More "floor stories"

Last week we met again at the Zion Road Healing Rooms for a soaking meeting. Soaking is just a good word to describe time spent with all of our being focused on the presence of God.



With all other gatherings, there is a "DO' purpose. And we need to DO things truly, however it is too common to neglect DOING NOTHING so God can finish what He began in us.


FREEDOM FROM PERFORMANCE BASED LIVING
I'd been feeling a nudge to point the meeting toward freedom from performance based living and brought briefly the outline from Soaking School on the subject. The CD that followed as we soaked was about nearly 2 hours of music and other pieces that further layered that into us.

IT MAKES HOLY SPIRIT HAPPY

It's a stretch for an American Christian to lay down and allow Holy Spirit that much uninterrupted time, but it makes HIM happy. He expressed His joy by coming personally, on a very real and intimate level to each person in the room.

ENCOUNTERS TOO PERSONAL TO SHARE

Afterward, some said that what was done in them was too personal to share. Others had some powerful images embedded in them and everyone agreed that this was a much needed amazing time.

A few days later a friend told to me of a very weird thing that she experienced in the meeting. She went on to describe in depth an encounter with Jesus reaching into her and pulling a deep critical root and taking all the time of the meeting to surgically stitch up the little crevices where the root had spread. (If we had shortened the time, He wouldn't have been able to finish up. )

I just got another email from her. Holy Spirit has continued in that process with her and is using other ministries to go into the root and really free her up from something that had been a barrier in her life for years. Through exposure to many perfectionists in her life, the root had come and is now being eradicated.
Her Father, she said, was quite a nit-picky guy. Nothing was ever good enough for him. She married someone who was similar in that perfectionism as is the extended in-law family. This has all seemed in to her soul over many years. Now she is free!



THAT'S why I love soaking meetings. They allow Jesus to come and plunder in His garden in ways no man can. We are His garden and He does His own weeding.

Fear and value of the Presence of God

Do I only worship Him for the purpose of giving Him what He’s due?
Knowing full well that He will indeed, do I have subtle wrong motives of manipulating Him? Luring His to me for the purpose of blessing a place, manifesting healing, making me feel good?

What is the purpose in my heart for coming to this place of gathering?

It is a good desire to be healed, blessed, encouraged –
But this must not be my motive as I worship..then it’s just manipulation for my purpose.

He is so loving, so in love with us, that He will allows me to do this.

So I will purpose to have this in my heart:
I worship You because You are the love of my life,
Because You are my God.

If you never do anything else in my life, it is of no consequence to my worship.
I just want to give you a drink and a place to rest.
I come seeking nothing.
I come only to give to YOU.
You do not need to tangibly manifest for me to continue to love You.
You do not need to speak, or to encourage or to bless the gatherings in any way..
The only thing I ask is that You please just receive my love please.

Pirates and Good Friday

Today is Good Friday. I think it should be called Dark Friday as a reminder that it was Dark when Jesus surrendered His life on the Christ and began His journey into hell so I would not have to go there. He fully paid my ransom so I could be free to chose a life in Heaven.
I don't dress pretty on Good Friday. Today I wear black, and I'm emotionally connecting to how expensive my freedom is...
The day remembered on Good Friday was a very long torturous agonizing horror of a day for my Lovely Jesus.

The only thing I ask in prayer for today is the freedom of the merchant ship captain who was taken hostage by Somali pirates. My father was a merchant mariner. He could have been on any of the ships the pirates have gone after. When I was 7 years old, he was on a ship that was stuck in Suez Canal because of war in the are. I didn't see him for a year and it was heartbreaking to me. A ransom is demanded to be paid to set this man free and release all his shipmates to go about their life. Jesus paid my ransom and yours. Today whatever it takes to end the wave of Somali pirates, I pray it will.

I can ask for nothing else today because Jesus has done enough. More than enough.
More than enough.

2009

At 3:13 PMtoday , 3/3/09, I was working away when I was interupted by this in my spirit:

"2009 will be a fruitful year for my people. "

So be fruitful and multiply I say!

Eternal Heavenly Frutifulness flows from intimacy with our Bridegroom King .

God's Pent up Love

Tonight we're soaking at Healing Rooms - and I can't wait!

Sunday night I looked up at the and just said "I Love you Father". I just stood there looking up...and I felt like He wanted to whoosh down and scoop me up

...it kinda spooked me a bit and I went inside.

I've been thinking about that all week. It's like He's wooing me to come back and let Him return the love. It's as though He's crying out " I love you back , so much that I don't want to hold back any longer. Can I release some of the pent of passion for you? Will you let me? "

Elephant Gun

I had a cartoon playing in my mind today. It was actually Barack Obama holding a computer which was in the shape of an elephant gun.

There were many elephants, the symbol of the Rebublican party, you know. Obama just pointed his elephant computer-gun and was wiping then out. They didn't have the good sense to scatter. It was like shooting fish in a barrel.

The editorial to this:
Elephants...Republicans, that is, need to step out of the stone ages and realize that we are in a computer generation. Not only do they need to take a reality pill and get down with the average person, they need to learn to use technology.

I think any Republican running for office needs to appeal less to the starched white shirt bunch. Since the "party" somewhat stands for less tax, less government regulation and more in line with Biblical morals than the Democrats, I'm praying the have the overhaul they need before more defectors occur. Case in point: Glorious Johnson, city councilwoman here in town.
The dear woman is no longer a Republican. Apparently the elephant gang was incredibly unappreciative of her.

Letter to President Bush

Dear Mr. President,

I'm writing to express my gratitude for your service to America and the world during the past eight years.

Before you ,in America, Christians were labeled as politically incorrect. It felt illegal to openly give thanks in a restaurant or have a Bible on our desk at the office.
You restored our religious freedom. Through Faith based initiatives Christians have been able to help heal more of our broken people.

For the good judges you've chosen , thank you! You have done so many right things for our well being and the world's, more even than we know.

Beginning with your first campaign for President, I have prayed for you with all my heart.
Your first inauguration was my first trip to Washington. I've returned six times since.
Once I toured the White House. While there I felt God 's direction to pray for you to have proper support to achieve what you were supposed to do. I have repeatedly done so.

God knew we would need you to walk us through 9-11. Thank you for preventing us from sticking our heads in the sand, for dealing with terrorism , for keeping home safe and for imparting understanding of America's God given responsibility to the world .

You should be honored as good and powerful, right-thinking, noble, wise, quick to act and selfless. You have indeed been a magnificent gift to our wonderful nation. Please forgive our lack of respect and appreciation for you . It is shameful and surely offends God.
I wept as I watched you speak to address the Republican Convention this past year. You spoke with great depth of heart about the responsibility of the President.

I am confident that you imparted a strong essence of yourself into Mr Obama.

You are deeply loved by America and by God. Surely you will hear Him whisper “ Thank you for answering the call.”


Please continue to influence this nation and the world to do what is right.


With great love in my heart, thank you.

God Bless you.