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Has He been revealed to you?

2/21/2013

 
Diane Johnson

Hi all. I just finished visiting our website, Household of Faith and listened to the B&B, Breakfast and Bible first tape, "Has He been revealed to you" by Jay and group. I had to listen to it a second time because the first time I cried once Jay started talking about Jesus being gentle and all about His yoke. The message grew and became more intimate all the way to the very end of the last statement from Tom... I don't want to go make donuts! THANK YOU, every one who made this experience possible by building the website and participating in such an early morning bible study so faithfully each Tuesday morning at Jay and Karen's home. When Jay sent you out like the preacher who went to the factory and waited for the Holy Spirit to arrive... you didn't realize that our great God would work your testimonies from that session in another time in someone like me and I bet others too after they listen to your fellowship. God bless the body of Christ.
AMANDA's RESPONSE

  Hola..Just finished up listening to the B&B.
Very good perspective..about rest. It opened my eyes to how I have been abiding in Him. When you are asking God to make you new and stretch you, your days can be some highs and lows at the same time..with God. It is a very emotional time for a long period of time, the spirit has lead me to abide in Him rather than get caught up in the roller coaster of emotions.How do I rest in this moment? Now doing this..when those times come I am grounded and don't waiver with my thoughts. The enemy tries to hang out some bait at those times when my emotions are happy or sad. Now that I have been abiding in Him daily..sometimes hourly..at times:) I have a deeper faith of confidence while abiding in Him in rest .I am finding rest in Him through struggles and obstacles put daily in my path. I often hear my heart pouring into someone else with edifying words and going out of my way to love on someone else in need. How do I have time for that? I love having a life now based on priorities being in order with time for my God and my family.
Thank you for sharing everyone who had their hand in this B&B.
ATHENA's RESPONSE:

  Reading your comment, Di, made me realize that I need to go back and listen again with undivided attention.., I was multi tasking when I listened and believe from your comments that I missed much that I NEED to hear! Thank you, thank you!!
DIANE's RESPONSE:

:>) what encouraged me most was listening to the voices as the group interacted and even after the closing prayer their sharing grew more reverent, as if they really sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit there. I imagined their changed countenance and their hearts softened. That is why I cried. I felt like I was watching God loving on them. Like Jay said in the following tape I listened to next, how could we settle for any other kind of reality when heaven is hovering over each of our heads. I am in a bible study at my church on Exodus. In this last session the teacher pointed out how many times the Lord told the people to gather, to eat and remember Him. She said what we remember is what drives most of our decisions in life. She challenged us. "What do you remember? Is it the most incredible thing that ever happened to you or the saddest thing or what. Take those memories and put them in a basket this week she asked gently. And then offer them up to the Lord saying, I want to be remembering You instead.
GLENDA's RESPONSE:

"How can I not be at peace if I really believe in you". Karen prayed this in her closing prayer. This is becoming more and more a reality in my life as I learn to depend more and more on my Heavenly Father. For a very long time I lived as everyone said was 'normal'. I mean, everyone gets frustrated and annoyed when things go wrong and people mistreat you, right? That was what I saw in the examples of all the believers around me! I prayed about decisions and certainly asked God for help if someone wronged me in a big way and I knew I needed to forgive them -- but peace, about things like a car that wouldn't start or a website that kept going wrong? I'd never heard of THAT sort of thing. Then God brought Jay into my life. Through a story way too long to tell here I was wide open to being discipled by him and in Him I saw a whole brand new way of life. A life FULL of that peace Karen prayed about. A life where the yoke IS light. I saw that life CAN be lived without that roller coaster of emotions that Amanda referred to. I am learning to have that kind of life. It is amazing the peace we can have in the most difficult and painful circumstances when we are wearing HIS yoke. We aren't in control, the Master is, He will take care of it. We are HIS children, overflowing with HIS love to others around us. I am so excited to learn more all the time about HOW to function as HIS body, the more I learn the more life changing I see this is going to be!
DIANE's RESPONSE:

Glenda, you have listened to all the tapes on the website and so you know what I mean when I say that I feel like I am a brick in the fire right now. and there is a stripping away which leaves me speechless. Thank you for your faithfulness to our Lord.

Seeing growth is encouraging!

