Monday, December 6, 2010

The Woman and Man in the Garden

Im on a journey from Genesis to Hosea to Song of Solomon to Rev 1 and Rev 4. It started when I started listening to the book Captivating, I read it before but I felt a prompting to listen to the CD audio this time around.I heard the small still voice of the lord last week in the prayer room telling me to start all over as if I know nothing about creation. He told me to begin in Genesis and just to look at Adam and Eve.

Genesis:

The love story with God and humanity started in the Garden. The lord planted the garden of Eden, he made it with his hands. The garden represents inimacy, and it was filled with fruits and trees that represents growth and beauty. Before the woman came into existence God had brought to the man all the animals and birds whom he had made from the ground just like he made Adam from the the soil of the ground to name each one of them. But before he brought the animals to the man he said it's not good for man to be alone.God didnt immediately make the man someone like himself because maybe God wanted the man to long for intimacy and have a true relationship with him in the waiting for something he never could imagine. ( A woman) It wasn't Adam's idea for a woman to come into humanity it was God's plan in the begining but it had to be done in perfect order and timing. After this order of naming the animals which is a privelage that the God of the Universe will allow Adam to use his creativity to name what he created. God is humbled and kind. But still there was no helper just right for the Man.

The Lord God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. Did God see the Man's heart searching for a companion other than God himself, someone who can share God's love with ( God the Father), someone who he could have adventures with, someone who he could feel and touch, someone who he could share his life with, someone who he could share this great love that he experience with God his father walking in the cool of the day with. God answered the longing of his heart while he was sleep. But the man had to walk and be in relationship with God before he could give him the crown of creation. (The Woman) He had to know the Creator not only as his father but as his husband. Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband the LORD Almighty is his name
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.Dont shrink back from thinking or saying how can God be a husband to a man, its not what you think its about the attributes of what a husband is suppose to look like God himself. We are his Image Bearers we bare his image that is just glorious.

The crown of creation I will continue next.......as I seat and inquire of the Lord. Oh yeah the neat thing about all this is that we are in a 8 week series of the Glory of Marriage at International House of Prayer of Atlanta. I love how god just prepared me for this series he is so faithful and good. On this journey I know I will gain insight of God's plan from the begining. It's all about the father preparing a marriage for his son Matthew 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. And it is about the marriages on earth looking like our bridegroom JESUS! Pure, spotless blameless, meek, humbled, kind, generous, faithful, holy, loving, giving and so much more.

The pursuit should always be holy because he is holy!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Updated Missionary Support Letter

Greetings Family and Friends,
I pray that this letter finds you and your family well. This is my second year as a part-time Intercessory Missionary at IHOP-Atlanta! I am excited to be ministering to the Lord and to raise my son in the House Of Prayer, just as Hannah gave Samuel back to the lord and he was raised in the temple. I am thrilled to be serving at IHOP-Atlanta as an Intercessory Missionary! Elijah is attending the Daniel Academy which is a homeschooling/private school partnership on the mission’s base. God is raising up Elijah as a forerunner to prepare the way of the Lord by cultivating a lifestyle of prayer and fasting, prophetic wisdom, and academic excellence.
On February 12, 2006, our dream became a reality, as the International House Of Prayer - Atlanta Prayer Room was expanded to cover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The prayer meeting that started that day continues to this day, without ceasing. It's astounding to think that there has never been a worship-led prayer meeting that continued unabated for this length of time in our city, until now! Now prayer and worship never cease to arise from our city to our great God (Isaiah 62). Our prayers will release revival in Atlanta and empower the church to love God wholeheartedly and fulfill the Great Commission.
The Lord has called me to be like the prophetess Anna who “never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers...spoke of [the Lord] to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.” (Luke 2:37-38). Each week I am devoted 6 prayer meetings in the 24/7 Prayer Room and 8 hours in service and outreach. I am also committed to one day of fasting weekly and three days once a month during our Global Bride Groom fast. I pray the New Testament prayers for the church to be strengthened as the vehicle to fulfill the Great Commission and turn our nation back to God.
God is doing wonderful things and I know that He will continue to be faithful to finish the good work He has started in me and Elijah. I serve as an intercessor in the 24/7 prayer room, give encouragement on the Prophecy Teams, and help run the IHOP Office with my administrative and marketing skills. I have obtained my Bachelors degree in Business Administrative/concentration in Sales and Marketing at Devry University. And I plan to use these skills at the International House of Prayer by assisting the Marketing department. I am also actively involved with Bound4Life, a pro-life and pro-adoption ministry. I focus my intercessions on justice issues (Luke 18) and seeing the African American community released into their identity in Christ and their leadership role in the arising prayer and missions movements. I also have a desire to go to the Nations specifically the West Indies Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the surrounding Islands. I also have a dream to have a Fashion Boutique, (Virtue 31) that will support Human Traffic Organizations with clothing for their victims.

