We are Called To:

-Love one another (John 13:34)
-Prefer and honor one another (Romans 12:10)
-Receive one another (Romans 15:7)
-Greet one another (Romans 16:16)
-Care for one another (1 Corinthians 12:25)
-Serve one another (Galatians 5:13)
-Be kind to one another
     and forgive one another (Ephesians 4:32)
-Submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21)
-Admonish one another
     and teach one another (Colosians 3:16)
-Comfort one another (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
-Edify one another (1 Thessalonians 5:11)
-Exhort one another (Hebrews 3:13)
-Consider one another
     and stir one another up (Hebrews 10:24)
-Pray for one another (James 5:16)
-Have compassion for one another (1 Peter 3:18)
-Be hospitable to one another (1 Peter 4:9)
-Minister to one another (1 Peter 4:10)
-Have fellowship with one another (1 John 1:7)

If we treated fellow Christians in this manner just based on the fact that we are worshiping the same God people would be flocking to the Church and there would be standing room only!

Scriptures Prayed on Purpose

This is a list of scriptures given to me to pray for my sister the night before her twins were born.  I was praying specifically for peace, strength and power for her in her labor and delivery.  I was also asking for the babies to come quickly because Kendra looked tired and ready for them to come.  I went to sleep after praying through these scriptures only to be woke up 15 minutes later and told that Kendra's water had broke... I love the way God works!

Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer. believing you shall recieve.

Psalms 29:11
Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace!

Psalms 46:1
God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble.

Psalms 78:4
We will not hide tem from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah. and His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done.

Psalms 81:1
Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength.  Everyone of them appeareth before God in Zion.

Psalms 96:6
Honor and Majesty are before Him: strength and beauty are in His santuary.

Psalms 105:4
Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

Psalms 118:14
Jehovah is my strength and my song; And he is become my salvation.

Psalms 138:3
In the day that I called you answered me, you did encourage me with strength in my soul.

Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Ephesians 6:10
Finally. be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.

Luke 1:37
For no word from God shall be void of power.

1 Corinthians 2:5
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Fasting

Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bride chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is wit them?  but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

You fast when you want to be re-united with Jesus. strengthen the relationship and draw closer to Him.

I love God so much!

On the plane from Saskatoon back to Kingston.

I love to spoil others, give to others, serve others, I came to the realization today that I love God so much - that is the reason I want to spend time with Him, to learn His will, His ways and then to carry them out.  This is all I can give out of my Love for Him... out of my heart of gratitude!

Healing Scriptures

Healing Scriptures given from Aunt Caron

Ephesians 6:10
Finally, by brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord

Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the whole person; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Deuteronomy 7:15
And the Lord will take away from you all the sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, upon you: but you will lay them upon all them that hate you.

Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also make alive your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you.

1 John 5:14-15
And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us: And if we know that He hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Psalms 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalms 29:11
The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.

Psalms 71:16
I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of your righteousness, even you only.

Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength every one of them in Zion appears before God.

Sometimes a Changes is a Good Break

I am just completing my 16th day away from home.  I will be flying home tomorrow.  Right now I am on the train heading back to Ottawa.  The past couple of weeks have been filled with trying to support the best way I know how without getting in the way, interfering or taking over.

My week in Kingston was great.  It was nice to relax and be able to help out somewhat in the set up of the nursery, laundry and Caden's care.  I look forward to returning in less that 3 weeks and waking up to Caden's hugs once again.

Hopefully I can take my servants heart and continue to use it at home.  My family deserves it.

I can't really say that I have had a break but definitely a change out of the ordinary.  Sometimes a change is as good as a tropical vacation for renewal and evaluation.

Sometimes Life is a Struggle...

I have chosen to include this in my blog because it is good to realize that I did not go from victory to victory... it was an uphill climb to gain victory and strength in my body and to continue to remain there... I thank God that my body gets stronger every day and my immune system is getting stronger every day and my lungs are getting stronger every day!  It was no fun to live according to what my "body" would allow me to do in a day!(comment added on June 13, 2014)

August 25, 2009

Even though these are not the greatest or strongest thoughts I have ever had I should write them down so I can begin to process them.  Right now my body is struggling for every breath and every bit of energy to do anything...even writing this down.  The fibrosis and joint pain and weakness along with the immune issues have been slowly breaking down my body again.  It would be so easy to roll over and let them take my life right now.  I have had to fight for everyday of my life to stay alive.  I am just tired of the fight - the fevers - the pain when I breath - the energy it takes to eat each and every bite of food to keep me alive - the weakness in my hands, shoulders, knees and elbows - the never ending fatigue.  I know I can have victory over everything if I seek God with everything I have left... but that takes energy too.  It is just overwhelming.  These struggles don't even include being a wife and a mother.