2/19/2013

 
Glenda Leigh
Feb 19, 2013
I got the email to fill out the gifts survey and my first thought was "I just did that a few months ago....". Then as I started to work on it I looked at the definitions of each gift and I realized that when I read them last time (starting in August) they were a whole lot more confusing to me than they are now. It was rather neat to pray over each gift and see just how God has grown me and how I have changed in different areas. Some things that I saw as gifts I now believe are simply physical DNA abilities that God gifted me physically with. I'm seeing spiritual strengths that I didn't know I had six months ago. it's pretty amazing to see. I will be really interested in comparing this survey with the one I did then - when this one is done!

Give generously

2/19/2013

 
Nathan Watson
Feb 19, 2013

I have been praying for what words of encouragement to post here lately and here is what the Lord has laid on my heart. {James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all WITHOUT FINDING FAULT, and it will be given to him.} I think this is so great, because of what has been posted here lately....Jays post about Judith and the comfort she will be seeking, the attacks from the enemy with Glendas headaches and stomach aches, the doubt and curses that have been hurled at Athena she talked about, Jays voice and other things....Soooo many things we just can't understand why sometimes so we seek the Lords wisdom. And how great is it that we can ask our maker for wisdom on how to deal with these things without fear of judgement when we have gotten ourselves in a predicament, when we don't know what to do. He will give it generously. Praise God, I can always use generous wisdom.

Let us continually offer a sacrifice of PRAISE

2/18/2013

 
Glenda Leigh
Feb 18, 2013
Tonight, the struggle with the website continues. Please please pray, each of you. Dad posted this song on his Facebook and it was SO totally what I needed to hear. I wanted to share it here, I t hink it's safe to say someone, or someones, here need to hear it too.
Hebrews 13:15 ""15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."
God is so amazing and blessed me so much with this song tonight.



February 15th, 2013

2/15/2013

 
Glenda Leigh
Feb 15, 2013

Each Thursday night since we started to meet, at 6:30 PM I develop a headache and a sick stomach. Last night my pain levels also went through the roof. The first week I thought might have been fluke. By this week I know it's nothing less than an attack of Satan. He wants me off my game. The first two weeks I had recovered well enough to participate without any difficulty. Last night I did not.

Folks, I see two things here. First of all, I need your prayers. Satan tried to tell me I was unworthy to be here, when that failed he is now coming at me through my health. I will not allow him victory but I need your prayers!!!

The second thing is this. These things might be happening in YOUR life ... and if they're not they likely will at some point. BE AWARE my sisters and brothers. Satan likes to be sneaky and catch us off guard. We must be ready to recognize his tactics, they may be small, they may be difficult to recognize at first, but we must be on guard.

Please, join me in prayer both for myself and for each of us that we will be watchful and prayerful.
JAY's RESPONSE:

This is one of those 'normal' kind of attacks that often happens when we are in the process of really, REALLY growing in the LORD. The FIRST time I remember dealing w/ this type of attack was back in th 70's. We would have staff meetings @ our house every TH nite, which were critical to our ministry on F & ST nites. Karen & I didn't usually argue & fight, but it got to where we'd have this ONCE A WEEK "@ each other's throat" thing. After several weeks of this, we were in the middle of ANOTHER one, just before everyone was coming over & I stopped Karen & said ... "HEY ... do you see what's REALLY going on, here???" & explained to her the frequency & the timing. We stopped & prayed ... & resolved that the next time we had this begin to happen, the FIRST one who saw it was to STOP US ... & bring us to prayer. & STOP IT WE DID!!! Just realizing how the enemy was working, & praying the GRACE of the LORD over it ... those kind of attacks stopped in just a few weeks!!!
I'd encourage EACH of you to look closely in your own lives & see IF there is SOMEthing that is trying to keep you from being spiritually effective in ANY area you're growing in ... & caution you to be particularly alert when it comes to our Aslan's Song fellowship. The enemy of our soul just HATES it when the Body of Christ truly begins to walk In an understanding of the "inheritance in the saints" that we have in each other.
THANKS for posing this, Glenda, so we can be aware of YOUR needs, & the need to keep each other in prayer.

What do I know?

2/14/2013

 
Glenda LeighFeb 14, 2013

I have felt God leading me to share this with my Aslan's Song family.. I hope it blesses you or grows you in some fashion!

" I was less than a week old the first time I was in church. Every week of my life I walked through those church doors twice on Sunday, often on Wednesday, and faithfully on Saturday evening for a youth program aimed toward my age roup. I was in Sunday school by the time I was 3 and not long after that I could have told you every Bible story in the book. When I graduated from high school I went on to Bible school where I worked hard enough for three years to earn a diploma in biblical studies. I knew my Bible! Or did I?

