Reaching for the sky!

This morning I was rushing around getting everything ready to get the kids to the bus stop on time and I glanced over and saw this!  Anna had PULLED UP TO HER FEET and was reaching over the top of her toy for the drum stool!  Yes, she was reaching for the sky!  This was the first time I had ever seen her pull to her feet.  She is not even 9 months old yet....what is this????   And she amazed me through out the day by pulling up to her feet on anything that she could find.  She even is starting to move her feet and act like she might start cruising soon. Sigh!  She is growing up so fast! Of course when I saw her stretching and reaching up towards the sky, I was thinking of my yesterday's blog. 

As expected, whenever I write about something a bit "unusual", I get comments.  I guess angels are one of those subjects.  To me, angels are just a Biblical truth.  As a matter of fact, lots and lots of angels are a biblical truth.  Everyone seems to accept the sky full of angels announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds out in the fields.  I was thinking about Jesus' comment in Matthew 26:53..."Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?"  And since most sources say that a legion is at least 5,000, that is a lot of angels!  I'm not going to go any further with this topic, except to say....ANGELS ARE BIBLICAL!   

The message that I have been focusing on, is to be more Spiritually aware.  To focus on Jesus and things of the Kingdom and to be expecting to have revelation of what is happening around me. There have been so many recent messages on Facebook and on several sights that send out daily emails, that have touched me deeply. Especially this.....

I hear His whisper..."I will do the impossible for you."

"The love I have for you is endless. It endures beyond the days of your life and finds it completion in eternity. My love has stepped out of heaven and stepped into your life. I will intensify your experience of My love as you seek for more of Me. Is there something in front of you that looks impossible?

Are the hearts of others unyielding to Me? Is your family surrounded by difficulty and stress? I will do the impossible for you, for My love will win the day!

"What seems to be hard, I will make it easy for you. When it looks like everything has blocked your way and there is no one near you to help, I will make it easy for you. When it appears to you that you are always letting go and walking into more difficulty, I promise you, I will make it easy for you!

"Grace will always empower you to sacrifice your personal wishes as you worship in My presence. Strength replaces weakness, grace floods into your impossibility, and I will make it easy for you. 

"The burden you carry must be laid down as you take up my easy yoke and learn of Me. I will enrich your soul, enflame your heart, and give you a greater joy. Come into My sacred chamber, where every sacrifice becomes sweeter than honey, and every loss becomes gaining more of Me.

"I will do the impossible for you, for you are the focus of My attention and the apple of My eye. I will love you into victory until what seems to be hard becomes the way of grace and glory."

Song of Songs 8:6-7 The Passion Translation

Place this fierce, unrelenting fire

Over your entire being.

Rivers of pain and persecution

Will never extinguish this flame.

Endless floods will be unable

To quench this raging fire

That burns within you.

Everything will be consumed.

It will stop at nothing

As you yield everything

To this furious fire

Until it won't even seem to you

Like a sacrifice anymore.

My encouragement to you today is to hear this word...He WILL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE for us!  

Jesus, thank you for your Word!  Thank you for speaking to us all in dreams, visions and through the Bible, and also through Prophetic words.  Holy Spirit, thank you for the reminder that nothing is impossible with Jesus.   Help us all to keep looking up and focused on things of the Kingdom.  Thank you for this picture of reaching up toward you!   Amen

The Glue and the Clamps.....

Tonight I am thinking about assembling and arranging!  Ken and I just finished putting together a shelf unit for my upstairs hallway.  This was one of those, you know, assemble it yourself things.  Of course, we started this on Sunday and it is now Wednesday, so you know it was not a smooth project!  And the reason for the delay was all my fault.  I lifted the shelf unit when it was not all the way together and ripped it apart.  Thankfully, Ken knew just how to fix this "oops" on my part.  He went to the garage and found the wood glue and the giant clamp things and after a day or two of drying, everything was together!  Tonight we finished up the project and it is now in place.  And I have filled it with my completed scrapbooks.  I have LOTS of completed books.  They have been shoved into a cabinet and not seen very often.  Now they are in view and I intend to look at them often. 

Along with this assembly project, Jesus has been speaking to me about the "work" he is doing in my life right now.  I am so glad that when I make those "oops" mistakes in my life, Jesus can fix it up, in much the same way that Ken fixed that shelf.  Jesus comes and applies the glue of the Holy Spirit.  The presence and working of the Holy Spirit fills in all those cracks and holes left by the things that sometimes get ripped out of our lives.  The broken heart, the times there are breaks in our family tree, the hurts and sorrows caused by our own bad decisions or the actions of others.  And then Jesus himself wraps his loving arms around us and "clamps" us to him so that we can heal.  Isn't that amazing?  I love how Jesus shows me things like this, even in the midst of a less than wonderful assembly project.  A little bit ago I mentioned that I have started to hear a bit of an answer to a problem that has been with me for over a year.  I love that now I can think about this situation and I imagine that wonderful "glue" of the Holy Spirit and feel those arms of Jesus clamped around me.  Suddenly, that difficult problem doesn't seem so impossible.  I know that the Father is answering my prayers and with Jesus and the Holy Spirit - NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE! 

So today, I am thankful for the assembly project that is now completed and holding my precious scrapbooks. I am also, thankful for Ken and his ability to get the job done - in spite of me!  And I am thankful for the image that I will carry with me of the glue and the clamps.  Is there anything better? 

Jesus, thank you for showing me how you go about taking care of us in the midst of the "oops" things in our life.  Holy Spirit, I love how you speak to us in the smallest things and bring revelation to us.  Jesus, I ask that you remind those reading this today, that you are the master fixer for us.  You take all of our junk away and then fix us up through the power of the Holy Spirit and your loving arms.  And there is nothing that is impossible for you! Thank you, thank you, thank you.   Amen