Category: journey

The Ultimate Travel Destination

Jesus has travelled the way and made His travelogue available that the pitfalls may be avoided, that the road may be well-marked for you. But if you do not consult His book nor look at His signs, you stumble and detour – and wonder why the trip is difficult.

Meditation Thought: “For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things to him, things in heaven and things on earth.” (Ephesians 1:9-10)

When you start along a highway, you can only trust that it reaches the destination you desire – you cannot see that destination. The only way you can experience the reality of the highway leading to this destination is to travel it, despite distractions and detours.

Experience the reality of the highway of My people! Many have travelled it before you, and written of the way. Their experiences will aid you, encourage you. Seek every source of information of how to travel the road of My believers which leads to Me. You can move swiftly, accurately, confidently if you use every means at your disposal to make the journey be all that I intended it to be: exciting and with a confidence of peace when you trust in My help along the way for every roadblock Satan sets before you. Take each step in trust, knowing that I am with you to help you around, over or through all obstacles which would keep you from the destination.

But your free will is the key to being stuck or to moving on when you encounter an obstacle. Pause, think, pray, every time anything slows your movement. Together we shall move to the completion of the journey – slowly or speedily, pleasantly or painfully, confidently or hesitantly, inspiringly or ploddingly, in good humor or grumbling, trustingly or doubtfully – the manner of the movement depends upon you. Jesus has travelled the way and made His travelogue available that the pitfalls may be avoided, that the road may be well-marked for you. But if you do not consult His book nor look at His signs, you stumble and detour – and wonder why the trip is difficult.

Read your instruction, heed your instructions, fill yourself with the power of the Spirit to move you by opening your mind, your heart, your will to heavenly fuel – but closing them to the blandishments, the deceits, the temptations of the fuel offered by Satan. You have the knowledge of which is good fuel and which is evil fuel if you are in My Word and My will. You are in My Word and My will if you are walking in the steps of My Son. He has prepared the way that you might come quickly, even easily, to our Kingdom. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. (Matthew 7:7-8)

If you adhere to His steps, if you seek His nourishment, you walk in the Kingdom extended along from spiritual to physically, reaching into a portion of the Kingdom while you are moving toward the fulness of that kingdom.

You Shall Become More

You are My beloved… do not distort all I meant for you to be…

Meditation Thought: “…and you will be like God…” (Genesis 3:5 – serpent said to Eve)

“You are My beloved – but you are not Me – nor shall you become more than a reflection of my ways. And you shall be a beautiful reflection if you will obey and not distort all I meant for you to be by being disobedient and seeking knowledge of evil – for you have no capability of combating evil – only I have that. When you err, call upon My power to take evil from you – but if you will make very effort to seek My will your energies will be directed to releasing My power in a positive movement to fulfill My commandment, and you will not be misdirecting My power to combat evil needlessly.

Stop, look, listen for My directions and let not Satan tempt you into obeying himself. Put on your armor and wield your sword of faith to bring the glory of victory.”

Grateful

For you see, as I cannot, what lies ahead along each path.

Meditation Thought: “Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;” (Psalm 95:2)

“Thank you” definition: You helped me. I appreciate your effort and your willingness to care about me and to acknowledge my needs, and to help me in fulfilling those needs. Our relationship is enhanced and intensified because of this involvement. This exchange has made a difference in some way in the direction we are going, and therefore is important to us and to those whom we influence.

Suggested prayer: Dear Lord, so far above and beyond me in scope – but so approachable and understanding as we meet: thank you, thank you, for all creation, for my creation, and for your provisions. Help me to yield to You in grace when I see that I am not following your path chosen for me. For you see, as I cannot, what lies ahead along each path. Intensify Your Word throughout every area in my life, making it permeate my mind, my will, my intentions, my emotions and my actions, that the beauty of Your love, mercy and power might be released in me and through me ever more effectively, in the realm of the spirit, in the realm of the world, in the realm of the Kingdom which contains these two realms. Help me to be not only a ‘good’ steward, but an enlightened, perceptive, effective steward who, through every thought, every word and every deed, reflects Your will and Your goodness and the Love with which You rule.

