Making bread for the hungry.....

So growing up I have always heard that God if the ultimate potter...or in cooking terms bread maker and we were the bread. As I went through the process of ACTUALLY making bread (pizza dough to be precise) I thought MAYBE, just MAYBE He has called us to be Jr. bakers under his authority. I know, off the beaten path a little but here are my thoughts. 

There is are a few base elements you MUST have and without one of them it doesn't work properly.

Flour, yeast, sugar, water, oil.

Wheat flour.... the basic main ingredient. We, Christians, are the flour...the true church of God. I am the main ingrediant in the making of bread for the hungry. NOW before you get all crunchy, I know it's not all about me so hear me out..

Without a true, obediant Christian yearning and longing to serve under God's devine authority how will we reach those who hunger for truth? I am not saying God can't, but I am saying He created us to not only worship Him in all things but to bring others to Him to do the same. 

Yeast and sugar... now I know in some contexts it's been portrayed as a negative thing...but I found it as a good thing! Matthew 13:33 Message .."God's kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread- and waits while the dough rises.

Now ain't that something?!?! If we don't work (work being the key word here) the kingdom into our life it will never rise! WHOOOOW!

Now the sugar activates the yeast. I beg to say I have several different types of sugar or activators in my life. My sweet husband, my pastor, and some of my closest friends and family. Not only do they taste good to me but they help activate the things of the kingdom that need to be kneeded into me.

Water....Can we really live without it? No! The Holy Spirit is vital to our daily life and living as well as anything we hope to produce for God in the Kingdom( John 4:14). Without water in bread... can you even make bread?!?

You must have the Holy Spirit in truth through the Word of God DAILY or you will quickly become dehydrated. If you have no water in your dough....well then there is no dough just some flour.

Oil- The annointing or God's will on our lives....So what happens if you cook bread wihtout oil? I mean you can do it, but you will get a dry bread that will go stale very quickly because oil helps keeps it fresh and pliable and it also won't rise as well.

hmmmm So I can be bread and bring others in without an annointing or living up to the fullnes of His will for me? Sure you can, but do I really want to do that?!? Do I want to be dry bread? Do I want to go stale quickly? or flat? UMM NO! I want to KNOW and be IN His will! I want to make peoples mouths water so badly for God and His Kingdom that they can't wait to taste and see that He is good!

So there's all the ingrediants....that's the easy stuff!! NOW the REAL work begins! My dad always said anything worth having never comes easy and requires hard work. Well, there is no difference in God's kingdom.

I don't know if you have ever "worked bread" but it ain't easy....10 or more minutes of pushing, kneeding and pulling on this dough and it gets tiring. Your arms get fatigued and ache. You get tired and honestly it's a bit of a workout! BUT if you stop it never rises to the full potential the head baker has intended for you to make.

How many of us are tired? Fatigued? BUT still know that God has so much more to "activate" in us for us to rise to HIS potential (not just our potential we see)! This is when looking ahead and knowing the finished product is worth all the aches, pains, and fatigue it takes to get there.

After the kneeding process of combining all the elements until they are so intermeshed they cannot be seperated, then and only then do you rest.  Rest in very importants in the process. This is where you get to grow and rise to the full potential of Gods plan for you. Somtimes the hardest thing for us to do it rest, but there is always a time to work and a time to rest. If you don't rest you don't get to rise.

Baking, WOW! Ok so I'm not sure what I think of this process. I mean who likes fire!?!

Well come to think of it, I do! I want to be the one that walks through the fire unharmed and not even the smell of ash on me, like Shadrach, Meshach , and Abednigo did! I want to come out of the fire fresh and smelling like something that fills the whole room with desire to eat and be filled.

So, what is the point? I mean it ALL sounds good in theory but if you don't see the end and the reason for it....why bother?! I want to not only be the bread, but I want to help make the bread and activate in others to feed the hungry of this world.

The only things that will ever really satify you is the bread of Life. Life in Christ and His kingdom. Life that without Him isn't even worth living. I want to go through all the kneeding I need done, make sure I have every ingredient in me meshed together to where it can never be disolved apart from each other so that I can rise to be what God wants me to be, BUT ULTIMATELY to bring other into the kingdom and feed them Him so that they then can not only be satified and see that He is good, but also start to the baking process in themsleves to reach others and feed them as well.

