4/25/15

4/23/15

4/20/15

See you if can figure it out.....The Bottom Line that is :)

1 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. 22 On that Day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord! Didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we expel demons in your name? Didn't we perform many miracles in your name?’23 Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!"

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will keep my commands;

Matthew 22:36-40

“Sir, which is the most important command in the laws of Moses?”

37 Jesus replied, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’38-39 This is the first and greatest commandment. The second most important is similar: ‘Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself.’ 40 All the other commandments and all the demands of the prophets stem from these two laws and are fulfilled if you obey them. Keep only these and you will find that you are obeying all the others.”

1 Corinthians 13

1 I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels;
but if I lack love, I have become merely
blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.

²I may have the gift of prophecy,
I may fathom all mysteries, know all things,
have all faith — enough to move mountains;
but if I lack love, I am nothing.

3 I may give away everything that I own,
I may even hand over my body to be burned;
but if I lack love, I gain nothing.


4 Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,
5 not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered,
and it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not gloat over other people’s sins
but takes its delight in the truth.


7 Love always bears up, always trusts,
always hopes, always endures.

8 Love never ends; 

but prophecies will pass,

tongues will cease, knowledge will pass.

9 For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial;
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child,
thought like a child, argued like a child;
now that I have become a man,
I have finished with childish ways.

¹²For now we see obscurely in a mirror,
but then it will be face to face.
Now I know partly; then I will know fully,
just as God has fully known me.

13 But for now, three things last —
trust, hope, love;
and the greatest of these is love.

For those who made it ALL the way through this blog post and still have yet to figure out what the "Bottom Line" is....let me give you a *hint*

It's LOVE

Yes....LoVe...like the BEATLES hit song from the 60's? 

(*see below for song & lyrics*) 

Nah, not the song...lol...but still seems the Beatles were on to something - all we really need IS LOVE.

We need the Corinthian 13 kinda LOVE alive in our life.

We need to LOVE others, like G-d loves us. 

IN THIS we will be doing exactly what the Father wants us to do then we will come to KNOW the Messiah personally...and we can rest assured when we see Messiah on judgment day He will not say,
"I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!"

Now for your enjoyment....

*All You Need Is Love by: The Beattles

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

There's nothing you can do that can't be done

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game

It's easy

There's nothing you can make that can't be made

No one you can save that can't be saved

Nothing you can do but you can learn to be you in time

It's easy

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

(Love, love, love)

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

There's nothing you can know that isn't known

Nothing you can see that isn't shown

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be

It's easy

All you need is love

All you need is love

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

All you need is love, all together now

All you need is love, everybody

All you need is love, love

Love is all you need

Love is all you need

Love is all you need

Love is all you need

...

Read more: Beatles - All You Need Is Love Lyrics | MetroLyrics

4/19/15

Sometimes you just gotta say whats on your mind

I cannot escape it. I try but cannot. It is everywhere. In every family. In all the churches and synagogues. In the work places. In government. Un-forgiveness. Bitterness. Pride. Hatred. All going unrecognized or worse yet, it is worn like a badge of "righteous" recompense, revenge or vengeance. Which ever seems to fit the bill best at the time - in our own eyes.

All done in the Name of the one we claim to follow.

The one true G-d. The G-d of Abraham Issac and Jacob.

ELOHIM - Genesis 1:1, Psalm 19:1: meaning "God", a reference to God's power and might.
ADONAI - Malachi 1:6: meaning "Lord", a reference to the Lordship of God.
JEHOVAH--YAHWEH - Genesis 2:4: a reference to God's divine salvation.
JEHOVAH-MACCADDESHEM - Exodus 31:13: meaning "The Lord thy sanctifier"
JEHOVAH-ROH - Psalm 23:1: meaning "The Lord my shepherd"
JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH - Ezekiel 48:35: meaning "The Lord who is present"
JEHOVAH-RAPHA - Exodus 15:26: meaning "The Lord our healer"
JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU - Jeremiah 23:6: meaning "The Lord our righteousness"
JEHOVAH-JIREH - Genesis 22:13-14: meaning "The Lord will provide"
JEHOVAH-NISSI - Exodus 17:15: meaning "The Lord our banner"
JEHOVAH-SHALOM - Judges 6:24: meaning "The Lord is peace"
JEHOVAH-SABBAOTH - Isaiah 6:1-3: meaning "The Lord of Hosts"
JEHOVAH-GMOLAH - Jeremiah 51:6: meaning "The God of Recompense"
EL-ELYON - Genesis 14:17-20,Isaiah 14:13-14: meaning "The most high God
EL-ROI - Genesis 16:13: meaning "The strong one who sees"
EL-SHADDAI - Genesis 17:1,Psalm 91:1: meaning "The God of the mountains or God Almighty"
EL-OLAM - Isaiah 40:28-31: meaning "The everlasting God"

Well G-d is many things - the one thing HE IS NOT is filled with HATE. So if you are harboring any unforgiveness towards ANYONE or have HATE in your heart for anyone, don't think for a second you can talk up your love for G-d. It doesn't work that way folks!

