THE DAILY BLUEPRINT - 2.16.09

LAMENT

Lamentations 1.1
How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and a princess among the providence's, how she has become a tributary!

God really got a hold of me tonight! I had an awesome time of worship and I then opened God's Word and the Word of God did indeed speak to me - I feel the pull of God like never before - He has a message and I feel He wants to say something important - however as I write these words I am not sure exactly what He wants to say - I keep hearing the word Lament! To me this might mean we should have a more broken heart for the lost - the lonely - the marginalized - perhaps God has a message to say to each of us tonight -
In today's verse we have a city that was once thriving - once in perfect tune with God - once filled with people - once focused on what God wanted -but something happened along the way - this can be said about a many of lives - once that life brought glory to God - once that life was focused on God - but somewhere along the way -the wrong path was taken - a little compromise here and there and before they knew it - a life of desolation - a life of lament - many don't know how they got there - but the path is not as important as the one who is reaching HIS hand back to them - God wants to see them back with Him - He thought so much about this HE sent JESUS to die! Maybe your life was once flowing with God's mighty river - but now you are just a tributary - you once had a waterfall that was loud and brought glory to God but now you are little more then a stream that is clogged with the worries of this world-
Today you can once again be a raging river for God -today you can once again bring God glory with your life - yesterday is gone and your sin is gone - all you have to lose is control! God wants to pick you up today - He wants to flow through your life - He wants to navigate you through the rapids of this life - He wants to place you in the calming water of HIS grace - HE wants to show you that your life can once again be flowing - if this is speaking to you - please respond to God - God has a plan in what was written - I have no idea if it even makes any sense- God I feel has opened the floodgates of heaven -won't you wade out into HIS water!
Won't you let HIM save you with HIS grace - become a river for GOD!
What was once desolate is now teeming with life! There is life at the river!

BUILDING MOMENT: We need GOD to unclog our lives!
Because we have CHRIST - Our lives flow with HIS grace!

2.16.09 - Building on the WORD
I SAW THESE TWO WORDS TOGETHER-
GRAVE and GRACE
V means victory!
Jesus has overcome the grave to give us grace!