warrior princess September 3, 2009

Your life is a Love story set in the midst of a life-and-death battle. The beauty, the adventure, the intimacy- they are what are most real. But it is a battle to gain them and a battle to keep them. A battle for your own heart and a battle for the hearts around you. “The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name” (Ex. 15:3). Jesus fights on your behalf and on behalf of those you love. He asks you to join Him.

 

We the Bride of Christ….A Warrior Princess!

 

-Captivating

Look to Him August 17, 2009

• A man’s deepest wounds come from the way his question was answered in his youth. Just like yours. You won’t begin to understand a man until you understand his question (‘Do I have what it takes?’), his wound, and how Adam fell. His search for validation is the driving force of his life. Yes, a woman can offer so much. But she cannot be the validation of his soul. A man goes to Eve to offer his strength. He does not go to her to get it.
• The same holds true for us women too, Eve. You cannot look to him for the validation of your soul. But so many women do. If I have a man, then I’m okay. Then I’m loved. Girls who were confident and corurageous in their youth become uncertain in their teens. Girls who used to have lots of interests and opinions and dreams suddenly seem depressed, lost, obsessed about their looks and about the attention of boys. The shift is simply this: they have taken their question (‘Am I lovely?’) to Adam. No man can tell you who you are as a woman. No man is the verdict on your soul.
• Only God can speak the answer you need to hear.
• Until we look to Him for the healing of our souls, our relationships are really hurt by this looking-to-each-other for something only God can give.

-Captivating

Captivating- John and Stasi Eldredge May 30, 2009

The essence of a man is Strength. A man is meant to be the incarnation– our experience in human form– of our Warrior God. A God who comes through for us.

The essence of a woman is Beauty. She is meant to be the incarnation– our experience in human form– of a Captivating God. A God who invites us.

Captivating May 23, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“We want a beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.”

Real April 30, 2009

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

 -The Velveteen Rabbit

Vunerable April 13, 2009

‘Vulnerability is the willingness and the ability to make ourselves totally and completely available. This is the only way to conceive the heart and will of God in our lives- by making ourselves completely vulnerable. Because of God’s unwillingness to push Himself upon us, we must take the responsibility to make ourselves available. God has already done all that He can to pave the way for intimate relationship with us. He is a Gentleman and a servant of the highest esteem. He did not put on flesh in an “act” of servanthood; that is who He is. He is a Servant, a Savior, a Shepherd… and a King.’

 

-When Women Worship

Worry(less) March 5, 2009

Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.

Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it?…If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers most of which are never even seen- don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?
What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all you everyday human concerns will be met.”

Matthew 6:25-33 The Message

I am reading February 5, 2009

The shack. You should read it too if you haven’t already and tell me what you think about it.

When Heaven Invades Earth- Bill Johnson September 11, 2008

“The boldness we need is not self-confidence, but the confidence that the Father has in the work of His Son in us. It’s no longer a question of heaven or hell. It’s only a question of how much of hell’s thinking I will allow into this heavenly mind of mine.

Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious? Doesn’t it honor Him more when we think of ourselves as free from sin because He said we are? At some point we must rise up to the high call of God and stop saying things about ourselves that are no longer true. If we’re going to fully come in to what God has for us in this last days’ revival, we will have to come to grips with the issue of being more than sinners saved by grace. Maturity comes from faith in the sufficiency of God’s redemptive work that establishes us as sons and daughters of the Most High.”