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Friday, September 29, 2017

Refreshing Winds for the Heart Sick and Weary


Sitting with a friend and listening to a prophetic word for the coming year, my heart kept taking on more and more space, more and more air. 

Heart Coffee in NW Bend OR

That probably sounds strange.  It's an attempt at saying, my heart was expanding and growing as she spoke.  Filling with the atmosphere of Holy Spirit, my heart broadened, flowering with wonder.  I was hearing confirming grace that we had entered into a season of HIS fullness.

A few days later I was meeting with our worship leaders.  We needed a re-group and some new fire.  After asking some probing questions I realized their hearts needed encouragement.  Before they could move out into a message of fullness, they needed to bring their hearts into undivided devotion.  Having a sense for this word of Fullness and the prompting of the Spirit to mend hearts, I focused our breakfast on consolation, encouragement, and heart talk.



I felt this new season.  The open country of his boundless kingdom.   I felt the correlation to the places the Lord was leading me. The wind of the Spirit filled my spirit.  I was receiving a confirmation of what I perceived back in August 2016.  After 30 Days of 24/7 prayer in our region and 24 hours of continuous prayer and worship, the atmosphere changed.   We went from fighting for righteousness to the wide open country of his fullness.  An invitation seemed to run out before us.  An invitation to enter into this fullness of Christ.  Fullness of Christ, the vast expanse of blessing and favor the Lord won for us.  I felt it.  I could see it in the Spirit. Now my friend was confirming it to me and my spirit was soaring.

Even while my spirit soared,

I sensed through the Spirit that this word, though releasing freedom in me, would reveal the passive, wounded and apathetic heart.  

The first point of ministry, as we step into the fullness of Christ, will be ministry to the heart.

To enter into abundant freedom we need an undivided, undaunted and unhindered heart.  Any other condition of the heart is overwhelmed by the expanse and boundless glory of his fullness.  This is the heart Jesus carried and carries as High Priest.  Forged in perfected and perfect worship, this heart is our in him.

In an environment of fullness in Jesus, some hearts will not be able to move forward.   Into such a space or atmosphere, the wounded heart cannot expand without healing and renewal.  

The reason?  The invitation to fullness requires a heart that is fully devoted and undivided.  It exalts in the joy of salvation and the invitation of God to greater and greater intimacy.  This heart rejoices in the certainty of the uncertainty found in the fullness of Christ.  The rootedness of this rejoicing heart is in the character of the Lord and the boundless glory and grace of his boundless Kingdom.

Healing, mending and fresh air in the Holy Spirit are required of the heart that feels limited in the boundless freedom of the fullness of Christ. 

The atmosphere of the fullness of Christ overwhelms the divided heart.  It reveals the daunted and wounded heart.  It is simply the reality of Christ's victory measured against a heart that is not fully surrendered or healed.  A heart ready for the time and season.

Things like apathy, passivity, and protecting the heart, things caused by cruising along and following the currents of life, never make the heart whole. Rather they reveal it's true condition. These postures do not provoke or fuel first love devotion for Jesus.   Fullness in Christ requires a whole hearted devotion and freedom.  Rather than ascending into the expanse, this heart needs consoling and encouragement.  It needs hope restored.  And for some, the work of sorting out overwhelming ministry assignments and battle weary passivity have gone untended.

All these conditions are heart statements, messages from the heart.  Messages ringing out from a heart that needs healing and encouragement.  A heart ready to taste deep abiding love again. 

This should never surprise us.  At the urging of Paul we are admonished,  "don't lose heart".  For him this and was a real possibility. True for him and for us is the possibility of losing heart in the midst of our greatest invitations to victory in Jesus.  Jesus encouraged us as well when he said, that we should continue in prayer and not lose heart (Luke 18:1f; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18).  Well aware of the ease of which we lose sight of prayer in the midst of patient endurance.

Such a heart, one having lost it's fire, is a heart having lost it's love.  Such a heart can be invigorated and renewed in the beauty and power of the heart of Jesus before the Father.  Yet, it must be recognized, identified, healed and surrendered.  Always before us is the choice of growing cold.  These are calculations in the mindset of the flesh rather than the glory mindset of the mind of Christ.  Again, visitation always reveals our true and present standing before the Lord.

 A heart perfected in obedience through suffering.  

