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Contend for His Presence

January 4, 2019 by Jeannie Pallett Leave a Comment

To contend is to defend a belief or keep affirming it is true.
To contend is to struggle in rivalry.
To contend is to hold to a fact.
To contend is to assert or maintain position.
To contend we must begin from a platform of truth.
We recognise that God is True and Unchanging and we can trust Him to remain true to His character.God is Yahweh, the One who has always existed.

For 2019 and beyond, I am going to contend for the manifestation of the promises of God in my life and even more importantly, the manifestation of Who He is in my life. Christ in me is the hope of glory and more than anything, I desire to decrease so His presence in me can increase and be readily seen.

Contending with Truth

He is Adonai, God who is the Lord over all. I contend to yield all of my unrenewed soul and desires of the flesh to bow to His will and shaping.

Yahweh-Rohi, the Lord my shepherd. I contend to live in perfect peace and the rest of God experiencing His perfect shepherding.

Yahweh-Shammah, the Lord who is present. I contend to actively experience the presence of God by meditating on His word and speaking it out and over my life more consistently.

Yahweh-Rapha, the Lord our healer. “By His stripes we are healed. I am contending for good health so I must yield my food intake and choices to Him.

Yahweh-Tsidkenu, the Lord our righteousness. When we believe in Jesus Christ, He becomes our righteousness. I want my life to be worthy of His gift of righteousness. I must contend for right thinking.

Yahweh-Jireh, the Lord will provide. Jesus Christ said that Father cares for us and we never need to worry about provision. He is our source of life, in every way. I want to see His provision and blessing in even greater degrees than I am now.

Yahweh-Nissi, the Lord our banner. The Lord gives us the victory in spiritual warfare. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord raises a banner of His love over us and covers us. He wages war on our behalf and makes us more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. I do not want to see any storms come my way but I must be able to rest in His Lordship and Love.

Yahweh-Shalom, the Lord is peace. Whenever there are storms in your life, hide in Him. He is your shelter in the storm. He gives peace beyond understanding, even when circumstances are chaotic. He is our shelter and our shield. I contend for perfect peace.

Yahweh-Sabbaoth, the Lord of Hosts. Jesus Christ is the Lord of hosts, the Captain of the armies of heaven. I contend to see His majesty, power and authority ruling my life.

Yahweh-Ghmolah, the God of Recompense. The Lord says in Romans 12 “vengeance is mine, I will repay.” We should never avenge others for what they do to us, but leave it in God’s hands. I contend to rest in His ability to restore that which has been stolen in the past and bring the restoration in the now of this life.

Elohim, God is creator, powerful and mighty, Lord of lords. He is the Lord Most High, stronger and mightier than anyone or anything. When you face impossible circumstances or adversaries, our God is stronger. I contend to hide in Him and be assured in my heart and soul that He can and will work everything out for my good.

El-Elyon, the most high God. Jesus Christ is exalted high above every name. I contend to give Him all rights to the Lordship of my life.

El-Gibhor, Mighty God. The Lord is mighty to save. His arm is not too short. Whatever problem you are facing, know that your God is El-Gibhor, MIGHTY! I contend to hold my peace so my God can fight my battles.

El-Olam, the everlasting God. God is eternal, while your problems are temporary. His love will never change. His promises are true. Build on Him, who is eternal and do not focus on your temporary situations. He will show you His great and eternal goodness. I contend for the consistent nature and character of God to be revealed through my life.

El-Roi, the strong one who sees. God is with you. He sees you and He knows you. The silent cry of your heart is heard and He loves you more than you can imagine. He will lead you and fill your heart with His praise. I contend for eyes to see the supernatural and respond in godliness and compassion.

El-Shaddai-Rohi, God Almighty, the mighty One of Jacob. He is the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth. I contend for the mightiness of God to be released through my life.

El-Chuwl, the God who gave birth. God is our Creator and our Father. He saw us and He loved us, even before we were born. He has a plan for your life and if you walk with Him, He will fulfill His dreams over your life and amaze you. I contend to walk in His plans and purposes for me and to be amazed at His wisdom and goodness.

El-Deah, God of knowledge. Wisdom comes from the Lord. When we fear God, keep His commandments, and love one another, we will know Him as He is and His wisdom will guide us. I contend to seek first His kingdom, to revere and hold Him in great awe and be a vessel for His wisdom, love and knowledge.

Attiyq Youm, the Ancient of Days. God is eternal. He was before the beginning of time. He has all authority. Every knee bows before Him. I contend to live out the plans and purposes He has for me and choose to yield to His greatness.

