Don't let anyone bust your bubble today!

Offer You!

Reading in Numbers 28 today. This chapter gives more information about burnt offerings for the Lord. The Old Testament gives many rules and regulations and it is obvious that God was there for His people but there is also a distinct separation. Grains, oils and animals with out blemish were sacrificed for many reasons such as atonement for sin, the Sabbath, Passover, and regular routine offerings.

I am so grateful that today all I have to do is offer myself! Jesus paid my debt with His blood and flesh! There is not one person living today that God didn't send His son for. He was the ultimate sacrifice, the lamb without blemish! Sometimes it might feel difficult to be a Christian but it's not. Look back to the Old Testament and you will be relieved lol! Today God has made it simple, offer yourself first then, love God with all your heart and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. Those are the two great commandments. If you love the Lord with all your heart and soul and you are on fire for Him the rest will follow!

Facing Giants...

Reading in Numbers on my lunch hour. Whew these Israelites that the Lord saved from Egypt, whew they are a spoiled, ungrateful and doubting bunch. Every obstacle they face makes them question the Lords ability to help them overcome it. Here the Lord has commanded spies to go look at Canaan, the land the Lord is promised to them. The land is full of great fruit and truly flows with milk and honey BUT there are some obstacles like giants and fortified villages. I guess the people thought they should be able to just walk the easy road from Egypt strait to the promise land with no struggles. Sometimes I think like that too but guess what character is not developed with out tough times. Hellen Keller said "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." 

Well the Israelites gave up and said "We can't face these giants let's pick a leader and go back to Egypt." Wait, hold up, you have so little faith you would rather go back to your old misery because it's familiar??? In the verse I highlighted the Lord says to Moses "How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?"

Right now I pray that the Lord NEVER feels that way about me, oh yes I have rejected Him in the past but I have seen His work in my life and will decide day after day to never return to my familiar misery because whatever giants are out there I am not facing them alone anymore, God is ahead of me, facing them for me...

Don't Doubt It!

Good morning friends 😊 I am reading in Numbers 11 today.  This chapter starts out with the Lord being angered at the Israelites because of their constant complaining. These people were on a long journey to the promise land and the food that was given to them by the Lord was called manna yet they were not please they wanted meat in their belly and they went as far to say why did we ever leave Egypt? We had all the meat we wanted. Oh how soon they forgot the slavery and mistreatment they had under Pharos thumb... So Moses cried out to God saying I can not bear this burned of 600,000 people who want meat. The Lord told Moses bring me 70 elders and I will split up your burden and I will give people meat to eat not for a day not for two but for a whole month until it's running out of their nostrils. Moses questions the Lord, their are over 600,000 people how can you feed thin for a month? Will you pull all the fish from the sea??? Look what the Lord says: "Has the Lords arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen or not."

When we hear from the Lord and we doubt  Him we are minimizing the size of our God, shortening His arm... Is He not the God who put this whole world into motion! Doubt your doubts instead not the Lord or His promises. Also as a side note I got out of this scripture that sometimes we forgot where we came from and the past may seem brighter than it actually was. Don't take for granted what God has given you nor underestimate what He is still going to provide!

Hey Jealousy...

I'm reading in Numbers 5 this morning. The majority of this chapter is about unfaithful wives but what I want to highlight here is the spirit of jealousy that can come upon us even when our spouse isn't doing anything wrong. It is interesting to me that jealousy is defined here as a spirit that comes upon the man and it is so strong that he has to take his wife to the priest to go through this ritual which will either prove her guilt or freedom. 

Have you ever had jealousy like that of any kind? It is a really dangerous spirit to entertain. See the devil likes to distract us, it's what he is good at, something bad doesn't even have to happen he just has to make us think it could. I remember in my less than mature days there was a guy at work who appeared to have the perfect wife, the perfect home, the perfect kids and all the perfect experiences. A spirit of jealousy was on me, I wanted his life, I wanted us to have money and a nice house and his life was shining like a beautiful diamond in front of me DISTRACTING ME from the beauty of my own... Later when his life fell apart I realized that all along I had been jealous of smoke and mirrors, his life was a fraction of what he boasted it to be. All that wasted energy and all that sin of envy. Look if you are jealous whether it be of your spouse or your friend recognize that this is a spirit of envy that's working on your heart. Take it to the Lord and ask Him to reveal the truth. Don't be distracted by what may be only lies that are whispered in our ears by the enemy...

A God involved!

I have never read this verse before but it struck me as a WOW our God is Awesome moment as soon as I read it! 

Our God may be in heaven but you better believe He is looking on each of us and He is considering all of our works! This is the difference in a loving and living God, He is a God of involvement. He created us and didn't stop there! He wants a relationship with us, he works things out for His glory, He is in this thing with us!!! 

As the verse says He fashioned each of our hearts individually. You are not a cookie cutter person, guess what you are knit together in the womb by the hand of God who counts all the hairs on your head and makes you in His image! Take all the goodness from each of us in the world and put it together and you will see a glimpse of the character of God.

I love the pieces He gave me and the ones He gave you. Why because we can each have a unique experience with Him and we can have an individual contribution to His kingdom!

Thank you Lord for making each of us special and thank you for looking upon us everyday! May we look up from our dwelling place as often as you look from yours on us!!!

Freedom!

Reading Leviticus 25 today. I know the Lord loves us so much and I am constantly amazed at the provisions he makes for us. Even when it is undeserved God wants us to have peace, he wants us to abound in joy. He loves the poor and those who are tangled up in a mess he wants to give them a way out! 

In this chapter God tells Moses when you get to the land I am bringing you too there will be reaping and sowing of the harvest for 6 years but the seventh year is a year of rest for the land. (God knows what's good for the earth He created!) then count seven sabbaths years (7X7) and you will have 49 years. The next year, the 50th year will be a year of Jubilee! The year of Jubilee was a God ordained year of pardon! People were to rerun to their possessions and family's. It was a year where liberty was proclaimed. 

I am learning more and more about the consistency of Gods desire for us to be free, free of our chains so we can love Him and seek Him with our whole heart!