aLIVE 🎧 LL74 “Table for☝🏻One“

This morning my Husband is taking me out for breakfast and I know when they ask “how many?” I’ll smile 😃 as I always do and then say while pointing up “table for ☝🏻 one” knowing I’m never dining alone, traveling alone, shopping alone, sleeping alone, laughing alone or living alone. No woman need ever feel like they’re alone and this can be remedied only by us embracing HIM, embracing this TRUTH 4SAT and then embracing each “misfit” His daughters and sons and especially BRIDES by our loving words from a heart ♥️ overflowing with His love.

Table for ☝🏻one. Wow, that's a term, a saying, an answer that would make a lot of people feel very uncomfortable. I know that when I first started to travel and just always going there, it was almost like it was said apologetically or they were embarrassed when I would say just one. 

But now it's entirely different. It's like the most wonderful thing and be sure that you take note that I put the number one because it is like what we say, or I don't necessarily say it but you see it when like in sporting events or in different times when there's been some sort of an award won by a believer. They will point up meaning it isn't me, this is all about You, or I couldn't have done it without You. It's acknowledging Him—you know where it says “in all your ways acknowledge Him” or “look to Him and be radiant”? Well, that's what this is all about. It's coming into a restaurant and instead of being apologetic or embarrassed or anything, it's just to point your finger up and say “table for ☝🏻one” which means it's just not me—it's for my Husband and for me because it's just the most wonderful thing.

This morning I am going to be heading out to have breakfast—my Husband has asked me to have breakfast with Him. It ought to be pretty interesting because I've been waiting to find out about my car that is not quite working correctly. So I'm prepared for a longer day, whether I get to where I have breakfast, I don't know. Will I leave there and go someplace else and not come back to work? Is my Husband giving me the day off because we work with Him, don't we? And so I'm blessed to be in full-time ministry, which means full-time “caring.” 

My whole life has been about caring for other people. That's what ministry is. It's simply about “caring” about people and it doesn't matter if you're sowing seeds, if you're watering, or if you're just there to be an ambassador for Him as His bride. Just our presence, because we carry Him in us and in the tone of our voice. It’s in the way our face is just radiant with His love, we just go about ministering. So having that opportunity is very exciting. 

So as I was preparing for it and thinking about having a table for ☝🏻one and how things are so different, I ended up sharing it in a voice note with Paula, the minister of our Portuguese team who I’m just absolutely connected to from the very beginning, and that happens quite a bit because we are connected, aren't we? 

We're like sisters because we both have the same Heavenly Husband and there's just this connection. Even Jesus Himself said when someone came to Him and He was in a group and somebody said, “Your mother and Your brothers and sisters are outside and He said, “Who is My mother? Who are My brothers and sisters?” And it wasn't being disrespectful to His mother who had raised Him, but it was saying so much more that we are His. He said, “Those who do the will of My Father” that’s who our brothers and sisters are. And the will for Him is for us to live as His bride and to minister to others, which means “caring” about others. 

I shared this with Paula and I don't know, I think it was before I ever got out and got dressed and left that she was led to go and she asked for a “table for ☝🏻one.” She sent a picture. The coffee looked amazing, that little sweet pastry she had, a pie, it looked delicious. I could just imagine being there and she was just radiant. She said that it just blessed her to hear me being excited about asking for a “table for ☝🏻one” and she was on her way to have coffee with her Husband. That He just orchestrated the same thing for her so many miles away in another country and how we were sharing that same experience!

So I just wanted to share this with you. To encourage you to just go out with Him and go in great anticipation. 

I’ve gone out many different times with Him alone when I’ve met people and I talked to many people. One of the things that I said when I was sitting down at the table later on (when I shared this with Paula) is that when I started to be seated, I was disappointed to find that “our table” was taken. There had been a table that I'd sat in, in the corner, and He had me listen to a song. It was actually “Over the Rainbow” the one for the Wizard of Oz movie of all things, but this was a different rendition. Some other person sang it. It was a deep male voice so I could just imagine my Husband singing it to me and I just started tearing up and yet I was being surrounded and just swimming in so many trials and problems that had just come at me, troubles thrown at me that day. 

Nevertheless, I was just all teary-eyed just having that opportunity to sit there at that one table with Him. So this time, I wanted to sit at that same table when I went back— but I got the table right next to it. And I said to Him, “Oh, I really wanted our table.” And do you know what He said to me? He said, “Every table that we sit at is our table” and oh my gosh that just touched me in a way that I can't even tell you! It's just ever since then, I mean that I'm gonna always think about that no matter what table that's “our table” and how precious each table we sit at is. 

The other thing that happened when I was at “our” “table for ☝🏻one” our new table that was right next to the other table that we had, was that I was sending texts and I was leaving little voice notes and things to Paula. But you know what? My husband didn't get jealous! 

Now, my earthly husband, no doubt would have been. He’d surely say, “We're having this nice romantic breakfast together and you're on your phone or you're talking to your friend” but He loves us so much that He's just delighted that we're delighted. Of course, I was talking about Him, so He was listening in on those conversations. Nevertheless, no matter what I had been talking about, if I talked about shopping or anything, my Husband would not be jealous one bit! I could just see His face would be just beaming and smiling because I was happy and I was pleased—and that's what He wants to do. I know He's like that and we know He's like that because when we love someone else and we see them happy we can't help but just sit and smile, right? We love them so much and it's not about what we're getting out of it. What we're getting out of it is seeing what's happening to them, and how they're really blessed, and that's really the love that comes from Him. 

It's not the jealous love, it's not the possessive love, it's not the “what can you give me” or “what can I get in return.” It's a total giving because we're so filled we have everything. There's nothing that we don't have and because of that, we can give everything. We can give and we will not need anything given back. As a matter of fact—we're full to overflowing. It's like you've had this huge meal and somebody says “let me just give you another meal.” I don't need another meal. I'm full, I'm overflowing. That's the way His love is. It is love just so full and overflowing that you need nothing else, no one else and all you want to be able to do is pour His love and His giving and His caring on everyone else. 

Well, I just hope that when you do go out the next time and you're able to get away and sit alone at a “table for ☝🏻one”— anytime that you're going to dine and it's just one, that you remember that pointing up “table for ☝🏻one” remembering that you're not alone. You're never alone. 

I'm never alone when I'm dining at home.
I'm never alone when I'm traveling.
I'm never alone when I'm shopping.
I'm never alone when I'm sleeping.
I'm never alone when I'm laughing.
I'm never alone. 

And I'm certainly not living alone and no woman needs to feel like they're alone. This can just be remedied by embracing Him and I just hope that you share this with everyone. I really do. I really hope you share this. Whether you forward this, aLive praise, or whether you just tell somebody about it. I hope you do share it. 

Just ask Him. Ask Him if there’s somebody that would really, really appreciate or need or be blessed by this, and whoever it is just go and just start sharing your heart with them because you'll just come away even more blessed.

P.S.
Here’s the song that Paula sent me, she said that her Husband gave her during her “table for ☝🏻one” ENJOY as you imagine He is singing this to you!! 

🎶 L.O.V.E.

L is for the way you look at Me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can

Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for Me and you

L is for the way you look at Me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can

Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for Me and you
Love was made for Me and you
Love was made for Me and you
Love was made for Me and you