AWord42Day: Deep Cries Unto Deep

AWord42Day: Deep Cries Unto Deep: God is speaking to me lately about the deeper things in Him. Those places that you really can't access except through pain and denia...

Deep Cries Unto Deep

God is speaking to me lately about the deeper things in Him. Those places that you really can't access except through pain and denial of flesh. That place where all you care about is hearing from God. you don't care about food or family or friends, sometimes you don't even care about gathering with other people. You just know that you have to get a hold of God. You have to somehow touch Him in a way that before was impossible for you to access. In Psalm 42 the Psalmist David describes this very thing, he says as the deer pants for the water, Oh God my soul cries out to you! He was desperate for God! This wasn't some weak double-minded prayer. This was a serious, soul baring, gut wrenching prayer that reached the throne of God. He even said my tears are my bread and drink. In other words, fasting and prayer and crying out to God was his portion in that hour.

He describes his experience with God during this rough and depressing time as being taken over by God's waterspout, a waterspout is a furious and wild and power thing that appears in water and is like a hurricane or a tornado and if you get in it's way, you would get hurt for sure. But, David says that God's waterspout is calling unto the deep places in him, in other words God is calling him deeper and it might be a treacherous place, it might be a dangerous place, you might have to lose some things, you might have to lose some people, but come deeper says the Lord, come follow me and I will make you fishers of me. Come follow me into the deep places, into places that no one has ever seen before.

Oh God!!! take me deeper! Take me to a place where you whisper secrets to me. Where you show me things that I need to know. Not just for myself alone but for my brothers and sisters in the body of Christ. For the edification of your church. I listen to a song by Jonathan Helser entitled, Endless Ocean and bottomless sea and in the song he describes how God is endless, no matter how much you see or know of Him, He is like endless ocean and bottomless sea and every time I hear that song, it touches me in such a profound way. Because that is so true! None of us could ever exhaust His goodness. We could never ever see and know and hear all of Him. We could never ever even begin to touch the surface of who He is. His greatness and His majesty.

You know sometimes God has to hurt us to help us. Sometimes when we are going into the deeper things of God we come to realize that we can't be surface people if we are trying to know more of Him. We can't be complacent and lazy about the things of God and expect Him to reveal His secrets to us. The word tells us that the Apostle Paul had more revelation from God than any other person but guess what? he also had a thorn in the flesh, that never left him, even though he prayed to God for it to be removed and God's reply was, my grace is sufficient for thee. Would to God that we would toughen up in the spirit and realize that God allows things to come into our lives to reveal the deeper things that cannot be revealed any other way than through suffering. Ooh wee that isn't a popular subject for sure but it is the truth and the word of God bears that out.

Sometimes we just need to be reminded of who He is! My God! He is the great Creator! The Author and the finisher of our faith! He is The friend that sticks closer than a brother and has promised to never leave us or forsake us. He is calling out to us, calling out and saying come deeper! Come deeper! There are things that I want to show you says the Lord. Things that others have not seen or heard. When the prophet Isaiah saw the Lord, He said I saw the Lord and He was high and lifted up and His train filled temple! Glory to God! He fell as a dead man, the scripture says! Oh glory to God! He calls us into the deeper things in Him today.

It is time to stop playing church and get real. Get real with Him. Seek Him and His greatness. Lay aside fleshly desires and say Lord I come to you, asking for more of you and less of me. I seek your face today. I seek your goodness today and your mercy and your grace. But, today God I really want to go deeper and understand more of you. It is time, it is time. Stepping out on that water, takes faith, and determination to stay focused on Him, no matter what comes or goes. Laying aside any weight that is trying to hold us back. Reaching for that high calling, which is only found in Christ Jesus.


Here is the link to the Helser song I mentioned.
 https://youtu.be/qlBugZ2xEIs

Priscilla Hinds
Writer/Blogger
AWord42Day
You can email us @ AWord42day2017@gmail.com

Improving Blog-Site

Wow! I have been super busy the last couple of days trying, with very little knowledge, to update and expand my blog-site to be more social media friendly. I tell ya right now, this has been an undertaking. But, I can do all thing through Christ who gives me the strength.

