood with me in my pain, I say to you 'I am here for you',
I am on a path with you and on this journey we are covered,
and these are called 'angel's wings'.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/383500513_2a44d4775d.jpg?v=0
Video & Song
'I Will Be Your Friend' Michael W. Smith
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cO5Gf_A00tI&feature=related
'I am here for you'. What a powerful thing to hear! What a powerful thing to say! Sometimes we hold back in saying these five transforming words because the perception is, it requires something. When we have free time available, or it's a joyous occasion it is easier. When there is a deeper need involved, hurting, desperation and pain, fewer are available because it does require something.
Who am I that I would say I can't help when time and time again I've been helped? Time and time again I've heard these words which turned my insides out and made my heart beat, 'I am here for you'. And speaking of love (and this is), when it is unconditional and requires nothing in return, Love doesn't need to move mountains or calm seas, but it does. Love Just 'Is'. How the masses scatter and few stand when love is required to allow this transforming return. Love is not laborious and if we really do love and listen and give time it isn't sacrifice either. When we give love, in return we are filled with love and this time we become the ones transformed. This is 'what measure you give you will receive'.
There is One Who loves always, One Who says without ceasing, "I am here for you, 'with you and in you'. He freely gave His life for us that we would come to experience His Love's transformation.
5 Powerful words, transforming words, for every one on the face of the earth, for every loving/loved soul.
1 Peter 5:2 Here's my concern: that you care for God's flock with all the diligence of a shepherd. Not because you have to, but because you want to please God. Not calculating what you can get out of it, but acting spontaneously.
And what does it require to say 'I am here for you'? Time only time, time.
For those who have said, 'I am here for you', who have transformed my life,
stood with me in my pain, I say to you 'I am here for you',
I am on a path with you and on this journey we are covered,
and these are called 'angel's wings'.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/383500513_2a44d4775d.jpg?v=0
Video & Song
'I Will Be Your Friend' Michael W. Smith
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cO5Gf_A00tI&feature=related
Friday
June 27, 2008 Push the 'Snooze' Button
Push the 'Snooze' Button
Well, it had to happen....
Doesn't it? You push in the alarm on the clock for a little more 'zzz's' and well, before you know it your running late. Or at least this time I have a little time to redeem myself. and you know I am just going to not worry about when I hit the keys on this computer wrong and misspell words or duplicate or leave them out. There has to be a lesson in this somewhere, there always is, right?
You've seen my style, I love analogy, so I will apply this to life in our day.
Isn't it like this, we put off the things which are put before us, and often (I'll admit it for myself, procrastinating) say 'oh, I'll do it tomorrow', or 'later', and usually it doesn't come or when it does and we didn't push the 'snooze' button a second time producing more panic results. Like running around with a chicken with its head cut off. Well here I am, here we are.
These days come and these days go. And in the midst of some more serious situations in life when we 'turn off our awareness' button the results leave us also with panic and and producing all kinds of emotions that usually don't show up until this occurs. And if I need to say anything this morning, it is so easy to blame in many situations of our own doing. It is important that we don't divert the attention to an innocent bystander, which usually is a family member or coworker or employee.
It will happen, it always does. and it's okay, we're human and need some down time and rest and some of us can't find this. It becomes a matter of catching a few zzzz's any chance we get. But when it does, it is important to keep the right perspective and not blame.
It's okay, it's a beautiful day and beautiful things are expected to happen for you and me...today, this moment...if we look and expect, even in the midst of hurry and panic.
Phillipians 4: 6 Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. 7 Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. ___ The Message
So to go along with my mood this morning this is what a mime would say...
http://sp1.yt-thm-a02.yimg.com/image/1/f12/568924099
It had to happen, also...
Video & Song
'Don't Worry Be Happy' by Bobby McFerrin/Holly Dolly
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fWtwKHeDzC4
Well, it had to happen....
Doesn't it? You push in the alarm on the clock for a little more 'zzz's' and well, before you know it your running late. Or at least this time I have a little time to redeem myself. and you know I am just going to not worry about when I hit the keys on this computer wrong and misspell words or duplicate or leave them out. There has to be a lesson in this somewhere, there always is, right?
You've seen my style, I love analogy, so I will apply this to life in our day.
