August 20, 2022
Good Morning Yahweh. Thank you for a brand new day. Ever so often I start to daydream and I have to actively pull my mind back to the present. My question is: is there a reason why my imagination is so active? Huh. Okay. It’s part of your/my creativity. Can I train my mind then to (lol. I’m not sure how to put it). I guess I have to always remember that everyone’s story is different. What may be a gift for others designed to be used as part of the purpose you have called them to, can be detrimental in others. I was just thinking how for Steph, her daydreaming stopped immediately. And truthfully I wondered why I was still struggling (I’m sorry, I truly do my best not to compare, please forgive me). But then I realise that many times out of these “ramblings” comes great ideas. It has helped me write plays and poems, visualise sketches (though I never see the full outcome in my mind just the concept), and it is something that is used in your ministry so you won’t take it away. Thank you for understanding better than I do. Thank you for not taking it away and for helping me to understand. Help me to use these gifts wisely and for your glory. I pray that everything I do will point to you. Use me to do your will.
CONFESSION: I don’t want to be silent, but sometimes I feel like I talk too much about you. Or rather that others feel that I talk too much about you. It could just be a false impression on my part, but I’ll keep talking about you. But I pray that I will use wisdom when doing so, so that I will say the right words at the right time. I pray for your spirit to be in me. Speaking through me, empowering me. Father, Son, Spirit.
Question: Why doesn’t Spirit have another name like Jesus does? And I just realised why. Thank you for answering.
Answer: All the names of God apply to all the entities of the Godhead. Yahweh, Jehovah, Elohim (which is pluralistic in nature), El Roi and so on. They all apply to all of you. Jesus Christ was the only one who came in physical body and so needed a physical name for his time here on earth. It is now a part of him: the death, the scars (Sigh, it is amazing to think that a perfect being is now scarred and yet still perfect. And it reminds me that broken doesn’t have to be our normal. We can be healed and still have scars).
Right. Back to what you were saying. Because you took on humanity, the name became a part of you and while you (all of you) answer to all, Jesus is specific to the Son. The only one who has a “human” name specific to him. He was the only one who died.
Thank you for who you are. For helping me to understand a bit more of who you are (just a little bit), but I like it. Yahweh, I pray that as I go out today, that I will allow you to cover me completely. So that you will be seen. That I would be protected. Help me to live for you. To smile for you. Thank you for who you are. Your courage and strength. I love you and I’m glad to know you. Thankful that you have always known me. Today is yours.
Matthew 22:37-39 – Jesus answered him, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’
You make me smile, you know. Listening to what was said in relation to this scripture, the mind is (of course) attributed to our thoughts: what we think of. Are they things of you? And while not all the time it’s of you directly (cause if I’m thinking of what cake to bake, it won’t be about you directly), a lot is about you and what you want me to do. How you want me to do it. Thank you for coming into my mind, heart and soul.
So. I just heard someone say that they want God to be the Guest of Honour in this place (our hearts). I wholeheartedly disagree: a guest leaves. Yahweh, I don’t want you as a guest of honour in my home, I want you to live in my home. To be comfortable in my home. Not the comfort that I forget you’re there, but that of knowing you are an integral, indispensable part of how this home operates. The centre of this home.
Sidebar: Well. Not sure what caused this to happen, but the swipe feature on my phone to go back to the home screen has stopped working. Not sure why. Actually ended up putting back the buttons at the bottom of the screen. This will definitely take some readjustments on my part.
Sermon
Faith or Fantasy
So this sermon came up in my recommendations. I’m gonna listen because I was just speaking about my imagination.
- The obedience to believe is my job, his job is to make it happen. The outcome is his.
I know you know I needed to know.
Framework of Faith
Imagination: Spiritual womb
Intercession
Vision: Write it down (receipt of what Yahweh said).
Hope: Fuel for faith
Faith: Believing. Will you believe enough to do something?
Faith is contagious: that is why you share the testimony.
You gave me a picture that is different from what I naturally do. That’s why you said don’t tell anyone. They will freak out. I will believe.
Hebrews 11:3 – Faith convinces us that God created the world through his word. This means what can be seen was made by something that could not be seen.
See it before it happens
KJV – Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
I am framing my life by my thoughts. What I think affects my life. Imagination is God-given, but it needs to be built out.
CONFESSION: So I’ve been imagining speaking about what you are doing in me and through me. And I honestly started thinking, “Why are you trying to promote yourself?” But seeing myself doing all these things can (and should) be a tool of the vision. The difference is: where is the focus? On me or you? How is it being used to glorify you? I’ve always felt that part of my call isn’t to those out there (I guess I’m not a Paul, I’m a Peter). And truthfully I’ve seen where I am placed most of the time is in an area to minister to those who are of you. To encourage them to believe.
