iLove Deep and Wide

iPray eVotionals 

The gun sounds as the race begins. iPray eVotionals exhorts the runners on the path of a prayerful lifestyle.  It's the glass of water held out around each month's turn.  It's for the runner who can use a quick and easy quench in order to finish strong.

Prayer is communication with God.  Can we hear God's voice when He says that He loves us?  Or are other voices crowding out our definition of true love?   

Defining LOVE

How horribly twisted is Valentine's definition of love?  Is Valentines Day a good example of what God is?  Because God is love and I'm thinking that this holiday falls short!  When we come before our Lord in prayer we want to hear his voice over all the others.

"How deep and how wide is my love for you!" Said a Target ad.

Is Valentine's Day commercialized?  Most store advertisements tells us how deep and how wide their love is for us.  As deep as our bank accounts and as wide as our homes are able to fit merchandise.  What happens (or does not happen) on Valentine's Day is the defining factor on the status of our love life, so we are told.  TV becomes a hypnosis tool, like a rocking pendulum, chanting into our heads, "You have no love in your life until you buy a whole lot of heart shaped doodads and expect (AKA demand) expensive doodads in return."  A day that could be set aside for honoring God in loveing others is lost in selfish greed, hitting the world's human target on how to love.

"How deep and how wide is my love for you!" I said to my Chiropractor.

Is Valentines Day full of conditions?  When I'm feeling great I can say I love my Chiropractor.  He uses the Neurological Integration System (NIS) and all I can say is IT WORKS!  My love is as deep as his rates are affordable and as wide as how good I am feeling.  It's so easy to love someone when you are receiving a service that you are very pleased with.  If the service benefits me in a big way then yes, my natural reaction is love... but conditional love.  In other words, we love someone because they fulfill a condition that we require before we can love them.  Valentines could be a day designed to love on others.  But it is crowded out by very human conditions and expectations.

"How deep and how wide is my love for you!" Said God.

Valentines day is commercialized, full of conditions and even our best love intentions can fall short.  Why?  Because our definition of love is not in line with God's definition of love.  Our best human definition of love is dependent on services, cuteness, being cared for, looks, if someone is fun to be with, feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next.  But God's love preceded anything we have to offer or anything we could be.  A great verse about His love is found in Romans 5:8, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."  God is Love, and His unconditional sacrificial love is very different from human love; it's not based on warm fuzzy feelings or emotions. He doesn't love us because we're lovable or because we make Him feel good. Forget Valentine's Day holding any sort of definition of what love really is because when we read that God is love in the Bible, this means that God defines love with a higher authority than even Webster's Dictionary! God is the very definition of love itself.  As hard as a Target ad might try, as hard as I might try, I cannot define love outside of knowing God. This essentially means that our human "Valentines" definition of love falls terribly short.

"...being rooted and established in love, may [you] have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:17b-19

As we bow our heads in prayer THIS is the love God is speaking into our hearts.  Because of HIS love, we can know love.

HOW wide, HOW long, HOW high, HOW deep?

This poem about HOW Jesus loved says it all:

(click to read)

 Wide Long High and Deep

How Should We Love?

HOW can we go out and share this love with others?

"How deep and how wide is my love for you!" Said Veruca Salt's dad.

