Amen.
Love, Tawney Rae
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
About "I Need You to Love Me"...
This is Alyssa Barlow speaking before "I Need You To Love Me,". The message of this song really made an impact on my life this last year, and I just felt I needed to share this video of her speaking about it with you all. Please listen with an open Heart. <3
I was re-watching this tonight for some encouragement, and her words on Mary were such a blessing. She sacrificed so much, her unstained reputation even, to do what God had laid before her. She accepted that. "She made a sacrifice because the promise was so much greater"-- and I say amen to that. There are things that we as individuals have to look at Christ and say,...
"Yes, I will accept what You have given me out of Your Love, even though noone will understand it and it risks everything I have. Yet I know You are faithful, and your promises are true and will not fail. I will believe that all You have said will come to pass, according to the words of Luke 1:45, and be blessed by the promise You give as an expected end to this. I accept this with a willing Heart, and ask You to simply Love me and keep me as I continue to follow Your will".
Are you willing to step out and accept such Love that asks so much? He is ready to give us such dreams, such visions, things that He has planned for us that we don't deserve,... and though it will bring risk to ourselves, His Love for us gives us a Promise to comfort us through it all. We don't deserve this-- yet, oh, how He loves us. Will you say yes to such Love?
"I need You to Love me, and I,... I won't keep my Heart from You this time. And I'll stop this pretending that I can somehow deserve what I already have..."
Love,
Tawney Rae
Isaiah 62:4
I was re-watching this tonight for some encouragement, and her words on Mary were such a blessing. She sacrificed so much, her unstained reputation even, to do what God had laid before her. She accepted that. "She made a sacrifice because the promise was so much greater"-- and I say amen to that. There are things that we as individuals have to look at Christ and say,...
"Yes, I will accept what You have given me out of Your Love, even though noone will understand it and it risks everything I have. Yet I know You are faithful, and your promises are true and will not fail. I will believe that all You have said will come to pass, according to the words of Luke 1:45, and be blessed by the promise You give as an expected end to this. I accept this with a willing Heart, and ask You to simply Love me and keep me as I continue to follow Your will".
Are you willing to step out and accept such Love that asks so much? He is ready to give us such dreams, such visions, things that He has planned for us that we don't deserve,... and though it will bring risk to ourselves, His Love for us gives us a Promise to comfort us through it all. We don't deserve this-- yet, oh, how He loves us. Will you say yes to such Love?
"I need You to Love me, and I,... I won't keep my Heart from You this time. And I'll stop this pretending that I can somehow deserve what I already have..."
Love,
Tawney Rae
Isaiah 62:4
The beauty of the LORD,...
"And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it."
-Psalms 90:17
<3 always,
XOXOX,
Tawney Rae
-Psalms 90:17
<3 always,
XOXOX,
Tawney Rae
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Be good to you,...
BE GOOD TO YOU...
"Be yourself, truthfully,
Accept yourself, gratefully,
Value yourself, joyfully,
Forgive yourself, completely,
Treat yourself, generously,
Balance yourself, harmoniously,
Bless yourself, abundantly,
Trust yourself, wholeheartedly,
Empower yourself, prayerfully,
Give yourself, enthusiastically,
Express yourself, radiantly."
-Tracey Steffey
Love,
Tawney rae <3
"Be yourself, truthfully,
Accept yourself, gratefully,
Value yourself, joyfully,
Forgive yourself, completely,
Treat yourself, generously,
Balance yourself, harmoniously,
Bless yourself, abundantly,
Trust yourself, wholeheartedly,
Empower yourself, prayerfully,
Give yourself, enthusiastically,
Express yourself, radiantly."
-Tracey Steffey
Love,
Tawney rae <3
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Love Letters
"There must be thousands of people around the world that never get ANY love letters,...
I could be there leader..."
-Charlie Brown
This quote makes me smile. :) Can any of you other singles relate to this? ;)
Love,
Tawney Rae <3
I could be there leader..."
