Inspired Word February 4, 2009

INSPIRED WORD

February 4, 2009

SCRIPTURE

Psalm 99: 3 – 5, 9: ....let the earth quake! The Lord is great in Zion ; He is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise Your great and awesome name. Holy is He! Mighty king, O Lord our God! Extol the Lord our God and worship at His holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.

SCRIPTURE

Luke 1: 26 – 38: ...to a town of Galilee named Nazareth , to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. Upon arriving, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, O highly favored daughter, the Lord is with you! Blessed are you among women! She was deeply troubled by these words and wondered what his greeting meant. The angel went on to say to her, “Do not fear, Mary, you have found favor with God. You shall conceive and bear a son and give him the name of Jesus. Great will be His dignity and He will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of David, His father. And He will rule over the house of Jacob forever and His reign will be without end. Mary said, “I am the servant of the Lord. Let it be done unto me as you say.” And with that the angel left.

SHARING

When we talk to God and when we listen to God, He is looking at us in His total Godliness. His love to us is an eternal love; He is a loving God. I am disappointed at times when we sing a song or when we are talking to God and we say “He” or some other pronoun. I am aware that we should be speaking to Him directly, all the time.

SCRIPTURE

John 10: 11 – 18: I am the Good Shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is the not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. The wolf snatches and scatters them. This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd and I know My own and My own know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I will lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead and they will hear My voice and there will be one flock and one Shepherd. For this reason the Father loves Me because I lay down My life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. This command I have received from My Father.

IMAGE

I had an image of an arch and on top of it was another arch, except it was upside down and in ruins. I started to think about what I was seeing and I realized that the arch on the bottom was a reflection of the arch on the top and it was reflected in water. I realized that it is only when we see ourselves reflected in the water of the Word, in the Water mingled with Blood which gushed forth from the side of our Lord, that we see ourselves as He truly sees us. He takes our broken and upside down lives and completely transforms them right side up without fault.

IMAGE

I had an image of a red arch.

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