Isn't it like this, we put off the things which are put before us, and often (I'll admit it for myself, procrastinating) say 'oh, I'll do it tomorrow', or 'later', and usually it doesn't come or when it does and we didn't push the 'snooze' button a second time producing more panic results. Like running around with a chicken with its head cut off. Well here I am, here we are.
These days come and these days go. And in the midst of some more serious situations in life when we 'turn off our awareness' button the results leave us also with panic and and producing all kinds of emotions that usually don't show up until this occurs. And if I need to say anything this morning, it is so easy to blame in many situations of our own doing. It is important that we don't divert the attention to an innocent bystander, which usually is a family member or coworker or employee.
It will happen, it always does. and it's okay, we're human and need some down time and rest and some of us can't find this. It becomes a matter of catching a few zzzz's any chance we get. But when it does, it is important to keep the right perspective and not blame.
It's okay, it's a beautiful day and beautiful things are expected to happen for you and me...today, this moment...if we look and expect, even in the midst of hurry and panic.
Phillipians 4: 6 Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. 7 Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. ___ The Message
So to go along with my mood this morning this is what a mime would say...
http://sp1.yt-thm-a02.yimg.com/image/1/f12/568924099
It had to happen, also...
Video & Song
'Don't Worry Be Happy' by Bobby McFerrin/Holly Dolly
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fWtwKHeDzC4
Thursday
June 26, 2008, Storms Come, Storms Go
Storms Come, Storms Go
We've had some pretty amazing storms pass through here the past few days. Blinding heavy rain, fierce winds, lightning and thunder. Before they come through you can see the glorious thunderheads in the distance billowing up into enormous pillars of lighted clouds.
When I looked at one yesterday as I drove down the freeway the first thing that came to me was the size seemed enormous from my perspective.
Throughout our lives we have storms which pass day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. And when you count them they are many. But just like the wind and the rains that come with the worst storms of our lives when they pass they leave freshness and cool breezes. And think about it, the air smells clean and fresh from the washing.
I have learned something this year that I was never taught and since I wasn't taught this how could I have known. That my storms are my life's ongoing crises, which are absolutely necessary for life. They are there to make us stronger. What a thought!! I don't have to kick and scream anymore! And I do think and did often say; 'When you are weak you are made strong', I knew this, but somehow, the knowing didn't get down in my 'knower'!
2 Corinthians 12:10 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Look at what Paul is saying. We are no different. We kick and scream and plead, 'please take away these storms, these hardships, these persecutions.' There is one word that jumps our at me here and it is BUT when He says to us 'His grace is sufficient', these times make us strong....so NOW I can boast about my pain and my weakness, in all of the above, because when we don't resist, kick and scream and just welcome them, welcome the storms, when the storms pass and the clean fresh air comes we can revel in the breathtaking moment until the next glorious thunderhead in the distance is producing another storm and this time we won't kick and scream, Lord please take it away, this time we will welcome it.
WOW, maybe if we see a mountain as a storm
we can understand how it can be moved!!
http://sp1.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/25/m8/4243759069
Great Song!...
Video & Song
'Drifting' Bebo Norman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tiM2JN4VazI
We've had some pretty amazing storms pass through here the past few days. Blinding heavy rain, fierce winds, lightning and thunder. Before they come through you can see the glorious thunderheads in the distance billowing up into enormous pillars of lighted clouds.
When I looked at one yesterday as I drove down the freeway the first thing that came to me was the size seemed enormous from my perspective.
Throughout our lives we have storms which pass day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. And when you count them they are many. But just like the wind and the rains that come with the worst storms of our lives when they pass they leave freshness and cool breezes. And think about it, the air smells clean and fresh from the washing.
I have learned something this year that I was never taught and since I wasn't taught this how could I have known. That my storms are my life's ongoing crises, which are absolutely necessary for life. They are there to make us stronger. What a thought!! I don't have to kick and scream anymore! And I do think and did often say; 'When you are weak you are made strong', I knew this, but somehow, the knowing didn't get down in my 'knower'!
