Courage comes from love

Emilia – 8th November 2015

As I was questioning God about why he created us with a free will when that same free will could be used to (knowingly or unknowingly) reject or hurt Him or His loved ones, He started to reveal more facets of the Power of Love.

“Love comes from free will.  Can you force someone to love?  No.  It’s impossible.  You can force someone to comply and act in loving ways, but you can never ever ever force a heart to love someone.  Hence why I created you with a free will.  I want your love and I want to love you.

As I pondered the idea that God created millions and millions of human beings I was brought to a glimpse of the utter vastness and shear size of His love, and the shear size of the risk He took of being hurt by so many.

“WOW, that’s courageous of You”,  I commented.

“Yes”  He answered.  “Love is courageous”

I then contemplated the idea of the saying ‘when you love someone set them free, if they love you they will come back’.

I realised that God has already exercised the courage of giving us the free will to potentially hurt Him with our choices and He has already exercised the courage of ‘letting us all go’.   He created us in love and in courage.  He is courageously and eagerly hoping that we choose to love Him and come home.

I came to realise that when we need to find courage to do something, we need to find love for that something.   I also realised that God, himself, already exercised courage for that same thing and we can rest in His courage and love.

Deuteronomy 31:6  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you

Discover Me. Discover You.

Emilia – 8th November 2015

“Children!  My beloved children.  I love you with My deepest being.  You stir the life in Me!  I am ever so proud of you.  I love that you want to know Me deeply.  I love that you want to spend time with Me… the real Me.  Many approach me with their own version of who I am, but you want to spend time to discover the real Me.  That’s why and how I am allowing you to discover the real you.  And don’t you find freedom in that?”

John 4:23 But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father is spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him

If you are feeling a drawing to our Lord and desperately searching to know the truth about Him, then the good news is this….  He loves it!  He wants to be known, just like we do.  Don’t you love it when you truly know someone from sharing your hearts together, being vulnerable together?  You can know about someone, and then you can really know someone.  Its the same with God and He wants us to get to know Him.  If we come to Him with that same vulnerability, He will share parts of His heart that you’ve never seen before AND you will discover truths about yourself too.

The Lord Will Give You Rest

Nathan – Thursday 5th Nov 2015

I have not posted anything for the last couple of weeks out of respect for a dear friend who passed away last Tuesday but felt that now I needed to share something that the Lord has placed on my heart for the last few days. It has been a difficult week and a half and even during my own lack of understanding and desperation to seek God for answers, The Lord is continually reminding me that no matter what we go through, through Christ our Savior, we have the ability to overcome all obstacles and situations, because He has already overcome them for us.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭11:28‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The Lord wants us to come to Him with all our burdens, all our pain and suffering and hand it over to Him so that He can give us rest and piece in the situation we are going through. It doesn’t mean we forget all that has happened or that we don’t feel any emotion anymore, it means that if we trust God and place it in His hands, He will help us and give us the strength to get through our current circumstances and we will feel a piece in knowing that Jesus is doing the journey with us and we can rest in The Holy Spirit to guide us in overcoming all that we are going through.

Lately I have been listening to a particular Hillsong United song called “Take Heart” and every time I listen to it, I am reduced to tears, not with tears of sorrow but with tears of joy knowing that whatever this world may throw at me, Christ has already overcome and given me the power to overcome through Him.  I have changed the words slightly to make it more of a personal declaration during the start of my prayer time in the mornings and this is how it reads.

“Lord, you are my light, You burn brighter than the sun, You steal the night. You cast no shadow and in you Lord, there is hope. Should oceans rise and mountains fall, Lord, you never fail.

So I take heart Lord, Because your love leads me through the night. I Hold on to hope, and in you Lord, I take courage again.

In death by your love Lord, The fallen world was overcome. You wear the scars of my freedom and in your Name Lord Jesus, all my fears are swept away, you never fail.

All my troubles and all my tears, God you are my hope and you have overcome. All my failure and all my fears, God you are love and you have overcome. All my heartache and all my pain, God you are my healer and you have overcome. All my burdens and all my shame, God you are my freedom and you have overcome.

God you are my justice, God you are my grace, God you are my freedom and you have overcome. God you are my refuge, God you are my strength, God you are with me and you have overcome.”

Amen