Grace. Redemption. Forgiveness. Mercy. Renewal. Direction.

and.i'll.never.be.the.same

Just a poem God that gave me the other day during my worship. I have been discovering this side of God in such a big way lately- it's so much fun :). I just love him to pieces. And I'll never be the same, now that He's overtaken me...


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There is a song on my lips but I can’t find the words
A dance in my mind’s eye that has no steps
There is a joy so abundant it renders me foolish
A passion so deep I know not how to express

As I surrender myself to the Spirit of God
I am filled with a gladness that shakes to my core
A realization that the Ecstasy of heaven is mine
The fullness of Joy, I never knew to exist

Inebriated, intoxicated, deliriously high
Overwhelmed with this Bliss, consuming and fierce
Splashing and dancing in Love so deep
A new encounter in the Kingdom that reigns

Such a change from the person of gloom I once was
Entranced, and awakened, renewed by my God
Filled to explosion with His passion and joy
This indelible change, which forever remains.


-By Maddi 14/12/2010

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Lately I have been pondering who I am, and who I once was. The difference is so vast- reading through my old books of poems you can see the change. So drastic. I am completely and utterly grateful that God has showed me so much grace, and that He took the time to show me who He is and who I could be- who I am, in Him.
I am never going back to where I was. Yeh! :D

Peace,

Maddi

Love, love, LOVE!!! (this means JESUS!)

I have been having so much fun lately!

Ever experienced the delirious joy of being in love with Jesus? Well, go encounter God and get blasted! Best time of my life. No-one ever understands why I am so happy and possibly a little high; always thinks it is drugs or alcohol...errrm, no. JESUS! :D

Ahh, He is just so good!

I look all around me and I see Jesus, everywhere I look. Creation, people- it just awes me. Even when I see an amazing painting, or a really interesting old building, I feel myself going, "Woah Jesus, you are so awesome." It is so exciting! I love seeing God moving in everything. So awesome. I get my flags out and dance around with them in worship, and even the wind making them ripple fills me with wonder at the glory of God. Jesus, you are sooooooooooo GOOD! :D

So, Christchurch is going through this major awakening to the realization of God's presence and glory- it is really exciting! Everywhere I go I have been meeting people, like me, who are hungry, hungry, HUNGRY for more of God- people that are full on christians, raising the standard and becoming the old "normal": meaning; bible-believing, full of the Holy Spirit, carrying the fire of God. FUll of the power of God, working miracles, prophesying, seeing in the supernatural, *HAPPY*, and becoming intoxicated and abandoned in the heady love of our King. It's so exciting!!!

Three weeks ago I started praying for a new job, I've been desperately needing one with permanent hours because I am trying to save to go to BSSM (Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry) in Redding, California. Target date to leave is 25th August 2011- I have no idea why, that was just a date that God gave me. And I need enough money by then, and not having a proper job hasn't been helping the savings account.
Anyhoo, I started praying and looking on Trademe for jobs. I applied for one over the phone and the guy told me to come in: I had a two minute interview and I got the job!
It was fully God! And the pay is pretty darn incredible. AND, they are paying for me to get my General Managers license so that I can become the restaurant manager! JESUS much?? :D. Watch out Bethel, here I come!!!

In my lunch break a few weeks back I decided to go for a walk to Cathedral square, and I saw this big group standing way across the square by the road, and my little radar went "Oooo, JESUS!" so I went over to investigate. It was a bunch of young people hitting the streets with the power of God, sharing the Love with people, and praying. We saw HEAPS of healings!!! That was the best ever lunch break of my life! Got me so pumped...when I went back to work everyone was wanting to know what I had smoked. Haha....errrm, no. JESUS!


Loving this song ae- it speaks out pretty much exactly what I am feeling.

Intoxicating You are to me
Illuminating You are to see
Truly breathtaking You are to breathe
Sending my head swimming You are, You see

And I've lost my mind, I'm sure to find
Need to apologize for my
Lack of inhibition, for my
belligerent condition
But with You this near I'm dizzy

Inebriating You are to me
Completely captivating You are to see
Sending my world spinning You are, You see

And now I find a blurry line
Here between You and I
Raise the cup, drink 'til I'm full
Sing 'til I can't, 'til my voice is gone
And my head is spinning

La, la dee da
La dee da, dee da
Dee da da da
Hey la, la dee da
La dee da, dee da
Dee da da da

If I'm out of my mind it's You, You
'Cause I'm crazy in love with You, You
Inebriated by You, You
'Cause I'm head over heels with You, Jesus.