-Charlie Brown
This quote makes me smile. :) Can any of you other singles relate to this? ;)
Love,
Tawney Rae <3
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
I believe in Love...
As I read in my devotional today, I was thinking of what was written for the day, and ended up scribbling something about it onto a piece of paper because of it,... I thought I would share it with you all.
"These circumstances, situations, etc. do not make your calling of no effect. The promises God has given are still true, no matter what may scream otherwise-- for God is ever true, from everlasting to everlasting. Rather, they define the power that God will display in the valley, as He works past these things to His ultimate goal for you, and the glory that awaits for the one who stays faithful until the Mount. The greater the trial, the more room for possible Heartache, destrucion, and desolation, the greater the cause for praise; for God in this will then show Himself yet mightier then before in your life."
Don't doubt Him! If He has called you to something, He will see you through to fulfill that call. If He has promised something, He will fulfill that promise within His time, whether or not you FEEL that could ever be fulfilled if things "go wrong" with your situation in life. Don't let these things make you doubt. Just believe. Know that the darkness of this trial is so God's glory may be revealed in a fuller, deeper way for you than before. Trust what He has said to be true.
Along those lines,...
There's a story I heard about a man that was held in a concentration camp in Germany during the war. When the war was over, people went into the cells where the men were kept, and they found a quote written by him into the wall. It simply said this,
"I believe in the sun even when it's not shining;
I believe in Love even when I don't feel it;
And I believe in God even when He is silent."
That was all they knew about him... only what Truth he left on the wall. And to be honest, that quote really moved me, because so often when I go through a trial that is the last thing I'm thinking about writing onto my wall,... and I'm not being silly when I say that. Seriously. And instead of letting those dark walls overcome him, he turned to those dark walls that were meant to hold him in, and wrote who our God is, and will always be, whether or not he felt it. If you are in a valley, and you are wondering whether or not you are going to ever make it out,... you wonder if the sun is still shining,... I want you to know that God is saying, the sun is still shining. God is still with you, He still Loves you no matter what you've done, or what's been done to you; God is not done with you. He hasn't abandoned you, rather He is searching you out to redeem you from where you are at in life. He wants you to be fully restored from this valley. But if you are in that valley-time right now, you must speak the truth of God to the things that are holding you back. You have to face the darkness with the Truth of God. Speak the promises to the things that make you doubt.
Don't doubt. God is faithful. Just believe.
Love,
Tawney Rae <3
"These circumstances, situations, etc. do not make your calling of no effect. The promises God has given are still true, no matter what may scream otherwise-- for God is ever true, from everlasting to everlasting. Rather, they define the power that God will display in the valley, as He works past these things to His ultimate goal for you, and the glory that awaits for the one who stays faithful until the Mount. The greater the trial, the more room for possible Heartache, destrucion, and desolation, the greater the cause for praise; for God in this will then show Himself yet mightier then before in your life."
Don't doubt Him! If He has called you to something, He will see you through to fulfill that call. If He has promised something, He will fulfill that promise within His time, whether or not you FEEL that could ever be fulfilled if things "go wrong" with your situation in life. Don't let these things make you doubt. Just believe. Know that the darkness of this trial is so God's glory may be revealed in a fuller, deeper way for you than before. Trust what He has said to be true.
Along those lines,...
There's a story I heard about a man that was held in a concentration camp in Germany during the war. When the war was over, people went into the cells where the men were kept, and they found a quote written by him into the wall. It simply said this,
"I believe in the sun even when it's not shining;
I believe in Love even when I don't feel it;
And I believe in God even when He is silent."
