Changed By Love

Standing on Some Promises

Dec.13,2010

He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.

Ps. 18:19

He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places.

Ps. 18:33

You enlarged my path under me so my feet did not slip.

Ps. 18:36

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: The Lord will give grace and glory: No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Ps. 84:11

Have I ever mentioned that I love Psalms?!!!

Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch out, build on, spare not…

Isa. 54:2

The righteous shall inherit the land.

Ps. 37:29

Such as be blessed of Him inherit the earth.

Ps. 37:22

Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Ps. 37:34

For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword. Nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your contenance, Because You favored them.

Ps. 44:3

We are trusting the Lord to give us the land and home that we have sowed for and believed for.

The Lord has given me this passage over and over again during the Journey of Fire. He is highlighting it to me again.

Isa. 54:11-14

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

12 And I will make thy windows of rubies, and thy gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: Thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.

We don’t eat out much – usually. But lately we haven’t had much choice. One night we went to Arby’s. They seemed to have designed their dining room with us in mind! We all got to eat together in a section that had four tables enclosed in a square. It was easy to keep the little ones contained in our nook, and we were all close to each other. It was perfect!

Moving to Pennsylvania 002 — The Douglas nook at Arby's

Moving to Pennsylvania 005 — Brother Buddies

Moving to Pennsylvania 007 — The Big Man and the Little Man

Moving to Pennsylvania 004 — Eating Incognito

Moving to Pennsylvania 003 — Little girls who are discovering new buddies in each other

In case you’re wondering, it costs at least $40 to eat out, anywhere we go. We share drinks and fries as much as possible, but we still can’t get enough food for everybody for under that amount.

Mom gave us an early Christmas present of gift cards for McDonalds for each of us which we have made good use of already. Thanks, Mom and Dad!

We ate at CiCi’s twice. They were very good to us. The boys loved the Big Mac pizza! I ate plenty of the normal pizza. We all definitely got our fill there.

We have also eaten at Wendy’s and Long John Silver’s. As wonderful as it is to not have to cook, I’m looking forward to having my own kitchen to bake cookies and make some of our favorite meals again.

Abby loves to put hats on her head, except when she goes outside.

Moving to Pennsylvania 008 — Back at the hotel - time for Monopoly - Good Math practice!!!

Moving to Pennsylvania 009 — Time for Emma to have a fit

We’re sensing some movement in the housing situation. We might live further from Gary’s work than we had originally anticipated, but he’s willing if it means the kids have some land to move around on. We’re going to look at another house or two in the country before we settle for a house in a subdivision.

God is Promising a Double Portion of Prophetic Revelation and to Draw Us Twice as Close to Him

Dec.10,2010

Rick Joyner:

He is Releasing a Double Portion of Prophetic Revelation

Many things bring life to a church, such as great preaching, prayer, worship, and fellowship. However, three things seem to bring the most life to the Church—hearing from God, miracles, and new Believers. In our local church, we have been blessed by an increase in each of these, which has come in waves. It seems that we may be in the first stages of yet another wave, which is creating a lot of excitement. A few weeks ago, I was also given a promise from the Lord—He said He is going to release a double portion of prophetic revelation to us.

Since then, we have begun to experience a fresh and powerful anointing on the prophetic gifts. For this reason, I will be sharing a lot this coming year on the prophetic gifts. We will also be devoting much more of The MorningStar E-Journal to the prophetic revelation that is coming forth. We also will be teaching on knowing the Lord’s voice and sharing what He is saying to His people that we discern to be His word.

Hearing From God

In its most basic form, prophetic revelation is simply hearing from God. As we are told in John 10, His sheep know His voice, and they follow Him because they know His voice. Knowing the voice of God has always been basic for walking with God. Even under the Old Testament, we read repeatedly that the people were exhorted to obey the commandments and heed His voice. Here are just three of them, which contain some remarkable promises:

And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.” Exodus 15:26

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation… Exodus 19:5-6

However, there shall be no poor among you, since the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today. For the LORD your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. Deuteronomy 15:4-6

As we now have a New Covenant that is “a better covenant” (see Hebrews 7:22), we are no longer under the law, and we have even better promises, but the ones listed above are also promises in the New Covenant. The Lord is still our Healer and has given gifts of healing to His Church. We also have the New Covenant calling to be His Kingdom of priests and a holy nation. We also see in this last verse that obeying the Lord and heeding His voice resulted in there not being any poor among them—this is fundamental to eradicating systemic poverty.

If we are hearing the voice of the Lord more it is because we are getting closer to Him. This should be our main devotion even more than getting prophetic revelation, but that does not mean that we do not seek His voice. In I Corinthians 14:1, we are commanded to “Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.”

Often I have heard preachers say that we should not seek the gifts but the Giver, which may sound more noble and wise, but is actually contrary to the Scriptures, as we see in this verse. The truth is that a basic way that we seek the Lord is by seeking to hear from Him. Communication is the basis of every relationship. Few things will draw us closer to the Lord than hearing from Him. We also seek the Lord by seeking all of His gifts. These gifts are not toys but tools for doing His work.

Drawing Us Twice as Close
A second promise that I received is that this year He is going to draw His Church twice as close to Him as we have ever been. The way I saw this was that some may get only 10 percent closer, some may even backslide, but others will get many times closer so that the net result will be His entire Church getting twice as close to Him as we have ever been. The implications of this will be great. How much impact could the Church have on this world if she were twice as close to the Lord as she is now?

As we might find typical in Scripture and history, we can expect the enemy to be increasing his work during this time, too. We are in the time of Isaiah 60:1-5. While darkness is covering the earth, and even “deep darkness the people,” the glory of the Lord will be manifested on His people. We are entering the time of the ultimate clash between light and darkness, but as we also see in this text—the light wins! The nations do not turn to the darkness but to the light.

Another rising wave of the Spirit is happening now. Ultimately it will be an irresistible tsunami, recapturing backsliders and multitudes of the heathen in its path. The Lord speaking to His people will be a catalyst for this.

Today you can get a head start on this great year by seeking Him, asking for more prophetic dreams, visions, and prophesy, and being faithful to what He speaks to you.

Rick Joyner
MorningStar Ministries
Email: info@morningstarministries.org

I got this from http://elijahlist.com

Occupying the Land, umm, the Hotel

Dec.9,2010

Fiona has built herself a little nest.

Here’s what she keeps in her little nest.

Patrick and Morgan did some training in martial arts in our hotel room. They decided to take it to the gym after banging into doors and walls and people too many times.

Garrett wrestled the laptop away from me and played some PBS Kids games for a while.

Anna read a Nancy Drew book, and Patrick and I listened.

I hope she reads it again tomorrow! I have to know what’s going to happen!

The hotel clerk is a very busy woman. On top of all her other duties, she was supposed to decorate the lobby Christmas tree. Every time I went in there, I saw the boxes of ornaments and the bare tree, and I did some deductive reasoning. I asked her if she would like some help decorating the tree. She said she would love to have some help. So Patrick, Anna and Kelsey went and decorated the tree in the hotel lobby. It looks great. She was very grateful. I was happy that my children were able to bless her and everybody that walks into the hotel lobby.

Ten Kids in Two Rooms!

Dec.8,2010

We have gadgets and gizmos and boxes and books to keep us occupied while we wait for God to show us our new house:

And lots of food and snacks.

Anna’s bag is full of neat things to do. But I wanted to show how pretty it is. She made it for her Faith Girlz Club.

The laptop plays DVD’s. And today we discovered that we can go online with it. We thought the wireless card didn’t work in it. A very happy discovery!