Happy LOVE day!!!

Honored to celebrate today, a day that’s about LOVE!  HAPPY LOVE DAY!!!

Many have spouted to me that it is wrong to celebrate today because it is a pagan holiday.  I see where they are coming from and am accepting of their convictions.  However, it is not my conviction.  No, I’m not saying I agree with the pagan rituals.  However, I am saying … a holiday that focuses on LOVE and celebrates it … yes, I’m for.  From my perspective, today is a very good day. 

No, our family doesn’t rush out and buy flowers, candy and whatever card is left at the last minute.  We don’t tend to dress up and go eat at an expensive place.  Our family, plans time together to have fun, laugh and be together.  Sometimes we are just our family and many times we are with friends that we share the love with. 

You see, Valentine’s is all about love.  Love is defined in world’s dictionaries as, “an intense feeling of deep affection”.   And very accurate is that description.  Many seek after the fleshly fulfillment of the endorphins that are released, the feel happy, feel good, feel a part of a bigger picture, feel needed, feel whole or complete.  Yes, they are seeking love or at least the feelings that love brings to fill the void within and using the words of a song … “in all the wrong places”.

The following scriptures are just a few that tell us that GOD IS LOVE! 

I John 4:8 ESV, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

I John 4:16 ESV, “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”

I John 4:19 ESV, “We love because he first loved us.”

I John 4:7 ESV, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”

We were each created from Love.  We began as a thought to God who then created man in to being breathing His breath of life into man. (Genesis 2:7)   Genesis 2:18 says “And the LORD God said, “it is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him”.   So, He created a help mate from man’s rib out of love.  (Genesis 2:21-24)   For them to be joined together as one flesh.  (Genesis 2:24)

We were created to want to be loved and to want to love.  It’s in each of our core being.  We are created in His image, the One who IS LOVE.  LOVE is not a sexual thing … however it is an awesome perk as being the ultimate worship or union with God between a husband, wife and God.  It is physically impossible for a man and wife to get closer to God then in that perfect union of three in one.  Which is why the world tries to imitate it with sexual pleasure outside of marriage which without God in the union leaves one even emptier.  Which then proves that GOD is LOVE as LOVE does not leave one empty and scarred but filled and overflowing to succeed at what you were created for. 

So, from my perspective, LOVE is definitely something to celebrate every day, every breath of our lives.  Today is NOT a day to be shunned but to take advantage of the opportunity to show the world what they are seeking and thirsting for.  TODAY is about showing and sharing GOD’s LOVE to the world around you.  We were created with the yearning to have and be loved because we were created out of Love to be able to Love Him back. 

So, you choose …

         1)  Out of expectation … rush out and buy a card (some don’t even read they just grab and go), some flowers and chocolate and give without much thought just to fulfill a commitment or to hope to get something in exchange.

 

       2)  Go with intent purpose and a happy heart and reflect God’s love to others in action, word or deed.   Expecting nothing in return. 

My challenge for you today …

Find ways to show God’s LOVE to others today, those you know and those you don’t know yet.   I would thoroughly enjoy seeing your reply below with pictures or a report of some of the ways you show His LOVE to others today.

Bonus challenge:  

Don’t stop after today … keep showing His love to others throughout the whole year!  And keep sharing and posting below.  Creativity is awesome and helps prompt others into action too. 

HAPPY LOVE DAY!!!!

Ut-oh ... Accountability check ... Consider Your Ways

Before I get started, I want to speak blessing and insight connecting each one of us to a deeper, higher level of His understanding and application of knowledge in our hearts, minds and lives. 

Father God, Yahweh, Jehovah-Jireh,

I give thanks and praise to you for all you are doing in and through me.  My heart is filled with peace, joy and anticipation for what you have for me today.  With the authority, you have given to me, I speak to my eyes to be open to see, my ears that they may hear, my heart that it may receive and my mind to understand the insight you have for me today.  Thank you for your loving faithfulness.  In Yahweh, Jehovah-Jireh’s name, I pray.  Amen.

Ready or not … here’s my heart for today! 

So, for the past few days I’ve have had the urge to read Haggai.  Our family does the chapter a day with a body of Believers that we fellowship with.  Currently we are in the book of Proverbs which is always filled with wisdom of how to handle specific situations that are presented in life.  It’s a great resource.  This week we also have the added benefit of attending the Greater Faith Conference.  (Click to watch rebroadcast.)  My typical day generally starts around 4 am and ends somewhere between 10:30 and midnight … so this week has been packed even fuller mandating a rest week for many things – which is a concept I need to consider incorporating into my life on a consistent basis.  On top of all this time in the Word and sitting in teaching, I still have the quiet but insistent urge to read Haggai again.  Well, today is the day.  I finally took the time to read it.  I mean … well, it’s only two chapters … but what a timely and appropriate two chapters as we are nearing the completion of the first 10% of 2017 being.  (You know how God feels about the first 10%.  This year has brought awareness of purposed insight into His 10^th portion of my year … I have to admit, I’ve not purposefully lived HIS first 10^th of the previous as well as I could have but thankfully I’m only accountable for what I know and do from the point of awareness.  God’s grace and mercy once again.) 

