by Hazel Straub
Adhere to heaven’s thinking. “Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus.” (Hebrews 3:1)
Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/08/2013
Adhere To Heaven’s Thinking
Posted in Faith | Tags: Christ, Christianity, faith, Gods love, inspiration, Jesus, life, lifestyle, worship
Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/07/2013
Unique And One Of A Kind
Unfinished jigsaw puzzle screenshot – butterfly on flowers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
by Hazel Straub
You are unique, a one of kind person. No one is like you. Set apart for the Master’s use and ready to do his will. Your assignment is also special and if you don’t do it, something is lacking from the body of Yeshua.
When you’re not there, the deficiency is felt and breaks unity, as does missing pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece joins the others but the ones missing mar the puzzle. Each person is important and needed to make a beautiful picture of Yeshua, all conjoined in their designated places.Their differences in shape, color, and variety helps make each one part of a bigger picture.
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Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/06/2013
Season Of Sudden Blessings
by Hazel Straub
God often speaks to me through the weather. Winter weather lingered longer than normal this year, in Alaska. It was still snowing with temperatures in the 20’s F (-3.33 C) with less than two weeks left in May. A week later the snow that had accumulated, since October, was finally melting. The trees, however, showed no sign of their leaves springing forth anytime soon. However, the temperatures that had been cool, soared to the mid-80’s F and the trees that had appeared brown and lifeless, suddenly had leaves unfurling. By the third day, the green leaves did not look new but full and mature. In a short moment, we went from winter to summer.
When I asked the Lord, what this meant. He said, “Get ready for sudden change. This is the season of sudden blessings. The last season might have seemed difficult and long but suddenly everything changes. Delayed promises do not mean denial. Get ready to receive the sweetness of my goodness, suddenly.”
Posted in Faith | Tags: Alaska, blessing, Christianity, encouragement, faith, God, inspiration, life, lifestyle, Lord, Religion and Spirituality
Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/05/2013
Sin Weeds And God Our Gardener
by Hazel Straub
Weeds grow in the flower bed. Today I pulled a number of small baby weeds that had popped up overnight. Although the roots were longer than the weed, they were thin and came out easily. They did not have to time to establish themselves. But if I had waited to deal with them, they would have spread with deep intertwining roots and been more difficult to pull.
Holy Spirit began to speak about the weeds or sins that sprout in our hearts. When a thought first enters the mind, it is easy to take it captive through Christ Jesus and pull it, like a baby weed. However, if we entertain thoughts of pride in how we conduct our lives, think about our desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes, our sinful actions become firmly rooted, deep and twisted around our hearts. These deep-rooted sins grow because of our cultivating thought life and sin. We have to cry out to God our Gardener, in total surrender, relying on his help to overcome these entrenched sinful behaviors, with the roots destroyed.
1 John 2:16 (ABPE)
For everything that is in the world: the desire of the body and the lust of the eyes and the pride of temporal life, these are not from The Father but these are from the world.
Posted in Lifestyle | Tags: Christianity, encouragement, faith, Garden, God, healing, heart, Holy Spirit, inspiration, life, lifestyle, spiritual warfare, surrender
Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/04/2013
Change Your Mind’s Focus And Mature
by Hazel Straub
It all begins with the mind. As a man thinks, so is he. Whatever thoughts you dwell and meditate upon is what you become. Focus your mind on God, not your struggles and change will manifest from your inside to the outside of you.
Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
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Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/03/2013
God Didn’t Make Us Robots
by Hazel Straub
God doesn’t compel us to go against his will, he just makes us willing to go. Jonah resisted the call to preach repentance to his enemies. Although, he went the other direction, God provided a storm and then a great fish to swallow him. After three days in the fish, he was vomited onto dry ground and went where God instructed. It is easier to obey the first time. Is there something God has asked you to do? Don’t wait, do it today!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Christianity, encouragement, faith, God, inspiration, Jonah, life, lifestyle, Religion and Spirituality, trust
Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/02/2013
Total Impossibility Brings Breakthrough
by Hazel Straub
Boxed in and nowhere to turn? You cannot retreat due to your enemy nipping at your heels and a huge obstacle in front of you that is impossible. Praise God! What is impossible for man is easy for God. Only he can get you out of the dilemma. Total dependency, on God brings breakthrough.
Many times we cry to God, when things get difficult but depend upon ourselves, when things are going well. Sometimes we get into a situation where there is no way out but for God. The children of Israel had Pharoah and his army pursuing them and the Red Sea in front of them. Impossible? God had a plan and they went over on dry ground and then saw their enemy destroyed. God is the same today as yesterday and does not change. Look for a miraculous breakthrough, over the things that have defeated you in the past. Know that God delights in last-minute deliverance, from your enemy!
Posted in Faith | Tags: believe, Christianity, encouragement, faith, God, inspiration, life, lifestyle, Religion and Spirituality, trust, victorious
Posted by: Pure Glory | 06/01/2013
Covenant Relationships Attacked
by Apostle Gabriel Cross
Covenant Relationships are being attacked now. Fight for the ones that are valuable to you. Fight for the ones that are fighting for you. Fight to love and don’t fight to be right. There is a dimension of deliverance that only comes through “covenant relationship.”
Don’t allow toxic emotions, vain imaginations, past hurts, or the enemy to cheat you out of whom God has called you to. By all means, don’t hold onto anyone that Yahweh wants you to refrain from. It took the children of Israel, forty years around the same mountain to complete an eleven day journey. One of the reasons, is because Yahweh was trying to get certain people out of their spirit. You cannot take everyone with you. Some people are volatile, some are seasonal, and some are covenantal, it takes the wisdom of God to know the difference.
Trust me, you would rather for people to hate you for who you are than to love you for who you are not…Selah
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Posted by: Pure Glory | 05/31/2013
Fear And Comparison
by Apostle Gabriel Cross
Some people wear cloaks to cover up under because of fear and comparison. But, if they ever remove the cloak, they will conquer the fear and never compare…Selah
Posted in Lifestyle | Tags: anxiety, Christianity, Comparison, encouragement, faith, fear, healing, inspiration, life, lifestyle, relationship, Relationships, victorious