Is Valentine's Day teaching us HOW to love?  Most parents love their children no matter what, which is a bit closer to God's sacrificial unconditional-love.  They want the best for their children.  But sadly (parent or no parent) most of us don't know HOW to love.  Most prayers for what is "best" looks like this, "Please let only good things happen to my __________, no harm, no danger, no fear, no challenges that are too difficult, may __________ always feel good, have no pain, be successful, be cool, be popular, fit in, fill in, be pimple free, always get "A"s, be the best and end up in the most prestigious place. A-man."  How much love for their "best" is in this prayer?  Shockingly very little.  In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Veruca Salt's dad lived this prayer by giving his daughter everything she ever asked for.  She said, "I want..." and he said, "Alright..."  She whined and he bowed.  She cried and he gave her what she cried for.  He ended up with a spoiled brat that did not appreciate anything.  A deeper and wider way to love; wanting what is "best" would be through a prayer more like this, "May __________ consider it pure joy and lean in on you when __________ face trials of many kinds and when hard times come.  May the testing of __________'s faith produce perseverance.  May perseverance finish its work so that __________ may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (From James 1:2-4) Teach __________ that Your grace is all that is needed, for your power works best in weakness. May __________ not fear being weak knowing that You heal and You are __________'s strength. (From 2 Corinthians 12:9) May __________'s character be strong by your spirit, full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (From Galatians 5:22) In Jesus Name A-man"  Living out that prayer loves in a much deeper and wider way; wanting what is truly best.

Veruca Salt's dad is not the only example of love in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"  Each and every golden ticket winner is an AMAZING, life changing, example of love.  Child by child, golden ticket winner by golden ticket winner... click "How Should We Love" below... and you might just find the PERFECT love mentor!  One that will show you EXACTLY how you should love...

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Celebrate Valentine's Day this year with a love that points your family and friends towards God.  Set this day aside to honor God and love on others.  That is how iLove on you in this iPray eVotional today!   iPray that uLove because Christ first loved you.  iPray that you won't wait to first receive from another, but you will be the first to give.  iPray you love even when things don't go your way, not withholding love because you might not have gotten what you had expected to get.  iPray that you will love your enemies and uPray for those who persecute you. (From Matthew 5:44) iPray against a revengeful, selfish or spoiled heart attitude on this Valentine's Day and beyond!  For love is meant to be more than just a day... it's meant to be found in God through Christ Jesus our Lord! 

And more than anything iPray that as uPray, as you turn your hearts towards Him, you will hear God's voice when He says that He loves you.  That you will have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is for you! (From Ephesians 3:18)  

In Jesus' Name iPray for you!

All for HIM,

MICHELLE FOZOUNMAYEH

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Wide Long High and Deep

He came from heaven 
To tour earth below
Humbled in form
His love to show


First in His word
Then in His deed  
Greater love has no other
He was willing to bleed


He laid down His life
In the most sorrowful death
Not a common suffering
For ALL in earth's nest


On behalf of ALL
Not only family and friends
On behalf of ALL
Even those who reprimand


Jesus defeated the dark
He did not stay dead
Rose up 3 days after
Just as He had said


In this single act
Scriptures were unveiled
Truths never realized
Stench of death just bailed


If we could bottle it up
All of earth's love and trust
It would still not compare
To God's love in Jesus


His love sacrifice
Was His invitation
To an eternal inheritance
Through reconciliation


Can't measure it Wide 
Love that's too Long
Up over what's High
Love Deeper and strong 


Michelle Fozounmayeh
1-29-2012

Scripture Reference:

John 15:13 

Ephesians 3:18
Philippians 2:8
Luke 24:25-27

Discovering Little One

Discovering Little One

She’s a special one

Worth the find

Placed by the base of a hedge

Protected until her time

“Listen up little one

You hold that treasure tight

It’s going to take a special seeker

To find your shinning light

"The first wont appreciate

The second will over look

The third will quickly loose patience

The forth holds a bitter root

"But one will take the time 

Thoughtful in His search

Turning over every stone

I have not left you in a lurch

"Trust me my Little One

You want to wait for Him

He’ll hold you up high

Look at your heart and grin”

The whistle rang out

Kids ran every which way

The first stomped next to little one

Dirt covered her that day

The first grabbed an egg

That was vibrant and in plain view

Tossed it in a basket

With hungry eyes she splashed dew

Hidden but not lost

While the other eggs were found

Little one was stuck in the mud

Buried in the ground

The second saw little one

But he didn’t think her an egg

Probably nothing good in there

He moved on with a twist of his leg

Who will take their time?