So yes. Jesus is where it's at peoples!
Go have an amazing day. Get into the real good stuff.
Love of God overtake you and blow your mind and mess with your senses.
Haha, go play with some angels or something.

Bless ya,
Maddi

Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom


Little girl dreams to be a princess
Wiggle my nose, away I go
Mirror, mirror on the wall
The face inside will tell me all
Beauty wakened with a kiss
Snow-white dreams, bed of bliss
Pretty in pink, a fragrant flower
Tucked inside an ivory tower


Middle-girl dreams to meet a lover
Strong, kind man to hold my hand
Gilded mirror on the wall
The face inside reveals it all
Beauty cheapened with a lie
Sordid dreams, bedroom eyes
Veiled in black, a ruined bride
Used, confused, and cast aside


Worlds away in a grownup land
Always moving, working, proving
Check the mirror on the wall
The face inside it shows me all
Beauty weakened with the years
Broken dreams, bed of tears
In the red and on the edge
Pressed in by a thorny hedge


King in bright and fiery light
Astride his steed, he rides for me
My mirror rests on heaven's throne
One glance to know as I am known
Beauty deepened by his face
Wildest dreams, bed of grace
Whitest robe and crown of gold
Bride of Christ, my future told

Resounding Love

I hear Your love so clearly
A whisper deep within
A reverberating echo-
A sweet song, luring me in

It ripples through my soul
And shatters my reserve:
Knocking down my walls
And sending life throughout my nerves

This love defies my logic
And confuses common sense
It messes with my knowledge,
And won't take recompense.

By Maddi
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I have this overwhelming sense of worship. I can't explain it. Words cannot express. I am trying to find a word that explains a bit of the extent- I don't think such a word exists. I inebriated, drunken, intoxicated, joyous, delirious, ecstatic, mad, obsessed, possessed, filled, overtaken, ravished, undone.
It is a feeling I can't describe- I just know that it is the love of God. So intensely I want God- every minute of every single day! *Nothing else matters*

I feel the movement of God's Spirit in me- I see a dance in my soul. I hear a wordless song that cannot be voiced: it's expression a deep cry from within. A reflection of glory that cannot be fathomed by man. The song that angels sing: the sound of the heavenly anthem.

Hahaha, I see Jesus. He's looking at me, and I'm looking at him. He is holding a cup and it is full of a deep crimson liquid.
He is saying,

"I am the wine
the JOY,
the fullness of bliss
the Ecstasy of Heaven
the madness of men...
...I am JESUS."

Jesus. Full of power and might: the embodiment of heaven, the definition of love.
He is so beautiful. So, so beautiful. I cannot fathom him- my mind is too small for comprehension; he makes me wonder, makes me awed. I try to understand him, but I can't. He loves me beyond anything I can imagine- and my imagination is pretty crazy!
I love him so much!! I can't begin to explain it to people- I just get lost in my search for words. His love has ruined me for any other thing- after being loved by God, how can you feel the love of another, unless it is of God...?

Ahhh. Jesus :D

Awakening in Christchurch

Hi All – this is a email an brother sent out the other morning on October 27 2010 –
Be blessed & Encouraged!

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Good Morning, Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

I am emailing you, because I know you to be a Christian or have heard that you are a Christian. I am writing to let you know that the Spirit of God is on the move again in Christchurch.
A prophet named Jason Westerfield, has been in the city and doing some meetings last weekend and God is moving in such a way that he has cancelled his agenda for the next month and is going to do meetings Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights for the next month. There have been a number or miraculous healings, most notably a women with a hole in the heart since birth has been doctor certified as being healed of that condition. Jason loves the Lord and is passionate about encountering him, he has been fully endorsed by Bill Johnson from Bethel and is a credible man of God.

