Did Jesus Just Say Blah, Blah, Blah?

Tweet From @gapmin: Aren't you glad Jesus doesn't present your prayer request to the Father in the form of blah, blah blah?
I confess I’m guilty of entering the Blah Zone—my husband and I were talking and as I told him about family matters I came to a point in the conversation where I said “and blah blah”…he responded what, just two blahs? Two blahs is more than enough don’t you think? But I realized he was right, what happened to the third blah? Usually we hear blah, blah, blah.

Blah is pompous or pretentious talk or writing---a filler. It made me think of the Lord and how he never enters the blah zone. When we share something with him we’ll never hear him say “blah, blah, blah”. Don’t you just love that Jesus never enters the blah zone, I do.
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It's an O Thing!

By now you are aware that Oprah may be transitioning to her next season in life, It is a part of the latest media buzz but are you transitioning to your next season in life? Oprah has done and is doing her thing and apparently has insight enough to know when it’s time for change-whether it’s a big change or a little change.
Transitioning is an O thing--as in Over!


We all have to eventually come face to face with change. Some change we have to embrace and allow and other changes are going to happen without our permission. Learning to know (discern) and flow (cooperate) with the various seasons of your life is a must for the person who wants to stay in step with God.

Ecclesiastes 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

This year has brought me face to face with several who want to bypass their season(s) of being students of the word and go directly to being teachers of the word. We should be lifelong students of the word but the ‘student’ season I’m referring to is one where you learn biblical and scriptural basics—I meet many new Christians and Christians who have been attending church for a lengthy season who just don’t want to take the time to do that. What’s up with that?

Hebrews 5:12 (NIV)
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!

Professionally we get training and/or attend college to be skilled at what we do but we do not apply those same principles to our spiritual development—why?

We’ve even fallen into the trap of reading books about the bible more than we read the bible itself. AND attempting to have an effective prayer life with little or no reading of God’s word which is the very substance of our faith.

Romans 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

As we prepare for our NEXT with God it is necessary and beneficial to complete our current season—trying to skip ahead is a formula for a setback. Keep the main thing the main thing and first things first and STUDY of God’s word accompanied by PRAYER is always in season and is always THE season. This is a season for new Christians and ‘old hands’ alike to be refreshed in eating the meat of the word. No matter where you are, God has another level of devotion and promotion for you.

1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

An attitude of spiritual laziness has and is attempting to attach itself to God’s people; if you feel it shake it off! God supplies the ‘filling’ but we have to supply the hunger and thirst. AND getting back to  the basics is God's word of the hour for EVERY believer. 

Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

It’s a new season--an O thing! Just another tiney thought for ya!

Handing Over The kingdom

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

We all want to be INpowered, encouraged and lifted up, there's certainly enough bad news placed in our paths on a daily basis to get us down if we allow it. At the same time we the gap- standers have an assignment that can bring healing to the land. We are living in a transitional time where we are on the very edge of a global breakOUT for the kingdom! AND the enemy is not happy about us forging forward.

We cannot ignore the spiritual 'static' that precedes this breakOUT. Our land is under attack, our ecomony, children, marriages, health, families etc have become prey to the enemy BUT the Lord spoke a word to Solomon that vibrates and shakes the earth to its core to this very day:

2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Many are praying unhumbled...

not many are seeking HIS face

and surely many have not turned from their wicked ways.....are we handing over the kingdom?