I am trying to make sure you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
Here is the link for Pinterest:  https://www.pinterest.com/aword42day/



Here is the link for Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Writing4Hisglory/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf

Still working on the Twitter account. For now it is just my regular Twitter account where I share the writings from this Blog site.

Despise not small beginnings says the Lord.

Priscilla Hinds
Blogger/Writer
AWord42Day2017@gmail.com 

Rainy Days And Mondays?

 When I was a teenager in the 70's a song came out, rainy days and Monday's always get me down.Sounds pretty gloomy doesn't it? We as Christians don't have to buy into the mentality of oh man it's Monday, it's going to be a rough day. Why should Monday be any different than any other day? Why should a rainy day be depressing? Life is what you make it and we are framing our worlds with the words that we speak. So, if it's raining put on your pretty rain boots and press on. Monday morning, say this is the beginning of my work week and I am going to get so much accomplished starting today. This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. You will be amazed at how just saying that over yourself will make such a difference in the way that you view your day. God makes every day, there are blessings in store for each day and if some trouble comes, we deal with it through the power of the Holy Spirit and we move on.

Our minds must be renewed daily with the Word of God to keep us from being gloomy and having a oh poor pitiful me attitude. When I was still working as a chef at ASU. I would come in all cheerful and happy and get on with my day. No matter what came, I kept a positive attitude. When someone did or said something that was bad or wrong or if it bothered me, I would either ignore it, or calmly tell them, that i didn't care for that kind of talk. One Monday, I came in singing and doing my little happy dance and everyone around me was just staring at me. When I realized that they were all looking at me, I'm like what? This one guy said, it is Monday, what are you so happy about? I said, I am happy every day, one day is no different from the other to me. He said man, I hate Mondays. I always feel so bad and I just hate coming to work. He was a younger guy and he viewed me as a granny so I could speak freely with him without injuring his feelings. I said well it's like this, all weekend you drink, and party. Your body is dehydrated from all the alcohol consumption and so you wake up with a headache,a stomach ache and your body is just tired and feel worn out and so you dread coming to work or even getting out of the bed and for some reason you feel the need to repeat this process every single weekend. Now, you got granny here, I go to church on the weekend, fill up with the Word of God. Worship God, get to see my friends, sing, be happy, get some much needed rest and when I get here on Monday, I feel great and am full of energy and ready to go!

He looked at me and said well I am young and I like to party, I said hey I get it, I've done a little partying to in my day. But, I learned a long long time ago that was not the plan for my life and so I stopped and now I don't have to dread Mondays anymore. I can't say that he fell down on his face and repented and gave his heart to the Lord, but, he watched and listened to me the entire time I worked there. I planted a seed and I expect it to grow. Someone else will come along and water that seed and fertilize it and I fully expect it to come to full fruition one day.


We set the standard for what kind of day we are going to have. Not others, it is our own thinking, our own words that frame that day and we need to learn to speak well over ourselves. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, because He has made me so. I am blessed and highly favored of the Lord and His favor surrounds me like a shield. I am going to have a very productive and blessed day because His Word tells me that whatever I do will prosper, Psalm 1. God has given us creative power with our words and we must use those words to build wonderful things in this earth realm. Speak life over yourself and others. Stop the negative speeches and choose wisely the words that come out of your mouth. This is something that I have struggled with for years and am just now really getting hold of the extreme importance of our words.

Be blessed today whether it is a rainy day, a snowy day, or a sunshiny bright day. This is the day that the Lord has made, lets choose to be glad in it and await what He has in store for us to do. Each day can be an adventure with Jesus if we just realize that we are working for the King in the kingdom of God and He gives us assignments to do. That will change your whole outlook on life. When you start to think, I am on a mission for the Lord, I am an ambassador for the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Let's be productive in this God given day, let's praise Him and thank Him for all that He has done and be glad in whatever comes our way. The joy of the Lord is our strength and we can have a good day no matter what comes our way in Jesus name.

Priscilla Hinds-Blogger/Writer
AWord42Day
Aword42day2017@gmail.com

He Uses The Throw Away Things

When I made this necklace it was just a whim. I really didn't know how it would turn out. I was really just fooling around with different ideas and out came this lovely piece. It was really to be a prototype and not to be for sale at all. I only wore it this one time to take a pic and I thought to myself, it sure needs tweeking. I will have to trim this and that and lengthen the necklace a little to keep it from poking into me and so forth. I posted this pic on facebook along with some other necklaces and this is the one that everyone wanted. 