I am not writing to get numbers to meetings or anything of the like, because North City Church (95A Sawyers Arms Rd), is not the church I got to. I am letting you know because when God begins to move it is exciting and not to be missed, ignored or rejected. The meetings are different to a normal church service, because God is coming powerfully, although this time around there seems to be only limited amounts of “shaking and baking”. Whenever the Lord comes he often comes in a way that breaks our religious mindsets, patterns and formulas, so it will challenge you but it is biblically and theologically sound, although some people always get into the flesh at times. This move has a focus on saving souls so is very exciting.

I know that everyone I am writing to are from different denominations and churches but God doesn’t align himself to any denomination or church, they have to align to different parts of his character. So whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Charismatic or non-charismatic, we all serve the same God, and at this moment in history he is beginning to move by his spirit again in ChristChurch.

In recent history Christchurch has had several moves of God, and it seems that this is another one on the way. In the 80’s the lord moved powerfully through Murray Robertson at Spreydon Baptist church, in the mid to late 80’s he move through Peter Morrow at City Newlife (now the Majestic Centre) in 1992 he moved in Celebration Centre with Jill Austin and Murray Watkinson, this was before the Toronto blessing that happened in America in 1994.

The Meetings are at North City Church, 95a Sawyers Arms Rd at 6pm, starting 27th October.

Bless you all
Clark.
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Blessings guys, it would be awesome if you could join in prayer and fasting for the revival of Christchurch- on the weekend we got a word specifically for 100,000 souls.
Lets allow a move of God to rise up in all of us.

Love Maddi.

Beautiful or Not??

Beautiful or Not??

Mirror, mirror on my wall
Can't I be the fairest of them all?
Yet all I see when I turn to you
Is blemishes and ugliness, through and through.

Instead of the strength God has placed in me
A weak, fearful girl is all I see
And the way God sees me; which I know is right
I have thrown in a cupboard, and locked out of sight

I wish I was smaller and had straighter teeth
Cos' I've forgotten true beauty is found underneath
If only the clothes I wear were three sizes too big
Then I'd be pretty, and wouldn't look like a pig.

If my hair wasn't frizzy, and my eyes were more blue
Maybe then when I see you, I'd value me too.
Or if I had talent, and could do something well
Even that might help me get out of this hell.

Because gazing at you and seeing my yucky old self
Is down-right depressing~ it's bad for my health
There's so much I'd change if I just had the choice
Hang on! I'm hearing a new sounding voice....

It's telling me that looks aren't what give me my price
I don't have lesser value cos' my face ain't quite right.
I am God-perfect, and that wins the prize over man
And heck, Jesus ain't phased by my lack of a tan.

The truth is I am beautiful, exquisite, unique
God thinks that I have a gorgeous physique
He told me that I am the apple of His eye
And that the value within me in immeasurably high

So sorry ol' Mirror you've lost this fight
Your lies couldn't hack it, and they went down tonight
Bigger than lies is Jesus, and He lives in me
And when I look to you, He'll be all that I see.

-by Maddi


I thought someone might be encouraged by this- it is a poem I wrote last year about my struggle with accepting myself. I think a lot of girls- and guys- can probably identify with it.

I really pray that God would reveal to you how HE sees you.
May you walk in the identity you have in Jesus- may you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are perfect in His eyes- and that is all that matters.

You are the apple of His eye; His beloved; His precious child; His desire. He has placed a crown of splendor on your head- and He has chosen YOU and His love is for you.

You are precious and honoured in His sight- He delights in you. He summons you by name and gives you a title of honour.

He made you and will carry you- He will rescue you. Before you were born He knew everything about you- He wants to display His splendor in YOU.

His unfailing love for you cannot be shaken. He wants to build you with turquiose and sapphire; He is making you to be a crown of splendor in His hand- a priceless jewel.

You are His delight, Beloved.

Sleep in the reassurance that you are His....

Love Maddi

JESUS!!

Once again I find myself on the beach seeking my King.
I'm watching the waves arise and then break open with all of their power- and I hear God say, "Revival is going to hit like that: over and over without ceasing; each new wave releasing a greater abundance of power."

