The Word

Are You Tapping into God for All Your Needs?

March 10, 2018 By Eva Conner 6 Comments

Can God Really Meet Your Needs?

What is your need today? Do you need healing whether it’s spiritually, physically, mentally, relationally, or financially or a combination of some or all of these? It’s okay to say yes.

Every single one of us has a need for healing in one area of our life. Every. Single. Person. If someone denies it, they’re lying.

We all have needs throughout life.

And the Word of God tells us that all of our needs are met in Christ Jesus.

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19

Read that again. All of our needs are met in Jesus. ALL means ALL no matter what language you speak. If we are legitimate children of God, we all have rights to Jesus Christ’s glorious riches.

But are we tapping into those glorious riches to meet all our needs?

I know I’m not tapping into those riches right now. But I’m on a mission to turn that around. I recently read something that made me think about this on a much deeper level than I ever have before. I’ll share this excerpt with you. It’s from a book called “Rees Howells, Intercessor” by Norman Grubb.

I’ll set the scene. Rees Howells was a man who gave his life to God. And God was grooming him and using him as an intercessor for others. God was purging the flesh out of Rees day-by-day. In this particular passage, God was working on Rees’ dependency on his savings accounts instead of depending upon God for all things. So God told Rees that he was to meet all needs shown him with his own funds until he came to the end of himself.

Here is what I want to share (and keep in mind this is set in Wales in the early 1900’s so they are on a different monetary system than those of us in the United States, using pounds instead of dollars):

The day came when he reached his last pound.

The Holy Spirit then told him, “Cut the ropes and take the promises.” It was a direct call to step out on God.

But it is always easier to talk of such things than actually do them. It had been much easier to give one hundred pounds out of plenty than to part with this last pound and come to the end of his savings – for the first time in fifteen years.

“Oh, how the devil pitied me and brought such arguments! He told me it would be a step in the dark and that if there was a convention or anything of that kind, I wouldn’t be able to go unless I had one pound laid by. But the Holy Spirit showed me that if God wanted me to go anywhere, He would surely provide the means. The danger was on the other side: for if a person has money, he can go without consulting God – like Jonah, who could afford to pay his passage to run away from Him! The fact is, we can never really be bondservants until God does control our means.”

So Rees took the plunge and learned the blessed truth that his extremity was indeed God’s opportunity. His eyes were opened to the fact that he had a claim on God for what he could not supply himself. Just as surely as the Spirit had told him that the people of the village had a claim on his money to meet their needs, so now he saw that he had a claim on God’s resources to meet his.

The first week his need was for two pounds, and he was able to tell the Lord in his prayer that he would not have come to Him if he had had it himself.

“I was only asking the Lord to do what I would have done if I had had the money; and it was for His work. It came and what joy I had in finding that I had finished with the limited resources of man and begun on the unlimited resources of God! The promises of God had replaced money in the bank and become equal to current coin to me. I no longer had to carry my treasure with me wherever I went because I knew where the treasury was, and how to reach it!”

I hope these words hit you as squarely as they hit me.

It’s a challenge from God that few of us take.

We get so stuck in our own efforts – our own limited resources – and we often (or always) forget that God has unlimited resources. We truly need to come to the end of ourselves in all areas of our lives for God to be able to show us how magnificent He is.

Why do we think that God can’t pay our overdue water bill? Is it too hard to think that He cannot repair that broken relationship with our child? What about our marriage? Do we believe He is able to make it new again?

Do you believe God for the small things but not the big things? Or you may believe Him for the big things but not the small things?

I must admit I find myself trying to work things out in my own effort instead of putting ALL my trust in God to work them out for me.

Our God is able to do ALL things. When I manipulate and twist things to work in my own effort, I am actually robbing God of the opportunity to show me His goodness. Ouch! That hurts. Maybe it’s unintentional but we’re telling God, “No thanks, I can handle this problem better on my own.”

We’re telling God that we do not need Him.

We are telling our Creator that His very own creation does not need Him. And we do this all the time until we reach the point of total despair in a problem so big that it is beyond our ability to fix. I have to wonder if God allows us to reach that point so that we have to turn to Him.

My heart hurts right now for all the times we hurt His heart!

