Post by AutumnGrace on Sept 2, 2020 13:00:45 GMT -5
Today feels like a good day. i got lots of sleep and the weather is nice. a good breeze and not too hot. i do not look forward to winter but this time of year. Sept-Nov is perfect for me. its my favorite season...Autumn. you get the crops in and fresh food available everywhere. you aren't sweating or need the air conditioner. Got the windows open and nights cool for sleeping. its like everything is winding down with grace and you prepare to cuddle up with a good book for the winter. It is like the end of the day when all the chores have been done and you get to relax before bedtime. Yes today is a good day.
The puppies are doing wonderful entertaining themselves and fun to watch. Both love me LOL. they like to know where i am or be by me. They watch me as much as i watch them. God was so good to put them in my life at this time of worldly woes. a very good calming distraction. The Bible works this way on my daily life and now i have two bundles of joy to keep me company while Jim is working. smiles come easy .
i have begun my months-time of fasting and prayer for our country, the world, and for the saints. It will be a long month of focusing on what is important to God. Not just thinking i know, but pressing into His heart. i want to grieve at what breaks God's heart . i know most of the stuff that does in my mind but i want to feel it deep in my soul. i do not know if you can relate. i am such a weak person and time flies by so quickly that days run together and you miss the roses. i am wanting to live each day with purpose. minute to minute and be sensitive to what i hear and what comes before my eyes. i want to experience life at its fullness and not be deadened by all the things that have become normal. We can hear bad news now and are not surprised. I want to feel both of devastation, tears and laughter and pure joy. I want to come alive not just exist.
i remember when i was very young i wanted this being alive feeling, i did not want it with drugs and numbness, but i want to feel everything, and i did, i felt life at its fullness. Never sheltering myself from tearful events of joyous ones But growing up in this world is just like desensitizing yourself to TV programs. If the junk comes in slowly, we do not notice that we have accepted bad things right off. We allowed a little bit at a time and then walaa.. you have a bunch. Then we have to clean up our Hearing and our viewing. Try going for months without TV (or movie watching) and you will see all the junk you once accepted when you turn it back on. That is the ways of sin. You may not accept a major sin but if it come in slowly and you accept the baby-steps, next you will find you have fallen into sin.
We have had to clean up our lives every so often. There were movies, music, shows we have let go of in the past times because they were not putting purity in out minds and hearts.
Its time for me to get clean again. To feel life in God's purity. To laugh and to cry all from God's perspectives. The worlds mess can make us bitter or judgmental, unforgiving, unloving, and turn us into ones who put out curses not blessings. Its time to take this world out of our own hands and put it in God's. To Trust him to do what is suppose to be done, i am not the one who makes that decision but i can support the One who does.
Yes i know what injustices are out in the world and what devastations could come to our land. But i am not in charge. I have not yet been made a leader of countries and districts. i have not yet been made ready with Gods full purity to do the job as His representative. So its time for a clean up job in me. So my focus and my priorities of MIND & HEART line up with my Lord. i no longer want to be part of the problem but i want to be a part of His solution.
So in joining the people of God all over this nation in fasting and prayer for our country, the world and for the saints. To be free of corona virus, to overcome the violence's and ungodly practices, To become a light on the hill that cannot be dimmed by the wickedness of this world. And more. We (Jim & I) have set out plans for a monthly fast that limits our eating and our foods. We have decided to not watch movies or any lengthy news events. (we will keep up but not be absorbed in it. to know it is to pray for things.) This is the time of getting our lives back. The ones God has created for us. To see the church rise in power and authority over the evil of this world.
i do not know if you are joining in on this time for the church to fast and pray, but i can only say that it is a serious time. It is a time for the church to be the church and come together in one accord. You may not be physically able to food fast. But you can be restrictive in your eating plans. You can also fast from things like TV or movies. (we do not watch regular tv so movies was our choice) Or anything else the Lord lays on your heart. One thing i know, if God does not change the world's direction and the world get as bad as some are saying it will, the saints who are participating in some type of fast this month will be made strong enough to endure what is coming. I feel this deeply in my spirit.
This is not just the USA although we do have a lot to lose. But i seen a clip of Australia where they hare having freedom rallies because they are feeling the oppression like we are here. So more countries are under this takeover of our societies. So when you pray , please include the world's people and especially the saints.
