To 'Invite'

Some people sow...
some water...
some prepare the ground...
to bring it to a full harvest...
and some lay their lives....
some nurture...
some tend...
until the Harvester comes....
some invite. 

© De'Anna L. West--2009

To invite.....is to ask "a person" courteously to come,
or to do something. You invite them to reply. To invite is
to make a formal courteous request, to attract, be attractive.
To ask, to summon, to bid. To be inviting is to be attractive,
enticing, tempting, winsome, captivating, fascinating, alluring, luring,
seductive, beguiling, bewitching, entrancing, tantalizing and irresistible.
-Oxford Dictionary-

I Samuel 9:24--Saul sees Samuel and Samuel anoints Saul King
over Israel as the Lord had instructed Samuel to do. Samuel 'invites' Saul
to a feast and sets Saul in a place of honor.
This invitation anoints into kingship,
gives order, and establishes royalty.
II Samuel 13:23--Absalom 'invites' all King David's sons--but only to kill
Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar to have sex.
This invitation was to bring about justice.
Esther 5:12--v. 4 tells us that Queen Esther 'invites' the King and Haman
to a feast (twice) so that she might save her people and herself.
Not only does this invitation save Esther's people,
but it uncovers evil and it converts Gentiles.
This invitation saves, uncovers sin, and converts the heart.

Joy

Happy is the heart

that is filled.

Joyful is the sound

found in silence.

(LOVE without words.)

Hold a heart close

until it know no shadows...

nor any doubt.

Nor is it lost in darkness

but walks forever

in confidence.

Always bearing the Truth.

Beholding the light.

And saying...

"The light is good!"

Clearly beholding Love.

The light of Love.

Love without words.

Written By: De’Anna L. West

© 1996

No Power ( I AM)

I AM risen…

no power known unto men

not death nor hate can keep me bound.

I AM risen…

no principality known unto any spirit....

not one evil thought nor energy could thwart me.

I AM risen…

and I had already determined...

every boundary and every concept of the Love I AM.

I AM risen…

because Love has brought me forth from the grave

and exalted me by the light that Love is.

I AM risen…

for it has been determined by Love

that I would not suffer in eternal damnation living without Love.

I AM risen…

for Love has said...

though you may have been bound and made captive...

I AM risen...

I have died your death...

and chose this day to set you free from your grave.

I AM risen…

because I, Love. I AM the Word...

and my Word is spoken out....and shouted...VICTORY!

I AM risen…

that you, made captive by your own understanding

have given way to seeing through my eyes and feeling with my spirit.

I AM risen…

eternal.

No power upon all of the earth known unto the hearts of any man...

no intent that has ever been set against me prevailed...

for I have already determined that my Love would never fail.

No, I determined that every mountain within the hearts of every

spirit would be removed at the moment I spoke it within my Spirit.

I AM risen...and remain. I AM Love determined….and Love the greatest

above all things...NEVER fails.

DEANNA L. WEST     © 1995

Beautiful

Well I can say it's been awhile since I have been here. Too many things going on in this world of ours, and I just feel the presence of the Lord coming closer and closer. I am not the only one to feel that either. It's spoken of in Matthew 24, about how the world will be acting right before Jesus comes again.

I'd swear that these things have been happening for some time now, as this is the chapter that brought me to believing in the Lord to begin with, and that was way back in 1980. So there you have it. I am excited that we are closer to the Lord's return today, than I was in 1980.

I know that things are becoming more intense, and the world seems to get a little more crazy every day. Just watch your own local news and then turn to the world news and you would see that more and more cases of murder/suicide are happening, that the murder of more children are happening and that destruction around the world intensifies as more and more earthquakes, Tsunamis and wars and rumors of wars take place.

Some how, I can also sense people's fear in these things when Jesus clearly states to not be afraid. In fact fear is the enemy of God, and fear is a spirit that can be conquered, but I sense that spirit being more and more active as the days grow colder and colder, and the world goes further and further into darkness. Now that sounds like the end of every good story between good and evil, and never once have I ever heard where evil prevailed over good for eternity.

In every story, the good always comes out 'good' in the end, and evil is completely vanquished. ALWAYS!

I know Jesus didn't intend that it should be any other way now.

So, I continue to live as though my Jesus will return soon, and so socially and economically I plan for the things in life that will help me to continue to live a beautiful life. I never said parts of my life haven't been quite stressful, they have...but what I am saying is that I still in spite of all the devil's attempts to make me a loser, I still am a winner. I come out sunny side up in the end. That alone should make anybody feel like life is just beautiful.....and I do. I feel my life has been absolutely beautiful! .....and that, is what keeps me living my life spiritually as though Jesus is already here.

So, live your life beautifully, as though Jesus is already here. Stop worrying about the Tsunamis of the world, the quakes that shake your faith up and the explosions that rock your brain. Remember, in the end that you come out sunny side up and have a life with Jesus. Amen!

De'Anna West  © 2011