• So, do you feel like you are …
•  Sowing much but bringing in little or not harvesting at all?
•  Eat, but still hungry, don’t have enough?
•  Drink, but still thirsty?
•  Clothe yourself, but are still cold?
•  Work to earn wages, but there’s holes in your pocket? Your paycheck doesn’t stretch to cover all?

If you find yourself in agreement with even one of these things … many of us are experiencing all the above … then it is time to do as He says and … “Consider your ways!” 

I challenge you to go read the book of Haggai.  This book was written to the people living in Jerusalem and to those who had returned from exile.  It applies to each one of us today.  Those of us living in His created purpose for our lives and those of us returning from wondering from the purpose that He has created us for.    

Talk about accountability check.  If we are experiencing even one of the bullet points above, then we need to stop and check our purposed use of life.  Are we building up our own body, home, business, etc. before we are tending to the Lord’s?  You say, “Yeah but …”.   I totally hear and feel you.  I look at our daily calendar.  Besides having a busy family life, we homeschool.  We have a ministry and two businesses as well as attending HMS School and attending services 14-15 hours a week as well as the bonus of the conference this week which puts us attending a minimum of 29 hours this week.  And yet, I must “Consider my ways.”  I’ve been looking at how and when we can volunteer during our already feeling full schedules.  It appears there’s just no way.  However, the need to serve where we are currently being called to sit under to learn is already on our family’s heart … and now after reading Haggai … any thought of “need for food, drink, clothing, bills, paychecks …” (and with teenage sons …” I’m hungry” or “what’s for dinner?” is plentiful!)  makes me stop and “Consider my ways.”  To look to see what I am doing to “build His temple”. 

It is written in Haggai 2: 18b-19, “from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid – consider it:  Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit.  But from this day I will bless you.”

Okay … so mega WOW enlightenment from something that I’ve read before but obviously ready to see and receive now.  Do you see it?  It is written (and we all know God can only speak truth) that from the day the foundation was laid – Yip! Starting from the day I put first time to serve and volunteer in building up His temple/the fellowship we are mentoring under … that unlocks blessings to pour out over me, our family.  I don’t have to wait for the seed in the barn to be sowed, grown and then be harvested.  I don’t have to wait for the growing season to progress to be the proper time and temperature (Goodness the temperatures are so up and down here in Missouri!  75 degrees one day, 29 degrees the next and today we are heading back into the mid to high 60’s. I’m not even a tree or plant and I’m confused but praising the nice riding weather in the middle of what is called winter!)  for the fruits of the vine or trees to put on buds, produce fruit and ripen.  Nope … God’s blessing starts at the very foundation of DOING.  Based on that Truth, I cannot afford to NOT volunteer a portion of my time to His temple building.  I experience it constantly in my life that when I do what He lays on my heart, everything works together better and the outcome is far greater than what I input when I follow HIS leading.  When I try to meet expectations of others and those I place upon myself without His guidance, it is always far more effort, time, energy, expense and the outcome is no way near the same quality.  So, if I’m feeling lack … it’s an accountability moment to make sure I’m tending HIM first and then myself.  Only then can the scale balance or truly tip in my favor. (Vision a scale with chains suspending plates on each side of the balance point. I'm purposefully loading the plate on His side! Tee Hee I've lived the other side and I'm not going back.) 

So, I challenge you to … “Consider your ways.”

As you proceed in your day and life, it is my desire to bless you with sensitivity to God’s voice.  I call forth your inner spirit to receive this blessing.  Spirit, God speaks in many creative ways, and I bless you with tuning your spiritual ears to him.  Your salvation depended on His voice calling you, and your response to Him was music to His ears.  I bless you with listening with commitment to obey.  I bless you with a hearing spirit and an understanding heart to discern between good and evil.  I bless you with clearing out static and interference so you have clear communication.  I bless you with awakened, deeply cleansed, and alert ears to hear.  I bless you with knowing your Shepherd’s voice.  I bless you in Jesus’ name with the sound of heaven.  So Be It!

It is our desire for you to KNOW God, to share His Word with you but also to share our lives with you in love.  We welcome getting to know you and to be able to love you where you are.  We are honored to support you on your journey to get from where you are to where you want to be. 

Thank you for the investment of your time. 

May you hear and receive what is yours to hear from the sharing of a portion of my insights. 

Be blessed in the Name of the Lord, Yahweh, Jehovah-Jireh.

Created to Serve in Love,

Michelle Wendt

His Beloved, blessed wife and mother

My Father’s Blessing Ministries and Be Healthy His Way Mentor

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