A Laid Down Lover For God

My daughter on her first mission trip
to Haiti

One of my favorite mighty Women of God is Heidi Baker, founder of Iris Ministries and missionary in Africa, partners with God to feed, heal, and spread the Gospel to millions. She relays the message that our heavenly Father is looking for laid down lovers, who will lay down and let God be God and love the one He puts in front of you. My answer to this call, "Yes, Lord, I will be a laid down lover for you!'

I'm all over the idea of letting God be God because He is so much better at it than I am haha...It is really quite good news to me that He wants to be the One to do it! So with great joy, our Father in heaven is teaching me and I'm slowly but surely learning what this looks like.

It goes something like this;

When I want to preach and direct the person in front of me, I don't. Instead I pray for this one, and let God be the one to teach and admonish him/her. That's the Holy Spirits Job, not mine. My job is to love that person. This is a profound revelation and I've said it before, "I am not the Holy Spirit!" I use to try to be but I wasn't any good at it!

My job is to love the one God puts in front of me!

When I want to correct the person who is wrong, no matter how clear it is,  I don't,  I hold back and let God have His way with them. I simply keep loving them.

When I feel taken advantage of and instead of rebuking the offender, I humbly submit and let God take care of me. I can't seem to find it written in the Scriptures, "thou shalt not let others walk all over you..". Our Father in heaven says the least among you is the greatest, that sounds to me like we are to put all others ahead of us. If everyone else is greater then that pride goes away and I no longer feel taken advantage of and God will fix the situation when the time is right! :)

I will keep loving the one He puts in front of me!

When I want to tell our newly born again 25 year old son and soon to be father, "get a job",  I don't. I trust that God "will complete the good work He began in him" and wait for Holy Spirit to direct our son's steps to that perfect job at the perfect time, cause that's how God is ya know, His timing is ALWAYS perfect ALL the time! I will keep extending love while we are waiting.

When I want to tell my college attending, hard working daughter, "please don't plan another mission trip to Haiti in the middle of your already too busy schedule. Instead I praise her for her heart and desire to serve God and the needy and trust God will provide for all her needs.

...keep loving the one God puts in front of you!

When I want to call the doctor after waiting nearly 2 1/2 weeks for lab results but I don't. Instead, I wait trusting that God is in complete control of my situation and I will hear the results in His timing, which did i mention is always perfect??? I will not get mad at the doctors for "neglecting" me, I will extend grace...

...and i will love the one God puts in front of me!


Let God be God and love the one God puts in front of you! I said "YES!" Will you?  

Loyalty

Happy March everyone! Spring is right around the corner bringing new life in new places as well as old! More daylight and warmer temperatures. I would just like to say, "Thank You Lord!"

Today I received a comment on a post I wrote in January of last year,  "Does God Need Encouragement".   readywriteruk says,  "When you are loyal to someone you encourage them." I find it so amazing that God always brings a Word to help us when we need one!

Before I had even stepped out of my bed this morning, I was being accused. "You don't think about Me (God) enough, you don't really know Me (Him)..." Over and over...on and on, like a masquito buzzing around my head looking for a place to land so he could start sucking the life out of me!

I have lots of experience with the accuser of the brethren, the father of all lies, that devil! I should know full well his schemes to take my heart away from the One that I love! But the thing is, I am still vulnerable to the lies and accusations of the enemy! Part of my human condition I think.

Shortly after this attack on my faith this morning, God brought me the comment from readywriteruk about loyalty. As I pondered over this word, God revealed that part of being loyal to Him means remembering and believing that He is loyal to me... all the time! He says over and over in His Word that He will never leave us nor forsake us. And also so important to remember that He pulls us along with "chords of Love and kindness", not guilt and shame!  "God is Love" and He's a GOOD God!

In his, I highly recommend,  devotional, "Fret Busters, 30 Reasons Not to Fear or Worry",  Roy Lessin points out,  "God won't say or do anything for the purpose of frustrating you, making you anxious, causing you to panic, or filling you with fear. "

"You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You . Trust in the Lord forever, for in Yah (Him), the Lord is everlasting strength."  Isaiah 26:3-4.

God is Love and His Word says, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."  (1 Corinthians 13:4-7).  In our efforts to be loyal to God, lets trust Him and not let go of the belief that He is loyal to us!