Hebrews opens up to us the immense faith filled struggle Jesus faced in defeating death (Hebrews 5:7-9).  With loud cries and tears he walked in the way of the Father's will.  Believing and trusting him for the promised outcomes.  Defeating death was an immense challenge and mission.  In the process of walking out the Father's will and doing what the Father was doing, Jesus learned obedience through suffering.  The Father's will lead him into the struggle.  And so he became the living sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.  With reverent devotion Jesus walked forward praying and crying out for the Father to sustain him and make the way of promise.

When Jesus admonishes us to continue in prayer and not lose heart, he spoke from a place of experience.  He was living out the challenge of not losing heart in the midst of suffering.  His own prayers were heard because of his reverence and devotion.  His heart was not confused, divided or offended at the Father's leading.  Jesus walked in the revelation of the Goodness of the Father and so informed his heart through the suffering.  His prayers sustained him both in the presence and in contending for the promises and mission before him.

Continued struggle over long periods of time creates opportunities to lose heart.  


We give way to passivity and apathy one very small piece at a time. Ending up passive, lacking faith in bold action and without clear devotion in prayer, we start drifting.   The consuming fires of faith and first love fall away without notice.  Though tempted in every way as us, Jesus did not lose heart.  He never become passive.  In the face of the enemy, his connection to the Father's will and his love for the Father informed Jesus and he pressed on in obedience.  His gaze fixed on the face of the Father and in carrying out his will, he overcame the challenges of the heart.  In the face of suffering and opposition Jesus learned obedience (Hebrews 5:7-9).  With loud cries and tears he offered up prayers. We will find ourselves in similar paths along the journey of obedience. We are in the way of the Master, the forerunner Jesus, who carved out a new and living way.

The heart finds it's air and energy in the loud cries and tears of supplication and intercession. In the honest and raw presence of abiding in Jesus.


It was snowing.  We looked out the window to see this.  The heart appeared on the car while we ate breakfast.

No one touched the car.  We were sitting in a booth with this very view the whole time.  Simple encouragement makes a significant difference.   Thank you Lord for your amazing and simple supernatural ways.
So my sense for mending hearts before the impact of freedom and fullness, was confirmed.  I've seen it now on multiple occasions in different ministry settings as the word of fullness is shared.




The stages of freedom are laid out before us. It's time to surrender our hearts to him again.  The freedom we need to run into the wide open country of his fullness requires a whole and healed heart.  Wholehearted and perfected in love, we will be ready to run freely in the boundless fullness of Christ.

Some definition may help to awaken the heart to watchfulness. 

If you've made it this far with the talk of the heart, you recognize it's not a mortal condition.  HOPE mixed with faith activating the grace of God can carry us through any and all struggles.  So we can take a step further.  We can drill down into this heart that is not altogether settled.

This heart is not a faithless heart or a discouraged heart.  It is a weary heart.  It's a heart that is slowing down under the weight of constant and persistent hindrance.

Opposition and lack of seeing the hope you are fighting and praying for daily, wears down the heart.  It can move in courage but it is confused about the direction.  Lacking clear direction,  faith in action has turned to passively.  Grace activated in faith is a fading memory.  It is not a heart in unbelief.  At least not completely.  Just a little maybe.  It's a heart that needs some relief.  It is just side tacked with a bit of confusion.  It's a heart wrestling with God and apparently getting no answers.

It's not a rebellious heart.  In the course of working hard and running after the Lord in obedience, it has wandered off into passivity.  No longer acting in faith on a daily basis. 

In truth, this is an easy thing to do.  To just fall back into the normal routines of life.   Work and family occupy so much of our time.  It is easy to ride those currents and not seek first the Kingdom.   Due to the normal and accepted levels of spiritual pursuits no one typically perceives the difference.  We can melt into the life around us.  And no one really takes notice.

No longer pouring our worship into obedience.   No longer moving forward in the way Jesus is carving out for us.  Typically his way requires real and active faith to gain ground. Passive, yet appearing to many  "well and on the way", we no longer live by faith or in faith.  This simple shift dislodges us from the "faith to faith" process walking in the Spirit requires.  The grace deposited in us by Christ goes voiceless and quiet.  We are no longer exercising faith.  With the current trends of church life, this is an easy place to land.  When many around us live in this heart state, we rarely feel the challenge to breakout.

Letting the weight of glory fill us up, overwhelm us?  No. That is a distant memory not a present reality.

