Love Never Fails.

If you have been a lover in the world, you would scoff at this title. I myself have done it. I have heard it all around: Love never fails? Tell that to the man who last failed me. Tell that to my mother or my father who left me. 


Here are some lyrics from a song I absolutely love. It so completely captures God's heart and His everlasting unfailing love. 


Your love never fails
It never gives up
It never runs out on me
(Brian Johnson)


His love never fails...it never gives up...it never runs out. Even when we are faithless, He is faithful.
God is love. Love never fails. God will never fail you. EVER. "I will never leave you, nor forsake you." (Hebrews 13:5) 


Here are some additional lyrics to the same song by Brian Johnson.


You are the life to my heart and my soul
You are the light to the darkness around me


I have such a problem when people place all of their devotion and love on one person and make them their entire life. Not such a problem, but I feel heartbreak, because it won't last. Even if they are married for 50 years, when one of them dies, they don't know what to do with their life. 


I've said it before (Maybe not on here...I know I've said it to several people) but I will love God more than I love even my husband.(And I hope he will do the same) That doesn't mean I won't put any value on my husband...I will love him like crazy! I'm a passionate person. BUT...I refuse to put man in my God spot; He's not just #1, He is everything. And when I put my everything onto Jesus Christ, my heart will never be broken...because His love never fails. 


I've seen so much heartache and heartbreak, simply because when a girl gets a new guy, they completely forget about God's love or they put so much into a relationship and then it falls apart. I hate it; it completely breaks my heart. He is the life to my heart and my soul. He gives it life, and He will never fail me.


<3 Rachel Mae

Be passionate

I am a passionate person. Unfortunately, I don't always seem that way.
But I love...to love! Truly, who doesn't? It's in our very nature. We were made in the image of God, who IS love. I love being passionate for things that make such a difference and an impact on my life.

And I got to thinking...my life would be so incredibly empty if I was so wholly complacent and dispassionate. If I didn't have my love of a lifetime molding my heart every single day to make my heart beat in unison with His passions...I would be dead. I might be living this life, but I wouldn't be living.

How do people get to be without passion and a purpose in life? Even working at Kohls, though it isn't my dream job, I am working towards my passion...I'm actually in my passion. People. I love love LOVE people. And I'm loving them while I'm working at Kohls. My job is my passion. My family is my passion. My entire being moves with passion every single day, in response to a lovers call from my Jesus.

If you don't have a passion...Jesus is a good place to start. He will ignite you and make you feel like you're ALIVE. I just had an awesome conversation with my friend, Melissa, and during that conversation, (We both have the same passion for God, music, etc) God was just so totally getting us incredibly excited and happy for the future. This is what is is to be passionate. And even on your worst days, you have something to work towards.

BE PASSIONATE. It's in your DNA, it's something God put inside of you!

Outrageous Love

You know how, sometimes, you can't go to sleep at night and you have no idea why?

I don't have that problem. Well, at least the not knowing why part. I've learned very well that God is trying to show me something or speak to me about something. I don't even try to go to sleep. This blog may just be the ramblings of an insomniac to some, but to me, it's revelation. I have to write these things out in order to kinda make sense of things. 

There's been a passion on my heart for...as long as I've gone to public school, at least, about proclaiming freedom for the captives. My heart absolutely breaks when I see people involved in situations that it seems like they cannot get out of. And we think "well, what can we do? We're powerless."Shut that door. We are NOT powerless. Luke 4:18: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed."

He has anointed us. Okay, call me stupid, but I don't exactly think that we're powerless when the Lord Jesus Christ has anointed me to preach the good news and sent me to proclaim freedom! 

Another word I love: Proclaim. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners. Not meekly ask satan for the keys to their shackles. Nah son, we go in there and take what is rightfully ours: FREEDOM. 

Guys, this is what I'm called to do. Truthfully, it's what we're all called to do, whether we work at a grocery store, or walk down a street...we're proclaiming freedom for our cities, our states, our nation. There is so much power in words and when we say "Satan...you can't have my nation" he backs off. 

Now. To switch things up a little...

On an opposite note, the church has been so obsessed with power, power, power. And we've been forgetting to love. That is one thing that satan cannot take ahold of. When we love, love, love like Jesus did when he was on this earth...that is one weapon that the enemy cannot stand. When we start truly loving and showing Christ's love to others...that is our ultimate weapon. 

We were meant to live for so much more than this stereotyped brand of Christianity that people see as powerless and unloving. We were meant to live as sons and daughters of the most high and to love outrageously! 

We were meant to live our lives more passionately than just getting up every morning just to pass the day by, one more day, with the mindset "I just wanna get to heaven. I'm sick of this earth." Jeez, way to be optimistic. No, I want to leave my mark on this earth! I don't want to go to heaven yet, because Jesus is not done with what he's doing in me on this earth! LIVE PASSIONATELY, every single day!

If we're not living life fully, outrageously loving, and passionately pursuing God, then...what are we doing?

LOVE OUTRAGEOUSLY. PROCLAIM FREEDOM. LIVE PASSIONATELY.

Jesus didn't come with an agenda.
He came with love.
He didn't come with an agenda to get saved.
he came with the knowledge that these people would be changed forever if they were healed of their pain, their scars, their physical barriers.

We, as Christians, have this ridiculous mindset that we HAVE to get this person saved TODAY.
Nah son. That's not the way it goes.
Just a seed is planted from a word...or healing.

Just plant the seed. Someone else will reap it.

Don't go out there with an agenda. Go out there full of love and joy and excitement. :)

Restless

I was sitting, watching a movie.

Restlessness came upon me. A desperate love for Jesus came over me. And I suddenly wasn't satisfied anymore with the funny comments and witty replies the characters were saying on the big screen TV. I became restless to experience more than a mundane life. And I by far do not live a mundane life. 


You say "well, Sunday was just yesterday. You shouldn't be restless, you should be fulfilled." Well I'm not. And guess what? Worship isn't only for Sundays. Sundays worship was incredible, like I said. Why can't I experience that everyday? Why not? I want to.


Turning up the Kim Walker/Jesus Culture and I'm just going to worship him extravagantly, right here in my basement, with my nephew. I want to dance with my Jesus today, hold onto Him, and know His love for me is neverending.


The mundane, mediocre tasks I go through everyday will become extraordinary when I worship Him and rest in His presence.

Normal worship

Worship was intense today. God totally came and wrecked me. It was incredible and everything just broke as I stood in the gap for Princeton to lift God high, to shine with His light and glory and give praise to Him in everything.

This is what I'm passionate about. For cities to proclaim Jesus Christ as the God of their city. For families to be mended, for depression to break, for suicides to cease to exist, for love to invade every dark part of this country, of this world, and chase the darkness away. 

Worship can do so much. It is not just singing words and sounding pretty. We have the ability, through worship, to break depression, for families to be made whole again. When true worship from the heart comes, something is released in the Spirit that mends brokenness and creates new life. It opens hearts up to let God just plant His love inside and love on you. 

You can worship and lift God high in everything you do, whether it's washing the dishes, or checking people out at Kohls, or extravagantly dancing and worshiping him wherever.

In everything we do, we worship him. 

Be lifted High

Be lifted high

for your glory, be lifted high. 

We will be the generation

Calling down the reign of heaven

We will join the anthem singing

Be lifted High

(Brian Johnson, "Be lifted high")

WE WILL BE THE GENERATION, CALLING DOWN THE REIGN OF HEAVEN.

This is our destiny. The previous generations ceiling will be our floor. 

<3 

Chronicles

I'm lying in bed at 5:30 A.M., wondering why I cannot sleep. I went to bed at 12:30...I think I should be tired. Usually when this happens, God has something planned. It's happened before and I kinda trust Him. :)


So I decide to read my Bible and I feel like I'm supposed to read about David. I decided I'm going to read Psalms. (Despite my being a PK, I'm AWFUL at knowing where stuff is that include certain people...so I always turn to Psalms.) Well, I open my Bible, and there's 1 Chronicles 27. Has anyone read Chronicles? When I've read it before, I was bored outta my mind. But for some reason I decided to read it. Yeah. It's a list of the officers of Davids army and who did what for Davids kingdom. That got me fascinated. I mean, I know there's a lot in the Bible about David, but this made me smile. So I read further. I read into Chapter 28---I was actually fascinated by 1 Chronicles...that never happens. ;-)


I don't know why, but this passage just struck my heart. Leading up to it, David is talking to all of his officials and officers in his kingdom. He's saying how, despite him spilling blood and not being able to build a house for God (for the ark of the covenant), God chose his family to rule over all of Israel forever. From the house of Judah, he chose Davids family, and from his fathers son, God chose David. And from Davids sons, God has chosen Solomon to sit on throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. 


Mmkay. Here are the verses that just...I dunno...it just made sense to me. 


"Solomon your son is the one who will build my house and my courts for I have chosen him to be my son and I will be his father. I will establish his kingdom forever if he is unswerving in carrying out my commands and laws, as is being done at this time. 


 So now I charge you in the sight of all Israel and in the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God: Be careful to follow all the commands of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever.


And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart, and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you."


(1 Chronicles 28: 6-9) 


If you got lost during that, please read it again. Especially the italicized and bolded. I have no idea why this just struck my heart. 


Maybe it's because I feel like it's a promise from God for my family. For my siblings. My dad is a godly man. He taught us six kids so much about God. And...Jesus is the God of my father, yes. I feel like God is saying that he's going to become so much more real to my siblings and become their God instead of our fathers God. My siblings, I love them to death. They know about God's love...about God's intimacy with His children...they've been taught their entire lives. I feel like God is going to make it more real to them than ever before and grab ahold of them. They just need to seek him. 


I love little nuggets of truth and awesomeness to be found in places you didn't expect. I definitely did not expect to be inspired..and given hope from 1 Chronicles. 


The next step is praying this forth. Praying that my family does grab ahold of Jesus and never lets go. That we will serve him will wholehearted devotion and a willing mind. Not just a willing mind. A mind and heart that longs to serve Him, that is lovesick when we're not in His presence. And that we will never have to become lovesick, because we never leave his presence. God has a destiny for my family, and it is GREAT. And wonderful. and perfect. And according to His purpose. 


God, encounter my family. Give them encounters with you.


Encounter this generation


Encounter this country!


AMEN.