His Own!!!

 

Though I am lost, I am found in Him; Safe in his arms I am, but hidden I am not. By his stripes I am healed, but his sores and bruises I can still feel. In a secret place I dwell with him, but what he shares and gives to me he also gives to the world. Love is all he has given to me, but because of my selfishness, I take his love for granted. I love Him, I really do, and as much as I give my heart and soul to Him, deep down I know I could never be to Him as He has been to me. I’ve walked away so many times with my head down thinking that He has walked on without me, but he would take his hand and lift my head up and say, “I See You”.

 

In my darkest hour He has given me the moon and stars to lighten my path. In my coldest nights He covers me with the warmth of his joy and love, whispering to my spirit who moans and prays the desire’s of my heart. I would say to him, I could never love you as you have loved me; and he would reply by saying, “I know you could never love me as I have loved you, but your love even as small as it is, touches my very heart”. Who am I that you are mindful of me, that you hear and answer me when I call I ask. Without saying a word he points to himself and says, “You are a part of me”.

 

Will you ever leave or forsake me I ask. Wrapping his arms around me he say’s, “When you cry, I catch your tear’s. When you are afraid, I am your courage. When the enemy comes in like a flood towards you, I’ll stand as a standard to protect you. Nothing by force could ever separate or change the love I have for you. I am here when you need me, and when I am not, I am always watching over you”.

 

With his word as my bedtime story, and his will for me as my dreams, I lay down knowing fully convinced, that my soul He does keep.

Be Bless.

~From the heart of James~

Suicide, Why It Has Become An Option?

 

Suicide; the act of doing something against your own best interest. Suicide, once considered to be uncommon has now become an epidemic in today’s society and abroad. Controversial and immoral it has been labeled by many cultures and religious beliefs, but the understanding of why one may consider suicide remains untouched. There are many causes that may drive one to the decision of committing suicide. One could lose a job and then lose their family and all their possessions. Another could have suffer abuse, verbal, mental, physical abuse that has left them to feel nothing but worthless, and another could feel that their life is of no value because they live in a society or family that denounces who they are. Whatever one may think is the cause of one committing suicide is never really the effect. Unlike any other cause and effect in life, those who commit suicide are literally the effect. Those who commit suicide are usually placed in stereotypical categories such as being a quitter or having a mental illness and for some that maybe the case, but for many other’s it is not.

 

Many attempt suicide and achieve, and then there are those who attempt and fail. But not all who attempt and fail crave attention. Contrary to belief, there is a battle of the wills when one is contemplating suicide. A battle between the mind, and that of the soul, where the existence of all men dwell. I have heard stories of people trying to blow their own heads off, stories of people who have tried and driven off of cliffs and of those like myself who has taking such a high dosage of prescription medicine that it could kill you in a matter of seconds, but yet all and many survived. Many would say we cheated death, but I say I find it hard to believe that man can cheat anything that is considered to be apart of life.

 

I believe that freedom comes in many shapes and forms. Some discover it while living, other’s through death. Suicide was an option for me a multiple of times simply because I didn’t feel free, and as anything else that runs out of space, I did too. The weight of everything that I held in for so long began to weigh heavily on my heart and as anyone else dead or living, all I wanted was peace; freedom. Contrary to beliefs of any kind, life is precious and so is death. They are both a blessing. Yes I am a Christian and I was told that suicide was wrong and immoral. But when does one really know right from wrong? One only knows what he/she feels at that very moment. I don’t doubt my beliefs or my faith in God, but I do acknowledge who I am as a human being and every feeling, every thought, and every emotion is real. It is not up to other’s to judge or to decide the fate of your life. Your journey begins and ends with you. Suicide maybe controversial, and too many it will be considered immoral, but it is very real and it is happening and happening now. I will end this with a quote by a very wise man named Confucius. Confucius said that, “Ignorance is the night of the mind; a night without moon or stars”. Suicide is a major problem in today’s society, in the young and old. Choosing to ignore it doesn’t help anyone; choosing to understand it does.