God Clots a Gusher

Today Christopher got a nose bleed (a gusher).  He called me in a slight panic.  I saw and handed him a Kleenex.  Then prayed.  I then told Christopher to claim his healing.  Chris said "in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by whose stripes I am healed!"  and the blood immediately slowed.  He said it again and it stopped completely.  He blew his nose and said it once more.  We cleaned up and saw no more sign of the nose bleed again!!

I love the power in the name of Jesus and the authority He has given to believers to use!

The Power of Positive Praying!

Notes from
"The Power of Positive Praying"
by John Bisagno

Read from February 14th to February 18th, 2009
(comment added June 8th, 2014) This book had a lot of good ideas and probably got me thinking in the right way about a lot of things.  It is a book penned by one human and therefore is not perfect but it is John Bisagno's experience.  I have no doubt that he was inspired by God while writing or in the fact that this is the way that God deals with him daily.  

As I get to know God more and more, I am coming to understand that God is a God that is unchanging that is true but He is also a God that is capable of dealing with each of His children in unique ways.  He understands the heart and motives that we each come to Him with and in this there are no pat answers in the way to approach the throne of the one true King.

The key is to learn to listen to God's voice and be ready and willing to obey what the Holy Spirit is asking you personally to do.  God desires a unique relationship with each one of His children.  We can learn from other's walks with Him and gain understanding about God but to intimately walk with God takes time... no shortcuts.  Just like any other friendship it goes two ways but unlike human relationships... when we neglect our relationship with God he doesn't loose interest, however He does long to be with you again :-) 

A good place to begin to understand who God is and how He wants to relate personally to you is to Pray for understanding, Read your Bible, listen to what He is telling you, then Obey what the Lord shows you.  God is waiting patiently for time with you.  That is all He desires is we are in relationship with Him!  That is ultimately what we were created for.  To be in an intimate relationship with our heavenly Father and to be in relationship with those around us... we are relational beings.

Chapter 1 - Answered Prayer
-only about 10% of our prayers are specific, faith-centered petitions.
-Answered prayer is not a miracle, it is a law.
-He has prayed in faith believing, he has prayed in faith specifically and has thereby met the conditions of a loving Heavenly Father, and the Father has responded.
-Meet the conditions - pray and expect-and prayer will be answered.
-Carefully examine 2 Corinthians 7:14... answered prayer is not abnormal, it is normal.  It is not unusual; it is, or can be, your everyday experience - not to be marveled at, but to be expected.

Chapter 2 - The Prayer of Faith
-You must simply believe that God is going to answer your prayer.  It must be a prayer of faith.  To believe that He can answer, that He is able, that He does possess the power to do it, is not faith.  It is to believe unhesitatingly that He will, that He is on the verge of doing it, and that even now, the answer is on the way.
-The prayer of faith is simply, that, trusting, believing that God is honest and will therefore do what He says He will.
-Faith is not believing that God can.  Faith is believing that God will.

Chapter 3 - If it be Thy Will
-We are now dealing with the prayer of faith, the prayer that God is constrained to answer, the prayer that literally ties the hands of God that He must answer because His word is at stake.  His name and honor stand behind His promises.  When they are understood, claimed in faith, and presented at the throne room of heaven as a promissory note to be cashed, He must, He will answer.
-So do not ask God again to save that dear one.  Rather, go to your knees and begin to affirm, to believe, to receive.  Thank God that He is going to save them.
-Well, do you expect God to answer?  No?  That is exactly the reason He doesn't!

Chapter 4 - The Will of God
-Answered prayer=my faith to believe & God's willingness to bestow.  How may I know His will?
-Man in His original image of God was endowed with 3 capacities for knowing the Father - knowledge - emotion - will
-God is more willing for you to know His will than you are to know it.
-God wants you to know His will and is doing everything He can to make it obvious to you.
-many times the will of God is obvious
-normally guidance will come one step at a time
-God will guide you step by step
-God will always reveal His will in time for you to prepare for it
-God promises to give guidance but not always in advance

Chapter 5 - The Great Discovery
- The first step in knowing the will of God lies in being willing to do His will when you know it.
-He said you must be willing to accept me or you shall never know
-Before you pray that God will heal that person, go to God with a willing heart and ask Him to make you receptive to the knowledge of His will.
-Romans 12:1-2
-Be not conformed to this world
-It is absolutely impossible for a careless, worldly Christian to discern the keener things of God's will.
-If the Bible is clear on a particular matter you needn't pray about it.  Just do it.
-You will know the will of God when you know God.
-You will never know God until you learn to spend time in prayer with Him.  There is no exception.  Power with God, power to know the will of God, power in positive prayer that brings definite results, comes only through much time daily in prayer with God.

