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This morning I had a date with Jesus. 

It was simple, it was (is) needed, and it was perfect. 

A date with the One who understands the complexities of my heart and fully gives life to my soul. 

It occurred in my quiet house, where the other inhabitants had left in the morning to go to church.

Where I would normally be, but felt the sweet invitation of  a one-on-one service this am, with the One who knows just the message my spirit needed! 

A date with the best of the best, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

It was an intimate service of heart exchanges between me and my Beloved. 

 

 

Where He knew exactly my level of exhaustion and ropes-end and met me there, all while listening to worship music and snuggling with my teddy bear Patches (yes, I still have a stuffed animal at 24! And totally okay with that 🙂 

This was a date where I was reminded of His loving character and allowed to sit with truth.

Truth where I was reminded that despite how much I feel like I fail and wrestle with my humanness, that He is continually renewing me day after day and His blood has the power to free.

Truth where I am learning the depths of His love for me; that He knows how weak we are as humans, but gives us His Spirit and reminds me of the good work that God began in us and how it is continuing daily.

Truth that stood up to lies that have been telling me that because I haven’t been perfect that I have some how lost victory, and oh that is not true by any means and thank goodness for beautiful Holy Spirit and His whispers.  

Truth that always comes when going on dates with Jesus. 

When we are able to say, “here’s my heart Lord-please speak what is true”.

He speaks: “Redemption, love, freedom, identity, and kindness to the journey of being molded in His image.”

 

The cool thing, the awesome thing about dates with Jesus, is I can have one with Him (you can have one with Him)-anywhere and everywhere. 

It doesn’t have to just be in church or in ways that we may limit Him in inviting, He (being the very essence of LOVE) wants to have dates with us every second of our lives and break the stereotypes of routine, to set free our souls to wanting dates with Him everywhere. 

So my date occurred in the simplest of ways; after all of my family left the house this am for church, I took advantage of a rarely quiet house and had church in my room. I laid in my bed, with worship music on and simply cried out in prayer. 

Restoration was brought.  

As I have been feeling really worn down, I layed in my bed this morning and simply felt like it was time to simply rest in the presence of Jesus- just Him and I. No distractions. 

Have you ever needed to just be still? I feel like today in the world, it is so hard to find times to be still and just listen to Jesus. But, I am not going to let the world influence that, because Jesus has truth that I need to hear and I want to be still enough to hear it. 

As a daughter who has experienced victory and is continuing to ask for wisdom to walk in more, I am getting met with the backlash of the enemy trying to convince me of failure when perfection is not met. But Pappa does not allow for degrading of character and removal of victory, because Jesus’ blood speaks and still has power! Will always have power.

 

This a.m., I needed to be reminded that as a daughter of God, I am washed by the blood of Jesus and while I will have moments of failure, humanness, and feelings of condemnation, that God will not allow my identity as a daughter of His to be taken.

God spoke sweet truth this morning to that very statement. 

He shared that He has gifted me with the Holy Spirit for help in all moments (He knew we couldn’t do it on our own, and the Israelites showed us that-we are faulty creatures but so loved and made in His image at the same time!)

He shared that His love does not change based on performance or deeds, but rather His love spurs us to wonderful works-which don’t make Him love us any more or less even then. 

He shared that His kindness moves us to repentance and that He is really sifting through layers of what feels like dirt to me, and making room for His love and allowing His perfect love to cast out fear. 

He is giving me more of Him, and ridding me of more of me-and I will always need that (less of me and more of Him!)

He reminded me that redemption is beautiful but not always an overnight process, and that to come face to face with the hardships of the place where I faced the most darkness, is a beautiful time for Him to reveal His glory (and to continue to offer freedom).

He reminded me that I am not a failure and His mercies are new each morning! 

He swooned me.

 

**So I say all of this for encouragement to you all! If you are going through a time where you feel like the enemy is trying to make you feel like you have lost the victory that God has given you, rest assured that is not possible. Jesus’ work on the cross can’t be undone and His victory, simply gains more momentum overtime because He is limitless (not just in love, grace, and freedom, but in all aspects!) 

His love and faithfulness reach to the heavens and soar past the highest mountains and He will not let you be snatched out of His hand; but allows us to grow and to truly face more and more victory in life, we face our past and demons-face to face! But He is right there and claiming freedom! 

I feel like hearts are so sensitive right now and the Lord is moving and moving powerfully! He is with us! Jesus , we ask for wisdom, protection and to abide in Your love (with rest, prayer, Your word, and by the help of Holy Spirit). 

 

TRUTH TIME!!!!

 “4 But when [in God’s plan] the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the [regulations of the] Law,5 so that He might redeem and liberate those who were under the Law, that we [who believe] might be adopted as sons [as God’s children with all rights as fully grown members of a family]. 6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, a]”>[a]“Abba! Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave (bond-servant), but a son; and if a son, then also an heir through [the gracious act of] God [through Christ].”

Galatians 4:4-7 🙂

WE are HIS! WE are LOVED! WE are REDEEMED! 

 

Ephesians 1:(a big passage but so worth the read and reminder of truth!) 

1 PAUL, AN apostle (special messenger) of Christ Jesus (the Messiah), by the divine will (the purpose and the choice of God) to the saints (the consecrated, set-apart ones) at Ephesus who are also faithful and loyal and steadfast in Christ Jesus:
 
2 May grace (God’s unmerited favor) and spiritual peace [which means peace with God and harmony, unity, and undisturbedness] be yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
3 May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!
 
4 Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.
 
5 For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]–
 
6 [So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favor and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
 
7 In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor,
 
8 Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence),
 
9 Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him,
 
10 [He planned] for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth. 
 
11 In Him we also were made [God’s] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will,
 
12 So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him have been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory!
 
13 In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel) of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit.
 
14 That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the first fruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it–to the praise of His glory.
 
15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints (the people of God),
 
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.
 
17 [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,
 
18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),
 
19 And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,
 
20 Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places],
 
21 Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come.
 
22 And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church], [Ps. 8:6.]
 
23 Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself].
 
((AMP))
 
May His love and truth encourage you today, 
Adventure is out there with Jesus!!! 
 
Victoria