The Living Flame of Love – St John of the Cross

The Living Flame Of Love
Songs of the soul in the intimate communication of loving union with God.

1. O living flame of love
that tenderly wounds my soul
in its deepest center! Since
now you are not oppressive,
now consummate! if it be your will: tear through the veil of this sweet encounter!

2. O sweet cautery,
O delightful wound!
O gentle hand!
O delicate touch that tastes of eternal life and pays every debt!
In killing you changed death to life.

3. O lamps of fire!
in whose splendors
the deep caverns of feeling,
once obscure and blind,
now give forth, so rarely, so exquisitely,
both warmth and light to their Beloved.

4. How gently and lovingly
you wake in my heart,
where in secret you dwell alone;
and in your sweet breathing,
filled with good and glory,
how tenderly you swell my heart with love.

Intercession for Israel…

Last night I woke up in the middle of the night with this grown of intercession. It was interesting, I have not felt intercession like that in a while. It was a doubled over grown and it must have lasted 20-30 seconds, and then I felt a release. I thought about praying more and did but I knew that for some reason it was done. So I went back to sleep. And I don’t remember what time it was or anything else really, just that it happened.

Pictures of Kelli Dog…

Here are pictures of Kelli dog. Our wonderful Terrorist… oops I meant Terrier 

 

I would be lying if I said no live animals were hurt in the process of taking these pictures ;-P

No how could ya hurt something with a face like that?

Pray for your Leaders!

According to all of the major news networks, Barack Hussain Obama is our next president.

I must say I am saddened by this news. Partly because I believe the economy will not fair well under Obama, though the economy has very little to do with my disappointment. I am saddened due to the fact that we only need one new Supreme Court Justice for abortion to have a chance to be overthrown. I tell you 50,000,000 babies is not ok with me, The killing needs to stop. No war in history comes close to the amount of babies killed in the past 30 years. And secondly I fear for the nation of Israel as Obama is opposed to the Nation of Israel.

 

“(IsraelNN.com) Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama privately expressed his support for a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders, including eastern Jerusalem, during his meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah this summer.

According to a report published Tuesday in the Lebanese newspaper al-Ahbar, Obama told Abbas that he supports a PA state, and Arab “rights to east Jerusalem” as well. The sources said Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad “heard the best things they ever heard from an American president” during the meeting. However, said sources quoted in the report, the candidate asked them to keep his declaration a secret.“

You see, read history, when nations come against Israel as a nation, whether they are being used by God as judgement or not, they are judged. I tell you when America goes against Israel it will not be good for her.

So these are my disappointments, but in the last local election here in Portland, OR every issue which I voted on, when the opposite direction. I felt a feeling of hopelessness, but at that time I realized that I had not put my trust in God. I was not leaning upon him fully. So this time I am disappointed as expressed above but I feel a twinge of adventure rise in me, as I let myself fall into the loving mercies of God. For he is good God, and he is the one who raises up kings and brings them down! So being the thrill junkie that I am I have jumped, I have let go, and I put my trust fully in Christ!

Actually the reason why I started this post was to write out a prayer. Because I was heard the news, went to my computer to work on my homework, and I could not, I needed to pray, so I went to my bed to pray, and I was contemplating the coming years, and I realized that the church needs to cultivate a life of prayer, or WE WILL NOT MAKE IT!!! So I thought I am going to go and write a blog post because half the nation is writing theirs saying yeah! he won!, or oh crap, he won! And I want to write well he won, darn, but 

Father God right now I pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation of Jesus Christ to be poured out upon our next leader Barack Obama. I pray that you will come to him and teach him your ways. That he will abide by your laws. That you will give him wisdom as he rules your people. Right now I bless that man! Rain down on Obama as he makes/prepares to make his speech. I pray that you will visit him in the night. That you will give him restful sleep. For you are God, and you have chosen our next president so I say let your will be done. Move upon this man. For You are God and you know what you want, and you know how you will get it the fastest way, with the least amount of pain, though there will be pain, it’s guaranteed. (Did you see that J Rizz line?) So God I though my self and my nation fully upon your mercies. Come and revive our nation for yourself, no mater who is our president.

God I petition you now! I plead blood of Jesus of MY sins and the sins of MY nation, end abortion, and send revival.

God visit your bride in this nation, that she will not keeps silent! Oh let us petition before your throne day and night! Let this be a turning point in our nation that the church in our nation might be called a house of prayer. For God you are God, and when we pray to you we change thing in ETERNITY. When we have voice in the heavens. We SHAKE THINGS! WE CHANGE THINGS FOREVER! God Let this realization come upon us.  Let your church continue to pray even though the election is over! Oh God Come!

The loss of the sense of majesty

A.W. Tozar writes in his book entitled ‘The Knowlege of the Holy’ saying,

“I refer to the loss of the concept of majesty from the popular religious mind. The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God for one so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men.”

