Month: May 2022

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To Be Fully Alive

"The glory of God is man fully alive." -St. Ireneaus

This has been one of my favorite quotes of all time.

Ever since I first heard it I’ve wondered, what does it mean to be fully alive?

To have no dead part in you?

No sick part in you?

No unhealed part in you?

No bitter root in you?

No envy in you?

No insecurity in you?

But to live with eyes alight and flooded with truth. To live with a heart moving with the love of God and nothing else. To have the breath of the Spirit of God rushing through every corridor of your body, spirit and soul.

What does that look like?

It must have looked something like the garden of Eden, where man could actually walk with God our true Father, and our Creator. The only One who can heal every part of us and knows, even beyond our own knowledge, exactly what we need.

What’s it like to walk with someone who knows you more than you do?

So many people want to be known, long to be known and understood and loved despite the fear of the risk of being truly seen.

But we don’t just want to be seen by anyone, but by someone who is special and not just this… but great. One who is able to heal, to restore..to breathe heavenly life in us.

We all long for our Maker.

What’s it like to see the One who knows you most and talk to Him in His fullness?

It must feel like being fully alive. It must look… like Jesus (the most accurate view of the love of God put into human flesh)♥

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Beloved Life-Giving Spirit of God

You created all of them by your Spirit, and you give new life to the earth. -Psalm 104:30

I fell in love with a Man who is not a man at all but He comes for every man.

I fell in love with the Father’s Spirit. The breath that entered into the molecular structure of all of creation when the world was young, vibrant, breathtaking, perfect, effervescent, pure, undefiled, majestic, with beautiful landscapes. These terrains are vast like the stars and stunning like gold sunlight on the deep blue wide oceans as colorful as blue rainbows blending with paints: turquoise, azure, lapis, sapphire, and royal blue.

I fell in love with the only One who knows the Father’s heart, for as no one knows the heart of man but his spirit so no one knows the heart of God as the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:11). For He takes what is in God’s heart and reveals it to us (1 Corinthians 2:10).

The way He loves is deep and sweet. His connection with my heart is more intimate than the blood that pumps through my body.

As the clouds blanket the amazon rainforest in mist so dense the dewdrops are seen on every blade of grass, every leaf, every animal, every insect, every flower and the rich soil is made wet by these mountainous clouds, so the diffused Presence of the Holy Spirit moistens my soul.

I cannot imagine my life without His Presence. He is called the Life-Giving Spirit (John 6:63). The words Jesus spoke were Spirit and Life during His time on earth as a Man. His words were so rich with grace that the people marveled who heard them (Luke 4:22)  And the Holy Spirit brings to us the words of Jesus now (John 16:13). 

You are the breath within my lungs. You are the life within me. You are the One who sustains my life and You are the One who has healed my body every time I was sick.

I love You.

I thank God for You.

Beautiful Holy Spirit.

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