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Melted Waters…

Proverbs 5:15 says “Drink waters from your own cistern and fresh water from your own well.” This speaks first to husbands; be blessed and rejoice in your wife, filled up with her love. And in the larger sense, be satisfied with the blessings God’s given you. Rejoice, give thanks, receive and be filled with them.

But there’s something even more. The Hebrew word for “fresh” water here is “nazal” which can also mean “melting” water. In other words, your well, your marriage, your relationship might be frozen.

There are potential waters of blessing and love, but it’s iced up and cold. You might have to take time to warm it up with God’s love. And keep loving until it melts the ice of your spouse’s heart or whatever is needed.

In other areas of your life, you may be frozen because you’re not giving thanks or haven’t been paying attention to it. Warm up your frozen prayer life, your frozen ministry life, your frozen time in the Lord, your family time, and it will flow. Drink waters from your own cistern. They may be frozen, so warm them up.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves. Philippians 2:3

Give 100% in your relationships today. Love, bless and keep loving and blessing them, until it melts and the waters flow.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Becoming A Baby…

We come into the world without having to learn to be a baby, because we are babies. But in 1 Peter 2 it says we’re to be as newborn babes. We need to learn what we never learned before, to become a newborn babe.

We can actually become new again, actually prepare to become as babes. What’s a baby? A baby is innocent. Learn how to become innocent. Learn how to stop being guilty. Babies are simple. Learn how to uncomplicate your life, uncomplicate your heart. Learn how to be simple in heart.

Babies aren’t weighed down, they’re free. Learn how to become free. Unload your burdens. Babies are light, they don’t weigh much. Learn how to stop being so heavy and become light. Babies are open. Learn how to be open. Babies have no past.

Learn how to become unburdened by anything from the past. Babies are new. Learn how to become new again, fresh, and revived as in the beginning. In God’s mercy, you can. Because His mercies are new every morning. It all begins when you learn how to become new, as a newborn babe.

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14

Don’t let situations or circumstances weigh you down today. Let Him deal with it. Lighten your heart as a little child.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Price…

Jackson Pollock was a famous artist of the twentieth century. His paintings are worth a fortune. Some look like house painter rags that caught paint drippings; like what accidentally happened while he was trying to do something else. But they’re worth millions. Why? Because people are willing to pay for them.

What’s your life worth? A fortune. Why? Because God was willing to pay a fortune for it. He gave the life of His Son for our life. Not because we’re worth it, but because it makes us worth it. It makes us valuable because we have a purchased life.

When you own your own life, live your own life, and it’s worth nothing. But when you live a purchased life by God, it’s worth everything. It doesn’t matter if your life’s a mess. The Jackson Pollock paintings are messes. But they’re worth millions.

Let God have your life, even if it’s a mess. Owned by Him for His glory and His purposes, your life will become priceless. Live your life as fully belonging to God and His purposes. And your life will become precious, valuable, and worth the very life of God.

Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:39

Today, throughout your day, give thanks to God that your life is now a precious treasure; redeemed by the life of God. And live accordingly.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Not Speaking Satan’s Language…

When I go to another country on a mission, I find I get into more trouble, when I try to speak the language that’s not mine. I focus on learning one thing. How to say, “I don’t know how to say anything in your language.” Or as some say, “Sorry, I no-a speak-a your language.”

Somehow we think if we just add vowels to English they’re going to understand. Our enemy the devil; HaSatan in Hebrew, is a speaker. He accuses, he engages. He engaged Adam and Eve and they got into trouble when they spoke with him.

It’s important – in dealing with the enemy; if he wants to engage you in dialogue of temptation, self-pity, pride, anger, with thoughts or words – that you don’t deal with the enemy. When the enemy tries to engage you, disengage.

Pay him no heed. Don’t listen to him. Don’t talk to him. Let it go right by you. Treat it like gibberish; as if you can’t understand it and it has no place in your life. Just tell him, “Sorry, I no-a speak-a your language.” And be done with it.

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Ephesians 6:16

When the enemy tries to speak to you today, just ignore it. Instead, speak the language of God’s blessings over everything.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Universe That Shouldn’t Exist…

People say the Bible isn’t scientific and only science is logical, rational and real. Let’s look at the end point of man’s understanding. Starting with the most basic question: Why does the universe exist? There are two options:

1. The universe always was and it has no cause. The problem with that is, if it always was and it has no cause, it can’t have an effect. It’s not logical, scientific or rational.

2. The universe does have a cause. If it does, the cause has to be something beyond itself, beyond the natural, meaning supernatural. That only leads to the Creator.