How can we turn this around and start letting God be God?

First we need to know who He is. We need to know God as the Creator of the Universe. He is he Maker of all things – seen and unseen. He is the beginning and the end – the beginning of us and the end of us.

We need to understand our total dependency on Him for our very next breath.

Without Him, we are nothing.

When we start focusing on God as the Great Almighty Sovereign God of the Universe, maybe, just maybe, we will start believing He is able to meet ALL our needs through His Son Jesus Christ.

Let’s start reading His Word today looking for His goodness. When we sow His goodness in our hearts, we’ll start reaping it in our lives. But the only way to turn this around in our lives is through the Word which is Jesus Christ. He is the only way to bring true transformation in all areas of our life – spiritually, physically, mentally, relationally, and financially.

Let God be God today. He is able and He is willing!

A note about comments:

I hope this word resonates in your heart as it does in mine. I’d love to hear from you. Please leave me a comment letting me know what you think about this word. If it changes your view on how you see God, I’d love to know. Thanks for the comments and thanks for sharing this site with others. We should all have the goal of sharing Jesus with others. Let’s share today.

Stay in the Light and Love always,

Eva

She Said Yes!

March 7, 2018 By Eva Conner Leave a Comment

She said yes!

Mary, the mother of Jesus, has always had a special place in my heart. I have always marveled at her willingness to carry our Savior when it could have cost her life.

26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, 27 to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. 28 Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!”

29 Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean. 30 “Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32 He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. 33 And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!”

34 Mary asked the angel, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin.”

35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God. 36 What’s more, your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth month. 37 For the word of God will never fail.”

38 Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant. May everything you have said about me come true.” And then the angel left her.

Luke 1:26-38

If I were Mary, would I have said yes? Have you ever wondered how you would respond? Well I have good news for all of us.

We said yes!

Let me explain. Mary was a vessel who was willing to carry the Lord Jesus. Isn’t that a picture of us? I love how the Bible has so many layers. I never saw this before in these verses. Mary was a foreshadow of us. When we accept Jesus Christ into our lives as our Lord and Savior, we become a vessel willing to carry Jesus just like Mary! The Word tells us that He is in us and we are in Him (see John 14:20).

We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We are all willing vessels (clay jars) holding the great treasure that is Jesus.

So in the Scripture from Luke above put yourself in Mary’s place and imagine that the angel Gabriel is speaking directly to you:

28 Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman [or man]! The Lord is with you!”

30 “Don’t be afraid, Mary [insert your name here],” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God!

Luke 1:28, 30 (emphasis mine)

For me this would read, “Don’t be afraid, Eva, for you have found favor with God!” Speak this out loud right now with your name. It’s powerful!

This is the truth we need to settle in our hearts.

It’s vitally important that we know and understand that we are special in God’s eyes. We need to see ourselves as He sees us. And He sees us as highly favored. It’s when we begin to understand how He sees us that we begin to receive the freedom that Jesus explains to His followers (see John 8:32). We are the Father’s children in every sense of the word. We are no longer illegitimate children because we are now rightful heirs with Jesus.

Let’s take this to another level now. Not only see yourself as Mary but look at others the same way. We need to stop looking at the fragile jar and begin looking at the great treasure within the jar. You see, we are all merely broken jars. If that’s all we are seeing when we look at another person, we are cheating ourselves out of so much.

Let’s do as God does and look at hearts and not flesh!

A note about comments:

I hope this word resonates in your heart as it does in mine. I’d love to hear from you. Please leave me a comment letting me know what you think about this word. If it changes your view on how you see yourself, I’d love to know. Thanks for the comments and thanks for sharing this site with others. We should all have the goal of sharing Jesus with others. Let’s share today.

Stay in the Light and Love always,

Eva

Hunger Unto Death

February 22, 2018 By Eva Conner Leave a Comment

Hunger unto death!

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!
His faithful love endures forever.
Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out!
Tell others he has redeemed you from your enemies.

Psalm 107:1-2

Laying in bed, I was prompted to grab my phone and read Scripture on my Bible app. I went to Psalm 107 and it brought me up out of bed in tears – good tears.

If we have Jesus in our hearts, we are redeemed.

