Which Came First the Chicken or the Egg?

We Love Him, because He first loved us ~ 1John 4:19 KJV
This is how much God loved the world: He gave His only begotten Son...... John 3:16 (the message)

God's love is a force chasing after us, protecting us, warning us, sending out wisdom to anyone that will open up to it.  What a driving force is the love of God!  It moves mountain, with even a mustard seed size snippet.  It heals our soul in order that our spirit may continue to travel out our days in community with all He is doing.  It chases us down to lavish itself upon us in mighty ways.......just because it IS.

 Do you have a passion burring so fiercely within you, that to hold it in would disintegrate your very existence????

Passion is a propellant which without a vehicle cannot be driven. 

We know this to be true, and our bodies are simply the vehicle by which we maneuver throughout the roadway of the physical realm.  We will not revisit all our past topic on this matter - but if you cannot remember them or find them in the archives post a comment and I will direct you.

Let's ponder a few other points about our general beliefs:  We know that God exists - He is holy, lovely, pure and just. We believe He abhors what is evil and demands that the things within His presence be sanctified.  We also think of God as loving, forgiving, a giver of good gifts and that He blesses us in life.
But we have to integrate the qualities of God in order to not visualize Him as mere man - having good days, bad days and negative responses based on our manipulation or purposes.

Without Christ in this equation we cannot unify the True image of God.  And left in the hands of the one we created there will always be a fracture, a flaw, an area where this god will fail to produce what we have imagined they are capable of.  As we come to know Christ, we see God through His character, His experience, His faith n God's faithfulness; because the Holy Spirit will show us the depths of God, the widths of His love, the breadth of what Christ was willing to believe and do in order to show the heights which God alone can reach ~

So do not put your faith in the shallow ways of this fractured world; which God sent Christ to save. Be FOR the Kingdom which is always at hand ~willing your soul to believe and travel the higher roads which ARE really in our midst - you just have to passionately seek them.

As for the answer to which came first the chicken or the egg...neither.  What came first was Gods passionate love seeking to HAVE chickens in our midst; And so it IS!

For the Love of God,
within Christ and He within us,
Kisses,
Candace

As His Child, I Believe

We’ll guys, here you have it: This is the official name of the book as well as what the archive will be titled for these segments. Below is a simple excerpt from one of the pages ( the final edits are not back yet so bear with me).

As His Child, I Believe

Good morning Dad………………

I love you so very much ~

Even this is hard to explain ~

In each pixel I exist to give thanks.....

Lead me through those things you foresaw;

Show me your everlasting view;

 The ancient of days is my choice;
My desire is to follow and see ~

To know, understand and to do ~

Not hear simple words then perceive.

Above, my heart searches the heights,

My mind searched the depths here below;

Without you these two worlds cannot merge,

For their connection is secured by your hand.

Please find my name; remember me ~

Through Christ I AM Holy and Pure;

May your search find me just as I AM ~

His Righteousness, His feet, at your side.

I ask for the sake of my life,

Also those who might follow by sight,

Not to perish in what I understand.

Through Christ, through the Spirit – Speak,

To my body, mind, soul very weak,

Till your kingdom, in fullness, I reach;

Be Lovely - because that you are;

Be Holy for them to perceive;

Be Righteous in the formation you create,

Living out the remainder of our days.

Teach me, as your child,  to grow;

Protect me – you do that I know!

Release me, yet never let me go ~

One moment, one step on my own.

Belief, trust and faith hold me tight;

My desire for you wakes my soul ~

Your Beauty encompasses my way ~

Every moment, every thought, every day.

Oh, for the joy my heart leaps ~

The memories of what my mind sees:

The future as real the past ~

In pictures - like family photographs ~

We’re all there and some I don’t know ~

But my face they recall as their own ~

Deep comfort, honest pleasure, passionate peace ~

to BE where I fit; in my place!

So today, though I know not how long,

I will cherish all your memories and thoughts;

For in you I have a hope that is real,

Beyond illusions so grand and tall.

Thank you my Lord and my King ~

My mighty strong tower where I see ~

The horizon on which you will come ~

To receive us: your most precious things.