If you believe in the big bang, then what caused the bang? Who set the fire? When you take all man’s reasoning, logic, rationale and science to the end, it ends up leading to nothing or to God.

So how can you trust your own understanding? It’s okay, you don’t have to. Just trust in the Lord with all your heart. Don’t lean on your own understanding and God will direct your paths. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of this world.

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Romans 11:33

Don’t try to reason with the world today. Trust in the truth of God’s Word and rest in it.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Behold The Maiden…

The Jewish people as a whole don’t believe in the virgin birth yet. But hidden in the writings of the rabbis, it says “Jesus’s going to be born of the Shekinah: Glory of God.”

They actually believe that Jesus’s going to be born of God’s glory. That sounds like Luke 1:35, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.” Jesus is born of the glory of God.

Because salvation can’t be of the world. It has to be from God’s glory, so He could overcome the world. Your new birth is born from heaven; from God’s glory, also. Whatever’s good in your life, joy, faith and love that you didn’t have before, that’s of God’s glory.

You can’t produce good on your own. It has to be born from heaven. Receive it. Jesus was born from God’s glory. Everything good is born from His glory, so receive it each day.

Let the glory of God overshadow you and each day your life will be filled with the blessings of Jesus. For you too, are born of His glory.

When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. Matthew 25:31

Spend time with God today and invite Him to overshadow you with His glory, to touch every area in your life.

Walk daily daily God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Processing Heaven…

In Matthew 5:3 Jesus says, “For theirs is the kingdom.” Not theirs “will be,” but theirs “is.” The kingdom belongs to the children of God – now. Heaven and earth are connected.

We can’t truly own anything on earth because it’s temporal. The only things we can and are supposed to own are heavenly possessions. It’s okay to be possessive about heaven. The Scripture says “Rejoice for your reward is great in heaven.”

You should know what you own in heaven and rejoice in it. Rejoice because your name’s in the Lamb’s book of life. The reason we get possessive of earthly thing is because we’re not possessing things in heaven. Rejoice over what you have in heaven and you won’t be possessive about earth or covet what you don’t have.

Start realizing you own a piece of heaven, more than a piece, the whole kingdom. You’re rich. You’re blessed. That’s enough to live a life of joy and let go of petty, earthly and temporary things. Because you have something so much better. Live as someone who’s rich, blessed and joyous. For yours, yes yours, is the kingdom of heaven.

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21

Don’t let temporary things take your focus away from your eternal possessions. Be joyful today that your treasure is in heaven.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

The Earthly Bridal Chamber…

When a couple goes out, it’s generally the woman who takes more time to prepare. In the ancient Hebrew marriage the bride generally had a year to prepare for her wedding; to make herself beautiful.

In the same way, Scripture says we’re the bride. Our souls are made to be joined to God. We have a wedding coming. We’re here on earth as a bride, not to make money, to become popular, to become comfortable or to get a big house. You can have those things, but that’s not what it’s really about. You’re here to become beautiful.

In life, you don’t have to win that argument or get somewhere on time, more than you have to be beautiful. If you’re in a traffic jam, it’s not about the traffic jam, it’s about being beautiful inside your circumstances.

Don’t get so wrapped up in what you think you have to do or what you think you have to have. Life is about you becoming beautiful. You’re the bride. Get into that chamber, into the presence of God and start becoming the beautiful bride you were meant to be.

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Revelation 21:2

Today, put aside the pressures that say you have to have more or be more and spend time with Him. Make it your aim, to become beautiful in God.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed

Disciples and Unfollowers…

You say you follow the Lord. But to follow the Lord also means to not follow. When Jesus called the disciples, He called them first to stop following what they were doing before. “Drop your net,” wasn’t about nets, but a different way of life. Matthew stopped being a tax collector.

You have to stop following something in order to follow Him. So if you’re the Lord’s disciple, then you have to also become an un-follower. You can’t serve two masters. You need to stop following what you’ve been following your whole life.

As you follow Jesus, He gives you the power to un-follow the voice of temptation, the voice of the flesh, the voice of anger, the voice of lust or the voice of addiction.

You don’t have to follow it. You’re an un-follower now. You don’t have to follow the past, the world, the television, the internet. You don’t have to follow them anymore. You have the power to drop your nets and make a clean break.

Because the Lord has not only given you the privilege of being a follower, but the power of being an un-follower.

Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” Mark 10:21

It’s time to un-follow your sins today. See yourself following Jesus, walking with Him and leaving your past behind.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed