The High Calling of God

Revelation 5:10: "And have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth." As Daughters of the King, sometimes we get knocked down, blind sided by the enemy and land in the dirt. I know I do!   This is applicable to you men also. I am just speaking from my perspective as a Daughter of King Jesus. We get distracted by the things that are going on all around us, things we can not change on our own. Worries and anxieties plague our thinking. At times it is like what they call “the fog of war”.   There is so much going on around and to us, that we lose sight of the path that we are to be walking and become discouraged, disappointed and we end up spitting dust out of our mouths. But what we need to do when this happens, and it does happen- we need to brush off our royal robes, readjust our lovely tiaras and pick up our scepter and begin walking again in that authority and power that has been invested in us by our Father King! If we have any kind of re

  Psalm 139: 113-14: “For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me (together) in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; …” Ephesians 2:10: “For we are His workmanship (His own master work, a work of art), created in Christ Jesus…” (Amplified Version)   These verses have given me such hope and comfort over the years, but I think in the past couple years- even more so. Since I passed the 70 mark this year, it is becoming quite evident how the years take a toll on a body. It takes me much longer to perform tasks that I used to just whip through.   Now, I find I have to space my daily tasks out so as not to expend all the strength I have in one swoop. I get up in the morning, and I think of one task I have to perform that day. And I say to myself: "If this is the only thing that gets done today, I have had a good day. "   Then after that one is completed, I tackle the next job while I say to myself: "If I onl

  Keith and I were talking recently about how it will be 23 years this fall since God brought us  to Columbus, Ohio for vacation on our way to Indianapolis, or so we thought.   But through a process of events we soon realized that God was leading us here. In September of that year we came back over to “spy out the land”.   After a few days we returned to PA with Keith having 5-6 job offers here in Columbus.   We continued to receive conformation that it was Columbus that God was directing us to. In October of that year, Keith moved out here with a lot of our belongings in an old van that I prayed all night long would reach its’ destination. I stayed in PA to finish up some things for my job and he came back for me and the rest of our belongings a few weeks later.   We lived for about a year with his mom and dad (poor mom, dad and Mac- their dog).  As we searched the city for a place of our own, God lead us to buy our first home in September 1999. This was a miracle from God since Ke

  From the very first moment we are born again through the blood of Jesus Christ and every day thereafter, it is a journey of grace. As I look back at my almost 50 years of serving the Lord, I can say it has been a journey in His grace. I haven‘t always made the right choices. I have done some unwise things at times, but as I obeyed the Spirit’s leading, I was lead back to the right path. As I enter the next season of my life, many things are becoming apparent.  One is that I can't physically do all the things that I did when this body was younger.  Entering the retirement years I think about what the future holds for my husband and myself.  We have no children to look after us in our "golden" years.  There is no one to come up and under-gird us as we continue the aging process. There are so many uncertainties with health care, having enough life insurance and just the day to day living expenses.  These things can weigh us down if we let them.  I have to admit

  Psalms 46:10: Be still and know- cease striving to “be” something, someone. Stop trying to make it come to pass. Allow God to do the work.   The still small voice, the whisper, the inward whisper into the deep crevices of our hearts- that’s where God speaks.   All clamor, anxiousness, fretting must be hushed.  Our spirits must find and then cultivate that inward calmness, that surrendering of our wills, bowing down to the Great Orchestrater and Conductor of our life.  When we are full of voices, clamor, opinions of the world around us, we won’t discern that still small whisper, the gentle breeze, the hushed sound of our Creator and Redeemer.   Be still and know-  Acknowledge and surrender to Him.   Let the peace of God settle deep down into your spirit.   ~Donna

  Rev. 2:1-5 4-5 “4 But I have this against you: you have abandoned the passionate love you had for me at the beginning. 5 Think about how far you have fallen! Repent and do the works of love you did at first. I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place of influence if you do not repent.” (The Passion Translation) Recently the Lord has been dealing with me about Philippians 3:13-14 - forgetting those things behind and taking hold of what is ahead- pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus. But, often, before we can move forward, we must first step back a little. Many times, we need to get back to the basics. We need to get back to the Root, the Source- Jesus Christ. The above verse states that the Church had abandoned their passionate love for Christ. Other versions render it- “your first love.” The Amplified states it as “you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me.” I love the classics, like Tozer, Bounds, Murray, F

Recently the Lord has reminded me of the verse Philippines 3:12-15.  I like how the Passion Translation puts this: "I admit that I haven't yet acquired the absolute fullness that I'm pursuing, but I run with passion into his abundance so that I may reach the purpose that Jesus Christ has called me to fulfill and wants me to discover. I don't depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead. I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus. So let all who are fully mature have this same passion, and if anyone is not yet gripped by these desires, God will reveal it to them." 2020 was a challenging year to say the least. In one way or another our lives may have been rearranged or even devastated. You may have lost your means of income and your world was turned upside down in some wa