True Surrender is Death to all… where does the Best death come from? in the Garden! Where did Jesus Die? He died on the Cross of course but he broke in the Garden of Gethsemane. He’s taking us back which should’ve never left that which is the BLOOD! 

Surender is the Death 

Surrender is purity coming full circle 

Because God is constantly testing and probing the heart that this thing, this discipleship, this devotional, this time spend a way with him os coming full circle all to encompass Him or for you getting something. 

INVITE PEOPLE TO BE WITH JESUS TO LIVE AND TO DIE WITH HIM! 

Are you ready to die? “Follow”  this sounds a little intense but just stick with me. 

There comes a time in our Lives where the Lord wants to help equip us in so many areas in our Lives. He’s wanting to show you and me Him complete in us. 

There is a album that I meditated on when I went through a season of dying and it was the “dwell” album 

There is a part in the song that says this… take a look

“ Just like a dear thirst for the water, I will follow. Just like children dance with their father I will follow you can count on me. You take the lead I’ll stay in your shadow, I will follow”.

Obedience is to follow but the desire is there to follow. Its this place whatever you want me to do Jesus Lets go for it.

Surender is the Death.

He is Constantly speaking to us and speaking directly to our hearts about what we need to really need t adjust and usually it means this

You find Strength in your absolute brokenness. I never really understood what it really meant to die to everything meant but there is always something that the spirit of the Lord is wanting to for us to surrender. When we can come to a place of understanding what it really means to die to something then we get to flourish.

One of my Greatest Mentors Pastor Gloria Salamanca said this…

1. I;m going to break myself
2. I am going to Die
3. I am going to be transformed
4. and then I can flourish.

-Pastora Gloria Salamanca

How can we flourish is when we truly Die. When we do it ourselves man omgoodness its the best. this afternoon I’ve been just crying and crying in so many ways because this is my hearts cry that what I’m asking for would be so real for me. That I wouldn’t be crying just by my emotions but that I allow this victory to be in me even in the hardest Moments in my Life. When I choose to come full circle I can Break my greatest Jar of alabaster oil and allow my Life to speak for my Heart and purity for the King.

I want to break that down for you because something I was told recently was this by a pastor who shared this He asked His congregation … “why Did Mary break the Alabaster Jar at His (Jesus’) feet?”

I began to ponder on this question myself and the person sharing this story with me shared the answer. The answer was this: Because she by breaking it she couldn’t control where it landed or where it went. So many times we want to give brokenness piece by piece but its meant to be our entire Lives. When you are broken it doesn’t matter where you Land because all for all you belong to Jesus. The death in you in your flesh must come from your heart first and then your mind your thought Life.

I ask this bold question but are you Ready to Go back to the garden and die but to Live for Jesus? whenever you do something for the one you Love its the best brokenness. Can we all stop trying to hold ourselves together when we come before Jesus when thats the place we need to be broken so he can use us!

Psalm 51:17 The Passion Translation (TPT)

So guys we have a bit to read here in these verses but we can do it!

I’ve been encouraged by all my G12 sisters back home and the various places they can be on the island just making time for that communion with God “Just Jesus”! I’ve also been super proud of my ladies in my life group (for those of you who don’t know what that is it’s like discipleship on a more intimate level dudes with dudes and Girls with girls. Okay now let’s read…

“Throughout our history God has spoken to our ancestors by his prophets in many different ways. The revelation he gave them was only a fragment at a time, building one truth upon another. But to us living in these last days, God now speaks to us openly in the language of a Son, the appointed Heir of everything, for through him God created the panorama of all things and all time. The Son is the dazzling radiance of God’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature—his mirror image! He holds the universe together and expands it by the mighty power of his spoken word. He accomplished for us the complete cleansing of sins, and then took his seat on the highest throne at the right hand of the majestic One. He is infinitely greater than angels, for he inherited a rank and a Name far greater than theirs. For God has never said to any angel what he said to Jesus: “You are my favored Son, today I have fathered you.” And this: “I will be the Father to him, and he will be the Son to me.””

Hebrews 1:1-5 TPT

https://www.bible.com/bible/1849/heb.1.1-5.tpt

SO IM IN LOVE with the Title of this book in the passion translation which is..

Jesus the language of God… hello

That’s basically in the title.. I love the word all that it stands for and this is incredible! Our generation is seeing “Seeing Jesus” in everything they do. Finding the victory in all things even when it doesn’t feel like a win.

Jesus is a person and he wants to know you!

