Be Extraordinary

The Lord told me he wanted me to live and extraordinary life. Not knowing what that meant I looked up extraordinary it means not ordinary, out of the norm, unusual, going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary.  He told me to stop saying, "I can't imagine this or that…"  and to start imagining living an extraordinary life. So now I am practicing with my imagination to expect the extraordinary and beyond what is normal, things to happen to me daily!  After all we serve an extraordinary God who made us in His image so it only makes sense that we should receive extraordinary favor, blessings and provision from Him and be extraordinary ourselves!! Will you join me?  

Words can alter matter!

Excerpt from, “The Answer For Life”

Dr. Masaru Emoto is a Japanese author and entrepreneur known for his

claim that if human speech or thoughts are directed at water droplets

before they are frozen, images of the resulting water crystals will be

“beautiful” or “ugly” depending upon whether the words or thoughts

were positive or negative. Emoto claims this can be achieved through

prayer, music or by attaching written words to a container of water. Since

1999 Emoto has published several volumes of a work titled Messages

from Water, which contains photographs of water crystals next to essays

and “words of intent.” If you go to youtube.com you can view many of

Dr. Emoto’s experiments.

I did one of Dr. Emoto’s experiments myself. I placed the same amounts

of cooked white rice in jars and sealed them. On one jar I placed a label

that said life. On the other jar I placed a label that said death. I kept the

jars on the island in my kitchen. Several times a day for thirty days I

would pick the jars up and speak to the rice. To the jar I labeled life I

would say, “I speak life to you, I love you, you’re beautiful, you will live

long and prosper.” To the jar I labeled death I would say, “I hate you,

die, I curse you, you’re ugly, rot, grow mold, you’re worthless.” I took

pictures of the jars and recorded the process. By day eleven the jar labeled

death began to turn brown and develop black mold spots. The jar I labeled

life was still white and fluffy. By day fourteen the jar labeled death was

getting darker brown and growing mold fur all over. The jar labeled life

was still white and fluffy. At the end of thirty days the jar labeled death

was completely brown and moldy. The jar labeled life was just beginning

to look a little tan in color.

This experiment only reinforced my belief in the Scriptures regarding the

authority of the believer and the power of our thoughts and words. To the

friends and family that visited my house and saw the changes in the jars,

it made believers out of them! I highly suggest using these experiments

to teach your children.

My friend the Holy Spirit

This morning as I was driving my spirit began to commune with the Holy Spirit. I began thanking him for revealing himself to me. Opening my eyes, causing me to hunger and thirst after righteousness. I began remembering all he has done to draw me unto himself. How he speaks to me daily with his unction’s, how he has ordered my steps and taken me from where I was to where I am today. I began praising and thanking him for all of this and for all of my tomorrows that he has planned from before the foundation of the world. It was a very intimate and beautiful time that has lasted with me all day.

All the old didn't pass away automatically

In 2 Corinthians 5:17 it says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new

creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

After my conversion I stopped smoking, drinking and doing drugs, yes those things passed away. But I still struggled with things like anger, rage, fears, insecurities, and a bad attitude. I was born again and I could sense the change in my spirit but I was not demonstrating the character of God in my life yet. As I was struggling, many well-meaning Christians, in an attempt to minister to me, would say, “Donna, old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” As if my soul issues should have naturally passed away already or as if just quoting that scripture would some how make me feel better and I would suddenly be different.

This only caused me to cry out, “Lord, why then, am I still struggling with the old?” Struggling with my sin nature was my biggest problem as a Christian; it hindered my life, my prayers from being answered and my emotional well being. I know that I was not alone in this struggle.  

You see, when we accepted Jesus as Lord and we were “born again,” our spirit was regenerated and infused with life / Zoë . All of the spiritual forces and characteristics that make up the DNA of Father God was with in us once again. Bringing us back to the same condition Adam had before the fall.

I could feel the new life within my spirit but it certainly wasn’t flowing out of me. The reason is that when we accepted Christ our spirit was saved instantly. However, our soul has not been renewed. Our soul is still conditioned to and contaminated or infected with a sin nature. This is the curse of the fall, called the law of sin and death. This is the reason we struggle, it is the root to all the problems in our life.

The salvation and regeneration of our Spirit was immediate upon receiving Jesus. However the salvation of the soul is progressive. It is the process of restoring our mind, what and how we think, our will and our emotional well being to a place of wholeness.

This is ‘the answer’, the maturing process of manifesting the nature of the Father’s Zoë life through our soul. This is what our Christian maturity is all about. Feeling my soul come back to a place of wholeness has caused me to enter into His rest. My hearts desire is to bring others with me to this place!

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