Redeeming the Time

Greetings,

I didn't realize how long it had been since I posted on my blog.
I don't get many followers here but it is a nice place to journal my thoughts.

I along with many others lost a following as Google plus canceled many accounts.
I hope that many of us will find the venue to reconnect some where else.

My thoughts on redeeming the time is inspired with the hustle and bustle of life.
I read a book several years ago about having a Mary heart in a Martha world.

We must remember to keep the priorities of what God says to be first in our life.

I'm thankful that Holy Spirit guides us through each day. He helps me to prioritize my day..
We must prioritize our energy and resources as well. 
I received a prophetic word many years ago saying change, change change was coming to my life. At the time I took the word to my heart and eagerly anticipated when the first change would occur.

Now I can reflect on those changes and wonder how it was possible for so many changes to happen in my life. At the time I made choices as they came and many if not most or all of those choices opened  doors that has led me to where I am today.
Now I feel the urgency to do as much as possible with the years I have before me. I don't want to leave this world with a full cup but rather to be poured out as Drink offering for others..
Thank you Lord for all you have done in and through me. Thank you Lord for choosing the tongue and pen of me to anoint to bless and inspire others.

God bless you all

Sandra

Reformation Comes with a Cost:

Greetings in Jesus Precious Name!

Thinking more on the subject of  reformation and the cost of it.
It has always been that the former move of God will persecute the next move of God.
Why?? Because we can so easily move into becoming the status quo and hold sacred that position. Actually daring anything to challenge it.

I was a young teenage girl in the 1960's and remember well the assassination of President Kennedy.  Soon to follow was Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy as well as several others who were called to bring Reform. 
When God purposes to bring Reform he will bring revelation to those who are called to initiate it. But it will be challenged and not everyone will embrace it.
John the Baptist as well Jesus preached reformation.  The first century Church preached and taught that same meassage and most of them were martyred.
There was sacrifice, persecution and blood shed to bring forth the designed change that reformation was to bring.

When Jesus taught the parable of the wineskins.  He said that new wine  (revelation ) could not be put into old bottles. Because the old bottle will burst and both the bottle and the wine will be lost.
Oft times many get frustrated with those who cannot connect or embrace their vision.  I want to encourage you to stop! If they don't get it leave to God to deal with.
God loves them right where they are at.
Just like the old bottle that would burst Jesus does not want that to happen.

We may not even understand what the change will look like when completed but we must keep moving forward and preserve with it.

We must understand that there is sacrifice and cost if you are a vessel chosen to bring the reform. As much as you may feel the adversity you cannot return back.  The vision you have been given is stronger than the sacrifices that go with it even at the cost of loss and death.

It is my desire that this post will help you to understand and not get discouraged or frustrated if you see that the majority just don't get what you do..
Others who were called to bring Reform experienced the same. Change does not come easily but if God has purposed it the reformation will come into completion !

God bless you!
Sandra

God's Love:

Greetings to those who follow Sandra Jones Ministries.

As we reflect on love this month I wanted to share a brief summary of what I have come to understand about God's love.

# 1.  We must understand that the very essence of God is love!

# 2. The scripture tells us that love never fails!  Meaning that nothing can ever supercede God's love.

#3.  We must understand that in our flesh we could never love like God loves.

#4.  God's love is not self motivated, but rather it is Giving. .God Gave because He Loves.

# 5.  We have an adversary the devil that targets and seeks to abort or neutralize God's love working in us and through us.

# 6.  Fear and rejection are enemies of love, so we must identify and understand how these demonic spirits operate.  We must also access God's grace through our faith in Jesus.

# 7.  God's love is not a feeling it is a living sacrifice.

# 8.  God's love will keep our hearts tender towards Him and others.

# 9.  God's love will demonstrate His
mighty works.

# 10.  God's love does not boast, brag or is puffed up or envious.

# 11.  God's love works His truth.

#12.  God's love bears all things and hopes all things through patience.

Blessings
Sandra

 

Jesus: Lord of the circumstance

IGreetings in the precious name oh Jesus.

I have had a day that was not planned and the challenge completely interrupted my order for the day.

But as I write I remember the scripture that says This is the Day that Lord has made. .
My business was set aside to only sit and rest before my king.
I am results driven and give due diligence to what I set my hands to do.. But sometimes He draws me aside where I am tested and tried, but in the valley He restores my soul. .
After a great session in physical therapy I got up off the table with a full attack of vertigo..after all day just now begining to feel a little more normal. My body has gotten perhaps some well needed rest..

These episodes also tend to put my emotions into high gear..
But through it all I will praise my God!

Thank you Lord for caring for me and my physical well being, for you see and know me and there is nothing in me that is hid in you.
Today I have simply went with the flow knowing my Lord is with me and He has so blessed me with a loving caring husband.
I'm thankful for the medical staff that overseen my care today.
God bless all of those who serve in their own way..

