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How Deep Is Your Love?

Is your love as deep as 13x13?

January 10, 2013 at 7:39am

Have you ever met that 'someone' who always seems to know everybody who’s worth knowing, knows something or a lot, about pretty much everything there is to know, never seems to suck at doing anything AND knows it!? I have a friend like that… The thing of it though is, I know she doesn’t mean to come across that way, but she does! And even though she always has so much to offer, people are not always able to  receive from her because she just always seemed to be ‘all there’! I was in the ladies room one day washing my hands when thoughts of my friend suddenly popped into my head. I just started chuckling, because, even though, my friend is the quirkiest person I know, she also has the largest heart of anyone I know. “Lord you know you could have created only have  created only one of her kind in this world”! I said, still chuckling and just as soon as I as I said those words I heard His voice say – “Oh no, I have many other children just like her. As a matter of fact, look up and I’ll introduce you to a friend of hers”. I looked up, and sure enough, suddenly, there she was, staring right back at me from the bathroom mirror! Yep, it was I that the Lord was referring to! Moi?! “But I’m not like that!” I said horrified at what the Lord was saying… Oh yes, you are! And sometimes you’re even more badly behaved… “ Let’s take a trip down memory lane…



“Remember that day you had that discussion with…”



It all came back to me…, and The Lord sat me down and told me some things that day that I will never forget for as long as I live… He said to my heart:

Together, Forever

Together, Forever
My place or yours?

I do, but don't I reserve
The right to retain?

Cash or kind;
Don't matter none to me

Who wears the pants?
European or bootleg?

Power tussle of the ages,
Or  soulmates indeed.

Sense my heart?
Or censor my heart

I got your back, and you got mine?
Or watch it baby, I’m real close

Is this love? Or isn’t it;
Isn’t it love, Or is it?

You decide baby, yes you get to decide...

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I long for the simpler yet powerful times

I long for the simpler yet powerful times
When fellowship meant just that - fellowship

I long for the zealous times when all that would occupy my heart the days before a meeting was how God, not I would show up…

Oh, how I long for the uninhibited times when ‘speaking in tongues was not required to be phonetically correct or positionally pretty…

And groaning in the spirit was not the sound one’s stomach made while waiting for the after-service dinner…

I long for the days of the “Revs” (revelations) when everyone and not just the Pastor had something original to say from the throne of grace… God has something to say…

I remember with poignancy the days of the “Love Feasts” when the emphasis was on the love, not the feasting ‘she didn’t bring much and see how much she ate’... My dear, do you know how much she has????

I desire once again the days of the impromptu prayer meetings, (one of such revived my Christian life for good) rather than 'gossip-fest' concerts we see so much of today.

And YES I look back on the days of Godly modesty that though extreme, in some of its ways, built the foundation that continues to ground me today. That keeps me from straying all in the name of fashion…

I remember the days when one said ‘God told me…’ , It inspired the beginning of an edifying conversation, rather than gawky incredulity at one’s audacity in uttering those words. After all, you are not a pastor, teacher, evangelist, preacher or prophet are you?

Laying on of hands? What’s that ?? Except that it is forbidden for the laity to do so...

Memorizing and quoting scriptures? Of what use is that when I can kneel before someone who can speak, quote and spit with so much more authority than I...

The rapture? Oh yes !!! Aren't those the goose bumps that mimic how we will feel just before Jesus comes back again???

For those of us who remember these things, we may laugh, but let us not forget - These are some of the foundations of our faith.

For the ones still practicing these good things, please continue, God sees and knows you all by name.
For those of us who speak of those days, Let us stop speaking and start acting… After all, that chapter in the Bible says ‘The acts” and not the “speeches” of the apostles.

And finally for those of us who have not experienced these blessings, seek and search them out…There is a treasure of greatness in 'pressing in.' 

Let us seek for THE LORD, His Word, and His Spirit, and not the words or ways of man, and THE LORD Himself will show up!

I long for the times of power that He promised ALL who believe in Him: The lame walking, the blind seeing. The deaf hearing and the dead being received back by their loved ones unto life... and "YOU shall receive POWER after the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and YOU shall be my witnesses…"
YES, WE CAN, AND YES WE SHALL!!!