This is the Christmas Song

"This is the Christmas Song"

Born in Bethlehem
under the starry bright sky
layed in a manger for all to see
to show us how He loves us

This is the Christmas Song
This is the Christmas Story
that Jesus left all Glory
to be born for me and you

It doesn't matter what the World would say
It doesn't matter how it became
because as a Child of God we know
He came for me and you

This is the Christmas song
This is the Christmas Story
That Jesus left all Glory
to be born for me and you

The Truth needs to be shared to the World
that God gave His only Son
so we that we could be called His child
and none of us should die

This is the Christmas Song
This is the Christmas Story
that Jesus left all Glory
to be born for me and you

You are the Christmas Song
You are the Christmas Story
that Jesus You left all Glory
to be born for us today

Written By: Joanna Hernandez

Dream the Dream- Love the Lover

God's amazing..His love is amazing.

I am beginning to find that there is this love- a love that i have never known- that God has for me! Like i know He loves me, I have felt His love and all but there is this higher, more heavenly, genuine, pure, love that goes beyond all description. I cant describe it. It want to Live for Love. I want to know this Love even more everyday and to love others with this love. I think alot of us miss this love, or at least I have. We compromise ourselves and even what our hearts/spirit longs for because of selfish reasons. We settle for whats less of His best in our lives. those things can end up in Lukewarm living. I lived there for so long. Where I felt I was trying to live in the natural with the phrase "i dont feel like it" over my head and where God is in the spiritual realm, in the heavenlies. I wanted to be there. We all need to get rid of this "i dont feel like it", "its to inconvienent" and so on attitude. We will never see the fullness of God in our lives or live/taste that abundant life Jesus came to give cause our whole view will be turned toward us.

I want to live in the Dream God has. I want to live in the Vision God has. I want to live and engage in the heavenly purpose God has for me. To submit to something greater than I am. To see the wonders and mysteries of God revealed to me. So, you know i asked God to change me, help me, and change that phrase that was hanging over my head. And of course Faithful One He is, He did. [this was all last week] That where i began to see this love like i never had. It surpasses everything lol =D. I watched a Misty Edwards video lat week, which is what God used to change me and just give me a whole knew perspective and a whole new thing to strive for. to Live for Love.

Something she said i really like was "We are not mostly sinners who try to love. We are mostly lovers who struggle with sin."

Flips your mind around doesnt?

I felt like the Lord was showing me and telling me that night that this is love I will only know by encountering his love. Encountering His heart. Encountering Him. I HAVE to encounter Him everyday! I strive now to Encounter the depths of His heart where this Love is found everyday. I can not go a day with out this love- i dont want to. I want to Love him with ALL of my heart, with ALL of my soul, and with ALL of my mind!! Something Misty said was, " have you ever stopped to ask God what it means?" And yall, what does that mean??? what does that mean to God?? One of the songs the worship team sang at the end of the video after she was done said I want to love you with all of my heart, with all of my soul, mind and strength and then says "because you love me this way". Have you ever thought about, i know i hadnt, that God loves you with ALL of his mind, soul, strength, and heart! That He just wants to consume you like never before and reveal THIS Love to you in so many ways like you have never seen, known, or felt?? Something I keep telling God is, "I dont want to just feel, I want to Encounter!"

This is what i strive for. God strives for my heart and affections, so i want to strive for His heart and His affections! This love is a love that has power, authority, and is agressive.

God dreams BIG. God's dream for us is big. God's dream for this world is big. That Dream God has is what i want to live in-in engage in. I was praying on the way home this past sunday and i was like "God, we dream little. You dont. You dream big" We need to stop reaching just for what we can get- what we already have. And begin to reach Beyond to the things we dont have. There is so much more that God has for us that we dont even know is there. I remember just about a week ago I was talking to God about how i was tired of routine. tired of what i felt was the same thing. It was awesome but i want more. I wanted different. I felt like God was saying "well if you want it then take it" [ or something like that, i dont remember exactly if that is word for word.] Basically, i felt like He was just holding it out to me, wanting to give it to me, but just waiting for me to reach Higher to take it and quit reaching for the same thing. God's dream is so big, yet He wants us to join in. Its like everyday He invites us to live and engage in the Dream He has. He wants His beloveds to be apart of it. Cause thats how much He LOVES us!