So here we have

‘Be free from pride-filled opinions, for they will only harm your cherished unity . Don’t allow self-promotion to hide in your hearts, but in authentic humility put others first and view others as more important than yourselves. Abandon every display of selfishness. Possess a greater concern for what matters to others instead of your own interests. And consider the example that Jesus, the Anointed One, has set before us. Let his mindset become your motivation.’

Philippians 2:3-5

https://my.bible.com/bible/1849/PHP.2.3-5

So who are we looking at again Just Jesus!!!! Woohoo drop all things on the floor and Give him praise cause he’s worthy!!!!

Something to think about:

I was reading my Bible and then going through the devotional we’ve been having every day by different leaders from our church and someone I reflected on was Calvena she’s a leader in our church and she Shared about giving Jesus more than a day more than a Sunday giving her life over to Him. The difference in the worlds opinion of Freedom is self promotion and Jesus wants you all to himself how can we do that when we have other things standing in the way of our own freedom but really this freedom is not free someone else is paying for our choices! So why not say “it is finished” all I want is you Jesus make it “Just Jesus”!!!!

Hello 👋 Jurassic world 🌎

So it’s been a while since I’ve blogged and when I say a while it’s been like a month or two!

Whenever I take these necessary breaks with Jesus I come to this new found realization of How much I’m found in Jesus!

So if you’re sitting next to your neighbor tell them hey… “it’s been while!” Maybe your neighbor is looking at you and was like “ummm I just saw you like 20 seconds ago”

And your response:

“Yeah but I’ve missed you and I love you and it’s been 20 seconds too long”

This is the breath that we breath when Jesus is with His favorite person and that person is you! When you’re with him you get marked when you seek him you find Him! It’s all there in the word!

I’ve been heavily meditating on the gospels in the Bible and always have loved the gospels but there was a time when Stephen who in the Bible was the first to die for his faith in Jesus because he spoke about the not containing Jesus in a temple!

Let’s read together:

“However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says: Heaven is My throne, and earth My footstool. What sort of house will you build for Me? says the Lord, or what is My resting place?”

‭‭Acts‬ ‭7:48-49‬ ‭HCSB‬‬

When we come to him where do we go?

And all along he’s like (this is Jesus speaking) “I’ve missed you my love”

Yes love ❤️ he calls you love!

So it’s been a while not because you weren’t just not with him or the amount of time you were with him but get this… here it is….

don’t you leave Him 🔥🧩 he’s the missing puzzle piece “it’s been a while” because there should be nothing missing between then and now he’s in it all!

No meanwhile just there present! A place of to meet to have communion with Him is a constant! We are all getting there but it’s the journey and it’s the goal 🥅 of just being with Him!

My dad (Pastor Art Sepulveda) said

“Most people don’t pursue God because the incentive of finding Him isn’t enough”!

We need this time we need this “SEEK”

When everything on the inside isn’t happening we need this more than ever!!!!!

All along he’s saying “it’s been a while”

There is no time or distance so NEVER DISCONNECT!!!!

So lets read together:

Jesus Brings a New Reality

¹⁴ The disciples of John the Baptizer approached Jesus with this question: “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast regularly, but not your disciples?”

¹⁵ Jesus replied, “How can the sons of the bridal chamber^[i]grieve when the Bridegroom is next to them? But the days of fasting will come when the Bridegroom is taken away from them. ¹⁶ And who would mend worn-out clothing with new fabric? When the new cloth shrinks it will rip, making the hole worse than before. ¹⁷ And who would pour fresh, new wine into an old wineskin? Eventually the wine will ferment and make the wineskin burst, losing everything—the wine is spilled and the wineskin ruined. Instead, new wine is always poured into a new wineskin so that both are preserved.”^[j]

I really Love this subnote:

1. Matthew 9:15 See Song. 1:4. These sons of the bridal chamber are “Shulamites,” lovers of God.
2. Matthew 9:17 The teaching of Jesus is the new wine and the new cloth. What Jesus taught cannot patch up the old religious system, nor can it be contained in a wineskin of worn-out traditions. It is new, exhilarating, and powerful. It must be poured into a heart made new. The new and the old are not meant to be together. Jesus makes all things new. He didn’t come to reform Judaism, but to form a twice-born company of people.

Man I love this right here where we are seeing the proof in the Love of God he constanly shows us every single Moment in His presence we are Made new. its never the same. Its never been Done before.

So I thought I would ask some young girls

the only way you can be in the NEW is to believe the Gospel.

