08 Jul 2017
by Minstrels wife
in Uncategorized
Tags: christian, Christianity, creation, Creator, Creator deity, devotion, God, heaven, king, life, Living, love, Prayer, relationship, religion, Religion and Spirituality, saviour, seeking god, soul, Spirit, Thankfulness, victorious
How beautiful are butterflies? Their gorgeous wings all the different colours of nature. So delicate and light as they float from one flower to the other. All the many colours and sizes. Amazing.
I think they are such a beautiful sight. But, the little butterfly doesn’t see itself as beautiful, if it even cares about what it looks like. Does it see the colours? Does it see the beauty that everyone else sees?
Are you like the butterfly? Beautiful but can’t see it? All around you can see your beauty, you seem to look in a different mirror or look through clouded glasses. Walk your life journey without realising how stunning and colourful you are. All who have their lives touched by your quiet spirit will remember it.
You are beautiful. More than butterflies. No one is like you. You are bought by the King of Kings. He has clothed you in His glory.
23 Feb 2014
by Minstrels wife
in Christian Worship, God, Jesus, meditation, Prayer
Tags: Celtic Christianity, Christ, Christianity, Creator deity, Family, God, Lord, Religion and Spirituality, word, worship, worship leaders
Keeping what is sure and certain through our times of worship is essential. The Word is at the core of how we worship, but also the Cross of Christ.
Matthew 12 v 34. Out of the overflow of our hearts our mouths speak.
The more we take on the Word, the more it will flow not just out in our worship, but in our daily speaking. It affects the way we talk to our kids, fellow workers, our church family and strangers we meet on the bus. If we are taking in the Word and keeping the Cross central, what comes out of us will be based in the Word and the Cross. We will be bringing more and more of Christ into our daily lives.
Worship can lead us to keep the truths of God and His Word close to our hearts. Our minds will never be far away from praise if it full of His Word.
30 Jan 2014
by Minstrels wife
in Christian Worship, God, Prayer
Tags: Bible, Celtic Christianity, Christ, Church, Creator deity, David, follow, God, heroes, kingdom, Lord, love, old testament, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality, samson, seeking god, solomon, worship
I know a lot of my failings, and there are many more that others can see in me or that God can see that I don’t recognise yet. They will be shown to me at the right time, or at Gods timing for my life. It amazes me that He uses me with all my failings, warts, sins and all. God loves me and uses me for His kingdom as I am right now, and not who I will be 10 years from now, because who I will be then will be a different person. I know I am on a journey, but if I stop learning and growing in God, then I won’t be any different, but will stand still. To be different, I have to grow, learn and change my attitudes and heart to be more like God, then I will change into a more Christ-like child of God.
When I look in the Old Testament at some of the old “heroes” of the faith like Samson, Solomon and perhaps David, they were never super spiritual. God used them as they were for His kingdom and His purposes. They didn’t change for God to use them, they didn’t change who they were in God. We have consequences of living a sinful life, but God made us because He loves us.
We need to pray and ask God what He wants us to do for Him; who He wants us to speak to; how He wants us to live for Him; how we follow Him.
29 Jan 2014
by Minstrels wife
in Christian Worship, God, Jesus, meditation, Prayer
Tags: Celtic Christianity, child, Church, Creator deity, faith, God, grace, Lord, love, Praise, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality, seeking god, sovereign, sovereignty, Thankfulness, worship
God gives us a calling on our lives, and what we do for Him is a calling. No one can hold God back, He is sovereign. He is love and His grace is new every morning.
What better reasons do we need to praise and worship our Lord and Heavenly Father?
We fail every day. Our lives get in the way, our pride, our minds. He never fails, never lets us down. How much of what we do is an offence to God? Maybe we need to sit and think about how we do things or how we speak to ourselves or others. Our flesh is strong, and we seem to battle all the time. Gods sovereignty is being watered down within our churches and how we view Him. He is God, He is our Maker.
Nothing can surprise God or shock Him. He knows all and knew us before we were born. He knows what we go through and weeps with us. He feels what we feel. He is there, and never goes away.
Praise is what I can bring. I can worship because I have nothing else to bring sometimes. I can praise when I am in a place where I am low, happy, content or in despair. Praise lifts us out of the mire.