Because He loves us just that much! =D

So much to write...lol

So, i went to florida to my aunts house and spend the night with her, my uncle there girl, Kara, and my grandmother! It was so much fun!! Me and Kara bonded! lol

But God showed me a couple of things this weekend. I was hoping with an expectation that He would speak to me and show me something while i was there! =D

Saturday night, my aunt had her Christmas Cantata dress rehearsal practice at her church and i went with her. On the way home, she opened the sunroof on her car and i looked up at the stars..We were like out those middle of nowhere spots so you could see the stars extremely well. The first that came to my mind was something my friend, Caitlin, said about God's creation. She was saying how the sunset the wind the stars and all God did just for us- just for us because He loves us that much! [you should go read her blog on that..its really good!!] So now we i look at the sunset or like this particular night the stars i think about that.

As i am just sitting there just looking around at the sky and seeing all the different stars, I just began to realize more and more the vastness of the sky and even just the beauty held within the stars in the night sky. It reflects the beauty of the Lord. I have looked at the stars before coming home from trips or something but saturday night it was like i never really had stopped to REALLY look at it in its vastness and see the great beauty in it. It was just simply amazing.

But what i thought was cool that I guess the Lord was showing me was, to us, the stars in the sky just looked scattered about in the sky. But to God it doesnt. He has put each star in a specific and special place designed by Him just for us!! Forget constellations, i mean from like a heavenly view! how cool is that! Amazing creator!

The next thing God i think spoke to me about what like about thoughts. This weekend my mind went crazy with aweful crazy thoughts! ugh! I kept just rebuking them and renouncing them [i aint saying what they were..it was lies just other "wordly" things i guess you could say] and saying that thats not who i am, its not who God says i am, and so on...i guess like everytime this would be going on this thought would come to my mind it just to me along time to realize it or something or mayb it was just this time i dont know but the thought or i guess you could said phrase came to my mind "then whats the problem?" i felt like God was saying that to me. Like if its not me, im against it, its not who God says i am, and so on..then whats the problem? there should be no "struggle" or "wrestling" with those thoughts cause there just a bunch of dead thought that have no ownership of me and stuff, ya know? And when i was realizing all this i just felt a sense of freedom and peace! which it reminded me of what God spoke to me like a week ago [which i think i posted on another blog] about "its only hard if you let your mind overpower who you are"

I am My Beloveds...

As we walk with You
the wonders and mysteries of You are revealed
the outpouring of Your heart
becomes the outcries of our hearts

Not just to live for You
but to also live in You
Not to just Love You
but to also live for Love

To live in the vision You see
to live in the Dream You Dream
to live in what is bigger than us
the heavenly purpose and life You offer

Lord we have to ask
Do we really know what it means to love?
to love You?
with all our minds, soul, heart, and strength?
to give ourselves to You in reckless abandonment?

Do we really live day to day as we are not of this world?
Do we really live like You are alive?
Do we really live like we hold the Truth and Hope for this world?
What does it mean Lord?

Let our lives be a reflection of Your love for us
Let what You do on the inside be expressed from the outside

Written By: Joanna Hernandez

*i wrote this along with whats under this yesterday but it kept messing up when i would post it so i just posted it today instead*

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So like last night, i had the enemy bombard me in my thoughts and emotions big time! satan had put a spirit of doubt over me about even being a Child of God. When i would fight back, the lies would feel my head that i cant say these things because im not a child of God or not worthy enough. How can i be a child of God when i cant give Him my best? what if i cant give him my best? my all? i dont deserve nor can i be a child of God, im not good enough. It was hard for me to believe the Truth i was speaking. Crazy aweful!

But as i just kept trying to speak it and call on my friends to ask them to be praying for me i know God was speaking to me.

One thing i feel like he spoke to me and gave me a relevation about is that God doesnt expect our perfection. He doesnt want our perfection. He doesnt strive for our perfection, He strives for our Heart, our Love. That was so freeing!

