The day with dianne Louise

Jeremiah 39:18 (MSG) Yes, I'll most certainly save you. You won't be killed. You'll walk out of there safe and sound because you trusted me.' " This promise was given to a heathen, and Ethiopian who feared God. Jeremiah was in chains, Nebuchadnezzar was destroying Jerusalem and God speaks to Jeremiah, 'give Ebed - melek a message'. God wants His people to be His hands and feet, even when it is uncomfortable to do so. There is always a Ebed - melek who needs a message. God's reward for Jeremiah's faithfulness was to set him free, feed him and allow him to remain in the land. Yesterday the Lord brought a Ebed - melek's into my life. I have new boarders, two lovely young Chinese boys. One knows the Lord yet God's love is poured out to the one who doesn't know Him. God's love toward him is so strong it troubled my sleep. God's love for the lost is so powerful, like a lover longing for a maid who does not even see the one w...

James 3:13 (MSG) Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Humility releases wisdom and wisdom causes us to live well. Humility knows it's strength but refrains from boasting or preening. What are the characteristics of humility? The humble know their need of God. Moses was the humblest man who ever lived and he craved the presence of God. The presence of God hold the flesh in check, cleanses the heart, directs the purposes and intentions of the heart. The presence of God corrects striving and brings peace. Perspective lives in the presence of God. The presence of God is wisdom, truth and strength. The more successful we are the more time we need to spend in His presence. Yet we tend to run to Him in our weakness. The funny thing is that living in our strength is our greatest weakness and knowing to yield it again and again and again is humility and wisdom. My strength bathed in His presence is humility. The blood of...

Jeremiah 33:1-3 (MSG) While Jeremiah was still locked up in jail, a second Message from God was given to him: "This is God's Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting, known everywhere as God: 'Call to me and I will answer you. I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.' Again we hear the last part of this scripture encouraging us to call out to the Lord but fail to realise that Jeremiah was in jail, Nebuchadnezzar was laying siege to the city of Jerusalem, no one was accepting Jeremiah's words from God, in other words, it was a bad day. The happenings around us can be so bad that we are unable to quieten ourselves to touch God, yet He bids us to so that He can speak into our lack. The Lord was telling Jeremiah that although this place is going to be wasted I have plans for a better future, for a time when my people will be clean before me. God looks forward, even in desolation, how much ...

James 2:1 (MSG) My dear friends, don't let public opinion influence how you live out our glorious, Christ-originated faith. It is interesting that I had a friend challenged me about being too religious in a dream last night and here my reading embraces that same fact. My friend had said the way I spoke was over the top and spooky but was asking me to be more natural and relatable . I thought I related pretty well. In the dream it was as if I discovered where I had been going wrong in all my life. Although I have endeavoured to reach out to the lowly I have been bitten many times and struggle with the 'highways and byways' understanding that Jesus spoke about. I find it easy to reach out to lost broken divorcees that I do to lost broken drunks or drug addicts. Why do I draw a line? Is it because I have a market that I touch? Or is it snobbery? Today I pray for eyes to sees what God sees and not miss what He is doing.

Jeremiah 29:10-14 (MSG) I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. "When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen. "When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed." I have heard the above scripture preached many times but failed to compute that is was given to a nation who had rebelled and been sent into exile for 70 years. The Lord, through the prophet Jeremiah, had told the people who went into exile 'settle down, get married you're going to be there a good while'. The false prophets were running around telling the people 'we going to get out of here real soon', but they were failing to grasp the heart of God, they were preaching out of their own flesh and to a people who wanted to hear that m...

Hebrews 13:9 (MSG) Don't be lured away from him by the latest speculations about him. The grace of Christ is the only good ground for life. Products named after Christ don't seem to do much for those who buy them. Idolatry is something us humans are attracted to quite easily. I grew up in the catholic faith and Catholicism is full of 'sacred images'. As a child I loved to buy Holy Cards, they had a magical significance to me, yet they did not save me. I dedicated my young life to the pursuit of things of God, but did not find Him until 19 away from the catholic environment. I used to gaze up into the faces of the statues of Mary and Christ and wonder, I preferred Jesus. The lighting of candles, the carrying of Rosary Beads, the constant attendance, often daily, at mass did not save me. Praise God my Jesus came to me in His way. I had left the family home to begin a nursing career and went a long way away from home. It was here that the Lord gave me two 'born a...

Jeremiah 24:3 (MSG) God said to me, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" Just had a busy weekend of meetings as well as training a new recruit for my team. My insides want to be still. If I answer the above question out of what has just happened I would be partially right but there is more. My deepest longing is to connect with the Lord, in His garden and be refreshed. Something new is coming and I don't want to run on in my mind hypothesising but I want to receive fresh revelation from God. I am blessed with the best team we have the same note, the same heart and it is good. We can have fun together but there is more. I cannot settle down and live just out of that. My insides long for the Lord, what is He saying? What is His heart? Where is he going? I want to see what He sees, I want what He thinks is important to be important. Amen!