Thank you Lord for your blessings on me!
Sandra

The Gift Goes On:

Greetings

It has been a while since I posted on my blog. I don't have very many following me in this venue. But it really does me good to pen my thoughts and sometimes they feel like private thoughts.

I think of the gift that God gave us through His Son Jesus. This precious gift of God to the world provides redemption of man  from sin and makes us just through His Righteous Sacrifice.

After 2, 000 years the gift goes on! As far as the east is from the west so the Lord has removed our transgressions from us.

God gave because He loves and His love expands and makes room for all.

Let us give this Christmas season not out of obligation but out of love.
May parents give to their children the gifts of  wisdom, understanding,  respect and honor. These are gifts that need to be passed on from one generation to another

May love encircle families and memories be made that is based on this special gift of God's love through the willingness of Jesus' love being poured out taking the full penalty of the wages or consequences of sin upon himself in the place of fallen man.

May the gift that God gave through Holy Spirit comfort the weary,  heal the broken and guide us into the marvelous truth of the abundance of God's love and grace.
Emmanuel : God with us amen!

Blessings
Sandra

A Movement of Reformation:

Are we in a movement of Reformation?

I believe we are!  Because God has heard the cry of His people. " To heal our land"

This thought is weighing heavily in my spirit.
The word reform means to change for the better.
Reformation is painful because it means to change what is to that which is better.  But we as humans like our comfort zone. We get comfortable in our individual religious status quo.  It is very important to note that God's Word will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Reformation is not Revival.
Reformation moves forward with Revelation that shakes and disturbs the status quo.  In other words it will rock your boat. 

I truly believe that God is moving in reformation in this hour. To do so he must cut away and remove flesh, traditions born of flesh and religious pride as well as some contrary winds of doctrine that oppose His purpose for the generation that is to follow.

Every movement of God since the great reformation of Luther looks like chaos in the begining.

But as David heard the sound of movement in the  mulberry trees we must identify what God is doing in this hour.

The physical environment is a reflection of the spiritual realm. The new will always clash with old and the former move of God will always persecute the next move of God.
While we honor our spiritual fathers we must bear the light of Truth forward.
King David' s reign did not look like king Saul and Solomon' s didn't look like David's.

Watch those who are pioneering wagon trails, who stand out and look different.
Pray to discern who are trying to deceive by counterfeiting these spiritual pioneers by creating rabbit trails. Jesus said by their fruit you will know them or identify them.

Those who are called out to carry reformation. Who are pioneering trails will continue to stand out more and more in these next few years. God's purpose will stand and His will done.  He  will bring the change He desires and nothing absolutely nothing will stop it.

I'm reminded of a song by Le Ann Squire:
Expose me then compose me as symphony in your hands. Rewrite me contrite I will be in your hands......
Painful at first the first cut the worse...

Expose me, what I think, feel and believe in which may be distorted through the lens of  a religious spirit.  Cut away Dear Lord the things that make me deaf, dumb and blind.

Child of God circumcision of the heart is painful at first.  Reformation is a manifestation of circumcision.
May God bless you all with courage,  boldness and meekness to be Lion like against the demonic forces that seek to pervert and counterfeit this movement and to be Lamb like to God's precious people who may not yet understand!

This year we are celebrating 500 years since the great reformation of Luther. He was torn, persecuted and misunderstood. But he was also courageous and bold and could not return to the status quo of His day!  Even though he doubted himself he could Not go back. He had to move forward with the torch of the revelation of Truth that he was pioneering.

Jeremiah the prophet said the Revelation that he carried was like a fire shut up in his bones. He could not help but speak it and declare the revelation of Truth that he was pioneering!

I encourage us to work with God in what He is doing in this hour and watch those who are pioneering wagon trails for the next generation to follow.
Let us not be hasty to declare something as heresy simply because it is unfamiliar to you.

Lord open our ears to hear and our eyes to see in Jesus Name Amen!

Blessings
Sandra

New Season Coming: Follow - Up

Greetings in Jesus Mighty Name!

Since I posted New Season Coming it has been amazing how many people that I know is entering this season of setting things in order or putting to right that which is not established in Righteousness.

When we identify what God is calling and shifting us into we can meekly work with him in laying the foundation of structure policy, goals, strategies and agenda.

We need to look at our daily routine. For in it we will find and discover the clues of what we are doing or believing that we need to adjust in order for us to be effective in our next season.

An afternoon nap may become a new normal for some, while a short walk may be what is needed for another.

God's Wisdom teaches us how to implement knowledge. Setting order will  require wisdom in prioities.
We must prioritize our time, energy and resources.

I have been praying for a revival of Wisdom in our nation.
Some people may need to put some things to right in their relationships or in their attitudes and habits.

Child of God something new can be difficult to embrace. So ask for God's Grace to help you shift.

Remember God has Made Everything beautiful in its season.
So pick up this new mantle and wear it for the glory of God.

Goal bless you all!

Sandra.