James put it this way, "Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister." (1 James 4:21)

Don't even get me started on the forgiveness issue!

Am I saying I am perfect? NO! I am not!

Am I saying that it's always easy? NO! Absolutely NOT!

Believe me...when I say I know THIS ONE first hand...many times over!!!!

However, that is why we have the Ruach Hakodesh/Holy Spirit - to HELP US.

What I am saying is that I am so overwhelmed by all the hate that is overrunning this world - even within the Body of Messiah and in our own homes...that I think it would do us well to check ourselves.

I mean....

Let's think about it.

How many different social medias are there out there?
There are folks out there sharing their deepest desires and greatest fears with a world of strangers. Yet they won't even talk to their own G-d given family members. WHATS wrong with that picture?

There are believers (not talking about those in the world who don't know better) calling into customer service screaming and using language only befitting a drunken sailor, over nothing. WHATS wrong with that?

There are secret sins ( (pornography, adultery, money laundering & the likes) allowed to continue until forced out by default, within the highest ranks of leadership in government, schools and even our churches and synagogues.

This is huge! The line in the sand dividing good from evil and the righteous from the unrighteous has widen into a cavern far to deep to cross. Yet still, it is not obvious enough to the majority of church going Christians in this the land of plenty where we live which side of line to choose!

Seriously?!?

I personally find this astounding as well as completely heartbreaking.

This is why I am writing this blog post.

Timothy spoke of the days we are living in and I am speaking of, in one of his letters to the early church. You can find it in full in your Bible.
These vrs were taken from 2 Timothy 3Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

"Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times. People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good, traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God, as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power."

I would like to say in closing,
If you do not have perfect Shalom (peace) right now.
If you do not know for sure that you will be with the LORD if you were to close your eyes tonight and never wake up again.

Well, then it's time, right now....to come home.

If you are hearing a voice in your head telling you that you still have time. It's the deceiver. He's lying to you. You really don't.

Shalom

4/11/15

Who ever would have thought?

He asked me to sing a love song.

His exact words were,

"Sing for me. I miss hearing you sing. My AmyColleen, would you sing me a love song?"

Yeah. I wasn't exactly expecting that. Not then anyway.
I was in my car racing down the highway. In rush hour on my way to work. Like I do every Monday through Friday. Praying up a storm.
I was smack dab in mid conversation with him when he broke right in and asked me to sing....well, to be fair it was more of a one way conversation. Me talking and he was listening.

Then....the Lord just piped up and said, "Sing for me. I miss hearing you sing. My AmyColleen, would you sing me a love song?"

I was taken aback and immediately silenced.
The unmistakable shalom of the Ruach Hakodesh had fallen. The fragrance of heaven filled my car.

My daily one sided ramblings with G-d had suddenly just been elevated to a whole new level and by invitation of the King of Kings himself.

Seriously, I was hushed up and goosebumps appeared all over me entire body. I was answered the Lord by opening my voice and singing a spontaneous new song (love song) to him. Which in the natural sounded pretty weak, honestly.

But then something absolutely GlOrIoUs happened!!

The Lord began to sing BACK to ME - prophetically! (through me - to me)

The anointing was literally out of this world!

Then I began to sing back to HIM!

My heavenly voice broke out RIGHT there in the CAR!

We were singing back and forth to each other!

Haha - AwEsOmE!

"Adonai your God is right there with you,
as a mighty savior.
He will rejoice over you and be glad,
he will be silent in his love,
he will sing over you with joy.” Zephaniah 3:17

This was such an awesome, unexpected, intimate, supernatural, precious time I had with the LORD.

I don't even remember driving the entire time I was on the expressway. I honestly can say I have never had this experience while driving before.I would say It would be kinda freaky if I didn't know who I was actually with during that time. :) IF you know what I mean.

I feel so incredibly humbled and loved that my Lord just wanted to hear me sing him a love song.

Guess what?

He loves YOU just as much...and He desires to hear YOU sing him a love song too.

I am no more special than you.

If you can't sing...no biggy.

How about just sitting and letting the Lord sing YOU a love song.