I thought I did. In the recent months God has been teaching me otherwise. I have had my nose in a book just like always, only this time it’s frequently been my Bible. I am seeing things that not only do I not remember seeing before but that go against things I have believed for as long as I can remember!!!

For example. I was always taught that God doesn’t bring bad things our way. He USES them to teach us what we need to learn, He allows them, but He never causes them. Yet now I read Isaiah 30:19b-21 and I see differently. Lets look at what the verse says.

“How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

The LORD GIVES YOU the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. He GIVES it! It doesn’t say He allows it, or He uses it, it says HE GIVES IT. That completely floored me when I heard it the first time. I ran for my Bible to see if it REALLY said that – and it does! What a different perspective that puts on life!!! God FEEDS us difficult times. This gives us perfect opportunities to grow in our faith, to grow our faith muscles SO THAT… when Satan does come our way with temptations we are STRONG enough in our faith, in our walk with our LORD that we see and know him for who he is and we are ninja like in our responses. Being aware of what is going on is absolutely necessary to winning the battle against the enemy. The moment we recognize exactly WHAT is going on and WHO is behind it we are able to make the necessary changes in our thoughts and then our behaviours; this means we can now aware that we need to be doing TWO things. Speaking the TRUTH outloud, to ourselves and to anyone else who will listen and we need to be LIVING Hebrews 13:15!

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name.

A SACRIFICE of PRAISE!!! Start PRAISING God! If you need help, ask for it! I could share story after story about circumstances where I was certain there was NOTHING I could find to be praising God for – but I wanted to be obedient so I asked God to show me.. Show me He did! He left me not only praising Him but in tears of PRAISE, amazed at His GOODNESS to me… at the very time I thought I had nothing to be thankful for!!!

Our God is an amazing God who deserves our praise, our sacrifice of praise, at all times. When we walk in obedience to Him He is able to work in our heart and lives in ways that we can’t fathom. It doesn’t mean life will be easy or that we’ll always have things the way we want them but it DOES mean that we will live lives pleasing to God and what more can we ask for?

I have so much more to share but that is for another time. God is teaching me so much!!!  We are all on this journey together, on a path of growing, learning, sharing and becoming more and more like the God who loves us!"



Esther

2/11/2013

 
Jay Peavler

One of the most powerful & beautiful stories EVER told
is that of a young Jewish girl named Esther ...
who was 'born' to save her people.

May we listen ... w/ our hearts ... to this song.

Enjoy the video clips that go w/ it, from the movie
"ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING" ... it'll encourage your
own heart to seek the LORD's heart, so you might have
more revelation about what He is calling you/us to be.

Ephesians 1:
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened
in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you,
the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe!!!

Are we walking in TRUE Faith???

2/10/2013

 

Jay Peavler Feb 10, 2013
Last night we watched the latest Sherlock Holmes series, titled "ELEMENTARY'. GREAT show!!! One thing REALLY struck me. An "ex-drug-dealer" who had known Sherlock when he WAS doing drugs, found out that his daughter was being held for ransom. He immediately went to ask Sherlock for help ... & he took the case. As Watson saw how cool the guy was behaving, he was asked "You seem kool for a guy who just found out his daughter was going to be killed IF you don't give them the $2 &1/2 million by tomorrow ... may I ask ... WHY IS THAT?!?!?!"
The guy looked straight into Watson's eyes & immediately replied
"Because I have FAITH in Sherlock Holmes!!!"
!!!!! WOW !!!!!
What a wonderful place to learn about the results of GENUINE FAITH ;)
Let US examine our hearts. Are WE walking in TRUE FAITH???
The LORD's goal is ALWAYS ... through EVERY trial .. to have us learn to trust NOT in ourselves, but in HIM, Who raises the dead. (2 Corinthians 1:8-9) And the ONLY way we discover our hearts honest take on things is when the LORD sends the fire to "test each man's work" (1 Cor 3:12-14)

He testifies in my favor! 

2/10/2013

 
Diane Johnson  Feb 10, 2013
Sometimes when I am humbled by the Father, the enemy tries to steal it from me by accusing me of my value. And I am reminded by what Jesus said. "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid. There is another who testifies in my favor and I know that his testimony about me is valid." John 5:31

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