You Have to feed on thr right stuff, Feed on that Manna, but even More than that.

Todd White said, “God is looking for somebody that would believe the Gospel, Somebody that would believe that the Gospel is true. That Jesus is Enough!!!!!”

NEW NEW is about Sonship! Do you know who your Daddy is?

I want to share a Vlog/ Video I’m singing some worship but also sharing about the New God has me in and he can do the NEW FOR YOU TOO!

Who says we can’t walk on Water today 2019? 

I want us to take some time to read a little bit today 

Matthew 14:22-33 The Passion Translation (TPT)

Jesus Walks on Water

²² As soon as the people were fed, Jesus told his disciples to get into their boat and to go to the other side of the lake while he stayed behind to dismiss the people.²³ After the crowds dispersed, Jesus went up into the hills to pray. And as night fell he was there praying alone with God.

²⁴ But the disciples, who were now in the middle of the lake, ran into trouble, for their boat was tossed about by the high winds and heavy seas.

²⁵ At about four o’clock in the morning,[a] Jesus came to them, walking on the waves! ²⁶ When the disciples saw him walking on top of the water, they were terrified and screamed, “A ghost!”

²⁷ Then Jesus said, “Be brave and don’t be afraid. I am here!”[b]

²⁸ Peter shouted out, “Lord, if it’s really you, then have me join you on the water!”

²⁹ “Come and join me,”[c]Jesus replied.

So Peter stepped out onto the water and began to walk toward Jesus. ³⁰ But when he realized how high the waves were, he became frightened and started to sink. “Save me, Lord!” he cried out.

³¹ Jesus immediately stretched out his hand and lifted him up and said, “What little faith you have! Why would you let doubt win?”

³² And the very moment they both stepped into the boat, the raging wind ceased.³³ Then all the disciples crouched down before him and worshiped Jesus.[d] They said in adoration, “You are truly the Son of God!”

Today I was reminded of the story of Peter walking on water. Can you just imagine that?! Do you think Peter was even looking at anything else but Jesus??

The Goal is this verse Matthew 5:8–blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God, but it’s also the journey.

The main point that I believe everyone has been trying to grasp is this–we just NEED JESUS. He’s the one we should be like.  He’s who we need. He MUST become everything in everything. ALL in ALL!

I wrote to one of my young disciples today and I said, “hey today go do a miracle and go walk on water.” Why is that impossible for us to imagine? Because many churches don’t teach a class on it, but all the knowledge you need is in God’s word! I’m not here to speak against classes. On the contrary, I know that they have the ability to equip any follower of Christ! 

So how do the miracles happen? How do we go after those things? Because we want people to simply see Jesus. I heard Michael Kulianos say “Since when is it one or the other.” We should never have to choose between God’s presence and His miracles because they are all one in the same! I myself was a person saying I have to choose, but actually we need all of Jesus. If we get Jesus we get THE MIRACLE!

As I’m just spending time with my momma, I’m so in awe of her willingness to learn and soak everything in. I’m telling you my momma is the bravest ever because she’s the most obedient. She truly walks on water. Not that she hasn’t been fearful here and there, but her best friend is the Holy Spirit and one of the many things she’s taught me is this–you don’t need to help the Holy Spirit!!! He doesn’t need your help or your opinion on anything. Let Him be the leader and let us be great listeners!!!

These are the things that come flowing out when you’re in your Secret Garden. That is the best place to be!!!!

Just sit at Jesus’ feet today. Go ahead and take a hold of Him. Embrace Him in everything you do. My mom said anything you place above Jesus is where you lose it. You can meet a freind in the presence of Jesus, but they are just stewards of the Presence. It’s not the real thing. Come to the Bride Groom because THAT’S real and it’s who Jesus is. When you walk to Him just like the bride when she is looking to her Bride Groom as she walks down the aisle is just like Peter keeping His eyes on Jesus when they were on the water. Even Peter is the Bride Groom!!! 

He knew Jesus was the one who had changed his life forever. We need to stay in His presence constantly and live everyday like we are walking down the aisle with our eyes fixed on HIM!

So the last time we talked about being “Radical” which a lot of people don’t know but the word “Radical” has to do with the Roots of a tree.

SO what I think of when I see that is the
“Roots that he revelas” is the stuff the Holy Spirit is leading you to take out. You see so many times we think God take this from me , but we are the ones who have to do the work to allow him in those places he can’t do it for us. He knows exactly where to gp in your Root System. Trust me He knows. He knows where to go in your whole “Spiritual House” and he knows what to Sweep and what to Mop. You see the stipulation we can have the knowledge of what we think is gonna happen or maybe you know exactly whats gonna happen, but without PERMISSION its NADA!