God, these are just some of the names we can know You by. Fill us with glorylight and Godsight as the truth and power of Your word captures our hearts and captivates our souls. Speak into the silence of our days and infuse our hearts with words of life. We yield God to the fullness of knowing You.

How Should We then Live?

November 28, 2017 by Jeannie Pallett Leave a Comment

How should we then live if NOW at this moment we belong to Him and are His children?

1John 3:2-3 Beloved NOW we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be but we know when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope purifies himself just as He is pure.

How should we then live?

We practise.  We read the Word and see Jesus revealed.

We practise living right, thinking right things, speaking words in alignment with His and clothing ourselves in love, gentleness, compassion and truth.

Proverbs 16:3 & 23

Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established.

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth.

We practise righteousness with repentant hearts, keeping short accounts and being in continual right standing with God as we love Him and love others.

We lay down our lives for others by choosing to live in the light and truth of God’s presence
In the laying down, our lives become conduits of God’s love and blessing and we are free. Free to live within the boundaries of His endless love.

We lay down our lives because we know we cannot pretend to love sincerely and live the way the Father desires. We lay down our lives because we know we cannot love by the strength of our weak flesh.

The strength and power of God in us cannot be ‘hyped up’; to walk and live in His strength and power we yield all of who we are to the Greater One who lives within us.

Now we are like Him…so we have a responsibility to nullify and make void and empty of power over us, those traits of our flesh which so subtly lead us into an area of sin.
Now we are like Him…so we choose to walk in the light learning to live, breathe, and have our being in Him. As He is so are we in this world.

How should we then live?

In our normal, routine, duty-filled lives, the greatest purpose we have is to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, all our soul and with all our strength. Body, soul and spirit, synchronized and yielding to love our God, abandoned to the Spirit of God and His Word.

How should we then live if we are like Him NOW? By choosing to love the Lord, allowing the Spirit of God who lives within us to empower and enable us to do what the Father asks of us.

Trusting the power of the Spirit will manifest the love and presence of Jesus in us to others.

Yielding to Christ in us the hope of glory; Christ in us who gives us reason to hope that His glorious nature will shine through us.

Father, I come to Your throne bowing my heart, will and body before You. I am here. I am Yours. Lead me, guide me in the way You would have me walk. Help me to hear Holy Spirit speaking to me. God I ask for ears to hear and eyes to see in the Spirit and to look way beyond that which is natural.
Father, I am willing to walk in the way You have prepared and planned for me. I choose to make a change for the positive in the way I think, speak and act. God, I choose love, which is full of a good report, which is why we can speak the positive opposites over the lies of the enemy.
I bless You and thank You for Your hand at work in my heart and soul.

 

How Do We Tend our Garden

July 31, 2017 by Jeannie Pallett 2 Comments

The Lord feeds the birds of the air and gives us our daily bread. I am reminded of these truths these summer days whenever I sit out in my backyard and do just that…sit. Sit and watch the birds as they fly from branch to branch devouring their daily meals.  The orioles find the dishes we fill with grape jelly every day, the cardinals the sunflower seeds I scatter and all the while, He reminds me of how He fully satisfies us, knowing our every need.

Our role, if we desire satisfaction, contentment and peace is to seek the Lord and find Him just as the birds seek out their food. We seek, pursue, go after Him with all our heart and He is waiting ready to be found. He knows the way to our hearts!

The Lord desires to reveal His heart to ours so we cleave to Him becoming wholly His and walk ably in the way He has prepared for us.

When we have felt the sting of words or actions, we hurt and the tendency of our flesh is to (want to) lash back or seek retribution in some way. But our Lord? He calls us to walk a higher walk by living the love life and sowing seeds of righteousness.

Our job becomes that of learning how to tend our garden.

It is in the hard and hurtful experiences we learn how to tend our garden by showing love, kindness, mercy, forgiveness and purity of heart. His words of truth telling us who we are, Whose we are will become our daily bread. We can choose to forgive and harbour no grudges so we can face the (perceived) offending party with grace.

When our words and actions are motivated by love we are sowing seeds of righteousness and the Lord promises we will reap according to loving kindness and mercy.

Hosea 10:12 is speaks loudly to my spirit in these days,

Beloved, sow for yourself according to righteousness, uprightness and right standing with Me. Don’t allow circumstances to rob you of the blessing of obedience and reaping according to mercy and loving kindness. Allow that uncultivated ground to be broken up, for it is time to seek Me, to inquire for and of Me and to not look at what you see in the natural.  I want you to walk in My favour. I am with you to teach you of righteousness when it is hard and unnatural for you. I want to rain down upon you My righteous gift of salvation.

