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March 20, 2023
New Art Parable - The Shepherd King
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March 17, 2023
Platform Transformation
March 09, 2023
The Importance of a Name
The importance of a name...
When I was younger I was put in school under an assumed name to protect me from an abusive parent, my natural dad. My mom did this to protect my sister and I.
When I became an adult I dropped my alias name and started using my legal birth last name ( maiden name) which is Turner.
It was part of my journey toward wholeness to reclaim my birth name in the natural.
To take steps to move from the shadows of fear, to trusting and walking in the light of God's provision.
Regardless of our history, there was no mistake about the family we were born into.
God chose Mary to be the mother of Jesus. Luke 1
God chose our mother and families also.
Before we were born there was a plan for us.
God does not make mistakes. Psalm 139
Names can define our image of who we are in life and our possibilities in this life.
If you will receive it, God will give you a new name.
We have been granted the ability to live our lives under the power and authority of His name, the name that our Father has bestowed upon us through His Son, Jesus Christ.
To take a name is life changing.
Throughout history and scripture we can see the importance of names.
From Genesis to Revelation there are so many examples of natural names being replaced with a new name.
Each time scripture shows God bestowing a new name to an individual it is life changing for the recipient as well as the world.
Life changing.
New creation, life changing.
Part of my identity in Christ is to be a turner or one who points others to Jesus Christ.
The irony did not escape me that my birth name was previously hidden.
Wickedness always tries to steal, kill, and destroy, to take that which God has given you. John 10:10
Be careful of the names that you allow others to attach to you through their words or actions toward you.
God has redeemed you, He has called, anointed and appointed you.
God knows you by name.
His name is given, you are His.
Do not allow an alias to define you.
Child of God, Claim your name.
~Debbie
Luke 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Psalm 139:1-24
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white rainment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
February 17, 2023
Plumbline -New Art Parable
January 02, 2023
A Door Wide Open
To the one who thinks life is over or that the road has ended.
It has not. Regardless of our perception. Life rolls on.
Minutes tick by as each hair on your head is counted. The smallest details of your life do not fade into a vacuum.
The God who created you, the God who placed you in your mother’s womb has not forgotten you. (Psalm 139)
One by one, each breath taken, shallow or deeply was and is and ever will be, a gift from God.
Tomorrow may not be delivered for you.
Yet, you are delivered from death by the shed blood of Jesus Christ who died in your place and resurrected.
Hang on.
A new day will arise.
Mercy will come.
The door is wide open for those in Christ.
~Debbie
Luke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
January 01, 2023
New Watercolor Art Parable: What Time Is It?
December 12, 2022
Your Gift Matters
I want to encourage you in the LORD concerning the gift and sharing of your purpose in Christ Jesus while you are living in your appointed time on this Earth.
Perhaps your gift is hospitality. Perhaps it is the creative arts, singing, writing, cooking, helps, or one of the many gifts I have not written here.
Often we admire another persons gift yet demean or act dismissive toward our own gifting. Yet your gift is as unique as your finger print. This is a marvelous thing.
Yes, you have been created for such a time as this. Use your gift.
Offer it unto the LORD. Whatever large, small, fractured or whole gifting you possess.
Give it to God.
Human reasoning would deter us. Yet the Holy Spirit prompts us to give whatever gift we have been given, to share it, to lay it at the feet of Christ.
Every time I meet difficulty or darkness, the Holy Spirit says “praise”. This will mean a purposeful immediate response to obey. I pick up a tambourine, sing, or speak forth the Word of God to move forward in the call. The Holy Spirit is ever wooing us, reminding us, drawing us in the LORD.
Do not ignore His Prompt. Your footsteps are ordered of the Lord. Move forward.
I am always reminded of Paul and Silas (Acts 16) when He prompts me to praise. There is always a prison of some sort seeking to lock us away, to deter, to shut us down.
May we ever be found faithfully obeying God who opens and sends forth angels to open all prison doors that have enclosed God’s children. In Jesus name. Amen.
Every captive set free, in Jesus Christ.
~ Debbie🌻
October 31, 2022
Seek God
October 19, 2022
Poetry: Spun Free
September 27, 2022
Difficult Times, Difficult People
September 01, 2022
Pray- There Is Power In Agreement
August 27, 2022
Silent
June 26, 2022
Treasures: Big Box, Little Box
Most people live in a house. Varying sizes, different styles. Over my life time I have lived in a car,(homeless), a trailer, an apartment, a duplex, a rental and a sticks and bricks home.
March 25, 2022
Poetry- Light and Shadow
February 25, 2022
Prayer for Realigned Focus
January 19, 2022
Flame of Recognition in Light of Eternity
For the Joy Set Before Him © 2019 Debbie Turner Chavers Water-Man Series Hebrews 12:2 |
Today decide.
Who will YOU serve?
Yourself or the LORD?
We are to have singleness of heart toward our Redeemer.
All we have and all we are is due to God.
He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to pay in full for our redemption.
Do not fear the emptying of self.
For God will fill you to over flowing with His Holy Spirit if you will receive Him.
There is a fear in those gathered in mankind of a usurpation.
Rightfully so, because someone HAS taken our place.
Jesus Christ has taken our place and borne our transgressions away.
Men of flesh and bone fear failure and possess a strong need for recognition.
This desire for recognition can strip a person of giving back to God the enablement that He gave to us.
We cling to our gifts with soulful remorse, acknowledging only minutely the value received.
We strive to hang on to our gifting, instead of letting go.
Our heart of pride recognizes the gift within, but quickly shuts the box and ties the bow as though we have not seen His glory.
What are we thinking?
What are we doing?
We carefully guard our perceived value, intending to be paid well...for that which we have been freely given. The gifts we have received were Paid in Full by our Redeemer.
We are His children. A witness for God in a lost, deceived and dying world.
No man knows the day or the hour of Christ's return.
Be found faithful, be diligent.
He gave all for you and I.
Can we give less?
Consider John 10:10 which says "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
A house divided can not stand.
We are the tabernacle of God.
The Lord calls us to wholeness in Him.
Work and give, while it is yet day.
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Matthew 21:28-45
Church, Bride of Christ Jesus, Be about your Father's business.
~Debbie
Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Hebrews 9:11-14 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Acts 15:16-17 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
* Original body of my post from my blog in 2016, updated.
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December 05, 2021
Where Will You Sit?
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December 04, 2021
Son of Perdition
March 29, 2021
Watch: Words In Red
ARISE: A Call To Prayer and Action © 2016 Debbie Turner Chavers WaterMan Series |
March 19, 2021
The Earth Sings in Flowers
January 25, 2021
Flee From That Which Kills, Steals, and Destroys You
FLEE, Be Not Deceived © 2016 Debbie Turner Chavers Water-Man Series |
November 27, 2020
Revive
LORD
Revive us
Turn these stones
Water worn
by tears
Create new hearts
Sealed and set
In One Hope
Revive, O LORD
the love of thy people.
~DtC