For Eternity

Joel 2:28-32 "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.

God is getting us ready for a spiritual down pour. It is time we begin to receive what God wants to pour out. We need to empty ourselves of the things that prevent Holy Spirit from being able to completely fill us. We need to get rid of selfish wants and desires. Quit living for the moment and start preparing for eternity. This is the time to make preparations. Then as He pours out, we will then be able to receive. As you receive then allow God to use you to pour out on others. If God blesses you then let God use you to bless others.

Love and God Bless,
Cindy Irwin

Awesome God

1 Corinthians 2:9-13 (The Message)No one's ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—What God has arranged for those who love him. But you've seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you. The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along. Whoever knows what you're thinking and planning except you yourself? The same with God—except that he not only knows what he's thinking, but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us. We don't have to rely on the world's guesses and opinions. We didn't learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus, and we're passing it on to you in the same firsthand, personal way.


God reveals what He has prepared for us through His Spirit. Since God is the only one who knows His plans and His thoughts, then He is the only one who can reveal them. It is awesome that the all-powerful God would choose to let us in on what He has planned. Yes God does reveal things to us, first He revealed things about our future, just read Revelations. Then there are times when God just whispers to us to do something, like give to a missionary or call a friend who just needed to talk to someone. He is still revealing bits and pieces of His plan for our daily life; we just need to take the time to listen. He is an awesome God!

Love and God Bless,
Cindy Irwin

Renewed Vision

Genesis 37:18-20 (The Message) They spotted him off in the distance. By the time he got to them they had cooked up a plot to kill him. The brothers were saying, "Here comes that dreamer. Let's kill him and throw him into one of these old cisterns; we can say that a vicious animal ate him up. We'll see what his dreams amount to."

The world is always seeking to kill the dream. Whenever God gives someone a word or a vision the world comes along and does everything they can to destroy it. Even when the world comes against you, it cannot stop the plan God has for you. God will take what satan uses to harm us turn it around and use it for our good and His glory. Do not look at your situation as the end of the vision but as a step that God will use for His glory. The call of God is irrevocable, He never changes His mind. You cannot give up on what God has for you.

Dear Heavenly Father, I lift up my friend to You now and I ask that You renew the vision You gave them, refresh the calling You placed on their life. Give them a glimpse of the plan You have for their life. Be glorified through them, this we ask in Jesus name, amen.

Love and God Bless,
Cindy Irwin

Don't Worry

Matthew 6:25-34 (Contemporary English Version) I tell you not to worry about your life. Don't worry about having something to eat, drink, or wear. Isn't life more than food or clothing? Look at the birds in the sky! They don't plant or harvest. They don't even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren't you worth more than birds? Can worry make you live longer? Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don't work hard to make their clothes. But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth wasn't as well clothed as one of them. God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. He will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith? Don't worry and ask yourselves, "Will we have anything to eat? Will we have anything to drink? Will we have any clothes to wear?" Only people who don't know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father in heaven knows that you need all of these. But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well. Don't worry about tomorrow. It will take care of itself. You have enough to worry about today.

What good will it do for us to worry? Just do what God allows you to do and trust Him to handle the situation. When my children each faced a major surgery, as the mom, I wanted to take care of them and not have them suffer the pain (you know the “Take me instead” prayer), but I knew that there was absolutely nothing I could do in the physical realm to change that situation. I spiritually placed them on an altar before God and told Him that they were His kids and His responsibility. I prayed that His will be done and then I had to trust Him that no matter what took place in that hospital He was in control and all things would work together for the good of them that loves the Lord. I knew in my heart God could heal them instantly but sometimes like Abraham we have to lay our wants, controls, and desires for the future on an altar. Then we began to pray for our own peace in the situation so we can walk through with praise for God and He can be glorified when people see us and they will know that it was only through God. He gives us peace which passes all understanding.

Love and God bless,
Cindy Irwin

Let It Go

Isaiah 42:8-9 (Amplified Bible) I am the Lord; that is My name! And My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images. Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.


We cannot live in the past. It is time to dust ourselves off, and quit clinging to the image of how things used to be. So many of us built hopes and dreams on a pastor’s vision for our church, dreams that left went that pastor moved on. We have been wandering around that mountain long enough; the children of Israel would never have entered the promise land if they would have said, but God gave us the 10 commandments here so this is where we need to stay. We are not getting closer to God by clinging to the past, be it traditions or the Presence of God that you once felt in a place. The Presence of God is not found in a place, a thing, or even a person. The Presence of God is found in our worship and praise, it is found by spending time with Him. Today it is time to get up, dust yourselves off, get rid of those things which have become an idol in our lives. There is no room for sacred cows if you have placed things of the past before God, it does not matter how practical or useful these things may be, get rid of it. Our God is a jealous God, let go of the past.


Love and God Bless,
Cindy Irwin

Seeing What He Sees

2 Kings 6:15-17 (Contemporary English Version) When Elisha's servant got up the next morning, he saw that Syrian troops had the town surrounded. "Sir, what are we going to do?" he asked. "Don't be afraid," Elisha answered. "There are more troops on our side than on theirs." Then he prayed, "LORD, please help him to see." And the LORD let the servant see that the hill was covered with fiery horses and flaming chariots all around Elisha.

We are to walk by faith believing what God says not what our eyes see. When we focus on the circumstance then we do not give God the freedom to change it. Things will often get worse in the natural before they get better. No matter how bad things look in the natural when God opens your eyes your outlook will change, your faith will grow. Stop looking at your circumstances and look to Jesus. We need God to open our eyes so we can see.

Dear Heavenly Father,
Forgive our weak faith, Oh Lord, open our eyes so we may see. Let us see our circumstances through Your eyes. Increase and strengthen our faith. When we see through Your eyes, open our minds and hearts to see others who need a touch from You. Show us how to be Your hands and feet, to be Jesus with skin on. Through it all giving You all the glory and praise, in Jesus name, amen.

Love and God Bless,
Cindy Irwin

24-7

Ephesians 5:1-4 (The Message) Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.





It is time that the church starts living like the Body of Christ all the time. None of us are perfect but we should not stop aiming to be like Jesus. If a non Christian were to spend a week with you 24-7 would they come away from that visit wanting to become a Christian or wanting nothing to do with Christ. Most of us have children and they are around us 24-7; it is no wonder that our younger generation leave the church. Start being followers of Christ every day, not just at church.



Love and God Bless,

Cindy Irwin