Twitter Anyone?

Just wanted to let you all know that I now have a twitter.  You can find words of encouragement straight from the heart of me. Follow me at @Only4rmTheHeart.

Be Bless.

James

What He Gave!!!

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen in every good deed and word.

2 Thessalonians 2:15-17

What we received from Christ in all things was an eternal reward.  Even as we wait upon this earth for his return, through his death and resurrection, and our burial of sins through him, we received an eternal promise through the Holy Spirit to not only have the patience to wait for the coming of Man, but also the ability to believe God through all circumstance. We are forever, eternally encouraged through the word of God and through the life of Christ that all things work together for good for those who love the Lord (Romans 8:28).  That is why we are encouraged to seek first the kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33) and to sow and to give in all things, for when you give, it will be given to you; for whatever measure you give, so it will be the same measure you receive (Luke 6:38). That is why he says to encourage and strengthen your hearts in good deeds and word. Let everything you do in your life be to uplift and to encourage another. Encourage one to trust God(Psalm 25:01). Encourage one to speak those things that are not as though they were. Encourage one by letting them know that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord will rise up a standard against him. My friends, we were never meant to live a life of fear or worrisome, for all those things lead to death. We were not created to die, we were created a new through Christ Jesus to live (Romans 6:8-10). He gave his life so we could once again live in the kingdom of God, not built by man, but a building built by God (2 Corinthians 5:1).

What happens when you really become a new creation in Christ?

 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17

 Many fail to realize even the religious system and in the christian doctrine accepted by so many religious persons,  is that being in Christ doest not make us perfect. For when we become a new creation in Christ, the only thing that transforms is our mind and heart. Behold all things become new; what we are being revealed through him is nothing new at all. For the word was with God, was God and then became flesh. Jesus Christ only spoke on what we already knew but because of sin our minds became idle to the word of God. The only “new” that came through him was us becoming aware of what we were before sin, where we were without him, and where we can be with Him now through Christ. It was declared new by God, because this was the experience he created,which is the same that he manifested when the earth was formless. when man was created in his image. The enemy leads us and have so many in deception because we aspect not to have troubles, not to have short comings. Jesus Christ came not for the perfect, not for those who feel they can handle this life on their own, but he came for those who recognized that their life was nothing but death, and the road they were traveling was leading to nowhere except unanswered questions and voids that only a God could answer and fill.

His Grace Giving; Our Life Restored!!!

Have you ever reached a point in your life when all you really wanted was to hear from the Lord? Not in the sense of a prophetic word to deliver to the masses, or a word or confirmation about what to expect out of this life, but in a sense of just being able to hear him better; louder than your family, friends, stress, worries, and even self? How can a God whose words that said let it be and it was, be able to change and create all that we see before us, but seem to fall short in convincing and changing the lives of many, even those lives who are hidden in Christ Jesus?  Furthermore, what use is there of God giving us the power, the way, the truth, and the life, if we still refuse to accept and follow it?

We’re constantly praying for more when most of us can’t even handle what he has already freely giving us; his grace.  Though his grace is sufficient to our needs, it is not sufficient to our wants.  Grace is not a free pass to Sin, or an opportunity to waver in unbelief.  Grace is God’s will for you to overcome those things you were destined to fail at.  That is why it is said in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “That if anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation. Behold all things, the old, the struggles, the temptations, failures, is gone, and you have become new.” The word “new” by no means mean perfect; or completely blinded or erased of the past, but it does mean to be inexperienced or unaccustomed too! My God! We were accustomed to living in a world of Sin.  We did not know the ways of the Lord, neither his love for us, until His son Christ Jesus came and reconciled us through the shedding of his blood.  That is why all of us stumble and fall short in this walk with Christ, because we have now entered into an unfamiliar place, a place where we have no choice but to surrender and rely on the grace of God to lead and guide us in this experience of becoming nothing new, but who we already were; the creation of God.