“Selah”

Kisses ~ C

©2007, Candace Huffmaster, All Rights Reserved

Kaleidoscope Butterfly™

Deeply

Hello Everyone:

For those of you that met up with us in the middle, I have great news.  We are starting a new Deeply group.  If you have never been through this discovery phase, I highly recommend it. 

Why you ask?  Well thank you for asking, it is an all important question. It is also the reason I recommend it!  Deeply is about finding all your why questions and getting them before our eyes to implore answers.  It is not a journey for the faint of heart, you will discover many things about your self, your motives and the God of all Creation.

But if you are curious......
                        
                                         if you are willing.......
                       
                                                                              if you desire.........

Walk onto the path and allow yourself to be wrapped in His cocoon.
Through out the Deeply, Honestly, Passionately, Freely discovery He will teach you how to transform your ordinary life into a high reaching, wind gliding, color radiant, extraordinary life.


I pray that we display His glory as we not only cope with this life but flutter for all to see High Above all things.....have you ever seen a kaleidoscope of butterflies? It is an awesome sight.

Through Christ all things are possible........you simply have to Believe

expert from" Loving Who You Were Divinely Created To BE"  ©2007 Candace Huffmaster

Eternal Flame

When I was reading the devotion from Ministry in Word yesterday I was reminded of an oil painting that God graced me with the ability to accomplish as a witness to His hearts intent.  I am loading the picture below as well as what God translated through the image and His written word. 

I am also reminded and thankful for the Ministries He has put in place to reach beyond the walls of His body.  Drawing to the Rock and Glimpse of His Glory are just two of such Ministries spilling the creativity of our God out from the hearts and minds of His people to meet unsuspecting individuals right where they are.  I know it is their and the artists hope that the individuals gazing upon these works that Christ will be seen, God will be heard and the Holy Spirit will be received.

It is not the skill of the artist that should be magnified, each work no matter how we deem the skill level is precious in His sight.  He looks at the hearts intent and uses it for His purposes, in His timing, for His will to be done.

Let us remember to encourage those doing the work for Him, not because they are perfect at it....but because they listen and obey for His Name Sake and Glory.

With the Love of our Christ I pray that today each of us take a risk, move out of our comfort zone and believe in the reality of the Lord God Almighty - otherwise the ones along our way might not see Him, turn to Him and be healed for eternity.

Kisses,
Candace

"Eternal Flame"

oil on canvas

2 Peter 3:10 (GWT)

The day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day heaven will pass away with a roaring sound. Everything that makes up the universe will burn and be destroyed. The earth and everything that people have done on it will be exposed.

The cross is God's salvation plan for the lost.  Noone gets to the Father except through the Son.  It is through our belief in Him and acceptance of His gift that we have eternal life.  When I hear the firehouse alarms, I think about the day of the Lord and wonder if anyone else thinks about when it might be, or if they even know what we as Christians know.  I think about how God provides the perfect situations in our lives to communicate His love and His desire for us to have life in abundance.  We are called to listen, hear, and look deeper than this life and to share with the heart of our Savior. 
How tragic if all that transpires from such a calamity is the replacement of lost earthly possessions.  I pray that we all look deeper, move more swiftly and reach more passionately - all the while thanking Christ for His life.

By Candace Huffmaster ©2006 all rights reserved

A Shadow of Things to Come

Colossians 2:17 states:


"These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts the shadow belongs to Christ."

I decided to go back to the beginning and see if I couldn’t find something resembling the first shadow. We have been speaking about things going before Christ. However, we know that God is the beginning and the end. This must mean that He went first, then we Go, then Christ Goes. This is such a great ebb and flow. It is the perfect example of how God is in all things and fulfills all things.

God is behind all things….so it stands to reason that everything else must go before His presence.

We will be pulling from segments of past conversations and blending them with new pieces of information. Get ready to sit with God and allow your shell to burst….your roots to grow down…and His life to sprout.