I the other day I was in church thinking about this and that, and subconsiously thinking I was thinking about God. Though after a little while I stopped my thought processes I was going through to consider what I has actually been musing over in my mind. I realized that I really had not been thinking about God but about things at church and probably my own ambitions for my life. Which are kind of close to thinking about God because it is his church and I am his beloved but at the same time, I was not thinking about God at all.

It actually made me think about how much time I spend thinking about and basically worshiping the things of God instead of God himself.

I am not a really good judge concerning how much I think about God but I know it is not near enough and that I trick myself to often into thinking that I am thinking about God.

So I am praying that the Holy spirit will reveal God to me so that I might be facinated, so facinated that all else not eternal is rubish in my eyes.

Kill That Pride!

Recently I had a ridiculously childish experience. Every time I think back to it my my pride is stabbed once again, yet I am pained to tell anyone because it is really not that big of a deal.

What happened is my dad owns his own company, a fairly well to do company, and I stand to inherit it along with my brothers. And I have worked for him for basically as long as I can remember during the summers and full time since I graduated except for 3 months when I did track 1 of FITN. But I really enjoy coffee. If someone is interested I could probably talk to them about coffee for 30 minutes at least.

(No need to read this parenthetical section if you get board skip on  I am concerned with everything to where the beans are grown, how good they are, the roasting process, the roaster to be used, the decafinating process if they are decaf, the way the beans look, the way they are stored, how long they are stored, how they are ground, how long it has been ground, the type of machine, espresso, drip, french press, cold press, and espresso what type of machine, automatic, electric pump/boiler, steaming functions for the milk, how long it takes to pull a shot, and the diameter of the shot size. LOL Just an outline…

To preface, I do not drink more than 3 cups of coffee a day! People think I drink a more cups then I do but I don’t I just really enjoy the cups I do have.)

Though what happened is we where not using enough coffee (and are still not) in our drip machine to brew the coffee, so it was very weak. To fix this I turned up how much coffee gets ground on our “sophisticated” grinder, and then a lady in the office who is practically like a mom in that she has known me since I was born, complained about how strong I made the coffee and so my dad turned it down, and told me to leave it alone. This set me off, that this lady could go over me! I am the one who was responsible for ordering the coffee, acquiring the grinder and keeping things going in all things concerning coffee at our shop. This is my dad and he chose what she wants over what I want. I mean she can just add a bit of hot water to her cup of coffee and there would be nooooo difference in taste. THE COFFEE WOULD ACTUALLY most likely BE SWEETER! Anyways I was angry to the point I was considering how long I could survive on how much money I had saved and moving to IHOP from Oregon. It was pitiful. I actually believe the God had my dad do the whole thing, whether my dad knows it or not. Because my dad and I when it happened had a big argument outside (kinda like Paul and his dad OC Choppers, no swearing though) My Dad was telling me that I need to kill my pride, because someday I will run into these situations in marriage, and owning a business, and I knew I needed to but I was sooo saying, “screw this I know I need to BUT I WILL NOT!”

I spent the rest of that day organizing our where house and after work mad and considering vengeful thoughts. It was pitiful. I am still not over the irritation of it though my pride has finally been killed.

How long that pride took to kill was unbelievable to me, I was praying prayers like, “I don’t want you to take this pride because I want it, but take it.” I texted people asking them to pray for me. I did not specify what for though…lol I knew it was stupid. I was just praying for the spirit of wisdom and revelation Eph 1:17-19. Truthfully I can say it was not me that was able to overcome that pride, it was Christ in me! I saw one of our employees go though a spiff (with the same lady), though he is not a believer, and he never got over it. He and our office lady still are not on good terms though he ended up moving to Colorado.

Though as a testimony the next day when I got into work I saw the lady who works in our office outside on the way in and I asked her forgiveness because I blew up a little in front of her and she knew I was angry. So things are good, because GOD is good.

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That right there is why I feel that I am not quite ready to get married. I need to fix the last few posts. Make them easier to understand. AKA fixing grammar and spelling.

Thats all for now!

Camping in the rain…The Great Sanctifier

Well a while back Zack Hensley was blogging about golfing one Sunday afternoon and he refered to it as a santifier after relaying his story of his great fit of anger at not being able to his a ball at the driving range and ending up being totally defeated and not relaxed at all, and could you imagine he did not have any fun.

Anyways that is where I get the idea for this post and is probably what help me keep my cool. Because we decided to go camping with our boy scout troop the first weekend in October and we knew and know it is going to rain the entire time. I am actually writing this in the car after having set up camp and eaten. I was not very gracious when we arrived, well actually I was very gracious thanks to God as I did not blow up at anyones nor say anything nasty, by God I was able to hold my cool. But I has just gotten off a 10 hour day at work lifting very heavy wood, my back is tight and I was hungry and I was getting wet. And I will be honest four leatter words where going though my head. Though at the same time so was Zack’s story as well as prayer.