Christ walked in power and in authority; He was able to heal, deliver and restore because that was who he was.  Christ came not to bring a new word, but to reintroduce and reestablish the word of God that has been the foundation of all things, and for those to come.  Christ reminded us all that we were healed, delivered and restored.  That is why he said if you ask anything in my name it will be done; not because I went to the Father for you, but because He now hear’s you.  God does not want us to hear the chariot’s of fire, or the earthshaking to get our attention. He would rather have us all be as Abraham, inquiring the Lord of every decision, of those we may understand, and for those we may not.  The Bible ask all the time of what kind of man was Abraham, Moses, David to have such a relationship with God; to have such an ear for his voice. It is not much of a question; more of a rhetorical statement, because we all know what type of man or woman you have to be in order to hear the voice of the Lord.  The question leans more towards “What type of man or woman are you that you don’t hear the voice of God?”

Be Bless.

James

My Expectations Are Never Out Of Reach

Many of us who are followers of Christ seem to forget the type of God that we serve and allow to Lord over our lives.  We’re constantly preaching, teaching and debating the countless acts of power and deeds that God has done since the beginning of creation, but we steadily refuse to allow him to take any action in our own lives.  We constantly speak on the freedom of the hebrew people, but remain in bondage ourselves.  We constantly acknowledge the power and authority God has had over every situation, even by sending his son to die on the cross for our sins yet only to be raised again with all power and glory for the atonement of our faults, even the very ones we commit today, but sadly lack faith that he can still do for us in our day and age as he has done many centuries ago.  Where is the living and actual proof of God’s existence and doing in your life, my life? Where is the God of yesterday, today, and forevermore? Am I expecting to much of a God whose power is unlimited and whose grace is forever following me all the days of my life?  Am I wasting time and energy pleading and searching for answers, and waiting to hear from a God who is far away but who is yet in arms reach? Who is perfect but yet lowered himself so I could see that not even the things that He hates can keep his love and life away from me?

Even though his word tells me that my eyes have not seen nor have my ears heard, and nor has my mind perceived all that He has done and will do in my life, I, in some way am allowed to perceive his goodness and mercy through my trials and through my triumphs, through my pain and through my joy.  What am I expecting from God? What is the body of Christ expecting from him?  He didn’t promise a mansion in the sky.  Neither did he promise to make his way easier than the road we followed before. But he has given us this promise, that if we simply seek the kingdom of God first and all of his righteousness, all things, peace, joy, finances, relationships, goals, dreams, gifts, they all will be given to us, if we only seek after Christ, who is all in all that we seek.  Why do I expect to have a drama free, stress free life even though stress is all around me, because Christ said my heart’s desires are expected to be delivered if only I seek him.  If I am able to reach a God who is all-powerful and holy through prayer, through song, through tears, through humbleness, should not everything else that is considered worthless not be as easy to receive, if I was able to turn away from my sins to follow God’s way? That makes me unstoppable.  That makes me strong.  That let’s me know that I can have anything in this life, because I have the one whose life is the passage way and door to all things that are good and perfect.  If Christ is not out of reach, neither should all that he has placed into your heart be out of reach either. I expect greatness and perfection, because my God is great and perfect. Not saying that I will be perfect, but my leading into my destiny and goals and heart’s desires will be perfect because all of my steps are led by Him.  If you expect to be spoon fed by God, then you will constantly be eating the manna falling from heaven, constantly trying to fill yourself in fear of lacking, rather than filling yourself with an understanding that if God can command food to fall from the heavens for you, why can’t he bring nations, your job, your circumstances into direct order for the will He has over your life?  If there is nothing to hard for the Lord, I have will no longer worry or fear, because I know he will supply all my needs.

Be Bless.

