REINHEIMER

Next Thing You Know…..by Matthew West

/ Kelly Savage / Leave a comment

I was sitting eating my breakfast this morning and as I do every morning, I was thanking the Lord through out the morning, here and there for various blessings that were popping up that I was thankful for. The Holy Spirit reminded me that I had prayed about something and the Lord answered that prayer pretty quickly and sometimes we just don’t seem to recognize the “smaller blessings”. We seem to focus on the things we don’t have or are still waiting on……but He does listen! He does answer! He does care! It may not always be the way we want it to be or He may require us to adjust, there is no doubt about that. I am definitely here to testify to that one! I have had to have many attitude adjustments along the way and still do. Sometimes, spiritually, I am sure he looks at me like a teenager who is just wanting her own way 🙂 🙂 🙂

What I found interesting in my little talk with the Holy Spirit this morning was the fact of the what would be consider small, insignificant prayers as some people would call them. I beg to differ!! This is exactly what this one was! It was a small request, nothing big and it was all about little ole Kelly. However, the Holy Spirit did indicate to me that my heart was right in this one, and that is BIG to our Holy God. The Bible has allot to say about our heart. One verse that came to my spirit with this was……

Jeremiah 17:10:
“God searches the heart and examines the mind to reward each person according to their conduct , according to what their deeds deserve.”

and Acts 1:24 where it states that the Lord knows everyones heart and Proverbs 21:2 states that the Lord weighs the Lord in the matter

Gods word is full of heart scriptures and is clear that the condition of your heart is critical in our walk with the Lord.

Bottom line……God cares about even the smallest of things in our life and what our heart cares about. His precious Words even speaks about giving us our hearts desires! He wants to give us our hearts desires. He really does care that much. Does he want our heart to be right in the matter? Yes. We are to be walking each and everyday closer and closer to Him, be more and more refined into the image of Christ. And that means attitude adjustments. And that starts in the heart. And that is where God judges from.

The song I shared with you, Matthew West’s Next Thing I Know, catchy tune, isn’t it? I thought it tied in to today’s post for 2 reasons. First, at the age of 13 he was touched by Billy Graham. Where? In his heart but as you will listen he fell away a bit……we all do at times……where….in our hearts? But when he cried out in college again……a simple prayer….from his heart….God shows up……when we truly mean it from our heart….and I do mean from the heart ……and God will know when it is and when it isn’t….it will be a BEAUTIFUL thing……..soak this scripture in…..

Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are those who are pure in heart…..for they will see God”

Father God, thank You for the beautiful precious gift that you have given us in Jesus and that He died on the cross for us and that there is nothing that we have to do to receive that gift except to receive that gift in faith. Lord, thank you for receiving our prayers in faith and please search our hearts and minds and line them up according to Your will. That is our desire….is to live according to Your will. As we do that, we know that we will be blessed as Your Word says and we will see You. Thank you for answering our prayers, big and small and let us see how You are at work when we don’t see the prayers being answered right away. Open up our spiritual eyes to see. Thank You in the precious name of Jesus. Amen

Need a little lift today? Need some freedom?

/ Kelly Savage / 1 Comment

I don’t know about you but there are those days at least for me…….those days where we need a little lift…..a little extra from the Lord. The enemy don’t play fair. The Bible does say he comes to steal, kill and destroy. Those are pretty hefty words to me! I am posting this song to share with you today as one of my all-time favorites. Ask my best friend, Denise! This is my dancing song! This is my “I don’t care who is around me, I will still dance” song” 🙂 ……

What the Lord is reminding me of these days is where the spirit of the Lord is…..there is FREEDOM!

2nd Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. and we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

The transformation process is not always easy in our Christian walk and the enemy, along the way, is like a roaring lion (1st Peter 5:8). Again, not another pretty analogy. But wait…..another reminder He gave me………which we MUST hold onto…….HE HAS ALREADY won the WAR at the cross……It is finished…

We already know what happens at the end of the book! Let’s hold true to it….and stay close to Him and the Spirit of the Lord because THAT is where the freedom truly is…….and that is for our whole walk…..everyday…..WHENEVER we need it.

So, whenever we feel weak, tired, upset, angry, sad, hopeless, tired of being tired, bogged down, chained down….you get the picture……snuggle up to His Spirit…..because He is always waiting…..enter His presence…..and there is freedom…..I can feel it now. Talk to Him…..ask Him for it……Tell Him you need it from Him……He never leaves you or forsakes you.

Enjoy the song. Play it over and over and over……put your dancing shoes on or not……but dance like no one is watching! 🙂

Have a great day of freedom!

Hold Me Jesus

/ Kelly Savage / 1 Comment

Do you Like Hugs? Do you Ever FEEL like you need a hug? Do you ever FEEL you need peace from the everyday stresses of this world? I know I do!! Sort of like that old commercial…….Calgon…..take me away!!!!!!!………Am I showing my age now????!! 🙂 I posted a video of one of my favorite songs and the lyrics are just as good! But the meaning goes deep as well. The Bible speaks of peace that passes all understanding and that kind of peace……only comes from the Lord…….not from ourselves, anyone else or of things…….

My sister in law, Shelli and I have embarked on a journey together for the last several months now. We pray every Monday morning (or more whenever needed) and we have prayer focuses and have even went as far as the prayer of “do whatever you need to do Lord” in certain situations! Boy, be careful of that prayer! 🙂 That prayer will take you places that you might have never been…..deep deep places…..and Praise the Lord, we have seen answers as we walk through WITH him…….

However, our journey reminded us of one thing consistently…….we CANNOT do our journey in our own strength….or we will fail…..hands down. We will burn out. It really is that simple.

We have a tendency to trust in things, sometimes other men, and especially our own strength……and that will leave us empty every single time. Our strength is only so strong and lasts only so long. In fact, listen to some the wisdom of the Word of God……

Jeremiah 17:5-8

“This is what the Lord says:

Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on the flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

Here are my thoughts for today: I want to to be like that tree by the stream. I want to trust in the Lord and not in my own strength and I have come to know in my life (and what a beautiful knowing it is) that the only true PEACE I really need is that of Jesus. Enjoy the song. Over and over again if you need. Sometimes I do many times a day, depending on the day! 🙂

Blessings!

Kelly