Ezekiel37
I once read about a woman that loved God and started a movement of love and service to one another! Her name is Chiara Lubich she started the “Focolare Movement” in Italy during the II World War
One of the things she said was that : ” Love is Light. When clear light passes through a prism, or even a drop of water, it refracts into the seven colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. And just as that light breaks into different colors, love too has a way of expressing itself in just as many ways.”
In Ezekiel37 we share that same vision. God’s Love is what moves us, every fiber in our lives has to be impregnated with it. That means each color of the rainbow representing a different aspect of our lives, His love shining in each and everyone always!
The Spectrum of God’s Spirit/love also has nine ingredients:
Love, Joy, Peace
Patience,Kindness, Goodness:
Faithfulness, gentleness , Self-control
I want to share a little bit about the idea Chiara shared about the colors of life because i feel it aligns well with Ezek37 vision of what life with God is all about: a COLORFUL Life!
YELLOW
LIKE THE SUN that brings life to us.The love of God is what brings life to our lives! The Bible says if I don’t have love, I’m nothing! Similar to the feeling of being in love, we want to spend all the time with our loved one, we don’t want to stop talking to each other and we keep learning about each other; the same way when we have the love of God in our hearts, we will fall in love with God and we will want to spend time with Him, praying and reading His love letter to us the Bible as much as we can. To know Him is also to want to go deeper in the knowledge of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son and God The Holy Spirit!
To Pray is simply to talk to God.
To pray is also to be able to listen to God, and let Him speak to us!To pray is action. Praying is not limited to be on our knees inside a church, but also to be in touch with God through out the day since we get up till we go to bed. We can always be talking to God. Like a friend, a father, our love! Many times, that means to be alert to the what He whispers to us through His Holy Spirit!
God’s love in our lives brings us life through His Word. We need to read it, study it, savor it and apply it on the daily basis.
The Word of God is like a double sword, That means that in order to apply it on others we have to apply it on our own lives first.
The word of God is also our lamp or lantern that lights up our way in the middle of the night and our compass that guides our life through this adventure with God
Color Orange and the love of God remind us of fire! Once it lights up it spreads all over. When we live our lives filled with God’s love, it will be automatically reflected in every aspect of our life and it will also spread touching everything and everyone around us. This will be our number one goal in our lives to reach our and serve others. His love in action in our day to day lives
God’s love starts working his way our first from our own homes! What does it mean? It means that to be able to give it to others we first have to put it in action in our owns families, practicing forgiveness, understanding, listening to one another, and putting aside fights, grudges, or rivalries that may come up.
Our own life and family have to be a reflection of God’s love in action
God’s love must be shared with everybody! We must not let it locked in side the walls of our churches ,but it reaches the highest and lowest levels of our society.We ARE His channels where His love flows through! Lets us always be able and available to give His love to everyone…till the ends of the earth as Jesus said!
God’s love makes us wise. The more we give our lives to serve God and others, we not only help others grow but we also get enriched and wiser! and this becomes a passion!
To share and to love makes us want to learn more everyday. When God’s love guides our life, everything takes a different meaning! It is no longer so important to get recognition about what type of career or prestigious university you got your academic diplomas from. Your social status doesn’t rule your life anymore, but now is more about how our careers and professions can be useful to expand the Kingdom of God and help others.
God’s love will always lead us to keep discovering who we are in Him, With God His passion never dies. The desire to know more, study new things , to teach and share our knowledge with people makes us happy!
God’s love nurtures us and strengthens our body, our mind, and our spirit. If we only allow God to do His work and we do our work, by having healthy habits and a life that spends time in nature, we will be truly His disciples and channels of His love to the world.
We were created to be healthy, strong, happy. Thats why when we practice sports, eat healthy, and spend time in nature we feel so good! Let’s leave time for God and also to take care of ourselves!
The is no better place to experience God’s love than in nature! Nature is the best place to connect with God first hand in his most pure state!
With the advance in the technological field, and in most aspects of our lives, little by little we have distanced ourselves from nature and the outdoors. Is time to go back where we belong! Get outside and reconnect with our God!
I will be sharing in a little while about another branch of ministry in Ezekiel 37: D2R
Disconnect 2 Reconnect!
