Author Archives: Karen Lemburg

About Karen Lemburg

Hi I'm Karen, wife, mother and grandmother. I am on the journey of a more intimate relationship with God. I'm blessed to married to a wonderful husband who is also in pursuit of intimacy with our Lord. We work together in real estate and ministry. We have four children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Chose to Love

My child, love is a sacrifice and love is hard. It takes courage to choose to love when everything in your flesh is fighting the urge to throw up the walls and protect your fragile heart. I have given you My love. I sacrificed My life so that you could live a life of love. Don’t wall off your heart. Remain open to Me and choose to love.

The Maker of Heaven

My child, I come to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners. To comfort those who mourn and give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. Trust Me to bring this situation about for good. Lean not on your own understanding, your life is in the hands of the Maker of heaven.

Isaiah 61:1-3    Proverbs 3:5

I delight in you

My child, give generously, love lavishly, and have a thankful heart. I delight in you and I desire that you delight in Me. Open your heart to all that I have for you. Even the hard things can produce much fruit. Never despise your trials. They are there for your growth and to draw you closer to Me. Depend on Me for all things. I delight in you.

That None Should Perish

My child, I reveal Myself to all who seek Me, and I desire that none should perish. But they must seek Me with their whole heart. I long to save and deliver, but I will not force anyone. They must come to Me in faith, believing that I alone can deliver them from their sinful ways. I continually knock at their hearts door. O that they would answer. My love for them is greater than you know, but the choice is up to them.

2 Peter 3:9

Confusion or Temptation

My child, when the world and it’s philosophies tempt you to go in the wrong direction, get your eyes back on Me. Get into My Word and soak in My Presence. I will fill you with wisdom and peace. I will give you truth that will set you free. I will reveal Myself in a way that you’ll know the difference between right and wrong thinking. you only need to come to Me when confusion or temptations arise.

John 8:32

Choose Faith

My child, I want so much for you to believe Me – Really believe that I am who I say I am and that I will do what I say I will do. Never doubt Me. Your faith will grow as you make the choice to believe instead of doubt. I desire that ‘choice to believe’ become automatic and doubt becomes non-existent. Then you’ll experience the wonder working Power of My Holy Spirit on a continual basis. Don’t limit what I can do because of your unbelief. Choose faith.

What I can do

My child, look not at what this world can doe for you, or what you can do for this world. Look only at what I can do through you to affect the lost and hurting in this world. I alone transform hearts. I alone provide love, joy, peace, strength, endurance and kindness. You can’t obtain these from the world and it’s systems. You can only receive them from Me. Look only to Me, the author and finisher of your faith.

“But the Lord is with me like a dread Champion. Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail, because they have failed, with an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten. Yet, O lord of hosts, You who test the righteous, Who see the mind and the heart; let me see Your vengeance on them; For to You I have set forth my cause. Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord! For He has delivered the soul of the needy one from the hand of evildoers!”

Jeremiah 20 11-13

Struck down but not destroyed

My child, you are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned, struck down, but not destroyed. You have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from Me and not from yourself. I am at work in you. I am life.

2 Corinthians 4:7-12