The sun had been hiding behind the clouds and just now it came out. I saw it illuminate hundreds of fishing lines along the pier that a moment ago had been concealed. And it was like God speaking to my heart saying that SOON people will see the power of God in a whole new way- the manifest presence & power of God which we have rejected and ignored for so long is beginning to be revealed in an overtly bold way. It won't just be those with eyes open to see and ears open to hear that will experience it- but every single person.

And I speak to myself more than to anyone else: We need to ARISE!
We need to stand up, step up to the mark and be a generation that reveals JESUS to the world- in every aspect of who He is...that means breaking and loosing, healing, cleansing, freeing, releasing....
We CAN'T afford to be settled in complacency- we have to break that off and become desperate. So desperate that we wouldn't hesitate, but would do WHATEVER God requires to reach our Nations, without a second thought.
That like Paul we would be willing to be fools for Christ (heck, we are fools in so many OTHER ways- why can't we be foolish for Jesus?): that like King David we would say, "I would become EVEN MORE undignified than this!"

When will we start to not care about what we look like to others or what they are thinking?
When will we become so starving for God and so hungry to extend Him to the world that we stop at nothing?

I want to say NOW! I want to be a part of a crazy, consumed, desperate, God-thirsty generation that lives Jesus to His world. Every day.

Amen- SO LET IT BE!

You ARE Loved: Emmeline

To Emmeline.



-You ARE Loved-

Little girl, sweetie-pie
Lost and so confused
You don't feel loved and precious
Just hated and ill-used

You think that you can't do right
That you always fail
You blame yourself for others wrath
Your soul is feeling frail

You feel despair, you want to die
You think that'd solve the pain
In your mind you run so free,
But in life you're bound and chained

You lack the hope to pull you through
You slip from the truth of Truth
You are lost within the darkness
Of the deep, black hole you're in.

When you start to feel destroyed
When the enemy's attacks being
Remember Jesus is your Victor;
And Satan cannot win

I know you often feel alone
But this really is not true
Jesus ALWAYS holds you tight-
And this is what He says to you:

"You are so deeply dear to me
You're My beloved and My bride
And this love with which I love you
Binds you closely to My side.

My Daughter it hurts so much to know
You believe this to be true:
That if you do something slightly wrong
I delight in hurting you!

I would never do that My Love
I died so pain can't hold you down
Each thing I do to you is fully good
You live under My smile-not a frown

Please don't doubt My love for you
For it never, ever ends
It washes over you each new day
For you, from Heaven, it I send

I have a book that holds Your story
It's pages tell a plan
But I've left many blanks within-
You'll have to choose if you listen and follow;
Me, the Son of Man."

-by Maddi


"Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured: And all your adversaries, every one of them shall go into captivity; Those who plunder shall become plunder, And all those who prey upon you I will make a prey. For I will restore health to you, and heal you of your wounds," says the Lord, "and they shall no longer call you an outcast." [jer 30.16-17]


"The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be DEFEATED before your face; they shall come at you one way and flee from you in seven ways." [duet 28.7]


"No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against you in judgement you shall condemn. This is your heritage as a servant of the Lord." [isa 54.17]


Be blessed!
love maddi

This is MY King!

I read this a few years ago when I was doing my certificates in Bible.
That is MY King. Hallelujah.

He is:
the King of the Jews,
the King of Israel,
the King of all the Ages,
the King of Heaven, the King of Glory,
the King of Kings; and Lord of Lords.

Do you know Him? Do you really?

A prophet before Moses,
A priest after Melchizidek,
A champion like Joshua,
An offering in place for Isaac,
A King from the line of David,
A wise counselor above Solomon,
A beloved/rejected/exalted son like Joseph-

And yet far more...

The Heavens declare His glory...
and the firmament shows His handiwork.
He who is,
who was,
and who always will be;
The First and the Last
He is the Alpha and Omega,
the Aleph and the Tau,
the A and the Z;
He is the first fruits of them that slept.

He is the "I AM that I AM"
The voice of the Burning Bush!
-the Captain of the Lord's Host
-the Conqueror of Jericho

He is enduringly strong;
-entirely sincere
-eternally steadfast

He is immortally graceful;
-imperially powerful
-impartially merciful

In Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
The very God of very God.
He is our Kinsman-Redeemer and He is our Avenger of Blood;
He is our City of Refuge;
Our Performing High Priest;
Our Personal Prophet,
Our Reigning King.

