God's Hope
Shelleymae Bartlett
 

An Exhortation to Love
Shelleymae Bartlett
 

 

The Church has done a great injustice to the body of Christ and to all who have fallen by the wayside. By teaching, that we only need to resolve our sins by fighting and resisting the things that have held us captive in shame.

When we try to overcome sin on our own, it only causes us to fall even further away from our intended destiny, our long term loving, very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. When people find that they alone cannot overcome their sins that hold them captive, it only pushes them further into the darkness in such shame of failure, that they will not even try to look to the light because it exposes what they already know and feel.

It is one thing to feel Guilty for something one does wrong, but to feel shame in thinking that you are a mistake is another thing altogether!! Shame on those of us, who think somehow we have arrived!!!!

Where is the salt that flavors/that preserves? Is it not yet known that to much salt in the river only cause things to die? And where is HIS loving light that shines? The inviting cottage in the dark creepy forest, that lights up the world around it with "It's all right now, please come in, your home and safe."

Has the reflection off your own armor blinded you with pride so that you cannot see past your own self? When the church tells us from a religious stand point that, all we have to do is "try to be good" Then we again are trying to save ourselves and are saying that what Christ has done for us was in vain. We must repent!!!!

Everything and anything that we have done or try to do on our own without His request and approval will also be put through the test of fire and will burn as anything else that would burn. Anything that has not been first conceived in faith will eventually become ashes. Hence dust and back to the Earth again.

Our faith Always depends on something higher then ourselves in knowing that we cannot accomplish on our own the very thing we are needing our faith for!!! Our faith is the source that wills the hand to plant the seed. Our faith is the substance and assurance that whatever we are planting will come to be!!!

We must know what we are planting!!!! For we and others will reap what we sow!!!! We are made in the likeness/the image of God and it is as any good father that His "sons/daughters" take after Him. So just as our Heavenly Father spoke life into existence ... so must we and that is the Word of God!!!!

Life and death are in the tongue and we must plant seeds that will produce life!!! Adam and Eve walked one on one with God. They had a wonderful fellowship with Him in both the spiritual and natural. They had an awesome love relationship until sin entered into their world.

When sin entered their hearts, it was then that they lost their communion in the spirit life with our Heavenly Father. It was their own free will that chose to sin that caused their spirit man to die.

We will never understand fully the love or sorrow He must have felt, until we enter into the true relationship with Him in which we were called. And we can only enter into this relationship through our faith and trust in Him.

When Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."(John 10:10) He is saying... I came to give you back that Spirit life that you once had stolen from you.

WE are the sheep and He is the Good Shepherd. He loved us so much that He laid His life down for us to become that door for us to walk through and have eternal life and fellowship with Him again. (John 10)

In His tenderness, compassion, His great love, and richness in mercy, He invested in us, even while we were dead in our sins, He quickened us together in Christ,(Eph.2) He breathed life, His life into us that we might live again.(Gen.2:7; John:20:22; Ez.37:5)

For it by Grace that we are saved through faith; and not of ourselves: it is a gift of God: not of works lest any man should boast.(Eph.2:8) Whenever God goes to move on our behalf it will always be something only God can do.

When we are not in it anymore, and step out in faith, in obedience and trust that His Word is all the platform we need in which to stand. It is then and then alone that He will reveal Himself to us and we will know, because we know, because we know in our knower, that He is the One and the only One who provided.

In return, we get to know Him in a deeper way, each time we step out in faith and trust Him, And He gets all the Glory!!!

Our lives should reflect the Father's love towards others, as the Father through His Son reflected His love towards us. Our light should be illuminated in every area of our life so Jesus Christ can be seen within!!! He is the True Light!!!

We should be a fruitful tree that produces Love, Joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and self-control.(Gal.5:22-23)

A tree that produces because it is vitally connected to the source.(John15) A tree that people can come to and find rest in our shade and healing in our leaves.( Ps.1, Jer.17, Ez.47,Rev.22)

As Jesus is the Word, The Living Word, we need to be a reflection of all that He is. How can people know Him, really know Him if we are standing in the way?? When we lay our lives down and become the living sacrifices, living examples, that He has called us to be in Romans 12...

By stepping out in faith, standing on all the promises of His Word being true, Then we will arise and shine for the Glory of the Lord will rise upon us and the Glory will be seen on us and the people will come to His marvelous Light, and be nursed at our sides and be healed and saved. (Is.60)

"My word shall be that which goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where to I send it. For the Glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, you shall go out with Joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Yes the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst. I the Lord do hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open the rivers in the high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittim tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine tree, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary: and I will make the place of my feet glorious, that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that I the Lord have done this.

He that hath an ear, let him hear!

May His love and light shine ever so brightly, great blessings in and through your lives!

Your Sister and Fellow Servant In the Lord,
Shelleymae Bartlett
 

 

God's Hope
Shelleymae Bartlett
 

 

God says He is closest to those who are hurting. When we can Praise God in the midst of a trial. He says He inhabits the praises of His people. When we are in His presence we cannot remain the same! In His presence there is fullness of Joy!!! Not only our Joy but His Joy!!! The Joy of the Lord is our Strength!!!

Let us live our lives with the focus of eternity . by walking in the Spirit. In walking in the flesh, we think of the of the earthly things of the here & now. Walking in our own understanding our carnal mind, we take our eyes of the Mark we stumble & fall.& sometimes head down a road that is full of pain. Pain that He never intended for us to feel & affect those around us with.

In walking in our flesh in the here & now, & not in the Spirit with the focus of Eternity, we are always living in the past!!!!

Who is He that commanded the Light to shine out of darkness. a Light so bright & yet the darkness comprehended it not?

Who is He that shines in our hearts, a Great Treasure in earthen vessels?

Who is He that created thee. who is He that formed thee in thy mothers womb?

You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servants whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, & understand that I am He: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me.

I, even I, am the Lord; & beside me there is no savior.

I am your Redeemer the Everlasting Father.

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel.

I am your King.

It is I who shines in your hearts.

It is I who gives the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of who I am in the face of Jesus Christ. Even through you. Each trial you endure, each suffering you work through, the veil of the heart is removed, layer upon layer until it is taken away. From Glory to Glory changed into My Image so people can see Me. Fear not for I have redeemed you, I have called you, called you by name; You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; & through the rivers, they will not overflow you:

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you. FOR I, AM, YOUR GOD the HOLY ONE of ISRAEL, thy SAVIOR.

Walk in the Light as I. Am in the Light . Keep your eyes on Me alone.

Rest in Me, Nest in Me, and Surely you will be Blessed in Me.

Humbly submitted With love in Him,
(\O/)o Shelleymae Bartlett
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