Heart Nose or Heart Knows

HEART NOSE or HEART KNOWS

"Daddy, how can your heart have a nose?
Do I really have a heart nose?" asked the Heart Farmer's Daughter.

"Well my little Beauty, it's kind of like smelling this manure that we use as fertilizer in our fields. When we first spread the manure it stinks but after we get used to it, we don't smell it anymore. It's almost like everything blends in with the smell of the manure.

Sometimes we go into the big city and we see homeless folks. Some of them don't have a place to bathe and they smell. Most people look at the homeless folks like they are disgusting, dirty things. But, my little Beauty, they are people with hopes and dreams just like you and me. We can smell a person who hasn't had a bath and hold our noses while we walk away to escape the smell. Or we can stay and look into their eyes and smile and say; 'It's good to see ya! How can I help you?' When we stay around them long enough, the smell seems to go away and love takes over. That's what happens when our heart knows how to show love to everybody we meet." Said the Heart Farmer.

"Oh Daddy, I think I understand now! You mean it's not really a heart nose, it's really a heart knows!" Her Dad the Heart Farmer smiled: "Yes Beauty, your heart knows how to give off the aroma of Jesus by showing love for our neighbor!"
The Heart Farmer's daughter grinned from both sides of her heart and said:
"I love you Daddy!"

2 Corinthians 2:15
Amplified Bible
"For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:"

2 Corinthians 2:15
King James Version
"For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:"

2 Corinthians 2:15
The Message
"14-16In the Messiah, in Christ, God leads us from place to place in one perpetual victory parade. Through us, he brings knowledge of Christ. Everywhere we go, people breathe in the exquisite fragrance. Because of Christ, we give off a sweet scent rising to God, which is recognized by those on the way of salvation—an aroma redolent with life. But those on the way to destruction treat us more like the stench from a rotting corpse."

Author's Note: (I wonder if we ourselves are on our way to destruction when we treat people like they are the stench from a rotting corpse?)

The Heart Farmer and his daughter Beauty at Daughter's and Dad's Night sponsored by The Chapel.

 

 

CAN A MAN GIVE UP HIS LIFE FOR A WOMAN?

It's a noble and romantic thought that a man would lay down his life to protect someone he loves. That's a distant thought that very rarely happens. We can speak that thought to give ourselves a momentary pat on the back. Yeah, it's easy to profess a belief in something that will probably never happen. Maybe it would be more noble to take the moment that will never happen and use it as a seed that will grow giving  moments that will happen.

It's easy to take a bullet and whisper your last words in a brief moment of painful glory. Can you take the bullets of life and turn them into pearl like jewels that will bless those you love?

Instead of giving up his life, what if the man lived his life in pursuit of more excellent ways to lift the woman into the glory for which God created her? The strange thing about giving up is that it creates more opportunities to receive. If a man gives up his whole heart, soul, mind and strength to that which God has called him to be, then he is blessed by a love that transcends all understanding. The other areas of his life will prosper as well.

If you have been called as a husband and a father, seek to sow the love of the Father in your wife and children. You have been called as a Heart Farmer to sow love that will help other hearts to grow in love. Sometimes you will have to sacrifice when you don't feel like it. Sometimes you will not understand. Mystery is okay. "It's up to a king to conceal a matter." Proverbs 25:2

If you are not married and maybe you are not called to be married, you still need to be a role model for young men and  teach them how to honor a woman. Many people carry the scars of woundedness that cause us to view the opposite sex with contempt and treat them vindictively. You need to seek healing. Search your soul for malice regarding the opposite sex. The healing starts with you. You cannot trust others until you trust yourself. Your healing can sow seeds of healing in those around you. Don't punish people in the present for wounds you suffered in the past.

The electricity of current relationships can be short circuited by memories of past power failures.

This is where the healing begins. Go do something nice for somebody.
The name of this plane is: "Jesus is Lord."

by Bob Kuebler on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 10:19am

WHY WOULD I FAST?

WHY WOULD I FAST?

by Bob Kuebler on Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 11:57am

 

Today is Thursday June 23, 2011 and I have started a 3 day fast at 9am. My fast will end sometime on Sunday afternoon. It is possible that you may read this and think that I am a religious fanatic. That's okay with me. If you would just bear with me for a few moments, I will do my best to explain why I fast. Thank you in advance for your time.

My hunger and thirst for God causes me to ignore the hunger and thirst in my body. I'm basically saying that I don't need anything but God for my sustenance. Yes, you eventually do need to eat. Our bodies are not meant to do without fuel for extended periods of time. But to take time out, and focus on God is spiritually nourishing. I want the full measure of God within my spirit. For everything there is a season;
A time for loss and a time for gain
A time to eat and a time to refrain.
A time for pleasure and a time to abstain.
A time for drought and a time for spiritual rain.

I find that fasting brings me into a closer relationship with a Creator who is spiritual in nature. We are physical creatures with a spiritual foundation. Fasting is like spiritual weightlifting, you will grow into a stronger relationship with God. Our physical nature may fail at any moment. We will die and return to dust. Our spiritual nature lives on forever. God has given us a garden in which to sow our eternal destiny. He wants us to grow closer to Him.

Giving glory to God should always be the primary reason I do anything. I do have specific needs in my life and even though God knows what they are, He desires that I communicate those needs through prayer and fasting. It's similar to a professional athletic event; the players know the game but they look to the coach for instruction. I can read a Bible and understand what the words mean but through prayer I receive a much greater revelation. He teaches me and guides me in how I should live my life.

I am fasting for 3 specific reasons:

1. For a breakthrough regarding the spiritual imbalance in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo has been one of the poorest cities in America for way too long and the cause is spiritual in nature. Picture a tightrope walker over Niagara Falls, his balancing pole is weighted to one side by negative forces. He is leaning perilously to one side. Buffalo is negatively weighted by the forces of poverty, gang violence, failing schools, absentee parents and divided churches. God I pray for Your just scales to weigh the solutions and create in us a new spirit.
2. For spiritual provisions that will create life giving employment to a dead city. Buffalo needs business creation that carries a spiritual impact. We were made to be Marketplace Kings and it is time we honored the role that God has given us. We were born with gifts and abilities that we were designed to use and demonstrate God's glory. It's time to stretch out those gifts and abilities and part the Red Sea of poverty and oppression in Buffalo. God I pray for You to open up the windows of heaven and pour out Your blessings over Buffalo and cause them to flow to the ends of the earth.  Make Buffalo into a City of Givers who receive Your blessings and then give those blessings out all over the world. 
3. For communion and unity amongst the churches of Buffalo. For too long the people who are supposed to be shepherds have been divided. True revival is a time when there is One People united in One Spirit. It is starting to happen in Buffalo but the remainder of the spiritual walls needs to come tumbling down. God I ask for your angels to blow the trumpets to sound the marching call that will weaken and crumble all strongholds that are barriers to unity.

     I only fast when I feel God's Spirit urging me to do so. If you feel like you might be lead to join me that would be awesome. I would ask all of you to watch my back in prayer. Thank you.

JESUS LOVES YOU AND SO DO I.             

"Windows of Heaven"

Bob Kuebler
716-830-8240

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