Can we agree that these hands have done all that they can?

Walking and talking with the Lord of all the earth today. 
1)  We "love" like soccer players lined up to form a wall in front of their goal while the best player from the other team lines up to fire a ball directly at them, we have been hurt in the past so we are covering the parts that matter to us, in the case of love it is our 'heart.'  So we love while covering and protecting our heart.  ONLY when we truly come to a place of walking and talking with the one who loves us and we know His incredible unconditional love for us will be free to open our arms and love, no longer protecting what has been hurt in the past.  Oh God we need a revelation of Your love for us, of Your heart for us.
2)  "Can we agree that these hands have done all that they can?  A precious friend walked through a time of being his wife's primary care giver as ALS removed all her muscle function and took her ability to speak.  On the last night of her life he had done all he could to make her comfortable and to clear her breathing and position everything just right and was just.... done... and at that point he lifted up his hands in front of her and said, "Can we agree that these hands have done all they can?"  This was a seminal moment in time with a lot of meanings.  One of which was we are at the end of ourselves (Daniel 12:7, Deut. 32:36) our flesh is done, dead, out of the way and God can move.  At that moment God healed all her vital signs and kept them good including her collapsed lung, and then once He had done that good work He began to slow her heart down and told the husband, "It is time to call the family and friends and have them get in a last visit."
3)  So the question is have we done all we can?  In that situation with that person, with that division, have we done all we can and taken our hands off and put it all in the Lord's hands?  We are going to hurt if we love, and we intuit that we are going to hurt if we love and that is why we choose not to love.
4)  God is doing a work that is an organism and it is not an organization.  Organism's are far more fragile than structure and organization.

The song of songs

This song has amazing anointing and healing in it, and so.... I post it for whosoever will

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPgWueKz0Q&index=4&list=PLXcUpDZ4uGoQLmZCdT-Qs26x4CHYUyWpP

Evil=us Good=God

"Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice."  Ephesians 4:29-31  In the message "Against False Prophets" Art Katz raises the question what makes our speaking evil, it is that it is not God's speaking.  It is our speaking and what flows from us is evil.  In order to speak good we would have to "stand in the counsel of God" and hear from Him and then we would truly have a 'good' word to share, in the meantime it will be something other, something less, something evil!

Ruach HaKodesh

Acts 9:31 describing the early gathering of believers..."They lived in the fear of the Lord, with the counsel of the Ruach HaKodesh."    God give us this simplicity and purity.

Winter, wilderness, forgotten dreams, limping, broken...loved!

This was written to encourage a friend.

Winter has a purpose.
The wilderness has a purpose.
The 2 years that the baker forgot you and your gift 
discerning the meaning of dreams has a purpose.
The dark night of wrestling and pleading and 
crying for the blessing of God has purpose.
Getting your hip knocked out of joint has a purpose.
Living in the wilderness instead of the the temple has a purpose.
Going through Samaria, instead of around it has a purpose.

And when you come out of the wilderness, leaning on 
your Beloved, limping, broken and knowing deeply your
oneness with the One who weeps with those who weep, 
then the journey will bring Glory to His Name and joy 
to your heart.

Alabaster box God and hiding the truth from Jewish people for the sake of the gentiles

" Antisemitism is a sign of self righteousness and pride that

 discerns nothing of the true nature of divine election and mercy

that is not based on works. Its resurgence is a modern sign of the

 first magnitude. It is always a portent of disaster and curse upon

 the nations that embrace it, because it represents something 

profoundly near to the heart of God that can only be spiritually 

discerned. 

He gave them up for a brief moment, for their sins, yes, of course, but in a deeper sense, for us, for had He brought them in at that time, as He will surely do at the appointed time (Ps 102:13), where would we be? In a mystery, their momentary blindness is an alabaster box of divine sacrifice of unspeakable cost that to sleight or despise is to provoke His profound displeasure. "  Reggie Kelly

There is a deep truth here, that I would hope some would be willing to "dig" to get.  Remember you rake you get leaves, you dig you get gold.

Pushing my buttons, doing God's work.

My second son has perfected the art of pushing my buttons.  That is an American colloquialism that I should probably try to translate better, I think it means uncovering the things that reveal my hidden self love or self reliance.  So he is doing the work of God, even though I do not see it or recognize it at the time.  This little internet thing, puts it better than I do.  Repentance is the key.

We are warned not to destroy ourselves by allowing bitterness, anger, or fear to consume our hearts. In our Torah this week we read: “And you shall not bring an abominable thing (תּוֹעֵבָה) into your house and become devoted to destruction like it” (Deut. 7:26). The sages of the Mishnah said that yielding to rage is equivalent to idol worship and should never be brought into the home. Indeed, rage is linked with avodah zarah - idolatry - because it exalts the ego and claims that the Lord can’t (or won’t) help you in your moment of testing or need. The Scriptures are clear, however, that “there is no test given to you that you cannot handle with God’s help” (1 Cor. 10:13), and we are invited to come boldly before the Divine Presence to find just such help in our time of need (Heb. 4:16). Believing that you can’t overcome your fear or anger problem is therefore a form of idolatry. As is written: Lo yiheyeh vekha el zar (לא־יִהְיֶה בְךָ אֵל זָר) -- "there shall be no foreign god within you" (Psalm 81:9), which means that we must expressly deny the ego’s demand to have its will be done. Being full of a sense of self-importance is to be enslaved to vanity and to have a foreign god “within you.” God and human arrogance cannot coexist - since the inner world of the arrogant person denies God's rightful place as King. As it is written in our Scriptures: "The wrath of man (קֶצֶף אָדָם) does not work the righteousness of God" (James 1:20). God will indeed help us if we ask according to his will (1 John 5:14-15). Amen. "Blessed is the LORD who delivers us from self-destruction" (ברוך יהוה מספק אותנו מהרס עצמי).