God gives us hope by calling forth our destiny. This prophetic thought from William Matthews & Christa Black's "Hope Anthem" is the best explanations of Christian "Hope" that I have come across.
The word hope is often used in the sense of a wish. eg "I hope you get better." Hope therefore is often seen as a desire far from reality. However Dr Ern Baxter writes “In the New Testament when the Holy Spirit uses the word “hope” – He doesn’t use it in the sense of the word “wish for”. Hope in the New Testament is that which God has declared will be and that toward which we move with certainty". This is perfectly summed up in the Hope Anthem below. Re-read the Bible verses below in light of this song. (Bob Lipsys, Australia)
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13
I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance. Ephesians 1:18
Hope's Anthem
by William Matthews & Christa Black, Bethel Worship
He's awakening the hope in me
By calling forth my destiny
He's breathing life into my soul
I will thirst for Him and Him alone
He has come like the rain
That showers on the barren plain
So my heart and tongue confess
Jesus Christ, the Hope of man
My hope is in You, God
I am steadfast, I will not be moved
I'm anchored, never shaken
All my hope is in You
He's bringing hope to the hopeless
And giving his heart to the broken
And sharing His home with the orphan
He is the joy, He is my joy
He is the hope of the nations
The father's heart we're embracing
He is the song we're declaring
He is the joy, He is my joy
Why so downcast oh, oh my soul
Put your hope in God alone
Showing posts with label Destiny. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Key Maker is the Key Man/Woman.
In the Matrix Movies the heroes are young, strong, fast, quick thinking, talented, fighters. But as they battle to save the world, each other and their own lives, they constantly find their movement limited by locked doors, walls and other barriers. They find that they cannot reach their destinies. At times they find themselves imprisoned, trapped, going in circles, and vulnerable as their enemy controls their movement.
Strength, talent, beauty, and speed are not enough.
But then they meet the Key Maker. He is the complete opposite to them. He is old, frail, vulnerable, slow, and at times confused. His life is lived out in a small room. Life seems to have passed him by, somewhat like a person in a nursing home, who is trapped in their small room.
However the Key Maker has a key to every situation, every door, every blocked path. Even when there is no door he creates one. He also locks doors. When the Key Maker is on the move the Young heroes can barely keep up, as they move towards their destinies. The Key Maker is the key man.
Jesus gave His followers keys: He said “ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:19 (NIV). This verse should be read with Isaiah 22:22(NLT)in mind. “I will give him the key to the house of David—the highest position in the royal court. When he opens doors, no one will be able to close them; when he closes doors, no one will be able to open them.”
The person using the keys Jesus gives, has the highest position in the kingdom of God. They open doors so others can reach their destinies.
What are the keys Jesus gives? How do we get them? How do we use them? “Take hold of My words; don’t let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life.” Proverbs 4:13 (NLT)
Deuteronomy 30:20 “You can make this choice by loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the LORD, you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” The keys are given and used as one enters a close relationship with God.
I see “Key” People, running, opening doors and forming doors where there is none. I see people following them, reaching their destinies.
Strength, talent, beauty, and speed are not enough.
But then they meet the Key Maker. He is the complete opposite to them. He is old, frail, vulnerable, slow, and at times confused. His life is lived out in a small room. Life seems to have passed him by, somewhat like a person in a nursing home, who is trapped in their small room.
However the Key Maker has a key to every situation, every door, every blocked path. Even when there is no door he creates one. He also locks doors. When the Key Maker is on the move the Young heroes can barely keep up, as they move towards their destinies. The Key Maker is the key man.
Jesus gave His followers keys: He said “ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:19 (NIV). This verse should be read with Isaiah 22:22(NLT)in mind. “I will give him the key to the house of David—the highest position in the royal court. When he opens doors, no one will be able to close them; when he closes doors, no one will be able to open them.”
The person using the keys Jesus gives, has the highest position in the kingdom of God. They open doors so others can reach their destinies.
What are the keys Jesus gives? How do we get them? How do we use them? “Take hold of My words; don’t let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life.” Proverbs 4:13 (NLT)
Deuteronomy 30:20 “You can make this choice by loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the LORD, you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” The keys are given and used as one enters a close relationship with God.
I see “Key” People, running, opening doors and forming doors where there is none. I see people following them, reaching their destinies.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Grab hold of your destiny in 2011
On Sunday we attended “Life” Church in Townsville. My daughter, who is on holidays from university, was “missing” her Church……
Wow… the worship was soaked with the Holy Spirit… The pastor preached about his new year resolution – “Enjoy 2011 with God” – a meaningful multimedia presentation. I needed to hear it. I cant say I enjoyed 2010.
The underlying message I received from the whole service was “Grab hold of 2011 – don’t just let it pass by – Receive all God wants to do through it - and enjoy it.”