I thought to myself, well isn't that odd? The one that I had the least amount of confidence in has gotten the most attention and response. Isn't that the way life is sometimes? We will scurry about worrying and fussing over a certain thing in our lives and that thing is the very thing that will help someone else. You know the messy things in your life that you really would rather not share with others. You know that thing that you wish had never happened and that is the very thing that God will use to help someone else get out of the pit that they are in.

I want to encourage someone today. Be who you are. Don't try to be anyone else but you and don't be afraid to show your weaknesses and past short comings and failures because God will use that very thing to bring you into a more intimate relationship with Him and bring Him so much glory. I have learned over the years that we have to be willing to share where we came from and what we have gone through before we came to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at this necklace, all the papers used in it are from magazine pages. Destined for the trash but I saw them and saw a necklace. You don't know what others might see in your throw away things. Save them, share them with others and let God get the glory for what is done in and through your life. God bless you today and enjoy God. He is on your side and is for you. Romans 8:28

Still Blessed

In the Old Testament book of Numbers in chapter 22, we find the story of the Prophet Balaam and how he had been summoned by the king Balak to come and curse the armies of Israel. Balaam knew that was wrong but he inquired of the Lord anyway and the Lord said no! He went on the journey toward the king even though the Lord had said no. In the midst of the journey, his donkey would not go any farther because he could see the angel of the Lord and Balaam could not. See God was trying to stop him in his tracks because what he was trying to do God was not going to allow. He pressed on anyway and even tried to curse them but the Lord put the blessing for Israel in his mouth and he just COULD NOT CURSE WHAT GOD HAD ALREADY BLESSED!! When the Lord says that a person is blessed, then honey guess what? they are blessed and blessed they shall be.

Oh the enemy of our soul might try, mind you, but he won't be able to do it. The word tells us that no weapon formed against us will prosper. So we can just go on about our kingdom business knowing and trusting that God has our back and will not allow any witch, or any evil doing person to put a spell on us, to curse us or to do any wickedness to us. Our footsteps are ordered of the Lord and He has given His angels charge over us as heirs of salvation to be protected. He is causing even our enemies to be at peace with us as, He keeps us in perfect peace because we keep our minds and our hearts on Him and turned toward Him, the Author and the Finisher of our faith. Oh God is so good!!! The enemy will not be allowed, do you hear me? will no be allowed to destroy us!

The word also tells us that the devil goes about roaring like a lion seeking whom he may devour, well he may not!! devour me or you because the Lord just is not going to allow it. So don't speak evil over your situation and curse your own circumstances or situations because our God that sits on the throne is in complete and total control of our very lives and He loves us with an everlasting love as is watching  out for us. He wants to bless us, to help us, to defend us and He will keep on doing it. He isn't slack in His promises towards us! Don't be afraid of what any person can say or do against you! What God has blessed is BLESSED! 

When The Lord Sets The Table

When I was a young child and I would read the 23rd Psalm, and come upon verse 5 that reads: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows. I would think now why would God set the table among enemies? Why wouldn't He just set the table among peaceful people that love me but as I got older and not only understood scripture better, but had some things happen in life that brought crystal clear understanding and clarity in this matter, I got a true revelation on this topic.

When God sets the table, He not only sets it with beauty and elegance for us but He sets it in the presence of our enemies just to show them that He will bless us, even in the midst of them trying to scheme, plot and plan against us. He wants them to see us getting blessed, to see that anointing oil that He has poured on us to touch not only us but everyone connected to us. He wants them to have to watch all the good things that He is giving to us. It is not only to bless us to to bring a life-lesson to them.

I can remember when I was really young going to visit a particular Aunt of mine that was so jealous of my mother that she truly couldn't enjoy her own life. When my mother would get a new outfit or something new for the house or even something as trivial as a new lipstick, you could literally see the anger and jealousy on her face. She would say snide and hateful comments about my mother to others and she would say spiteful little comments to my mother when we were around. I never once saw my mother retaliate against her. She never defended herself against her not even one time and I would get so angry and aggravated just watching this spectacle every time we visited them. My dad would also get agitated and would say Hazel why don't you just tell her off? My mother would say, that would only make her worse and she kept her peace.

