Jesus won my heart

Jesus thank you for Your Grace and Love

Jesus thank You for dying for my sins... for Your Grace and Love for me.

Jesus today thinking what You have done for us on the cross, I can just say thank You that even when we dont deserve Your love, You remind us that Your GRACE is totally sufficient, that You accept and love us just the way we are. You are the reason that Your children will live forever.  You are so quick to forgive us when we make mistakes, so quick to hold us and remind us that You love us unconditionally.  

Your love is like a river flowing into our souls binding us to You forever.  Oh Your love is amazing Jesus.  Jesus I will hold onto You forever. Every season in my life You show me more and more of Your grace and why You died for me .. because of love.  Your LOVE ran from the Cross, enfolded my soul and made me a different person.  I can never be the same again.  I will love you in return forever Jesus. 

Thank you Jesus for loving me, for dying for my sins and for your Everlasting GRACE!!!

Jesus called me by Name

Jesus I humbly bow down

This "Truth" that shall set us free - called GRACE

What is this truth that shall set us free

It is the truth of His Grace!

Jesus came to give us this wonderful revelation - the truth; Himself as our Grace!  The Bible shows us in John 1:17 that Grace and Truth came through Jesus alone.

When we realise this truth, our lives change forever.  Our thought process could never ever be the same as before thinking we had to work hard to be saved by His Grace, thinking we had to change dramatically for Him to even acknowledge us - no, we don't have to earn His Grace at all.  Our thoughts now no longer are in captivity but with His Grace it has been set free forever.  We can be open to just being ourselves and feel His love, taste His love and encounter all of Him. 

Is it not wonderful that we as His children can live in His magnificent favour all the time.  He has so much in store for us if we just believe it and act out the authority that He has given us.

Magnificent JESUS, thank You for the revelation You gave us about You being our GRACE, so we don't have to prove ourselves to You as You love us unconditionally. Amen.

Reflections ...

God has always carried us through!

Reflecting on 2014 I know that God has carried us through many trials and made us stronger.  I am sure there were times we felt like we were going to break but yet again God has given us the courage to see our situation through, He picked us up and gave us hope.

In 2015, my declaration will be to TRUST in GOD with ALL my heart no matter what.  Even if my situation looks troubled, even if my trials seem unpromising, I will trust in Him to strengthen my heart so I can bear all things, keep my face bright and He can make me powerful to go through anything because I have an intimate relationship with my Shepherd who has already given me the GRACE I need and what I know is that my Shepherd loves me so deeply He will NOT allow my inner soul to starve or die  - Yes, He will always care - always be there.

Augustine had a beautiful quote : "Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence".

SO with a prayer in our hearts and a beautiful song in our souls, may His grace become so real to us all in 2015 an may we TRUST in Him explicitly. Amen!

If you only knew ....

What an amazing Saviour we have.. 

Jesus full of unconditional love for us, full of grace, full of kindness and compassion. Jesus our Living Water, when we accept Him we will never thirst again.  Jesus comes to us during the weakest times in our lives, He humbles Himself to lift us and to show us that He will NEVER forsake us.  If you only knew that this Saviour who is the servant of His people, but yet the greatest MAN that has ever lived will NEVER hold your past mistakes or your present failures against you.  He is a gracious God who cares for you so deeply.

Jesus as we celebrate Your birth this month may we be grateful that You will never leave us or forsake us and that Your grace is so tangible and real.  Thank you for loving us so much and thank you for a never ending friendship and relationship that we have with You. Amen!

Jesus You are the keeper of my heart

Jesus ... keeper and caretaker of my heart!

 

 

 

Our awesome God who made EVERYTHING, who cares about EVERYTHING, who takes care of the smallest of the unseen to the largest of the seen, (everything is Indescribable) who has new mercies for us every morning, that same beautiful magnificent Jesus is the keeper of our hearts!  When people hurt us and do not care about our feelings Jesus' love will NEVER fail.  Jesus is the only ONE I know about whose love will NEVER fail me..

 

The Message explains Love so beautifully ..

 

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

Wow, that is just amazing. Jesus, thank You that no matter what YOU love me and Your love NEVER fails me.  Thank You for being my strength when people fail me. Thank You for being my hope, my peace, my anchor and my LOVE. I rest my soul in Your hands today. Amen.

