The day with dianne Louise

Philippians 4:23 (MSG) Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves. In Him I live, in Him I Move and have my being. Well, my goal is to capture the full understanding of this. Last night, as I was babysitting, one of my grandsons woke me needing a cuddle, he was having a bad dream. I lay awake talking to the Lord and having a revelation about me being in Him and Him being in me. For the longest time I had seen myself possessing a small fragment of the Holy Spirit. Aah! but it is not like that. He is everywhere, without bounds. when I give Him access to me, without bounds, then I in turn have access to His limitlessness and unbounlessness . It is as if I walk through Him, like a ghost (thus Holy Ghost) but He can solidify at any times and with anything. WOW! Therefore I am surrounded by His love, His grace, His wisdom, His patience (I need that right now as I have to face three selfish little boys and train them), His determin...

Philippians 3:20-21 (MSG) Jesus Christ, .... He'll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him. It is He who is making us whole, it is He who is causing us to be complete, not we ourselves. At times I discover arrogance inside and am amazed at myself, but then that is all it is, myself. The unwashed parts, the parts He wants to change. I find there are some people who bring out the worst in me. Is it their fault? Or do they mere highlight the nasty bits. I cannot blame them. It is in these times I must go to Christ and ask for grace to behave as He would, with kindness and gentleness and grace. Lord today I ask for grace that I might respond as You would have me, what does this person need me to do to enable them to move on in God? This is not all about me. Amen!

Psalms 150:6 (MSG) Let every living, breathing creature praise God! Hallelujah! Yesterday I was viewing the clip below and moved t0 tears and realised others might enjoy it as well. I woke in the early hours of this morning with my spirit singing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE Why did the song touch my heart? Because it was well done? Because of the subject? Because of how it was sung? All of the above but best of all because people sang it. The earth constantly sings forth God's praise, it has no problem doing so, it is us who get all foggy in the head and forget. we see His glory and don't appreciate it. I remember when had a blind girl board with me. We discussed colour. Because she had never seen it she was not bothered to miss it. I decided to give her an appreciation of green. I said 'Green is a happy colour', she replied 'ah then I understand that is why people get all sad when their grass dies.' I love colour, I live it, appreciate i...

Psalms 146:3-4 (MSG) Don't put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don't have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. There is no one like our God. There are many good men and women but at the end of the day they are not God and cannot do what He does. My God, You alone are God. It was you who created all we see, breathe and feel. It was You who created me, so you really know me. Who knows me better? Who else can fix my broken bits but You? Everyone, no matter how good they are, even if they walk closely to their God, will one day fail because they are not God. He is the only one who can absolutely keep His word. We become bitterly disappointed when we lock into a leader and they fail us by not walking in integrity, awareness, compassion. If we have our eyes on them instead of God we will become disappointed, bitter, angry. In the book I am reading called 'The Partnership', the story about our pa...

Psalms 144:2 (MSG) He's the bedrock on which I stand, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight, The high crag where I run for dear life, while he lays my enemies low. In the New Testament Jesus said in John chapter 15:4, 'dwell in me and I will dwell in you.' In psalms we see a constant cry for deliverance, the need was on-going. However, although my life is on-going, if I catch that I am in Him, then, although stuff will constantly happen, I am in the safest place. Being in Him does not stop stuff from happening, stuff happening is a part of growing up. Our enemy's plan is to distract us from knowing where we are. If he can persuade us that we are in the problem then he has won. These are two different perspectives. In Christ I am safe, in the problem I am in trouble. Which will I choose? Who's report will I believe? Satan's constant move is to empower the problem, to endeavour to rob us of peace, focus, faith. I remember the children's song...

Psalms 143:1 (MSG) Do what's right for me. This is a very trusting prayer. There is no control here. I remember when I was first divorced my fear caused me to want to control God's answers yet He has taken me to peace. If God created me, then He knows exactly what is good for me, in every area. What is right for me is His best plan. Circumstances come along and try to dictate outcome. He is above circumstances and can see farther than I can. When I am in trouble I often am overwhelmed by the trouble but He sees clear skies ahead. We have to catch the fact that our enemy wants to dictate the course of our life by sending along wave after wave of circumstances, some good mostly bad. In all things we have to live out of the one who is wiser, lives higher and is unaffected by circumstance. Our enemy's plan is to trap us, rob us, steal from us, harm us. He will use whatever means he can to do this. The trick is to live out of Christ, let Him be the doorway. He, not circu...

Ephesians 6:10 (MSG) And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. As part of my holiday mode I read more. At present I am reading a book called 'Partnership'. It is about the relationship between Howard and Bush during the years after Sept 11 and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq . The author shows how highly the Australian SAS soldiers were thought of, how excellent they were in war and the high regard the US now has for them. The reputation did not come without a stand. The Aussie commanders had to stand their ground and in the process earn the ire of several American leaders who, by the end, respected them. Training, hard training and hard fighting, learning to survive on next to nothing in the harshest of climates. They did not rely only on brute force, but were, and still are, lean killing machines. Christianity is like that, or it is supposed to be, yes, even on Christmas day. We cannot afford to be soft with a multitude of fleshly weak...