2 Corinthians 12:10 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Look at what Paul is saying. We are no different. We kick and scream and plead, 'please take away these storms, these hardships, these persecutions.' There is one word that jumps our at me here and it is BUT when He says to us 'His grace is sufficient', these times make us strong....so NOW I can boast about my pain and my weakness, in all of the above, because when we don't resist, kick and scream and just welcome them, welcome the storms, when the storms pass and the clean fresh air comes we can revel in the breathtaking moment until the next glorious thunderhead in the distance is producing another storm and this time we won't kick and scream, Lord please take it away, this time we will welcome it.
WOW, maybe if we see a mountain as a storm
we can understand how it can be moved!!
http://sp1.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/25/m8/4243759069
Great Song!...
Video & Song
'Drifting' Bebo Norman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tiM2JN4VazI
Wednesday
June 25, 2008, True Community
True Community
"In and through community lies the salvation of the world. Nothing is more important. Yet it is virtually impossible to describe community meaningfully to someone who has never experienced it__and most of us have never had an experience of true community."..."True communication, like the charity it requires begins at home." __ The Different Drum, M.Scott Peck.
I pulled this out for this segment of my journey which is experiencing more of what community is all about. It isn't some scripted performance that is tried and failed, it is an ongoing exchange with human beings loving, being with, standing with, crying with, feeling and encouraging each other, allowing truth and feelings and emotions. It is offering support for every aspect of life needed.
The greatest form of community is within the home. All that is given to us is the greatest example of the external connections of taking 'the message', the light within us to the far corners of the earth.
Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Matthew 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
Go you into the world, take the 'good news', it is the news that will set the world free, it is the news that diseases are healed, captives are set free, the blind see, the lame walk, the weary find rest, the naked are clothed, the hungry are fed, the homeless have homes.
Where is community? Where is the heart connection within us, Jesus in us, compassion, unconditional love reaching out into community? It is not a difficult thing to look into the faces of everyone we pass and have compassion, to say you are my brother, you are my sister, because we are. There is no race, no gender, no age that can intimidate when we are set free by 'truth'.
When we get rid of our self-righteousness and are broken, on our faces and crying out from all that is within us. Until we recognize who He is and what He did for us we will not experience 'community'. There is a world, not just 'a world' but real human beings with hearts and souls, God's fearfully and wonderfully made people, who are searching, hurting, reaching out to be 'set free' to know 'truth' and regardless of whether we see the outward appearances of 'our own shame', being that they are 'us'.
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. M. Scott Peck
Nor knowest thou what argumentThy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one;Nothing is fair or good alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
"An open heart invites the beloved in. It invites the stranger in and you, even the criminal. An open heart is a sanctuary where all are welcome. It is a temple where the laws of Spirit are practiced and celebrated. It is the church you must enter again and again to find redemption"Paul Ferrini, 'I am the Door'
Day after day if you dare to look, your eyes are wide open, because our hearts are wide open.Community happens because we 'see' and 'feel' each other, and the greatest community is Jesus in all of us. We no longer talk the talk, but walk the walk...together. We love each other as we love ourselves. The church is not only in the home, it is outside of the home, church is not just in a building, it is outside of the building. Church is community.
Think outside the box.
Video & Song
"I Will Be Here' Steven Curtis Chapman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pEwzUZET-RQ&feature=related
"In and through community lies the salvation of the world. Nothing is more important. Yet it is virtually impossible to describe community meaningfully to someone who has never experienced it__and most of us have never had an experience of true community."..."True communication, like the charity it requires begins at home." __ The Different Drum, M.Scott Peck.
I pulled this out for this segment of my journey which is experiencing more of what community is all about. It isn't some scripted performance that is tried and failed, it is an ongoing exchange with human beings loving, being with, standing with, crying with, feeling and encouraging each other, allowing truth and feelings and emotions. It is offering support for every aspect of life needed.
The greatest form of community is within the home. All that is given to us is the greatest example of the external connections of taking 'the message', the light within us to the far corners of the earth.
Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Matthew 16:15 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
Go you into the world, take the 'good news', it is the news that will set the world free, it is the news that diseases are healed, captives are set free, the blind see, the lame walk, the weary find rest, the naked are clothed, the hungry are fed, the homeless have homes.
