I was thinking the other day…

“I am so, SO proud of my daughter!”🙌🏼🎉🥇

“Praise God!”…you may say. “What did she do?”

Do I need her to DO anything, to be proud of her…

As His children, does God actually need us to DO anything, to make Him proud - or has it already been done through His Son?

My daughter does most emphatically NOT need to accomplish anything to make me proud of her. 

Don’t get me wrong: There are inevitably times when our kids will DO things to make us very proud…and other times where they will  exhibit behavior that we are far from proud of. 

Give praise where praise is due…acknowledge hard work, effort and achievement…and discipline and correct immediately the need arises. This is biblical and exactly how the Lord does His parenting.

But, in a society that is pushing harder and harder for perfection - humanity’s version of perfection - we need, in the Church, to do it God’s Way.

Be proud of your kids NOW…before they achieve anything (TELL them you’re proud of them)…and they just might surprise you later. 

Don’t try and mold them into who you would like them to be: Love them for who they are…and let God mold them into who HE has CREATED them to be.

So…I have multiple reasons to be proud of my daughter…

but if you ask me why, I will reply:

“Because…”

“Yes, but why?”

“Just because…”

John3:16

#fastforfamily #FollowingJesus

Malachi 2:4–6

ESV

4 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. 6 True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. (Referring to the whole tribe of Levi - the ministers and keepers of God’s House)

Proverbs 9:10

Father, is this not also our commission?…Is this not also how we should appear to the world…how you desire us to be. That we would walk before you in holiness Lord…bringing the Gospel of Salvation in truth, love and the fear of the Lord…that the world would see and know that you are holy. For how will they know unless we are telling them…how will they see unless we are showing them.

Romans 10:15-15

#2chronicles714

 

 Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.  

***Genesis 2:18-25***

Lord, is this not what you want us to look like? 

And in particular, for us women…what we are supposed to look like in the eyes of God…to our husbands - 1 Peter 3:1-6

Please raise up seasoned husbands and wives (of all generations)…who have come…and overcome in the refining fires of testing…who will nurture, exhort and spur other marriages on…that we would GO THE DISTANCE in you Jesus…

for the Family…for the Church…for the nations of the earth…for revival!

 …For I have seen an end times army that looks like a family…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hz53l-x_i5E&list=PLbNl_0OCU0nuCOHd9VZl6y-Z3Ntt30WO1&index=32

This is the cause of my prayer and tears: This is the army…This Is Family 

#FastForFamily #ArmyOfTheLord

 #FastForFamily

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

Psalm 127 Unless the LORD builds the house,

those who build it labor in vain.

Jeremiah 22:13

Zechariah 4:1-7

 

Unless the LORD watches over the city,

the watchman stays awake in vain.

***”The Jew would ask, why is the house being built, if not for family? 

…And why are the watchmen protecting the city, if not for the families in it?” (Boice)

I believe this is also how the Body of Christ is meant to look***

vs2  It is in vain that you rise up early

and go late to rest,

eating the bread of anxious toil;

for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Matthew 6:19-34

***Because, to the Jew there was (and is) no greater heritage given by God, to a man, than his family. Everything else was supposed to take lower priority.***

3  Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,

the fruit of the womb a reward.

***A warning to Israel not to offer their children (a gift from The LORD) up to moloch…as was the custom of surrounding nations (Lev18:21).

And for us today…we are not to despise our children…they are not supposed to be a curse, they are a blessing!***

4  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior

are the children of one’s youth.

No greater weapon or privilege do we have, than to bring up our children in the Ways of the Lord…the survival of Israel as a nation was dependent on this. And for us…? Matthew 24:14; Mark16:15. - The torch must continue to be passed down!

Our children do not belong to society…they are a gift from the LORD…to us.

5  Blessed is the man

who fills his quiver with them!

He shall not be put to shame

when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

***Then and now, the family was the basic unit, and most important element of society (Boice)***

Our society may have been turned upside down, but we as a Church do not have to be.

It is my prayer that before His return, the Lord God of Israel, Yeshua ha Mashiach, will set us, His Body, right side up and united under Him who is our Head…And that, as parents , guardians, teachers, we would see every child given to us through the eyes of the Lord…

That as His Church, both men and women…husbands and wives…moms and dads…we would understand what our true and Godly priorities really are…and looking totally unto Him, we would walk in them (Zechariah 4:1-7)

For I have seen an end times Church that looks like a Family.

See also Psalm 128

 Nehemiah 4:1 Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews, 2 saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that?”

Lord, please  humble our hearts…cause us to be willing! - for you are more than able! Help us to rebuild and fortify this Place of Salvation - the Gospel of Christ and Him crucified - in these end times…while we still have time.

Matthew 24:14

John 9:4-5

 

Although my strength  is almost gone, HE is right here in the midst of the storm;

Although I feel at war within, I can rejoice for I have HIM;

and though my world comes crashing down, no power on earth can steel my crown; 

To my beloved LORD I belong; this is my strength, this is my song:

I WILL LIFT MY HANDS IN PRAISE

SOLD OUT TO JESUS ALL MY DAYS - glory to God forever and ever Amen!

 

 

 Do not be afraid of the furnace. When we are under the Blood of Christ, the only thing that will burn is our flesh (sin)

Exodus 3:2; Daniel 3:25; Isaiah 43:2

- Is this not the reason for the furnace?

 Warfare 101:

As an intersessor I have learned that the beginning of ALL prayer is PRAISE! This is a precedent set by Jesus Christ Himself in Matthew 6:9.  It begins with praise - and also ends with it. 

2Chronicles 20:21-22

This is how we overcome.......

 I am weeping and trembling as I write this - and you can call me crazy if you want…but I have seen an end times army marching under Christ, that is powerful…no, invincible…because it consists of whole FAMILIES…with (wherever possible) men at the head. These men were organized…and galvanized. They were dressed for battle and ready to fight…for their families - and specifically, their children.

This is why I fast for families…the heart of God IS family…America has fought so hard for the family: and the Lord knows, I am not ready to be raptured out, leaving families in disarray…fathers estranged for their children…children lost and walking the street. 

But the Lord wants to do something through His Church, that is outside of our box…It will take reconciliation…it will take a miracle…it will take PRAYER

(If anyone feels led to join me PLEASE let me know…I need all the help I can get lol)

#fastforfamily #WatchmanOnTheWall #ArmyOfTheLord

To be continued…

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 I am overwhelmed and weeping. 

I had become so disillusioned with the greed and total corruption I had witnessed, even in the Church, these last few years - 

And then I went to a baseball game…and watched scores of children running the bases, curtesy of the Bowling Green Hotrods.

Children from around 12 to as young as 2 years old began to deeply stir my heart. They ran hard…they ran well…

Tears began to fill my eyes as I watched moms running with their children…dads picking up their smallest ones and carrying them, proudly across the finish line…

Older siblings helping their younger ones…whole families “running the race” and entering in together. 

And I saw through the eyes of the Lord…

I saw revival. 

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As I stood shaking at the top of the bleachers…trying to hold myself together around several hundred people, I was reminded by the Lord of my Fast For Family…

And I realized why and what it is that we are fighting for in this nation…what is God’s heart and soul towards America really…? 

It is Family 

Happy July 4th everyone 

#2chronicles714 #FastForFamily