things God has taught me this week

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"God specializes in fresh starts" - (greg matte)

I am so thankful for the sweet new mercies with the Lover of our Soul. 

The Master Creator. The One who IS. New beginnings that erase

the regrets of yesterday. Praise you, Lord.

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If we are seeking God with all of our heart, we will find Him.

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Sin doesn't mix with the Holy. Mixing the Holy 

with the profane will only lead to destruction.

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If we are walking in God's will, 

we WILL experience God's power.

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God desires for us to be sanctified!

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Our longing should be for true Holiness and Righteousness. 

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We grow in relationship with God one step

of obedience at a time.

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"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure,

having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are His...."

(2 Timothy 2:19)

God knows His children. He knows His own. Praise God that when we belong to Him, He is our Abba Father. Our daddy. And He knows us by name. We are His forever....

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I never want to be outside of the will of God. No matter where it takes me, no matter what it calls me to do, I desire to be right in the middle of where my Lord has ordained me to be. I do not want to be where my flesh yearns to be and be out of the protective hedge of my God.  My love for my Savior has got to take first priority in my life. I want to please Him above all else. I desire to be totally surrendered. Totally empty of myself. Totally committed to YHWH. In His will. Surrounded by His glory and His presence. Focused on Him. Passionate and purposed about my pursuit of my God and King.  

Thank you, my heavenly Father, for life. Thank you for loving me and giving me the amazing gift of mercy and grace. Thank you for the salvation of my soul. You are everything to me. You are the reason I live. You are my One true desire. I love you with all the I am and I want to live my life according to your will and I want to bring honor to you in all that I do and say.

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do i know, live and abide?

May the Words of the LORD abide in my heart. Take

up residence in my soul....

If you glanced through my bible,  you would find many, many scriptures highlight with yellow. There are so many verses that just so loudly speak to my heart and I want to make them stand out.  As I read, I love it when certain passages just leap off the page into my heart. There are so many Words of God that are so vital to my Christian walk and I want them very visible on the page.

As I was having my quiet time with the Lord, I started thinking about all the scriptures I have marked and how they each mean something so specific in my walk. And wouldn't you know it... the Lord started speaking deep into my spirit.

"Beth, it's not enough that you just underline or highlight these verses. It's about KNOWING them and LIVING them. It's about them ABIDING in your very soul and heart."

And as He spoke, I realized that even though the Words of God on the written page are awesome and powerful, they don't do anything for me until I transfer them from the page to my heart. The very depths of my heart. I have to live them.

I need to make sure that when God gives me a Word, I am INHALING the very substance of it. Hiding it DEEP within my hearts recesses to become LIFE to me.

I want His voice, through the Holy Word, to take up permanent residence in my very being! I desire for the God-breathed Holy scriptures to be my dwelling place!

If I have nothing else... I have Him and His Word. If all else around me fails, I have His voice recorded in my heart.

I want to KNOW Him more. I want to soar higher and reach farther for the much more of what He has to offer. He showed me that He has so much more for me to experience and obtain. I just have to ask and then receive it!

He desires for us to have a spirit-filled, richly abundant and effective life. He desires for us to be women after His heart.

I want Him to just consume me. I so desire for a deeper relationship. More intimate than ever before. I want to ascend into a new atmosphere of experiencing Him. I want to leap into the glorious heights of walking daily in His Word and in His will.

Oh, sovereign and precious Lord. Create such a hungry and desperate spirit in me that I have an insatiable appetite for You and Your Word. That I just devour the scriptures and then hide them deep. May I apply them to my heart and life and then live accordingly. May I only hunger after you and be a willing vessel and may I always be an instrument for your glory.

"I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart"

(Psalm 40:8)

And He met me there...

Early He awakens me,

stirring my soul.

My flesh resists and sleep tries to overpower.

He persists. My heart begins to stir.

Lord? Is that you?

Do you want me to pray?

I begin to utter quiet praise and petition.

I hear His voice -

No child. Arise and seek Me.

Search for Me,

Long for Me,

Meet with Me.

I will satisfy that thirst within you.

I will quench that dryness that surrounds you.

Seek me in the quiet.

Search for me in the silence.

Let Me be your hearts longing.

Let Me be your expectation.

His Word speaks to me.

His Word confirms.

I want  a heart to know Him.

I want to be His.

The deep recesses of my spirit cry out for more.

More power.

More knowledge.

More Jesus.

More of Him.

He is mine and I am His.

Overwhelm me, Lord. Astound me. Show me.

Silently, I wait. Trusting, loving, expecting.

Communing.

Learning back against Him.

Letting Him wrap His arms around me.

Feeling His warmth course through my body.

Enjoying sweet fellowship with My Savior.

Early He awakened me.

Stirring my soul.

And He met with me there.