What banner waves over you?

His banner over me is love...

     People wave over us all kinds of banners - shame, inadequacy, or even a view of "having it all together" which can leave us feeling isolated, walking alone in the reality of our brokenness & shame, fear or not-enough-ness, all the while either trying to live up to or get out from under the banners waved over us.  Sometimes it's the banners we wave over ourselves - often depreciating the value God would place on us.  Waving banners of failure, inadequacy or shame and living daily under that flag, that statement which our heart has come to identify with and believe to be true.  

   Yet, Jesus' banner doesn't label us but declares who He is: love, ENOUGH, all-sufficient, glorious in power... qualities not only exemplifying who He is but what He bestows on us - right in the midst of our mess, of who we are, wherever we are.  He speaks, shouts, declares "LOVED" over us.  

  So, which banner are you living under?  That of your or another's making?  Shame?  Failure?  Inadequacy or under His banner declaring over you "LOVED".  "Wanted"  "Desired" "LOVELY"  If you are living under unhealthy banners, call them what they are - reject them as lies and enter into the JOY, CONFIDENCE, HOPE of living under TRUTH - HIS BANNER of LOVE.

The Banner of the cross

There's a royal banner given for display
To the soldiers of the King;
As an ensign fair we lift it up today,
While as ransomed ones we sing.

Marching on, marching on,

For Christ count ev'rything but loss!
And to crown Him King, toil and sing
'Neath the banner of the cross!

Though the foe may rage and gather as the flood,
Let the Standard be displayed;
And beneath its folds, as soldiers of the Lord,
For the truth be not dismayed!

Marching on, marching on,

For Christ count ev'rything but loss!
And to crown Him King, toil and sing
'Neath the banner of the cross!

Over land and sea, wherever man may dwell,
Make the glorious tidings known;
Of the crimson banner now the story tell,
While the Lord shall claim his own!

Marching on, marching on,

For Christ count ev'rything but loss!
And to crown Him King, toil and sing
'Neath the banner of the cross!

When the glory dawns, 'tis drawing very near,
It is hast'ning day by day,
Then before our King the foe shall disappear,
And the cross the world shall sway!

Marching on, marching on,
For Christ count ev'rything but loss!
And to crown Him King, toil and sing
'Neath the banner of the cross!

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