September

So here are a few pictures that I have taken this month :)

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So recently I've been really learning in my heart some of the things the Lord has been showing me and the people around me for awhile now. The Father is so good. And the word good seems so simple compared to the definition of the word. One of the words we looked at as a meaning for was intrinsic (thanks to Raymond). Definition: belonging to something by it's very nature. The LORD is good because He is the definition of the word!

I also listened to a sermon recently called "the real Jesus" by Bill Johnson. He covers a lot of good things in this sermon but what stood out to me the most when he was talking about the difference between living here with hopes of having heaven here and living in the kingdom while we are here on earth.. Because we are seated in heavenly places we are the righteousness of Christ. We must have a kingdom of heaven mindset to live in that realm or have that kind of supernatural lifestyle. So how do we get this mindset? We have to know in our heart that Jesus died so that there will always be enough and that every disease was cured 2000 years ago. Faith is from the heart and not from the mind. Simply having knowledge of something is never sufficient in the kingdom.

I have also noticed that my mindset has been wrong about the way i view my everyday life..how can I sit here and decide that I need the LORD when He was the one who appointed me anyways (1 John 2:20)..It's not "our" walk anyways. We have the privilege of being asked to join His great plan. We are not the ones with the plan or the power so why would we try to apply GOD like a subject to our life.

It's exactly the opposite.

When we truly die in CHRIST, that person, desires and all, die and we become a new heavenly being.

Our thoughts become life.

Our interest becomes love.

We never worry because there is always enough and everything works together for our good. So the reason we don't have this life is because we have not truly let go of the old life. A part of our mind (which might as well be all of it) is still attached to this earth and the desires and thought processes of it (religious mindset).

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My recent reading: Compelled by Love by Heidi Baker

Im only a chapter in, and I have a whole new perspective on what it means to be poor in spirit. Now that I know what it is, my real issue is figuring out how to get there. how to get the heart to be more powerful than the mind.

I like that she uses a lot of Mother Teresa quotes. I had never thought much about her before but by the quotes used you can tell she lived a supernatural life being truly poor in spirit: not being able to survive without the Lord.

Heres one of the quotes I liked from Mother Teresa:

"Hungry for love, He looks at you.

Thirsty for kindness, He begs from you.

Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you.

Sick and imprisoned for friendship, He wants from you.

Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you.

Will you be that one to Him?"