CLOSE THE DOOR AND PRAY TO YOUR FATHER IN THE SECRET PLACE

"BUT WHEN YOU PRAY, GO INTO YOUR ROOM, CLOSE THE DOOR AND PRAY TO YOUR FATHER, WHO IS UNSEEN. THEN YOUR FATHER, WHO SEES WHAT IS DONE IN SECRET, WILL REWARD YOU." ~ Matthew 6:6

LORD, how I love you, how I love your WORD!

Thank you so much for Your instruction, which is beautiful. You say to "shut the door." This is sacred - good and holy, keeping all of the distractions away, uniting us - closer - deeper - granting wisdom and understanding, along with guidance and then peace.

Just what I need, what I yearn for - a closeness with You, your people - with me. I am blessed by Your love for me, Your desire is woven into me by Your creative hand, to be close - so close that there are no gaps - no room for wedges.

This is the place - the "closed door place" where I come to You, sometimes crawling on my hands and knees in desperation - thirsty and parched in great need, great pain - even great fears - with worry and needing Your wisdom, direction, comfort and peace that only You can provide.

Oh Lord Thank You for hearing me!

Other times I come for prayer for the many needs of others, beseeching You to hear me for the sake of their needs and You listen - I trust. I trust. I trust.

You are my King, you are faithful and You are The Almighty.

Other times I come to glorify You, to praise you for who You are, for the miracles done in the lives of other and in my own life. To sing praises for my dear husband and my daughters and my sons-in-law, for my grandson! for You allowing me to speak to Your people about you!

Thank you my LORD,

I thank you that you invite me to come to you and shut the doors to the outside world and open your heavenly doors, granting me the ability to enter into Your throne room!

Though your physical presence is "unseen" I still see You!

I see you in others working miracles, I see you in Your creation of the earth! I see You in all of your people, in all of the various flowers and trees and butterfly's and moths and insects and animals and sunsets and sunrises - in the clouds - in the smiles, in the eyes of humans - in the eyes of cats and dogs...

I see you God - I love what I see.

But there is so much more - I FEEL YOU, your presence, I experience you. I feel your love -

I experience your heart, your joy, your laughter, as well as your pain. Though I am aware that all of your emotions must run much wider and deeper than mine - for if I "felt" all that you felt I surely could not comprehend - nor handle it all...

You are my God & King!

Your word in verse 6 says "you see what is done in 'the secret place'" - thank you for seeing - thank you for allowing me to come to the "secret place."

And if that's not enough, You are a God who loves to reward us - especially when we grow closer to you - that in and of itself is a reward. I treasure this sacred gift of yours - given straight from your heart to mine.

Let me be one who always longs to come and shut the door to the world and open the heavenly doors in which You stand at - waiting for me to enter.

Oh the majestic visions in my mind - you reveal so much to me! Your places of holiness are unmatched. I think about people living in chaos - opening all the wrong doors - trying to gain some semblance of satisfaction - but they fail to open the door to Your "Secret Place" - the place of prayer, where they find you and find answers.

If the world would just Open the Doors of thier Bibles, they would find YOU! AND in You is all they long for... and them some! Oh LORD, I pray for all those that are seeking and searching... I pray that they stop opening the doors to excess and open the doors to moderation, closing the doors to addictions... and open the doors to peace, to settle down, be still and find your love. Stop opening the doors to "Keeping up with the Jones'es" slow down - pray - go to THE SECRET PLACE. This is the REAL SECRET! The Secret to finding all that they look for and long for, it's the place where there is freedom, the SECRET PLACE of abundance, overflow and rewards!

O LORD, that is the answer, that it THE SECRET! The Real Secret is no secret at all! Your Word is out there for everyone to know and read and come to know you. That's it, so simple.

• What DOORS have you been walking through lately?
• What DOORS are you through walking through?
• What DOORS will you begin to walk through as of today?

Discover the REAL SECRET, the Universal Laws and Biblical Principals are there for you. God is The One who set them all in place...

Doors & Secret Discoveries,

Kathryn

SET A GAURD OVER MY MOUTH, O LORD, KEEP WATCH OVER THE DOOR OF MY LIPS Psalm 141:3

I love this Scripture! In my study of "DOORS" in the Scriptures, this one has moved me. I never noticed this Scripture, not really anyway... although I have read the Psalms over and over again...

I can envision the actual sacred and protective guard that the LORD would provide me. They look heavenly and have loving eyes - eyes that smile at me with joy and cheer me on as I speak love - as I speak truth. They flutter about me playfully and enjoy me as I am in the WORD.