We need to speak out and tell others! What He has done for me, He will do for everyone.

I recently heard a story that won’t leave me. There was an old preacher who was steadfast as a rock. He was unmovable in his faith and love for the Lord. A younger man was talking to this preacher one day and asking how to get faith like his. This younger man looked upon the old preacher in awe and wonder and wanted what he had. The preacher looked at the younger man and suddenly grabbed him and pushed his head under water as they were sitting beside a stream. The old preacher held the young man’s head under water for a very long time until the bubbles were becoming sparse. And just at the last minute, the old preacher pulled the young man out of the water. The old preacher asked the young man what he thought about while he was under water. The young man said he could think of nothing more than his need for air. The old preacher looked the young man straight in the eyes and told him “when you think about your need for Jesus as you do your need for air, you’ll have unshakeable faith.”

I don’t know about you but I want that unshakeable faith. Faith that can move mountains and cast them into the sea. How do we get faith? The Bible tells us that faith comes by hearing the Word (Romans 10:17). As we dig deeper into the Word, our faith grows.

Reading on in Psalm 107 (and I encourage all of you to open your Bibles right now and read this entire Psalm – try it and see if your faith doesn’t grow), we see that no matter the circumstances we create in our lives, God redeems us.

Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless. Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died. “Lord, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he rescued them from their distress.

Psalm 107:4-6

He is our Rescuer and our Redeemer – NO MATTER WHAT. Period.

He led them straight to safety, to a city where they could live. Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them.

Psalm 107:7-8

He leads us to safety and provides us with great love and does wonderful things for us. Not just love and things but GREAT LOVE and WONDERFUL THINGS. This is so important to get in our hearts.

God is good. Good is who He is.

It’s not an attribute or a character trait. It is the very essence of who God is. He is GOOD. Is it a coincidence that God and Good are only one “O” apart? Probably not:)

Start looking for HIS GOOD today. I promise you that HIS GOOD is all around you if you will only start looking. We each make decisions that dictate how we live our lives. We choose to listen to the voices in the world. Doom, gloom, disaster, violence, failures, death, destruction, loss, fear.

OR we choose to listen to THE VOICE of GOD. Love, light, joy, peace, grace, mercy, long life, abundance, redemption, protection, wholeness, victory, freedom.

It’s a choice we make every minute of every day. We either train ourselves to take our thoughts captive and make them obedient to the Word of God (2 Corinthians 10:5) or we continue down the path that will lead only to destruction and sadness by letting our thoughts control us. Let me repeat this – IT IS A CHOICE.

You and I are in control of the life we live.

Today I choose to listen to THE VOICE of GOD. Tomorrow I’ll choose again to listen to THE VOICE of GOD. What will you choose? I pray you choose THE VOICE.

Let’s choose to feed the hunger that is deep within us for more and more Jesus. In the world, when we are hungry, we eat and get full. But in God’s world, when we are hungry, we eat and get even more hungry!!! Hallelujah! Do you see the beauty in His ways? We eat from the Word and we get hungry for even more. It fuels the fire to study and meditate upon the Word for a lifetime.

But we have to take that first step to start reading the Word to get the hunger going. We will not be hungry until we start eating. Only when we start eating do we get hungrier and hungrier for more and more.

The voice said to me, “Son of man, eat what I am giving you—eat this scroll! Then go and give its message to the people of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll. “Fill your stomach with this,” he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Ezekiel 3:1-3

The LORD told Ezekiel to eat the Word. He told him to fill his stomach with it and to get it in his heart (see v. 10). Friends, this is exactly what we need to do to live a life of abundance and plenty in all areas.

Start eating the Word today.

Reading on in Psalm 107, we see the results of eating the Word:

He removes the darkness (v. 14).
He removes our chains (v. 14).
He breaks down prison walls (v. 16).
He speaks and brings healing by HIS WORD (v. 20).
He brings stillness in the storms (v. 29).
He gives great love (v. 31).
He does wonderful things for us (v. 31).
He turns deserts into pools of water (v. 35).
He turns dry land into springs of water (v. 35).
He feeds the hungry (v. 36).
He builds cities (v. 36).
He brings bumper crops (v. 37).
He blesses us with large familes and increased livestock (v. 38).
He scatters our enemies in the wasteland (v. 40).
He rescues the poor and brings them increase (v. 41).
He opens our eyes to see HIS GOOD (v. 42).
He shows us His faithful love (v. 43).