Years ago, in the Toronto blessing, I felt the weight of glory.  So weighty in fact I was unable to stand.  I was face down on the floor.   I felt as if I could not get up.  The weight of glory weighing down on me so heavy my face seemed to make a permanent impression on the carpet.  It didn't.  But the weight of glory made an impression on my heart and then on my walk with God.  Tangible weight bearing down from the Most High is not quickly forgotten.  When I finally was able to get up, hours later, I had a whole new appreciation for the "weight of glory".


I tell this story to point to the weight of first love.  The heart of first love for Jesus is a heart heavily weighted under the glory of the Spirit.  It is not passive.  The steadfast love of God is heavy in the first love heart.  It is veil-less perception of the Lord.  It is raw and real weight.  It's a glory that can be felt.  First love can run free in the fullness of Christ.  Drinking in every good thing from the Father of lights.  First love is captivated in wonder, awe, reverence and the fear of the Lord.  First love is listening.  First love abides as a lover of the presence of God.  First love is never satisfied.  It pursues with relentless courage.  First love believes and trusts all things.  Especially the goodness of God.  So it overcomes the obstacles of the heart.  It embraces no offense.  It easily repents and welcomes the healing of God.

As we mature in the Lord, the realization that we can walk in steadfast first love through the grace of Jesus, becomes a daily reality.  This is forgotten in the heart I am pointing toward, the one I'm pointing out. 


This heart has stopped resting in abiding steadfast love as a discipline.  It no longer waits in such a place for the Lord's witness of encouragement and kindness.  Believing is not gone.  Rather, the practice of entering into his rest and loving kindness is no longer practiced.  Resting, the kind that avails us to the Lord's Spirit deeply, is no longer pressed into. More simply put, this heart no longer waits on the Lord. It has become tired of waiting for the Lord and so no longer waits on him.  To wait on him is to minister to him in worship, prayer, intercession and love.  This heart is to occupied with what is next and how to get there.  Occupied with getting an answer.  The benefits of rest and peace in Jesus are not tapped.  Forgotten, Christ is always the answer.  Forgotten, we are living sacrifices made for praise (Isaiah 43:10).   The way, truth and life, he is the actual answer and fulfillment of our search.  Yea. Paradox.  Yea. Easy to forget and let slide away.  Yea. Easy to restore as well.  Simply rest and wait before the Lord.  Welcome, repent and receive everything your heart needs to walk whole and stand with confidence before God (I John 3:19-23).

Such an atmosphere is easily adjusted.  Such a posture is easily addressed.  But the issues of the heart, the real and tangible things in which the heart is stumbling must be aired, addressed and healed.

Unify the Heart and Mind.  Undivided Heart.

This heart off track is not in unison with the mind.  And this mind is not informing the heart in faith and clear action.  The division is subtle but powerful. When the mind and heart are not united in faith apathy and passivity become welcome guests.  It's as if all the space left over, space once occupied with faith in action, is now void and empty.  Passivity and apathy move right in and fill these voids without knocking.  God's Kingdom is the rule and reign of Jesus, never passive always in motion.

This heart appears apathetic but is really just undecided.  It has not lost conviction of truth or knowledge of the ways of the Lord.  At least as ascribing to teachings and beliefs go.  It has simply wandered off the paths of first love and the connection of Jesus.  Wandered from the solid practices of devotion, it is easy to forget what we left behind.  With the rising of a few "why" questions and a string of days without the usual vibrancy, passivity can slip in without notice.

What does this look like?  We say a lot more no's than yes'. We get into the habit of having no habits of love and devotion, prayer or word.  We stop seeing.  Literally we stop recognizing the Kingdom of God.  We stop extending love in faith.  We stop sowing hope to those around us.  We just rest in the currents.  At this point we may pick up some other "desires".  Engage in things not directly related to advancing the Kingdom of God or the grace imparted to us.  Sadly the church often embraces us at this place.  Requiring nothing of us and creating a culture of wants and needs, we can be adrift in heart, faith and hope and find no challenge, healing or inspiration to step out of the boat again.

In the natural there is a disease called Leukemia.  It essentially is a lack of oxygen to the cells and body.
Spiritual Leukemia is lack of the oxygen to the first love heart, mind, soul and strength.


When people of high commitment allow to many experiences and disappointments to go unprocessed with the Holy Spirit, the first love heart takes the hit.