He is the loftiest idea in literature,
He's the highest personality in philosophy,
He's the fundamental doctrine of theology,
He's the Supreme Problem in "higher criticism"!
He's the Miracle of the Ages;
the superlative of everything good.

We are the beneficiaries of a Love Letter:
It was written in blood,
on a wooden cross
erected in Judea
2,000 years ago.

He was crucified on a cross of wood;
Yet He made the hill on which it stood.

By Him were all things made that were made;
without Him was not anything made that was made;
By Him all things are held together!

What held Him to that cross?
It wasn't the nails!
(At any time He could have declared, "I'm out of here!")
It was His love for you and me.

He was born of a woman
so that we could be born of God;
He humbled Himself
so that we could be lifted up;
He became a servant
so that we could be made co-heirs;
He suffered rejection
so that we could become His friends;
He denied Himself
so that we could freely receive all things;
He gave Himself
so that He could bless us in every way.

He is available to the tempted and tried;
He blesses the young;
He cleanses the lepers;
He delivers the captives;
He discharges the debtors;
He forgives the sinners;
He franchises the meek;
He guards the besieged;
He heals the sick;
He provides strength for the weak;
He regards the aged;
He rewards the diligent;
He serves the unfortunate;
He sympathizes and He saves!

His Offices are manifold;
His Reign is righteous;
His Promises are sure;
His Goodness is limitless;
His Light is matchless;
His Grace is sufficient;
His Love never changes;
His Mercy is everlasting;
His Word is enough;
His Yoke is easy and His burden is light!

He is indescribable;
He is incomprehensible;
He is irresistible;
He is invincible!

The Heaven of heavens contain Him;
Man cannot explain Him,
the Pharisees couldn't stand Him and they learned they couldn't stop Him;
Pilate couldn't find any fault in Him;
the witnesses couldn't agree against Him.

Herod couldn't kill Him
death couldn't handle Him
the grave couldn't hold Him!

He has always been and He always will be;
He had no predecessor and will have no successor;
You can't impeach Him and He isn't going to resign!

His Name is above every other name;
That at the Name of Yeshua
Every knee shall bow
Every tongue shall confess
That Jesus Christ is Lord!
His is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory... for ever, and ever. Amen!

And that doesn't even begin to describe Him.
My God is great! All glory to Him forever.

love and blessings,
maddi

Times of Worship

I felt like I should share some stuff that God spoke to me about during a few worship times. I'll write it exactly as I recieved it...

Tonight I was at Realife at Grace and I was processing the name "Reallife" and started thinking about it and I felt God telling me this..:

"The reality of life isn't the day to day we are so familiar with. It's not the brokeness of our hearts & relationships ~ the reality is Jesus. When we look at Him we will see what is the realness of life- what is actual reality. Jesus. Our Righteousness. He is our reality. What we hold close and dear as valued to us is not the reality of what is most precious ~ Jesus is. The problems we deal with are not the reality of what God has for us ~ Jesus is. Jesus- His truth; His love, is reality. When all else fades and earth turns to dust, none of our former reality remains. Just Jesus- our God and Saviour~ that is the true reality, the reality that is eternal."

I was at Grace a few weeks ago and someone said something. It might have been Ps David, but I think it was someone during worsip- but anyway, the person said, "Do YOU dare to be the one to stand out in the crowd?"-challenging us to stand for God with all that we are... and God gave me this poem from it:

Stand

Set yourself apart Child
Go against the flow-
Don't be overrun by men
But STAND and be My own

It may not be the easiest-
Might not gain you friends,
You could become the the brunt of joke
Maybe you'll be slammed

But, for such a little price
Can't you stand with pride,
And shout My Name to all the earth?
Do not be ashamed.

Will you choose to honour Me
Will you proclaim that you're My Child?
Do you dare to be the one
Thats different from the crowd....

