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A Call To A Disciplined Mindset

A Call To A Disciplined Mindset

Beloveds, I was spending time with the Lord in the early hours of this morning and I feel that this is what the Lord wants us to become mindful of. Let us truly open up and search our hearts as we read this and let us really press into that which the Lord wants us to be focused on in this season.

Hardened Hearts

“Many of my children have become numbed by circumstances that has hardened their hearts. They have been falling into the trap of the enemy by being swallowed by fear and worries for their future – they have lost sight of Me. Didn’t I say : ” For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future?” (Jeremiah 29:11). Haven’t I said: ” You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart?” (Jeremiah 29:13). They cannot find me because their hearts are far removed from me and their idols that they are using to comfort them has become their focus.

Return

But today I am calling them back! Come, Return – Times of refreshing is at hand! It is time for my people to rise from the ashes and put on a new garment of praise, for I want to do great wonders in their sight. It is time to open up your gates so that My Glory can come in. You need to surrender afresh to Me so that My face can shine upon you and enlighten your spirit, soul and body. When My face shines upon you, darkness will be expelled.

I can only keep moving for you if the eyes of your heart do not lose sight of Me. I cannot keep moving for you where the noise of the world draws you away from who I am, when you start operating in your own strength and trying to figure things out with your cognitive mind. What you focus on you will become conscious of! Where is your mind at?

Disciplined Minds

It is time to become more serious and disciplined in your walk with Me. This will require that you make a decision to either stay in the oppressive mindsets or choose to come into the light and reside there. You are only kept in darkness or light by what you allow yourself to meditate upon. What do you believe?

My Word

I am Your Redeemer and ever present Help in trouble. I will do what I say, but darkness has blinded many to believe that the state they are in is My doing?

It is time to believe what My Word says. My Word is your compass. If you believe with your whole heart, you will be saved. My living waters will flow through My Word and you will be changed when you meditate and apply my Word to your circumstances.

I want to heal your land. Come closer once again and allow My love to touch Your heart. The Lord of Hosts is ready to save. Psalm 80:3 Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.

Today, will you choose who or what you will allow to rule over you?”

Beloveds, let us respond to the Lord – even if you are not in this space – let us stand in and cry out to the Lord for our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ that are stuck. If we want to truly walk in our authority in Christ we need to have a different mindset and start walking as overcomers and rule over darkness.

Let us pray: Father, we cry out to You today for ourselves, our families and the body of Christ. We have lost sight of who You are. Our minds are being tormented by the voices of darkness. Our hearts are loving idols. We have learnt a behavior to run to other things that soothes our flesh and not run to You, who are the only Way, the Truth and the Life. Therefore, Father, we have lost the Way, the Truth and the Life. We are weary because we are not drinking from the well of living water. Lord, we repent for all of the above. We repent that we are in this condition because we have allowed ourselves to look and listen to the worlds view of things. We repent for hardening our hearts and blaming You for our condition. Please forgive us Lord. We have gotten so used to running to things that we think brings us comfort but in actual fact we are being swallowed deeper and deeper into a hole of death and depression. Father, today we choose to turn our focus back to You. We know that if we keep going this way it will only lead to destruction. Please turn Your face towards our spirit, soul and body and save us. Father we open up our gates and we welcome You King of Glory – Come in! In Jesus name. Amen and amen

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Sacred To The Lord

Sacred To The Lord

Psalm 30:11

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy



I want to dedicate this post to everyone that have been feeling forgotten, broken, and lost. Those of you that are depleted and want to give up. I want to tell you this – Your Savior, Jesus is here! Listen with your spirit today – Your Savior, Jesus is here! He has never left your side and He never will.

I would like to share a vision with you that God gave me when I had to deal with a certain heartache I had. I hope you will be encouraged by this because this is the character and lovingkindness of our Father.