It is a heart in the middle.  The heart cannot stay in such a place and live.  Lukewarm lacks satisfaction from every direction. Jesus could not abide it (Revelation 3:14-22).  If we want his heart we will embrace the idea that we cannot abide lukewarm either.

This is a good thing.  When people of high commitment allow to many experiences and disappointments to go unprocessed with the Holy Spirit, the first love heart takes the hit.  Such "dings" can go unnoticed as they are not major crisis or events requiring our full focus.  Typical of ministry service and highly committed people, we spend our focus and energies on others and often overlook "our little wounds" along the way.  These bumps, questions and disappointments can go without healing or a clear process of applying grace. Time doesn't heal them.  They pile up.   Unexpectedly they become a weight that outweighs the first love heart.  After a while the devout heart cannot bear up under the weight of the why, the losses in relationships, and the seeming hits on their hope.  These same heart challenges faced Timothy.  Paul encourages him with these words,

"Do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God."  2 Tim 1:8

When faithful believers are acting and moving normally walking in the Spirit and carrying out the commands of Christ, the weight of hindrances, failures, relational let downs, opposition, and persecutions can dull the heart.  It's like the drip of a faucet that needs repairs but just is not enough of a problem to shut down the progress for a day.  With such decisions the heart starts showing signs of wear.  The small but penetrating confrontations with the enemy wears away at the faith and trust in the goodness of God and piles up into to many unanswered why's.
Nothing goes unnoticed by our LORD

Good news.  The Holy Spirit is remarkable and full of loving kindness.  He is able to heal these dings of the heart with skill and restore the heart to the freedom it was made for.
It's a heart that needs Psalm 139.  Search and know through the grace and compassion of the Holy Spirit what things have gone unnoticed.

To move into this message of fullness and wisdom building your heart has to be free and abounding in love, worship and grace. 

For freedom Christ set you and I free.  His ways are righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.   The heart, dwelling in the fullness of Christ, is rich in these three amazing graces.


You can do it.  YOU can keep Pressing ON!


Here is a series of blogs about the heart that may help.

1. The Unhindered Heart - Sharpening the Arrow Point of Grace and Glory - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-unhindered-heart-sharpening-arrow.html

2. Undivided - Undaunted - Unhindered Heart After God - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/02/undivided-undaunted-unhindered-heart.html



3. Love for God Is A Never Ending Open Country - An Undivided Heart - Wholly Devoted - a place to follow not hide.

://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-for-god-is-never-ending-open.html

4. Five Thorns to Pull From a Wounded Heart -https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/10/5-thorns-to-pull-from-wounded-heart.html

5. Personal Unity.  Can the Heart and Mind be United in the Spirit Always? https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/02/personal-unity-can-heart-and-mind-be.html





Thanks for reading.  



The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you.



Testimonies?  Share em with me.  

I am hoping to do Google Hang Outs Soon on Friday's.
Uganda was amazing.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
So appreciated.  Such an offering.  Makes all the difference.







With much love in Jesus



You can do this thing!  He's got you.  

Jeff Reynolds   ---
Brother Jeff
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com



Friday, September 22, 2017

Pressing ON - Sometimes One Step Forward Is Higher Calling Glory

Everyone living in this world will have trouble.  

I have good news.  Trouble doesn't have the final word.  


Jesus said, "But be of good cheer.  I have overcome the world".  


Trouble can hit so hard,
smash all our possessions,
crush our relationships and tear away nearly
everything we know and love in life.


I have good news.  Trouble doesn't have the final word. 



God is bigger than trouble.
Jesus did overcome the world
Jesus did overcome death.
Jesus is alive and there is a NEW and LIVING WAY.

Trouble stairs down courage and faith.
Trouble stands right up in our face tries to say no to every good thing God has blessed us with.
Trouble never has the last word when we believe in Jesus.

We serve and love the God who parted the sea.
We serve and love the God who died for you and me.
We serve a King who pours out loving kindness.
We are adopted children, members of the family of God, living in the light of the HOPE of his glory.


Faith and courage stand in the light of all Jesus accomplished.
They agree with God.  He is making all things new.
Sometimes we just need to take one step into the new.
A pure step of faith and trust in the God who loves us.
Sometimes we just need to take one step into what we believe but don't see.
Faith and courage stand in the light of steadfast love.
It shines up and lights the way for ONE STEP FORWARD.


