A Little Elohim =] - inspired by Patricia King's sermon of creating realms and atmosphere

Dearest Father,

I want to walk in the fullness of You, in the full immersion of Your Spirit Lord. I want to expand Your Kingdom on this Earth Father as it is in Heaven. Make me be aware of Your Love, of the identity that I have in You always. Holy Spirit seal it upon my heart, the revelation of my identity as Your child oh God that by faith I have been adopted by You as children of God ! Do not let any man put doubts in my heart of the authority that I have received by faith ! My Father, I love You and I know that You were always and is always and will always be with me that You have been watching over me since that day that I open my eyes unto this world. Father the many times i have brought grieve unto You, forgive me Lord for my eyes were veiled. Thank You for Your loving grace in my life oh God that I am set free and I can come into a full relationship with You through Your Son Jesus Christ and I thank You for Your Spirit that lives within me. HOW LOVELY and MAJESTIC are Your ways in my life GOD !

Let it unfold in me LORD, Help me to be in tune with Your Spirit always God. I need Your grace Father to wake me up in prayer, to wake me up in Worship, to wake me up in revelation, to wake me up in Love, to wake me up in Wisdom, to wake me up in unity and humility in faith ! Father teach me for I need You always Lord. I am living just for You God for You are great and worthy of all my praise. Make all the nations love You Jesus and use me God. Use me as You want me to, create the dominion of Your Kingdom wherever I am Lord. Grace my life with Your boldness in me Father and grace my life with the assurance of Your provision in every aspect of my life, whether in career, ministry, family and relationships for i know that I am secure in Your loving arms. For I know that my life is whole in Your hands oh God. Teach me to always delight my soul in You !! :D ! Hallelujah Father !! Thank YOU for this GREAT DAY that You have made in my life my ELOHIM ! I LOVE YOU ALWAYS !! IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME !! AMEN ! :D

Praise You Lord ! in This season, there is no time to delay

Father there are so many misconceptions and deceits in regards to the truth.
There are so many man fueled ambitions in this temporal life. Why Lord cant we just seek You wholeheartedly without sinning and seeking for your cause and not ours? Father we need You in this world LORD, forgive us Father for turning our ways from Yours and continuously seeking out comfort instead of going to places where You are yet to be known and proclaimed Your gospel.

Father how can a person be so consumed by Your love constantly ? How can one always be walking in Your path regardless of the desires of the flesh? By Your Holy Spirit there is such grace, there is that Love that overwhelms us and pours out from within. And in You alone oh God i find my perfect peace. In Your arms of Love i will find rest for eternity.

Thank You Jesus my Lord and Saviour, and Holy Spirit I thank YOU, in Your Holy Name Jesus I pray, Hallelujah AMEN !

My Last exams and I am so excited for what You have prepared !!

How i long to give You the greatest honour of my life. The greatest form of worship i can bring by giving You anything that You ask of me. Lord let this not just be a statement of words but truly let this be a statement of Love which I will keep by Your grace in me. I love You my Lord and I cant wait to end this exams and let me just dive right into the river of Your embrace. To Love You Lord with all of my heart my strength and my soul.

How I long to have those days where I can just carelessly embrace You and love You and glorify You with songs that You have wrote in the tablets of my heart. How I long to just spend days at Your feet writing praises unto You and loving You with my heart. How beautiful are Your Words Lord. Truly I find no greater treasure than these, to be with You all the days of my life and to honour You with all that I am and all that I am I want to give You praise. How I long to just write out my Love, my experiences as a testimony of Your goodness in me. How I long to just lift my heart and cry out unto You in desperation of Love. How I need You Lord all the days of my life. How I need You Lord in my every breath. For I am made to Love You and Love You alone.

Unto You be the glory for ever and ever Amen =] ! <3 (Phil 4:20)

Radical Love equals Radical Obedience

Lord You died so that we can always have enough
You died Lord because You wanted to save us
You died Lord so that Your bride will always be perfect in Your Father's sight
You died Lord and sees that the bride is perfect always perfect even before she was perfect because You see what she is when she is covered by Your blood.

Lord let us walk towards You in radical obedience through a radical love.
Let it be a revelation in me and around me that Your love Father is enough.
That Your Love LORD is Magnificently AWESOMELY GREAT !

I just want to be wrapped in your LOVE, Wrapped around by YOU ! I love You LORD MY GOD MY SHIELD MY LOVE MY BELOVED ONE I KNOW AND I AM SO HONOURED TO HAVE YOU IN MY LIFE !

-Your Beloved one-

The Bride of Christ

How I long to be with You Lord, my Lover and friend.
How I love to be with You on that Day that You will come and capture my heart, my very soul.

How i need to prepare myself to wait on You, to prepare myself for that glorious Day where we can finally be in unity.

Lord how i need to prepare and dress myself up for the big day and wait for it eagerly in full expectation. BECAUSE of LOVE that ravishes my heart that I will wait eagerly. Because of LOVE that I will prepare and Because of Love I will honor the Bridegroom.