James

Sometimes I Cry

For a man to go through hell and back and back to hell again without a little taste of heaven, I have every right to cry.

For a man to fight for his right to be apart of a life he took part in creating, yeah I’m going to cry.

For a man to give love and receive hate yet to be asked for that love again but now with the lasting memory of what happened and what would’ve been if only… yeah I’m going to break down.

For a man to have faced death over and over again yet to be alive by the mercy of One who saw that his ending will not be as painful as his beginning, I cry tears of joy.

My Father who art in Heaven, how I do glorify for your name for you said that my sorrow will turn into joy and for that I must cry, not with a heart of mourning but with a heart of great expectation, knowing that one day you will wipe every tear from my eye.

Oh my soul does cry Hallelujah because when I do think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he has done for me, I come to a conclusion that He didn’t have to do it for me, so instead of complaining I lift my hands towards heaven to thank the One who only understood my pain.

Sometimes I cry, because I rather weep now than go through the rest of my life missing my blessings and golden opportunities because of teary devils who constantly try to blind me of the truth I have come to know in Christ Jesus.

I’m Free.

Praise the Lord, I’m free.

No longer bound, no more chains holding me.

But my soul is not resting, it’s living.

Living the life Christ has called me to live.

A Blessed Life.

Proverb From The Heart Of Me

 A hardened heart will leave one in despair. A closed mind is a life hidden in darkness. A life living in fear is a life lost. A life spent chasing will bring a tragic ending. A life spent in love will bring everlasting peace. A life spent in hate will bring everlasting shame. Death is given, life is pursued. When that life is found, eternity can then begin.

I’m Just Saying!!!

All I can say and even think about is the goodness of Jesus and all that He has done for me.  These past few months I have come to know how weak I can become without Jesus in my life and how strong I am with him staying right where he is in my life, which is the center and the foundation of all I hope, know and long for.  Daily I am learning whether by choice or mistake that God has already done all that I have already asked of him to do.  Beyond the anointing and power and everything else I relentlessly prayed for from God, I have reached a point of my life of where I just let it all go.  As much as I would love to sing like the men and women of God I look up too and preach as they do, that’s not a need God has to provide for me.  As much as I would love to give the people I love especially my son the best there is, that is not a need God has to provide.  As much as I would love to live a blameless and upright life for God every minute, that is not a need either.  Who I am kidding and fooling other than myself and those around me?  Certainly not God.  He knows my heart and my desires better than myself.  As much as I would love to reach thousands of people and for them to come to know Jesus Christ, out of those thousands that I may want to pursue or others pursue, my heart is always led to that one lost in the crowd.  For I would rather reach one and know that their life has completely been transformed by the power of God, than to be surrounded by many whose lives remain hidden and heart’s closed to the knowledge of Christ.  As much as I would love to speak before people and be seen, I’d rather sit here in front of my computer unknown, with no titles or fame in order for people to receive Jesus Christ for who He is and not for who I am in Christ. 

There are many days I sit wondering and praying for those who come across this site.  As much as I would love to know everyone personally and one’s problems, I can’t.  To be honest I try not to concern myself with them and I try by the Word of God to help you not be concern by them either.  We have enough people agreeing with the negative and the bad.  We do that enough ourselves.  Nothing gives me greater joy than to help someone realize who they really are.  My heart is not concerned with whether or not your many prayers be answered.  My heart is not constantly in warfare for your many woe’s.  I long for you to receive the Word of God over everything.  I will only give you the Word of God.  What greater joy is there than knowing who God is and knowing the very words that comes from the very heart and mind of such a wonderful God?  All I’m saying is this…. Instead of trying to figure out who you are and who everyone else is, focus on who God is.  You may ask who is God?  Well I could go on forever of who is He is.  But do know this.  That Jesus Christ is the one and only.  He is closer than any friend and more loving than any relative.  His heart is always open to you and his lips are always speaking good about you.

Be Bless

James