I preface this journey of enlightenment with 1 Corinthians 2

A letter from Paul:

Brothers and Sisters:

When I came to you, I didn’t speak about God’s mystery as if it were some kind of brilliant message or wisdom. While I was with you, I decided to deal with only one subject – Jesus Christ, who was crucified. When I came to you, I was weak. I was afraid and very nervous. I didn’t speak my message with persuasive intellectual arguments. I spoke my message with a show of spiritual power so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power. However, we do use wisdom to speak to those who are mature. It is a wisdom that doesn’t belong to this world or to the rulers of this world who are in power today and gone tomorrow. We speak about the mystery of God’s wisdom. It is a wisdom that has been hidden, which God has planned for our glory before the world began. Not one of the rulers of this world has known it. If they had, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. But as Scripture says:

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”

God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, especially the deep things of God. After all, who knows everything about a person except that person’s own spirit? In the same way, no one has known everything about God except God’s Spirit. Now, we didn’t receive the spirit that belongs to the world, Instead, we received the Spirit who comes from God so that we could know the things which God has freely given us. We don’t speak about these things using teachings that are based on intellectual arguments like people do. Instead, we use the Spirit’s teachings. We explain spiritual things to those who have the Spirit. A person who isn’t spiritual doesn’t accept the teachings of God’s Spirit. He thinks they’re nonsense. He can’t understand them because a person must be spiritual to evaluate them. Spiritual people evaluate everything but are subjected to no one’s evaluation.

“Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can teach him?”

However, we have the mind of Christ.

I thank God that we are not left to flounder like we were lost and unloved.

Be still and know He is God…and that He loves you deeply, honestly, passionately and freely.

Kisses,

Candace

Deeply, Honestly, Passionately and Freely

Ephesians 3:14-21 (GWTW) This is the reason I kneel in the presence of the Father from whom all the families in heaven and on earth receives its name. I'm asking God to give you a gift from the wealth of His glory. I pray that He would give you inner strength and power through His spirit. Then Christ will live in you through faith. I also pray that love may be the ground into which you sink your roots and on which you have your foundation. This way, with all of God's people you will be able to understand how wide, long, high and deep his love is. You will know Christ's love, which goes far beyond any knowledge. I am praying this so that you may be completely filled with God.

 Glory belongs to God, whose power is at work in us. By this power He can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Glory belongs to God in the church and in Christ Jesus for all time and eternity Amen.

 ...and I too am lifting this prayer over us all today so that we may be completely filled with God.

When I got really serious about changing how I saw my future, where I was supposed to be headed and how God intended me to get there, I stopped. It was not a stop in your tracks, dead stop. At least not at first. I did not have that type of faith. I had the faith of a mustard seed. But as we know even that is enough to move the mental mountains I had piled onto my life...piece by trashy piece. I thank God that He is the one that levels things and I thank God that through the past 30 years He was heading me back to where I was supposed to be in the first place. That is how wide, long, high and deep his love is and this is what we strive to show individuals each day as we minister to them deeply, honestly, passionately but mostly freely.

"With wings that will carry, cover and lift"
Love,
Candace

God’s Devotion

That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend . . . the love of Christ which passes knowledge. —Ephesians 3:17-19

 

In 1826, the British author Thomas Carlyle married Jane Welsh, who also was an accomplished writer. She dedicated herself to his success and served him wholeheartedly.

Because of a stomach ailment and a nervous disorder, he had a rather ornery temperament. So she made special meals for him and tried to keep the house as quiet as possible so he could do his writing.

Thomas didn’t often recognize Jane’s helpful spirit nor did he spend much time with her. However, he wrote this about her to his mother: “I may say in my heart that she . . . loves me with a devotedness which is a mystery to me how I have ever deserved. She . . . looks with such soft cheerfulness into my gloomy countenance, that new hope passed into me every time I met her eye.”

We too have Someone who loves us with a devotedness that is a mystery how we as sinners ever deserved it! He is God the Father, “who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all” (Rom. 8:32). His love is wide, long, deep, and high and exceeds our knowledge (Eph. 3:18-19).

Understanding and appreciating God’s love is so vital that Paul prayed for the Ephesians to be “rooted and grounded” in it (v.17). May that be our experience as well. — by Anne Cetas http://www.rbc.org/

I can always count on God, my heavenly Father,

For He changes not; He always is the same;

Yesterday, today, forever, He is faithful,

And I know He loves me, praise His holy name. —Felten

There is no greater joy than to know God loves you.