M K Rogers Ministries, International

A million years, a million words would not be enough to express my gratitude for so a great a Salvation from you, Father.

Your Loving Kindness is better than life.

So shall my lips praise you and my heart worship you every second, every moment from here into eternity.

I now love You with the love You have given me to love with.

In the beginning when I recognized that it was You who was touching my heart, my life and drawing me to Him,

I lifted my eyes to look and I saw Jesus

And I fell in love with the Nazarene.

My Savior and My Lord, He who is my portion, my allotment. The lines have fallen for me into pleasant places.

My Love, my Friend, my Everything.

Thank You, Father, for so great a Salvation.

I Love You!!!

Let’s Pray: Thank You, Father for loving me! Thank you for always being with me!

Hi everyone, want to share one of my favorite scriptures with you. It has helped me grow in personal knowledge of God’s love so tremendously. Hope you find it so for you too!

“And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!” Is. 30:18 AMPL

 He – the Creator of everything – is waiting to be gracious to us! He is waiting for us to come running to Him, to the seat of mercy and love. He knows we are in need of experiencing His overwhelming love – yet He waits on us to go to Him. Expecting, looking, and longing to be gracious gives a picture of the prodigal son’s father. Of a father standing up from the dinner table to look out the window to see if his son is possibly driving up the road now. The picture of a father anxiously perusing e-mail in the middle of the night, hoping one is from his son whom he has not heard from in several months: of a father outrunning everyone in the house to get to the door at the first chime of the doorbell.

Our Father earnestly waits in expectancy for us; longing to see us and talk with us. Whatever has kept us away from intimate fellowship with the Father is not enough for Him to stop looking for us to show up to spend time with Him anyway.

And if we have messed up - He longs to extend mercy and loving kindness to us for anything and everything – but instead we sometimes grow more and more distant due to lack of time spent with Him. The previous verses 15 thru 17 show a picture of someone who is trying to figure things out their own way. An “I can do this” attitude of heart that gets us into a bigger mess!  And all the time He is waiting for us to go to Him for help. Or sometimes we think we have messed things up so bad in some area or another that we are going to have to pay for it. We think He is going to scold and reprimand us for such stupidity – no we probably do that to ourselves. He may correct us after we have been received into loving arms, but He only disciplines those He loves. He will instruct and guide us out.

Then the word goes on to say we are so very blessed if WE wait for Him! If we expectantly look and long for Him to come to us! For Him to come visit, to come spend time alone with us! We are so blessed because when we prepare the way by making time to be alone with Him, He comes to us and brings with Him victory for life, outstanding favor with Him and with man – making a way for us where there wasn’t a way before! His wonderful love for us precedes His visit, surrounds His visit, and lingers far after. The joy in His presence infuses our being with strength to continue the race to the goal.

Matchless, unbroken companionship is the greatest reward of all! When you experience that you are hooked for life. There is nothing in this world that can compare to unbroken fellowship with Him!

Let’s pray: Here I come, running back into your arms! So sorry I haven’t been here Father. I love you.

“Stargazers” – can we become so heavenly minded we are no earthly good? Don’t think so! Since the heavens declare His glory I think we had better be looking up, we had better become “stargazers” by spending time in His glory – both Word and Spirit. Then the impartations for life we need can be given and we can live our God-destined life. Faith - simply believing what God says, like Abraham!

Then – in a continuance of the transition process, I saw the Holy Spirit actually pull a fully developed “baby” out of the birth canal feet first! Trouble in transition – needed help.  I knew in the spirit that there was no trauma or pain involved because of this - just relief that God had stepped in to help by accelerating the process. So although things have not proceeded according to your expectation and even hope, you still have a “baby”! Right?!  And don’t believe the lie that you failed, couldn’t do it, that’s why God had to rescue you. No, just trust His decision, okay?

Prayer: Wonderful Father, thank you for my Helper, your Holy Spirit. Thank you that He leads and guides me in all the affairs of life – both on earth and in heaven. Help me to become a “stargazer” so I can be transformed more and more into the image of Jesus Christ as I behold His glory day by day, so I will become more earthly good! LOL!

What we usually can’t see until this process is completed is that some of our dreams, hopes, desires and visions are also coming to pass. The seeds of the Spirit of God planted in each one of us that are meant to reach maturity begin to develop.

We can see the process of transition and transformation throughout the Word. Let’s look at three stories.

·  Zacchaeus transitioned from ‘little man’ mentality to a faithful ‘big man’ friend of Jesus and company.

·  Bartimaeus transitioned from the generational cursing of ‘blind beggar man’ family to overflowing fullness of life.

·  Joseph transitioned from hapless ‘dreamer’ to ‘world mover’ overnight.

Real people with real lives just like us, who recognized the ‘moment’ of change and bravely stepped into it!

Transition is a time of intense pressure and often unrelenting pain, or so it seems. It is interesting to relate the natural process of birthing a child to the spiritual process of transition. If you stay focused and concentrated on relaxing and getting through to the “other side” – the birthing moves along much more quickly and easily! How quickly and successfully depends on your focus of attention. Is it on the pressure and pain or the goal and prize?

Anyone of the above mentioned men in the Bible could have let go of and refused to give vision its place, but instead they kept on dreaming and planning a different life. Then when each first HEARD of and then SAW Jesus, HOPE sprang up and gave motivation to RECOGNIZE opportunity for transformation through Jesus! They chose to act on the response of their spirits, not caring what others would think of their ‘opportunism”! They saw the open door of the Spirit of God, so to speak, and bravely went through it. How about us? Opportunity for TRANSITION comes more often than we recognize we just aren’t in POSITION TO SEE it most of the time.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to never miss an opportunity for transition and transformation again. Help me position myself to SEE Jesus, and RECOGNIZE my opportunity for change! Thank You Father, I Love YOU!