When ‘stuff’ happens in our relationships, we need to not be afraid to communicate with one another and take a first step in breaking up the barren and hard ground between us so life grows. This is the garden that we tend.

We ‘tend’ the garden, we don’t just rush in and step all over the little shoots of life with no regard. This is why holding our peace is so important. Its easy to rush in when we are all upset and hurt and just make a mess of what could become a beautiful garden, what is a beautiful garden even in the small beginning stages.

When we ignore the hurt and harden our hearts toward the other person, the ground separating us is dry and barren, rocky soil where nothing good can grow.118

The ground needs watering from the Well of the Word of Life. How we tend our garden will determine the seed that is planted. When we sow according to love we will have love seeds to plant so life flourishes. These seeds become available to us when we have spent time in the presence of Jehovah Shalom.

The seeds aren’t just tossed to the ground like so many wild flower seeds. The seeds are held as the  ground is prayerfully prepared and then planted with love, grace and mercy. Someone has to take the first step in cultivating the ground when misunderstanding has caused an offense to want to lodge in our hearts.

Our hearts are the ‘lodge’ of Christ, the ‘lodge’ of our hearts is where He abides and there is only room for His love.

As we hold fast, holding our peace and waiting upon the Lord, we are holding fast to love and mercy, to righteousness and justice. The peace of God will rule our hearts, will be the umpire of our hearts as we move towards the other with grace, peace, mercy and love.

The Name of the Lord is a Strong Tower and when we, His beloved, run into it we are saved. Saved to become wholly His with nothing lacking and every good and perfect gift within reach.

When we run to the Lord when we been hurt, as much as we try to ‘hold or keep’ our peace, His greater Peace, the very Presence of Jehovah Shalom overshadows us and becomes the essence of our peace. His peace, like a balm soothes our wounded soul and directs our thoughts into the Word of the Lord.

As much as the Father delights in us as we lean into Him, I believe we capture His attention and He is riveted upon us when we are willing to walk out into the deep with Him.

Our steps of obedience show Him we are willing to walk with Him in a place not yet ventured.

Lord, in my weakness, You are my strength. In Your High Tower not only am I safe, but I am made strong. Father, I have concentrated my gaze upon the safety in the High Tower and have not contemplated the being made strong. God, transform me so Your Word runs deep. Deeper than ever before Lord and I ask that You show Yourself strong on my behalf as I make decisions pleasing to You and speak words that are upright, righteous and in right standing with You. Father, how I long for the consequences of my words to bear good fruit because I have planted good seed.

Thank You for unveiling Your word in our Secret, Sacred Place and for letting me see as You do.  Thank You for showing me why I felt hurt and then showing me another picture of where I stand in You, of who I am in You as Daughter of the Most High King. Nothing can remove me from this place. Nothing. No weapon formed against me can prosper if I hold my peace!

Thank You for renewing my weak nature by the strength and power of Your love words as I bind myself to Your words. Teach me discretion and wisdom so that the words of my mouth are like deep waters. Your deep waters, God so that the wisdom of my words is like a gushing stream and fountain of life whose waters sparkle with freshness, purity and the giving of life.134

Teach me daily Lord to walk in the ‘so thats”~ Your plans and purposes!

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When Joy Gets Kicked to the Side

July 27, 2017 by Jeannie Pallett 2 Comments

My word to meditate on through the month of July has been Joy.  I looked forward to a happy month, especially after the deep sadness of losing our little Shadow in May. 2014-06-10 23.23.26

But wouldn’t you know it! Joy got kicked to the side the very first week of the month! I was completely broadsided and blindsided. The only way Joy has been able to rise is to wait upon Him.DSC_0144

There are opportunities for every single one of us to be hurt or offended, confused by a person’s words or actions towards us.  We second guess our relationship, and more often than not, it is simple oversight on the behalf of the other party.

But it is also something more…

A friend recently shared these words with me, “we need to ask ourselves what meaning or judgment do we attach to the particular hurt or offense.  What is the story we tell ourselves based on our own issues? When we can identify with that, we can work towards becoming unoffendable.”

Her words become life changers when we realize none of the names we call ourselves is found in the Beloved. We are His Beloved, no longer rejected and cast aside. We are sons and daughters of the King of Glory and when we choose to hide and find ourselves in Him, reminding ourselves of Whose we are, Joy once again takes the front seat.

I am completely accepted and wholly loved and it matters not what may or may not have been said behind my back. We are His completely, one with Him, united with Him because we are reconciled with Him.