Thanks for reading and listening to my latest realm of being. If you want to share what you are feeling during this time of September. Please do i would love to hear how the saints are handing these days.
Be a blessing and stay close to Jesus, Looking forward to the day when we can rejoice together in our Fathers Kingdom.
The puppies are doing wonderful entertaining themselves and fun to watch. Both love me LOL. they like to know where i am or be by me. They watch me as much as i watch them. God was so good to put them in my life at this time of worldly woes. a very good calming distraction. The Bible works this way on my daily life and now i have two bundles of joy to keep me company while Jim is working. smiles come easy .
i have begun my months-time of fasting and prayer for our country, the world, and for the saints. It will be a long month of focusing on what is important to God. Not just thinking i know, but pressing into His heart. i want to grieve at what breaks God's heart . i know most of the stuff that does in my mind but i want to feel it deep in my soul. i do not know if you can relate. i am such a weak person and time flies by so quickly that days run together and you miss the roses. i am wanting to live each day with purpose. minute to minute and be sensitive to what i hear and what comes before my eyes. i want to experience life at its fullness and not be deadened by all the things that have become normal. We can hear bad news now and are not surprised. I want to feel both of devastation, tears and laughter and pure joy. I want to come alive not just exist.
i remember when i was very young i wanted this being alive feeling, i did not want it with drugs and numbness, but i want to feel everything, and i did, i felt life at its fullness. Never sheltering myself from tearful events of joyous ones But growing up in this world is just like desensitizing yourself to TV programs. If the junk comes in slowly, we do not notice that we have accepted bad things right off. We allowed a little bit at a time and then walaa.. you have a bunch. Then we have to clean up our Hearing and our viewing. Try going for months without TV (or movie watching) and you will see all the junk you once accepted when you turn it back on. That is the ways of sin. You may not accept a major sin but if it come in slowly and you accept the baby-steps, next you will find you have fallen into sin.
We have had to clean up our lives every so often. There were movies, music, shows we have let go of in the past times because they were not putting purity in out minds and hearts.
Its time for me to get clean again. To feel life in God's purity. To laugh and to cry all from God's perspectives. The worlds mess can make us bitter or judgmental, unforgiving, unloving, and turn us into ones who put out curses not blessings. Its time to take this world out of our own hands and put it in God's. To Trust him to do what is suppose to be done, i am not the one who makes that decision but i can support the One who does.
Yes i know what injustices are out in the world and what devastations could come to our land. But i am not in charge. I have not yet been made a leader of countries and districts. i have not yet been made ready with Gods full purity to do the job as His representative. So its time for a clean up job in me. So my focus and my priorities of MIND & HEART line up with my Lord. i no longer want to be part of the problem but i want to be a part of His solution.
So in joining the people of God all over this nation in fasting and prayer for our country, the world and for the saints. To be free of corona virus, to overcome the violence's and ungodly practices, To become a light on the hill that cannot be dimmed by the wickedness of this world. And more. We (Jim & I) have set out plans for a monthly fast that limits our eating and our foods. We have decided to not watch movies or any lengthy news events. (we will keep up but not be absorbed in it. to know it is to pray for things.) This is the time of getting our lives back. The ones God has created for us. To see the church rise in power and authority over the evil of this world.
i do not know if you are joining in on this time for the church to fast and pray, but i can only say that it is a serious time. It is a time for the church to be the church and come together in one accord. You may not be physically able to food fast. But you can be restrictive in your eating plans. You can also fast from things like TV or movies. (we do not watch regular tv so movies was our choice) Or anything else the Lord lays on your heart. One thing i know, if God does not change the world's direction and the world get as bad as some are saying it will, the saints who are participating in some type of fast this month will be made strong enough to endure what is coming. I feel this deeply in my spirit.
This is not just the USA although we do have a lot to lose. But i seen a clip of Australia where they hare having freedom rallies because they are feeling the oppression like we are here. So more countries are under this takeover of our societies. So when you pray , please include the world's people and especially the saints.
Thanks for reading and listening to my latest realm of being. If you want to share what you are feeling during this time of September. Please do i would love to hear how the saints are handing these days.
Be a blessing and stay close to Jesus, Looking forward to the day when we can rejoice together in our Fathers Kingdom.