When my dad died at the beginning of this year, we could not have a burial because of the virus and there were also no graves available to bury him. So, our family had a small memorial service in my mom’s garden. I got home, had to pack to move to a different Province and when I eventually was packed out in our new home, I suddenly felt a lot of emotion concerning my dad’s death. I did not really had time to mourn his death because of the quick in and out and packing that was going on.

So, like I always do when I feel emotional, I ran to Jesus! I asked Him what was going on and how I should deal with this. He showed me that I did not say goodbye to my father properly. When there is a burial one gets finality, but us as a family have not gotten that finality. My mom and brother could only bury my father 2 months after his death.

I asked Jesus to show me what to do with this overwhelming feeling and immediately I saw a vision. I was walking with Jesus through a garden. It was a familiar place to me. This is where I always spend time together with Jesus. As we walked, we got to an entrance to another place I have never seen. Immediately the atmosphere changed. It was cool, peaceful and it felt like I had to be very quiet. I heard Him say: “This is a very sacred place.” I then understood why I felt to be quiet. It was a place of reverence! We entered and another garden opened in front of us. This garden was different. The flowers were different, the layout was different. It was glorious. We walked quietly and we came to a place in the middle of the garden where I saw Abba Father and Holy Spirit standing and waiting for us. There was a grave dug out and I immediately knew that this was where I would bury my dad. Jesus, Abba Father and Holy Spirit was with me as I was crying, releasing, and disconnecting from my dad. As we were busy lowering the casket, I heard the Lord say: “I turn your mourning into dancing, your sorrow into joy”. It was a beautiful, special burial. When we closed the grave, beautiful yellow flowers came up and covered that area.

I asked the Lord what this garden really was, and He said to me that it was a garden dear to His heart. This was the place where I have allowed Jesus, Abba Father and Holy Spirit to help me with my pain and sorrow. This garden with the most beautiful flowers, where so much peace and joy resided was my pain that I dealt with over the years, where Jesus has helped and saved me and where He has turned my sorrow into joy!

My garden of pain today is full of joy and peace, and I walk in absolute awe of God because He has brought me out of many overwhelming trials and tribulations. He did an extraordinarily decent job. The enemy cannot pull me to my past sorrow because there is no more sorrow but joy!

Beloved, when I walked away from that time I spent with Jesus, it was over, my heart was relieved, the burden lifted from my shoulders, and I had tremendous joy. I miss my dad, but I do not have that tremendous sorrow I had.

THIS IS WHO JESUS IS! This is His character. If you invite Him into your pain and sorrow, if you tell Him I do not have the answers, but I choose to look to you, please help me. He will surely come. But you must sit with Him and not just think He will cast a spell and fix stuff. You need to wait on Him or ask for help if you feel it is too difficult to hear what He is saying. Get someone that loves God to pray with you and hear with you.

Most of all, repent and ask God forgiveness for accusing Him of not being there for you and for leaving you. When we have a grudge against God our channel to communicate with Him gets a bit blocked. Repentance will remove the blockage.

Beloved, when you allow Jesus to help you through your pain, it touches His heart, and it is most sacred to Him.



Romans 10:13 For Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.

Psalm 91:15 When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them.



Let us pray: Abba Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, I want to repent today that I want to give up. I feel lost and overwhelmed by my pain. I cannot handle it anymore. I repent that I have blamed You and that I have run away from You because it is Your fault for not helping me. Please forgive me and wash me in your blood. Please remove all the dark thoughts and plans I entertained. Cleanse me in Your blood and please take charge over my thoughts and emotions. I invite Your presence and interference into my life, into my thoughts and emotions. I lay it before You and I cry out: “Jesus, come rescue me!” Send help from Your sanctuary in the name of Jesus! (Psalm20). I invite You into my garden of pain so that You can turn my mourning into dancing and my sorrow into joy. Come Lord Jesus come. You are welcome! I pray this in Your precious, beautiful name, name above all names – JESUS CHRIST. Amen and amen.