I learned to keep a hold of my anger when sore, hungry, tired, and wet, I call that a great sanctifier!!!

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Mac’s suck!!!

I have something to interject into my usual subject. I own a mac book, a white one, and I really do like it. I run windows vista in a program called parallels, and then if I could figure out the activation stuff, I could run windows straight up in boot camp.

But anyways, Apple claims to have ooooh so many drivers… Well guess what!!! They have like half the drivers windows XP does, and a quarter of what vista does. Well those are not exact. But I must say it seems to me half the devices I try and use with my mac, do not have drivers readily available, and they are really hard to figure out. Like I have a wonderful HP printer. It works great with all my PCs XP and Vista with noooo problem over the network. But my mac… it does not work and still does not work, and the drivers do not work.

Also I have had camera not have drivers on the mac either. So if anyone is a lawyer and can hold apple accountable for their claims to having the most drivers… please do!

Also here is another idea for a class action lawsuit for apple. They changed the way the iPhone 3G charges, so any chargers that you had for iPods and iPhones… well they don’t work. I mean the cable is the same the dock port is the same but the dc brick, they don’t work… unless they where the apple ones. But still, we have a several thousand dollar stereo system in one of our vehicles that works with ipods and iphones, well it does not charge the iphone 3G…grrrr

Ok I have vented this about apple. I have to say other than these issues they make a great product and I really do like them. so yeah

The knowledge of God is a courious thing

One can meditate on God for eternity and still have facites of God to still consider and be awestruck by.

Consider how one would even describ God. Where would one begin. For instance one considering the greatness of God can be lost in the love God has shown them, but not even touch that God is love. He is the definition of Love. Love does not define God, God defines love. Wise does not describe God, but God describes Wisdom.

Meditating on scripture is awe inspiring. Because the scriptures do no just describe God but reveal God. It appears to one at first that scriptures are describing God yet it apears to this writter that it is impossible to fully describe God in words but words can only reveal God.

In the Song of Solomon analogy after analogy reveal Gods heart for us and His view of us and the way he sees us. These analogies speak to our hearts through the Holy spirit. Jesus speaking to the Bride says “your love is better than wine.” It is amazing how Jesus says in a way of sorts your love is better to him than all of the great things of the earth. Yet though the words of scripture ones heart is unlocked and the great things of God are revealed.

Well that is all for now..,

Doe’s This not SCARE YOU…WELL…

Well, it would scare you if you have studied eschatology much.

Recently reading an amazing source for world news, or that is news concerning the middle east, europe, and russia and any other nations or groups that play into a theory of Islam’s role in the returning of Jesus Christ, and it’s role in producing and backing of the Anti-christ. The writer of this blog “Joel’s Trumpet” also wrote a book on this theory called “Anti-Christ Islam’s Awaited Messiah”. An amazing book, which from everything I have studied appears to be biblical and accurate.

But to the point I found a link which someone put into one of their comments, commenting to one of Joel’s post to a website for a movie called “FAREWELL ISRAEL”. Reading this website I realize how close we are to the end!

Jesus speaking to the leaders in Matthew said (rough quote not ready to find it, it is midnight) “I will not return, until you say blessed is he who returns in the name of the Lord”. And what I believe is that the devil seeks to destroy the nation of Israel, because if he does there will be no leaders of Israel to speak this, and thus Jesus will not be able to return, well he could return but the He would be a lier, and would not be God…So anyways the enemy seeks to destroy Israel, and this web site speaks horrific thing which one finds hard to believe that anyone could believe and put faith in, and that is Islam…

THE FOLLOWING IS COPIED FROM THE WEBSITE (link here)

“First, an understanding of the Islamic world view, from the point of view of Muslims. In the West, there is a huge gap in understanding Islam on every level, from the man on the street, to Jewish and Christian religious leaders, to our elected officials. Only by gaining an understanding and appreciation*  of Islam’s world view, through its historic trials and its theology, can the West begin to deal with the real issues and challenges.

Second, misunderstanding leads to war. Israel’s lack of understanding of Islam, its values and goals, have led it to a policy of surrender of territory, based on the belief that it will achieve “Peace” in Western terms. In reality, “Western Peace” between Israel and Islam is unattainable. Peace can only be achieved in Islamic terms – “Peace with Justice” – which requires the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. Muslims have 1,400 years of experience and holy scriptures to refer to that deal with Jews. Because Judaism predates Islam, Jews have no such foundation in dealing with Muslims, hence the Israeli misunderstanding, and the Islamic advantage….”

*(my emphasis added)

I encourage you to read the rest of the page. And if you are interested go to Joel’s blog and order his books as well as get teachings from www.ihop.org concerning eschatology (the study of the end times)

Well that is all for now…