JESUS is our Spoken Word ...

Jesus adores us!  I have been so blessed by +Kari Jobe's  music and I have seen how God is just elevating her to new levels all the time so His Glory can be shown.  She is such a beautiful vessel just teaching us all about the grace and love of God. Her music video Forever is just - no I don't even have words.  If you have never seen it, it is a MUST. Isaac Wimberley gives us a beautiful word on Jesus the Spoken Word.. It is so beyond amazing.  Please watch the video and enjoy the words as well as you make it part of your soul and pray it back to God... enjoy!  Thank you Kari Jobe and Isaac Wimberley for being obedient to the word of God and for lifting His name high unto the Heavens.  May God bless the work that you both do for His Kingdom. 

 

 

Spoken Word by +Isaac Wimberley   

If there are words for Him then I don’t have them. 

You see, my brain has not yet reached the point where it could 
form a thought that could adequately describe the greatness of my God, 
and my lungs have not yet developed the ability to release a breath
with enough agility to breathe out the greatness of his love,

and my voice, you see,
my voice, is so inhibited, restrained by human limits
that it’s hard to even sing the praise of…
You see… if there are words for Him then I don’t have them.

My God,
His grace is remarkable, mercies are enumerable,
strength is impenetrable, He is honourable, accountable, favourable,
He is unsearchable yet knowable, indefinable yet approachable, indescribable yet personal,
He is beyond comprehension, further than imagination, constant through generations, king of every nation.

But if there are words for Him then I don’t have them.
You see, my words are few, and to try to capture the one true God,
using my vocabulary will never do,
but I use words as an expression,
an expression of worship to a saviour,
a saviour who is both worthy and deserving of my praise, so I use words.

My heart extols the Lord, blesses his name forever,
He has won my heart captured my mind and has bound them both together,
He has defeated me in my rebellion,
conquered me in my sin,
He has welcomed me into his presence,
completely invited me in.
He has made himself the object of my sight,
flooding me with mercies in the morning,
drowning me with grace in the night.

But if there are words for Him
then I don’t have them.
But what I do have is good news,
for my God knew that manmade words would never do,
for words are just tools that we use to point to the truth,
so He sent His son Jesus Christ as “The Word”, living proof,

He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation,
for by Him all things are created, giving nothingness formation,
and by His words He sustains, in the power of His name,
for He is before all things and over all things he reigns, holy is his name,
so praise him for his life…

The way he persevered in strife,
the humble son of God becoming the perfect sacrifice,
praise him for his death…

that He willingly stood in our place, that he lovingly endured the grave,
that he battled our enemy and on the third day rose in victory

He is everything that was promised,
praise Him as your risen king,
lift your voice and sing for one day he will return for us
and we will finally be united with our saviour for eternity, eternity.

So it’s not just words that I proclaim,
for my words point to “The Word” and “The Word” has a name,
hope has a name,
joy has a name,
peace has a name,
love has a name
and that name is Jesus Christ.

Praise his name forever!

 

Jesus Your GRACE is our true foundation

 

Grace made us His precious stones

Just the way Jesus was rejected as the living stone by people, just so, because we are in Him and part of Him we will also be rejected by man.  People look at us, at our lives and see how they can find fault, see when we going to fail, see when we sin they can make sure to tell us Jesus will deny us as His children,  BUT the good news is that we don't ever have to be anxious because Jesus' grace is the glue that holds us to Him, as Romans 8:38 promises us that NOTHING can separate us from His love, neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation.

Jesus is the King, the Crown, our foundation and we are His precious stones, we need to shine our lives in Him, we need to make Him our strong foundation.  Our feet must be on Jesus. Nothing can move us!  And the beauty of it all is - Jesus sees the end product of us His precious stones, and yes He loves us all beyond infinity!

 

Jesus thank You that no matter what, Your Grace made us Your precious stones. Thank You that You will never leave us or forsake us, even if we go through fire, we will be like precious stones that are shaped and moulded more deliberate so Your purpose for us can be fulfilled in our lives to give You all the glory. Amen.

When you know and understand His unconditional love for you

UNCONDITIONALLY 

Conditional love means that we have to "earn" love, in other words we have to work for it or we have to do something in return of receiving love. How awesome that with Jesus there are no conditions - love is given to us freely by Him - NO MATTER WHAT!  No limits, no conditions. 

