In the Garden Again
With all the birds and other critters that frequent our garden I can see the strong sense of survival that is built into even the bird and animal kingdom.
There was one blackbird that made our garden its haven. It only had one good leg. The other one just hung there and the foot was curled up so it didn’t function, even for support. This bird learned to trust me to some measure. I talked to it and gave it some bread to eat when it came into the garden. I watched this one survive from the time it was very young and because of the physical difficulty it had there were some limitations to its life but it had developed survival skills the other birds did not have or use on a regular basis.
Men have a strong sense of survival built into their being also and it can be seen in the human being as they develop those extra senses as the need arises in their lives. The blind man for instance develops a sense of hearing that the ordinary man does not use and many other things for their very survival in the world as they know it.
Philippians 4:19(KJV) 19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Truly God can be seen in the whole of creation if we take the time to look. See Psalm 19
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Grafted In
Gleanings from the Garden – Grafted In
Some of the trees in my garden are special trees. Special in that they have unique shapes because of a process called grafting. Branches are placed upon a strong main trunk or vine and as a result they grow a certain designed way. For instance in my garden I have a Weeping Golden Chain tree. The tree has been shaped by they way branches are grafted onto the main tree trunk. As a result they hang down towards the ground instead of growing upward as the natural tree would grow. It looks like a big bushy tree and when the long golden chain flowers are on it they bring a beautiful look to the garden.
These things remind me of the fact that we are grafted in to the natural vine and placed by God as it has pleased Him to accomplish the look and design He has in mind to create for the body of Christ. We are then members in particular, as it says in I Corinthians 12, and have been designed to bring our uniqueness to and be blended together as they body of Christ, all doing the will of Him who placed us there.
In order to be grafted in the branch has to be hand picked, treated and placed where it will be and do what the one doing the grafting has in mind.
That is us grafted in – hand chosen by God for His garden.
John 15:16(KJV)Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Romans 11:17(KJV) And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Blessings for the Day
Pastor Kitner
Some of the trees in my garden are special trees. Special in that they have unique shapes because of a process called grafting. Branches are placed upon a strong main trunk or vine and as a result they grow a certain designed way. For instance in my garden I have a Weeping Golden Chain tree. The tree has been shaped by they way branches are grafted onto the main tree trunk. As a result they hang down towards the ground instead of growing upward as the natural tree would grow. It looks like a big bushy tree and when the long golden chain flowers are on it they bring a beautiful look to the garden.
These things remind me of the fact that we are grafted in to the natural vine and placed by God as it has pleased Him to accomplish the look and design He has in mind to create for the body of Christ. We are then members in particular, as it says in I Corinthians 12, and have been designed to bring our uniqueness to and be blended together as they body of Christ, all doing the will of Him who placed us there.
In order to be grafted in the branch has to be hand picked, treated and placed where it will be and do what the one doing the grafting has in mind.
That is us grafted in – hand chosen by God for His garden.
John 15:16(KJV)Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Romans 11:17(KJV) And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Blessings for the Day
Pastor Kitner
Monday, October 25, 2010
More from the Garden
Gleanings from the Garden - Fullness of Time
As a person observes what a garden does, they cannot help but see how everything has its own time for its life cycle or season.
A time to be planted – covered.
A time to spring up – breaking through.
A time to grow – strengthening.
A time to bloom – a fragrance released.
A time to produce fruit (if fruit is a part of it) - productivity.
A time to complete its life cycle – dying.
There is such a thing as the fullness of time when all things are just right to bring forth the plan of God that is locked up within each seed, each plant, each bird, each critter each person and it is just the right time.
Galatians 4:4(KJV) says to us concerning Christ, - But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
If things seem to be in a holding pattern in your life, if nothing seems to be coming together, wait on the Lord. There is that “fullness of time” for your life. Like a seed planted in the ground and out of sight for a while. There are some great mysteries taking place in you until the time that you are brought forth to be seen and enjoyed because of who you have been becoming during the covered over time. Great mysteries make for great reading……God makes everything beautiful in its time………You are an epistle to be read of all men.
Ecclesiastes 3:1(KJV)1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
God bless!
Pastor Kitner
As a person observes what a garden does, they cannot help but see how everything has its own time for its life cycle or season.
A time to be planted – covered.
A time to spring up – breaking through.
A time to grow – strengthening.
A time to bloom – a fragrance released.
A time to produce fruit (if fruit is a part of it) - productivity.
A time to complete its life cycle – dying.
There is such a thing as the fullness of time when all things are just right to bring forth the plan of God that is locked up within each seed, each plant, each bird, each critter each person and it is just the right time.
Galatians 4:4(KJV) says to us concerning Christ, - But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
If things seem to be in a holding pattern in your life, if nothing seems to be coming together, wait on the Lord. There is that “fullness of time” for your life. Like a seed planted in the ground and out of sight for a while. There are some great mysteries taking place in you until the time that you are brought forth to be seen and enjoyed because of who you have been becoming during the covered over time. Great mysteries make for great reading……God makes everything beautiful in its time………You are an epistle to be read of all men.