The glory of the Lord is our Rear Guard and because our lives are in Him, the pain of (possible) hurtful words and actions first must go through Him. He has given to us the ministry of reconciliation and instead of opting to go with our feelings, how much better it would be if we stood in our calling and worked towards reconciliation. 

United, one with Him = no divisions.

And Him? He has already forgiven the (perceived) offending party and so must we.

So, rather than only the one word “Joy”, I hold in my heart these days, a prayer asking God to create in me a clean heart and to renew a right spirit within me.

I’m asking for a heart that has been cleansed of all pain, offense, hurt, anger, bitterness, rejection and most of all to keep me from striking back or initiating a conversation while I am still hurt and angry.

I long for my spirit to bear no bruises and to only bear the mark of love. Blood stained and washed whiter than snow I am able to hold my peace and allow the Lord to work behind the scenes and in the depths of my heart.

In the waiting He is revealing truth and wise strategies as well as giving me the perseverance to be patient as I wait for the right time to initiate a difficult conversation by planting seeds of love.

Peace is one of the few things the Lord has said we are to “hold or keep”.  Jesus has told us that if we want to save our lives we must lose them and somehow in that mess of emotions He wants us to be still and hold our peace.

The reason is because He wants to fight for us and show Himself strong on our behalf.

When we run into the High Tower, we run to Jehovah Shalom and He envelopes us in Peace, in Himself.

I choose to submit to Him as an act of worship, as an act of my will despite the fact that my flesh wants to go after retribution. I must continue to hold my peace and I am strengthened and encouraged by the promise of God going to bat for me.

Joy doesn’t have to be kicked to the side when a hurtful situation arises if we choose obedience to the Lord.

In His hands are power and might; In His hands it is to make great and to give strength to all and I thank Him and praise Him for His glorious Name and all the attributes which that Name denotes. I am safe in Him, strengthened and upheld by His grace.

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When God Scribes Your Heart with His Word

July 24, 2017 by Jeannie Pallett 4 Comments

Here I am sitting at the computer this morning looking at the blank screen before me upon which I have not written words for nearly half a year. Its a little bit scary to be here in this quiet spot.

Quiet, because no words have been recorded for so long and quiet because it is quiet here at home…alone. A rarity it is to have a few hours of alone time before me!

But God…God has been faithful to scribe my heart with His word and I have been learning to hear His Voice in the busy and oh, so different life He has ushered me into.

Faith takes different twists and turns in the King’s River. The River moves and flows and is full of currents and eddies and for those on shore watching, the “River people” are never in the same place. If I were to be doing everything the same here and now as I was when my circumstances were different then I need to question whether or not I am lead by the whisper of the Holy Spirit.

I loved when I blogged and wrote regularly, sharing all the Lord was revealing and teaching me, and yes, I have missed my time here. But…but God has me in His River and I cannot stay in the same place. His words continue to pour into my heart and while I don’t seem to have had the time to write them down, the Lord has given me people who I can share face to face, heart to heart with. No words have been wasted, they have just taken on a different venue as God scribes His word on my heart and then gives opportunity for me to speak them.

He is fully acquainted with every area of our lives and knows the deepest desires of our hearts. There is no good thing He will withhold from us and when we learn to yield, surrender and abandon ourselves to Him, He strengthens us with nothing less than His own mighty strength. Our hearts are prepared for the dwelling of the Son-King and the life of Christ will be evident through our own as we walk and live by faith in the power of God.

We are one with Him. Jesus has filled us with the fullness of Himself and we lack nothing. We have been made full having come to fullness of life in Christ. We are filled with the fullness of the complete Godhead and nothing is missing or lacking in our growth.

Because we have been made full, there are no empty spaces.

Are we living with eyes wide open so we see and know with the eyes of our heart, the immeasurable, unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power IN and FOR us who believe?

The lives we live, day in and day out, yielded to the Spirit of God will express and reflect the fullness of the Godhead through our broken but surrendered vessels.

We are whole and complete in Him and our true lives are found in Him.

Our true life is Him!

Are you learning to lose your life only to find everything you need is (in) Him?

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About Jeannie

Here, at Greater than gold, you will always find hope and encouragement from the truth of God's Word.

My vision for Greater than gold is to discover and comprehend why God's Word is greater than gold.

My mission is to inspire you to discover the unsearchable wisdom of Christ through my written words.

I am an encourager who loves Jesus, His Word and you!

I am passionate about cultivating our hearts to hear the sound of the Lord as He walks among us each day and you will discover I write from a biblical perspective of victory!

Psalm 119:72 says God's Word is greater than gold which is where I derive my life statement:
“To have the gold of God’s truth and love radiating from my inner life so others are drawn to Jesus.”

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