Hunger until death!

Stay in the Light and Love always,

Eva

Are You in an Impossible Prison?

January 26, 2018 By Eva Conner Leave a Comment

You are being released from prison TODAY.

God asked me to write down the very first word in the Bible? IN

He then asked me to write down the very last word? AMEN

I questioned God and asked what this means. Which prompted the third question.

What is in between these two words? CHRIST JESUS

IN CHRIST JESUS, AMEN!

Do you believe the Word of God?

Do you believe God created everything out of nothing?

Do you believe that Noah built an ark and had two of all animals aboard ~ for a very long time?

Do you believe Jonah was in the belly of a whale for 3 days?

Do you believe Daniel was actually in a den with real lions?

Do you believe the fire that did not singe so much as a hair on Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego?

Do you believe in Jesus?

Do you believe Jesus?

Do You Believe?

That’s all that is required of us. I love these words that our Lord Jesus said in the gospel of John:

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

John 6:28-29

This is our assignment: to believe.

Understand this very important truth – we must believe in Jesus and we must believe Jesus. Do you understand the difference? Not only do we need to believe in who Jesus Christ is but we also need to believe every word He speaks. Jesus is The Word (John 1:14) and each word written in the Bible is truth. Each word is solid and each word becomes our foundation.

All things are encompassed in the Word ~ beginning with “IN” and ending with “AMEN” with Christ Jesus in the between.

You see, when we believe the Word and when we believe IN the Word, we allow it to become the measuring stick we use for all matters in life which keeps us steadfast and sure. The storms of life will come our way and when they do, we’ll be prepared.

Do you question how you can have faith enough to believe even during the darkest storm of your life?

I know we all have gone through times of darkness. Maybe you’re in the darkest time of your life right now with no hope. And maybe you’re asking how are these words going to release you from your prison?

Let me share what I’ve learned through my own journey. I was in a prison of my own making for most of my life. The words written on my prison walls may have changed from time-to-time but the door never opened. Insecurity, rejection, unworthiness, hate, anger, lack, unforgiveness, jealousy. What was within my heart ruled my circumstances. It ruled all of my relationships. I was unable to have one good, stable area in my life.

My prison door was locked up tight and my life was taking a downward turn that I could not stop.

I had no hope of ever getting released into pure freedom. Until I met Jesus.

It wasn’t until I met my Savior that things started to change. Was it an instant release from that prison? Jesus opened the door to my prison cell immediately but I did not have the power or the courage to step outside those prison walls. It was all I knew. Stepping out into a new life was stepping into the unknown. It was scary. So I stayed in my prison a little while longer.

But He didn’t leave me there alone.

He stayed with me. During this time, I had to allow Him access to ALL of the pain buried in my heart. All those words printed on my prison cell walls had to be erased one by one. I had to allow God FULL ACCESS before I could move beyond those prison walls.

Maybe you are doubting His goodness if He isn’t answering your prayers.

Maybe you are doubting that you can ever get out of your prison.

Maybe, just maybe, you are even doubting His existence.

If this is you, friend, I encourage you to open your Bible and begin reading. Tell God how you are feeling. Pour out all of your doubts and unbelief. All your despair, hurt and anger. You cannot give Him anything that He cannot handle. HE IS BIGGER THAN YOU. And He knows exactly what you need right now. Ask Him to guide You to the right place to begin reading and ask Him to bring His Word to life for you.

Remember the beginning of the Word is “IN” and the end “AMEN” with Christ Jesus in the between. “In Christ Jesus, Amen!”

God is faithful and good and He will not leave us in an impossible situation without helping us. But sometimes He is waiting on us to step beyond those prison walls of our own making before He will change one thing.

Let me ask a tough question. Please have ears to hear.

Is your focus on yourself or on God within you?

So many of our trials in life can be avoided if we have the right outlook ~ or maybe I should say the right “inlook.”

Are you waiting on God to miraculously act when maybe He has already spoken to you?