God doesnt expect me to never falter, slip up, not give Him my best or all [[thought He loves it when we do and of course wants us to! he desires our best and our all...]] but he knows we are imperfect being, fallen being and is always there with mercy and grace that endures and covers us FOREVER, never does it fall short. So, He knows we will be like i said he is there with mercy, grace, and love for us that surpasses all! he just strives for my heart, love, and affection!

Im still werestling with my emotions a little but VICTORY is in my hands! For i will crush satan under my feet through Christ Jesus!!

The Kiss of Heaven...

"Rain Down"

Holy Spirit
wont you move
move as a fire
oh Lord

We need Your touch
We need Your love
We need your power
won't you come
Rain Down

Holy Father
Won't You hear our cry
please come and fill our hearts
Oh Lord

Cause we need Your touch
we need your love
we need your power
won't you come
Rain Down

Let your fire fall down
let the children cry out
let the heavens open wide
let the children cry out

Rain Down!
Rain Down!

Heaven, come down
we say
Let your kingdom come
let your will be done

Written By: Joanna Hernandez

* this was actually originally writeen as a song that God has been giving me though the song is not done yet. But i wrote it as a poem too, but because of it being writeen as a poem, I changed a little bit of it on the parts that would repeat- instead of just writing out over and over.*

"One heart for One thing"

"One Heart For One Thing"

Lord, you have been so wonderful to me

to me, you are all i need

but the world bombards me from every direction

but to You I come running in desperate plead

Love...

so delicate, so pure

awaken at the wrong time

pursued at the wrong time

divides the heart from You

Oh Jesus!

I want to be a girl with a heart for One Thing!

Technology...

so progressive, so accessable

time consuming beyond recognition

addicting, overtaking the everlasting

Oh Jesus!

I want to be a girl with a heart for One Thing!

Myself...

so weak, so broken

easily fallen into fleshly desires

vulnerable by natural mindedness

Oh Jesus!

I want to be a girl with a heart for One Thing!

Touch me Lord so i can touch the world

Fill me with Jesus so i can be Jesus to the world

Shine your Light on me so i can be a light to the world

I want to be a girl seen with a heart for One Thing!

Written by: Joanna Hernandez

My Beloved...

"My Beloved"

She cries,

"Someone,

Tell me I'm Beautiful

Tell me I'm sweet

Tell me I'm special

Tell me I'm unique"

"My Beloved,

Your more beautiful than the stars at night

Your spirit is sweeter than honey in the summer

Your my S.O.S I describe in Song of Solomon (ref: Ch 4)

Your unique, one of a kind, I've given you a specific purpose no one else can fulfill"

she sits alone and wonders...

"Someone,

Tell me I'm worth it

Tell me I'm loved

Tell me I'm needed

Tell me you care"

"My Beloved,

I see no flaw in you, Your worth is defined in me

With one look in your eyes, I fell in love with you...that was before there was even time

I need you so our Kingdom will be advanced in a fallen world

I sent my Son to the cross, thats how much I care"

...shes seeking love

shes seeking adoration

shes seeking affection

from guys who can give it to her

but she doesnt hear

she doesnt see

her First True Love

is right beside her and is all she really needs

She cries and wonders

but never hears the whispers of her One True Lover

thats telling her everything she longs for

with love and affection like no other in creation

and wants to give her everything she desires and so much more....

Written By: Joanna Hernandez

*For all the girls out there. You beauty is not determined by the clothes you wear or not by what a guy says about you. But about what your Heavenly Father says about you. Your beauty lies withing and dwells in the One who created you. Your worth is not found in a guy, but in the Lover that went to the cross just for you. God as a guy out there just for you. He will love you, protect you, build you up, care for you, respect you, and even more than you could ever ask for. and You will be a testimony to other girls out there to. You are Precious in the eyes of God and He values you. His Word [the Bible] is His Love Letter to You! Don't miss out on the wonderful and heavenly gifts God wants to give you and the imaginable places He wants to take you and the most powerful, loving, and mighty words He is speaking to you! (and through you!) So, just be YOU!

=D