Musings with PWC

My presence is continual, if you will notice. But you are busy with your own life and your own agenda. It is my joy to watch you grow and enjoy your life. It is my joy to watch your tears and pain because they are allowed by Me. It is my joy to watch your thrills. I laugh when you’re thrilled. It is my joy to watch your misunderstandings; you will always misunderstand. Get used to it! It is my joy to watch your realizations of your nothingness and My everythingness. That results in more of My presence permeating your life. All the things you chase after are passing, but that doesn’t mean they are evil or bad; they are gifts from Me to you.  However, setting your whole heart on those pleasures will ultimately fail you and leave you in deeper pain. It is a matter of priorities and balance. When you seek Me first, all that you need and many of your desires will be added to you. The more you seek Me, the more presence you will live in and with. And, the richer, the fuller...

  John 21:20-23 (NIV) 20 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said,  “ Lord, who is going to betray you?”) 21 When Peter saw him, he asked,  “ Lord, what about him?” 22 Jesus answered,  “ If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” 23 Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said,  “ If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”   God has designed a spiritual discipline, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual lesson plan specifically for you. There are basic universal principles of spirituality and spiritual growth, but God is crafting you specifically.   1.         Learn principles of spirituality. 2.        ...

  Saint Teresa wrote:    “Solo Dios Basta, God alone is enough.” __________________________________________    Lord, forgive me.  I think I need more.  I think I need success (whatever that means?). My lists of needs tend to be related to my idols. What kind of idol do I worship? My life? My money? My ministry? My reputation? My well-being? My house? Well, you know, Lord, the list is as endless as there are people.   Solo Dios Basta! Oh Lord, this is where I want to live! This is where I want to be. Enough already!  All this chasing after mere temporary things.   Saint Teresa: Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Those who cling to God. Will lack nothing. Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. God alone is enough.   Solo Dios Basta! 

Allow Me to form you. Allow Me to shape you. Allow Me to take you in My hands and mould you for My glory and My purposes. I will put you through formative circumstances and situations.  They will hurt, sometimes.  They will bring joy, sometimes.  But they will always form when you surrender to My purposes. Isaiah 44:12 (NIV) 12 The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint. The blacksmith forges it with the strength of his arm.  I forge you with the strength of My arm.  I love you too much to leave you the way you are.  You are destined to share My glory and presence for all eternity!  Accept, My beloved one, My forming!

  I am breathing into you, My breath  I am breathing into you, My breath  Stop self-creating. Stop self-initiating. Stop self-vindicating. Relax—breathe deeply of my ‘oxygen’. It’s My breath—Breathe deeply in—My life, My sustenance, My presence. Exhale your pains, plans, purposes and perspectives. Breathe in My desires, dimensions and determinations. Allow Me to breathe into you the Breath of Life! Imagine Me kneeling beside you, as I knelt beside the newly created and formed Adam. I knelt and breathed into Adam, the breath of life, and Adam became a living person.  (Genesis 2:7 (NLT) 7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.) So, I kneel beside you that you might be “My” living person. Pulsating with My desires, dimensions and determinations. Are you ready? Exhale you. Inhale Me. I am breathing into you: Exhale pain. Inhale he...

  You must tune your spirit, your heart, your inner person to the frequency of Holy Spirit.            This is accomplished mainly by surrendering.  This surrendering is laying your own desires, wants, and wishes before the cross.   Remember Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV) “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”            Surrendering takes you to the other side of pain and discomfort. Jesus, “for the joy set before him,” endured and surrendered. You must learn to see that ‘other side’ and then recognize that the brid...