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We Christians are often too passive. God speaks to us, declares to us great things about our lives, opens doors for healing, ministry, and creativity. But we are too passive. We are like the seeds planted on shallow soil in Jesus’ parable. We grasp the Word, grow vigorously, but then wilt. We need deeper roots.
Paul passed on a Holy Spirit ministry to Timothy through the laying on of hands and prophesy. But he tells Timothy not to be passive about it. He basically says: Timothy, what I have given you is a spark. Don’t let it go out. Give it heaps of spiritual oxygen so that it explodes into a great fire. “This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.” 2 Timothy 1:6 (NLT)
Smith Wigglesworth stated "Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him." Lillian B. Yeomans wrote “Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you, body, soul, and spirit - think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun.”
We need to enter into to the destiny, the dream, the vision God has placed into our hearts. It is the spark of God. Believe it, think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and fan it into the “Fire of God”.
Nightlight, (Bob Lipsys), Australia
Wow… the worship was soaked with the Holy Spirit… The pastor preached about his new year resolution – “Enjoy 2011 with God” – a meaningful multimedia presentation. I needed to hear it. I cant say I enjoyed 2010.
The underlying message I received from the whole service was “Grab hold of 2011 – don’t just let it pass by – Receive all God wants to do through it - and enjoy it.”
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We Christians are often too passive. God speaks to us, declares to us great things about our lives, opens doors for healing, ministry, and creativity. But we are too passive. We are like the seeds planted on shallow soil in Jesus’ parable. We grasp the Word, grow vigorously, but then wilt. We need deeper roots.
Paul passed on a Holy Spirit ministry to Timothy through the laying on of hands and prophesy. But he tells Timothy not to be passive about it. He basically says: Timothy, what I have given you is a spark. Don’t let it go out. Give it heaps of spiritual oxygen so that it explodes into a great fire. “This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.” 2 Timothy 1:6 (NLT)
Smith Wigglesworth stated "Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him." Lillian B. Yeomans wrote “Just believe what God says that Jesus has done for you, body, soul, and spirit - think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and the praise cure has begun.”
We need to enter into to the destiny, the dream, the vision God has placed into our hearts. It is the spark of God. Believe it, think about it, talk about it, sing about it, shout about it, and fan it into the “Fire of God”.
Nightlight, (Bob Lipsys), Australia
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Have faith just like a mustard seed has faith
Sometimes the smallest insight can refresh the meaning of a whole passage in the Bible. It can get us to look at the Bible from a new perspective. Simple truths have a way of impacting “our lives” in a big way. They can also challenge some of our long held beliefs and mindsets. They can free us and release us to serve God at a new level.
Below is an example of such an insight. I found this on the “Life Coaching with Pastor Hous” web site. The http is listed below.
Bob Lipsys
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Mustard Seed Faith by Pastor Hous
There are two separate mustard seed stories in the New Testament of the Bible.
In one of them, Jesus tells us that if "we had faith AS a mustard seed, we could ____"
I did an in-depth study of the original language of the Bible, and learned that "as" in this case, is an adverbial particle and not an adjectival particle. What does that mean?
It means to have faith as a mustard seed has faith (adverbial), not to have faith the size of a mustard seed (adjectival).
How does a mustard seed have faith?
Simple.
It simply does what it was made to do. And miracles follow. It doesn't question. It doesn't complain. It never doubts. It doesn't compare itself to others seeds.
It just does its thing.
You are a little seed planted in the grand garden of creation. You started as a single cell in your mother's womb; even smaller than a mustard seed.
Just do your thing!
And miracles will follow.
Daily Life Coaching
with Pastor Hous
http://www.robinwoodchurch.com
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Check out Pastor Hous’ site. A lot of “gems of insight” can be “mined” there.
Blessings are falling all around you,
Bob Lipsys
Below is an example of such an insight. I found this on the “Life Coaching with Pastor Hous” web site. The http is listed below.
Bob Lipsys
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Mustard Seed Faith by Pastor Hous
There are two separate mustard seed stories in the New Testament of the Bible.
In one of them, Jesus tells us that if "we had faith AS a mustard seed, we could ____"
I did an in-depth study of the original language of the Bible, and learned that "as" in this case, is an adverbial particle and not an adjectival particle. What does that mean?
It means to have faith as a mustard seed has faith (adverbial), not to have faith the size of a mustard seed (adjectival).
How does a mustard seed have faith?
Simple.
It simply does what it was made to do. And miracles follow. It doesn't question. It doesn't complain. It never doubts. It doesn't compare itself to others seeds.
It just does its thing.
You are a little seed planted in the grand garden of creation. You started as a single cell in your mother's womb; even smaller than a mustard seed.
Just do your thing!
And miracles will follow.
Daily Life Coaching
with Pastor Hous
http://www.robinwoodchurch.com
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Check out Pastor Hous’ site. A lot of “gems of insight” can be “mined” there.