That was all they knew about him... only what Truth he left on the wall. And to be honest, that quote really moved me, because so often when I go through a trial that is the last thing I'm thinking about writing onto my wall,... and I'm not being silly when I say that. Seriously. And instead of letting those dark walls overcome him, he turned to those dark walls that were meant to hold him in, and wrote who our God is, and will always be, whether or not he felt it. If you are in a valley, and you are wondering whether or not you are going to ever make it out,... you wonder if the sun is still shining,... I want you to know that God is saying, the sun is still shining. God is still with you, He still Loves you no matter what you've done, or what's been done to you; God is not done with you. He hasn't abandoned you, rather He is searching you out to redeem you from where you are at in life. He wants you to be fully restored from this valley. But if you are in that valley-time right now, you must speak the truth of God to the things that are holding you back. You have to face the darkness with the Truth of God. Speak the promises to the things that make you doubt.
Don't doubt. God is faithful. Just believe.
Love,
Tawney Rae <3
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Better Water
Hello everyone!
So sorry this has been so long delayed in coming. Life has just been too busy for blogging. Not that blogging doesn't have it's place,... it just has been too busy to sit down and feel energized enough to write you a half-decent post, or want to ramble about doing school. It's a season I'm in, I suppose. Not that I'm lacking in inspiration. I feel it's been the opposite lately; that I am simply overflowing with inspiration in my Bible-reading,
writing, etc. but there hasn't been a time, or place to let it flow over from the thoughts to the words. It's been good for me, though, in ways. I'm learning to mull over the thoughts and things I'm learning/recieving more, instead of hurriedly putting them to paper or action. And what I've realized is that those things mature more when I don't spew them out at the exact moment I've recieved them or thought of them, if that makes sense to any of you. I'm simply learning to DIG DEEPER.
But that doesn't mean that that is easy. Growth never is. There's always pain involved, and the pruning shears of a Loving Husbandmen who cuts away the old, dead branches that are hindering our ability to bear fruit (I was reading John 15 last night. So good). Sometimes it means that He is going to let us have some sort of dryness in the season around us, but it is only so we dig deeper to find BETTER WATER to drink from. There is a story of two types of vines in a vineyard I heard just recently. One is a vine that they water constantly, but by the third or fourth year it has to be thrown out because it has been watered so much... leaving it with only a short-period fruit-bearing season. The other vine lasts ten to fifteen years. And this vine is not watered so much, causing stress to it and forcing it to stretch further into the ground. This causes a vine that has to go deeper to find natural water. And I realized something. Maybe these dryer seasons when we are waiting for that "sound of abundance of rain" that Elijah speaks of, are so that we will dig deeper to find fresh, natural, living water. Maybe you aren't getting very watered. Maybe that is God trying to grow you, and make you a Vine that will last to bear Him an abundance of fruit. Maybe He wants you to dig deeper. He could take all this away in a moment, but that will not be best for us in our growth. He wants to grow us, and He is not going to sacrifice your calling and development for yor personal comfort. "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth."
-Isaiah 62:1 He will not rest until you are the woman or man of God He has called and destined for you to be.
You may feel God has left you. But that is not the case. He is doing this so you can draw closer to Him. This is His way of taking what is Desolate and Forsaken and making it something that is a delight and yeilds fruit, if we let God makes us into what He would have us to be. "Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land anymore be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married."-Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means "My delight is in her". This is the God who Loves and cares for you and is doing this so you can be made even more after His image.
And your fruit bearing season will come in time. Only recently I was talking to someone who told me she thought that she couldn't see things changing with situations around her, and that she had been trying for so long to bear fruit in areas she was supposed to be caring for, and nothing seemed to be giving,... but from the bottom of my Heart I want to say this: your season is coming. The principle of sowing and reaping is still true. Don't pull back. Don't pull back. Keep pressing in and searching for that natural water. You will reap in time. Even if the people around you are not responding, even if situations and circumstances continue on so dry right now, there is a reward in the end in the hand of the Lord, so keep digging deeper. God has said in His word "The LORD hath sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which THOU HAST LABOURED: BUT THEY THAT HAVE GATHERED IT SHALL EAT IT, AND PRAISE THE LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness." -Isaiah 62:8-9
Don't pull back. Keep growing. God says that if you labour for this, you will reap it, and be able to rejoice in that time. For now, though, dig deeper, and find that better water.
