Month: June 2023

This is my rendition of the sound of music song: my favorite things – featuring God. He is my SONG and these are five (5) of my favorite things about Him:

1 God’s Use of Words💖🥰

I enjoy all expressions of THE WORD that God is(John 1:1)– even and recently including His silence … His gentle, still, silent voice!💖

His use of words is delightful – it livens me in ways that I can’t accurately describe! Starting with His questions … oh, how I enjoy God’s questions! Here are a few:

God’s questions are meaning-FULL. With the first set of questions, I hear God say: consider it DONE. With the last set of questions, I hear God say to the enemy: I dare you, make a move! Any move … even an eyebrow-raise. 🤭

God’s command causes the raging waves/sea to become smooth as glass! When I hear Him speak to me, I experience a delightful calm(Psalm 94:19)… a perfect harmony of peace and joy.

Any word out of God’s mouth, even something as seemingly simple as the wordCOMEis powerful enough to turn the tides. This very four-letter word changed my life forever and continues to enable me.

God’s Word (The Scepter of Righteousness) carries me through places where feet fail and into honor … He carries me into a place of GRACE, where God’s glory never fades. Somewhat similar to Ezekiel (Ezekiel 2:1-2), I come alive and into GRACE … I experience what I believe made Paul say: I can do all things through The Word of God Who strengthens me(Philippians 4:13) – ready to speak, sing, echo, reflect, be all that I am with the Strength (The Word of God) that God gives me –1 Peter 4:11 (TPT, MSG), knowing that God’s Word is the power to perform it.

God’s Words are not mere (empty) words … they are Words that Work – the workings of Righteousness – the AMPC bible version in Isaiah 45:19 describes it as the TRUTH-trustworthy, straightforward correspondence between deeds and words! Gotta love AMPC! This description is one of many indicating that there is no variation between what God says and His deeds – He is consistently consistent – another favorite 👇 .

2 God is consistently Consistent.

This is the realization that led me to truthfully turn to face God – it enabled my first step of truthful repentance, this was a pivotal turning point of my life (Jan 2020). The preceding years had been a mix bag of heartbreaks across the board … all but the God pillar of my life came crashing down – they fell in ways that could not be put together again … literally! In retrospect, I thank God that those pillars came crashing down because with the God pillar left standing strong, immovable, sure, and unshakable, I was able to clearly see that God is THE ONLY ONE Who is consistent and most all trustworthy – there is no shadow of turning with Him –James 1:17. God is consistently consistent, so much so that everything God is God and carries within it the fullness of God …

… The Word of God is God.

… The Son of God is God.

… The Lamb of God is God.

… The Glory of God is God.

… The Love of God is God.

… The Spirit of God is God.

… The Breath of God is God.

… The Knowledge of God is God.

Every aspect of God is FULLY God! Even the River of God (Righteousness) is God – He is the Fountain of Living Water. Every single drop of Water from the River of God contains the FULLNESS of God – it contains the exact same composition and potency, no variableness. This consistency – The Faithfulness of God – is Who He IS (God), and He is like none other. #3 through #5 echo this.

3 God reminds me again and againknowing fully well that I will forget againand soon(well … sooner than later).

Picture this: God (Husband) married to me – His forever bride, who also happens to have a severe case of amnesia: more often than not, I forget things. This tends to happen at night when it’s dark or during a stormy day … I sometimes get disoriented and don’t remember fully or at all who I am or where (in Whom) I am – Acts 17:28. In these dark/stormy moments, I sometimes don’t actively remember Whose I am or Who God IS. Similar to the description in Mark 4:38-39, there are times when I think God must be sleeping because I don’t feel or see Him move (because I don’t feel or see Him act the way I want Him to or think that He would). In my disoriented state, I forget what He told me less than 15 seconds ago, before the storm hit or before the dark night. Nevertheless, in and because of His love for me, God speaks and suddenly it is morning!

Speaking out of FAITH’s FULLNESS (the FULLNESS that He is), God reminds me of what I need to know … He guides me deeper into Himself – He is my Refuge and THE TRUTH that sets me free from the cloud of lies and liars that surround me –John 16:13, John 8:32, Psalm 116:10-11 (TPT). I find myself again as He re-tells me Who He IS:

God lovingly and graciously re-tells me all these and more, knowing fully well that I would forget in the next 15 seconds or less, and that He would have to tell me again and again and again. With every reminder, like the fresh morning dew, God restores to me the joy of His Salvation – His Love, the Knowledge of God.