My dad loved to give gifts more than anyone I have ever met and was always giving mother and I money or presents, giving made him happy. But, mind you, once he realized that not only did the presents and gifts make us happy but made my Aunt unhappy and jealous, he would lavish us all the more in her presence. I was like what in the world? and then it hit me this is what God does as well. He loves us and wants to give us presents and gifts and every lovely thing that He can think of and when He sees us dealing with hateful, spiteful enemies and we keep our mouths shut and suffer in silence that makes Him want to bless us, reward us and give gifts to us all the more.

This is why He sets the table in the presence of the enemies so that they can SEE the beauty and elegance and lavishness of the gifts that He pours out upon us. Isn't God awesome? He not only blesses us just because He loves us but to let the enemies know that no matter what you do to her, she is going to be blessed, because she is my child and I enjoy pouring out my goodness upon her!! So today if you have enemies that talk about you and scheme and plot and do all that they can against you, just realize that at that moment He is preparing your table! Glory to God and it is going to be piled high with beauty and elegance and blessings and joy and every good and perfect gift that the Father of Lights from above sends to you. Glory to God, He just keeps on blessing me!

Those that are well loved

Romans 8: 14-15  14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons[f] of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 

Oh what a wonderful truth of the word of God to know that we are not just subjects of a king but rather we are sons and daughters of the most High God, we are joint heirs with His son Jesus Christ! Wow! how then can we get depressed or fearful or worried about what tomorrow brings or what people will say or do to us? We are His very own dear children. Oh that makes my day better how about yours? 

Abba means daddy, papa which denotes relationship, love, comfort, and companionship which should make us realize that we are so loved by God that no matter what He loves us with an everlasting love. I heard Beth Moore say once that people that are loved well, love well. Some of us had great fathers and some of us had fathers that were deplorable but no matter whether our earthly fathers were good or bad our Heavenly Father is perfect. He loves us unconditionally and has a great plan for our lives and so knowing this, and experiencing this great love, we should be able to love others like He loves us.

We should be able through the power of Jesus Christ to be able to love others unconditionally. To look beyond their faults and see their needs and without judgement or prejudice show the love of God. So many songs, poems, screenplays, and books have been written about love and all of them put together could not even compare with the great love story that we read in the word of God. How God gave His only begotten son Jesus to be the ultimate sacrifice and die on a cruel cross for our sins. Their is no greater love than this, the word tells us. 

So...knowing this and being so well loved, let us now love others. When the pharisees were trying to trip Jesus up by asking Him what was the greatest commandment, Jesus said to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul and to love your neighbor as yourself. He further stated that all the law and prophets hang on these 2. Sounds pretty simple doesn't it? To love God and to love people? You would think with us being so supremely loved that we in turn would be so joyfully ready to love Him and to love others but it seems like it is the hardest thing ever for us to do. Oh dear Lord please help us to show your love daily not just in thought but in deed and action. Help us to go into the highways and the hedges and compel the lost and undone to come to your table. Help us to love as you love, help us to see like you see and to hear like you hear and to speak only what we hear you say. 

Facebook and email launch

Well......I finally did it. I launched the facebook page for AWord42Day. I also set up a gmail account for the page which will also link to this blog. Later on a Twitter and Pinterest and all of those things that we do in social media these days. I just want as many outlets to share the love of Christ and be an encouragement to people. Especially the household of faith aka the Body of Christ. We all need to be encouraged, to be lifted up and helped. I sure do. I know there have been many days that I felt so beat down and so ready to just throw in the towel and I would see a cute picture or see an inspiring quote or someone would send me an email or a message or text and I would perk up and feel better.

So....this is why I write and tweet and facebook and all of the above. Not to become a famous writer or blogger or to have anything go viral and end up on a talk show. No...my sole reason is to honor God with the talents and abilities that He has placed in me to do what He has called me to do,which is to make Him known and to know Him. That's it in a nutshell. My prayer is that someone will be encouraged, lifted up, inspired, stirred to action, and spurned onward and upward by something that is written or shared on any of the social media outlets that AWord42Day is connected to.

Onward and upward to God be the glory!!!!

Priscilla Hinds
Writer/Blogger
AWord42Day