Chapter 6 - Praise the Lord
-you must do everything physically possible to get alone with God
-get away from people and things
-have the same place to pray all the time
-do not rush hurriedly into the presence of God
-wait a moment that you might know the conscious presence of Him that said "Be still, and know that I am God" Psalm 46:16
-The first step of prayer is praise
-tell the Lord how great He is
-Praise God through the Psalms
-Read the Psalms aloud, read it again, memorize it, say it to God.  Make it your own.  Say it in your own words
-Praise God through music.

Chapter 7 - Thanksgiving
-Second step in praying is thanksgiving.
-examine Psalm 100:4
Thanking God is a great antidote for depression, doubting and unpleasantness
-pause for Him to remind you of every blessing
-physical and spiritual
-everyday blessings

Chapter 8 - Sin
-confessing our sins
-the forgiveness of our sins is conditional, not automatic
-the child of God who has been born again by a personal act of faith between himself and the Lord Jesus lives in a state of right relationship with God, and that relationship cannot be broken.
-the daily confession of our sins (individually) to God is not a condition of our relationship with Him, but rather of our fellowship.
-black dog/white dog fighting inside - the one who you feed the most will win.
-to confess means actually "to agree with God as to His opinion of..."
-pray that God will give you a holy hatred of sin.
-our every thought, desire and act, must be brought into submission by the Holy Spirit.
-When you are reminded of the slightest wrong, forsake it, confess it, repent of it, kill it, despise it, destroy it, else the sore may become a cancer and the thought a personality, the deed a life.

Chapter 9 - Asking
-Philippians 4:19
-Psalms 37:4
-You can pray in faith when you pray for men to be reconciled with each other, for broken homes to be mended, for lives to be made at peace with God.
-John 7:38
-Ask God to form afresh the Lord Jesus in all His beauty and power in your innermost being, that you might pray His prayers, think His thoughts, desire what He desires.
-This is the secret to praying for others.  That God would raise up men and women so able to cooperate with Him, so willing to be yielded, that He might perform His perfect will through them.
-The world has yet to see what God can do with one man completely yielded to Him.
-Thanking God in advance is to affirm, strongly assert, and confirm our confidence in the forthcoming answer.
-So when you have finished your prayer of intercession, do not get up, but rather stay on your knees and affirm over and over the answer to your prayer.
-Thank God in advance that He is going to answer and then get up and go your way, acting as though it had already happened.  Do not check up on God your make other provision in case He doesn't do it.  Merely believe Him, Thank Him for the answer, receive it in faith and leave it with Him.

Chapter 10 - Waiting on God
-We wait on Him to be found anew within us and for our desires, thoughts, and ambitions to be brought into submission to His.
-In all of our service, and most of all at prayer, we must conscientiously be alert and strive to give Him our best.
-when you go to God with a problem that has many possible solutions - go to Him with each, one at a time- as you go to God with each, try to get your questions narrowed down to a simple yes or no answer
-as you begin to pray ask God to cleanse not only your heart and mine and soul, your tongue and every part of your being, but also to cleanse even your subconscious mind in the blood of Jesus.  Ask Him by the power of the blood to subdue every evil thought and desire of which you are not conscious
-when you know God and His will you can with the utmost of confidence, with no uncertainty, approach boldly the throne of grace and pray with the positive faith that brings the result for which you so earnestly long.

Chapter 11 - In Jesus Name
-John 14:13

Chapter 12 - A Final Word
-Potentially, all of the grace, attributes, virtues, and powers of God the Father, and of Christ His son are yours.  Do not ask God to give you more faith.  You do not need more faith.  You need to appropriate the faith you already have
-Receive Him, know Him, find His will, ask Him to do it, thank Him for having done it, and go your way, rejoicing that the victory is already won, the answer already given.
-My prayer for you is that you might, by learning to practice the principles set forth in this little book, know the power that is your birthright, the power of positive praying.