Let’s Agree in Prayer Together!

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (country, earth, field, ground, land, nations, way, wilderness)  2 Chronicles 7:14

CALLING ALL PRAYER INTERCESSORS!

Join me every Saturday morning for the month of January in prayer along with women from all locations as we come together for life changing prayer as we stand in the gap for  intercede for our children.

We will be praying for:

Salvation

Deliverance

Health

Safety

Overall Well being

Sound Mind & Wise Decisions

Fruitfulness

Godly relationships

Desire for Christ

How to operate in their talents and gifts

Godly parental wisdom and guidance

Understanding Honor & Respect

and any specific concerns that you may have for children.

Prayer will begin at 8 am prompt this Saturday January 14th, 21th,  and 28th

To Dial in for this prayer meeting

Call: (661) 673-8600
Participant Access Code: 648670#

If you have something you’d like me to add to our prayer list concerning children email me at mel@desirebydesignministries.org with the child/s name and concern.

Desire by Design Ministries 2011 in review

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A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 60 trips to carry that many people.

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Where there is ENVY and STRIFE….

STRIFE IS A DESTROYER:

Satan knows that envy and strife destroy relationships and long-term friendships. He knows if he can create envy and strife between you and the ones you love, he can ruin those special relationships that God intended to be a blessing in your life. Do you have any relationships in your life right now that are under this kind of demonic attack?

The devil doesn’t just target relationships or friendships with this type of assault. He also knows how to get in between you and your church family, a ministry you love and support, or even the place of business where you work. The enemy doesn’t care whom he divides – as long as division is the result!

Sweeter Than Honey

The word of God is to be desired more than gold, even the finest gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb - Psalms 19

The bible tells us the word of God is a lamp to our feet (lighting up how our daily individual walk should look) and a light to our path (Shedding light on the path to God’s perfect plan for our life).  A familiar scripture in Psalms 119:105-106 tells us “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws.”  This is why scripture tells us to lean not toward our own understanding but in everything we do seek God for direction before we speak or take action.  What does God say?  What has he instructed you to say , or to do, where to go?  I set out to live daily by the word in Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.  I’ve learned through the word of God that allowing God to direct my steps even when I don’t understand where he is taking me has brought victory into my life in great measure.  It reminds me of a scripture I’ve often read in Psalms 119 that saids  “ Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart. They do nothing wrong; they walk in his ways.”

That’s why I love to study the book of Proverbs because it contains wisdom nuggets that can set you on a straight path for success in every area of your life.   In Proverbs 10:22 the bible tells us that allowing God’s

Who are you in Christ?

I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. Isaiah 61:10

As a believer of Christ we become a new man through the holy spirit and grow in faith through the  knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  As we develop an intimate relationship with the Lord, he reveals great and mighty things to us. In 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 17-20 it is written:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

As a new creature in Christ our hearts change and we operate differently from the world by faith. As I thought of what this heart change looked like I compiled some scriptures that came to mind of the mindset of a servant of Christ.

This is who you are in Christ:

A Hardened Heart Against God

A hardened heart is one that has become unfeeling, unsympathetic, stubborn and calloused. The Merriam-Webstar’s dictionary’s describes “hardened” as when the surface layer is harder than the interior. The person whose heart has become hardened is careless and insensible. The truth of God’s word can no longer penetrate into the spirit. There are many excuses and reasons why hearts become hardened. Many harden their hearts as a defense from disappointment, rejection, hurt or as a result of anger and bitterness. However, the more hardened you become, the more you stand the chance of being hurt because you don’t have the faith or trust in God to believe in and receive all of God’s fullness into your life. A stubborn and calloused heart doesn’t trust that God can love so much that he gave his only begotten son so that one would have eternal life. An unfeeling heart is a trick of enemy. Think about it, people with hardened hearts eventually become miserable and lonely beyond repair. They usually miss out on the blessings of love and support. Unfortunately they’ve been deceived because of their unbelief and have hardened their hearts towards God blaming others and the fact is that their outcome and empty existence is a result of their unbelief.

This is the opposite of how God has commanded us to walk. Scripture tells us to be of humble spirit, ready to obey God’s instruction and to be eager to love and forgive our fellow man. God gives grace to those that are of a humble spirit but he resists the loafty, stubborn and prideful. As it is written:

The Thing Taken for Granted – The Most Valuable Treasure

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Well readers, I hope you had an awesome weekend. I spent my weekend with good people sharing the good news, the Word of God. I found myself answering question after question about the Word of God and its life changing nature. It’s common that I come across doubt from some who are searching for truth, searching for answers, peace of mind etc. I thought to myself, we are such a privileged people,

Bad roots produce good trees?

Halloween

As believers, we must “Test everything.  Hold on to the good.  Avoid every kind of evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22)

Halloween is not an innocent `holiday’, but is rather a satanic celebration and a means to further corrupt our culture and children.
The roots of Halloween are from an ancient druid observance Samhain at the end of summer (Nov. 1). The Celtics believed Samhain was a time when the division between the two worlds became very thin, when hostile supernatural forces were active and ghosts and spirits were free to wander as they wished. The Celtics lit bone fires to assist the druids (priests) as they offered sacrifices to placate the gods. Sometimes these sacrifices were human.

Later the church grafted Christianity with this custom. By calling Nov 1 `All saints day’ Oct. 31

The Bride of Christ and Her Wedding Dress

He who has ears to hear let him hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying:

I want to share this soul searching song with you by Derek Webb.  The bible says that we are supposed to be able to look into the Word of God and see our natural face.   For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed – James 1:23

It’s a song about the bride of Christ.  It’s about how the church (the bride) has prostituted herself for her own selfish desires.  It addresses today’s popular mindset of drawing nearer to Christ in hopes of enjoying the things in the world.   We must stop promising to love and obey God and then prefer possessions, positions and pleasures over the Prince of Peace.  Like this song states “One hand in a pot of gold and the other in Your side.  There are many who profess to love Jesus but are so easily satisfied and influenced with less than Christ.

A Season of Repentance

True Repentance is to “Put off concerning the former conversation of the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

Repentence is a decision to be transformed by the renewing of your mind through the word of God and opposing conformity according to the world’s carnal mindset. (Romans 12:1)