IHOP-Atlanta is run by a ministry staff of missionaries who raise their own support in order to do the works of the ministry. It is for this reason that I am writing you. I would like to give you an opportunity to join me in this ministry by committing to support me with your encouragement, prayers, and monthly financial support .I will be giving you a call in the next three to seven days to share my heart and ministry further. Please know that your ability or inability to partner with me financially in no way affects my love and affection for you. May God bless you richly!

God Bless,

Natasha Edwards
2910 Buford Dr Apt 226
Buford, GA 30519

Email: Natasha.Edwards@ihop-atlanta.com

Yahoo IM: bay757

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Waiting Involves Courage!

Waiting in what you can not see takes courage and Faith. In times of just hardships and trials Peter says Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.(1 Peter 4:13) This invloves humlity to believe in a God you can not see in the natural but you can see him in creation because he made all things through Jesus Christ. Thats why I like when he also says in (1 Peter 5:6) So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor. Im am so in the waiting and I have not been the most joyful just to be honest, I am praying to be more joyful as I wait for breakthrough because only God can deliver me as I put all my trust and hope in all that he is. He is incredibly BIG in my eyes so I will wait patently for the LORD I will be brave and courageous as David qouted in Psalm 27:14 I have no other option where as can I go but to throne of Grace and Love Peace and Mercy. God is preparing his bride to stand firm on that day of his son's returning who will have faith in that day Luke 18:8 states my Life scripture. He is asking WHO????? or how many because he knows that it all boils down to voluntary LOVE. And love is a choice that us humans have to grow in through the revelation of God the Father and the Son, and the Holy-Spirit. We will always be waiting for something. Ultimately we are waiting for his returning because we are pilimgrage here in this land. Even though there is goodness of the Lord in the land of the living but there is a surpassing greatness in the age to come. We can hope and have faith for the kingdom of God to manifested in this life but we can expect so much more in the age to come which is far greater than what we can even imagine.

So Lord I pray that you would enlighten the eyes of our understanding that we would put this life into proper perspective and that we would believe in ALL your promises for us now and begin to operate in them as we humble ourselves under your mighty hand. Bring delierance and breakthrough of power for those who are taking courage as they wait on you. Demonstrate the power of your kingdom and bring us into your glory and reveal your glory so that we can have a taste of the next age. Lord we dont only seek your face but also your hand that moves so powerfully. In Jesus Name!Amen!

Monday, August 16, 2010

I keep signing up!