NO BUENO!!!

So today I wanted to go in and talk about the “Root RESIDUE”. Now this part is the the stuff that remains, you know what lets take a look at the dictionary for this word.

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Residue | ˈrezəˌd(y)o͞o |

noun: a small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used.

• a substance that remains after a process such as combustion or evaporation.

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So there we have it.  SO we already know what Roots are and what it means to be radical so combining the two “ROOT RESIDUE”.

Some of you may know this or not about me, but I’m really facinated by Snakes and reptiles. There is this Reptile Zoo guy I follow on insta His name is Jay Brewer and his @handle is “@jayprehistoricprts”.  Anyways reason I love following Him because he explains these animals in detail.  He also exapins how  you can be safe but also so that you don’t harm them. Now thats enough about that I’m gonna show how it all makes sense in my mind.  I’m gonna bring my mind to you as well so you too can understnad what happening up there haha.

Here we go one of the things that facinated me about Snakes is the Snake Eggs is this…

When you seee the eggs they need to be kept warm and moist and another thing about these eggs is some of them don’t make it all the way through  to life, but because they are being hatched in  a “Reptile House” most of them will make it and they also get  help by Jay who will make a small incision in the egg to help the babies survie, but the rest is up to them!

Cool right? No just me okay stick with me even if you don’t like snakes..

Now I know what you mean what does this have to do with your topic “Root Residue” ? Well it reminded me of thr Holy SPIRIT with us he points to us. He helps us and the  rest is up to us. The “Permission” part is on us. We need to GIVE HIM “PERMISSION” TO GO IN THOSE ROOTED PLACES and go back and clean the Residue. 

So these baby snakes have all this goop (the Residue) on them because they were incubating in their eggs and their Mom did her part, but these babies still need to get wiped down once they truly come out. Jay the Snake Reptile Guy wipes that Residue off, becasue there is Residue when you just got either uprooted or when you are first born for cold blooded animals and even for warm blooded animals we need to remove ehe residue.

Lets allow the Holy Spirit to remove the Residue in every situation espeicially the roots he reveals. Lets not get freaked out when

So When the Holy Spirit goes back to remove something its not cause you got issues or anything like tha tbut maybe there is some residue and he wants to remove it all from your life so there is nothing left remainig!

Does this make sense? I hope so. THese are some thing the Lord has been mimistering to my heart about and I pray it helped you all to go deeper and further and not thinking that there is naything wrong with you if something comes up. We as christians don’t need to overcomplicate it. Keep your thoughts pure and focused on Jesus. Go be with Him don’t try to overthink you and Him it takes time away.

So lets look at this verse together:

Philippians 4:8 The Passion Translation (TPT)

⁸ So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God,^[a] praising him always.

HEY EVERYONE YOU SEE THAT UP TOP… if thats not what youve been thinking shake it off and get to thinking those beautiful thoughts he has for you and in that process he’s taking care of that Root Residude. Trust and know thst God only brings peace not anxiousness “BE STILL”. 

Psalm 46:10 The Passion Translation (TPT)

So again as he’s removong the Root Residue its not a bad process its  great one that comes with all the stuff its a beauirful time in Jesus all let Him love you and you love on Him in the same process!!!

#TRUSTthePROCESS 

Hey everyone I know we’ve been talking

before you go anywhere I wanted to read this and see that you are that one in the potters hands and as you reamin there as he gracufully forms you, through your example you’re winning the Lost and your heart of compassion will continue to grow in the deepest places!!!!

So i’m talking to every person in this world and you will know who Jesus, but first things first be with Him! One thing I told some on Our churchs praise an worship team was this…

I dont  want the Clay to even dry I want it to remain wet, I dont want to wait until i’m at “BURN OUT”. I like to see what I believe God is speaking to me so I’ll use another example.

The Example that i’m talking about is when a candle is about to go out when its at its last burn it make a big noise and begins to fliker. Most people would just wait for it to burn out and just let it go until its gone. I don’t want that I don’t want the candle i’m given which is sucha  gift to even get so low that I’m close to burn out. OI want to stay LIT! The best place to be is THE PRESENCE OF GOD! Be close to the heart of God with you allowing him to form you there!

its inn the Potters hands where the Clay remains wet so he cans ahpe you. you are pliable for thr Masters use. Whats incredible is you begin to minsiter to Lord when you’re so honest in everything that is happening the good, bad and the ugly.  Because god cares about all of it!