Most scrambled on by

If the treasure is too much trouble

Just leave her where she lie

The third picked little one up

Annoyed with her dirt and grime

Then her shell was too hard to open

“I’m done with her kind!”

Tossed away she fell back

To the very same spot

Maybe she was better not found

Protected just to rot

The fourth lashed out

A thorn made him bleed

“Why should I pick you up

If I get hurt while I reach?”

Hidden in this space

Told to trust, rely

But it’s so hard

When a little one cries

Sounds start to fade

The kids have gone to a feast

Eating up what they have gathered

Little one seems like the least

The hunt for eggs was over

Others had their day in the light

But little one remained

All through the night

The hedge of protection

Surrounded her very soul

Little one had to trust

That God had a goal

Not at all forgotten

The finder had to be tall

To see God’s perspective

And recognize His call

She needed time too

While the brush was secure

He couldn’t come too soon

Inside little one matured

The leaves started to rustle

A face peered through

His eyes lit up

His smile grew

An egg!  An egg!

What a wonderful find

The color was perfect

After all this time

“Out of the box perfect

No other will do

Who can ever compare

To the jewel I’ve found in you

“I believe in you Little One”

Is all He had to say

Inside the shell

New life gave way

He gently opened her up

And gasped at the sight

She held a true treasure

To His joyful delight

He had found Little One

Held her up high

Golden feathers in the daylight

Wings ready to fly

Kids gazed in amazement

Was this what was missed

“I’d give all my eggs back

For that sparkle, that bliss”

Breathing in air

Discovered at last

Little One’s heart took flight

The past was the past

His promises were true

She soared with the wind

God’s spirit around her

A new story begins

Michelle Fozounmayeh

1-24-2012

How Should We Love?

How Should We Love?

I have some possible mentors for us that might help us answer this question.  All of them chosen to be part of a tour that would in the end, be very revealing!

How did Augustus Gloop love?

Augustus, a gluttonous boy, loved sweets so much so that he was unhealthy and enormously fat.  After seeing a river of chocolate in a Chocolate Factory Augustus bends down and starts to drink in way more than his body should have.  Despite the warnings of Willy Wonka, who owned the factory, he keeps drinking and falls into the river.  He is sucked through a pipe, gets stuck because he is so fat and after the pressure builds up enough he is shot through the pipe into a room where fudge is manufactured.  In the end he leaves the factory dripping with chocolate.  Still addicted to what almost killed him.

We can love like Augustus Gloop loved!

Just love to eat on the ways of the world more than the ways of God and that is what we will get fat on. Despite the exhortations of wise counsel, if we eat good stuff on Sunday mornings, and the rest of our time we are feeding ourselves junk then we cannot expect to be a healthy part of what God is doing on this earth. When an opportunity comes to make a difference we will not be able to hide how fat and immobile we have become.  We’ll get stuck in a tube.  Out of the heart the mouth speaks.  Junk goes in, junk comes out.  And in the end we will be covered from head to toe, dripping with it.  There will be no hiding what we had been feeding on.

How did Violet Beauregarde love?

She loved to gloat about her accomplishments, the most important being an expert gum chewer. Chewing one piece for months at a time.  Violet’s view was that these accomplishments mattered and being the best gave her an identity that mattered too.  Constantly chewing gum narrowed her self worth to such a degree that it sealed her fate.  Without permission, she grabbed a pice of experimental three-course meal gum at the Chocolate Factory and when it got to the dessert, blueberry pie, she turned into a large juicy blueberry.  Never did she spit the gum out, but just kept on chewing even when she was told that as she chewed she was becoming something she was not meant to be.  What good is she as a blueberry?  Although she was squeezed back to her regular size her skin was forever blue.

We can love like Violet Beauregarde loved!

