Walking on water!

Well we have been here a few different times in life.  Kenny's job as a fisherman has always been interesting. He is gone a lot and things are always subject to change.  We live by this motto that "ONE THING IS FOR SURE, NOTHING IS FOR SURE!"   Our lives change in a quick blink.  About a year ago he went to work for Pacific Seafood.  I was so sad.  We used to own our boat and we sold to try something new.  It was only 3 months home and Kenny was asked to go back.  Everything he does he puts his whole heart into.  He work as if he is working for God.  Well they just sold his boat and are looking for a new one.  They have told him for weeks not to worry.  They don't want him to go looking for a new job.  So here we are, he has been home a week now, no news in sight.  Someone just asked us how we do when he is home and if we have troubles.  NOPE!  We say the BEST thing in this life is each other!  The world could all fall apart around us and you know what WE HAVE EACH OTHER!  I know God is in control.  I don't know his timing.  I have no idea what the future holds.  All I do know is God has told us to get out of the boat, keep our eyes on him, and we will be just fine.  We have always known that God is our provider.  His knows our needs.  He knows everything that we need.

Everything in our world seems to be about money.  You know money has spiritual things attached to it.  When God can trust us with HIS money he knows he can trust you with other things in life.  Growth starts to happen when you walk in this truth.

We are in the process of listing our house for sale.  We have lived in Knappa for 17 years!  I never thought we would ever live anywhere else.  Well with the price of gas going up so much we have decided that we want to live closer to where the boat is!  If I could ask for prayers it would be that God would send the perfect buyer for our house!! In his perfect time we will move.

In all of this WE ARE WALKING ON WATER!! NO SINKING ALLOWED!

The BATTLE!

I love it when I come across something that was really good and I wrote it down!!
Here it is!

David lost the battle with his eyes, which opened the door for him to lose the battle over his heart, all because he was not in the battle he was born for.
When you turn away from the battle your assigned to, you face a battle your not equipped for...2Sam 1:1
Bill Johnson

I love this.. I know who I am and I know my purpose.... Just think of this... what do we have going on around us that is not our battle to fight.  I know David was lost over a beautiful woman but we can look beyond that in our lives.  What do you have your eye on?  Is it GOOD for you?? Is it distracting you from the things of God?  Is is getting you off coarse?

God is so good to come to me and say.....That battle is not for you to fight.. Step away from the problem....Get back on track with your purpose!!!

There is so much freedom it letting go of some things and giving it to HIM..

So many things come our way to try to distract us...
Do you have a distraction?? Are you fighting something your not supposed to??
You will only find peace when you give what belongs to him TO HIM!

HMMMM
Love you MOST
Lynette

Forgiveness!
There are keys to freedom!
The keys are the way to free yourself from the bondage of pain.
 It seems life in the spirit is a paradox~a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.  You see we have to DIE to LIVE...  Often we have to do the very oppisite of what you think is right to free yourself.  We often cant grasp that forgiveness is letting go of the emotion too.  We can always give God "the offence" but what about the emotion....we forget about that...  You see if we forget about the emotion it becomes a relentless taskmaster that guards the dungeon of the offense.


I know first hand that forgiveness is a CHOICE, it is not an option for anyone who wants a joy filled life.  We have to remember that forgiveness is an act of the will, not of the emotion.  I think that the enemy is all to happy that God created us to have these great emotions.  We forget about them when we need to repent and we allow them to rule where they have no business.

I learned along time ago that I like to tell God "I DONT WANT TO!" WEll you know what "I DONT WANT TO GETS ME NO WHERE!"   Finding the heart of God should always be the only motivation we need and he is so forgiving, so faithful, so compassionate. 

We can not measure that depth of our forgiveness by our feeling.  God says it so we DO IT.

Sometimes forgiveness is like a seed planted in the good soil of our hearts.  As you water it and make the choice to release the person or persons whom you need to, the pain will begin to dissipate.  Although the process can take time it will happen.

Right now my life reflects the choice to forgive.  Now that I know the road to forgiveness I am sure that I will need to make many trips down that road in this life.

Love you most! Lynette

Gladiator vs Ephesians 6:10-20

Hope's Anthem - Bethel Church

Mostly HUMBLE!

I love waking to the voice of God saying something nice to me!!

You may be asking "How do you know you hear the Lords voice?" Well Galatians 5:22 are a good start to the voice indicators and how he speaks~ his voice is loving, peaceful, and so kind.

So I woke this morning and He said "What if you know your valuable and your feeling a little strange about this value because your mostly HUMBLE!" HMMM

Tossing this around in my head while drinking coffee.....

You know there is a difference between our state and our standing...(Graham Cooke)

State~ Is how I see myself outside of Christ, my state is easily overwhelmed by my emotions and NEGATIVITY! without value! (I need to let you know that I really battle a Negativity! It is a voice that I always hear! It is taking practice to catch it and stop it!)

Standing~ how I see myself IN Christ in my truest identity! ~Strong, at the forefront of things, WITH VALUE

In my standing my emotions are empowered as I understand how God thinks of me. In Christ I am standing with the fathers perception of me. I love that all of heaven is attracted to the Christ in me and they are waiting for me to have the discovery of WHO I AM. If in this life we are to be changed then we need to understand where God is moving and NOT get stuck. Standing in Christ with heaven attracted to us, the kingdom wrapped around us, and all the permissions of God are Yes and Amen. So if I keep all my thinking inside the boundaries of his Love, grace and mercy then I am empowered by his goodness.

