Whatever He pleases

Ecclesiastes 8:2-5 "I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him. Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, 'what are you doing?'. Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way."

Ecclesiastes 12:13 "The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."

The WHOLE duty of man...what a way to put it! I love the writings of Solomon, he has a way of making things EXTREMELY clear. So, what is it to fear God and keep His commandments? And How can we search out and obey an eternal, immortal, invisible, God? He does what He pleases. I suppose these very attributes of God, when pondering them in our hearts cause us to fear Him, which is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of Him actually IGNITES, not hinders the love in our hearts towards him. The fear of the Lord is a proper respect for Him, and when we fear Him, respect, and revere who He is everyday, we have more of Him to forever fall in love with and forever attain "better" love which turns into what I love to call "Accidental righteousness". Summary: The more we know of God (and we will never know all of Him, we will eternally search him out), the more our hearts can fear Him, the more our hearts can love Him, and the more our hearts can "accidentally" obey Him in righteousness and keeping His commandments. As Solomon so clearly puts it..."this is the whole duty of man"....I love it and I look forward to eternally finding the pleasure of God in it! I pray the same for all of you!

Is It Enough?

For all eternity, all humanity will be forever one with God. We will be caught up in the trinity. Caught up into a wonderful conversation and oneness and unity and relationship that has been going on for all eternity past, present and future. Caught up into a unity that has been unbroken except at the cross when the Father crushed the Son so that we could enter in to this wonderful relationship. This is the ultimate desire of every soul. This is what we were made for. TO BE ONE WITH GOD. Unbroken, unhindered, forever discovering, forever being fascinated in the paradise and pleasure of God. When this happens, our hunger will be filled (and at the same time we will forever desire Him...so we will continue to hunger and immediately be filled). Perhaps this is why the creatures and elders and all of Heaven continue saying "HOLY HOLY HOLY" without getting bored. Not only are they forever fascinated in wide eyed wonder at God saying "Holy!", but at every new aspect they see of God they are hungry full of desire for Him. "Oh to see Him just once more...just once more to gaze upon Him.", and at the same time they are saying this they are being "fed" by Him...they are seeing Him! And they proclaim "HOLY!". They are forever around a burning and fiery God. The reason that they are able to burn with desire for God, is because they are beholding Him. We become what we behold, and the Lord is a God burning with desire, emotion and passion for His people. The seraphim and creatures and all who behold Him burn as He burns. That is why we must behold Him to burn with desire for Him, and why when we behold Him our flesh burns (in pain) to desires that cannot fulfill our souls. "Who can see God and live?", but our hearts do see Him! Here and now He reveals Himself in our day and time to His people in various ways (Hebrews 1). We do see Him, and can no longer live...but die, lose our lives and truly live!
So I ask, is He enough? As our spirit is coming alive to God, and burning for Him, it begins to only crave and desire solid food, the Word of God and things of the Spirit. It no longer desires what no longer fills. As this happens, the Word of God distinguishes between our flesh and spirit (sharper than any sword "dividing" or distinguishing between the two). And our flesh freaks out because it does not understand why we are being satisfied and filled "with every word that comes from the mouth of God" and not just "on bread alone". So you are coming alive in God, and your flesh goes "I need to go do something other than this...being this satisfied in God makes no sense!", and immediately tries running away from the things of God. However, being alive and fascinated like this in God is what we will be doing Forever! The only thing that doesn't make sense in this picture is why our flesh wants to run away from the superior pleasure that is God! Run away from the author of pleasure? And you wonder why your prayer life is boring...
So I ask again...Is he "enough"?