Good Baking my friends~

Pink Roses...

So that you can get to know a little more about me and where I can coming from here is a my view of the color pink.

Yesterday while at the grocery store I saw the most beautiful bouqet of roses. I was having a very tiring emotional day(in a good way but still). I decided they made me smile so I bought them to have at home to brighten my day a bit. 

After I got the roses home I began preparing them to be put in the vase to place on my table. I thought why did i  buys the pink ones?! Well I am sure most of you are going well DUH! We know! lol. But my answer may surprise you!

As I began to work with these beautiful delicate flowers, the Lord started to speak to me about my simple bouqet of roses that made me smile. 

This bouqet was wrapped nice and pretty in a package and looked good to the eyes, but if you don't take them, do some work on them and give them water when you get them home they will wilt and die QUICKLY! So as in a normal routine I did this. I took the old binding off because they are no longer serving the purpose they were before I bought them they are serving my purpose now. So, I have to arrange them how I see fit and beautiful. Isn't that what God wants to do with us? Bring us out of a place where we are bound to die and be thrown away if not taken care of? Doesn't He see us in a beautiful place to display show and bring joy to Him? To make Him smile?

As I I started preparing the roses they came with a package of "plant food". Basics right? food and water? No water the roses die. The roses can live in just water but they flourish and last longer with the plant food. So I mix the water and food together for the ultimate sustaining nutrition my gorgeous roses will need to flourish. Now I don't just spray the flowers with this mix every now and then do I? No, that would be pointless. I submerge them in it. Fully surrounding and engulfing the open ends in this mixtures of sustaining life feed. Without a mix of our Father's living water and spiritual food where will we be? And is it just enough to get a sprinkle here and there? or every now and then? NO! We must be submerged in His life sustaining  solution so we don't end up dead and wilting.

Next I take out the knife. Yes I know, a crude way of doing things but have I ever done things the easy way now have I? NO! I fervently start choping off the the dead ends of the roses and surrounding greenery so  that it can soak up the nutririon that is around it and I have provided for it! I can throw the roses in there without pruning them but the dead dry end will prevent them from getting the nutrition it fully needs to extend it's life and reach it's maximum potential in beauty and purpose. I am sure if these roses had nerves or feeling they would be screaming horiblly in pain about the process, the very necessary process, I put them through. You know once we come from where we were, destine to do nothing but sit in a group of others that kinda look like us and die the hand of God takes us in to make us stand out and be a beautiful display for Him, BUT there is a cutting away process. We can't live to our full potential that God has planned for us without that painful process. Some of my "branches" are thicker and more stuborn then others but either way the dead ends have to go so I can flourish for Him.

After the mess I made removing all the dead ends I then started meticulously arranging each flower and stem just where it needed to be to display it's maximum beauty potential. I would place one here, then remove it and place it there until all of the different elements worked together to make a beautiful display. At the end it warmed my heart and made me smile even bigger and broader then when I chose them. Isn't this what God does with us? He take the different parts of us and our lives and moves them around. Maybe one rose stem doesn't look as good by the big green fluffy leaves as it does the smaller delicate ones? Maybe to many roses are clustered together and needs to be separated a bit so each rose or area in our life can shine on its own as well as add to the overall beauty of the arrangement? I am sure the flowers didn't understand why I kept moving, arranging and reerrangng (if they could of course) but I was looking at it as whole and it was beautiful! That's all I want to be is beautiful HIS eyes and make Him smile.

So now we have a gorgeous arrangement that has been through a process to get there, but why pink? AHA! You thought I forgot! Nope! The red rose stands for Love, the white rose stands for Purity. So the mix of both? PINK? you got it a Pure Love! That's what God's love is for us.... Pure Love! He wants us to have that pure love that only He can give and create in our marriages, our lives, our families, and to share to all that are around us. But only from Him choosing us, unbinding us, pruning us, feeding us, and arranging us can we become the beautiful display of pure love, pink roses, that he intends for us to be and that.......makes Him smile. :)

Welcome to my blog!

Well here we go!!! I am going to be blogging as it is given to me! I hope so much that what you read will motivate and inspire you to move close to God. No one said this journey would be easy and we all go through difficult times, but hopefully this will show you that you are not alone, and inspire you to draw closer to Him.