Saturday, November 6, 2010

If God be for you….






Before I was saved I was always a risk taker. I would be that girl who was always willing to jump of a bridge into the ocean, the girl willing to get on a motor bike and ride it half drunk even when if I really

did not know how to ride. To some it was fearless to other t was stupid.

After I got saved, nothing much changed, only now it not a bike or a bride or anything you can see or touch, its God. I mean here, I am constantly talking to and trusting in a God I cannot see face to face or touch. To many it’s stupid or crazy.

After reading the story of the Moses and the Red sea, David and goliath or Caleb and Joshua spying the Promised Land, I decided that truly this God is crazy. I began to see him as crazy God who will move heaven and earth and do the unthinkable or unimaginable for his children. Now if you do not know ready, let me inform you that God manifest in the way you see him or call him. If you call him Rapha, he manifests as your healer I call him crazy and he manifest on the same way.

The thing about seeing and believe in the God who can part the ocean, and turn water into wine is that he will always ask you for something just as nuts. He will ask you to throw away the military armor and use just a sling and a rock, he will ask you to serve water, he will require your at most faith and trust in him no matter how ridiculous the situation or plan sounds.

I came to realize that the thing about Moses, Caleb, and David is that many times they were on their own. They did not have many friends or supporters, they seemed to be swimming against the current and not doing what everyone else did. The thing about believing in a crazy god and expecting him to do something crazy with you is that people see you s crazy and stay away.

My situation is no different, I believe in a crazy god and expect him to do crazy things with me but, that means having people see me s crazy, stupid, foolish ad ridiculous. I find myself not having many supporters ad even the few I do have do not really get me. They have their but’ and what if’ and while I just have faith in know I am well able. God does not question my faith and ability in me; he asks knowing he has already given me all I need to do it s why should I question my Gods ability? Is it not by his might and not my own or my alarm that I simply wake up every morning?

God called and I answered, doing so meant that I would lose allot especially friends. I would not have all the love and support I need from people but I do have all the love and backing I need from God and at the end of the day is that not what counts?



Have you heard what the Lord has done? He is for me when no others are and because of that none can be against me.



Thursday, November 4, 2010

Have you heard what the Lord has done?: Kneedless

Have you heard what the Lord has done?: Kneedless: "Many times as Christians we wonder how to begin talking to people about Christ. If you are like me you may not be able to quote scripture ..."

Have you heard what the Lord has done?: Enter Canaan  The Children of Israel were wo...

Have you heard what the Lord has done?:

Enter Canaan




The Children of Israel were wo...
: "Enter Canaan The Children of Israel were wondering around the mountain for 40yrs… 40 yrs! I got saved in 2008 and these few years of ..."


Enter Canaan 




The Children of Israel were wondering around the mountain for 40yrs… 40 yrs! I got saved in 2008 and these few years of not having entered into my Promised Land have been a long journey. Al through my life things have happened as they have to you too. During the bad times, I would wonder what in the world was going on. To some, trials would lead one to ask God for help but in others they would lead people to believe God was nowhere to be found.

For the longest time, bad things would happen to me and I lived my life not caring much, hoping that each day would no have to wake up in the morning cause after all there was not much to live for. It was the same thing just going around in circles; I felt like dirty laundry in a washing machine, only that with each turn, instead of getting cleaner, I got filthier. I knew there was a God, but what I also came to conclude for myself is that, God was only God of some people. I was a BAD girl and from the way many Christians and people treated me, I knew that god felt pretty much the same.

I had concluded that, in the world there are good people who do good things and whom good things happen to and well I was just there to make them look good. I was what goodness was compared and measure up to. I was there to witness goodness happen to and for others. I was there because there had to be an opposite of the good. There had to be an example of what bad was. An example to the good girls and boys of what not to be and what to stay clear of. It did not matter if I drunk more, cursed more, or was any worse than the day before, I knew and was treated like to would not make any difference. I was going to hell; I could only hope to get there fast enough and to send some on ahead of me.

After I got saved, I came to realize that God was there the whole time. I had man many opportunities to die but he was not having none of that. Every single thing that ever happened was a qualifying factor to do what God has called me to do. To rise up a generation that cant help but wait on God. To prepare the Bride for her groom that is Christ Jesus. To go back to the people in the life I left behind and shed light into their darkness and eliminate it all together. To be an example of his goodness, his mercy and loving kindness. To be witness that God has never nor will he ever leave or forsake you. To let them know that God has plans for good and a future filled with hope for them.

For some time now I have been feeling like I need to do something, like it was time to arise, to go up and take possession of the land God has given me and do what he called me to do. Yesterday, I left my wilderness and entered Canaan. I entered into the land and now I know that from here on its just taking out one giant after the other and reaping a superabundant harvest. I know from this day I have walked into my destiny.




Have you heard what the Lord has done?

He brought me out of the wilderness and into the Promised Land.

Kneedless



Many times as Christians we wonder how to begin talking to people about Christ. If you are like me you may not be able to quote scripture with the bible reference, version, book, chapter verse or even page number, but that is no reason not to tell about God.


I may not know the exact book, verse, page etc, but I do know what it says and more over I can tell you what the Lord has done for me, personally as his word says we should. My bible says that by His stripes I was healed, If you have not heard what the Lord has done in this area.. Let me share.


I love the outdoor s, I love sports and I especially love water. In high school I did it all, I played basketball, football, rugby and my favorite… swimming. I lived in the pool. From as far back as I can recall I was swimming. If I could get to school early I would be sure to do a few laps before I got to class. The swimming team would serve lunch first so that they could meet at the pool after for practice and after school we would remain behind and swim some more. I loved it and it loved me. I was swimming captain all through high school and even left my mark with a record at the novices.


My knees would hurt now and then and especially when it was cold, to swim was a delight but in cold water in freezing Karen area, it was a great sacrifice. There are some things I had to do which was wear pants all through, avoid kneeling down and folding my knees when it was cold. It was a task but somehow I did it. In the last year of High school, it was too much, I was in a cast half the time to avoid any knee movements and worst of all I could not swim or play any sports. That was in 1996


This year, after years of managing to do all the above and stay out of trouble, all went to hell in a hand basket. From the month of June the cold had began and by August, walking was a night mare. I had seen a few doctors over the months and it seemed surgery could not be avoided. I tried to hold off until one day my knee just gave in and I was at the doctor’s clinic in tears, begging then to operate. I was scheduled for surgery first thing in the morning.


I did the surgery and the doctor told me that they found my entire meniscus (The cartilage between the thigh and sheen bone at the knee joint) had been pounded to a mush and they had to take it out. It is now November and I am still on crutches and yet to operate on the other knee. Many people walk up to me saying how sorry they are and yet I could not be more pleased. As I write this, it is a cold wet day yet I am moving about with minimal pain (from surgery) and at the end of it all I will be able to kneel down before my God in praise, prayer and worship! More over my other knee is feeling great and should not need surgery.


For the first time since high school, I will kneel down, I will go out in the cold without crying in pain, I will fold my knee with no fear of them locking and not being able to open up. As far as my knees go I am needless.


Have you heard what the Lord has done? By His stripes I am healed.