Guide me Father, that I may open my mind and my heart to receive Your truth and wisdom, and to reflect them in every possible way by obedience to Your will.

Amen.

Interwoven. Forevermore.

To produce the finest results, we must envision the finished product as the Father reveals His conception of it to us, bit by bit, moment by moment, lesson by lesson, and caress by caress.

Meditation Thought:  “Who are the faithful and wise managers whom the master will put in charge of his household…?” (Luke 12:42)

Rhythm – learn the rhythm. There is to everything a time, a season – the minute minutes are representative of the larger blocks of seasons comprising months. Learn to flow with the rhythm of God, daily calling upon the Word for the ‘season’ of the day, of the moment. Observe your household members (and others with whom you have contact) to determine their needs for that day. There will be days of feasting and days of fasting – relaxing days and hectic days – but always the joy of the Spirit, the solidarity of the Father, the ministrations of the Son running through every moment, every happening.

The thread of the moment stands not alone in the fabric of life but is interwoven with the threads of the moments before and the moments to come. Each thread contributes to the whole of the life – and each piece of fabric is then sewn together, one piece affecting the other, as to shape and pattern and appearance of the whole. Only if each thread, and each piece of fabric, is according to the Father’s conception of the finished whole, can the fulfillment of each moment, and the fulfillment of the will of the Father be accomplished in glory and in the full power possible.

To produce the finest results, we must envision the finished product as the Father reveals His conception of it to us, bit by bit, moment by moment, lesson by lesson, and caress by caress. And we must have the courage to allow Him to weave our life as He will, trusting that He has led us in truth and love, and will do so forevermore.

Job Requirements: Humility and Willingness

I will direct you and move you and fill you.

Meditation Thought: “Saul, also known as Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 13:9)

“Hear and obey, my child (mentally insert your name here), for I would use you to establish My Name on earth as it is in heaven. Be humble and willing – no other requirement do I need, for I will direct you and move you and fill you as the container, mobile and sturdy, to bring nourishment to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, hope to the desperate. Those who need you care not about your appearance or your method; they desire only the fulfilling of their needs: the provisions for body, the inspiration and hope needed to sustain the soul. Be My vehicle of mercy and provision, letting Me guide you where you are most needed to lavish My loving ministries through your own unique properties and capacity.”

A Position of Wisdom

When we recognize that we are far better off with He who is infinitely better qualified directing our lives than we would be to direct them ourselves, we have moved from the position of foolishness to that of wisdom.

Meditation Thought: “I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it.” (Ecclesiastes 3:14)

It is to God’s delight, and to our own self-interest, to perceive the truth of the fact that God is the ruler of the Kingdom, and though as a citizen we have numerous privileges and rights, we do not have a right to replace Him as ruler at any place at any time. When we recognize that we are far better off with He who is infinitely better qualified directing our lives than we would be to direct them ourselves, we have moved from the position of foolishness to that of wisdom.

It is this position of wisdom (yielded to God’s direction) that was created for us, and is always available to us, if we are preceptive enough to seek it. The true value of it, however, is not seen until we have sought it, have not only recognized that it is the position we should seek, but have fought every obstacle which would keep us from it, including our own inner freedom of choice.

Heavenly Physics

By this rope can I make a little movement in heaven, and swing you in great arcs to My work on earth. Only if you have firm hold of your end of the rope will this maneuver work!

Meditation Thought: “To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and joy.” (Ecclesiastes 2:26)

A message perceived from God the Father:
There is a connecting rope being woven between us that grows stronger with each strand that is added: each word of praise, each obedient act, each loving ministry, each trusting thought takes a strand from My storehouse of spiritual building materials and weaves it into the rope.