Ecclesiastes 3:1(KJV)1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
God bless!
Pastor Kitner
Friday, October 22, 2010
More Gleanings from the Garden
More Gleanings from the Garden
Malachi 3:10-11(KJV)
10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
This speaks of the tithe and the importance of doing what God says concerning Tithes and offerings.
There are multiple blessings that come to us as we obey in this area of our lives.
1. There will be meat in God’s house – provision for the priesthood
2. Open windows of Heaven – windows are to be looked through PLUS.
3. God pours out a blessing on you!
4. The abundance of God is made available to the giver of the tithe +
5. God will also take up your cause against the devourer
These are tremendous things that are in motion for the one who brings his/her life into line with God’s known and revealed will.
As a pastor I use examples to illustrate things for the folks so they can get a handle on the spiritual or invisible.
Once I used an illustration in which I took a cantaloupe to illustrate the tithe and what comes with what is given.
Out of ten cantaloupes the first one becomes the tithe or what you bring to God in the storehouse.
One might think that the cantaloupe is the only thing given. However when you bring the cantaloupe to God, you also have brought all the tithe to God. By this I mean that everything that is involved with the cantaloupe is brought to God.
To illustrate, I cut the cantaloupe in half and what we saw was that within the cantaloupe that we brought to God were seeds of more cantaloupe.
So within the tithe you bring to God are the seeds then of your future harvests. It seems that what God makes always bears the seeds of more in it, even man. This perpetuates or continues ongoing blessings and/or provision.
Be Blessed
Pastor Kitner
Malachi 3:10-11(KJV)
10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
This speaks of the tithe and the importance of doing what God says concerning Tithes and offerings.
There are multiple blessings that come to us as we obey in this area of our lives.
1. There will be meat in God’s house – provision for the priesthood
2. Open windows of Heaven – windows are to be looked through PLUS.
3. God pours out a blessing on you!
4. The abundance of God is made available to the giver of the tithe +
5. God will also take up your cause against the devourer
These are tremendous things that are in motion for the one who brings his/her life into line with God’s known and revealed will.
As a pastor I use examples to illustrate things for the folks so they can get a handle on the spiritual or invisible.
Once I used an illustration in which I took a cantaloupe to illustrate the tithe and what comes with what is given.
Out of ten cantaloupes the first one becomes the tithe or what you bring to God in the storehouse.
One might think that the cantaloupe is the only thing given. However when you bring the cantaloupe to God, you also have brought all the tithe to God. By this I mean that everything that is involved with the cantaloupe is brought to God.
To illustrate, I cut the cantaloupe in half and what we saw was that within the cantaloupe that we brought to God were seeds of more cantaloupe.
So within the tithe you bring to God are the seeds then of your future harvests. It seems that what God makes always bears the seeds of more in it, even man. This perpetuates or continues ongoing blessings and/or provision.
Be Blessed
Pastor Kitner
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Garden Gleanings
This is taken from my Garden Gleanings
1 Corinthians 13:12(TMSG)
12We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
As I sat in my garden under the protection of the canvas dome reading “Just as I Am”, the Billy Graham life auto biography, I came across the scripture of the day here. It so caught my attention that I had to stop reading and put the following down on paper.
There are times when you are quickened by the Holy Spirit as you read God’s Word. This is one of those times. The last words “just as He knows us” or as the KJV puts it “even as also I am known” grabbed my attention and revelation was imparted to me to understand something.
Several things are revealed here:
1. We have limited understanding of the whole picture of our life here on earth.
2. There is a time when we will meet the Lord in a fully opened relationship.
3. We shall have a full understanding of our part in the awesome plan of God.
4. I am FULLY known – by God.
There is a full teaching here but for this thought for today – I don’t have to have a full understanding now of everything that my life is about. I just have to do what I know that is right to do. God FULLY knows me and has equipped me to do what He has designed me to do. We also need to remember that. WE are FULLY known of God and He sees you complete in your destiny.
Be Blessed Today
Pastor Kitner
1 Corinthians 13:12(TMSG)
12We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
As I sat in my garden under the protection of the canvas dome reading “Just as I Am”, the Billy Graham life auto biography, I came across the scripture of the day here. It so caught my attention that I had to stop reading and put the following down on paper.
There are times when you are quickened by the Holy Spirit as you read God’s Word. This is one of those times. The last words “just as He knows us” or as the KJV puts it “even as also I am known” grabbed my attention and revelation was imparted to me to understand something.
Several things are revealed here:
1. We have limited understanding of the whole picture of our life here on earth.
2. There is a time when we will meet the Lord in a fully opened relationship.
3. We shall have a full understanding of our part in the awesome plan of God.
4. I am FULLY known – by God.
There is a full teaching here but for this thought for today – I don’t have to have a full understanding now of everything that my life is about. I just have to do what I know that is right to do. God FULLY knows me and has equipped me to do what He has designed me to do. We also need to remember that. WE are FULLY known of God and He sees you complete in your destiny.