4 God listensattentivelyto me even though He already knows.

God knows my every desire and need … He is my heart’s desire, still He listens to my every prayer. He knows every word I will (yet) say. He knows what’s wrong before I get a whiff of it … YET He listens patiently, attentively. He doesn’t do the “yea, yea … I know” thing that we I do. He doesn’t talk over me. He is fully present for the conversation … He even asks questions. His questions draw me into sweet, satisfying communion with Him. What a KISS! An intimate exchange … a beautiful prayer! He enjoys it 💖.

When I’m done talking (FYI: I have the propensity to talk a lot) … He’s still there, listening. When I don’t have words and I’ve cried every tear, when silence is all I can express … He listens. Silence is praise to God! Psalm 65:1 (MSG, AMPC)

5 God is THE ONLY ONE Whowilltake a matchless loss to gain me.

I use the word will to mean (1) that He did already!John 15:13 … (2) that He will do it all over again if it gives Him the most pleasure like it did when He did … (3) given the heftiness of the loss/price, no one else will – no one else will want to, not even I (yup, even I will not take what I consider to be a hefty loss for me). Nevertheless, this song is about God, so I’ll keep the focus on Him.

Here’s one instance of God saying: I will give it ALL to have you back …

Here’s another …

… and another …

Who pays any price, let alone a hefty one, for what’s already theirs??? – SeLaH

By virtue of being our Creator, we belong to God. YET He chose to win us back by calling us to Himself and setting us apart –Hosea 2:14– a call made through the payment of a hefty price, one that all the money and wealth of the world (past, present, and future) combined can NOT make up a fraction of the down-payment.

The hefty price God paid was Himself: The Son of God – for unto us a Son was given(Isaiah 9:6) … whoever receives Him will be re-united back to God and as such will NOT perish but have eternal, abundant LIFE(John 3:16)– this LIFE is God!

To get a glimpse of the matchless, hefty, 30-something years loss that Jesus, the Son of God, God Himself endured to gain us back consider reading Philippians 2:5-8, John 17:5 (VOICE), andMark 15:34 when you have a moment. In the interim, here is the summary:

Jesus left everything – His oneness with God, The Father. He gave this up and went through a humbling process of being a servant. In essence, He was stripped naked – He was stripped of His outer glory:Isaiah 53:2B. His prayer in John 17:5 attests to this.

Jesus, The Word of God, The One Who was with God before the foundation of the world … before creation existed, endured a type of separation from God … one that made Him say:Father why have You forsaken me–Mark 15:34– In the moment He said this, more than any moment in His years on earth as a man and relative to the oneness He had with the Father (before coming to earth … before entering time or the timed zone), I believe that Jesus severely experienced the hit of the loss that He took: separation from God – this is the matchless LOSS that God took to gain us! Keep in mind that separation from God is death – the very price that Jesus, the Son of God (God) paid.

… some say why God? I say why not God. SeLaH

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Heavenly Father, my Creator and Redeemer, Ishi, the Friend that I need in every season, my very own God. You are the Good Shepherd carrying me at all times as You lead me along still waters. I honor and celebrate You: You are the One from Whom all families get their names and titles (including but not limited to honorable titles such as Daddy’s Girl AKA God’s princess). You are a GOOD Father, THE BEST there is!

You are THE FATHER of Fathers – one of whom is my earthly father. You handpicked him for me, a righteous choice … thank You! Through him I catch glimpses of You i.e. Your patience, Your humility, how You make time to listen … You, him, and I know that I’ve talked his ears off many a time! Yet, he still makes time to listen … even to all the girl stuff that would naturally be weird to him or that might gross him out in some cases – he takes them all in with his full chest! 🤭 Thank You for holding him up and keeping him together. I bet he secretly fainted the first time I introduced him to the first episode of what became and was the seasonal series called boyfriends! LOL

Thank You for making me a Daddy’s girl on earth as it is in heaven! I enjoy it on both accounts. What a joy it is to be Yours Jehovah Sabaoth! Fear of Isaac, Love of my Life, my MOST prized treasure, thank You for the privilege to call You Abba, my Abba. You are my Strength, my Salvation, and my SONG!