Enjoying the good?

Praying that your heart, mind, eyes, ears and soul be open to receive what is yours to receive from sharing just a minute portion of my thoughts for the day.  (Those that know me ... especially my husband and sons ... know that my mind and thoughts flow faster than the Kansas winds when His Passion that He created me with is ignited! LOL)  

So my life is constantly being taken higher, tent pegs being stretched wider, emotions and mindset constantly being refined and sifted and the list goes on.  It is such an honor to be in a study group of people who are purposefully reading Ecclesiastes.  Honestly, if it weren't for this group, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't normally turn to Ecclesiastes to be study, but I'm thankful I am.  

Today while reading, the realization that this book was written well before my time and yet God purposed it for me, where I am today, in this place and time of my growth.  Wow!  Having grown up with most people making sure I knew how unworthy I was for anything but giving all I had to help them accomplish their current goal ... this in itself stops my heart, causes my eyes to gain moisture and lowers me to my kness ... I truly am worthy and loved ... and so are YOU.   

Chapter 3 of Eccelesiastes is about there being a right time for everything.  There's a song by The Byrds that used this as their base for their song ... yes ... gasp ... God's word even prevails in secular music!  Love it!  Here's a link to the song for those that want to hear or for those that the song is now stuck in your mind ... your welcome!  Tee Hee

https://youtu.be/nA2IYnGRYac

Okay ... now that The Byrds are done singing ... back to my sharing my insight.  There is definitely a time for everything.  In this advanced age of technology we have so much at our finger tips as well as so many expectations from others as well as self placed that we often are constantly rushing ahead and always feeling way behind.  My heart is so full of wanting to share insight that it is easy to get out of balance trying to figure out how to do all that the Lord is laying on my heart and I'm saying YES to.  Today, this reminder that there is a time for everything and I am to live in His leading in the "TIME" that I am presently in brings balance, peace and focus.  Yes, there are tons of opportunities, coulds, shoulds and wannas ... but today I choose to seek what time it is and what I am to do today.  

Verse 12 and 13 (not a big surprise since the verses are on the graphic I created!) says that nothing is better for me (and you) then to rejoice and do good in my (your) life.  Pretty cool ... my days are to be filled with rejoicing and doing good.  I can so totally do that.  Laughter and joy is so deeply a part of me that is painful NOT to laugh and choose joy even in the darkest challenges (and boy have I experienced some of those).  However, it goes on to say, "and ALSO that EVERY man (that's you and me) should EAT and DRINK and ENJOY the GOOD of all his labor -- it is the gift of God." 

Wait .. STOP ... Back up ... WhAT?  Accountability check!!! ... you are filling your day with busyness and DOING however are you ENJOYING the good of your busyness?  Are you truly following the leading of the LORD in your daily steps and busyness?  Are you enjoying the journey no matter how much of a workout? Are you joyfully eating and drinking the reaping from your labor?  Are you receiving AND opening up God's gift to you?   

Um, I'm going to go do some pondering on this ... I know I've got the DOING, joyfully giving and loving part down.  Thinking I need to make sure I'm receiving and opening GOD's GIFT to me and thoroughly appreciating, enjoying and giving thanks for it.  I mean .. you probably know how it feels to select just the perfect gift for someone and then have them not open or use it ... oh my, I think I've kind of done that to God and possibly others in my life.  Yip ... time to go ponder, repent and enjoy.  

How are you doing in this area?  I'd love to hear your insight and journey.  

Be BLESSED!  

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

Emotions Study Group:

Today diffusing and using:

Melrose, Purification, Eucalyptus Radiata, M-Grain, Nutmeg

To support and expand in these areas:

Adaptability, Learning, Healing, Laughter, United, Living in the now, 
Awareness, Acceptance, Wholeness, Complete, Truth, 
Freedom, Direction, Peace, Fun, Strength, 

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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

For our Be Healthy His Way Team – Emotion Study Group:

Today diffusing and using:

Dill, Sage, Melissa, Cool Azul

To support and expand in these areas:

Regard, Self-sufficient, Happiness, Letting God lead, Hope, Purpose,

Unfoldment, Freedom, Mobility, Amusement, Transformation, Truth, Wisdom,

Content, Unconditional love, Openness, Respect, Divinely protected,

Stillness, Forgiveness, Harmony, Connected

To be a part of our Be Healthy His Way Team or purchase products:  www.1111order.com  

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If your life was just a breath or a shadow ... How would you live it?