By this rope can I make a little movement in heaven, and swing you in great arcs to My work on earth. Only if you have firm hold of your end of the rope will this maneuver work! If you take your hands off, and are distracted into using your hands in pursuits Satan would tempt you to, the rope dangles uselessly. You must keep your mind occupied with My Word, your eyes occupied with My will, your hands occupied with My works. Your hands can cling to the rope that binds us and at the same time hand it to others to be used to rescue them from the snare of the enemy. Thus is My Will done on earth as it is in heaven.

Healing the Body

Though we can learn from others who have gone before us, we must play our role alone. We must make the effort to learn what we need to know, to do what must be done, to endure what must be endured.

Meditation Thought: “An excellent wife who can find?
    She is far more precious than jewels.
11 The heart of her husband trusts in her,
    and he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good, and not harm,
    all the days of her life. (Proverbs 31:10-12)

“Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh” (see Genesis 2:23), why do we not have perfect health? The grafts to not always “take” the first time – the moving of one part of the body to heal the injury of another part (i.e. the Body of Christ; see Romans 12) . We must, when sin diseases the Body, each do our particular job required to work together to repair the ravages of the sin.

At one time we are the patient and must patiently endure the operation;
At another time we are the doctor, actually moving and causing change in some area:
At another time we are the nurse, caring for the patient;
Again, we may be the friend who ministers with our support and love and encouragement;
Perhaps we are a relative, feeling the pain deeply, but unable to stop it from happening, for the pain is part of the cure.

And so the process goes on, age after age, and though we can learn from others who have gone before us, we must play our role alone. If we are to be competent in promoting healing, we must make the effort to learn what we need to know, to do what must be done, to endure what must be endured.

And the strength and courage to continue on lies in the faith that the healing is possible because there walked on earth One who was in perfect health, without the disease of sin, and He promised that if we believe in Him we shall do the works that He did (see John 14:12).

What He did in his physical manifestation on earth, He does today through the new Body which was transplanted as the old body was crucified on the cross. The new Body is not free from disease, but in the healing of the disease that invades it, the Father is glorified.

Road Signs for You

You must move yourself from sign to sign, from Word to Word as the Spirit reveals the meaning to you.

Meditation Thought: “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.” (Proverbs 30:5)

“Pray for My Spirit to illuminate the signs that are along the highways of the world, that you might come swiftly and surely to the palace of the Kingdom. The Words have been placed before you, and you see some of them clearly, some only dimly, as at a distance. The Spirit will bring more Words into focus, guiding you along the proper roads to do My Works which I have arranged for you to do, that you and others may rejoice in the fulness of My love, and see My glory. You must move yourself from sign to sign, from Word to Word as the Spirit reveals the meaning to you.

Transformation Particle by Particle

The joy of its progression of success from highly diseased to emerging health is to the glory of God and to the peace of His child.

Meditation Thought: “But he, full of the Holy Spirit… saw the glory of God…”

Be filled with the Spirit and see the glory of God. The glory of God will transform your life with a replacement of righteousness for sin, love for hate, patience for impatience, joy for bitterness, knowledge for ignorance, truth for delusion, wisdom for foolishness, power for weakness, tolerance for scorn and light for darkness. Truly the power of the Spirit gives birth to a new creature, as the old is buried in the graveyard of sin. The new creature is born of the righteousness of belief in – and commitment to – the resurrection of our Lord and the power thereby released to forgive our sins.

The mind, the will, the heart – once exposed to the knowledge of this act of God’s grace – and once accepting and acting on this knowledge – are transformed, bit by bit, from the particles containing sin, to cleansed particles containing the purity of the Father as transplanted by Jesus Christ, the Devine Physician. Thus is a sin-filled person cleansed of the disease, and given new health of the inheritance of this image of the Father. The transplanting operation never ceases in the bottle of the world, but the joy of its progression of success from highly diseased to emerging health is to the glory of God and to the peace of His child.