If we love to gloat about the petty worthless habitual accomplishments we are the best at like Violet did, then no matter how awesome the world says that accomplishment is it is working against who we are meant to be in Christ Jesus.  We are heading down a path of destruction.  Grabbing that “gum” without permission effects our body big time and is a waist of our gifts and talents.  Instead of becoming more holy, sanctified by God’s word, we are turning blue.  Very blue!  Our spirit longs to be reconciled to God and He wants to use us for his Kingdom’s sake.  Continuing to chew on our old habits or gloating about what we may be good at only glorifies ourselves and not the God who made us.  When we are being told what is happening to us we can stop, spit it out and wait for God’s leading!  Refusing to spit it out leads to a joy-deprived spirit stuck in the blues.

How did Veruca Salt Love?

Veruca, a girl who was spoiled by her parents, loved material things so much that almost every time she opened her mouth it started with the words, “I want.”  Wanting only led her to wanting more.  Her love led to a dissatisfied heart despite her parent’s efforts to give her everything she asked for.  She held onto greed and this led to her downfall.  Literally!  She wanted a squirrel from the Nut Room in the Chocolate Factory and the very things she wanted threw her down the rubbish chute. Veruca’s downfall landed her in garbage.

We can love like Veruca loved!

If we love material things to the point of the first words out of our mouth every time we turn around is “I want.”  Then we too are headed to a place where we will be emerged in lovely garbage.  Greedy intentions leads us to striving after more and more stuff.  More money, more toys, more house and more fame.  In the end we can’t take it with us.  It’s garbage.

How did Mike Teavee love?

Then there’s Mike Teavee who also loved.  Mike, a mumbling boy who did nothing but watch television’, loved technology so much that his view of reality was severely altered.  Being fixated and caught up with man-made stimulation devices took his head to a fantasy place resulting in poor judgment concerning his God-made real body.  This poor judgment played itself out in the Chocolate Factory to such a degree that he used a machine Wanka created to transmit chocolate into televisions on himself and shrunk in the process.  Unaffected by his smallness he wanted to do it again completely blinded by the fact it would shrink him into nothingness.  He would become nonexistent!  In the end he was stretched back out but his body was never the same.

We can love like Mike Teavee loved!

If we love like Mike loved then technology devices, social networks and virtual games are the way to go.  We can love them to the point where they engulfs all our minds, our actions and our judgment.  Our spiritual awareness can shrink.  Time-draining activities with zero spiritual purpose takes us away from the purpose God has for us as well as our face to face relationships. Over infatuation in this area aids in a make-believe reality.  If TV, Video games, phones and computers are all we live for than we become unaffected by how small we have become in our effectiveness for God’s Kingdom.  We are blinded on that path that will lead to nothing.  How small does our purpose on this earth have to become before it is gone?  In the end we want to hear “Well done good and faithful servant, well done.”

How did Charlie Bucket love?

Charlie Bucket, a kind hearted poor boy has a love that puts others before himself.  He is undernourished but refuses to ever take an extra portion of food because it would deprive another member of his family.  He is also curious and interested in Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory. While there he too is tempted in his weakness.  His grandfather suggested to steal a quick gulp of fizzy lifting drinks and Charlie gives in.  It was in private and so nobody on the tour knew.  But Wonka knew and when Charlie was the only one left on the tour he is told that he looses the prize of the lifetime supply of chocolate for stealing the drinks.  Feeling remorseful Charlie’s true heart comes out.  He is not upset about loosing the chocolate but is upset that he let Wonka down. He makes it right by returning the only gift he had left from the Chocolate factory, an everlasting gobstopper.  By returning it Charlie showed that he did not have any evil or selfish intentions in his heart and that he was truly sorry for what he had done.  That one decision made all the difference.  Not only was he forgiven and his prize was restored to him, but he received even more!  He became an heir to Wonka and promised an inheritance of the entire Factory.  

We can love like Charlie Bucket loved!

