Who's Report will YOU Believe?

Whose report will you believe?

Will you believe the report of man or the report of the Lord?

It’s easy to SAY we will believe the report of the Lord; but when tough times come a knockin’ at our door is that in fact the case?

Take for instance the Israelites….traveling through the dessert all those years. Having been through so much with the Lord already having experienced so much at the hand of God…..so many miracles, signs and wonders…and still they found it so easy to NOT believe the report of the Lord when they finally reached the Jordan and it was time to cross over into the Promised Land; the land flowing with milk and honey that the Lord had promised to them. Do you remember the story? They had finally reached river banks and were nearing time to cross over into the Land flowing with milk and honey. God had told Moses to send spies ahead and surely they did. They came back and reported that it was as the Lord had promised, “A land flowing with milk and honey…” but the word of God also tells us they saw giants in the land and saw themselves as grasshoppers. Below is an account from the scripture.

Numbers 13:25-33 

²⁵ At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

Report on the Exploration

 ²⁶ They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. ²⁷ They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. ²⁸ But the people who live there are powerful and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. ²⁹ The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”

 ³⁰ Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.” (I love this! Such faith!)
 ³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” ³² And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. ³³ We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”


Wow!...so what happened here in this situation? The Israelites chose to believe the report of the men, the spies who were filled with fear and who themselves chose not to believe the Lord and grab hold of His promise. In fact the Bible tells us that only one of the men was seen by God to have a different spirit and serve the Lord wholeheartedly. This was Caleb.


The Lord said that not one of those who saw his glory and the signs he performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed him and instead tested him ten times, not one of them would ever see the land that was promised on oath to their ancestors; but instead because his servant Caleb had a different spirit and followed him wholeheartedly, him would bring him into the land he promised to, and his descendants would inherit it. (vr22-24)


Sounds to me like a very good reason to believe the report of the Lord over the report of man! Those who choose to have faith and believe God will reap a reward worth it and those who don’t won’t!
Also, just this morning as I was hearing all this is my heart I was also thinking about how the Word of God instructs about the power of the tongue.

“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Proverbs 18:21

Have you received some news recently that is less than encouraging?


Have you brought it to the Lord in prayer?

What does the Word of the Lord have to say about it?

A Word from the Lord - 01/12/11

In this season obedience is everything for you. You need to heed my voice.

Listen and obey. Others will not understand; that’s okay; they may tell you otherwise to what I say for you to do; but you must learn to obey my voice.

Do not be moved by your emotions. Obedience is far better than sacrifice.

Where I am taking you, you will need to be able to hear my voice and obey it without hesitation or wavering.

This is a season of the spirit man;

A season to see with your spirit eyes and to hear with your spirit ears; 

A season to walk in the spirit.

 

Remember – the power of my Holy Spirit abides in you to My Glory; the very power that rose me up from the grave and took me to my Father’s side in Heaven.

Obedience ~ Sheer obedience.

Who’s Report will You Believe?


I will choose to believe the report of the Lord.

Is more like a smolder these days.....

 It's 2011
Already so very many changes have taken place in my life!

and I am NOT liking them!

What can I say? I am not a happy camper....I have never been one for change.

Even when I was the instigator. 

BUT, what can you do? Life is what it is. As much as we like to think we can control the timing of and how things turn out in our lives but  we can't.

Oh we can "set goals".....but the truth of the matter is....ultimately, we only have as much control over lives as the Heavenly Father sees fit to give us and we will only live here on this earth long enough to carry those goals out 

 as long as he has deemed for us to. 

So, here I sit in an entirely different  place than I was last year about this time. Last year same time I was in a comfortable place in my life. I had wonderful church family, close friends, family life was good, work was ok....Now my life is not so comfortable; everything has changed. I feel like an orphan. I don't have a church family,  my father died pretty suddenly last summer, apparently I am going to be a grandma sometime very soon....but I never hear from my grown children any more, my best friend in this world is permanently moving away and work has become a major source of angina for me with it's ever changing expectations and goals.

Well....sorry for all the MAJOR "Woe is ME!"....but there IS a an end to all of this. I truly do trust in the Lord through and in all of this.  

I can't possibly be the only one who feels this way. Even if there is only one other person out there who struggles with change and with the thought of, "Why?"...."Why is all tis happening to me when I have be faithful and obedient to you Lord?"

Guess what? Just because it may seem as though things aren't going right doesn't mean  you are doing something wrong!

That is right!

Just take a look inside the Word of the Lord! There are so many examples of Men of God (and women) who were obedient to the voice of the Lord and were lead into the desert or into AN UNKNOWN LAND.

Such as Abram.

God called Abram to leave his comfortable place, his family...everything, and go to a place that was unknown to him.

Abram is just one of so many. Ruth and Naomi, Moses, David,  and Joseph and Mary, Apostle Paul...so many others.

The key here is obedience.

