Ask Yahweh what to be intentional about.
It’s not about striving.
It’s about being.
Who does Yahweh say you are?
The Little Lamb
I was praying and saying that God could go through my house, my body, among all my possessions, and He could have anything He wanted. Even if I really wanted it and couldn’t live how I wanted to without it.
Because I was choosing to remember that it is His anyway.
It’s all His.
He owns it all and He’s just given it to me to have, or use, or invest, or borrow.
But, after choosing to see that everything I have is really the Father’s, I pictured and imagined Him giving me a little lamb. (And I thought of Trace) and imagined The King giving it to me in a very early, dependent, and weak state, like before it was weaned. Maybe broken in some way, but also maybe not.
Maybe it was just young, and little, and weak. And I imagined me taking extra good care of it.
Like that was the biggest project, job, and therefore purpose for the time being. To grow this little lamb to be healthy and strong because the job was worthy and worth all the effort and all I put into it, all it cost me, even time and everything else – to present a perfect and strong, healthy, fully mature and healed lamb * to the King.
* is when I realized the song “Pour My Love on You” by Rick Pino was playing.
And He was pleased because that’s exactly what He wanted me to do. Nothing more.
All of this was shown to me/given to me almost like a parable and answer to prayer while I was at my church during the hours it’s opened on Mondays for us to come in and pray.
While I am still here, the Father told me to take this from my notepad to the blog without editing it (other than correcting some spelling).
It’s a little bit vulnerable to share something so raw, and new, and personal, but I have chosen to obey what I hear the Father telling me.
“And the King will answer them, ‘Don’t you know? When you cared for one of the least of these, my little ones, my true brothers and sisters, you demonstrated love for me.”
Matthew 25:40 TPT
Honor the little things
Your Productivity Does Not Define Your Identity (Part 1)
Trace, my son, doesn’t have to do anything for him to be valued by me. He’s just my son. His value comes from whose he is. His value to me comes from him being alive and me being his mother.
He doesn’t have to do anything for me to find pleasure in him.
He doesn’t have to earn his status or do something for me to take care of him.
He’s my son and because I’m a good mom, he’s blessed and taken care of.
The same is true for us.
Once we’re born again through Jesus and because of what He did on the cross, we enter into sonship.
The Bible teaches us that we are adopted into the family of God. He puts His name on us. We are therefore His. His sons and daughters.
And what do sons and daughters need to do to be taken care of and loved?
Be.
Just be.
If you don’t know what “just being” means or looks like, I encourage you to sit and ask YAHWEH who He says you are.
Write down the names and descriptions He gives you.
Search His word for what He’s already said about all of His children.
And “be” that.
Live from who you are because of Whose you are, and not by the standards of the world or our culture.
I learn so much from watching people. I’m influenced easily.
So, I must guard what and who I watch and listen to. I want to learn from and listen to Kingdom people who know the voice of YAHWEH.
If you don’t hear His voice, ask Him.
He said Himself, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know each one of them, and they follow me.”
I believe you can still hear His voice and whispers today.
Ask Him.
Seek Him. Just like His Word says.
And be.
Be His child and the one He loves.
Make your choices by what He says and out of who He says you are.
A child is enjoyed because they’re a child. Be a child of the King and enjoy His presence as He enjoys yours.
“Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:42b
“But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 10:41-42 ESV
The good portion was sitting at Jesus’ feet.