-by maddi

Yup. And a few weeks back from there I visited the Celebration Centre and God just began speaking to me during worship and so I started writing and God just took hold of my pen and yeh.... :

You took the heavens

And brought it to earth
You took Your glorious Son
And placed Him in me

I am not bound,
Am not restricted.
Grace flows from my soul-
You came to earth
Freed and redeemed me-
Made me all Your own

You took us sinners
Gave us a chance-
You took the broken
Restored them to be whole

All that I have
Every small part
Be Yours alone- all Yours

Your kingdom is here
Ready to explode-
Ready to make Your Name known

Your Blood covers all sin
Expells the destruction
Brings freedom unknown to men

Over and over and over again
You hold me and tell me I'm Yours.

Yeh. Lots of random stuff but I felt like God wanted me to share it with you's.

If anyone is thirsty, let them go to God and drink...
Go and be filled with the power of God and drink in His living water.

Peace be with you.
Blessings,
maddi

Be released!

Come break the chains,
The chains that hinder love.
All that remains of yester year.
Come break the chains,
The chains that pull me down.
Come break the chains and draw me near.

Let Your fire burn consuming me,
Let Your jealous flame
Come take away everything!
Let Your fire burn consuming me,
Let Your jealous flame
Come write Your name upon my heart,
Until all that remains
Is the Light of Your countenance
And I will be satisfied when I awaken
As a lover of You!

-Come Break the Chains, by Misty Edwards


I so desperately want more of God- I want an infilling of His Spirit, I want to be flooded with His love. I want Him to overwhelm me and burn away everything that is not of Him; I want to be holy like He is holy. I so desperately want to be changed into His image, to be one with God. I want there to be nothing but God in my life, to have nothing hindering me- for God to be all I desire. I feel a passion inside me, arising, growing stronger day by day. You know how lions roar and the people tremble and cower in fear? I'm gonna be like that- I gonna be like the lion, that when I open my mouth to speak the darkness trembles, and the minions of Satan flee because they feel and hear Jesus coming from me so undeniably, that they can't do anything but melt in His presence.

I thought I lost, but actually I won
For by His blood we all have overcome
There is no failure, our God can never loose
And that same power, it now belongs to you

Now it’s time to celebrate all banners raised
(I’ve got the VICTORY, the VICTORY)
Because the devil is defeated and God be praised
(I’ve got the VICTORY, the VICTORY)
Every situation I face, I win
(I’ve got the VICTORY, the VICTORY)
And everything works for my good in the end
(I’ve got the VICTORY, the VICTORY)

I am so tired of seeing people- me, my friends, christians(!) living in defeat. ARGH!
We have the power in Jesus- through His name and His blood, yet we still live as if we don't! We stay sitting in the hands of satan just watching the world go by- hating our lives and what they have become. Yet we don't do anything about it! GRRR! We have to get off our butts and walk- step by step, as slow as it might be, into the victory Jesus has won for us. What a waste of life if we live in fear the rest of our lives. We gotta arise and step into our destinys, gotta shake the world of our shoulders and stand STRONG. IN JESUS! Arise and SHINE- God has anointed us to preach GOOD news to the poor, to HEAL the brokenhearted, to proclaim FREEDOM to the captives, and the OPENING of prison to those who are bound. But how can we do that when WE are *STILL* bound and living in captivity and brokeness ourselves?

In Jesus Name be released.

May you begin to realize the blessings God has given you and start to discover them in a whole new way.

love in Jesus,
maddi

God Speak

I went to the beach last night to spend time alone with God, and as I was reading my bible He started speaking to me through the words... I felt I should share what He told me.

It was in Ezekiel and He was pointing out different bits of verses and telling me a story along with them. So here goes:


Ezekiel 34

(4)"The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost..."

(6)"...My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no-one was seeking or searching for them."

(11)"...So I myself will search for My sheep and seek them out."

(12)"...I will seek out my sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day."

(13)"I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick..."

(22)"...I will save My flock, and they shall no longer be a prey..."

(25)"I will make a covenant of peace with them..."

(26)"I will make them and I will make the places all around My hill to be a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing."

(27)"...They shall I know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them."

(28)"And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid."

(31)" "You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am you God," says the Lord God."