Agape love .... Paul said in Eph 3:18 that to just grasp how wide and long and deep the LOVE of Christ is and to know it surpasses all knowledge and in 1 Cor 13:5 it says that love takes no account of the evil done to it.  So Jesus for sure is not counting our sin against us. There are no but's this time, so we have to know that we consciously KNOW that He loves us NO MATTER WHAT!  Don't let anyone ever tell you that because of your sin Jesus will not love you.  Jesus loves us all not because of who we are BUT because of who HE is.

Know and understand His grace - Christ's love for us is ungraspable!

Radical Grace .. Less of me Jesus and more of You

Extreme LOVE - Radical GRACE

Jesus tells us in Matthew 10:38 to love Him more than we love our lives, more than we love life itself. When I think in reverse, I think how Jesus loved me more than He loved His own life as He gave His up so I could have eternal life.  RADICAL GRACE!  

Now in return I want to ensure I take away from myself and add it all to Him - give Him the glory, rely on Him, lift Him up & give Him all authority over my life.  

Jesus, I thank You for Your radical grace.  Thank You that You thought us special enough to give up Your life so that we could be with You eternally in heaven.

Oh how extreme is Your love for us- radical grace!

Well-favoured .... gracious kindness

 

Consume His gracious kindness

 

Yes it is awesome to be children of God Almighty, our Magnificent God and because we are His children we have His undeserved favour.  We must trust God implicitly no matter what happens in our lives and declare His favour in our lives by FAITH.  

When we feel defeated and insecure in our workplaces, our relationships or any part of our lives we need to declare His FAVOUR by speaking and believing His WORD and His PROMISES!  2 Peter 1:2 says that grace, which is the undeserved favour of God and peace can be multilpied to us.  

We are ALL well-favoured by God.  We can now walk in His blessings in every single area of our lives.  Make a decision today and consume His gracious kindness.

Gratified Grace

Oh Lord Jesus, how the Grace that You so lovingly give us, gratifies me.

Just think about all the small little things we so often take for granted.  This weekend (Friday late afternoon), 10 immediate areas in our City's water reservoirs dried up and so we have been without water. Then we had a tremendously big hailstorm that has done so much damage. A few minutes after that the electricity went out until Sunday. 

 

It has been quite a stressful weekend but also a weekend where I could reflect on the little I so often take for granted.  Father God, thank You for all You give us so graciously that we so often take for granted.  May I be gratified in Your Grace.

Perfect GRACE - Perfect FORGIVENESS

 

Let us wear our invisible crowns!

 

Imagine for a second Jesus saying to you :"Last week you did this wrong so I can't listen to you say sorry again or last month you hurt this person's heart, so I can't help you". Thank goodness Jesus is nothing like us. His GRACE is perfect, His forgiveness is perfect. Jesus said our sins have been cast as far as the east is from the west, and yes, we MUST believe!  Jesus loves us unconditionally and He said on the cross: "It is finished".  So let us not dwell on our past and let us look forward to live life in His Grace and His forgiveness. Let us wear our invisible crowns! 

 

Father God, thank You that we can look forward to a life with You where we know for sure we have been forgiven and Your blood covered all our past and future sins. We love You and we say thank You for all that You so graciously do for us your children.  You are our only hope for strength!

Jesus our hiding place

Jesus You are my hiding place

When it seems at times that the world has turn its back on you and all your friends are no longer there, when life just seems perplexed and your feelings unexplained - remember that Jesus is your hiding place. Jesus is unchanging, He will love you the same yesterday and forever; His love is constant, He is faithful and loyal.

 

Jesus who is like You in all the earth, nothing can satisfy us like You satisfy.  Jesus You are the waterfall that never stops flowing. Your water is the living water. When we drink from Your living water we will never thirst again!

 

Jesus thank You that You never change, that You have always been the same and no matter how we fail You, You love us the same. Thank You that we can come to You when life seems perplexed!  Thank You that Your cup never runs dry.

 

His Unspeakable gift of Grace

His love for us is immeasurable, extraordinary and amazing!

Daily, God reassures us of His great love for us. We all need His love. We all need to know that His GRACE for us is certain and preordained. No matter your sins, God loves you and He cares for you and He wants you to "NEED" Him too.

