I am still basking in the after glow of my trip to Israel just a little more than a week ago.

The Lord has knit my heart with Zion.

Every night since our returning flight from Tel Aviv back to my homegrown California—I have had marvelous dreams of special things that I have only written down in my journal. Scripting my heart with actual paper and pen is the absolute best of the best for the flow of my soul. I love how I’m old fashion like that. God connects with it

A person who is well loved is better able to go out and love EVERYONE better.

Doing good and being good are good. But what stirs God’s heart is when we “love good”–

Learning to love like Jesus should go deeper everyday.

Live like you are loved.

Im not talking about human love—

But, of course, human love makes such a profound difference.

This is why we are commissioned to love, first our God (He is to be our first love) and then our neighbor as ourself. Who is our neighbor? Everyone outside of ourselves!

“Love the

Though the flames blaze, He can hear your praise. “I need you more…”

Your Assignment will never be subject to the approval of others. In fact, it is in the presence of disapproval that you are proving the depth of your love to your Savior…the Besotted One.

Does God need us to prove our love to Him?

Absolutely not.

He is Sovereign–and as such in no way needs my love, no way needs your love, He has no need of our love.

Because

God’s Grace cannot be trumped by our goodness. His grace is scandalous and pardons what we can’t fix and I think this is a beautiful, but peculiar aspect to His Character.

I love it!

Our obedience is a form of adoration, but it is not the instrument of His portions.

He gives…

He gives…

He gives….

Because HE Lives!

We may fall…

But He will rise!

Doing good and being good are good. But what stirs God’s heart is when we love good.🌸💗

God doesn’t need our effort to advance Himself, but by the power of His love He includes

A Word About Loyalty—

Dictionary dot com defines loyal as this–

characterized by or showing faithfulness to commitments, vows, allegiance, obligations, etc.: loyal conduct.

Loyalty is not something you arrive at, loyal is something you are. Loyalty doesn’t birth in a trial, the presence of loyalty manifests within the trial because it was already there, prepared and ready.

“Lord, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep these desires and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you.”

1 Chron. 29:18

Loyalty to Heaven is not confined to

Fiery trials always pre-empt promotion…

“Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:30

In the Book of Daniel we gain powerful insight from four men who lived right. These men were on God’s Path, understood to a degree His plan…at-least enough to remain on the Path moving toward God’s plan.

As we enter the scene let me paint the landscape—

Daniel was set apart having already been thrown into the lions den only to be found the next morning to have made friends with furry felines with

Look Up.

Because of you I can face tomorrow…

What am I but a vapor in your Presence?

I am what amounts to nothing on the radar of eternity, in comparison to your extreme Sovereignty.

Who am I that you should love me?

Who am I that you should notice me and count me among the gems in your Garden?

What do we do when every dream of our soul goes unfulfilled?

Where do we turn when we appear to be forsaken?

We can have hope.

We can abide in Hope.

We can hold on even when we’re not feeling

The Lord separates the Holy from the common even today.

His Glory uncommon. His communion requires thoughts, deeds and choices that are uncommonly good, sweet, kind. That’s the fragrance of worship. Worship isn’t just a song. Worship is a way of life. Worship is how you live your life.

Being separate may not be a bad thing.

Thank you God.

That’s a Rhema Word right there!

I don’t know where you are right now, but if I can be transparent for a moment with an effort to be useful.

I have felt like Cinderella or

“The women were afraid and bowed to the ground. But the men said, “Why are you looking in the place of the dead for someone who is alive?” Luke 24:5

Lent has begun and as we begin the observance of the Risen One leading up to that Glorious Day, Easter Sunday I reflect on the enormous gift to my soul given to me through all of last week while we toured the Holy Land.

Last week while in Israel we ventured to the Garden Tomb, the place where it is strongly

I see pure gold in you.

You’ve been equipped through the Fire. Your life designed to inspire. You’ve been packaged for it.

You can take heat.

True champions invite the fire.

Not because we always like it, but we know something good, gold, comes from it.

The higher road is paved with gold. And when you’ve been called, you’ve been equipped. You don’t have to strive for it, it flows from the soul. Pure Gold.

Perhaps you’ve spent so much time taking care of others that you forgot to take care of yourself?

You are worth some