THE WORLD IS YOUR PLAYGROUD

This is what I feel the Holy Spirit is speaking to me today “Alicia, open your eyes!!! THE WORLD IS YOUR PLAYGROUD. Now that your mind is not focused on worldly desires, if you allow me, I can fill it with Mine! Go out in My name, teach about who I am, be obedient to Me; I will bless your life as you bless others! You will do great things that you never even imagined could be possible, as long as you stay surrendered to My will and purpose for your life!”

I am so grateful to the Lord of Everything!

(A devotional taken from Sarah Young’s "Jesus Calling")
I Am the Truth: the one who came to set you free. As the Holy Spirit controls your mind and actions more fully, you become free in Me. You are increasingly released to become the one I created you to be. This is a work that I do in you as you yield to My Spirit. I can do My best handiwork when you sit in the stillness of My Presence focusing you entire being on Me.

Let My thoughts burst freely upon your consciousness, stimulating abundant Life. I am the Way the Truth and the Life. As you follow Me, I lead you along paths of Newness: ways you have never imagined. Don’t worry about what is on the road up ahead. I want you to find your security in knowing Me, the One who died to set you free.

John 8:31:32-32 NLT
“…You are truly my disciples if you keep obeying my teachings. 32. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 14:6
“Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me”

John 14: 12-14 NLT
“12. The truth is, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. 13. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father. 14. Yes, ask anything in my name, and I will do it!”

John 15: 18 – 19 NLT
“When the world hates you, remember it hated me before it hated you. 19. The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don’t. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.”

Philippians 2:13 NLT

“For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.”


I was in a Christian book store one day; I picked up a devotional book and read the message for that day. It was Sarah Young’s "Jesus Calling". Sarah Young is a missionary who has many accomplishments including planting churches in Japan and Australia. I fumbled through it a little bit and loved not only the teachings but also they way they were written. I put it down, not wanting to pay the $10 and went about my day. Well for the rest of the week I thought about that book, so I went back and got it. In the week I have had it, it surely has blessed my heart and mind. Sometimes I let myself get into thinking that I can do it all on my own, just me and God, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I need the teaching of others who are obedient to the Lord, I need that phone call from a friend telling me that I was on their heart, asking me if I’m okay, and then faithfully praying for me. I’m so tired of falling on my face, I’m sure there are times in our life when we need to fall on our face so God can awaken us and make us new, but I’m also sure that there are also times when God wants us to have community so that we don’t end up falling on our face. I have come to understand that beginning the day seeking God’s presence in prayer is absolutely the most important thing I can do if I truly want to walk the straight and narrow path God has made for me. Sure, missing one day may seem like not that big of deal, but I know better, I know that everything you have ever known and loved can disappear in a spilt second and I never again want to get caught in the storm without my mind, heart, and soul focused entirely on the Lord and his will for my life.

God has taken away from me everything I have ever known and thought to be true, other than, by God’s grace, my family. All the things I have thought to be true for my life where nothing but my own will, and you know what? I have never in my life had a feeling of such Freedom! My mind and heart have never been freer to receive God’s mighty counsel, “through communing with Me, you transfer your heavy burdens to My strong shoulders”, "Jesus Calling".

I find that sentence very interesting, especially when comparing to Matthew 11:28 – 30 NLT. “28.Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle, and you will find rest for your souls. 30. For my yoke fits perfectly, and the burden I give you is light”.

I want to emphasize the word HEAVY. The Lord doesn’t say, come to me, all of you who are weary and carry LIGHT burdens. I firmly believe, as Christians, we are called to put ourselves in positions where we will be confronted with HEAVY burdens, but the joy is that Jesus takes them from us, gives us rest, and the makes the load light. If we are to be the Body of Christ and just like in John 14:12 “do the same works I have done, and even greater works” then we as Christians may find ourselves facing very difficult circumstances for the Glory of the Lord. I also believe that by our own stubborn human nature we can create heavy burdens for ourselves when try to follow our own will for our life. Maybe God allows us to do this because it is an essential part of the spiritual growth process, I really don’t know. For me, I will try to do my best each day to let God work in my life, so that my HEAVY burdens are not always caused by my own failings, but instead by doing my part in the Body of Christ that I was created for. I think the HEAVY burdens can look very different for each person, and only you would know what they are. What are you passionate about? Do you constantly “feel sorry” for the single mom with 4 children trying to make a living by working at Walmart? Maybe God is calling you to help her, teach her, bless her in a way only you could.

For myself I constantly think about the innocent orphaned children in the world, how unfair it is for them. I would give every blessing in my life to just save one child from child prostitution or one child from starvation or one child from drug abuse or one child from violence. I am quite content with my reward being in heaven with the Lord, because I desire to work for his Kingdom and my only true joy is in the Lord. I do not feel content in this way everyday, but when I keep my eyes are heart focused on the Lord, then the joy that fills me knowing I am going to work for His Kingdom overwhelms me.

God has granted me an opportunity to go to YWAM, at the University of Nations in Kona, Hawaii for September 2010. I will spend three months there in discipleship training focusing on what I am most passionate about, Justice. I will learn more about who I am in Christ; I will learn skills to help the innocent from the injustices of the world. After that I will go on an outreach wherever God sends me, where I will live with locals and be able to fellowship with people of a different culture, teaching them what I have learnt while they teach me what they have learnt. Depending on the country I am sent to I will also learn a specific skill to help bring justice to that area, for example helping the child prostitutes in Thailand, or the many that die from drinking dirty water in Mozambique. I can not say how blessed I am to have this opportunity, it actually seems very surreal to me, I am so happy that the Lord knows the desires of my heart, and without me even realizing it, he is teaching me each day what those desires are, and giving me opportunities to fulfill them. I feel quite speechless at how good God is to me, (although I seem to have no trouble writing about it!).

I leave in three months, I ask that you pray for me as I know satan hates that I am going to do this. I also know that by Jesus dying on the Cross He has already defeated satan. Pray that I will wake up each morning seeking the Lord, focusing my every thought on him. Pray that I will be disciplined in memorizing scripture so that I am able to cut through the deceptions of the evil one. Pray that whatever is causing me to be spiritually attacked during my sleep will be revealed to me so it can be cast out in the name of Jesus. I just want to emphasize that satan does not want me to go, so your prayers will be the most important blessing in my life.

I also just wanted to say, that what I write in these blogs is my way of processing all that God is teaching me, I encourage you to pray about what you read, so that you know what is truth for your life, and I pray that you will be blessed by reading them. I also encourage you, if you feel the need, to comment on them, as your fellowship with me blesses my life.

Amen