aLIVE 🎧 LL73 “View Paradise”

Just beginning my second week at my Nicaragua resort. I woke up and it's probably from the very first time it was in the middle of the night. I was exhausted and it's at a time when most people call an ungodly hour. These wee hours of the morning are when He normally whispers for me to get up, but this time instead of Him calling me, I told Him I wanted to get up!

I was just so excited and just this honeymoon has been absolutely tremendous—even with so many difficult times and because He was setting me up — As you probably know from a living lesson — or maybe it's one of my other books, but being set up in preparing you and preparing your heart for different things but I wanted to talk about this morning because I came out and for the first time I sat down in the living room. Not very comfortable but I came out here just as He was leading me.

I had my coffee and I was facing curtains that were shut and I thought about opening them but I knew what I was going to see. I was going to see buildings, a parking lot. I wasn't going to look at Paradise. The tropical plants and the birds that I used to wake up to or even the moon. I know I couldn't see it here unless it's, well, no, I probably couldn't because I'm looking at buildings. I'm on the bottom floor and there are high rises all around me but all of a sudden I heard Him sweetly singing a song, just a line and I want to share that song because I've been playing it over and over and over all morning.

Just bringing Him right here closer to me and imagining Him singing it to me again but He talked about if you want to view Paradise, simply look around and view it. But I thought about closing my eyes and viewing it and I did. I could just see everything that I saw when I was where I had been living, but then He took me someplace I had never been before. I was on the top of the Sydney Bridge where Tara had been. Someplace I always wanted to go, so it doesn't mean that if you've been there or you haven't been there, He wants to take you there and maybe someday you really will be there. I mean I never imagined that I'd be on top of the Alps staring straight at the Matterhorn.

Growing up around Disneyland where Matterhorn was there and imagining what it was and then one day I was on top of all these Alps and looking at the Matterhorn. It's my theme picture, but I want you to think about that and I want you to listen to this song. Don't watch the video if PURE IMAGINE is linked to the YouTube video because I don't want you to think about and imagine anyone singing it but Him singing it to you.  Because just like all the songs it's just one of the songs that I listen to all the time with my grandchildren and I always talked to Him and sent her every lyric, every sound, everything I do around my passion, which is Him, my Husband and so listening to some of this, to the lyrics I just want you to think about this because when He talks about pure imagination that's actually the name of it, I think about the verse and that's the first thing that comes to mind is the one where He says my thoughts are nothing like your thoughts and my ways are far beyond anything you can imagine.

So here we are. He says, think about these, imagine it. But even beyond what you can imagine, His ways are higher and then I also love where He says, you know, “'My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,' says the Lord. 'And My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.'" Isaiah 55:8–9

“God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!” Ephesians 3:20 MSG

That's one of the lyrics in this song. He talks about, you know you want to be a dreamer, dream. Be one. You're supposed to be one that's what He wants you to be, not like the world does, in a different way taking everything and just bringing it right to the world of His creation. That's what He says, The world of my creation. You know if you want to view Paradise, simply look around and view it.

And I'm going to leave you with this if you want to change the world, there's nothing to it because there's nothing impossible with God. And with God—there's nothing impossible but we are His vine, You know, He's the vine, we are the branches of his vine, and so He wants to use you in that way.  So I just hope that you will be set free which is another line from this. You'll be set free if you live there. If you live in your imagination of all the things that He could possibly do, be a dreamer. Dream big. Dream beyond what it is and even then He says His ways, His thoughts, His plans are just far beyond.

So I just hope that this will really encourage you to view Paradise no matter where you are. No, I'm not living in Paradise anymore, but I am living in paradise because I'm living with Him and everywhere I am I can see paradise and I hope you can too.