GOING HOME!

God is good, and His promises are forever. God will bring you through to an expected end. Just open up your eyes and look, stop moving for a moment, and look around. You'll see you're in a brand new place, and if you look long enough, you'll recognized it as, HOME!

Now, home, for me is an important word. Many years ago I received a word ,of knowledge, from the Lord, that I didn't understand. He spoke three things to me, "Go to school to get trained, two years, going home." Isn't that just like the Lord to speak in short concise sentences. I understood the first two parts, but I didn't understand the ending, 'going home', and for years I questioned what He meant.

I followed through with going to school, I attended, Spirit Fire School of Ministry for two years and got the best training for ministry. After a few years, Dr. Pat Rush, the founder of the school, became a pastor of, Spirit Fire Church;  under the direction of Holy Spirit, she herself hesitant to become a pastor, finally took that leap of faith. I worked at the church for many years getting the hands on training one needs for ministry, and got my degree in Religious Education. After a few more years had gone by, this word of knowledge I had received, still puzzled me. What does, 'going home', mean? I became convinced that 'home', was my church family, and that's what God meant, so for many years I believed I was 'home'.
Then, my brother got sick, and when he died, I realized I had to move back home to Massachusetts, I thought perhaps, I had been mistaken and my church family wasn't what God had meant by 'home'. Now, I thought, the third part of what God had told me had finally come to pass. After moving back to Massachusetts for five or six months, to take care of my parents, it became apparent, that was not what God meant either, so we moved back to Florida, and God provided another to take care of my parents. You can imagine how confused I became, especially when we got back and things still didn't feel like 'home'.  By now I've been through a whirlwind, and my thoughts couldn't make heads or tails of what happen or what God meant, I didn't know what to think anymore. So I put it behind me.

Just because we don't understand somethings does not make God veer from His timeline. I thought I had an urgent need to understand, I went through years of asking and searching. But, God replied to me as He did to Paul, "My grace is sufficient..." so, I carried on.

But may I reiterate what I said at the beginning, God is faithful and keeps His promises. Life is a process and must be walked out one step at a time. Our trials will bring patience and maturity to understand abstract thoughts with a keener depth of insight,  pin pointing to a certain truth.

Six years has past since moving back to Florida, and in that time I've had an adventure with God. I've been up and I've been down as though one was in a whirlwind. During those tumultuous times I have grown and learn to live in a place in God deeper than I've ever experienced before.

As we get ready to embark on our seventh year, I had a dream from God that woke me up. In the dream three things were conveyed; going home, rising to the top, hell taken out of the way. In my dream I was aware of being in a very good state of mind, as if finally getting over a hurdle. In one part of the dream, I was walking and stopped to take in my surroundings, and began to recognize I was back in a place where I onced lived. I was amazed to be there and immediately experienced great joy. It was a time in my life where life was just beginning and I had no burdens, everything was new and exciting and I had no disappointments. I knew immediately God was showing me something and I woke up.

God had opened my eyes to understanding what 'going home' meant.  He brought me back to a place in time that I could relate to, and in that place everything was good, I began to realize that place gave me the feeling of being 'home'; I had found my 'home' in Him. He is my place of,  being and knowing, He is that place of utter satisfaction, He is that, wide open, area where I am loved. He is the, cream, that rises me to the top, and He is the one who took hell out of  my path. He is my brand new beginning.

 Every thought one could conjure up, every queston we could ask, He (Jesus), is its satisfaction. I am home, I am rising to the top, and the ceiling is removed from me....and I feel such a sweet completion there.

Creative Love

What a privilege it is to be made in the image of God our Father. The responsibility given to us to be His witnesses overwhelms me with joy. Have you ever thought or meditated on what God has truly given you? To be His heirs, children of the Most High God, fellow heirs of Christ Jesus.

God reached down from heaven, to lift us back to Him, what love He has for us. What love Jesus has for us! So much as to lay down His life, to put aside His deity and take the form of flesh.
God put His stamp of approval on us, and put His word in our mouths to be uttered into this world by mortal flesh. He gave us Jesus, who gave us His authority to do those works which He had done. What trust, and faith He has in the Father, for it was the Father's will to redeem fallen man.

And now look at us, 'vessels of honor'. What greater evidence of love do we have? God created us from an expression of love, the same love He put on the inside of us. Now we have the privilege of walking in that love, and allowing love to express itself in everthing we do and say. Creative love, that doesn't return back void, but produces a harvest as it was sent out to produce, just like the Father. Let this creative love, govern our words, works, and creativity. Let it be expressed from our inner most being in resonating notes that vibrate life. Let it create love in others to worship God; our true purpose in this life.