I'M STILL AROUND

 Yes, I'm still around.  Still reaching.  Still seeking.  And being filled from within. This transition has been completely filling and revelatory.  I'm more than I ever knew, even with the miraculous I've experienced, sometimes ignorantly.  Touching the eternal.  Walking in that realm.  Listening to it teaching me.  We are so much more than we were ever taught or knew.

I've written 5 books under the pen name Faith Living.  They are available on Amazon.  I also stay active on Facebook periodically under the name Faith Rockrimmon.

Blessings.

Marna Mitchem

BOOKS BY FAITH LIVING

The Kingdom of God at Rose Rock -  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01APUCZXO

Outside Rose Rock - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089LZDLDX

My Seat, Learning to Live From the Kingdom Book 1 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1974398862

My Kingdom, Learning to Live From the Kingdom Book 2 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CG97V2H

Rejection & Identity - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DSN0PXW

Rejection & Identity, Book 2 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535106093

This just seems like a divine picture full of so much beauty.  I wanted to share it.

Listening

Today I understood how marvelous it is to hear from my Father God personally - and NOT have crowds of people standing around me waiting to hear what Father just said to me. This is the way most people treat Pastors and Preachers. They sta...nd in silence with their eyes glued to him waiting to hear what he has to say. Imagine how annoying that could be. You wouldn't have a moment of real privacy with your Creator because everything He said to you would be slated for sharing. All the real intimacy would be ruined with the responsibility to feed all the sheep. What a heavy responsibility. What a stupid responsibility.
Seriously.

First thing I would do is pray a prayer for Father to help them get past their own box so they could hear Him speak (since He's speaking all the time). Then I would tell them all to close their eyes and repeat the first words that came to mind.

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Then we would all have a huge laugh when they realized they had all just heard similar words meaning the same thing but said in different ways. They would look around at each other in shock and awe until it dawned on them the only differences were that each message was heard in the exact dialect, slang or accent they would understand personally.

Suddenly the light would pop and the glory of the Lord would fill the place. What an awesome sight that would be.

 

DO NOT BE AFRAID

Did you know that God doesn't like cowards?

Revelations 21:8 Amp
"...as for the cowards,...cravenly lacking in courage,...cowardly submissive;...they shall have their part in the lake that blazes with fire..."
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This scripture lumps cowards together with liars, unbelievers, murderers etc.

Imagine that! Does that mean everyone who is ever afraid? Nope, I don't think so. Difference is that even while afraid you can move forward and face the thing that is scaring you and then you aren't a coward. A coward is someone who is afraid and won't move forward to face it.

Now why do you suppose God feels that way about cowards? We are all cowards at some point about some thing.

I believe it's because a coward has no faith, no trust, no hope, no integrity. Fear has defeated all those things in him.

One thing I know about God and His Word; there is no place where He is defeated. No, not one. There is nothing that exists that CAN defeat Him. Not even death.

So, as it says all thru the Bible "do not be afraid". And if you are - move forward in faith, trusting that nothing can defeat you when God is with you.

DO NOT BE AFRAID

DO NOT BE AFRAID

God's enjoyment

Lately I've been thinking about Jesus living in me.  I used to describe it using a toothpick stuck in the middle of my fist.  And I'd say the toothpick was Jesus and the fist was me.  But as I let Jesus grow inside me the toothpick would expand into a branch and then a log and my fist had to open up to let this happen.  So, every day in my prayers I would ask Him to help me LET Him grow; that I would surrender more.  Then I would ask Him to use me however He wanted to use me that day.  Sometimes He actually did.  And that was awesome!  It was the greatest high ever!  And I would crave it.  I'd crave for it to happen again . . . soon.  No, soon wasn't soon enough.  And I kept thinking about how I could LET Jesus grow inside me and actually become more of Him and less of me.
Now, He says to me that I'M LIVING IN JESUS.  Not the other way around.  Ok.  Wow.  That took my mind and bent it all around into a totally different direction.  And I had to let that settle into my heart.  I'm living in Jesus.  I'm living through Jesus.  That means I'm not the one making the choices anymore.  I don't have to beg Him to use me; He's the one orchestrating my day already.  So, if He's using me to talk to someone, or using me to stand and stare at the beauty of the mountains.  I thought that if I wasn't actually talking about Jesus to someone, then He wasn't using me.  I thought that all the chores and things of the day were really getting in the way of Jesus using me.  But now that I think He's already in charge here; well, then, maybe He likes doing chores.  After all, He doesn't have a body anymore - except ours.  Imagine if you didn't have a body.  Maybe after awhile, you'd actually miss those mundane things like washing your face, cooking dinner, doing the laundry, walking the dog, cleaning the carpets . . . and such.
OK, no, no, no I'm not being sacreligious.  I'm not.  I'm saying that Jesus loves LIVING through us.  And if we really let that sink into our hearts we could actually enjoy being ALIVE.
Maybe linger longer over that beautiful sunset, instead of rushing away to . . . find someone to "witness" to about Jesus.  Besides, that only works when the Holy Spirit directs you to do it because He's already been working on them and got them to the point that they need to talk to someone now . . . and usually that's only to confirm that they are already way ahead of you.
You see . . . there's that REST "thing" that He told us to do.  Why?  Because I think originally before Adam & Eve messed it up, God said He rested.  What was He doing while He rested?  He just ENJOYED.  He enjoyed.  He enjoyed everything He created.  He enjoyed strolling along in the cool of the evening just chatting.  He enjoyed looking at all the beauty and saying things like "that's really good".
The whole point of all the years between then and now . . . is to GET IT BACK.  Get what back?  The RESTING.  The enjoying.
Remember that tomorrow . . . Jesus loves living through you.  So, sit back and enjoy the ride.  See where He goes.  He'll probably go do all the things you've been doing all along, but He'll enjoy them.
Hmmm?