Be Blessed Today
Pastor Kitner
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
The Power of Corporate Prayer
The Power of Corporate Prayer
Corporate prayer is the power of agreement at it's best. First everyone agrees with God and what the Word of God declares. Secondly everyone comes into agreement in prayer to God for what they are seeking God for, believing God both hears and answers prayer. Prayer is how the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ gets implemented on this earth. In prayer we gain knowledge of how to put the tools, helps, and abilities together in such a way as to accomplish His intended results.
1. Corporate prayer is the army of God moving together for God's purposes.
2. Corporate prayer is the power of agreement at it's best. God is in your midst.
3. Corporate prayer is where the provision is released to bind the strong man.
4. Corporate prayer can remove obstacles that stand in the way of spiritual advancement.
5. Corporate prayer recognizes the spiritual principle of the unity of the Spirit, activating that principle, and receiving bebefits of that unity corporately.
6. Corporate prayer can be used when someone in the local church is in a great trial or has a great need.
7. Corporate prayer is a powerful expression of spiritual preparation as we enter into the corporate worship service together.
8. Corporate prayer should honor Christ as King, exalting His Throne and His name with a spirit of gratefulness, and thanking Him for his answers and His sovereignty.
9. Corporate prayer prepares the atmosphere so that the Holy Spirit may move in power with an atmosphere of expectancy.
10. Corporate prayer can cultivate passion and faith for the harvest to be reaped.
These thoughts were gleened from several places such as Corporate Destiny in The Local Church by Don Mears and others that I can not remember at this time. I cannot take the credit but don't know where to give it. Blessings on you all.
Pastor Kitner
Corporate prayer is the power of agreement at it's best. First everyone agrees with God and what the Word of God declares. Secondly everyone comes into agreement in prayer to God for what they are seeking God for, believing God both hears and answers prayer. Prayer is how the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ gets implemented on this earth. In prayer we gain knowledge of how to put the tools, helps, and abilities together in such a way as to accomplish His intended results.
1. Corporate prayer is the army of God moving together for God's purposes.
2. Corporate prayer is the power of agreement at it's best. God is in your midst.
3. Corporate prayer is where the provision is released to bind the strong man.
4. Corporate prayer can remove obstacles that stand in the way of spiritual advancement.
5. Corporate prayer recognizes the spiritual principle of the unity of the Spirit, activating that principle, and receiving bebefits of that unity corporately.
6. Corporate prayer can be used when someone in the local church is in a great trial or has a great need.
7. Corporate prayer is a powerful expression of spiritual preparation as we enter into the corporate worship service together.
8. Corporate prayer should honor Christ as King, exalting His Throne and His name with a spirit of gratefulness, and thanking Him for his answers and His sovereignty.
9. Corporate prayer prepares the atmosphere so that the Holy Spirit may move in power with an atmosphere of expectancy.
10. Corporate prayer can cultivate passion and faith for the harvest to be reaped.
These thoughts were gleened from several places such as Corporate Destiny in The Local Church by Don Mears and others that I can not remember at this time. I cannot take the credit but don't know where to give it. Blessings on you all.
Pastor Kitner
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus
Hebrews 10:19-22(KJV) 19Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21And having an high priest over the house of God; 22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Something we need to dwell on, that is meditate on, and think about at length is contained in the above scriptures.
"Boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus" takes us into the very presence of our creator right into the righteousness of God as a welcome child of God. WE are accepted in the beloved, that is to say highly favored of God and His mercy is there and the power of His grace is enveloping us as we enter in. When we enter in to the holiest place we are the recipients of all Spiritual blessings from the heavenly places and joy becomes our strength in Him. We are covenant people of God a peculiar treasure unto Him and by His stripes we are healed, made whole granted the peace of God that passes understanding and we are brought into that place of intimacy with God where secrets are shared that are of the most personal kind between us. We are brought into the power of LOVE in the purest state.
Philippians 4:8-9(KJV) 8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
May God BLESS YOUR DAY RICHLY
Pastor Kitner
Something we need to dwell on, that is meditate on, and think about at length is contained in the above scriptures.
"Boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus" takes us into the very presence of our creator right into the righteousness of God as a welcome child of God. WE are accepted in the beloved, that is to say highly favored of God and His mercy is there and the power of His grace is enveloping us as we enter in. When we enter in to the holiest place we are the recipients of all Spiritual blessings from the heavenly places and joy becomes our strength in Him. We are covenant people of God a peculiar treasure unto Him and by His stripes we are healed, made whole granted the peace of God that passes understanding and we are brought into that place of intimacy with God where secrets are shared that are of the most personal kind between us. We are brought into the power of LOVE in the purest state.
Philippians 4:8-9(KJV) 8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
May God BLESS YOUR DAY RICHLY
Pastor Kitner
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