You've Got All You Need

1 Cor 1:7-9
Just think—you don't need a thing, you've got it all! All God's gifts are right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene for the Finale. And not only that, but God himself is right alongside to keep you steady and on track until things are all wrapped up by Jesus. God, who got you started in this spiritual adventure, shares with us the life of his Son and our Master Jesus. He will never give up on you. Never forget that.

You've got all you need. All the gifts you need. You even have God along side of you to make sure you make the right decisions, with a promise that He will never give up on you. Go after your dreams and fulfill your purpose.

Freedom

Galatians 5:13
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?

Thank you soldiers for protecting our freedom in this country.

Good Intentions Alone Don't get us Anywhere

310.Romans 7:17
But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.

Romans 8:9
But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!


Good intentions alone don't get us anywhere. They just make us feel better about our lack of moving forward. They also coddle our emotions and tell us that we are "doing a good job", even if we aren't "doing" anything. The self-sabotaging power of sin has kept me "stuck" for many years. Jesus wants to set us free from all of that and more. Get delivered from that dead life and allow His Spirit to be alive in you!!

Love One Another

John 15:17
"But remember the root command: Love one another.
Eph 5: 22
For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Eph 5:25
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church.
Eph 5:1-2
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

We tend to put way too much emphasis on how we are "feeling". Our culture is emotion based. Falling in and out of love. Especially as a woman, I would judge everything by "how I felt".
God commands us to love one another. This is not love -the feeling, but loving-the action. Feeling loved is all about you and loving is about the other person. One is selfish and the other selfless! Love one another today no matter how they make you feel.

God is Good

Psalm 67
God, mark us with grace and blessing! Smile!
The whole country will see how you work,
all the godless nations see how you save.
God! Let people thank and enjoy you.
Let all people thank and enjoy you.
Let all far-flung people become happy
and shout their happiness because
You judge them fair and square,
you tend the far-flung peoples.
God! Let people thank and enjoy you.
Let all people thank and enjoy you.
Earth, display your exuberance!
You mark us with blessing, O God, our God.
You mark us with blessing, O God.
Earth's four corners—honor him!

"God, mark us with grace and blessing! Smile!"
I Love this. I want God to smile at me, how about you? Thank and enjoy God. Praise You Lord, You are so good to me!! I love You Lord. Your grace is what gets me through and Your blessings abound.

God is Waiting

Isaiah 30:15 (GOD’S WORD Translation)
This is what the Almighty Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:
You can be saved by returning to me.
You can have rest.
You can be strong by being quiet and by trusting me.

Isaiah 30:18
The Lord is waiting to be kind to you.
He rises to have compassion on you.
The Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all those who wait for him.

God says, "Come back to Me". He waits for you. He wants to give you rest. Get quiet and trust Him. Be open with your heart and He will fix things-hurts, disappointments, misunderstandings. He is waiting!

Love Your Enemies

Matthew 5:43-47 (The Message)

43-47"You're familiar with the old written law, 'Love your friend,' and its unwritten companion, 'Hate your enemy.' I'm challenging that. I'm telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.

Love your enemies? Depending on what they have done, this could be a really hard thing to do. But if you do, I promise you it will set you free. It may not change your enemy, but it will change you. Hate and bitterness only eat at our insides like cancer. Don't allow them in. Let God avenge for you.

Become Friends with God

2 Corinthians 5:20-21
Become friends with God; He's already a friend with you. How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on Him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

The best decision I ever made was to follow Christ. He is waiting for you. Accept Him, receive Him, embrace Him, believe Him. Come as you are! You are adored by God.

Dont Worry, Be Happy!

Matt 6:34
"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Don't worry, Be Happy! Stay focused, stay on track! Worry and fear will pull you to the side and distract you from what God is doing right now. Stay in faith! God works in the present, He will be there to help you when you need it. Act! Faith plus action equals results.

Romans 8:14 (New Living Translation)
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

The Lord was showing me something this morning. I have not felt His presence for awhile so I was asking about it. I know that God is faithful and that it is probably me who had something blocking His Spirit from my life. As I thought about it, I started to realize that I was letting my mind get into fear and worry, and I was trying to "make" things happen. This is how my brain works. But if I was being led by my spirit, I could then "allow" things to happen by faith. The difference for me is, in "making it happen", I get stressed or frustrated or in fear, all of these are in my mind, not my spirit. When I purposely live by my spirit, there is peace and joy as I "allow" God to work by using my faith.

God's your Guardian

Psalm 121:1-8
I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains?
No, my strength comes from God,
who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.
He won't let you stumble,
your Guardian God won't fall asleep.
Not on your life! Israel's
Guardian will never doze or sleep.
God's your Guardian,
right at your side to protect you—
Shielding you from sunstroke,
sheltering you from moonstroke.
God guards you from every evil,
he guards your very life.
He guards you when you leave and when you return,
he guards you now, he guards you always.


"I lift my eyes onto the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth"

Pray

Eph 3:14-19
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

Pray for those you love and for those you don't. The power of prayer is what gets us through; it's also what softens our hearts toward others. Praying for those who have hurt us, will help us to forgive and move forward. Emotions will keep us stuck in a place we don't want to be. Live life to the fullest in God!