I may not "like" the change. That is just my human nature, which BTW I am working on changing day by day!....But I am embracing the change because I know deep down inside that it is God ordained! I know the Lord goes before me. I have a peace deep down inside my soul that supersedes my dislike and so I keep a steady pace and I don't give up but keep on keepin' on as I set my eye on the prize set before me! Life eternal with my Lord!

As for all the temporal  things? They shall have their time....as it is ordained by the Almighty....and I trust and I am learning every day to trust more and more in HIM, my savior, that He knows what is best for me!

His timing.....NOT mine!

God’s Time

It’s hard sometimes to understand, God’s great, all knowing and mighty hand.

We see our world in limited view, knowing our need; at least we think we do.

We do our best to live obediently, without complaint, expediently.

Not comparing ourselves to one another, not being jealous of sister or brother.

Somehow, some way, hard as we try, we just can’t help but wonder why;

God seems to have overlooked our need, and still has neglected to water our seed.

As hard as it is to understand, God’s great, all knowing and mighty hand.

Let us remember his motive is pure love, he looks over us all, from his throne above.

His vision encompasses our entire life, from beginning to end, every joy; every strife.

He knows the plans he has for us, they are good not evil, in this we must trust.

Knowing down deep within our hearts, through all the tears and false starts;

God’s Word is ever and always true; HE will always see his promises through.

If we fully delight ourselves in Him, not just in part, he will give us the desires of our heart.

Amy Colleen

What You Want ....

What You Want From Me

A Song from the Lord

  

Your heart Lord;

 What you want of me, oh Lord.

To sit with you and listen to the desire of your heart;

To hear you tell me how you care, oh Lord.

To sit in silence, wonder and awe.

This is what little you want me to do.

**

And still I say, “What can I do for you?”

Precious Lord, Holy Master.

Tell me, “What can I do for you?”

I want to please you.

**

Still nothing has changed for you.

You want me to be with you.

Be with you.

Come be with me ~ is all you say to me.

 Come be with me.

**

And still I say, “ What can I do for you?”

Precious Lord, Holy master.

Tell me, “WHAT can I do for you?”

I want to please you.

Still nothing has changed for you.

You want me to be with you.

Be with you.

Come be with me ~ is all you say to me.

 Come be with me.

Still nothing has changed for you.

 You want me to be with you.

Be with you.

 Come be with me ~ is all you say to me.

 Come be with me ~ is all you want from me.

Come be with me.

Amy Colleen ~ Copyright 

"Out with the OLD and IN with the NEW!" As the saying goes.

Farewell yet another year! UN-believable!

Where has the time gone?

I would have to say that 2010 has been one of thee most emotionally challenging years I have had in my entire life....easily....and I am happy to wish it a found ado!
 I can only hope, pray and trust that 2011 will bring some what less of a tsunami of emotional and physical trials my way. If not at least that I will have learned how better to walk in the peace afforded me through Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus our Messiah).
What with all the relational challenges in my life, (in and out of the family), changes in leadership at church, at work, conquering nasty melanoma and breaking multiple bones in my body at differing times; and deaths in my immediate family,  (just to name a "few" )...I am ready for a NEW Year to begin!
"Out with the OLD and IN with  the NEW!" As the saying goes.

So whatcha' say? anyone care to join me?

I really have no idea what 2011 holds for me. It very well may be just as hard as 2010, for all I know. But I am bound and determined NOT to look back no matter what!

If there is ONE thin I know for sure. It is that the Lord loves me. HE has brought me through all of this. HE has allowed me to go through 2010.....and I made it through. The waters rose high and they did not over take me; the fire burned hot but it did not consume me. People, friends and family turned away from me, but HE, the Lord, stayed right by my side and in fact when I could go no further, HE carried me.

The Lord showed me a secret place inside the mountain.
When I cried out to Him, "Lord I can not climb this mountain! I can not!"
The Lord answered, "My precious Amy. I am not asking you to climb the mountain. Follow me inside the mountain."

That's when He shared with me about wisdom and knowledge being the true treasures of life. How they are learned through life's struggles. Then He went on to compare them to the treasures found INSIDE the mountains caves.  As the Lord spoke to me I had a vision of what He was saying.

"Although the mountain top is beautiful," the Lord said, "and most everyone sets their sights on reaching the top of the mountain, the deepest darkest part of the caves is where the most precious treasures are found. One must first find the cave then dig deep and mine into the wall of the cave to find precious rubies and sapphire and diamonds. On the wall of the cave you'll find gold dust to get to the purest gold you need to dig deep inside."

I was utterly amazed at what the Lord was showing me and telling me.....He continued by sharing with me about King David.....and all the time he spent in the caves and what he wrote in the caves; all the wisdom that came forth from his time spent INSIDE the mountain caves. The Lord also shared about Apostle Paul and his time in prison (or in a cave) and ALL the "nuggets of treasures" that came forth from his time as well and John and others as well.

This was quite a beautiful time I had with the Lord. As always ....this time seemed especially healing for me  though.

And so I look especially forward to what ever 2011 holds for me...and who ever my precious Master allows in my life.

May the Lord Bless you as well this coming New Year!!
AmyColleen


p.s. I Miss you