He hears you when you call Him out of your depths. He has given us an unspeakable gift called GRACE!

 

Father God, please trigger YOUR unspeakable gift of GRACE in people's hearts, let them feel they are good enough to be part of Your Kingdom. Amen!

There is NO other name BUT Jesus ... follow Him FORWARD...

Yes, there is NO other name BUT Jesus ....

We as Christians should respect, honour and love Jesus for all HE has done for us.  It is important to live a life of integrity and loyalty.  When I see people mocking Jesus, posting funny pictures of Him and disrespects Him on posts and on the internet and they use His name as if He means nothing I get so angry.  We as Christians should not tolerate that!

 

Jesus has done so much for us!  His name is the ONLY name that gives strength and healing, that gives grace and eternal life. Why then mock Him as if He is a joke!  His name is the ONLY name above ALL names.  He is the ONLY one that gives peace.

 

Matthew 28:18 tells is that Jesus has ALL authority - John 6:40 that He is the ONLY source of salvation and eternal life. JESUS is the source of peace and joy, life, freedom, GRACE! Why do we allow people to disrespect Him so much! Jesus created all things and hold all things together : John 1:3.  He is Lord over all things in heaven AND on earth.

 

And the best is that Jesus now sits at the right hand of God and HE lives forever and intercedes for us. He has given everything up because HE loves us so much.  Thank you for overwhelming us with Your love Jesus.

 

 

I love how +Israel Houghton sings to Jesus in his song Te Amo ....

 

"I love the way, You never change
Your Word remains for ever and ever
I love Your Name, Jesus the same
Yesterday today, for ever and ever
Oh Lord your love never fails me
Oh Lord you love never fails
I love Your Grace, that broke the chains
Of sin and shame, for ever and ever
I love Your Mercy, Lord You are Worthy
Of all the Glory, for ever and ever"

 

How Israel Houghton blesses us as He says we should follow Jesus FORWARD.... Jesus... never look back.

 

I want people to think about it again when they hear someone mocking our Saviour Jesus, speak up.. Jesus is all we have. He loves us with an extraordinary love, a love that we can never explain, so stand up and speak up!  Stand up for the One that loves you the most!

 

Read the words of this beautiful song of +Hillsong Worship - No other Name and think how much Jesus loves you!

 

Thank you to Hillsong for once again blessing us so much..

 

 

One Name, Holds the weight above them all
His fame, outlasts the earth He formed
His praise, resounds beyond the stars
And echoes in our hearts
The greatest one of all

 

His face, shines brighter than the sun
His grace, as boundless as his love
He reigns, with healing in his wings
The King above all kings
The greatest one of all

 

Lift up our eyes to see The King has come
Light of the world, reaching out for us
There is no other name
There is no other name
Jesus Christ our God
Seated on high, the undefeated one
Mountains bow down as we lift Him up
There is no other name
There is no other name
Jesus Christ our God

 

 

Find hope, when all the world seems lost
Behold the triumph of the cross
His power, has trampled death and grief
Our life found in his name
The greatest name of all

 

Lift up our eyes to see The King has come
Light of the world reaching out for us
There is no other name
There is no other name
Jesus Christ our God

Seated on high, the undefeated one
Mountains bow down as we lift Him up
There is no other name
There is no other name
Jesus Christ our God
Oh, Jesus

The earth will shake, and tremble before Him
Chains will break as heaven and earth sings
Holy is the name
Holy is the name of Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

The earth will shake, and tremble before Him
Chains will break as heaven and earth sings
Holy is the name
Holy is the name of Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

Lift up our eyes to see The King has come
Light of the world reaching out for us
There is no other name
There is no other name
Jesus Christ our God

Seated on high, the undefeated one
Mountains bow down as we lift Him up
There is no other name
There is no other name
There is no other name
There is no other name
Jesus

 

 

 

 

Great - Pristine FAITH

Great Faith - Pristine Faith : Put your trust FULLY in HIM.

How many of us have done some things in our lives willingly.  Yes, I am sure we all at some point in our lives have made a conscious decision to do something willingly for somebody.  The challenge for us all, that will be a life changing challenge is to willingly - consciously make a decision to trust GOD fully through faith, no matter how bleak our future might look on the outside.  I am not sure if you have ever watched Faith like Potatoes from +Angus Buchan.  What great faith He had when something on the outside seemed totally impossible and people even told him certain things will not work out, he needs to rather change his mind and play it safe ... but he made a decision to trust fully in God and that is what he did, no matter what he made a decision to put all his trust in God.  He had great faith, he had faith in the impossible because we serve a Supernatural GOD - a faithful God!

