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Galatians 3:26-27 (21st Century King James Version)

²⁶For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

If you are a believer then you are a child of God.  As a daughter of the King that makes you a princess in the Kingdom of God.

I wish you to know that no matter what your past, that you have a father now, a daddy that loves you.  I really believe that His heart hurts when He sees that you don’t understand who you are.

You are a princess, and yes He knows that you are flawed, that you are human, that you make mistakes.  But make no mistake that as a princess in the Kingdom that you deserve so much more than what you are looking for at times.  Your Daddy has a grand plan for you if you will allow it to come to pass and not try to bring it to pass for your own flawed designs and efforts.

Look to God to fill the holes in your heart.  They won’t be filled by some guy that talks and talks and promises you his heart but all he has in mind is using you.  Don’t you know that you are special. Don’t you know that you are made for a purpose. Don’t you know that He not he has your best interests in mind. Players come and go, but the same one that asks you to be a princess in His Kingdom will never leave you.

He sees His potential daughters walking the streets and giving away themselves for money or maybe just a slickly turned phrase from the mouth of some guy.  He sees them trying and trying to fill a lack in their lives with guys that want only sex and give only abuse in return.  He made them for someone else special and He watches them give themselves away to those that don’t really care for her.

He asked you to come into His Kingdom and be a princess, stop settling for less than the prince He is preparing for you.

The last few weeks I have had a bit of spiritual confusion going on.  Have had  since we shut down LifeQuest Church a couple of months ago.  I had felt spiritually homeless since then.  On August 7th God gave me the City on our Knees Vision ( http://www.facebook.com/cityonknees ) which I was working on till I ran into some roadblocks getting timely event permission from the city.

Last Sunday evening I was invited to a tent revival going on in Unionville where I discovered them carrying out what City on our Knees was to be plus a lot more (though I now believe that maybe City on our Knees is to possibly be something slightly different – waiting to hear about that). Well anyway, what they were doing there fell all along into what I have felt God calling me to do for a long time.

BUT, by Friday night I was actually a little irritated and probably a little upset with God.  I saw what was going on here and how they were living my vision bigger and better than I had seen it…and well I started having me a little pity party about becoming a spectator then rather than a visionary.  BUT, earlier that night a pastor had spoken about God’s deliverance from the cancer he had been diagnosed with.

On Saturday God had sent me back to the tent meeting, this time to inquire about two things. The first of the two was personal and I won’t go into it here.  The second was about us and our vision being sidelined and not wanting to be a spectator in ministry.  After talking to Pastor Fambro, God showed me something else.

He brought me back to the message the other pastor had given on Friday night, the message about deliverance from cancer.  God reminded me that he had also delivered me from a diagnosis of cancer – a diagnosis that the doctor was 100% certain of and that God healed me of. I will give my testimony of that at another time, but what God was showing me was that scar was my God Scar and I am in a way privileged to have it.

It is there as a reminder.

A reminder at times when my faith may want to waiver.

A reminder that God is able.

A reminder that God still heals today.

A reminder our God loves us.

In Genesis 32:25 God touched Jacob’s hip – I have a God Scar where he touched me….as a reminder of Him.

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I was reading a blog at Out of Ur about Virtual Church – you know, the trend to put church services online.  And I do agree that while the main problem with a virtual church is the inability to relate to others, which is very difficult in an online church service, the discussion about it got me thinking. In particular this sentence got my attention – “And while internet campuses provide a great sermon delivery vehicle, and even allow you to virtually raise your hand in response, what they don’t do is allow you to be known and missed”

The problem I have unfortunately seen is people not being “known and missed” in a physical church – with real walls and real people.  The larger the church the easier it becomes for people to fall through the cracks. Real people with real feelings and real needs – their absence becomes unnoticed among the throng and when they may need some people from their church the most, their church fails them in their need.  It’s not on purpose or by any plan – it just happens.

Think back – see if there is someone that you have lost track of. Someone that used to be in your life every Sunday. You know what to do.

Steve

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Our new motto for LifeQuest Church is “Where the past doesn’t determine your future”.

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  (2Co 5:17)

So many times we look at others and instead of seeing the new creation we still see what the person used to be.  We see the alcoholic, the druggie, the sex addict, the addictions they had, the liar, etc…    Even when we look at ourselves we do this – we think about how we can’t do something because of our imagined limitations or we worry about what others will think of us.

But God doesn’t care about any of that, the past that is. I think he does care that we still see ourselves and others as we used to be.  God doesn’t care about our past – I don’t think that God even remembers what we were,not that he can’t remember but he chooses to remember and see us as he has made us to be and not to see us as we were.

Our future is a blank page that we can write. Our past decisions don’t decide what goes on that page. our old addictions don’t decide, the dependencies we had don’t decide.  Our walk with Jesus will help us write what goes on that page and it may contain a future that you can’t even imagine right now.

Steve