Reflection in Action!

This morning I searched my heart before the Lord to see what He would have me write on this blog as it has been a long time since I've updated it. I felt impressed to read over some previous entries and my eyes and heart stopped on one that I wrote in February.

As I read it the Lord ministered all those words "BACK" to me. In His gentle way letting me know that this consecration is again taking place in my heart! We know that HE never stops the process until HE knows the work is done. I am humbled in knowing that HE is able, HE is faithful and HE will FINISH the work.

I thought this entry would bless you as it has me. Reflection is a GOOD thing when it accomplishes the "FRUIT of the Spirit" in and through you. I want to be 100% sold out to the things of the Lord. Why? Because I yearn for Him...because I know He is the giver of my life, the source of my Hope and the builder of my faith. He is LORD! Be blessed today as you read, reflect and apply!

Let's believe together for our PHILISTINES to be torn down in the Name of the Lord God who does ALL things well according to His purposes and plans!!!!


Tuesday, February 03, 2009

A consecrated heart....
Time and time again the Lord requires us to purify our hearts before Him. He knows that we can not do His will without a pure heart, at least not with power and fruition. We can do nothing apart from the Lord, so that would make sense to "have a pure heart before Him" our Maker!

The word of the Lord say's "Blessed are the PURE in heart, for they WILL see God." Matthew 5:6

Many times I have thought "OK Lord" I know my heart is deceitful, so, what I can't see...PURIFY! And, what follows are circumstances and situations that draw out the impurities in my heart, by the way I react to them!
Wow...How He allows this only for our good to "answer the desire of our hearts" and of course His desire for us. So, I adjust my heart according to His word. This is a process. I believe that is why we "daily pick up our cross" because daily there is that consecration going on...from Glory to Glory! Thank God He does not leave us or forsake us, that He performs His word IN us to accomplish what it is set out to do! He is faithful. He is coming back for a PURE spotless bride and He does not take that lightly, neither should we!

When our hearts are purified by the Lord through confession and spending time with Him we are then able to be USED of Him to bring down strongholds of many kinds. We are used to come against armies of Satan in ways we never thought possible!
Take David for an example....He knew deep in his heart he could bring down the Giant Philistine but he knew it was only because of WHO lived in his heart! Evidentually David had spent many days in the Lord's presence "getting his heart right" and drawing on courage and strength through his own trials as a shepherd boy! He heard the Lord's voice and knew the authority he could walk in! When the day came, David's heart was prepared and ready....consecrated, purified, and made strong IN THE LORD to fight.
His words of declaration were heard...."You come against me with sword and javelin, BUT I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. THIS DAY the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head"!!!! I Samuel 17:45-46

David, a man of consecrated heart, placed his confidence in the living Lord to deliver. On that day he displayed an act of Proclamation in the spiritual sense before anything physical came about....then he ACTED on it with the power of the Lord, giving the Lord all credit and glory in bringing the Philistine stronghold down!

I meditated on this much today, realizing that if we fight Satan before our hearts have been purified before the Lord we are only setting ourselves up to become a wounded soldier.
But, if we confess our sins, let HIM purify our hearts, line up our will with the Lords commandments (precept upon precept), proclaim and use His weapon (the Word) THEN, He will deliver any Philistine that we fight today into our hands and He will use us to be the AX in taking it down and uprooting it!

I truly believe this because I have seen Him move in this capacity many times in my own life!

If you are facing a battle, a Giant Philistine in your life....ask the Lord to shine light on any sin in your heart (it may be bitterness, an unforgiving heart) be open, then simply repent and let Him restore your heart. I promise...authority will begin to RISE up in you BY the Spirit of the Lord to take down the Philistine in the spirit first, by prayer and intercession, waiting on Him...then, He alone will deliver it into your hands for you to apply the AX!
It is so powerful and yet so humbling to know He chooses to use us in this way!

Be encouraged child of the LIVING Lord...He will hand over the Philistine to you to be cut off! Freedom is at hand...be strong!

Sonja