They bring me an extraordinary depth of wisdom. All they do is deeper and fuller - weather it be laughing or revealing wisdom or discipline, they do so in extremes.

Lord I give you thanks for the guard that you assign to the doors of my lips! Lord let me be always aware of their presence, aware of the way the come to guard me - aware of how they are here for my good, for my protection. Let me heed their warnings. I thank you for providing doors over my lips and for the way they guard those doors!

Let them have full charge in knowing when to shut the doors and when to allow them to swing wide open!

O LORD, your doors to my heart and lips are amazing! Shut them tight should what my lips want to say not be honoring to you. Let me always glorify you and bring you honor and praise with the words that come and flow out of my lips. Swing WIDE the doors of my lips as I sing songs of praise and worship, as I lift up my fellow brothers and sisters on the journey. Let me speak words of truth, love, direction to my coaching clients.

Let me speak, hear, and communicate only your thoughts. Let me stay so connected to you Father that I never speak anything that is not of you!

Lord and I ask that I be connected in a lovely and sacred way to my guards in which you provide me. Let me love this guard and surrender to Lady Wisdom. Let me know my guard and appreciate her, because she ONLY has the VERY BEST INTENTION for me. Only wants to see me succeed. Lady Wisdom, is what I will call her... Thank you God! I name her this because I want to be a truly lady in all that I do, lovely in gentleness, lovely in kindness, lovely in self-control, lovely in peace making, lovely in gentleness, lovely in forgiveness, lovely in love, lovely in patience, lovely in goodness and lovely in joy!

AND because of the guard you provide me with, and the amazing amount of Wisdom she will bring me in all aspects of my life I give thanks!

I am praising you my God and King for all of your provision! You think of EVERYTHING, and always take care of all our needs!

Doors, Guards, & Lips,

Kathryn

Thoughts on Dreams and Dreaming

I have many God-given dreams and fewer actual dreams that I dream at night.
When I do dream during my sleep most of them are from God and very profound. Well I had one of those very profound dreams Tuesday night, I think it was Wednesday morning, because when I awoke I was just finishing the dream...

Before I share the dream I am going to do a bit of back tracking first.

God seems to drop ONE single word into my Spirit from time to time, and when He does I will type that single word into www.BibleGateway.com and find each and every Scripture verse with that word in it and do my own personal study. I print out the pages with all of the Scriptures on them, then proceed to study them each day, writing out the verse in my journal, then writing beneath the Scripture what God is speaking to me, teaching me and what is applicable to me. One of the words that I have done a study on is the word DOOR(S)... I loved doing this study!

There is one Scripture that I want to share with you here, now. It is
"because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me." 1 Corinthians 16:9

OK, so God continues for each of us to Open these amazing doors, doors for us to choose to walk through or not. Should we choose to walk through them we have this journey that we are about to embark upon, not fully knowing where we are being led, but just compelled to say YES. In so doing, this door that we step though leads us onward to do EFFECTIVE work and it's also a GREAT door! So we are about to walk into something bigger than ourselves and it can be scary, because in the very same sentence just behind the comma we are told that there is opposition. So... should we at that point choose the Holy and Sacred doorway or should we choose to play it safe and stay behind?

Well, I feel like our forefathers and mothers have left each of us something in their absence, something really wonderful, therefore I want to do the same. Not really for myself and yet it is for myself... I just know that I want to benefit and give life and share what it is to be a Spiritwalker and HOW to be a Spiritwalker... My heart beats so big for this, for everyone to understand how to do so. All the while getting better at it myself. This is so much the reason that I am called to do this radio show that is up and coming. I feel so honored and so blessed with this privilege, words cannot begin to express. Though there is certainly opposition with the economy being the way that it is right now.

