DEO VOLENTE

DEO VOLENTE:

This is the Latin phrase for God Willing and I want to make sure that all my choices are based on His will and not my own. It helps to keep the focus on the moment to moment victories instead of worrying or looking down the road to see what may happen in the future. Each day carry’s enough trouble of it’s own. Our focus should be in every thought Deo Volente because His will IS more important than anything we have going on in our life.

One Love, One King, All Christ!

Even Jesus needed it!

WOW! Life can become so amazingly busy that we forget the simplest of things.  What’s crazy is that the simplest of things is what keeps us sane and protected.  I mean I have in me the Holy Spirit, who will help me and protect me through each and every moment of my life.  He will be there for my pains and my victories.  The Holy Spirit is like our own personal Ninja Bodyguard.  There is nothing on this Earth, Nor in Hell or Heaven that can defeat him.  Jesus gave us the example of how to live as a Christian, by showing us that even as the God Man he needed the Holy Spirit with him.  He showed us that our ability to defeat the Evil One comes from our faith that the Holy Spirit in us will overcome.  I know that my breakthrough is near because I so readily want to just give up or be lazy about it, but then the Holy Spirit in me reminds me that my life is not about me.  This life I have chosen to live affects others and they matter.  When I read Jesus’ story it sinks deeply into my soul that He is the only way.  Now, the coolest part is that he just didn’t leave us with and example to follow, but he gave us the Ninja Bodyguard protector (A.K.A Holy Spirit.)  The Holy Spirit is amazing in how he can comfort us, discipline us and protect us.  When I look at my life what I realize more than anything is that God’s Grace allows me  the opportunity to share His Name, but the Holy Spirit speaks through me the truth and love and healing of Jesus Christ.  I am so thankful that I have learned this now, and that trusting in My God, My Papa, My Adonai means no matter what the World throws at me I would rather fight through the pain of change, with the Holy Spirit by my side, than suffer staying where I am at now!

One Love, One King, All Christ!

Change the focus

One of the best things I have learned from the Holy Spirit has been to change the focus.  You see I have spent the majority of my Christian life focused on not sinning and while doing that my journey has been a rough one.  It has been hard to be obedient to God because I would continually put myself first in “my” battle.  As I have been reading and studying these past few days, I have learned I need to become a captive of Hope.  I need to place my faith and hope in that God will release me from my thoughts, and while he is working on me, my focus needs to be on him and not on how can I serve him better by not sinning.  Not sinning is not the answer, it goes back to the old saying of don’t touch the stove or it will burn you!!  Well I know many people including myself who didn’t learn not to touch the stove until they actually touched it and got burned.  If we keep telling our selves not to sin guess what, that is exactly what is going to be on our mind pretty much all the time.  Then the blessings and interactions God sets for us can be missed.  I want to focus on his love for me, the fact that Jesus says he is a redeemer and a re-warder, I want my works to come because I want to serve him and not because I have too.  I want to be the kind of servant who chooses to wash people’s feet because I know the journey they have taken to come to that point in their life.  I want to be the kind of servant who knows without a shadow of a doubt, I can sit at the table like Psalms 23 says while my enemies are waging war.  To know that God is the kind of God that wants to love me should be enough to change my focus.  My thoughts should be in line with His and when they run astray I need to hold them captive and give them over to the Holy Spirit.  We have access to the most powerful weapon/tool/protector with us in the Holy Spirit.  Let us stop reminding our selves that we are sinners, rather let us remind one another that we are His Beloved, his chosen ones.

Now, I have tremendous discipline and aptitude for sin, but if I switch that effort into my love affair with the Almighty, how much more will I be able to shine to those who need him.  My heart needs to be broken for those who are lost and hurt, for those who need healing or an encouraging word.  If I continue on a path of just being obedient then eventually I will be disobedient.  However, It is in Christ’s sacrifice that we receive Grace.  I will and have changed my Focus from myself to Christ in me.  That is what happened the day I accepted him, he became a part of me and the Holy Spirit is with me as well.  I can call on the angels for refuge and know that Christ is my fortress.  This world has many pains and evils that we will experience, but as Jesus says he has come so that we may have life and live it abundantly.  That abundance he is speaking of is Him, he can and will guide our life once we learn how to change our focus.  This is like a great photographer, they know in order to capture the moment of their art it must be in focus or it loses its influence.  The same goes for us and how we chose to follow Christ.  We can either Choose to follow him out of focus and continually look at our self and our brokenness first or we can choose to follow him in focus which allows us to gain the influence, grace, power, mercy and love of our Holy and Mighty Papa! I am choosing the latter.

One Love, One King, All Christ!