Faith is believing when we dont see God, or dont know what to do. Keep your faith in Him who created dust into His child. He created you because He loves you.
11 Jan 2014
by Minstrels wife
in Christian Worship, God, Jesus, meditation, Prayer
Tags: Christ, Christianity, Creator deity, God, Jesus, love, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality, seeking god, Son, worship
As a worshipper, I love to praise my Lord. I love the closeness to Him, and how after I stop singing or praying, I can still feel Him close to me. Its like being in a cloud of light, soft and still. It can carry me through many a bad night when even though there is no sleep, there has been a night of being with my Lord and Friend.
God lives in our praise and worship. He inhabits it. He desires to hear our praise and the worship of His children. He waits for it, and is there with us during our day, still and sure.
Worship is our relationship and intimacy with God. He created Adam and even before Eve was created from her husband, there was a close and intimate relationship between Adam and God. Our Lord was looking for the worship that could restore what was lost when Lucifer was banished. We restore what was broken there, and Christ restores us back to His Holy presence. We can be with Him forever because of Jesus sacrifice for us.
God has a purpose for us all as well as our worship. He has a plan for us. We don’t see the plan if we sit around waiting for it to come to us. We have to make the decision to push the doors to see through prayer, if they are the way we are to go. Just because we maybe can’t see the plan yet, doesnt mean it isn’t there. It is like a seed that is in the ground. Just because we cant see it until just before it gets harvested, does not meant it is not there. We need to position ourselves in Him to see the plan. Prayer, worship and praise bring us in the right place with Him and all He has for us. He wants to bless His children, all of them.
Let God arise in your life. Let Him do His awesome work, and purposes that we cannot even imagine.
12 Dec 2013
by Minstrels wife
in Christian Worship, God, meditation, Prayer
Tags: Christianity, Creator, Creator deity, Future, Religion and Spirituality
Wouldn’t it be nice if God gave us an idea of what to expect out of life. A pre-look at births, deaths, weddings and no surprises.
“For I know the plans I have for you”…
He knows the end from the beginning and knows what we are going to go through. He also gives us the strength we need to go through those times of both heartache and joy. We need to be reminded daily that God has great plans and that He has it all under His great control. Life may look chaotic and messy, but He has it all in His hands, and knows how it all ends up. We need to allow our hearts and minds to be open to the plans of God, and to let them be completed His way, not our way.
One of the main things I am looking forward to is meeting Him face to face. Allowing myself to submit myself to His plans and purposes between now and that glorious moment are a bit of an issue. I like to know what is going on and don’t like surprises. Letting His perfect plans for my life have their way is difficult as me letting go of that control is really scary. I know it is the best thing for Him to control things and not me, and so I pray He gives me the strength.
Maybe I need to sit and reflect on how if I have the control, am I really giving my life over to the Creator God?
Is it like a potter and the clay?
The clay can’t demand what form it is made into. So why do we try to tell our Creator who we want to be?
My Creator knows the best form I take. He knows what I am to do way into the future.
I am looking forward to those days. Really. I hope.
03 Dec 2013
by Minstrels wife
in God, Jesus, meditation, Prayer
Tags: Advent, Christmas, Creator deity, God, Lord, Waiting
As we begin Advent, we begin waiting for Christmas and all the festivities to begin. We wait, a bit like creation, but creation is waiting for its liberation. God has delayed His return, which makes all creation wait. It waits for its purpose. Restoration. We all wait for our full liberation to our Lord God who loves us. He created us and the earth for Himself for our relationship and fellowship with Him.We and creation worship Him, and if we fail to worship, even the very stones praise Him in our place!!
Our hearts long for our Father and our soul cry out to Him. That longing and desperation can only be filled by allowing His love in and letting it flow through the whole of us – soul, mind and body.
Our Father Creator brings life. He is Life. We are alive in Him. Death is gone and holds no fear for us.
Our greatest need is for God.
We wait for Him and in Him.
We wait for the time we will be with Him and the longing this brings. Maybe this is the time to reflect on what we are really waiting for. We pray and I pray that we have the patience to wait for Gods perfect plan for us to be revealed as we begin this Advent season, and hold in our minds the lost, broken and desperate.
Bring them home to you Dear Father.
Open yourself to Him and please Lord give us the hope we need to keep waiting.
The Minstrel's Wife 
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