Here is a little insight into my notes on my iPhone. I wrote all of these random things today. I just go to my notes when I feel the spirit speaking & my notes are filled to the brim with little poems & thoughts like these:
my heart burns with anticipation & excitement for what is coming.
You are coming soon to make all things new. I feel it to my core. In my very spirit that is intertwined with the very spirit of God.
His spirit will not allow me to ignore or miss what’s happening. His spirit guides me in all truth.
““When the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I’ve said, ‘He takes from me and delivers to you.’” John 16:12-15
Reveal yourself to me & give me insight into Your heart. May every word that flows from me be from You, for You, by You, because of You, a reflection of You, magnifying You.
My heart magnifies You & burns within me as Your glory shines into my being just as sunbeams burn through a magnifying glass.
I awake every morning with a burning in my heart. A yearning for Your nearness. A longing to know You more than I did the day before. A sweet realization that I get to be Your hands & feet for another day. Eager to step forward wherever you lead.
I admire as God nourishes the beauty around me with little rains drops falling from the heavens, providing perfect provision.
His creation does not strive, struggle or strain to be what He has willed it to be.
You say, “where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them” but even still, I feel you near in the silence of solitude.
I quickly grabbed my phone to write what the spirit was putting on my heart & the text record microphone (where you talk into the mic & it types it for you) was on & my kids started fighting over a toy as I was writing this & it was so fitting I just left it:
the constant noise & distraction of daily life pulls [if I hear one more whine out of you, you are grounded from video games stop whining, and TV, go find a different toy] me further from your peace.
The Believers Prayer for Boldness – a prayer so powerful it shook the building Acts 4:31
i love You, even though i don’t understand You.
even when You don’t answer my prayers exactly as i hoped You would.
even when fear starts to overtake me.
in the midst of my struggles.
in my doubts.
in my frustration.
my temptations.
my pain.
my disappointment.
my suffering.
when my heart is too broken to bear.
i still just love You.
when i was a young girl, I would often go off by myself to the back yard to talk to God.
my favorite spots were the back porch swing & out by our pond. i feel closest to God when I’m outside barefoot, chin up to the sky, looking/ listening to his creation all around me.
I would cry out for help with what now seems so silly: help with math class, a basketball game, a boy to notice me.
In that season of my life, those were the things that were really testing me. & even though they may seem like nothing now, I look back in admiration at my child-like faith & pray for that same faith to be renewed in me. I still run to God today with that same love, but my faith feels like it’s taken a beating over the years. This fallen world seems to do all it can to beat it completely out of me.
“Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness.”
Ephesians 6:13-14
“Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are. In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation. All power to him forever! Amen.”
1 Peter 5:8-11
