He brought me into the banquet hall, and he looked at me lovingly.
Lead me to the dinner hall. Let your banner of love be lifted high above me.
Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.
He leads me into a banquet room and looks at me with love.
He brought me to the banquet hall and his glance at me signaled love.
What if I were to really believe this???
how would it be if I really lived in this reality?
your banner over me
is love
She is loved
not because
she is worthy
not because
she deserves it
not because
she has achieved
not because
she has _________
not because
she is anything
in herself
But because I AM LOVE
and my love is enough for all
my love is for all
for any and for all
willing to receive it
Jesus makes this relationship of love possible
He is worthy
He has done
He is
He laid down his perfect life
to take my fallen and broken one
to take away my failings and shortcomings
and all that I sense is just not enough
because it is not dependent on me
I cannot break it or undo it
As I just believe Him and receive this love
it lifts up a banner that shows for all to see
She is complete in me
She is mine
I love her
I will be with her always
I will never leave her not forsake her
She is my beloved
I know her faults, weaknesses, even outright sins
better than you ever will
And yet because of my perfect Son
I can draw her close to me
in tenderness and affection
I have made a way for her to be near to me forever
never to have to leave or go away
I am her Father
I am her Refuge
I am her Sanctuary
I am her Safe Haven
I am her Protector
I am her Teacher and Guide
I am her Wonderful Counselor
I am her Peace
and through her
I wish to bring all others around her
to know how much I love them as well
How I am their deepest longing and hope
I am their deepest comfort and joy
I AM
Is this what the banner over me for all to see and read says most days.......???
The reason I don't live in this reality is that it conflicts
it conflicts with what I feel inside
it conflicts with what I am experiencing
it definitely conflicts
with what I feel others think and see about me
most days the banner over my head says
"frustrated, overwhelmed, worried, exhausted, afraid, sad
even
angry, bitter, feeling shameful and unloved
and sometimes even
feeling undesired, rejected, isolated and despairing
but this conflict between what I feel and experience
is really a forced crossroads of the heart
what will I choose to believe?
your love or what I feel
your truth or what I think is true
you over what I want others to be to me
the identity I have in Christ
or what others view me as
even what I view myself as
The Way Up is the Way OUT
an audience of one
only one's smile that I need
ONLY YOU
to hear you say, "Well done good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord"
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’
the work of God is for you to believe
John 6:29J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)
29 “The work of God for you,” replied Jesus, “is to believe in the one whom he has sent to you.”
this is the message to all of us:
you are beloved
not because of you at all
but because of HIM
He makes it possible
therefore it is possible for all
for all willing to trust and believe
not that they are great in and of themselves
but that you are love
Romans 3:23-26J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)
God’s new plan—righteousness by faith, not through the Law
21-26 But now we are seeing the righteousness of God declared quite apart from the Law (though amply testified to by both Law and Prophets)—it is a righteousness imparted to, and operating in, all who have faith in Jesus Christ. (For there is no distinction to be made anywhere: everyone has sinned, everyone falls short of the beauty of God’s plan.) Under this divine system a man who has faith is now freely acquitted in the eyes of God by his generous dealing in the redemptive act of Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:23-24Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
23 For all have sinned and fall short of the[a] glory of God. 24 They are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:23-24The Message (MSG)
God Has Set Things Right
21-24 But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened. The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.
all fall shortall can be recovered by Jesus
to knowing YOU and being loved by YOU
there is enough for all
no one is better than any one else before God
no exclusiveness
no zero sum game
You are what we all need
Praise you Lord
You are beautiful and awesome
[ The Solution Is Life on God’s Terms ] With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2 MSG7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
Ephesians 1:7-10 The Message
He placed me at his banquet table, for everyone to see that his banner over me declares his love.
He brings me to the banquet hall, and everyone can see how much he loves me.
Song of Songs 2:4
Song of Songs 2:4
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