Letting Go In Grieving

Letting Go In Grieving

“Grieve” – To mourn or sorrow for – A normal process of reacting to loss.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens

:4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

Dearest beloved, I would like to share one other story with you. I pray that Abba Father will touch you and guide you through your time of grieving and letting go. He has made provision for times like these in our lives. He has everything ready to take you through these times of letting go. All you need to do is to allow Him to help you through this process. May Holy Spirit rest on you as you read this and may He wrap Himself around you and take charge over you in Jesus name.

Letting go

Our season has come to leave our home that we have lived in for 16 years. We have raised and homeschooled our children here. Our blood, sweat and tears went into this place. Many memories were made and altars of worship and praise have been built for our King Jesus. Gladness, joy, sadness, breakthroughs, healings, deliverance, peace and the list goes on and on – This was our home! Then God said: “Buy a land!” A land flowing with milk and honey, a land of peace and rest! A land far, far, far away from everyone and everything we know. Exciting but more scary.

When the time came to start packing up I could feel how I started numbing my emotions from how I really felt about leaving all behind. It was supposed to be a happy, exciting time, but I didn’t feel it. I also started feeling sick in my stomach from keeping everything cropped up by not expressing what I felt. I felt that I would hurt my family that was excited for the move with my negativity (which was a lie, it was not negativity, it was my mothers heart that had to let go of the memories of raising my children in this house).

One morning while I was busy with my quiet time the Lord spoke to me and said:” I give you 3 days to grieve”. It was almost a shock to me because grieve is such a strong word, not to speak of the emotion. I said grieve Lord, I mean, is it really that bad that I have to grieve about it? I immediately felt that this was needed to disconnect myself from the old so that I could embrace the new season with open arms. I said to the Lord that I would grieve my 3 days, but I needed Him to take full charge so that it wouldn’t be a time of torment and that He needed to trigger me so that I could start letting it all out – for my feelings were bottled up so well. Oh man, He did it so well. I found photos of me homeschooling our children, I remembered certain instances of praying through the night with ill children, spending time with the Lord in the early morning hours, I remembered the worship sessions we held and so many more. Each one of these memories brought a lot of tears. I had to feel the sadness to affectively disconnect from the land and space.

I have learnt in this time that letting go in the grieving was not a shameful or bad thing, it is necessary for us to express and release that which we feel so that we can move into the new season, new relationships, building new memories etc. with hope and excitement. We can’t move on if we don’t disconnect completely from the old.

These 3 days were hard, but Holy Spirit was closely helping and comforting me. Everyday I could feel how that feeling of despair and the pain in my body left. On the third day Jesus came and started ministering and packing me with that which He was giving us to take into the new land. My heart was completely sorted out and I was ready to leave this home behind.

Summary

Beloved, when you face a time where you have to let go of a relationship, a home, a job, a loved one that passed or whatever it may be. It is important to disconnect properly by allowing yourself to feel and express your sadness and heartache. If you don’t disconnect and release yourself, you will struggle in your new space and new relationships. You will have difficulty to move on. Let us not waste time by staying in a numbed state and by bottling up our pain. Let us make sure to disconnect, release and allow God to show us what must take place. DON’T GET STUCK! Come on let’s walk on…

Let us pray: Abba Father, I know I have to let go, I know I have to move on, but I am scared. I am scared of the unknown, I am scared of loneliness. I am scared I won’t make it. I am scared of allowing the sadness to come out. I am scared of really feeling. I repent Father, fear is not from You. Please forgive me and wash me in Your blood in Jesus name. You know what is best for me and what space or place or relationships I need to grow some more. I surrender, Father. Father, I give You permission to supervise my letting go. Please keep me from torment in Jesus name. Please take hold of me and guide me through all the times in my life of disconnecting and moving into the new. I trust You to prepare my spirit for these seasons so that it will not be overwhelming for me to deal with in the future, in Jesus name. Into Your hands I commit my life and the preparation of my spirit to embrace every shift and change that will come my way. Come Lord Jesus come! You are welcome to take me through in Jesus name! Amen and amen.