Lately my life has been like a rollercoaster, and hasn't been very fun for me! But GOD is still worthy of my praise because I know that I know he is faithful. Im in a season of I dont know what is going on BUT I know this GOD loves me and regardless he is faithful. And even though Im going through so much chaos and suffering and pain I still say YES! Im amazed every time that I sign up again to say Yes I will press in lord because its for your glory not mine. When God has called you to something it looks so pretty as he begin to give you the vision to do it. And then there comes the trials and tribulaitions and circumstances that tries to hold you back and of course there is Satan whispering in your ear did you really hear from GOD what are you doing? And my answer is Im standing and sometimes Im leaning because it gets hard but he is worth it all but I rest even in my weak YES because the Father says good job I love you your not backing down your staying the course. God has called me to come along side with other people to see there is night and day prayer in our city 24/7. I have no regrets of that at all no matter what it looks like to others because I have nothing to lose by wanting to wait on the LORD and to him do amazing things becuase those who wait ono the lord will not be put to shame. It takes faith to seat before a God that I cant see and make intercession from the revelation of knowing him out of a place intimacy so that I can together with all his children be a light to this world and demonstrate that from a place of identity in Christ. My weak YES is beautiful to him because its not out of striving but out of love for JESUS! It amazes me he takes joy in every step even when I dont feel anything he is doing more than what I can imagine. Im glad my identity and worth is found in that made for his pleasure and that he loves me.Last night at our Awakening Services Billy spoke on Psalm 113:6-9 says who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes, with the princes of their people. He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
I had time where God was showing me Hannah in the bible how she prayed out of anguish for a son and then she worshiped the lord and then she waited and God answered her prayer. And I sometimes feel like like Hannah but last night I gave the lord those ashes exchange for beauty so my intercession is coming from a place of daughtership knowing that Abba hears me and he is pulling me out of the ash heap and seating me with princes. And the prince that I m seated with right now is JESUS in the heavenly places so therefore Beauty is going forth and the ashes are gone. No more ashes just Beauty because he is the HOPE of glory that lives on the inside of me and the holy-spirit is the one who testifies of that and gives me the love and joy that comes from the God of Hope! Prisoner of Hope, peristiant like the widow in Luke 18 ONE OF MY FAVORITE PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE because when he returns I want to be found as one who has faith and oil and revelation of his beauty and goodness I want to be his friend and flow from a place that as I go Im doing good works out of friendship with JESUS! So once again I say YES!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Power and Love!

We are his beloved and he is ours and his banner over us is love. Song of Solomon 6:3Today the director at the International House Of Prayer-Atlanta talked about LOVE To sum up what he talked about is that when we love him and recieve his love we can love others without strings attached. Pure love is what GOD is after in our hearts. That we would really lay down our lives for one another just like he laid down his life for us. Early in the day I was just thinking about how to get the power of god is to know love and how to get the fullness of God is to know God according to Ephesians 3:19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too GREAT to understand fully. His love is so rich in depth that you can't fully undestand it. Then it goes on to say you will be made COMPLETE with all the FULLNESS of LIFE and POWER that comes from GOD. I was meditating on that in the prayer room and I came to this conclusion if you want power then begin to ask for your heart to be filled with the love of GOD because then you will be complete and then you will begin to walk in the fullness and then the power of GOD will flow out of you! You wouldnt need to strive anymore to get the power of the holy spirit that is already in you because he said he will empower you with might in your inner man (your spirit man). There is gloriuos unlimited resources in your spirit where Christ dwells in your heart where love flows from. We have to be the body of Christ that really loves one another, because if we don't its meanless. This whole Christianity thing is meanless without love and it wouldn't have any purpose. Power and Love go together we dont have to seperate the two. There is alot of power in LOVE, look at the cross and the power that came from that. Jesus taking all of our sins upon himself so he can have all of us. It was all because of LOVE!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Leaning On My Beloved!

Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover? [ Beloved ] Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth. Song of Solomon 8:5

Most Christians don't like to talk about the wilderness because its not all pleasant at times BUT its needed to draw us closer to JESUS himself and to know him for who he is. A man who is fully man and fully God with eyes of fire that burns for you. Most of us want roses and blue clouds all the time but this journey of being lovesick comes with a price. The price is forever longing until his return. That's why we need to ask GOD to set a seal over our hearts.Song of Solomon 8:6 So that our heart wouldn't be distracted by any other lover or other things that are temporal. We have to continue to have a steady gaze, so nothing can hinder his love from entering in. For LOVE is strong as the death its jealousy as enduring as the grave. That kind of passion moves my heart that JESUS is so passionate about having all of us that he desires that we have the fullness of his love according to Ephesians 3:19. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of LIFE and POWER that comes from GOD. In times of trials and difficulty just lean on your beloved he will lead you into revelation of his love and you will know the love of Christ by allowing him to speak to you tenderly in the wilderness. You might be limping now but you will come out BEAUTIFUL covered with Glory because your gaze is steady. Dont be shaken by trials and circumstances come out leaning on your beloved.Its a journey of LOVE and the Father is forming you into the image of his son so that you can stand on that day in confident in love. A covenant of love that can't be broken! (IHOP-KC) is singing that as I type this blog! Ha!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Thank You for Your Support!

Thank you so much for supporting me through prayer and finances. I want to commit to praying for you and encouraging you in the word and in fellowshipping with you. Each month I will send you updates. Also I will like to mention that at the bottom of my support letter are several ways that we can stay in communion and fellowship with one another. Attached is an offering envelope, please make sure under missionary support you put my name “Natasha Edwards “and the amount you want to give monthly or as a one time offering. IHOP-Atlanta mission’s base is a 5O1c3 so donations are tax deductible. I pray that God would give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you can grow in the knowledge of his love for you. Ephesians 1:17


Grace and Peace,

Natasha Edwards

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Missionary Support Letter

Greetings Family and Friends,
I pray that this letter finds you and your family well. This is my second year as a part-time Intercessory Missionary at IHOP-Atlanta! I am excited to be ministering to the Lord and to raise my son in the House Of Prayer, just as Hannah gave Samuel back to the lord and he was raised in the temple. I would like to give you an opportunity to join me in this ministry by committing to support me with your encouragement, prayers, and monthly financial support. I am thrilled to be serving at IHOP-Atlanta as an Intercessory Missionary!
The Lord has called me to be like the prophetess Anna who “never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers...spoke of [the Lord] to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.” (Luke 2:37-38). Each week I am devoted to a minimum of 12 hours of prayer in the 24/7 Prayer Room and 8 hours in service and outreach. I am also committed to one day of fasting weekly. I pray the New Testament prayers for the church to be strengthened as the vehicle to fulfill the Great Commission and turn our nation back to God.
On February 12, 2006, our dream became a reality, as the International House Of Prayer - Atlanta Prayer Room was expanded to cover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The prayer meeting that started that day continues to this day, without ceasing. It's astounding to think that there has never been a worship-led prayer meeting that continued unabated for this length of time in our city, until now! Now prayer and worship never cease to arise from our city to our great God (Isaiah 62). Our prayers will release revival in Atlanta and empower the church to love God wholeheartedly and fulfill the Great Commission.
God is doing wonderful things and I know that He will continue to be faithful to finish the good work He has started in me and Elijah. I serve as an intercessor in the 24/7 prayer room, give encouragement on the Prophecy Teams, and help run the IHOP Office with my administrative and marketing skills. I am also actively involved with Bound4Life, a pro-life and pro-adoption ministry. I focus my intercessions on justice issues (Luke 18) and seeing the African American community released into their identity in Christ and their leadership role in the arising prayer and missions movements. Elijah is attending the Daniel Academy which is a homeschooling/private school partnership on the missions base. God is raising up Elijah as a forerunner to prepare the way of the Lord by cultivating a lifestyle of prayer and fasting, prophetic wisdom, and academic excellence.I thank you in advance for your prayers and your financial support. May God bless you richly!


God Bless,
Natasha Edwards

2910 Buford Dr Apt 226
Buford, GA 30519

Email: Natasha.Edwards@ihop-atlanta.com

Yahoo IM: bay757

Website: www.ihop-atlanta.com

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Blog: intercessortasha.blogspot.com