All About Love

1 Corinthians 13 (Context)

"Without love, we are nothing" do you really believe it? ", "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love". Again Jesus said (Matthew 22:36-40)

36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets"

Tonight the Lord spoke to me about this in the prayer room. We are truly nothing without love, and completely unable to fulfill the law unless our hearts are awakened in love. Jesus also said "If you love me you will obey my commands". It's not because God is a slavedriver, it's because God is a lover! He knows that if we love Him, then we will naturally obey Him. We will have a heart that is alive and in love with Him. So what then if our hearts are not alive in love? We have nothing.
How do we get our hearts alive in love? Read His word, and fellowship with the Holy Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit anyway? It is GOD living inside of us. Us ONE with Him. We cannot awaken to love on our own, it takes God to love God, and it is God who must do the awakening in our hearts to love Him. He prayed (summary)"Father, I DESIRE, that she be with me where I am, that she would be one just as You and I are one", He promised us He would never leave us or forsake us, He is married to us, and He will never abandon us! In His words "Therefore what God has joined together let man not separate". Let's be alive in love, and not let sin separate what God has joined together! Can you imagine? ONE with the Uncreated God! Let us give the only one who is worthy of us our all! Let Him take you to the unsearchable depths of the riches of His love for you. Let Him free your heart to love. Let Him speak to you. He is the ONLY one who sees you rightly and can speak truth to you. So often we run to our friends or wish for a significant other to affirm us and tell us good things about ourselves to make us alive in love. But it is only through God that they can even speak these truths! The Lord is the ONLY one who cannot lie, and even the disciples testified and said "Where else have we to go Jesus? You alone have the words of life". Whenever a friend affirms us, or whenever a significant other admires something about the other, they are not doing this in and of themselves, they are prophesying and speaking the testimony of Jesus to the other person, building them up in love. Even those who are unsaved prophecy and speak the testimony of Jesus to each other when they see beauty and speak the truth about it. God is not put in a box so that He can only use believers to prophecy...He once used a donkey. In Proverbs it says "He who gives an honest answer kisses the lips", and in Song of Solomon it says "Kiss me with the Kisses of your mouth"...the kisses of the Word of God. Words of truth! "When the Lord has spoken who can but prophecy?" The fact that Truth remains if you will "listen and incline your ear" is testimony that the God of Genesis 1 has not ceased to speak, to prophecy about Himself, Jesus, His plan for the human race, and about His emotions regarding us, His bride...and that means YOU! You have never ever been unwanted, unloved, or undesired. Come and let the God of passion and emotion awaken your heart to love and speak the truth about who you are to Him!
With a heart overflowing
Anna

Psalm 45

Psalm 45
To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”

[a] A Contemplation[b] of the sons of Korah.

A Song of Love.

1 My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.
3 Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One,
With Your glory and Your majesty.
4 And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies;
The peoples fall under You.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
8 All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,
Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.
9 Kings’ daughters are among Your honorable women;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.
10 Listen, O daughter, Consider and incline your ear;
Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
11 So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
The rich among the people will seek your favor.
13 The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace;
Her clothing is woven with gold.
14 She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the King’s palace.
16 Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
17 I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever

Just wanted to put this up because I LOVE this Psalm! It speaks of the beauty and majesty of Jesus, and how our heart's response is to be in light of Him. "My heart overflows", similar, I am guessing, to "my cup, overflows". God designed our hearts to be overflowing towards Him, completely fascinated, and in love with the Uncreated God. It says in His word, "At His right hand are PLEASURES EVERMORE", what more reason do we need to have a heart that overflows? If we are in His presence, that is all we need! He is all we need! But is He enough for us in the everyday, mundane, "stuff" of life? Is He enough for us in our lives to keep our hearts overflowing with a good and noble theme while we're doing laundry, or going to work? The key is in this "LISTEN oh daughter, CONSIDER, and INCLINE your ear". We have to listen, and shut up, and hear how He thinks and feels about us. This often involves getting rid of our ideas about ourselves (all our disqualifiers, and the 'I'm not good enoughs' or 'I'm too good for's') Then we must consider His words..."The King is ENTHRALLED by your beauty" (we TRULY ravish His heart!), then we must come near to Him, and incline our ears to Him. "If you hear His words, do not harden your hearts!"...Consider Him, the man Christ Jesus who was so in love with us, His creation, that He humbled Himself even to the point of death on a cross for us. How do we incline our hearts to Him and look to Him? Read His word, meditate, LISTEN, CONSIDER, and INCLINE your ear. And when you hear His word, do not harden your heart. Instead, humble yourself...and let Him rock your world!

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With a heart overflowing
Anna