I deserve a man that is true and keeps his promises, despite what I’ve been taught. Thank you, Jesus.

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"Just one minuscule taste of Your presence and my heart is undone. You are so magnificent and I am so in love. I could stay here with You forever." 1 note

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TODAY, I give back everything I’ve ever taken

And lay it down at holy feet

Knowing He’ll return it to

Its rightful owner,

Wrapped in stronger ribbons.

Today, I take back my little peices

That I’ve given to the masses,

That I’ve given to the one

Who seemed to hold the bits together.

It was all but a mirroring illusion

Of the man that sculpted the hands

Of the one that held mine.

I’m taking back my hands,

Back to their rightful owner.

I’m returning shards of glass

For bricks of gold.

And I thank you for your example,

But I’m giving you back your great heart

Because I have loved as well

And we deserve to be whole.

He’s eager to make us whole.

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This morning, God gave me a revelation that, if fully received, it could release me to walk in total freedom. 

He told me “Every time you let yourself dream something up, it’s already been prayed for you. You can ask, but I’ve already blessed you with your heart’s desires. I’ve known you from the start.”

I’ve been wanting to know what it looks like to live a life of fervent prayer, because I’ve been asking for Him to reveal to me what it TRULY looks like to live like Jesus (without any human’s influence). 

It turns out that there is no effort in living a life of constant prayer. While it is a true success to focus on Jesus for even a second, it is an unnatural effort to then look away. 

In church this morning, we talked about Ezekiel 39:29 

“And I will never again turn my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit upon the people of Israel. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

 and meditated on this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcoKuwtlSgI

We make such a huge effort trying to “get into His presence” but He already promised to never leave us. He’s a God who always keeps His promises. When He says that He knows us, He meant it. He always has, He always will. 

In the old testament, when married couples had sex, the Bible said that they “knew” each other. From the beginning, “knowing” someone has meant that you know the deep recesses of them, with a deeper intimacy than anyone else in the world has ever experienced with them, even themselves. (Now, I beg of you to please try to understand the beautiful metaphor that God has established here instead of letting your mind wander because of the ways that our culture have perverted sex.)

The deepest parts of Him know the deepest parts of me at all times, better than I know myself. 

He can’t get out of my presence. He finds me in every hiding place. 

Therefor, there is no struggle in a life of constant prayer and communion with Jesus.

Every word that we say carries a spirit on it. When we pray for healing, we speak to the sickness and tell it to leave. We are constantly, with every word, speaking to the/a spirit. We never stop praying! When I was born, my first cry was my first prayer. But it goes even deeper than that because He also knows our every thought AND our heart’s thoughts. So, not only when I think something, but even when my subconscious has the most minute “feeling”, that is a prayer. He knows me. He knows me. He KNOWS me. 

Every time I let my heart wander to a dream, even/ESPECIALLY when it seems completely radical and impossible, it’s already been prayed for me.

And now here’s where it gets crazy…

I HAVE FAVOR.

Which means, if I have a God that knows me better than I know myself and is still always good, that He is already handing me every single one of my dreams, even the ones that I won’t let myself dream up, on a silver platter.

There is no struggle in being with Him. There is no struggle in knowing His fullness. There is only the favor of the Father’s heart.

So I challenge you:

Instead of struggling, REST into the fullness. Watch all of your unsung dreams come true.

THAT’s my Emmanuel.

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I heard His voice and it changed everything. I’m crazy about my Husband. He’s perfect.

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Tired, needy, in desperate search of a place to call “home”. Desperately searching for a place of rest. So tired of running. Exhausted. So very tired of fighting for everything.

And I know that if I heard Your voice, Father, if I could discern just a single word, then everything would be better. Everything would be perfect.
I’d have hope. I’d have rest. I’d have “home”.

I NEED to hear Your voice. I need You so badly, Selah.
Please, please, PLEASE say something.

I want to get quiet so that I can hear You say everything.
Show me where the quiet is.

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My heart does not belong to signs and wonders, prophesy, finding my “future husband”, and favor and blessing. 

My heart belongs to Jesus.

If you never saw another miracle, never heard Him speak again, lived a lifetime completely alone, or never received another surprise from Heaven; If you lived during the 300 years that God stayed silent,

would He still have your devotion? Would you still hunger for His presence? Would you still be willing to sacrifice everything for Him?

Is what He already did for you enough?

It sure does look like enough to me.

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