OK, Now onto my Dream Wednesday morning...
I dreamt that me and all of my WPPI (Women of Passionate Purpose International) sisters were on a team retreat in this beautiful and amazing house. We were singing and dancing our praises to God with our arms lifted up unto our King. We were enjoying the time of praise and it was a holy and sacred time that lasted for a long while. At the end of our praise session, we were proceeding on into our meeting and planning things out for the next coming two years. Then it came time for lunch, so we decided to walk to the different local fast food restaurants, grab what we wanted and come back with our food so that we could all eat together. Then after eating we were going to get new updated photos for our website and shoot some videos. So we all went our separate ways to grab our lunches. I decided to go across the street. I was walking and it was a very bright and sunny day and I was wearing a visor. As I walked and made my way all of the sudden the skies became very very dark and gray and then it began to pour down rain. The winds were blowing ferociously, so much so that it was hard to walk. I began to cry. (The symbolism of opposition that is here for us in our lives especially when we have been given EFFECTIVE work to be done by God) Then somehow I was walking with a walker. I know that this was symbolic of God providing me my help when I was feeling so alone and feeble during the storm in my life. I then looked back at the house thinking it would be easier to just turn and go back. Then I looked forward to where my food supply was. (I recognize this being symbolic of needing my Spiritual nourishment from God). I chose to press onward. I kept walking even though feeling very feeble. I got to my destination, and there was no way to enter into the building as they only had a window that I could walk up to to place my order. As I came to the window, she opened it up and as she did she opened the windows of heaven to me! Then sitting next to the window on the outside of the building was a Police Officer. He was smiling and appeared to be absolutely radiant. His smile caused me to smile even through my tears. He was symbolic of God going before me, watching me press on, stepping through the door, pressing on... trusting and not quitting. He then spoke to me and told me that He would always be going ahead of me, calling me onward, praising me and my efforts. He told me that I need to learn to walk, learn to get steadier on my feet, to choose to walk onward, even through the storms and the fear. Onward is where my God-given dreams and destiny are, and yes there will be storms and raging winds, but nothing we can't handle together. He told me that we could put my walker in His car and that He would give me a ride back home. So he did, and then told me that He'd hang onto the walker, and when I felt feeble again, he'd provide it for me again at just the right time, and to remember that He'd be calling me forth and helping me. That He's sees me at all times and loves me.

I was so grateful for His dream, because on Thursday I woke up with my eyes swollen shut from allergies and I began to cry. I didn't want to go on all of my appointments for the sponsorship of the radio show looking so badly. Bruce was so encouraging me and asked me poignant questions about what REALLY mattered to me. I was experiencing outside opposition, along with my own internal opposition with the negative self talk that we all can fall prey to. I got up and got ready for my day, God provided me with my walker and my Police Office and so much more that day because I didn't look back, I looked onward and pressed on to the call and boy was I blessed! In the appointments that I had Wed, Thurs, and Friday each person I met with was absolutely God-ordained! God is The Great Provider, The Great Door Opener!

Step through the God-Given Doors of your Dreams! Even when you face some of the storms of life it is worth it, it really is!

Spiritwalking, Dreaming & Doors,
Kathryn

QUESTIONS JESUS ASKS - Trees Walking... Shifts In Perspective Are Always Needed

OK, here's our passage for today...(and several more days)

Mark 8:22-26 "They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?" He looked up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around." Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Jesus sent him home, saying, "Don't go into the village."

There is so much in this passage of Scripture that I am going to come back to it over and over as God continues to open my eyes to it. I know that there is much to this passage that He has for me. Today it seems that God wants me to look at PERSPECTIVE right now, so that is what I am going to "focus my eyes on" today.

In verse 24, after Jesus has taken the blind man by the hand and taken him outside the village, spit on the mans eyes and put his hands on him, then after that Jesus asks him "Do you see anything?"

The mans response is "I SEE PEOPLE; THEY LOOK LIKE TREES WALKING AROUND."
How many times do you see people all around you not as people, but as objects? How is it that we are viewing them? What about your spouse, your friends, your boss, your co-worker, your team, your children?

Have you allowed yourself to become jaded to who they really are in Christ? What about yourself? How are you viewing yourself? Are you seeing yourself as someone that doesn't measure up? Or as someone who will never get it right? Someone who doesn't see the true passion and joy in this world any more?

Maybe it's your view on Christ? How do you see Him in your life? When was the last time you allowed Him to take you by the hand and remove you from the outside influences of life? To take you away so that you could begin to see Him, others and yourself with the absolute truths that are really there?

Allow God to take you by the hand TODAY, take some time to be with Him, to see HIM with new eyes, to see OTHERS with new eyes, and to see YOURSELF with new eyes! It's time for you to take the hand in hand walk with the Creator of the World and Restore Your Sight!

While doing so, ask God to give you new Perspectives in all the areas He wants you to have. Commit to placing your hand in His each and every day and take a "Perspective Stroll" with El Roi- The God of Seeing, The God who Sees You, The God who Opens Your Eyes!

Sight, Strolls and Seeing,
Kathryn Bonner

As a Life Purpose Coach it is my passion to see you live your life Awakened... no longer sleepwalking through your life! Connect with me for coaching... http://www.AwakeningsLifeCoaching.com - Email- KB@AwakeningsLifeCoaching.com

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