Maybe He told you to rest in Him.

Maybe He told you to trust in Him.

Maybe He told you to seek Him.

Maybe He told you to just believe.

Sometimes what may appear to be an external matter between you and others may very well be a heart issue between you and God. What has He been speaking to you? I say these words with nothing but love in my heart. I had to walk through my own prison door. My prison was full of death, despair and hopelessness but I was terrified of stepping outside of it. I was used to my misery and self-pity. We were good friends. I knew how to live that life well.

But God.

He refused to leave me in that prison. He turned my heart from being self-focused to being Christ-focused. It takes self-discipline and intentionality on our part but He’ll meet us there and He will give us the strength necessary to endure. I’m still learning but I’m so thankful that I’m not where I was.

We find freedom in the Word – In Christ Jesus, Amen!

I once allowed my circumstances to control my entire being – my mind, my emotions, my actions, my eating, my words – and it inevitably took a toll on my physical being. I was one hot mess of tears and instability.

But when I started to believe Jesus and believe in Jesus, things shifted. When I started reading the Word and taking control of my thoughts, things shifted.

If we do these things consistently, we will be forever transformed – even if not one thing has changed in our situation.

Learn from my past mistakes, please! If we cannot turn our thoughts away from ourself, we will remain in the hopeless despair of our prison cell. And friends, this is NOT the life Jesus died to give to us. The life He died to give us is complete victory. Victory over death. Victory over our prison cell.

Something amazing happens when we step into victory and commit to being intentional about Jesus.

Light enters our life. Smiling isn’t as hard. Hope is restored. We start seeing mankind all around us once again. Suddenly, stepping outside the open door of our cell isn’t impossible or scary.

Jesus did this for me. And He is not a respecter of men meaning what He does for me, He will do for you too. I know this is true because His Word says it and I believe every single word written in the Bible.

The battle is real. But know this, the battle was conquered by Jesus. Even if our circumstances do not change we will be freed from our prison.

I’d love to hear from you. If these words helped you today, please leave me a comment. If you need prayer, leave me a comment. I pray for my readers every single day to be released from bondage and prison ~ to be blessed each and every day. It’s my heart’s desire to see others walk in the freedom I know is possible through Jesus. Thank You for helping me to share the hope and love in Christ by sharing my site and post with others.

Stay in the Light and Love always,

Eva

Rewrite Your Vows

January 17, 2018 By Eva Conner 1 Comment

Chasing Hard and Running on Empty

Rewrite your vows!

Here is a word that I received in my spirit during prayer time this morning. This word makes me weep with joy and also with sadness for all the glory and awesomeness we miss because we’re too busy chasing the here and now.

This word is for all of us because we all have moments when we are not chasing hard after the only thing in this temporary land that matters – the eternal. This word makes me sad because we have things so backward and wrong in this world compared to what God truly wants for us. What Jesus died to give us. Here is what He spoke:

I desire to shower you with lavish gifts. I love you as a Bridegroom loves His bride. I AM your Bridegroom. I wish to take care of you in a way that you never have to fear. In a way that you never live in lack or want of anything.

This is the vow that I SPEAK to you:

I, Jesus, take you, my beloved, to be my lawfully wedded bride, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better and never for worse, in richness and never in poorness, in health and never in sickness, forever, not even death can separate us.

I chase after you always.

But you don’t see Me. You don’t look My way. You chase after things that will never bring you wholeness and fulfillment. You look to one another to bring you things that only I CAN.

When will you look to Me? What will it take for you to see me standing here? How long before You accept my vows of marriage?

In this time of prayer and meditation, He brought back memories of new romantic relationships ~ courtships. He brought back those sweet memories of dating and the excitement that came with the newness of the relationship. The memories of wanting to do something nice for that other person who suddenly became so very important to you. The heart to shower them with gifts to show your love. This is what He brought to my heart this morning.

The tenderness, sweetness and innocence that exists in the closeness.

Jesus feels these things for us. He wants to shower us with His good and perfect gifts. He desires for us to rest in that tender, sweet innocence with Him. And He desires for us to not just rest for the moment but to settle in to it. To get comfy and put our feet up and stay there! Jesus is not just our comforter and protector. HE IS COMFORT. HE IS PROTECTION. These things to Him are tangible and part of his DNA that cannot be separated from Him.

