Guess who I spent the morning with...

I was not 'saved again' this morning, but I was reminded again of Who saved me, why I was saved, how I was saved and what I should be doing now that I am saved...so this prayer may have started in 1992 but today it is fresh in my heart...today the word is OBEDIENCE and this is my prayer this morning...I pray also that you, my family and friends will know where I am and remind me if I seem to be growing weary in well doing...I thank GOD for the Church and for those of you whom I pray will soon belong to the Body of JESUS CHRIST and become my brothers and sisters in CHRIST....I pray each of you KNOW and UNDERSTAND...

Lord, my Savior, YOU! brought me out of slavery to my former desires and way of life, because YOU bought me, and at such a high price, which YOU so willingly paid that price with YOUR Blood, YOUR Life, so then LORD JESUS, I now belong to YOU! and the FATHER, GOD, whom YOU are one with. Now YOU are my King, and I choose to be a slave again, but this time YOUR slave, a slave to righteousness, to holiness, to godliness, which is only possible with YOU, YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, living in me, teaching me to obey everything the Master, my GOD, says. So then...

I have to lay down my desires, NOT expect YOU to grant me my desires, but I must lay all of them down so I am empty of myself, then YOU will give me new desires, then the desires of my heart will change and I will receive new desires from YOU. I am to be a new creation once I am YOURS, old things have passed away, all things become new, this includes my desires.

But, LORD, I cannot, on my own, be so wise as to know YOUR voice. I will easily mistake my desires, my feelings, my fleshly lusts, my natural bent, the world's wisdom, or the enemy's voice, etc. I could so easily mistake so many of these for YOUR voice LORD, so I must make my first act of Obedience to read, study, and know YOUR HOLY WORD, the 66 Books of THE BIBLE. YOUR WORDS that YOU had written down (which true men of GOD gave their lives to keep as YOU meant), so I could know whether or not I'm hearing YOUR VOICE over all those others. So, Today, and then every day after, I must pray while opening YOUR WORD, I pray to understand YOUR WORDS as YOU intended Them to be understood, NOT open to any man's interpretation, but only to be interpreted by YOU HOLY SPIRIT using the rest of THE WORD, adding nothing, taking nothing away to the 66 Books of the Holy Bible.

I must read YOUR WORD as if It's my food and my water AND my air, all the while praying for YOU and YOU alone to interpret IT through YOUR HOLY SPIRIT and through the few true men of GOD who have given their lives fully to YOU and YOUR WORD to bring glory to YOU and not themselves.

Today, this is where I begin, and tomorrow I will wake up and begin again...Lord, I need YOUR strength, and YOUR Power, and YOUR discernment to begin with this first step and to continue it every single day without giving up...if I fail one day, I will get up and begin again, if I fail or fall 7 times I will get up and begin again 7 times more...Teach me OH LORD...for nothing else I desire compares to YOU!

I believe in Who YOU say YOU are GOD, according to YOUR WORD, because of Who I know YOU to be, I can trust YOU with all of this, no matter what happens to me; Loved or hated, surrounded or alone, healthy or sick, prospering or suffering, with or without, in all this, I am YOURS and I know this life is but a vapor, but after this life is an eternity, forevermore, I will be with YOU, my King, my Savior, my LORD, my GOD, my FATHER. Nothing else will matter...though I'll be glad to see those I love who have known YOU and accepted YOU and gone HOME before me, I'll still ask to see YOU and look upon YOUR Face when I get to Heaven, because my heart's desire is to spend all of eternity with YOU, even if YOU were the only One in Heaven, LORD...I'd want to be there forever and no where else.

YOU are the One who loved me when I was unlovable. YOU are the One who sought me and bought me with YOUR Redeeming Blood. YOU and YOU alone saved me without any help from me or anyone else...YOU took me as I was, stained with sin, stinking of selfishness and concerned with my own wants and desires. YOU took me and loved me and cleaned me and my life up. YOU taught me a new way to live, a better way to live. YOU showed me The best way. YOU made me new, YOU filled my old hurting broken heart with love for not only my family and those who are good, but YOU taught me to love the unlovable, even my enemies, by YOUR example, by YOUR indwelling SPIRIT within me. YOU changed my path of destruction to a path leading to life, Everlasting life...NOT only for me, but for my children and others. YOU changed my destiny! Now YOU are my destiny, YOU are my desire, YOU ARE!

So for me, Heaven is not a place, though it be, but for me, Heaven is YOU, YOUR Presence dear JESUS, is my ideal of Heaven...and I thank YOU that I don't have to wait till I die or YOU Return for YOUR children to experience being in YOUR Presence...

I love YOU my King...I desire YOU my LORD, I long for YOU, my JESUS, and I pray everyone would worship YOU because they know YOU and not because they enjoy worshipping or because it 'feels' good, but TRUE WORSHIP of YOU, deep in our hearts!! Let us Worship YOU with our whole heart, mind, soul, and spirit. Forever YOU are GOD, there is no other like YOU.


In HIS Love, by HIS grace,
Mrs. Lynn
(if you want GOD, HE tells you in HIS WORD how to find HIM)

Read: Romans 3:23, 6:23, 10:13, John 3:3, John 14:6, Romans 10:9,11,
I Corinthians 10:31, II Corinthians 5:15, Revelation 3:20
?Do you hear knocking? I Corinthians 2:14