4/8/15

Public ServiceAnnouncement

This is a Public Service Announcement

First order of service to include

Immediate DISCONTINUATION of ALL use of

Outside Voices while Asking for assistance via the telephone!

For all of you less than smart folks out there, let me brake it down for you this way...in simple terms.

STOP SCREAMING AT CUSTOMER SERVICE REPS WHEN YOU CALL IN FOR ASSISTANCE!!!

You may even get something accomplished by the end of your phone call.

Other than giving your CSR a migraine and driving them to literal tears.

This has been a Public Service Announcement.

Thank you.

4/7/15

You Just Can't Measure It!!!

LoVe

Okay - I am scryptping (that would be scribbling + typing + writing) a post about the strange and wonderful, way over the top kinda of day I seemingly survived.

So if you were unfortunate enough to have stumbled upon my page, may I take a brief moment to ~~warn you~~ invite you to pull up chair, pillow, whatever makes you comfy!

Settle in and ~~try to endure~~ enjoy the long awaited ramblings of sooperfrazzerrazerated AmyColleen!

(don't ask)

Okay,
wow. Let me say that again....wow. All in one day I have been amazed,convicted, disappointed, encouraged, moved to tears, blown away, flabbergasted and all by total strangers....well maybe trow in a work colleague or two.
So on with the sharing of the heart wrenching - tear jerking stories.

For starters I will share the one thought provoking. Well at least for me it was thought provoking indecent that has captivated my attention since it happened. Okay, well...maybe, just maybe you won't find it to be as exciting as the next Indiana Jones Series but I will try not to bore you too terribly much. This is about Antisemitism.
This has really bothered me. We live in America. For the most part we still have freedom of religion. Okay, so we may get harassed here and there and in some circumstances
we may even have to go to court if we stand up for our faith. We still have the right to believe what we wish and teach our children the same. Gather together and worship and pray.

So today I witnessed a colleague out right deny their Jewish heritage. In a public setting. Without hesitation. Insistently. That's it. That's the big story.

I told you. Not super movie excitement.
However - It hurt me deep inside. I actually felt it in my chest, the pain.
Honestly....It has really affected me. I mean I totally "understand" it. The "why" of it. IN MY MIND.
In my heart, not so much. I see antisemitism growing at an exponential rate throughout the world. I can honestly say this is the first time I have encounter it from an actual Jewish person.
Yes I realize what I just said....I am trying to wrap my mind around it myself.

I mean, I understand there have been times when our ancestors, and not so very long ago...have had to hide their Jewishness to stay alive....AND..... it may very well be happening RIGHT NOW in other countries around the globe where the antisemitism has gotten to that point. But we are talking GREAT persecution in those countries to include physical danger and in many cases loss of life!.....However, as I stated we are in the U.S.of A. and for a little while longer this is not the case, so I am having a really having a hard time with this one. This is the first time I have run into, met a Jewish person who is afraid to be associated with their Jewish heritage .
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Okay, for item #2 of the day.

I am curious. I would like to take a poll for those who have stayed with me this far.
If you would right your YES I would go back to the store or NO I would not
In the comment section below.

I had another colleague of mine tell me she received a "free" $67.00 pair of shoes from a major retailer. When I asked how. She told me they failed to ring up the shoes at the check out.

My colleague says it is their mistake and her gain!

I say that is the same as stealing.

I would like to KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

So again - If you think it is the RETAILERS FAULT would NOT RETURN to the store to let them know about the mistake write NO in the comment section below.

If you would go back to the store, think its the right thing to do type YES In the comment section below.

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Last but not least - #3 - My "feel" good story of my strange day.
Let us always remember that things could always be worse!
As I was walking back to my desk after a training class I noticed one of my colleagues was limping.
I asked him what was up with his leg. He said he had blisters on his feet from walking. I further imposed on him by asking where he was walking that would give him blisters? He told me to work.
LOOOOOOONG story shorter, my coworker was walking 10 miles to work each morning since his bus pass ran out. he has three more days.
Well, of course I gave him buss money.... but more than that it was the conversation we had that still plagues me. No one could pick him up on their way to work. No one of all his work friends. No one could loan him $5.00 until pay day. No one. Now, I know it's tight. It was only by G-ds divine hand I had it to give....but still. It seems we have all become so self centered.

I left my interaction thanking the LORD for my job and my car and health and feet!

Truly this day was so strange....these were only 3 three things that I am sharing. Three interactions.

There was the man under the bridge. The Lady at Meijers....

G-d is amazing...GREAT.....and we do not know Him.
But I really want to.

Shalom

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