The Secret of No Plan B

So, I am reading this book called the Secret of the Secret Place by Bob Sorge! And in this chapter The Secret of No Plan B he talks about Isaiah 44:14-20 and he says in his book:

The Lord gave me a definition of a false god. This definition helps me because even though in our westernized culture there are few people who actually worship figures of wood or stone, we too have our own false gods. In this passage, the Lord describes the idolaters as saying to their block of wood, "Deliver me, for you are my god!" So a god is defined as this: anything to which we ascribe the power to deliver us. Westerners have their own set of false gods - sources to which they turn to for deliverance when in times of crisis or need (let the reader understand).

Some of the gods in our own culture are:

Money, Health Insurance, Medical treatment/prescriptions, Social Security, Retirement plans and IRA's, credit cards/consolidation loans, drugs/alcohol, pleasure/entertainment/recreation/sports, sex, friends (to deliver us from loneliness), couselors, lawsuits, filing bankruptcy, etc.

God-worshippers are those who come to God first in their time of need. They seek God's face and wait on Him to receive directives for the course to take. The secret place becomes a threshold where we wait upon God, seeking His powerful intervention, and crying out to Him for wisdom and revelation. Occasionally, the Spirit will say to you, "In this instance, I want you to wait on Me only and stand in faith until I intervene sovereignly in your situation." When God gives you this word then fasten your seatbelt! You are in for the ride of your life. You are stepping into the God zone. Here we find the stuff of miracles. This is the dimension where God rises up in His wrath and vengeance and wreaks havoc upon your enemies. Your role is to gaze upon Him, love Him and grow in patience and faith; His role is to loose resurrection power in His time and way. Not every crisis falls into this category, but when it does... get excited!! You're taking the high road of the greatest saints of history, the pathway where God reveals the power of His arm, the splendor of His majestic beauty, and the awesomeness of His eternal purpose. (Psalms 62:5-8).

As I write this chapter (Bob Sorge), I am personally in great need of divine intervention in regard to physical infirmity. I have been tempted to consider some other avenues of relief, such as those listed above. But, instead, I have said to the Lord, "You are my Helper. If You don't save me, I am not saved. If You don't heal me, I am not healed. If You don't deliver me, I am not delivered. I have no other recourse, no Plan B, no alternative plan. I am not entertaining other options. It's You and You alone. I worship You. You are my God!!"

Is it possible, though, that this storm has come to guide you into a higher dimension of Kingdom Living? Oh, I hope you can learn the secret; When the storm hits, run into the secret place, establish your spirit, and say to Him with unwavering resolve, "You alone are my expectation." Our God loves to prove Himself strong on behalf of those who have NO other gods before Him.

This book is powerful and faith filled. I recommend it to anyone. It is awesome!

Testimony of His Love

When I first started on this journey with the mentoring program, I had no idea what I was in for. I knew in my heart it would be good but, didn’t know it was a process before it would be. My mentor, Barbara and I embarked on this Love Dare journey with our Father and He led us in and through this whole entire process. He told me that He wants me to take the things in the Love Dare book and do them on my mother in love. Minus a few love dares because it was written for married couples. He spoke so many things to me about healing and restoration. Yes, at first I was doing it because I wanted to be obedient but, I knew that I was totally holding back until about week 20. This is where I started to see a change in my own heart that I never expected to see. I figured I would do all of this stuff and GOD would change my mother in love!! WRONG!! His plan was not quite what I thought. I did all of the dares and more and in that process I lost my life of following my own heart and embraced my new life of leading it, and HE changed ME!! He did such a miraculous healing and restoration and filled my heart and life with a love for my mother in love that was completely unexplainable. It was ONLY HIM who could’ve done it. He showed me things about my mother in love that I never knew from HIS prospective. Yes, He asked me to do things that I didn’t want to do. And face some things that I didn’t want to face. Although I did struggle with accepting that He was asking me to sacrifice myself, my life, my way of thinking and my way of doing things, for Him. I always gave into what He asked of me. I learned that just because you break the curses and cast out the demons once the healing has taken place that it doesn’t mean everything is now better. I had to do something different. I had to walk in love, HIS LOVE. I had to walk it out and He has been with me every step of the way. I learned that I have to do something different in order for things to be different and that meant laying my heart on the line every time. Now that this journey has ended in a way, my new journey has begun with my mother in love. We are both working on our relationship and have both overcome the barriers that were placed before us. I went to church with her today and she held my hand during service. That was the moment that I knew that I knew that I knew that He has changed both of our hearts for HIS GLORY!! Was it worth the sacrifice to choose to love someone even when they don’t know how to love you? ABSOLUTELY, I am a life that was completely changed by HIS LOVE. He is the only one that deserves to be praised. THE ONLY ONE!! Thank you Lord for loving me FIRST!!