DAy 15: Deny Yourself

What if GOD stopped pouring out

HIS BLESSINGS & HIS FAVOR

upon you?

Now what a horrible thought,

yet I thought it,

because I love when

I have those MOUNTAIN TOP experiences,

when

GOD blows my socks off, even though I don't ever wear them.

Oh to be on THE MOUNTAINTOP,

when I feel like MOSES

 when GOD spoke to him through the burning bush.

All because of GOD'S GRACE,

when HE shows HIS face to me.

Oh those moments when

 THE HOLY SPIRIT chill bumps run through my body,

because I experience

the SOMETHING or the SOMEONE

that you know is

THE BLESSING AND FAVOR OF GOD.

On the MOUNTAINTOP is where I want to LIVE,

but not where GOD wants me to say.

I have to come down from the MOUNTAINTOP,

but remembering that I am not

leaving GOD behind,

because

"... the LORD your GOD is with you wherever you go"

(Joshua 1:9).

 MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCES

are those sacred EXPERIENCES,

those GIFTS from GOD,

to remind you that

HE IS with you,

and that HE IS in CONTROl

and that HE IS GOD.

It isn't in the WORSHIPPING of THE EXPERIENCE

but in the WORSHIPPING GOD

who orchestrated THE EXPERIENCE.

GOD IS ALWAYS GOD

whether on the MOUNTAINTOP,

or in the valley

or in the desert.

"When you pass through the waters,    I WILL BE with you;and when you pass through the rivers,    they WILL NOT sweep over you.When you walk through the fire,    you WILL NOT be burned;    the flames will not set you ablaze"

(Isaiah 43:2)

So this morning,

out of left field came the thought,

what if

GOD stopped pouring out HIS BLESSINGS and FAVOR upon me.

Oh when NEGATIVITY invites itself into your mind.

One moment you are doing the HAPPY dance,

and then then next moment you feel like you can't even dance.

BUT GOD is

THE BLESSING and THE FAVOR,

because

GOD IS!

Who else would send HIS SON

to REDEEM all that was lost?

Who else would send HIS SON

to FORGIVE the UNFORGIVABLE?

Who else would send HIS SON

to

HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED?

Who else would send HIS SON

to

enter into the HEARTS of ALL

who just ask?

Will GOD ever remove

HIS BLESSINGS AND FAVOR

from my life or your life,

or do we remove

HIS BLESSINGS and FAVOR from our life

when we

deny HIS SON.

Ouch!

So on this morning

 when I am reminiscing about

THE IMMEASURABLY MORE that I have experienced

in those moments when

GOD'S BLESSINGS and FAVOR touch my soul so deeply,

that only HE can touch,

the FEAR of not having GOD in my life

overwhelmed me.

For who am I without HIM?

NOTHING.

For who am I without HIS SON? 

NOTHING.

But who does GOD want me to be?

HE asks me to remove my sandals,

for I am on HOLY ground

in HIS PRESENCE. 

For who am I?

NOTHING, yet in a great way.

For "I must decrease so that HE increases"

(John 3:30).

For who am I?

Putty in my FATHER'S hands.

And I like being putty, and sometimes silly putty.

For when my FATHER gets a hold of me,

and I become so very still,

I am in the

sweet spot of surrender,

for where I experience

the IMMEASURABLY MORE

than I can ever give myself,

and even if it is just silence.

Because

"Yet, O LORD, You are our FATHER;We are the clay, and YOU our POTTER,And we all are the work of YOUT hand"

(Isaiah 64:8).

So I guess I had a burning bush experience this morning

that took me from the MOUNTAINTOP

onto my knees ,

to the place where

GOD meets me,

over and over again,

as I decrease so HE increases.

For it isn't about me at all~

"Cause I'm just a nobody.

Trying to tell everybody,

All about Somebody,

Who saved my soul"

(listen to the song "NOBODY" below)