Glory Release Ministries

"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path." This scripture has been jumping out in my heart most of the week. When we don't know where we are going or what we are doing -         " His word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path". When we can't find our peace and living from a place of fear and anxiety -          " His word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path". When everything seems to be falling apart and you can't find a way through -          " His word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path". His word gives us peace in the midst of the storm, faith in the midst of fear, hope in times of despair and discouragement.  His word sustains and gives us life when all else is failing.  I encourage you today if you are struggling in any way, take some time to spend in His word and then everything will fall back into place and His peace that passes understanding will come into your situations givi

This morning the Lord has been talking about double mindedness speaking from a position of seeking the Lord re direction.  This seems to be a constant struggle for Jim and I.  Do we ...... or do we do.....? We are questioning direction, things that have been started, do they continue and the reason why the questions come are usually from not seeing what we believe we should be seeing or perhaps because of finances, or was it just the promise for a season? Matt 12:25  says "Every Kingdom divided against itself will be ruined and every city or household divided against itself will not stand". We are seeking the Lord from a heart to hear His voice and move with what He is saying and yet we constantly 'wobble'.  And in so doing we don't make decisions at all and we stay with what is familiar even if it's uncomfortable and perhaps not working. Over the Christmas holidays we sold a section we believed the Lord told us to buy.  Land in Waharoa.  A plac

The journey of faith and finances has been a long one for Jim and I.  First as 'missionaries' leaving our home land by faith with hardly any finances coming in and seeing God provide, and in the process teaching us to stand on His word.  Then returning home and believing for finances in the home town while still living as missionaries in NZ and learning how much we look to man for finances even whilst 'working' for the Lord we still put our trust in man to provide.  Learning that our trust needs to be completely resting in Him for everything, thinking that we actually do trust the Lord but in reality finding out that we are still looking to man, for finances, for honour, for approval, for acceptance.  And yet the Lord wants to be first in our lives and so he strips everything and shakes everything that can be shaken, taking us back to the things that really matter.  Love of God and Love of others as ourselves.  The one true measurement that we can use as a plumb line.

This morning I am praying and my beloved stands at the door and knocks and I invite Him and we dance together and my head is bowed low and He lifts up my head and looks at me in the eye and His eye touches mine, I cry. I cry because I am tired, I cry because sometimes it just too much, too hard, I cry because I don't know why but my heart knows in the face of my beloved, in the face of His love which overwhelms me and I feel safe again, I feel hidden again, I feel protected again. He makes everything beautiful in its time We chat and He shows me that its okay to be 'dry', its okay for things to 'die' because there are seasons in our lives and without the dry and without the dying then new life, resurrected in a new way, would not happen.  He shows me not to get discouraged by the brokenness, He shows me not to be sad in the dryness but to enjoy the seasons that are necessary in order for new things to come. He takes me into the 'garden' of m

It's been a challenging few days as I have sat and questioned the Lord on many things. Like Gideon in chapter 6:13 where he writes:      "Pardon me, my lord," But if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?  Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, 'Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?  But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian." The Lord turned to him and said, " Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand.  Am I not sending you?' Pardon me, my lord,"  Gideon replied, "but how can I save Israel?  My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."  The Lord answered, " I will be with you and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive." But in the asking and seeking come the answers.  If Gideon can ask the questions so can you and I.  If our God is a covenant God who is faithful t

1 Peter 4:10 "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.  If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God.  If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.  To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever.  Amen." Gift of Hospitaltiy I have been reading through 1 Peter and the above scripture stood out to me.  As we ponder this New Year and all that God would have us do or step into by faith, we don't need to look far outside of what is already in our hands and what we naturally love to do.  We are all gifted in many ways, for example, I love hospitality and it is a gift I have and so the Lord is encouraging me in that gift again.   But we all have different gifts and when we function in who God made us to be, we are fulfilled in who we are as a person an