Where is community? Where is the heart connection within us, Jesus in us, compassion, unconditional love reaching out into community? It is not a difficult thing to look into the faces of everyone we pass and have compassion, to say you are my brother, you are my sister, because we are. There is no race, no gender, no age that can intimidate when we are set free by 'truth'.
When we get rid of our self-righteousness and are broken, on our faces and crying out from all that is within us. Until we recognize who He is and what He did for us we will not experience 'community'. There is a world, not just 'a world' but real human beings with hearts and souls, God's fearfully and wonderfully made people, who are searching, hurting, reaching out to be 'set free' to know 'truth' and regardless of whether we see the outward appearances of 'our own shame', being that they are 'us'.
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. M. Scott Peck
Nor knowest thou what argumentThy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one;Nothing is fair or good alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
"An open heart invites the beloved in. It invites the stranger in and you, even the criminal. An open heart is a sanctuary where all are welcome. It is a temple where the laws of Spirit are practiced and celebrated. It is the church you must enter again and again to find redemption"Paul Ferrini, 'I am the Door'
Day after day if you dare to look, your eyes are wide open, because our hearts are wide open.Community happens because we 'see' and 'feel' each other, and the greatest community is Jesus in all of us. We no longer talk the talk, but walk the walk...together. We love each other as we love ourselves. The church is not only in the home, it is outside of the home, church is not just in a building, it is outside of the building. Church is community.
Think outside the box.
Video & Song
"I Will Be Here' Steven Curtis Chapman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pEwzUZET-RQ&feature=related
Tuesday
June 24, 2008, Streams to Oceans
Streams to Oceans
When things go from a trickle to a gush, like a stream or tributary to a river into the oceans
I use to think the following scripture was abundance of wealth and 'material things'. Now amazingly the freedom that I feel comes from 'truth', it has set me free.
The freely given grace of God can't help but overflow like a river into a vast seas of His people waiting to know of His righteousness. God love a cheerful giver, from the heart, and what comes from the heart? It is overflowing compassion, love and grace,
We are poor in spirit and heart and in our crying out day and night we desire to know Him more He does not withhold. His richness is the pouring out of His Spirit to us out day and night is His expression of His love for His children and in turn we are generous with this powerful healing love and grace, overflowing without restriction.
His seed multiplies in us and becomes bread, it grows and becomes branches for rest, it becomes fruit, and in turn it becomes seed again. The unending circle of reaping and sowing. It is about the seed of His grace and love and nothing else. He loved us first.
And when the seed is made into bread for nourishment it is shared. It will feed the multitudes, because His seed is endless, His bread never ceases. Cast your bread on the water and it will come back to you. It will flow all over the earth and once what was a small a trickling stream becomes an explosion of a rapid flowing river will fill the vast sea of His children.
2 Corinthians 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever." 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. 13 Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
Seed and bread on the water.
Video & Song
'Find My Way To You' Bebo Norman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L066vzcl_Bs&feature=related
When things go from a trickle to a gush, like a stream or tributary to a river into the oceans
I use to think the following scripture was abundance of wealth and 'material things'. Now amazingly the freedom that I feel comes from 'truth', it has set me free.
The freely given grace of God can't help but overflow like a river into a vast seas of His people waiting to know of His righteousness. God love a cheerful giver, from the heart, and what comes from the heart? It is overflowing compassion, love and grace,
We are poor in spirit and heart and in our crying out day and night we desire to know Him more He does not withhold. His richness is the pouring out of His Spirit to us out day and night is His expression of His love for His children and in turn we are generous with this powerful healing love and grace, overflowing without restriction.
His seed multiplies in us and becomes bread, it grows and becomes branches for rest, it becomes fruit, and in turn it becomes seed again. The unending circle of reaping and sowing. It is about the seed of His grace and love and nothing else. He loved us first.
And when the seed is made into bread for nourishment it is shared. It will feed the multitudes, because His seed is endless, His bread never ceases. Cast your bread on the water and it will come back to you. It will flow all over the earth and once what was a small a trickling stream becomes an explosion of a rapid flowing river will fill the vast sea of His children.
2 Corinthians 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever." 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. 13 Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
Seed and bread on the water.
Video & Song
'Find My Way To You' Bebo Norman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L066vzcl_Bs&feature=related
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