Sweet Intrusion

Don't turn away from a sweet intrusion.
Like the tears that fall down on a rainy day.
I can see through the clouds there's a Holy Communion
That's headed...it's headed your way.

i did everything RIGHT today!

(taken from the journal archives, apropos today)

My lists are very long.  My idea fountain is always on.  My lists get longer.  And days seems to burn like time-matchsticks.  

I have lived with myself for quite a number of years now.  It’s amazing that it has taken this long to see  the light.  Before this week, I have literally been managing my own personal factory of defeat.  I’ve been working against my own grain…  frustrated with all the ways I don’t measure up…to my idea of what could be.

The lie:  You cannot possibly accomplish yourself.

Truth:  I AM.

It came to me like a cartoon wind blowing me out of bed one morning.  These words have reshaped my outlook. I started this week with this experimental phrase, spoken out loud, with God-confidence…

‘I did everything RIGHT today.’

Yes, outlandish.  Yes, positive thinking.  Yes, faith.  Yes, IDENTITY!

I stepped into Jesus in a new way.  I jumped into His big shoes.  He has purchased that place for me.  I am seated with Him, standing with Him, living in Him (my reality) at the right hand of the Father where the forever-pleasures go on and on and on.

I am rehearsing this new declaration because…

IT WORKS!

The instant my faith (agreement) met Father’s design for my days, EVERYTHING fell into place.  Like miracle productivity and extended stretchy hours in my day to ACCOMPLISH, to BE.

I am working this phrase into my dreams like baking fresh bread, so that the glorious smell of new mercies and opportunity awakens me to LIVE, to partake.  Each moment, nothing lost.  I am walking in the shoes of great confidence that in all that I do, I am blessed in ‘rightness’ to be a blessing of ‘setting things right.’  A wonderful red carpet for my day.

So why am I writing this?  Because I’m not sure it occurs to most people how underneath expectation we tend to live.  I  am writing to encourage YOU to stand on the mountaintop of your highest expectations of your day… and of your life and… commit them to the category of ‘right and accomplished’before they even come to pass.

I have done this in a general sense with visions of the future…  believing God for fulfillment.  But doing this with the daily moments is where we effect the greatest change.  The mind of Christ sees the end from the beginning.  See it like He sees it and say it out loud.  You will no doubt experience  a whole new level of LIFE. 

You can start right now, wherever you are…

‘I did everything RIGHT today.’ 

(Enjoy!)

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As we go...

[A Prayer for Health, Vibrancy, and Abundance]

Sweet Father...

We are learning to live into your promises, bringing the benefits of your promises and making them our functioning reality.  We make them our HOME.

And you are multiplying our days and the days of our children, as the days of HEAVEN UPON THE EARTH.  Brightness and boldness abounding everyday more.  We thank you.

Because Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant, He is able also to save me completely,  perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity since I have come to God through Him, and since He is always living to MAKE BLESSING HAPPEN...here in the present...As well as in the future or in eternity...BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT.

Thank you for renewing my strength, and for teaching me to fly, and for helping me to run WITHOUT WEARINESS, and to walk and never. give. up.

You have brought me health and cure.  You have cured me, with revelation of abundant peace and living truth.

My light breaks forth like the morning, and my health springs forth speedily; and Christ goes constantly before me; and His pure glory covers all.

Thank you that physical wholeness is a part of the finished work of grace, contained within salvation, paid for at the same time with the same healing blood.

Jesus, you are my REJOICING, you never fail, and on your Word and with a faith-gifted-and-knowing heart, I have healing just as I have salvation.

You have beautiful thoughts about me...And beautiful plans...For a beautiful life...  Right now and always living in peace, health, and prosperity.

Go Ons

Rock on, baby!  It's 2013...

The BEST YEAR EVER!

  I will laugh like never before...

 and talk like I know what I'm saying...

 and sing out the newness

 in concentric circles of gratefulness. 



Oh wait, I say this every year... 



But I WILL NOT STOP.   I will go on like a party. 

I've already won this one.

Forever.

the Weather

There was some kind of lightning in my soul last night. My heart was ignited. Fire won me over.

There was a whipping wind that nearly blew me down, and yet... it proved me strong. Today I am more ...somehow.

There was much rain... and washing... and covering... and consoling. And wrenching of heart, wringing of hands. Wondering how to feel such shapelessness, sharp and dark and overwhelming. Nearly too much, but more likely just so perfect.

And it came seemingly without warning. I didn't see the clouds because I spared not the moment to look around and see...

the Weather forming.

Life by Appointment

And then one morning I awoke to another ‘day in the Life’ with the thought…

‘The opposite of disappointment is…appointment.’


What??!? I had never considered this Truth, the now obvious, until I was literally awakened to a new understanding of, well, LIFE.

This mindset-changing statement, God-breathed and elevating, has turned my world inside out. It has the incredible power to establish rich freedoms within and without. It is a seed of encouragement to turn over the stone of disappointment and find the wonder of dignity and discovery in a life made on purpose. Redemption in real time.

What is.. LIFE? Is it our experiences…our perceptions…an upside-down-and-around-and-back-again ride of emotion… turmoil… victories? Is it simply the circumstances that we face? Or just the way things appear to be? Or is it ‘other’ than all of these things?

In the beginning, Life was. And this same Life that was, still is. And tomorrow…guess what?… it will continue to be. We all know the beautiful creation story. And we know intimately the disappointment of the fall. And this storyline that formed our alternative thoughts around the One True Life was created by ‘choice.’ Our choice to disagree with God…resulting in… dis-appointment.

But we, by the amazing Grace-gift of Christ, have been re-appointed to LIVE. To LIVE! And by our re-choice to receive abundant life instead of running from it, we no longer have to accept disappointment as our reality. It really is…our choice. No.matter.what.

There is no defeat or failure of expectation, no loss of hope, desire, or design. In pure Life, as defined by the reality that ‘GOD WINS,’ there is no frustration on earth that should ever be allowed to steal an ounce of the joy of this sweet salvation that happens in every moment.

I know full well that we can feel these things… and feel them deeply at times. I know that things don’t always look the way we think they should. I am no stranger to disappointment. In fact, I had made it such a lifestyle and had become so identified with disappointment that I was continually looking for more things by which to feel defeated. And I know many others who are now caught in these cycles because they don’t know another way. And so…I’ll say it again…

‘The opposite of disappointment is…APPOINTMENT.’


So…to what exactly are we appointed?

I’m reminded of the good words in Isaiah 61: ‘…God has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to announce that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of God’s favor has come, and with it, the day of God’s anger against their enemies. He gives beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, praise instead of despair.”

This is a fantastic starting place for understanding how God’s purpose will be fulfilled in us individually…and collectively. This is our intended lifemap.

And in order to be able to do all of this, we must become a living, breathingcelebration of the truly Good News; we must give our eyes to heaven-sight; and we must align our thoughts and speech with the Truth and only the Truth.

On any given day, disappointment might come knocking on our door. We have a choice. It might try to come in the back door. Even if it surprises us, we still have a choice. Just knowing that we have the choice is freedom. Turn the situation over. There’s always two sides to every story.

The more we make LIFE our choice, the more attention we give to ourappointment within it, rather than entertaining disappointment outside of it, the more fixed and settled and established we will be in our new and seemingly miraculous Life habits. Walking in appointment and purposesets things right…if you are willing to try something new, you will stand taller, live stronger every day. AND…it’s way more FUN! (I promise.)

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