I Love you all, and am praying for each and every one of you during the different seasons of life we all are facing. Let's all go to Him and drink from the Water of Life!
Love,
Tawney Rae <3
So sorry this has been so long delayed in coming. Life has just been too busy for blogging. Not that blogging doesn't have it's place,... it just has been too busy to sit down and feel energized enough to write you a half-decent post, or want to ramble about doing school. It's a season I'm in, I suppose. Not that I'm lacking in inspiration. I feel it's been the opposite lately; that I am simply overflowing with inspiration in my Bible-reading,
writing, etc. but there hasn't been a time, or place to let it flow over from the thoughts to the words. It's been good for me, though, in ways. I'm learning to mull over the thoughts and things I'm learning/recieving more, instead of hurriedly putting them to paper or action. And what I've realized is that those things mature more when I don't spew them out at the exact moment I've recieved them or thought of them, if that makes sense to any of you. I'm simply learning to DIG DEEPER.
But that doesn't mean that that is easy. Growth never is. There's always pain involved, and the pruning shears of a Loving Husbandmen who cuts away the old, dead branches that are hindering our ability to bear fruit (I was reading John 15 last night. So good). Sometimes it means that He is going to let us have some sort of dryness in the season around us, but it is only so we dig deeper to find BETTER WATER to drink from. There is a story of two types of vines in a vineyard I heard just recently. One is a vine that they water constantly, but by the third or fourth year it has to be thrown out because it has been watered so much... leaving it with only a short-period fruit-bearing season. The other vine lasts ten to fifteen years. And this vine is not watered so much, causing stress to it and forcing it to stretch further into the ground. This causes a vine that has to go deeper to find natural water. And I realized something. Maybe these dryer seasons when we are waiting for that "sound of abundance of rain" that Elijah speaks of, are so that we will dig deeper to find fresh, natural, living water. Maybe you aren't getting very watered. Maybe that is God trying to grow you, and make you a Vine that will last to bear Him an abundance of fruit. Maybe He wants you to dig deeper. He could take all this away in a moment, but that will not be best for us in our growth. He wants to grow us, and He is not going to sacrifice your calling and development for yor personal comfort. "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth."
-Isaiah 62:1 He will not rest until you are the woman or man of God He has called and destined for you to be.
You may feel God has left you. But that is not the case. He is doing this so you can draw closer to Him. This is His way of taking what is Desolate and Forsaken and making it something that is a delight and yeilds fruit, if we let God makes us into what He would have us to be. "Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land anymore be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married."-Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means "My delight is in her". This is the God who Loves and cares for you and is doing this so you can be made even more after His image.
And your fruit bearing season will come in time. Only recently I was talking to someone who told me she thought that she couldn't see things changing with situations around her, and that she had been trying for so long to bear fruit in areas she was supposed to be caring for, and nothing seemed to be giving,... but from the bottom of my Heart I want to say this: your season is coming. The principle of sowing and reaping is still true. Don't pull back. Don't pull back. Keep pressing in and searching for that natural water. You will reap in time. Even if the people around you are not responding, even if situations and circumstances continue on so dry right now, there is a reward in the end in the hand of the Lord, so keep digging deeper. God has said in His word "The LORD hath sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which THOU HAST LABOURED: BUT THEY THAT HAVE GATHERED IT SHALL EAT IT, AND PRAISE THE LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness." -Isaiah 62:8-9
Don't pull back. Keep growing. God says that if you labour for this, you will reap it, and be able to rejoice in that time. For now, though, dig deeper, and find that better water.
I Love you all, and am praying for each and every one of you during the different seasons of life we all are facing. Let's all go to Him and drink from the Water of Life!
Love,
Tawney Rae <3
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