When we love like Charlie, we love doing what is right to please God.  Loving like Charlie is to Love our God with all of our heart soul and mind and love others as we love ourselves.  It's being aware that we are not perfect, that we fall short of the Gory of God.  Even if it's in ways that are not public and is sort of behind the scene where the others on the tour can't see.  Admitting the grime is there, saying sorry and being willing to be changed is loving like Charlie did.  We are lifted out of the garbage and made clean.  Our make-believe ways that fall short is replaced by His grace and we become valuable players in His kingdom.  Trusting in Him alone, handing over it all, even the very last little things that might hold us captive, the everlasting gobstoppers.  Then we win!  We are welcomed in as heirs, the prize is restored and more!  As we put our trust in Him we win the grand prize, an eternal inheritance. 

How does Jesus love?

Wait a minute, Jesus was not on the same tour as our other possible mentors!  He is not even mentioned in the book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.  True.  Charlie is the clear winner and our choices could stop right there.  Many good people choose to love how Charlie did.  But truth be told even in our best efforts we all have traces of Augustus, Violet, Veruca and Mike creep in now and then.  The true power to love comes from Jesus.  If we love like Charlie did, it should point others to Jesus as their mentor.  His tour is recorded in The Bible.  How he came teaching, healing and empowering. He came from heaven to tour earth in order to love us.  First in word and then in deed.  “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13.  This is not talking about enduring common sufferings like giving up seconds on a meal.  What Jesus gave up (or laid down) was his whole self to the most bitter, painful, and long lasting sorrow and death.  And not just for his circle of friends and family, but for an entire unbelieving world.  Defeating death, Jesus did not stay dead.  He rose up 3 days later and showed himself!, Opening up the scriptures about this miracle, unveiling truths never before realized. If we could bottle up and hold all the love that exists on this earth, it would still not compare to how much love God has for us in sending Jesus to us.  In the end His tour on earth was the most revealing of all our mentor candidates!  His love sacrifice invited all of us into an eternal inheritance through reconciliation with our God... the grand prize is life everlasting!  Now that’s how to love!

We can love like Jesus loves too!

Right before Jesus ascended into heaven, after all his work on earth was completed, He gave this charge, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20.  We have the power through Christ’s spirit in us to choose Jesus as our mentor and love like He loves.  “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.” John 3:16  Sacrificial, unconditional love that points others to Christ.  I wonder how different our days would look if we chose Jesus as our mentor?  Charlie inherited the factory giving him the ability to make all people on earth taste sweetness in all sorts of candy.  We inherit God's kingdom giving us the ability to live with God's spirit in us helping others to also taste God's sweet love in sending Jesus.

How Should We Love?

Well after taking a look at some lover mentor, who is your mentor?  These Children showed their love openly, freely and without reservation.  As they loved they ended their tour with their true "love" identity revealed.  Charlie won the grand prize on the Chocolate Factory tour for being honest and true.  You have a golden ticket and are on a special God ordained tour too.  How honest and true can you be before God?  How will Jesus’ love for you change you?  How are you going to use your time?  How will your tour end?  How are you going to love?  