Sometimes, one simple forward step reflects so much glory, faith and courage
the Smile of God breaks out around us.  In the pleasures of faith,  grace and glory shine.
They tell trouble, "Your time is gonna end".

Here is a song to help you decide to take one step today.
It will be an amazing step.
Filled with grace, faith and the glory of God.

Go ahead.
You can do it.
Lean on out over the waters and start re-building in faith, grace and glory.
God is with you.
Never leaving.
Not forsaking you.

This is the path of miracles.
This is where seas part and oceans obey his voice.
This the roadway where heaven touches the earth and the ROCK comes to your rescue.

PRESSING ON - To the higher calling of my LORD.  



You can do it.  YOU can keep Pressing ON!


Here is a series of blogs about the heart that may help.

1. The Unhindered Heart - Sharpening the Arrow Point of Grace and Glory - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-unhindered-heart-sharpening-arrow.html

2. Undivided - Undaunted - Unhindered Heart After God - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/02/undivided-undaunted-unhindered-heart.html


3. Love for God Is A Never Ending Open Country - An Undivided Heart - Wholly Devoted - a place to follow not hide.

://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-for-god-is-never-ending-open.html

4. Five Thorns to Pull From a Wounded Heart -https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/10/5-thorns-to-pull-from-wounded-heart.html

5. Personal Unity.  Can the Heart and Mind be United in the Spirit Always? https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/02/personal-unity-can-heart-and-mind-be.html



Thanks for reading.  


The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you.


Testimonies?  Share em with me.  

I am hoping to do Google Hang Outs Soon on Friday's.
Uganda was amazing.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
So appreciated.  Such an offering.  Makes all the difference.







With much love in Jesus



You can do this thing!  He's got you.  

Jeff Reynolds   ---
Brother Jeff
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com





Let's be like him!

Friday, September 15, 2017

Just ADD Water. Seeds are Everywhere!

The Word is water to our spirit, soul, and mind in Christ.





Nothing compares to HIS continuous, powerful, ever flowing, always accomplishing all it sets out to do, WORD.



Paul tells us to be saturated in the Word   Colossians 3:16



Jesus is the very word we seek.  John 14:6; 1:1-2



God's Word goes out and produces all it proclaims.  Isaiah 55:11

                                                         
"so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."



The Word of the Gospel of Christ transforms.  II Timothy 1:9-12

2 Timothy 1:9-12 9He has saved us and called us to a holy life-not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 12That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.


The Word of peace renews the soul.  Colossians 3:15


The Word of life makes new.  2 Corinthians 5:17


17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!





JUST add -  the WATER of the WORD to the SEEDS of your life,  Church,  Ministry,  HOPE! 







The Kingdom is freely given....as it has been freely given to us.




The Father gave us this amazingly beautiful world.
Psalms 19







What do you and I have to give?


Often we think of material things - and rightly so....

Spiritually we are inexhaustable in grace, love, HOPE, forgiveness, in Jesus.

The promise is we will always have something to sow as seed. 

6Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9As it is written: "They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever." 10Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.


Give the Word away.  People really can't live on bread alone. 




Eclipse Fun this summer

Let's be HOPE everywhere we go.
Be like the MASTER JESUS.


Here is a series of blogs about the heart that may help.

1. The Unhindered Heart - Sharpening the Arrow Point of Grace and Glory - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-unhindered-heart-sharpening-arrow.html

2. Undivided - Undaunted - Unhindered Heart After God - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/02/undivided-undaunted-unhindered-heart.html



3. Love for God Is A Never Ending Open Country - An Undivided Heart - Wholly Devoted - a place to follow not hide.

://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-for-god-is-never-ending-open.html

4. Five Thorns to Pull From a Wounded Heart -https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/10/5-thorns-to-pull-from-wounded-heart.html

5. Personal Unity.  Can the Heart and Mind be United in the Spirit Always? https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/02/personal-unity-can-heart-and-mind-be.html



Thanks for reading.  

The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you.

Testimonies?  Share em with me.  

I am hoping to do Google Hang Outs Soon on Friday's.
Uganda was amazing.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
So appreciated.  Such an offering.  Makes all the difference.




With much love in Jesus


You can do this thing!  He's got you.  

Jeff Reynolds   ---
Brother Jeff
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com





Let's be like him!




Friday, September 8, 2017

The Raw Relentless Power of HOPE

"...Those who HOPE in the LORD will renew their strength."  Isaiah 40:31


FAITH
HOPE
LOVE
These three remain forever.  