God told me that those of us Christians who are freer and healed and more victorious are the shepherds (the people in verse 4 who weren't seeking etc). We have been slack, and we haven't been reaching out to our broken and defeated family (Christians) the way God intended. And we've been shocking at extending God to those yet to know Him. So God is doing it for us, going out and redeeming the people on His own without our participation. But He wants to use us. He wants to reach to the hurting, broken, captive, lost, and fearful THROUGH US. He wants us to be His vessels. And we are the ones missing out on the blessing of being used by God in a mighty way. Yeh. So lets step up, and bring glory to the heart of God.


After that God kept giving me words through things that were right in front of me in the natural.
Ok... First one:

-God showed me this piece of driftwood that was sitting on the sand just above the waterline. It just sits there on the beach, in the same place unless the ocean reaches it and picks it up...Unlike the driftwood, WE HAVE LEGS! So stand up, prepare to be soaked by the Holy Spirit and impacted in ways we couldn't imagine, and RUN as hard and as fast as we can into the River of God- the flow of life-giving water!

- God showed me the people on the pier. They walk as far as it goes, then stand there for awhile and turn and walk away. As Christians we shouldn't do that. Don't be walking to the edge of what you know in (and of) God and just turn and walk away. Go off the foreseeable edge of what you know and jump into the river of God! Let it flow over your head- don't fight it, just surrender and let the Spirit of God take you wherever He likes.

- God showed me a boat, and it had this pipe going over its side, deep into the ocean. We gotta be like that. Going *deep* into God. And we shouldn't stop when we think we've reached the end. There is NO END of God. You can never reach His limits, becuase they don't exist- so keep pushing on and on and on and on! Past the understandable and "logical", into the incomprehensible.

- God showed me a bird pecking at the crumbs in the sand, but there was a whole loaf of bread sitting a few steps away. We are like that bird. We know there is a huge extent of tools, blessings, gifts, and promises that God has given us; but instead of utilizing them, we turn our noses up at them and keep fluffing around with the selected few we know well. DON'T!! Stop being comfortable! God has given you butt-loads of awesomeness to tap into. So blimmin' use them!

Yeh. That was to myself as much as it was to anyone else.

May God supply all your needs according to His riches in glory- and may He- the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always, and in every way.

Grow in wisdom and in favour with God and men,
Love maddi

Warring Princess

So this is my blog. I decided that since I love writing i should make one. I used to have a xanga back in the day, but all the stuff on that is depressing. And as that stuff is a thing of my past I thought I would start again :). Anyhoo, Nathan's one reminded me that I keep forgetting to make one, so I finally did it. Yup.

The title comes from a poem God gave me last night. Satan was trying to pull me down and take me back to where I came from- and I was giving in. So I text like a billion people to pray for me, and like 10 minutes later God came hard out. And then He gave me a picture... the picture was of me and I was dressed in white like a bride, I was sitting on the floor and there was evil and terror all around me, and a sword was by my side, but I was just sitting still, captured by fear, too scared to move. Then something overcame me and I picked up the huge big sword that was next to me and I stood up, and with a cry I started swinging it at the evil things surrounding me and there was the Blood of Jesus flowing down the sword and it was protecting me and helping me to destroy the minions of Satan that were out to destroy me. That was hearty cool. It was like WOOOAHHH God. Chur, keep it coming Jesus. And then He gave me a poem with it. It goes like this:

Warring Princess

Freedom in its entirety eludes me
Flitters away from my grasp
Though tightly I held it within me
It again has escaped from my heart

But I will not give in yet
Satan you won't win this war
Freedom is mine for the taking
And so NOW I am taking it back!

For I am a Warrior Princess
Clothed in the glory of God
And as Jesus' blood runs down my sword
I will wield it and render you dead

Victory is mine in Christ Jesus
As a conqueror I will stand firm
I am a jewel in the crown of my King
A jewel He protects with His life

The shofar of triumph I blow o'er this place
Demons be gone in Jesus' Name
Satan don't set your feet near me
For in greater defeat you WILL land.

-by maddi

Yup. As I wrote it, passion and hope and grrr-ness at satan kept rising in me and I fought. And then it was peace as I won in Jesus, and victory was restored. I am time and again amazed at the splendor of God in the way that He comes through and defeats the enemy- showing His power and ultimate supremacy over all things. God rocks. All glory goes to Him.
Amen.

Standing by grace,
maddi

note: please do not use my poems without asking me first, thanks :)