A ministry but also a lifestyle! Go back to nature to reconnect with God, with ourselves and with each other…without any electronics and phones to distract us!
The Bible says our bodies are temples where Gods presence lives! That means we have to be good stewards with our bodies. We can do this by:
Having healthy eating habits.
Have good hydration, lots of water.
Eight hours of sleep every night.
Exercise, practice some sport or walk everyday.
Have time to share with God, Family, and friends FACE TO FACE (NO TEXT MESSAGES, WHATSUP OR FACETIME)
If we do this, our healthy life will also be a reflection of God’s love!
God’s love teaches us that whatever we have and don’t share, we’ll end up loosing it! The Heart of God is always about giving and blessing others. That has to always be our foundation in life, in everything related to our jobs and finances too!
To be blessed and prosperous, to be a blessing to others! Our economies and our finances have to follow that same line!
Serving God does not have to always be to go to Africa, or India as missionaries! Furthermore, most of the times God will use us as missionaries in the day to day life, to be able to bring the love of God in the middle of our work’s meetings, schools, governments, basically as somebody once said: Flourish where you are planted!
We must never forget the example set by the good samaritan!We must always be alert to the needs of others and be willing to help from our own places. When we give and serve others we are always the most blessed!
We have to come out of the always consuming mentality we live in our world today! Recycle, re-use, share those things, clothes, furniture that we don’t need or use anymore and others might need.
We also have to remember the need is not always for material things. We might be surrounded with people that has absolutely everything we can think of and yet they are experiencing a deep emptiness in their lives. The reality is that when we don’t have God , we have a hole in our life with he shape of God!
We have to always remember that Jesus always sent his disciples 2 by 2.
Is never a good idea to be alone. We must always work as a team, plan. delegate, and share the burden and the results!
God’s love makes us work together in accomplishing everything we set our hearts on. Sometimes God gives us ideas, for ministry or businesses, and sometimes that means to work with already established projects and support each other working together for His Kingdom!
Ecclesiastes 4:12
John 13:35
I Corinthians 3:6-8
God’s love makes everything beautiful! We can see it in His Creation: the colors, textures, the variety of shapes and forms, everything in order , in harmony!
God’s love makes everything beautiful in His own timing!
We will mirror His love in our own lives by how we live at home, in our own houses, in our personal life, at work!
Order, self hygiene, purity, from the inside out! We must get rid of all those things that are meaningless and cause extra weight, and occupy spaces in our lives that need to be fill with His love!
When we are filled with God’s love, we begin to create new things that have never been seen, that come from being inspired by God’s Holy Spirit!
We will soon be sharing about other areas in Ezek37 ministry, one of them called “WMW “The World My Way”. Here Natalie brings her way of seeing the world around us from when you bring God into the equation. She brings that vision into all those areas that show the beauty and the uniqueness of God, such as Photography, Fashion, tastes, colors, etc.
This is what happens when we are living in His Love! He inspires us to create new shapes, new designs new colors, new overflowing life!
When we are in harmony and communion with God, we allow Him to mold our lives, like Jeremiah talks about comparing Gods work with being in the potter’s house.
The potter works on the clay and molds it to create a master piece! The same way God works with us through people and situations to transform us into that master piece he created us to be all along!
As we allow God to change our lives through His love, we realize we keep changing and re inventing ourselves to become all that He wants us to be! We ARE A WORK IN PROCESS!
God’s love makes us want to be communicated with Him and with each other. The same way it was a priority for Jesus to be in contact with His father 24/7, same way must be for us!
It is imperative to have the communications channels always open to the needs of the others! This will also make us feel we belong to each other and we are never alone!
In our modern society where technology plays such a key role, in keeping us “communicated with each other non stop”, it seems to be that the percentages of people suffering from loneliness, depression, anxiety and suicide have sky rocketed!
We must step away from our screens, cellphones, tablets and listen to each other more!
We must learn again to live in the moment! We must learn again the art of listening to each other and be more aware of what’s happening around us!
The art of communicating face to face with one another is something we are tragically loosing everyday. Is happening between family members, friends, co-workers and everywhere!
Is happening in every culture, race , religion and social background
We must go back to ” the art of face to face communication”, to be able to bring our message of love and hope to so many lives that today in this very moment are getting lost in this cyber world that never stops robbing us our precious time to be with God and each other!