Sunday, 24 April 2011

I support women in all levels of leadership in the church

Excellent article http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/150262-supporting-women-in-all-levels-of-ministry.html

The Invitation to an Abundant Life


Are you thirsty?
Are you hungry?

Listen to God’s voice. It will enable you to eat a proper diet of “the Living Bread” that will truly satisfy you. Listen to His voice – it will cause you to drink His Living Water that will quench your thirst and leave your soul to feel delighted and prospered.

Your soul needs the Living Water and Bread of Life in order to truly LIVE, but you have to open the ears of your heart to want to accept this diet from the Creator, Your Life Giver.

I will make the same Covenant with you that I made with David. In fact, that covenant is still in place, but now I invite you to also join in this Covenant with Me. I have not changed My Mind to bless and prosper you and to make you a people of influence that will witness and lead the nations; but you have to be willing to keep Covenant with Me, and you have to allow me to make you into a people that will be able to call forth the destinies of nations, for I also desire for them to hear Me, know Me and be nourished by Me.

The time is NOW for you to come to Me. Do not say that you will come later. Call on Me NOW. I am near. Return to Me, and I will forgive you. I will have compassion on you. Come NOW, just as you are – you do not have to be deserving.

You may not understand Me, for My thoughts are vey different from yours – much higher, wider and deeper. My thoughts exist altogether on a different logical level of the universe, and the Word from My mouth is beyond the limits of time, seasons, atmospheres and every logical understanding.

Yet, in nature you can observe the brilliance of My thoughts as I speak forth provision for the earth and its inhabitants and command the rain in its time to enable seedtime and harvest. It is my desire that the laborer should enjoy the satisfaction and fullness of the earth which I give in abundance. I do not with hold that which is necessary for your existence.

My Thoughts towards you are much higher than your own. My thoughts toward you are for blessing and prosperity. Look at the earth. There is Provision for everything that needs to be accomplished. Will you hear My Word? I have a plan for you according to My pleasure. Come in agreement with My Word for you. Live in agreement with My Word for you. My Word is a Supernatural Power that always accomplishes My Purpose.

When you hear My thoughts and plans for you and choose to accept it above your own thoughts and plans for yourself, you will be sustained and satisfied by My Presence – My Living Water, My Bread of Life, My Nourishing Milk and the Sweet Wine from My Breath.

Then you shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace. Then all nature will applaud you as you live as My glorious representatives on the earth, choosing to establish My Kingdom and doing My Will on earth even as it is already done in heaven.

Instead of your earthly life being marked by thorns and thistles and the toil of painful labor and futility you will experience joy, beauty, strength and purpose befitting of My Divine Presence gracing you. A New Name and a New Identity will mark your future as you walk out My Everlasting Covenant with you.

So, Come all you who are thirsty….COME…

                                                                                               
Paraphrase of Isaiah 55
Written by Yulande Oosthuyzen, Dec. 2010