Lord, Test Me, Help Me

Psalm 139:23-24
Investigate my life, O God,
find out everything about me;
Cross-examine and test me,
get a clear picture of what I'm about;
See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong—
then guide me on the road to eternal life.

God of mercy and grace, look at my life, help me to see where I miss it, and show me Your ways. Test my character Lord, see what I'm made of. Then help me live by Your Spirit everyday.


22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control.

Glorious Life

Eph 1:13-14
It's in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This signet from God is the first installment on what's coming, a reminder that we'll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life.

We are signed, sealed, and delivered! Praise God, He is good and faithful. Hear the truth and believe it. He has a glorious life planned for you.

Revelation 7:2
..."Don't hurt the earth! Don't hurt the sea! Don't so much as hurt a tree until I've sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads!"

He delights in you

Psalm 37:23-24
The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
He delights in every detail of their lives.
Though they stumble, they will never fall,
for the Lord holds them by the hand.

Hang in there. Life can get very bumpy along the way. Take this verse to heart. Know that God is directing you and is keeping you from falling. He holds you by the hand. It says, that He delights in every detail of your life! Praise God, He is for you not against you!

Spirit Driven Life!

1 Corinthians 14:1
[ Prayer Language ] Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. Most of all, try to proclaim his truth. If you praise him in the private language of tongues, God understands you but no one else does, for you are sharing intimacies just between you and him. But when you proclaim his truth in everyday speech, you're letting others in on the truth so that they can grow and be strong and experience his presence with you.

Oh how I crave the presence of God. If you do not know Him this way, go after the gifts of the Spirit. Surrender all of you to Him and let Him use your mouth. Praying in tongues has changed my life and my walk with God. Obedience in this area of submission has helped me to submit my whole life over to His will. It opened me up to hear from His Spirit. Joy, Joy, Joy!

18-19
I'm grateful to God for the gift of praying in tongues that he gives us for praising him, which leads to wonderful intimacies we enjoy with him.

Celebrate!

Philippians 4:4
Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you're on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute!

Today we are celebrating the life of my 4 year old. We will have decorations, food, cake, songs, games, prizes, and joy will abound.
I want to celebrate God, all day every day, with that same feeling of joy and excitement. I bet it would rub off onto others, overflow into their lives if I started my day celebrating God in my heart.
To me this verse says: Love on people, let them know you care. So many people feel like no one cares. As moms our lives are busy and it's easy to get hyper focused on our imediate family's needs. Sometimes my family doesn't even feel loved by me. If we are just doing, not caring, we can act like the people, we care about the most, are just "in the way". Stop worrying about getting the job done and watch the way you are getting it done.

Eph 1:11-12

Eph 1:11-12
It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

You were created with a design and a purpose. Everyone and everything is a part of the overall plan. If you look at what you want for your life (and for your kids), the way to get there is to make your choices and decisions based on that end result. Live your life on purpose. Be the example that you want your children to follow.

Matthew 5:13
"Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage.
14-16"Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.

Be salty! Be light! I love this. Don't be afraid to stand out and be different. Don't just go along with the crowd. When God asks you to do something, it's usually outside of your comfort zone. Sometimes the truth is salty, not sweet. Convicting, not comforting. But at the same time be light, be hope, be love.
God corrects the ones He loves. Don't be offended if someone needs to correct you. Hopefully they do it in love, but even if they don't, just receive it, change the thing you're doing and count yourself loved by God.

Great Plans

Jeremiah 1:5
This is what God said:
"Before I shaped you in the womb,
I knew all about you.
Before you saw the light of day,
I had holy plans for you:
A prophet to the nations—
that's what I had in mind for you."

Never underestimate your life! It comes with a plan. Stay on track, put God first. Get in the Word, let it saturate your life. It's not a coincidence when you are at the right place at the right time. God has holy plans for you.
If your like me, sometimes you may feel too insignificant to have a great plan. All of God's plans are great.
Submit your life to His plan!

Jesus did it!

Isaiah 63:9
So he became their Savior.
In all their troubles,
he was troubled, too.
He didn't send someone else to help them.
He did it himself, in person.
Out of his own love and pity
he redeemed them.
He rescued them and carried them along
for a long, long time.

Praise God, Jesus did it Himself. He became the sacrifice for us. He didn't send someone else or ask us to be a sacrifice. He rescued and redeemed us, in person. He was the perfect sacrifice, the pure and holy one, without blemish. The only One who could wipe away our sin forever by His blood, that was shed for us.
Thank you Lord for your love and pity, thank you for your blood. I plead the blood of Jesus over my family and our relatives. I pray that Your precious Holy Spirit goes out and follows them until they receive Jesus as Their Lord and Savior, Amen.

Happy Mother's Day

My Mom
Faithful and True
Diligent in Seeking
Full of Favor and Grace
Love and Peace
She is Light and Selflessness
Goodness and Unconditional Love
God, Bless her Today and Always
Lift her High Above the Cares of this World
and Hold her in Your arms
Protect her Guide her
Raise her up when she is down
She is my Mother and I am Forever Grateful