Who DO you worship?

"After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the LORD, and he worshiped the LORD" Genesis12:8

         Sitting here in worshiping my King in my room with a holy altar set up for Him---just want to note that this experience with Christ is beyond amazing. Listening to one of my fave worship songs by William McDowell "I Belong to You" on blast times 1 billion;  thinking about how God's sweetest love overflows into my life ...has always and continues to completely satisfy and fulfill me. His dear words that He wanted me to share with you are these beautiful words here:  "I will prepare a place for you".

      After a few occurrences with people the past year where I've been in grocery stores and randomly chat with people while shopping..and after the chat-- you're both  like, "I hope to see each other again and then you both say "we will ...in heaven" with a nod and smile.  This scenario has happened periodically over my life. So, as I sit here, I'm like Lord, "how can I please you in every way to make it in the narrow door.. I long to see your face, kiss your feet and have your arms wrapped around me saying I love you  daughter, thanks for being faithful." When God said He was taking things to another level for his Children, expansion, opening barren wombs,  divine healing and miracles,  healing from sicknesses and diseases, awakening those who are sleeping, shifting things for His people and delivering His promises...tears in my eyes began to flow. 

     As you are reading this blog, I pray that God's overwhelming love, His intimacy, grace, peace, joy, hedge of protection, holy ghost fire blaze and consume your soul times 1 billion and may the comfort from the holy spirit and  holy ministering angels surround you and your place of resting; that the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit with divine revelation--- reveal themselves to you where you are right now, that it may capture your heart, mind, body and soul and all that is from the heaven gates overflow in your life more abundantly and in deeper ways than ever before! 

      I blogged before about "How to be Intimate with God" but I want to encourage you to go even deeper with Christ in your worship...prepare a place in your room and worship Him. Please do not give me the side eye because of me challenging you in this way ... when back in the day you might have bumped to  Snoop Dogg, "Drop it like it's Hot"  and there are sex altars dedicated to that man. Like really? Let's grow and  mature in our walk and worship with Christ.   Back to the altar...Why prepare a place for God in your home? For me, it is to show my honor, reverence and love for God.  I lay my prayer requests as well as others, things i can't seem to "shake off ",  my struggles and burdens. I have my prayer rug right next to my altar, where I bow down and worship Jesus with a box of Angel soft kleenex that has butterflies (represents change/transformation) on it  so when those tears begin to fall.   I put some worship music on,  pray in the spirit or however God leads me. I do some praise moves (alternative to yoga) and I go in!  I journal often but I sometimes I would pick those issues that I pour out.. right back up..so now, I put those things I need to get rid of or whatever is causing my spirit to feel heaviness---put it on the altar, leave it there and allow God to work it out and pour into me and then journal.  I'm practicing to "Be still and know that He is God". Leaving those things at my altar; that I prepare for Him makes me feel like wow, I'm really giving this to Him and I don't have to wait til Sunday, "wooohooo" lol :) ! My worship with God is personal and intimate in every way and it makes me feel so glad to know that God smiles and honor it.  (I will talk further in this blogpost what I put on my altar).  I desire while i'm temporarily here ...to make my living here on Earth as it is in heaven ...as much as possible. God promises a place for us with Him for eternity ...so why not prepare a place for Him while you are here on Earth temporarily?  

John 14

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Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” 

My mini altar

  When God placed this on my heart to share...there are many times where my heart feels troubled  or anxious about  a lot of things that goes on in my personal life and in this troubled world. Especially, when you hear more death reports than praise reports, tragic happenings daily, and live in an era where you see even more signs of perilous times. But when I read John 14, it gives me so much comfort and peace. I pray that it does the same for you. When things happen in life that seems unfair, or seems like it suppose to harm you, run to God. I run to Him...not only for myself but for those I know and love dearly, as well as those I don't know personally, or when  God shows me or lay a person on my heart to pray for.  I go to my place of worship where I prepared for Him, worshiping, praising and crying out to Him. In  Psalm 22:22-24 I will declare your name to my people;

    in the assembly I will praise you.
23 You who fear the Lord, praise him!
    All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
    Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or scorned
    the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him

    but has listened to his cry for help.

   God's presence is sweet and breathtaking. I love basking in the presence of the Lord. I ask God to remove all blockage and anything that is not like Him from me, and release one thing at a time to Him. Whether it's about my past, present or future...I allow God to deal and continue to deal with me in those areas,  where I have kinks and wrinkles that can be difficult and uncomfortable to face at times but I NEED Him to iron it all out. I love how He loves me enough to help me out and do it. GOD has proven himself to me over and over again, that He will never leave me nor forsake me and that He is with me  always and wherever I go. Whew, such an amazing love that I really can't explain...all i know is it's unmatched! In my place of worship, I find that God is my biggest confidant.  His hand is stretched towards me and He is very willingly to love, encourage, comfort and help me through every season of my life. 

    The same God that does it for me...can do it for you! But you have a choice to choose Him or not. He gives us free will.

Joshua 24:15

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15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

    I choose Christ! Everytime,  I tried to step outside of God's plan...I would get hit left and right and feel God's spirit leave me. It's a daily decision to keep obeying and following Him because you have to deny yourself, pick up your cross  daily and follow Him. Luke 9:23-24

  Q: Why do you choose to worship Christ when there are a plenty of other gods to worship?
  A:  Well, when i was 7 yrs old, I would get this dream very frequent that I was in Egypt, and my hands were in chains and I was being  thrown at a Pharaoh's feet. The Pharaoh would ask me, "who do you worship?" The pharaoh would yell at me and tell me to bow down and worship the Sun god "Rah" and if I didn't..He had a sword in his hand and told me, I will kill you, along with a soldier standing behind me with a sword in his hands as well, and the Pharaoh will begin to say ..Bow down and say Rah is your God. With my face towards the floor, I would say Jesus is Lord. After getting whipped and beaten(which I could feel while I was sleeping when i was a kid) the Pharaoh would say to me again, Who do you worship? I would tell him, Jesus, and I remember waking up before being killed in my dream. I would wake up all sweaty and in tears as a child because I would have this dream on more than one occassion. After that my dreams got deeper, God began to show me people, their clothing, places, buildings, land, world issues, hell and heaven.


That is only part of my journey with Christ, I'm sure you have your own and I am praying for you! Keep me lifted as well.


God ridiculously cares about you,

Love,
Sheree B