Wow … so I know what He has laid on my heart to be my main study for the time being; however, being the outstanding, fun, creative God He is that is so playful … He took me on a pleasant side trail … or bunny trail as I call them.  Bunny trails are good when you get insight, accountability and strengthened through them. 

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.

Here’s my insight from today …

David wrote:  Psalm 144:4. Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Per Acts 13:22 David was a man after knowing God's heart.  Despite David's flesh and poor choices, God knew him and said that he would accomplish all that He wanted him to do.  Wow, makes you stop and think ... What will God say about me and my life? Does God have the confidence I will lay down my flesh and DO what God wants? (hmm ... God's really been speaking to me on preparing and doing intensely lately.)

Talk about a ponder point for sure!

Talk about perspective shift!

If my life is just a breath (some days it feels longer than others!), then I want ... No, I NEED ... to make sure it smells and tastes great.  That it is found pleasing to God.  I need to make sure my breath counts, that it's not wasted on worldly self.  That it's not wasted on worry or whining or complaining or derogatory or negative spoken authority.  I want my breath of life to impact the Kingdom and be pleasing to the One that matters most.  To leave a rich inheritance.

"My days are like a shadow passing".  Ouch!  Yet another jolting call to accountability.  Shadows are fleeting and temporary.  Unless a brilliant sun is shining on them to burn an impression, they leave no lasting mark.  They can be huge or very tiny to the point of non-existence.  They can provide temporary shade to someone hidden in the shadow ... if and only if it's big enough to even be noticed.

I need to make sure that I am purposefully positioned to have the SON so shining in and through my life that a lasting image of Him in me is burned into the world.  That I'm so centered in the Son light that my shadow is huge and inviting for others to come, be filled with joy and love, to receive, learn and draw closer to God while in my shadow so when my shadow is no longer, theirs’ is boldly, prominently in place with Him for others to continue the process.

"That’s burdensome!", you say.  "No," I say, "It's a yoke that is easy and the burden is light when I'm yoked to God and not the world".  So thankful He carries the weight of the burden and strengthens me as we journey together.

When we are positioned in Son light, the shadow to those who choose to walk in the covering of, is the overflowing of the Son in and through me, drawing them closer to Him.  It's comfort to know when I'm doing and giving my best ... He does all then rest.  Shoot ... He loves me so much He even covers me when I'm not giving my best and picks up my slack so others don't miss out on their blessing.  The only one truly missing out on the blessing is ME!  What Love!

So bold accountability time for me.  With my life being like a breath and my days like a shadow ... Its important I look and purposefully choose how and what I'm doing with my breath and what my shadow is being used for.  If I am hiding under a cover or a lamp shade, then my breath is self-contained and my shadow is not.  So, here's to awareness and freedom to break off all bondages that are keeping me hidden from The Light and constricting my breath.

My breath and my shadow have purpose!

Proverbs 13:22 says a righteous man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.  My life breath and my shadow are my inheritance that I'm leaving for my legacy.

So time to stop allowing the enemy to kill, steal and destroy my breath and shadow.  Time to purposefully choose all I do, say, and believe to make it worthy of passing on in inheritance to my legacy I have been blessed with.

Thank you God for opening my eyes and calling me to accountability through awareness and taking control.  Guide me with your Spirit inside me to take a full, deep breath and cast a gigantic shadow to give you the glory.  It is important that my legacy, who may never meet me in flesh, KNOW You and pass this inheritance down to the end of time.

Your blessings come in the obedience.  In a life of obedience through knowing you, all things are possible with You who strengthens me.  With you there is no lack in any aspect of our lives - physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.  I believe.  I receive.  So Be It in Jesus' name.  You are my Jehovah- Jireh.

So, what are you choosing to do today?

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

For our Be Healthy His Way Team – Emotion Study Group:

Today diffusing and using:

Longevity, Common Sense, Relieve It, Inner Child, Ocotea

To support and expand in these areas:

Empowered, Flexible, Growth, Freedom,

Inner Guidance, Innocence, Harmony, Humility

To be a part of our Be Healthy His Way Team or purchase products:  www.1111order.com  

To learn more about emotions and essential oils:  www.1111emotions.com

To see great videos about why natural, chemical-free living:    www.MFBOils.com

Contact us for more information:  BeHealthyHisWay@gmail.com