Blessings are falling all around you,
Bob Lipsys
Monday, February 2, 2009
Deams and Destiny
Most of us live lives that are so busy that we never reflect on them. Many get to the end of their lives realizing that they never fulfilled their dreams. They were so caught up with the every day that real life passed them by.
Rob and Dawn Critchley were challenged by friends to consider where they were going in life. By taking a risk in God they are now impacting the lives of many though their music. A dream God placed in their hearts is being fulfilled.... Blessings are falling around you....night.light
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Rob and Dawn Critchley were challenged by friends to consider where they were going in life. By taking a risk in God they are now impacting the lives of many though their music. A dream God placed in their hearts is being fulfilled.... Blessings are falling around you....night.light
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DREAMS & DESTINY ~by Rob & Dawn Critchley ~
Let me ask you some questions:
•Are you happy?
• If you think about what you are doing now, and were told you would be doing it ten or twenty years from now, how does would make you feel?
• What is your life producing?
These are all questions that friends of ours asked us some time ago and we were not happy with our answers. This set us on a journey of seeking and asking God, taking new steps of faith, overcoming some fears, and taking risk in order to start walking in the fullness of our destiny.
The journey has not always been easy, in fact it has been a lot of hard work.
Has the hard work, steps of faith and overcoming fear been worth it? A resounding YES! We are now living a portion of our dreams and are watching while God moves through our lives in ways we never expected.
It may sound like we came to this place easily, that things just fell into place for us. BUT, our family (including our kids), had to overcome much fear.
Fear is one of the biggest roadblocks to walking in faith in the dreams and destiny that God has for us. It can paralyse us or grip us with such a force that we are unable to move ahead. All fear comes from the evil one. It is his goal to keep the people of God from the purposes of God.
-When we live in our destiny we are doing what makes our heart sing, what we were designed to do, therefore we are happy and fulfilled.
• When we are fulfilled, our lives inspire others
• Because we are doing what God has designed us to do
• We move into a sphere of influence that we may not have otherwise.
Some paralysing fears that keep us from moving forward towards our dreams are:
• Fear of Failing
• Fear of Change
• Fear of the unknown
• Fear of debt
• Fear of disappointment
When you have fallen from your horse (or bike) you must get back on and ride again and face the fear of moving forward. In the case of a relationship, giving your heart again when maybe it had been hurt before: in the case of a dream, extending faith and trusting God again when perhaps you have been disappointed in the past.
Perfect Love casts out fear
• We cannot find this love within ourselves because we are far from perfect
• The only place we find perfect love is in God
So, how do we overcome fear and begin to walk in the dreams and destiny of God?
• GET CLOSE TO HIM
• SPEND TIME WITH HIM
• ASK HIM WHAT HE HAS DESIGNED
FOR YOUR LIFE
• TRUST HIM TO LEAD THE WAY
• BELIEVE THAT WHAT HE HAS SAID
IS TRUE
Here are some of the things that God has said in His word:
• Matt 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened. What man among you, when His son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone, or a fish and gives him a snake. How much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him”
• 1John 3:1 “It is My desire to lavish My love on you”
• James 1:17 “Every good gift that you receive comes from My hand”
• Jeremiah 29:11 “My plan for your future has always been filled with hope”
• Jeremiah 32:40 “I will never stop doing good to you”
• Jeremiah 33:3 “I want to show you great and marvellous things”
• Ephesians 3:20 “I am able to do more for you than you can possibly imagine”
• Psalm 37:4 “Delight in Me and I will give you the desire of your heart”
• Philippians 2:13 “For it is I who gave you those desires”
• Psalm 16:11 “ You will make known to me the path of life, in Your presence is fullness of joy, in Your right hand are pleasures forever”
• Romans 9:33 “He who believes in Him will not be disappointed”
• John 10:10 “Jesus said” I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
We pray that you will each get to know God’s heart for your life and the He will help you to overcome the fears that may paralyse you.!
~ Rob & Dawn Critchley ~ http://www.wildox.ca/
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Time to dream again.
Welcome.
You are not at this blog by accident.
God has brought you here.
He wants to speak deep into your heart.
He has words to say to you that can and will change you destiny.
Words that bring life.
As I was praying for this blog (and you)
I believe God whispered into my spirit
"It is time to dream again."
I can feel the Holy Spirit tingling through me
as I write these words.
Broken one, crushed by life,
exhausted, weary, surviving.
God will raise you up to new heights.
Open your heart to Him.
It is time for you to dream again
You are not at this blog by accident.
God has brought you here.
He wants to speak deep into your heart.
He has words to say to you that can and will change you destiny.
Words that bring life.
As I was praying for this blog (and you)
I believe God whispered into my spirit
"It is time to dream again."
I can feel the Holy Spirit tingling through me
as I write these words.
Broken one, crushed by life,
exhausted, weary, surviving.
God will raise you up to new heights.
Open your heart to Him.
It is time for you to dream again
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