SO, back to the first thought that I woke up to! What if I know that I have value and what I really feel is a humbleness! YES! YES! YES!

How do I know that I have value??? I have value because I LOVE God above all else. I have value because I have stood up where most wont! I did not give up when most would! I know I have value because when it would be easy to just stay in this place of beauty and peace I am willing to go out and do more battle to set the prisoners and captives free! I know that I am like Joshua and Caleb we can take possession of it! The promise land waits!! If I could fight the battle for people I would!

Humble. I would be nothing if it were not for the amazing people in my life! Kenny my husband words can not ever describe how thankful I am for him. There are great people in my life that have stood beside me. God has moved us to a place LOVE is the motivation behind every word spoken over us. This word "Value" came from a man of God! You see God is in the business of using people still today. God wanted to add something to me.

Yes I have Value but mostly I am HUMBLE because God gets all the Glory! God did it all! I just allowed him to work through me. My life is not my own. I live completely surrendered to HIS will.

Will you surrender to HIS will and allow him to grow you???

I love you MOST~ Lynette

~Value~ Significance~

This morning I was really wrestling with this spirit of insignificance. It lead me to a book that Ben left me from his time down at Bethel. The supernatural ways of Royalty~Discovering your rights and privileges of being a son or daughter of God. Right at the beginning, chapter 1 "The Plight of Pauperhood" ~ The earth cannot bear up under a pauper when he becomes a king.~

I feel a huge part of my identity that God is calling to come up higher. The first chapter is all about value why some have it and some don't.

So cool, there is the example in the story of Moses and why he had to grow up in Pharaoh's house! He was born to lead the Israelites out of slavery. Moses had to learn to be a prince and not have a slave's mentality. A leader that is in slavery internally cannot free those who are in slavery eternally. Moses had the first 40 years of his life being raised that he was significant, it was that significance that he stood on for the last 40 years of his life in the wilderness. Because Moses knew he was significant he had confidence. Unfortunately, in the 40 year period that he tried to help them there slave mentality kept them from understanding where he was coming from. Their mind-sets were in complete conflict.

I love it that God comes to you to show you something that you have always done and lets you know that it is no longer consistent with the person God says "I AM"

Well I didn't get raised in the palace! LOL I love that in my relationship with God it can just keep going as long as I keep walking with him.

I HAVE VALUE! Feels like rubbing a cat backwards! lol But I need to get to a point where I actually believe those words and it just starts with a seed!

You have Value!!

Love you most! Lynette

Called

Thinking a lot about a teaching at GU today.

One of the Quotes I wrote down was

"The calling comes with a process before the promotion!"

I think about were my life is the last 12 years and am amazed at the process that I had to go threw to get where I am today. A week ago I gave my testimony at church. I was a very broken person. In that testimony I say something about the woman whom touched the hem of Jesus garment. The story is found in Matthew 9:20-22. That time I heard that message and asked Jesus just how much of his garment did I need to touch I really thought that I was touching it! It bothered me for a long time. This last weekend God was so amazing to answer my cry.

Can you imagine the crowd surrounding Jesus in that day? He had a mob follow him everywhere I am sure. Can you imagine just wanting to hear something, anything that he would say... Just to find yourself not just a foot or two away but several feet maybe twenty- maybe more.

This weekend we were with 3500 people and it was not easy getting in and out of the building! We all wanted good seats and went early, only to have the doors open and people pushing you to get in front of you!

You see God was able to let me see that even though I heard the message and knew Jesus garment would heal me, I was not close enough. At the time that I heard the message I was begging God to do something! Still being left feeling lost, confused and hopeless I never gave up.

You see the process of getting through the crowd was years for me! I knew Jesus would heal me! If everything I read in the Bible was true then I could not give up! I was not going to stop until he made me well!

It was a huge revelation to have for me!

I now know my calling, but it came after the process!

Don't ever give up! We are all in process! God is wanting to take you some place beautiful!

Think about this one! Being in a crowd sometimes we get squeezed!! HMMM

I love you MOST!! ~Lynette

I think that it is fitting that I start out with Isaiah 6:8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying

"whom shall I send,

And who will go for Us?"

Then I said, "Here am I! Send Me."

That is Me! That is what I have said to the Lord. That is a tattoo on my leg! Those words are felt in my heart. I would go anywhere and do anything the Lord asks of me. When I get the vision of this I actually see myself jumping up and down with so much excitement!

This blog is a start to a life long journey and my walk with God. My hope is that it will encourage you and give you a hope. I want to just start sharing what I am reading and what I am doing! So here we go!

I love you Kallie Linder! It has been your voice that I hear when I write!

So as of 2/7/2012 I am a student at Portland City Bible! I feel like the last 12 years I am full of experience and it is time that knowledge of the bible is added to ME! Hosea 4:6 God says "my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" When the spirit and knowledge come together you have something powerful. I am not a person who wants power over anything except the darkness that surrounds so many people. So I am excited! We all learn differently and some of us need the outlines and the push to get it done. That is me! I do better with some things knowing I have a deadline to meet!

Pray for me! As I learn I will share what God is doing with me for the day!!! Love me! I may not always be correct but one thing for sure I have a daddy that loves me and has given me a great grace to live under!

Love you Most!! Lynette