The Heart of the Lord

When He put two trees in the Garden, He honored them as people of free will but made Himself vulnerable to their bad choices.

"Do you want to carry My heart?"

"Yes Lord, I want to."

"Then you have to first give Me your heart. Will you trust Me with your heart? Will you trust me to protect your heart? Will you make your heart vulnerable? Will you trust Me to not drop your heart, not allow it to be dirtied or hurt?"

"Yes Lord, I want to live with Your heart beating in my chest cavity. Give me the sledgehammer of Love and Truth to break down all the walls i have built around my own heart! I give You my heart!"

Overflowing

And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.

-Acts 5:14-15

When Peter's shadow healed the sick, he didn't do anything other than just passed by. He didn't even pray. Peter just got so full of Holy Spirit that He overflowed.

Your shadow will release whatever overshadows you. - Bill Johnson

Father's Love Letter

My Child,

You may not know me,
but I know everything about you.
Psalm 139:1

I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
Psalm 139:2

I am familiar with all your ways.
Psalm 139:3

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
Matthew 10:29-31

For you were made in my image.
Genesis 1:27

In me you live and move and have your being.
Acts 17:28

For you are my offspring.
Acts 17:28

I knew you even before you were conceived.
Jeremiah 1:4-5

I chose you when I planned creation.
Ephesians 1:11-12

You were not a mistake,
for all your days are written in my book.
Psalm 139:15-16

I determined the exact time of your birth
and where you would live.
Acts 17:26

You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14

I knit you together in your mother's womb.
Psalm 139:13

And brought you forth on the day you were born.
Psalm 71:6

I have been misrepresented
by those who don't know me.
John 8:41-44

I am not distant and angry,
but am the complete expression of love.
1 John 4:16

And it is my desire to lavish my love on you.
1 John 3:1

Simply because you are my child
and I am your Father.
1 John 3:1

I offer you more than your earthly father ever could.
Matthew 7:11

For I am the perfect father.
Matthew 5:48

Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand.
James 1:17

For I am your provider and I meet all your needs.
Matthew 6:31-33

My plan for your future has always been filled with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

Because I love you with an everlasting love.
Jeremiah 31:3

My thoughts toward you are countless
as the sand on the seashore.
Psalms 139:17-18

And I rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17

I will never stop doing good to you.
Jeremiah 32:40

For you are my treasured possession.
Exodus 19:5

I desire to establish you
with all my heart and all my soul.
Jeremiah 32:41

And I want to show you great and marvelous things.
Jeremiah 33:3

If you seek me with all your heart,
you will find me.
Deuteronomy 4:29

Delight in me and I will give you
the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4

For it is I who gave you those desires.
Philippians 2:13

I am able to do more for you
than you could possibly imagine.
Ephesians 3:20

For I am your greatest encourager.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

I am also the Father who comforts you
in all your troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4

When you are brokenhearted,
I am close to you.
Psalm 34:18

As a shepherd carries a lamb,
I have carried you close to my heart.
Isaiah 40:11

One day I will wipe away
every tear from your eyes.
Revelation 21:3-4

And I'll take away all the pain
you have suffered on this earth.
Revelation 21:3-4

I am your Father, and I love you
even as I love my son, Jesus.
John 17:23

For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed.
John 17:26

He is the exact representation of my being.
Hebrews 1:3

He came to demonstrate that I am for you,
not against you.
Romans 8:31

And to tell you that I am not counting your sins.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

His death was the ultimate expression
of my love for you.
1 John 4:10

I gave up everything I loved
that I might gain your love.
Romans 8:31-32

If you receive the gift of my son Jesus,
you receive me.
1 John 2:23

And nothing will ever separate you
from my love again.
Romans 8:38-39

Come home and I'll throw the biggest party
heaven has ever seen.
Luke 15:7

I have always been Father,
and will always be Father.
Ephesians 3:14-15

My question is…
Will you be my child?
John 1:12-13

I am waiting for you.
Luke 15:11-32

Love, Your Dad
Almighty God

Abiding Love

I choose to live in the environment of love.

I choose to live the lifestyle of love.

God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. - 1 John 4:17, The Message

Hanging around the throne..

I realise that the Father do not need His children to do anything for Him. He just want their kids to enjoy being with Him, enjoy His love, having fun.

Then comes a point in time when the kids began to catch their Father's heart and want to run alongside Him in accomplishing His business.

Teach me to work with Him and not for Him. I want to be a child.

When do they get to choose?

Hitler persuaded the German people to destroy more than 6 million Jews in WWII. He convinced them that Jews were not humans and then exterminated them like rats.

Americans enslaved tortured and killed millions of Africans. They were dehumanized so that the American Constitution didnt apply to them and then they were treated worse than animals.

Native American Indians were hunted like wild animals, driven out of their own land, their villages burned, their women raped and their children slaughtered. People were made to believe that Native americans were wild savages, not real human beings and then they were brutalised without any conviction of wrongdoing.

Do we understand how we have persuaded mothers to kill their own babies? We took the word 'fetus', which is the Latin word for 'offspring' and redefined it to dehumanize the unborn. We told mothers, “This is not really a baby you are carrying in your belly, it's a fetus, tissue that suddenly forms into a human beings just seconds before it exits the womb."

In doing so, we were able to assert that in the issue of abortion, there is only one person's human rights to consider and then we convinced mothers that disposing of fetal tissue(terminating the life of their babies) was a woman's right. Our constitution no longer protects the unborn because they are not real people. They are just lifeless blobs of tissue.

Jews, Native Americans, African Americans should be the greatest defenders of the unborn on the planet. After all they know what's it like for society to redefine them so that they can destroy these races. But ironically, they have the highest abortion rates in America. Somebody is still trying to exterminate their people and they don't even realise it. The names have changed but the plot remains the same.

When a pregant woman is murdered, constitution states that it is a double murder. Is there anything else, anywhere else in the world that is defined by the circumstances of its termination rather than the origin of its conception? For instance, imagine running a vehicle into a wall and then if you did it on purpose, call it an iron old mineral deposit but if you did it by accident, call it an automobile. How stupid would it be to classify a vehicle by its termination rather than its conception? The people who need most protection, because they have no voice and no vote, are screaming silently as they are terminated in their mothers' wombs.

The injustice continues when we call those who are pro-abortion, pro-choice. The question isn't whether a woman gets to choose, it's when she gets to choose. In nearly every case, the act of sexual intercourse that resulted in conception was a choice made by a man and a woman, an act of their wills (assault rape pregnancies are extremely rare). But pro-choice advocates insist that conception is something that is caught, a disease, something that couldnt be helped. When does the child's will matter? When do they get to choose?

We owe the world an encounter with God

Recognise what God has already given to us...

Most boredness in prayer is due to us praying for things we already have...

We cry out for an outpouring without realising that we are knee-deep in water...

Water attracts water...

Most closed heavens are in between the ears...

Step out in faith with what we already have and we will see an outpouring...

We owe the world an encounter with God.