I'm making a stand

For OBEDIENCE.

Let the world know that I am no longer going to be rebellious, I'm becoming a slave to OBEDIENCE. OBEDIENCE is everything. OBEDIENCE is freedom. OBEDIENCE is the NARROW way, it costs everything to obey God. OBEDIENCE can sometimes not make sense at the time, we do it because He said it, and we love Him and trust Him that it will work in the end. He is not labouring for vanity, He is labouring for a good purpose.

What kind of love is this?

1 John 3:1 "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him." NKJV
NASB adds in - and such we are.

Help me to find the riches of the kind of love that makes me your child. I do not want anything else. To be loved by you and to love you is where my identity and value lies. The revelation of Your love is the source of all delight and pleasure. Do not withhold yourself from me, my Beloved. You have said to my heart, "Seek my face" my heart says to you "Your face, Lord, I will seek" Help me into the deep places of God. You see my heart. You started it, I have an answer to those who ask me "He started it" This kind of love which my heart yearns for.

A testimony that keeps on going

I have been reminded of several things recently. One is a scripture in Isaiah 56:5 which says:

"Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off."

I have a testimony to share regarding a podcast I watched on Thursday the 22nd of July, 2010. The podcast is from the Fascinate II conference at IHOP. I am not sure at what time the conference finished, but they were streaming live sessions from their website while the conference was on.