So lets read some of Jeremiah 18 below: 

Jeremiah 18 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Parable of the Potter

18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down at once to the potter’s house; there I will reveal My words to you.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.[a] 4 But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.

5 The word of the Lord came to me: 6 “House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

So this was the word God gave me while I was away and than slowly songs began coming to me and I found one that has been ministering to my heart

Reminding me to stay in the Potters hands because many times we remove ourselves from that equation but when we do that we take ourselves out of His will. We think sometimes I’ve been here long enough but I find the best stuff comes out of remaining in the potters hands and knowing we are not our own. When you come to that place of knowing you are not your own that nothing belongs to you than you come to understand he takes it all back right.

This is in the potters hands. We are all flawed but its in the potters hands we give out best even to the Lost who are our Family sometimes and even friends we Love so much like family we can’t give up on them we gotta press all the way for them but its remaining in the Potters hands!!!

So going back to your Radical place with Jesus which is also known as your secret garden or your Field..

Looks like you Marrying the Bridegroom yes not in a weird way for boys and girl Guys and Gals fall in Love with the Bride groom… I just read this verse and I’m flooded in tears…

Hosea 2:14-15 The Message (MSG)

To Start All Over Again

14-15 

“And now, here’s what I’m going to do:

    I’m going to start all over again.

I’m taking her back out into the wilderness

    where we had our first date, and I’ll court her.

I’ll give her bouquets of roses.

    I’ll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope.

She’ll respond like she did as a young girl,

    those days when she was fresh out of Egypt. 

I mean you ask Jesus to speak to you man and there he goes. This is what it is man, that’s the presence its falling in love with the Bridegroom completely in every way!!!!

So I received this phrase.. 

“Grace Gracefully” 

because I had a segway conversation with my Brother Julian Gamba, many know Him as Pastor, but to me he’s family and a great mentor! I blessed to have someone like Him speak into my life and prophecy in my life the things I don’t even see.

First of all everyone who read this I want you to know that you need that kinda of community people who sharpen you asnd cut things out of you Truth Friends and family. When I consider someone family its not because I feel all the warm and fuzzies its because they speak into my life. So this is like my brother Julian i’m specific about Him and Lore because I was with them a couple of weeks ago and i’m like having all these

“W H O A – M O M E N T S”! 

So that’s where I got “Grace Gracefully” because on the first night we had a Segway conversation of why I was really there and it was so good, and as the days went on the Lord was already downloading in me things just unraveling in and I began to realize I was unthreading all over again, I was going back to old worship songs I hadn’t listen to in like forever because I felt led to go to that and I would have major crying sessions, but it reminded me of my “Unraveling season”. Right there I realized whenever God wants to take you to a new place you must rid yourself of all. Why because I’m not my own.

We’re coming to a new time a new season where we are not our own and God wants ALL OF YOU, ALL OF ME! There is honestly no other way. I’m not wanting to sound like I’m making you sad like you can’t have what I have, because its the exact opposite but when you come home be home and be rooted and radical about your decision.

radical adjective

rad·​i·​cal | \ ˈra-di-kəl

Definition of radical (Entry 1 of 2)

1

: of, relating to, or proceeding from a root: such as

a

(1)

: of or growing from the root of a plant

radical tubers

(2)

: growing from the base of a stem, from a rootlike stem, or from a stem that does not rise above the ground

radical leaves

So here find ourselves seeing what the word Radical means , so when I say “Be radical or I wanna b e radical” I wan to be rooted in all things Jesus, but in order to do this I need to go back to the “Garden” which for me is the “Original”. In the bible there are many verses of the secret place established

For Moses it was the mountain top

For David it was Him in the field

For Adam it was a garden 🌺

For Jesus the Garden/the Desert 🌵

When you go back to that place that where you get developed are

able to make the little changes that make all the difference. I find that you get the best results when you make little changes, but many times I’ve seen people try to make BIG CHANGES for BIG RESULTS ,but that’s not the case in my experience again.

So one of the main things I want to write you is allow the Lord to open your eyes Jesus wants all of you he wants you radical. This will most likely be a series because this was only the beginning of what the Sprit of the Lord is ants to get through to me, but basically all don’t over complicate Him a let Jesus come and be real right in front of you today! Be blessed

xoxo LExi