iPray Newness

Anything NEW with you? "Happy Year!" Wait, I think that greeting is missing something.  Oh yes, it's the NEW part.  Why would I wish you a happy year without including the most important part?  Without the NEW there is a whole lot missing. "What's new?" "Not much, same old same old.  Anything new with you?" "Not really.  Just chugging along." See what I mean?  If it's not a NEW year then what on earth are we celebrating?  The same old thing, just chugging along.  Nothing new to think about, nothing new to gain. What would you think if someone came up to you as the calendar turns over with this greeting: "Happy year!  Have fun being stuck in the past and not moving forward with anything.  Forget your goals, dreams, aspirations or your God given purpose for what lies ahead.   Love that there is nothing new, just the same old thing.  Just chugging along!  Time to turn over an old leaf.  You know, the one you have turned over again and again and nothing has come of it but sorrow and pain.  Ring out the old and bring in the older.  Stay lonely.  Stay still.  Stay bitter.  Stay angry.  Stay lazy.  Stay revengeful.  Stay jelious.  Stay in your brand spankin' old ways to have a happy old year!" I could just see your shocked face.  Mouth dropped open, wide eyes.  That is not the greeting we want to walk around with ringing in our ears.  What exactly are we saying when we give NEW years greeting? "Happy NEWness in the year to come; be happy because it's a NEW beginning.  Look forward to new opportunities to rejoice!  Newopportunities to be hopeful.  A new baby, new home, new age, new start,new look, new perspective, new chance or maybe even new counter space.  Put off the old, put on the new.  Be dead to the old, alive in thenew!  A new day, a new way.  Something is happening that has not existed before.  There are things to be discovered for the first time.  Fresh things.  It's time for a new season, a new life attitude.  Put on joy, patience, compassion, forgiveness, love and hard work.  Look forward tonew music, new dances, new creations, new life, new vision and a newheart in increasing ways.  Happy NEW year!" Now that's the greeting that can put a smile on a face!  When I include the NEW I'm blessing you with more than just another year.  Shall I give you this greeting again?  YES, take two!  But this time I will not leave out the most important part!  And this time iPray the blessings of NEWness upon you! iPray a Happy NEW Years blessing upon you... full of PERSEVERANCE! In keeping with His promise iPray you are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. (From 2nd Peter 3:13)  iPray against the "same old same old" which  stifles a persevering attitude. That you are the seed on good soil with a noble and good heart, hearing the word, retaining it, and by persevering you produce a new crop. (From Luke 8:15) iPray a Happy NEW Years blessing upon you... full of LOVE! That the Lord will give you an undivided heart and put a new spirit in you; that He will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (From Ezekiel 11:19)  Because of the Lord's great love iPray that you are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is His faithfulness." (From Lamentations 3:22-23) iPray over you a new command Jesus has given: Love one another.  As He has loved you, so you must love one another. (From John 13:34) iPray a Happy NEW Years blessing upon you... full of LIFE!  Therefore, if you are in Christ, the new creation has come.  iPray the old has gone and the new is here! (From 2nd Corinthians 5:17)  Because you were buried with Him through baptism, iPray that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, you too may live a new life. (From Romans 6:4) iPray a Happy NEW Years Blessing upon you... full of HOPE! See, the Lord is doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? iPray that you see how He is making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (From Isaiah 43:19) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given you new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. (From 1st Peter 1:3) iPray a Happy NEW Years blessing upon you... full of TRUST! That the Lord put a new song in your mouth, a hymn of praise to your God so that when others ask "What's new," you may respond in a new way!  iPray in Jesus name, you will see and fear the Lord and put your trust in him. (From Psalm 40:3) iPray a Happy NEW Years blessing upon you... full of WISDOM & UNDERSTANDING! I ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.  And iPray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing new fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience. (From Colossians 1:9-11) iPray a Happy NEW Years blessing upon you... full of LIGHT As you share greetings this year, may you be the one that speaks newness onto others.  For light in a messenger's eyes brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones. (From Proverbs 15:30)  So you may be a light for the other nations iPray you will show people all over the world the way to be saved. (From Isaiah 49:6)  That you are not just chugging along but in this new year may you be the light that shines for the world to see. iPray that you are like a city built on a hill that cannot be hidden. (From Matthew 5:14) iPray it all in the name of Jesus, a-man! "Happy NEW Year!" iPray Links Dec. 2011 iPray link: iTeeter-Totter  Jan. 2012 iPray link: iPray NEWness Feb. 2012 iPray link: iLove DEEP and WIDE March 2012 iPray link: iPraise April 2012 iPray link: iEmbrace  May 2012 iPray link:   iSmell a Stain June 2012 iPray link: iPray 4 Purity July 2012 iPray link: iPray 4 Protection August 2012 iPray link: iReminisce September 2012 iPray: iWork Out   October 2012 iPray:  iFollow November 2012 iPray: iThank God for That December 2012 iPray: iFinish Strong January 2013 iPray: iNeed a Reminder  February 2013 iPray iPray in One Accord March 2013 iPray: iRest April 2013 iPray: iListen May 2013 iPray: iHold On