Jesus said so many times in the scriptures that He willingly gave His life up for us (John 10:11-18).  So if Jesus willingly gave up His life for us and He willingly gave us His grace - that is the unmerited favour of God, He made us a promise that NOTHING can ever separate us from His love for us - His GRACE is as boundless as His LOVE - as He said in Romans 8:38 -

 

 

God's love for us is so unconditional

 

Faith - complete trust and confidence in God - being sure of the things we hope for and knowing something is real even if we don't see it - even if the impossible shows on the outside.  Even if our circumstances look totally impossible - God is a Supernatural God.

 

It does not matter who you are, what your sins are, what your bank balance is, what material possessions you have or don't have - these things are immaterial to God, what God cares about is your heart, you accepting Him in your life through faith. The minute you decide to trust God no matter what, the minute you accept Him in your life, that is the moment when a truly amazing thing will happen - faith and grace will collide and you will become a new person, your sins will be washed away forever deeper than the ocean - FAITH - believing in the ONE TRUE LIVING GOD who loves you and loved you so much that He gave His Son for your expense. 

 

Make a decision today to trust Him in your life no matter what.  Keep your eyes fixed on Him.  Be like Joshua full of faith as He said no matter what happens in his life, no matter how wicked and corrupt the world may be (Joshua 24:15) As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.

 

Choose this day to serve Jesus no matter what may come your way.  Our Redeemer lives and He will never forsake us! 

 

JESUS CHRIST - there is none like Him  - the GREATEST ONE of all - the undefeated One - Holy Jesus.

 

Let our faith move beyond the stars & let our faith move to the very core of the heart of Jesus.  After all that is what He died for - FOR US!  I pray Jesus will say to us one day -      O you of great faith!

Month of May .. Pristine season of Grace

Topic for this month of May ....

A pristine season of Grace....

Our lives are so rushed and we never stop ....and just be still.  We rush at work, we rush at home, do do do .... it is just never ending. At times we are not even aware that seasons are changing. In South Africa we are heading for winter; as we see the leaves on the trees are turning brown. In the UK and Italy it is summer as I see many are writing about their beautiful warm weather.  The seasons in our lives are also changing as we might be losing a loved one, going through a divorce, children might be moving out the house, a loved one diagnosed with an illness or a baby born in the family...

What I am saying is - as we are going through the seasons we need to stop .. breathe .. see .. feel .. smell .. experience .. the seasons of His Grace. Let us not miss out! God does not shelter us as we experience the different seasons but He keeps us strong and we can learn to embrace His seasons of Grace.  We can learn to see and apply His grace in everything we do daily.

So this month of May we will just explore the beautiful changing seasons in our lives, all filled with the awesome Grace of God. May He open our hearts as we try and find the beauty in our lives and we ask the beautiful Holy Spirit to prune our hearts according to the will of God.  

01 May : A pristine season ... my roots deep in Jesus

Inward change takes place in the heart of a person as Jesus said in Mark 1:15 " You must change your hearts and minds and believe the good news".  We must not be the same as we were.   We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us change, repent when we sin, forgive those we need to forgive, let go of the things we need to let go, don't look back, release those things we need to and move forward in His Grace. 

An inward change of heart, the pristine season of grace .. we become new in Jesus. Grace changes the way we walk.  We should walk the way Jesus did.  1 John 2:6 "So that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God". 
 

When I think of this new fresh season of grace in Jesus I stand with my feet in His Living Water, planting the roots of my life deep in Him and I grow strong branches so the fruit I will bear will be fruit of love, kindness, peace, joy, faith, gentleness and goodness.

God will always be with us no matter what.  God created us for Him and when our lives are extremely tough, that is when we can see the Glory of God the most.  So today let us pray for the grace of God in our children, our families, our work, our health, our finances and may we love others with His grace.

Father God, help us in our lives as we find new reasons to hold on to You and as we go through these seasonal changes may the Holy Spirit help us find pristine seasons in YOUR GRACE so we can show Your glory daily. Amen