Lord..why? Seriously!! Lord??? Why this road??? Why Nineveh??? Why this pain...??? Why this hurt??? Why this betrayal?? Ever felt some of those questions just pour over your face and heart like hot tears as you attempt to rely on the Savior's words of promise amidst a storm???? Well, Jonah, below the deck of a great and mighty ship, lets the waves roll, asleep! Yes, Yes, our Jonah is ignoring the pain and the rebellion of his questions about the Lord's plan; Jonah is attempting to accept his resistance to trusting God's plan!!
Principle...when we fail to trust God's plan..we have taken things into our own hands...!!! Aha!!!..the infamous question: How's that working for you...???
Once again the clay..has forgotten who is the potter, and who is the clay...Oh Jonah!! Oh Jennifer...!! Jennifer was asked to go as an on-call missionary as a Junior in College in the yr. 2000!! The plan, to head to a French speaking post over the summer before my Senior yr. at Northwest Nazarene University. The time, 6 to 8 weeks assisting at a Nazarene post on foreign soil! The reason, to fulfill an internship needed for my major, Special Missions for the Church of the Nazarene! The purpose, to make sure that I, Jennifer, was cut out for the role of foreign missionary, to define the call I had from God!
Are you kidding me..??? Party..!! Party..!! Party...!!!! This was the plan and the chance that I'd been waiting for my whole college career!! Ohhh Baby..!!! Just get me on that plane and let's go fulfill God's call like yesterday!!! Have you ever thought you just had things all figured out and then found your self completely questioning what on earth you were doing??? Have you heard the voice of God and then wondered, "Lord, are you even the one who talked to me?" Or, perhaps you have wondered, "Lord, I know you're calling me, but perhaps you've intended me for something else and I just hijacked your plan?" Fear, Chaos, and insecurity have no place amongst the fully persuaded....right? Well, if you've felt fear, chaos and insecurity, then there is a very good chance that you are questioning God's plan and God's goodness like all the great cloud of witnesses before you, so don't beat yourself up...!!! Don't do it...!!! Yes, take captive every thought and give them to God, but don't beat yourself up for being human...No, you cannot save yourself from your depraved ways of thinking, but God Almighty can redeem your thoughts...!! His precious Holy Spirit is always interceding for you in words we cannot even fathom and the Christ, your messiah sits at the right hand of God cheering for you to succeed...not fail...!!! Praise the Lord, His perfect Love will always come down and drive out all fear, if we'll turn to Him and Live!!
I have some great news for those of us that don't like to question God and then hate ourselves for it when we do: He, can take it and Love us and Lift us up for He uses the broken hearted...He breaks the insecurity..He reassures you with His love..He smashes fears with His mighty power and tender mercies...and most precious promises....and finally, He is the missionary in every calling..not you!!! God always equips and reassures and transforms those He calls...!! Praise His Holy name!! We are about to get seriously into a 5 part series about the Perfect Love of God and the Perfect Plan He wants us to walk in while we tarry awhile here on Earth..longing for our heavenly dwelling...
For now, let's worship?? Please enjoy this video about the Promise of God's totally awesome Love....
Principle...when we fail to trust God's plan..we have taken things into our own hands...!!! Aha!!!..the infamous question: How's that working for you...???
Once again the clay..has forgotten who is the potter, and who is the clay...Oh Jonah!! Oh Jennifer...!! Jennifer was asked to go as an on-call missionary as a Junior in College in the yr. 2000!! The plan, to head to a French speaking post over the summer before my Senior yr. at Northwest Nazarene University. The time, 6 to 8 weeks assisting at a Nazarene post on foreign soil! The reason, to fulfill an internship needed for my major, Special Missions for the Church of the Nazarene! The purpose, to make sure that I, Jennifer, was cut out for the role of foreign missionary, to define the call I had from God!
Are you kidding me..??? Party..!! Party..!! Party...!!!! This was the plan and the chance that I'd been waiting for my whole college career!! Ohhh Baby..!!! Just get me on that plane and let's go fulfill God's call like yesterday!!! Have you ever thought you just had things all figured out and then found your self completely questioning what on earth you were doing??? Have you heard the voice of God and then wondered, "Lord, are you even the one who talked to me?" Or, perhaps you have wondered, "Lord, I know you're calling me, but perhaps you've intended me for something else and I just hijacked your plan?" Fear, Chaos, and insecurity have no place amongst the fully persuaded....right? Well, if you've felt fear, chaos and insecurity, then there is a very good chance that you are questioning God's plan and God's goodness like all the great cloud of witnesses before you, so don't beat yourself up...!!! Don't do it...!!! Yes, take captive every thought and give them to God, but don't beat yourself up for being human...No, you cannot save yourself from your depraved ways of thinking, but God Almighty can redeem your thoughts...!! His precious Holy Spirit is always interceding for you in words we cannot even fathom and the Christ, your messiah sits at the right hand of God cheering for you to succeed...not fail...!!! Praise the Lord, His perfect Love will always come down and drive out all fear, if we'll turn to Him and Live!!
I have some great news for those of us that don't like to question God and then hate ourselves for it when we do: He, can take it and Love us and Lift us up for He uses the broken hearted...He breaks the insecurity..He reassures you with His love..He smashes fears with His mighty power and tender mercies...and most precious promises....and finally, He is the missionary in every calling..not you!!! God always equips and reassures and transforms those He calls...!! Praise His Holy name!! We are about to get seriously into a 5 part series about the Perfect Love of God and the Perfect Plan He wants us to walk in while we tarry awhile here on Earth..longing for our heavenly dwelling...
For now, let's worship?? Please enjoy this video about the Promise of God's totally awesome Love....
1 John 4: 7-19
God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testifythat the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us.
We will be using this text to reveal some powerful principles for saying yes to God and understanding that it's His plan, not yours and His power, not yours, and His love, not yours that will breakdown walls, shatter shadows and change lives forever...I ask you dear Lord to take my heart and to fill it with your love and that your perfect love might transform this crazy, dark world...by your strength and power..May this be true in my life..May I walk with you in full surrender, knowing that your perfect Love will drive the clouds away..and fears will fade in the light of your glorious face...Praise your Holy Name..
Thank you for writing this! Looking forward to your next post!
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