He is standing there with His arms stretched out just for you.

Do you see Him there? Do you sense His excitement and eagerness to love you and lavish His goodness on you?

This word completely unglues me even as I am experiencing it again as I type these words. And this is just a mere shadow of what we’ll experience with Him in eternity.

So why do we fight against it? Why do we twist and distort His Word by bringing it down to what we can comprehend and explain?

What He showed me when He spoke the wedding vows is that the vows we speak when we marry our spouses are completely opposite of what He wants us to speak.

Man-made vows speak of illness, poverty and death.

The vows that are most commonly used today are rooted in religion ~ from man. You can do a Google search and find the origins are rooted in the medieval church in England. What you cannot find are the vows in Scripture with one exception. Ironically, the one part of the vow that you can find in the Bible is the piece that most people omit because they find it offensive – for the wife to vow that she will obey her husband.

For centuries, has no one asked where these vows came from? Who wrote them and were they inspired by God to do so? If someone were to say they were inspired by God to write these vows, why do they not line up with Scripture?

These are questions I’m asking myself after hearing Jesus clearly speak His vows to me this morning. He clearly denounced the “sickness, poverty and death” words that currently exist in our vows.

Jesus died on the cross for us a broken man so that we could be whole. He died in lack so that we could walk in abundance. His Word clearly states that death is not final. God desires for us to walk in the fullness of Jesus Christ. And that fullness is not sickness, poverty and death. That fullness is total wholeness in all areas of our lives with abundant fruit and gifts.

Wholeness and nothing less is what Jesus died to give us.

We need to rewrite the vows! The wedding vows must be modeled after the love of Christ and the truth of Christ. They must include grace, complete surrender, covenant bonds of undying love. UNDYING love – not death.

We need to stop watering down the Word of God to accommodate our limited, finite thinking. The minute we begin logically explaining who God is, is the minute we should fall to our knees and repent of idolatry. For when we put God within the limits of our thinking, we are creating a false god to worship.

God is outside the limits of our thinking.

He is SO incomprehensibly huge and powerful that we cannot possibly know anything about Him other than what He’s chosen to reveal to us.

The minute we start putting God in the confines of our mind is the minute we begin rationalizing why there is sickness, poverty and death in our world. It’s okay to not have answers to life’s tough questions. What’s not okay is to try to wrap theological doctrine around not having answers. God is a God who will hide things from us in order for us to search them out. And when we search for the things of God, He is so good to show them to us.

Rewrite your vows today.

Speak life, health and wholeness into your marriage. Take out those things that are not of God. Seek Him above all things and He will show You all things. Don’t stop there either. Rewrite your vows with God. Ask Him to scrub your heart clean and purify you in His Word. His Word is cleansing and it will reveal to you all the things you are searching for in this life. His Word will reveal Jesus from front to back.

Chase hard after Jesus.

He chases after us and pursues us with a self-discipline we know nothing about. He is intentional about US. Let’s get intentional and self-disciplined about HIM.

HE IS all things.

Period. Nothing less than ALL things. And in Him we find our fulfillment and all of our emptiness is suddenly gone.

Jesus Christ is the ultimate fulfillment center.

He wants to be the center of your life. Will you let Him? It’s a decision we make that will alter the course of our life for eternity.

Time is short. Total surrender to Jesus is the only way to live the few short years we have on this planet. You see, this life is not what it’s about. This life is but a mere test for eternity.

I remember as a child I would often lay on my back in the grass staring up at the clouds, trying to think about eternity. I use the word “trying” because eternity is so big that it’s hard to grasp. It’s hard to fully get your mind wrapped around what “forever” means. No end at all. Compare 70 or 90 years to forever. It’s hardly any comparison at all.

When we shift our thinking from temporal to eternal, we find a lot of things in this world that once seemed huge and insurmountable become like mountains that can be cast into the sea.

This is the word for you and for me today.

Rewrite your vows and chase hard after Jesus.

He is waiting and He longs to lavish us with gifts and love.

Stay in the Light and Love always,

Eva