Hallelujah to the Lamb Who was slain, Hallelujah to the King of Kings Who adorns us with jewels. Hallelujah for He is preparing a table and place for us. Hallelujah to our God who loves and cherishes us.

Hallelujah for He is worth the wait, the LOVE and the devotion of our bridal longing. Hallelujah to the One Who is to come ! =] ! Jesus is the Lamb Who was slain, our bridegroom King !

The Naked Truth

Recently I have pondered on the transparency of the bible. I have pondered on how ugly is the truth of the bible. How honestly laid out are its events throughout its pages. The events surrounding the great women and men of God in the bible are not always perfect life stories that are filled with glory throughout their lives. Most of them made mistakes. Most of them were there with sometimes a degree of wickedness, failures and evil.

As an example, Abraham believed that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars according to the Word of the Lord had this credited as his righteousness. However later on we read that he heeded Sarai’s words and conceived with Hagai. To me this is a failure to wait on God. Is it not? The moment of God is perfect; the moment that we fail to wait to my understanding is simply a lack of faith. Now this writing is not to condemn Abram but to highlight the imperfection of the man who has received God’s favour as a father of all nations. Though his faith pleased the Lord, his faith was at times imperfect.

David was also a great and famous character of the bible. Famously known in his victory against Goliath and how he believed in the Word of the Lord more than anyone around him when he encounters his enemies (read 1 Samuel 18 onwards). This man was a man that chases after God’s own heart. This man was a role model for many Christians I know. But his failures with his walk were to a degree that is normally questionable. He was a murderous adulterer in the case of Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite. Where was the glory in that? But God’s love moves beyond the sin of men as long as these men are willing to repent.

“For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not failed to keep any of the LORD’s commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.”

[1 Kings 15:5]

Now there are countless and numerous stories of the bible that reflected these men and women of God in their moments of failures and weaknesses. For instance, Joseph was a proud man, Peter disowned Jesus, Joshua was a coward and things such as the disciples falling asleep moments before Jesus was arrested and brought to trial. These things were not to be proud of and shall be hidden in my dictionary to display the gallery of greatness.

Illustratively, we would not display a great piece of art which is costly in price but has bits and pieces of cracks in it. Although expensive in price, to us they cannot reflect beauty as it has already been scarred and is impossible to restore.

For the girls, put it simply, a beautiful gown is beautiful if it retains its original condition. But as it grows older and is worn out with loose thread and holes, we cannot most of the time continue to patch the missing parts. It will look deformed and ugly. It is not the perfect dress that we love anymore. Those areas that have stains we will attempt to cover with something else 99% of the time in an effort to magnify its beauty?

Yet why has the Lord included these blots of transgressions, these ugly pieces of mistakes into His artful display of greatness?

One thing I can relate to is that His love is unfailing in our lives. That we do not need to always have it together in every moment of our lives to be able to be used by Him.

“Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹ so that no one may boast before him. ³⁰ It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.’

[1 Corinthians 1:26-30]

These mistakes were included and told of in the bible purposefully for the glory of the Lord. These mistakes were shown to others in a sole purpose of perfecting His masterpiece.

These cracks and stains were not things to be hidden in the eyes of God but instead they are jewels in perfecting the glory of the Lord in the lives of these men and women of God.

So what are the things have you chosen to hide before the eyes of men when u became a church-goer? Are they ugly enough that it may glorify the Lord even more now that you have repented of your past? I am walking in honesty before the world and before Him. The past that I had was ugly enough and yet if it were to glorify the name of Jesus in my life I would offer it unto Him as a pleasing sacrifice. A sacrifice that lies in the lips of men to talk and judge of but a personal testimony to this world of how God can change my life, my ways and my heart. I live for the Lord and die to the Lord, whether it was by word of mouth or deeds I am only here to glorify His holy Name.

Our past mistakes and failures in life can provide a unique restored beauty in life, a message of hope to others in times of trouble and distress. The delivering hands of the Lord from our past is a testimony that we have tasted the authentic goodness of God’s love in our lives and further advances His glory within us.

“You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. ³ You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”

[2 Corinthians 3:2-3]

Therefore do not be ashamed nor hide your past in the eyes of men, they are like beautiful pearls that were formed through the dusts of our past.

“For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. “

[Romans 15:4-6]

I urge you as servants of God to place our confidence in the Lord, not staggering in faith by the wind of accusations but remain firm in our faith as we live to the Audience of One!

“I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord WHO judges me.”

[1 Corinthians 4:3-4]

“3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. ⁴ Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. ⁵ Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: ⁶ He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun...²³ The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; ²⁴ though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand. ³⁹ The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble. ⁴⁰ The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.”

[Psalm 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40]

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

[Romans 15:13]

Written by,

Amanda Setiadi on October 24^th, 2011.

Psalm 110

Psalm 110

Of David. A psalm.

¹ The LORD says to my lord:^[a]

“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”

² The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
³ Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning’s womb.^[b]

⁴ The LORD has sworn
and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵ The Lord is at your right hand^[c];
he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
⁶ He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
⁷ He will drink from a brook along the way,^[d]
and so he will lift his head high.