Love > ___

The devil loves hate because it is not love.
It is the antithesis of love.
He hates love in us because it makes us look like the one he hates.
Love is the most powerful weapon over darkness.

  "Love covers over a multitude of sins."

Why? Because love by nature, is selfless. It serves and promotes the best interests/wants/needs/desires of another. Love creates community. Love is the way of life and light.

Hate, on the other hand is naturally selfish. It serves and promotes the best interests/wants/needs/desires of itself. Hate creates isolation. Hate is the way of death and darkness.

I'm completely messed up tonight by the contrast of love and anything else. Love is greater. I mean, let's look at love and law. The law is powerful. But love came along and rose as a higher standard, a greater law if you will. Look at the law of gravity. It binds things to the earth and it's gravitational pull. But! Now look at the law of aerodynamics. It trumps the law of gravity and allows flight or freedom from gravity.

Through love then, we have access to freedom. Love is a new dimension we have access to and can remain in if we choose to. Love is greater than ___. Insert the rule or law of your choosing.

Wow. We've missed it. Jesus didn't come to get us into heaven once we stumble through a brutal experience called life. He came to open the door to a whole new dimension of higher possibility! I'll end my rambling tonight with this question, "Why do we choose to continue walking and imposing our chosen state of walking on others when we've been given the ability to fly?"

The Glory of Kedar Will Come to an End

This morning Papa brought me to Isaiah 21:16-17. "For thus the Lord said to me, 'Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end. And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel has spoken.'"

Kedar means blackness or sorrow.

This is a word for right now. Within a year the glory, or reign or influence of darkness and sadness will come to an end. What's left of the arrows or words of darkness will be few.

This year has been a year of shifting. A year of birthing from one dimension into the other. When a baby is born, it is pushed through a portal or a door that is too small to comfortably pass through. In the past few weeks especially, there has been an intensity in the pressure. That just means the labor has started! Don't quit now! You are on the verge of entering into a new dimension of life and a new dimension of your destiny.

The Lord says that the glory of darkness and sadness in your life is over. It is time to enter into his glory of light and joy. As we finish out the last 5 months of the year, there will be an increased grace for the favor that's been growing in individuals to manifest. The seeds that have been sown in the first part of the year will begin to reap a harvest far greater than you could have ever imagined.

Because of the faithfulness of those who endured through the desert of the process, there are many anointed ones coming out with power. And just like Jesus was met with angels to supernaturally restore him after his 40 days were over, so there will be a supernatural refreshing and restoration seeking you out even today.

There are many who did not endure. Many who removed themselves from the process and the position. Those of you who are being promoted be gracious to those who let go of their inheiritance. Encourage and give lift to those around you and "beneath" you. That is what promotion is for.

The time of darkness and sadness is ending! Get ready for your days of life, light, and abounding joy!

So today I woke up and the devil told me it was going to be a shitty day. And honestly, for the first couple hours of the day I believed him. As I got dressed I also put on the huge backpack of fear of the future. I put on the heavy bags of guilt and shame and countless other burdens and I went about my day. 

As I drove to work, I put on some worship music and prayed some weak prayers begging God to help me. Prayers out of a place of forgotten identity. I forgot who I was and whose I was. I begged God for what he already had for me and wanted to give me...again. 

The exchange that followed over the next 6 hours or so I was completely oblivious to. Slowly as I checked in patients and got them ready to go back and see the doctor (I'm currently playing receptionist on the weekends for an optometrist) I had my weights removed. Worship music still playing to set the atmosphere, it became lighter. Jesus came and slowly took off each burden I dressed myself with earlier that morning. He wasn't angry, disappointed, or ashamed of me for dressing myself with darkness yet again. Especially after we have been in relationship for so long, you think he would have had some negative emotion towards me. But not an ounce of shame or condemnation came to me from him. 

As the day went on, I didn't realize the weight falling off me. Or the power, life, and glory returning. Not until I told my buddy I wouldn't be able to make it to his wedding this evening (which broke my heart) and sent him a prayer and blessing through text. It was then I started to realize what God was up to. About an hour later a friend had posted on facebook they were having a rough day and could use some encouragement. So I sent her a message. And as I felt and saw Gods words of life flowing out of me and not mine i truly realized the exchange that happened. 

The thing that's got me all messed up is that God was faithful to come to me and start exchanging my junk for his glory even when I had no clue he was doing it! Even though I should be at a place in my life where I "should know better" he didn't hold that against me or make me jump through some hoops to get free ...again. The truth is I already was set free, he just had to walk me back to the place of identity. He graciously reminded me who I was. 

That's truly Gods heart for each of us. He has GOOD intentions toward us all and his love and grace is always gentle and restoring in nature. Even when we should know better. So if you're in the midst of transition and you don't feel like anything is changing, be encouraged. Because you just might be having your junk removed piece by piece and not be able to tell it yet.