QUICKENED WORDS FROM MAGAZINES

Sometimes when I am waiting in an office I will pick up a magazine and ask the Lord to speak to me through quickened eye glances, anointing hands of turning to the right page, and the power of His quickening upon plain words.

Here are some examples:

EXPRESSIONS OUTSIDE THE BOX 10/01/04

QUICKENED EYE GLANCES FROM MAGAZINE: Think outside the box. Express it. A new leash on life. Clear sailing. Touching expression. Powerful medicine. Seize the moment. Do it yourself.

[Sometimes I feel led to flip through magazine pages at random and see what is quickened to me.  I have done this with yellow pages and also newspaper ad sections.]

WORD TO PONDER: THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

I AM giving you a new leash on ways to hear Me and share your life in Me with others. Learn to think outside the box and express what is inside of you. This is powerful medicine, readily available, if you only cease the moment. You can do this, you have clear sailing on open seas!

John 1:45-46 NLT

Philip went off to look for Nathanael and told him, "We have found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about! His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth." "Nazareth!" exclaimed Nathanael. "Can anything good come from there?" "Just come and see for yourself," Philip said.

THE REVELATION ABOUT CHURCH ORPHANS

One day I was thumbing through a magazine and came across the following quote. It hit me between the eyes.  “Orphan comes to town.  Like most foster children, he has developed a quirky charm, an unattached air, a ruddy survival complex, and a deeply ingrained sense of independence.” 

An orphan has no brothers or sisters.  An orphan has no support system or role models from loving parents.  An orphan has no family.  Orphans arrive in our lives every day and we need to see them as God sees them, behind their walls of self assurance into the heart of their deep need to belong and to be loved.  The bottom line truth, is that we need to adopt orphans of all ages, size and color and embrace them as our own family. 

Scripture says that He will not leave us comfortless or abandon us as orphans. Scripture also says that pure religion is to care for the widows and the orphans. 

John 14:16-18 AMP

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever-- The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.  I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you.

James 1:27 NKJV

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.