Sunday, December 29, 2013

When is the last time you saw the onset of trouble on the horizon and all you wanted to do was run the other way? It is interesting how troubles of life quickly make us feel isolated from the comfort of others. One of the most important areas of life is starting fully believing that you aren’t in the life alone. You may be excluded from the empathy of others at different points of your life, but you are NEVER without the consistency of the Lord Jesus Christ’s love, comfort, and support. Where we falter is by applying restrictions on what this love, from Jesus, should look like. Too often we think that the exclusion from difficulties is a sure sign that Jesus’ love is faithfully available for us. Yet the Bible counteracts this thinking by trying to pre-warn us that troubles are a part of this life, but that this trouble NEVER defines His thinking over you. I know the hollow feeling that can creep into my heart at points of life where I would start to feel as if there was no hope for comfort with the onset of a problem. Yet Jesus, more than anyone else in the history of mankind, has tasted the bitterness of separation, abandonment, betrayal, gossip….. We cannot allow ourselves to apply others failures onto the character of our Lord Jesus Christ. He loves us not out of an obligation more rather because He would settle for nothing less. He placed His body upon the cross and spilled His blood in order that there would never again, in all of history, be a time that we couldn’t reach out to Him. So come to Him, no matter the trouble on the horizon, come to Him. If you are confused how to start coming to Him, start first by realizing that Jesus is big enough to handle all that you need to throw at Him, so if you need to dump a life time of hurt on Him by communicating all that you feel is wrong and painful in your life, then dump it! He’s big enough to take anything you need to say. Stand/sit/walk/run/drive/swim….whatever position you need to be in, just start talking with Him. That ABOVE ALL else is what He is looking for…that daily contact within you. It is out of this constituency that you are offering Him, that you will find the comradery you are seeking and due to this…the next time that troubles face you, you will start to feel more will come out of your praying with Jesus than will your running away from the troubles. Pastor Daniella

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Each of us have heard some variation of the idea of placing our burdens upon the Lord, or bringing all we are and placing it at the feet of Jesus, but does this idea mean for our lives? There is a cross roads in life that many of us come to where we are faced head on with a true realistic view of who we are and what we would be without the Lord’s love in our lives. Yet, so many of us ignore truly what that reality is to produce in our lives. Some to these cross roads, turn and run in the other direction-willfully ignoring the need to see the Love of Jesus for the transformation that it is offering you. For other, they come to the cross roads, see the Love of Jesus for what it is and determine that they cannot be worth such love. Then there are the few that come to this cross road between SELF and the Love of Jesus and they are transformed. Humbled by a Love so great, and yet sustained in their desire to know more of this love in their life…they press onward. It is here, in the heart of those who press forward in the Love of Jesus Christ, that true life WITH Jesus births sustenance in your life. Jesus seeks a relationship with you that is VERY PERSONAL. I call it a “Finger Print Relationship”. This finger print relationship refers to those of us that are seeking to walk with the Lord with such vigor in our hearts that we are unwilling to give in to the human nature to run away in shame of past sins, or pride that we don’t need the intricate involvement of the Lord in our lives. The fingerprint relationship that Jesus is seeking with you is so personal that you being to seek it above all other influences in your life. We aren’t just loved, we are wanted! We aren’t just wanted-we are desired above all else. We are desired so much that the Lord Jesus placed His life on a cross and died to bring the reality of our daily relationship into fruition. You see, Jesus has already given His FULL commitment to us. We aren’t waiting on Him to keep His end of the deal and He isn’t waiting on us to keep ours. What He is doing, is loving you, right where you stand, right where you find life right now….just loving you. When you decide to place your burdens on the Lord or bring all you are to the Lord, you are allowing yourself to become in AGREEMENT with Jesus that you TRUST Him to be what you cannot be for yourself. We are in desperate need for the Lord Jesus Christ, but until we are willing to see that statement for all that it is…we will be stuck in our own form of “wilderness wandering”. When you place yourself in agreement with Jesus that you need Him, He doesn’t hold the fact over your head and beat you down about it. Instead, he immediately begins repair on your heart’s pains. He aids your ability to start learning more deeply of what it means to have HIS LOVE as the sustenance of your life. He draws near to you and works to let you know that no matter what you have done in life….you are His and He loves you. Personal note: I know this journey is a very difficult one, but I am trying to aid your walk. We are more loved than we understand, by the Most High Almighty Lord Jesus. This love with transform your life from whatever it HAS BEEN to whatever it is going to be. The Lord Jesus is very patient and more than willing to build a binding/lasting trust between you. He knows it takes time, after all…He’s the One that made you. God’s blessing be with you this evening. In Christ, Pastor Daniella.

Friday, December 27, 2013

Tomorrow is a blessing waiting to unfold.  Place your faith in this hand's of the Lord Jesus, asking that your eyes be gifted in seeing the day as the Lord sees it.

He sees the potential for growth in every event.  We just see discomfort.  It is when we start to understand that everyday's events aren't always go according to plan, that we can truly start to live with the mentality that every day is a blessing.
Pastor Daniella.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Tonight, I feel like sending out a prayer. 
Jesus,
Thank you again for being the light of our lives.  Thank you for being the positive within the negative, for being the drive within us to better ourselves and the world around us.  We want to come to you and ask a blessing on each of us reading this for the coming year.  We ask Lord that you will walk before us as we strive to understand more of your love and how to live within it.  We pray that you are our guide within the trying times, the stamina that we will need to keep pressing forward and allowing past troubles to lose their power over us.  Each one of us is in need of your love to become so very real to us in our lives.  We don’t want to just understand you as a matter of the mind, but more rather experience you as a matter of the heart.  We once again praise you for all that you are and we lay this prayer at your feet knowing that you have heard us and that you are fast at work to aid us where we are in need of you.  You are our best friend, Lord, and Savior. Please grace us with the patients to face each day in its fullest state.  In your Name, Lord Jesus…Amen. https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella