You're Something Special

This devotional was so good I had to post it! By Max Lucado:

Nothing.....in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God. Romans 8:39.

We want to know how long God's love will endure...Not just on Easter Sunday when our shoes are shined and our hair is fixed...Not when I'm peppy and positive, and ready to tackle world hunger. Not then. I know how he feels about me then. Even I like me then.
I want to know how he feels about me when I snap at anything that moves, when my thoughts are gutter-level, when my tongue is sharp enough to slice a rock. How does he feel about me then?...

Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us?

God answered our question before we asked it. So we'd see his answer, he lit the sky with a star. So we'd hear it, he filled the night with a choir; and so we'd believe it, he did what no man had ever dreamed. He became flesh and dwelt among us.

He placed his hand on the shoulder of humanity and said, "You're something special."

..realized the need?

Has anyone else noticed the need for healing? Even in my own life, circumstances I'm facing now are in deep need of healing from Jesus Christ, our Lord. He's the healer, I've seen it and experienced it. And it is all throughout the world, people dying and in captivity, oppression, fear, sin, and worry. We all need healing of some kind, I know that if we keep crying out to the LORD, He will heal us in His own way, His will.

please pray for a Spirit and time of healing. Jesus came to do so.

What I've realized.

Remember all that pressure, that I've talked about? And the difference between God's grace and worrying about rules and regulations, about what I put in my mouth rather than what comes out of my heart? When I fast and when I pray or when I have to be a certain state or when I ask for forgiveness and ask Him over and over as if I'm already wanting to earn something that He's freely given me? Choose myself and sin? When there's peace and knowing God is the judge and He's the One who makes standards to live by rather than making standards that are impossible on myself and others? To be on the law, in the law so much rather than keeping my mind on the Spirit, and breathing? Romans 6: 14, "For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace."

And the law is good, because it shows me my sin (Romans 7) and the law is summed up by "You shall love the LORD your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, with all of your mind and with all of your strength, love your neighbor as yourself." ISN'T IT ABOUT LOVE RATHER THAN A RELIGION THAT I SEEMINGLY HAVE ATTAINED WHEN I AM IN REALITY PASSIONATE FOR JESUS AND SEEING PEOPLE FREE? That's the real me. Can't you see I want to be free.......from my LEGALISTIC CHRISTIANITY, MY LEGALISM! It messes me up, causes hurt for others, makes my life rigid, and makes pressure on myself!

Oh His love is bigger, He is bigger, He's my helper, He's my passion in my heart, I know I have to seek Him more, yes, but I know G-R-A-C-E has paid my legalism and sin, and doesn't He continue to sit beside us faithfully pursuing me? I also need to APPLY the Word even more, and to grow up, but God is here to help me. I apologize for any legalistic pressure I have put on you.

Jesus, loves, you.

The Spirit :D

Hey,
Ok, so I just am learning more about the Spirit, and He's cool.

God's awesome, He's amazing! If i live by the Spirit, and keep my mind on Him, I will have "life and peace." Romans 8. Wow. He's so cool I can't wrap my mind around Him, which makes Him giggle I wonder sometimes when I get excited or freak because He's so cool and I can't comprehend it in my human mind.

Pray for Chrysalis girls, this weekend is full of God's love. "In Your presence O God, there is fullness of joy, at Your right hand O God, there are pleasures evermore." (I think that's a verse, but the lyric how IHOP had that verse.)

"Sin can't hold me down, death itself can't keep me in the ground, death where is your sting, grave where is your victory? He's alive, He's alive, He's ALIVE! HE HAS RISEN! There is no power in Heaven or hell that can keep me from the love of the Father on the throne."

IHOP.org.

Jesus loves you!

"There is now therefore no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus." Romans 8:1.

Jesus loves me

He really does. I cannot imagine and comprehend everything about HIM!

I AM NOT CONDEMNED! EVERRRR!!!!! WOW DOESN'T THAT BLOW YOUR MIND?

Well I went to IHOP onething, based on Psalm 27:4. This is a 24/7 prayer and worship base in Kansas City. And at first I didn't want to go.

I ended up going, and the first few things we did was register, and register for prophecy. Then we wrote down what we wanted God to do for us on this trip, and write it down. I knew already that I wanted to be healed. Healed from my sin, self-hatred, and self-condemnation, and the enemy's oppression.

What blows me is that after all He did for me, I choose to worry and get pressure on myself, because I didn't choose right to begin with. I am not condemned. Romans 8:1. But I'm forgiven.

Ok, so God basically healed me from what I needed, the most, self hurt. And He started on day 1, and I recieved a Word from God and everything on the first day, through a brother in Christ of mine, and he said, "I have a Word for you, "You're beautiful." Meaning God was saying that to me. Sure enough I needed it. From then on He started healing me in HIs own way. And it was wonderful. I have to remember to just BE! I don't have to do anything, to be in His presence, but BE! Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, how He loves me. So much!