I take my heart and hold it in my hand, I raise it up and make my stand. I give it to you, I give all my heart and love to you.
Create The Atmosphere You Want Surrounding You
Create The Atmosphere You Want Surrounding You
What do you do If someone is trying their best to treat you horribly? Why not return it with the environment you want yourself surrounded in.
I personally want to be in the atmosphere of love every second of the day! I want Love all around me. I want the very presence of Love with me, in me, and filling me to a constant overflow into every other area of my life. How about you?
If you want a humble, respectful and honoring environment to surround you and envelope you…then you need to be humble, respectful and honoring around everyone you are with.
If that is what you want then you need to create that atmosphere by loving, honoring, or respecting others that same way, unconditionally, in every situation.
Create the atmosphere you want surrounding you.
Get this principle working in your life as soon as possible. Practice it every day…living it out… through the mud and on up above the Rocky Mountains. You will see a magnificent change in your life. You have to walk this out every second of the day, at work, at church, at the store, whether your talking over a stout or hiking Spencer’s Butte with friends. …anytime your with people…live this out and your life will be surrounded by that atmosphere and those that want that kind of atmosphere too. Wherever you are, live out the atmosphere you want your life engulfed in.
So one might ask themselves… Do I want to be known as a person of love? Do I want the kind of relationship with my Lover that I have seen only in a handful of people, in my entire life? Do I want the same kind of intimacy that King David had with God, the nakedness of nothing hidden in his heart? Do you want that intimate loving relationship with God too? Love others with that very love you want wrapped in…like a warm and cozy blanket.
If Love really is the atmosphere I want myself surrounded in, then I have to treat people with love…no matter how I feel about how I am being treated. You have to treat people the way you want to be treated. This kind of love is not dependent on being loved in return!
Let the fruit (or atmosphere) show by planting seeds of the fruit trees (or atmospheres) that you want surrounding you. You will soon have fruit all around you.
Create the environment you want surrounding you.
Waiting On God
I pray to God —my life a prayer— and wait for what he’ll say and do. My life’s on the line before God, my Lord, waiting and watching till morning, waiting and watching till morning. (Psalm 130:5, 6)
Give of yourself:This is how you win
Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for? (Mark 8:34-37 MSG)
Fling Wide
Fling Wide
by Misty Edwards
I love how He designs the seasons to draw us closer…
Awake, awake, O north wind
Awake, awake, O south wind; blow over me.
Come, O winds of testing
Come, winds of refreshing; blow over me.
Fling wide the door to my soul, open up the door to my heart
Have your way, have your way, have your way, yeah
I won’t be afraid; I will face the wind
I won’t be afraid; I’ll embrace the flame.
Take me through the fire, take me through the rain.
Take me through the testing, I’ll do anything.
Test me, try me, prove me, refine me like the gold, like the gold
Fling wide the door to my soul, open up the door to my heart!!
And I Thought…
by Heath McConnell
For you are my lover and I want you to fill the inside if me…fill me with you until I can’t contain the overflow.
I FLING WIDE OPEN THE DOORS TO ALL I AM!!!
You made me, you made all I see.
You made the way the clouds move and have their way.
You made this forest different from that forest.
You made this tree different than that tree.
You made that son more beautiful to me than anything on this earth.
So, my God… Come and change all that is me…
I open up….to you…
You see us as gold…purest gold
The Patina…you want to remove…
I say come my lover…come…I’ll do anything.
I fling wide the doors of my being to you.
You are our God and our loveliest lover, you Jesus, you are the lover of us… Come inside of us…
Come as we fling wide the doors to everything inside of us…we are wide open for you.
I am yours!!!!!
Don’t point out the fruit; let the fruit point itself out!
Don’t point out the fruit; let the fruit point itself out!
Give everyone you meet a compliment
Give everyone you meet a compliment.
Look for any reason to compliment everyone you come into contact with. For some, this could end up being quite the challenge and for all, it is one way to begin to start teaching yourself to love people.
Love People!
The greatest thing is love! Strive for it. Make it your life quest to love others, as well as yourself (how can you love others if you don’t even “like” yourself?). Teach your children to love others. Be an example to your bride by loving her. live an example of loving people. Love people unconditionally, regardless of what you may get in return. Fall deeply and intimately in love with Love. Devote your life to Love…He loved you enough to die for you. Fill the “dash between the dates” with Love. Love People!
Humility
The enemy seems to be working really hard trying to destroy relationships right now.
Faith, hope and Love are very powerful weapons against the enemy, but I have found, for me, humility is like stabbing the enemy in both eyes and kicking him in the groin all at the same time. “Ultimate Kick”!
Plant deep roots
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord And whose trust is the Lord. “For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit. (Jeremiah 17:7, 8 NASB)