HOPE in God is not.....


1. Wishes and desires for a dreamlike future. 
HOPE is action.  Trust.  Faith in motion.  HOPE believes in steadfast love and resides in the palace of  God's presence with a smile. The Father is not a dream like fantasy.  He is creator, author and perfecter of all things.

2. Good feelings for something better.
HOPE knows there is something better.  HOPE knows, being informed in God's word, that all that's evil is coming to an end.  HOPE knows that life is erupting all over the globe in the Gospel of the Kingdom.  HOPE knows that though it looks dark and unredeemed, God is "in all things" working for the good of those who love him....  Romans 8:28

3. Empty good will. 
HOPE is living and active.  HOPE finds it's source in the ONE VOICE of the Trinity God. Empowered by the perfect work of Jesus and the energy and unction of the Holy Spirit, HOPE presses on.  HOPE sees light where others see darkness.  HOPE sees the smallest glimpse of glory and believes for its full wonder and awe.  HOPE produces endurance and patience.  HOPE is driven by eternal perspective and the mind of Christ.  HOPE is relentless in "following the way of love and eagerly desiring spiritual gifts".  HOPE is informed and real and filled with fatih for transforming love and grace to break the walls of every stronghold.

HOPE is......

1. Obedient.  HOPE loves Jesus and so wants to keep all his commands.  HOPE already calculated the sacrifice and decided that HOPE itself was worth trusting in HIS Voice.  HOPE trusts the voice of God and his ways and character.  HOPE knows steadfast love is always there and favor is our inheritance.  HOPE is obedient in the HOPE of eternal life springing forth.  HOPE knows it can do nothing without Jesus.

2. A Bulldog in the face of opposition, hindrance, troubles and hardships.  HOPE knows it is just a matter of time to see overcoming victory.

3. HOPE believes in miracles and the God who goes beyond the impossible.  HOPE prays for these things and walks in them by faith.

4. HOPE endures.  HOPE knows that HOPE itself needs nurturing and care and encouragement.  HOPE knows that if "all hope is lost" then all is lost.  In the face of this voice HOPE is filled with compassion not hate.  Gentleness not control or punishment.

5. HOPE welcomes God into everything knowing that his purpose is discovered in everything by faith.  Knowing that redeeming humanity and every life on the planet is HIS deep desire in Christ.


How do we "Step UP HOPE?"


Call it out when everything else says otherwise.
Declare the promises of God in the face of HOPELESS- Ness
Allow HOPE to shape your day
Allow HOPE to shape your heart.....don't let it shrink from LOVE, GENEROSITY, GRACE, GENTLENESS
SPEAK HOPE to those who have none
LIVE HOPE in the face of the worst darkness
PRAY and minister in the Spirit of HOPE with power and love


The world needs hope.
YOU and I know HOPE and the ONE with the greatest HOPES for the World.
JESUS.
HE lived HOPE
HE died in HOPE
HE rose in HOPE
HE ascended in HOPE
HE reigns in HOPE
HE worships in HOPE as High Priest of the new and living way.

Let's be HOPE everywhere we go.
Be like the MASTER JESUS.


Here is a series of blogs about the heart that may help.

1. The Unhindered Heart - Sharpening the Arrow Point of Grace and Glory - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-unhindered-heart-sharpening-arrow.html

2. Undivided - Undaunted - Unhindered Heart After God - https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2017/02/undivided-undaunted-unhindered-heart.html


3. Love for God Is A Never Ending Open Country - An Undivided Heart - Wholly Devoted - a place to follow not hide.

://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-for-god-is-never-ending-open.html

4. Five Thorns to Pull From a Wounded Heart -https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2015/10/5-thorns-to-pull-from-wounded-heart.html

5. Personal Unity.  Can the Heart and Mind be United in the Spirit Always? https://jeffreynoldsonedesire.blogspot.com/2014/02/personal-unity-can-heart-and-mind-be.html


Thanks for reading.  

The dialogue is awesome.  Thank you.

Testimonies?  Share em with me.  

I am hoping to do Google Hang Outs Soon on Friday's.
Uganda was amazing.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
So appreciated.  Such an offering.  Makes all the difference.




With much love in Jesus


You can do this thing!  He's got you.  

Jeff Reynolds   ---
Brother Jeff
jeff@jeffreynoldsministries.com





Let's be like him!