ALL IS WELL.
My keeping power is never at fault, only your realization of it.   

Thank You for the blessings.

An unexpected blessing comes.   I start thinking:
Thank you Lord!  We are going to be able to pay the bills on time!

But then......HOW does this next thing happen???

I let myself tumble in an accelerated downhill anxiety attack of, but what about tomorrow??!!   What about two years from now, ten years from now??!!   How will we pay the bills, the medical, food, ?   It is never enough!  I lose my focus.   SERIOUSLY???   How did I just go from enjoying a sweet, kind blessing to an anxiety attack??!!

It is not whether I can provide a shelter in the storm but your failure to be sure of the security of it.   Trust Me.  Practice saying, "All is Well."   Say it until you know it, and believe it.  -God Calling 

"All we can say can be reduced to this, I feel drawn to write, to read, to question.   I obey.   If we have abandoned ourselves there is only one rule for us, the duty of the present moment.   

We must stop all imaginings about the future, keeping our attention on what is happening now and not bother about anything that has gone before or what may follow."  -Abandonment to Divine Providence.

There are times when we lose sight of our target, which is to joy in the glory of God.   The world is too much.   Tears blur our vision.   Unexplained tragedy  makes us question that which cannot be answered and shakes our faith to its foundations.  Keep your position. The best deal you will ever get offered is God's promise of abundant life, His promise that even though we are weak, He makes us strong and can use our weakness to help us!   Claim your deal now!    You won't get a better offer.  

Thank You for the blessings.

Worried about what other people will say about you?

Ever not do something because you were afraid of what other people may think?
Especially if it comes to talking about God?

Guess what?   You might as well do it, because people are always going to have their opinions.
And...
Guess what again....
They are not always going to agree with you.

"Rest more with Me.  Refilling with My Spirit is a need.   That dwelling apart, shutting yourself away in the very secret place of your being- alone with Me.   From these times you come forth in power to heal and bless."   - God Calling  

But sometimes we are afraid to let others know that we love You.   Why?   Because we know we will mess up.   We know we will fall short of being a sign of Your Presence.  We talk about You, and dimly know how we are to behave.   Yet so much of our worldly nature still comes through us.  

Please help us to know and love each other.  
Please help us, even though we can see each other's failings,
help us to encourage each other in our strengths.

Help us not to turn on each other when we see each other's faults.
But help us to remember the strengths and the good.

Help us to to point to the giftedness in each other, not the sinfulness and weakness.  

Help us to build each other up and not point fingers and tear each other down.

If you ever feel in your faith walk that you have failed or fallen, or have been taken by surprise,
there is hope that we will be wiser and more humble in the future. -Abandonment to Divine Providence

When we feel like we fall, get knocked off of our feet, it doesn't have to be the end.
We can get up and walk with Him to guide us-
We can walk in the humility of knowing that only He is perfect.

"All of you together are His, and each one of you is necessary."    1 Cor. 12:27

Emotions can make us look cray-cray. (CRAZY!)

Let someone know that although you don't have it all together, you find comfort and hope in the Lord.

"An anxious word weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up."   -Prov. 12:25

Emotions can make us appear so crazy!   Ever been mean to someone because you missed them?    And you felt that they no longer cared about you?   You have sadness regarding them, but instead of telling them you lash out in anger!    Wierd, huh?

Or someone gets recognition for doing a good job and instead of being happy for them, we react in jealousy and resent!    We act as if their accomplishment diminishes our self worth!   We are so silly!!  So silly and insecure!

If you have an idea, a dream or a future that you feel is failing, turn your eyes back to where you can get real help, hope and inspiration!  God says, "WIN ME and WIN ALL!"

So how do we get this hope from God?    By worship.   What is worship?    Worship is voluntary preoccupation.   People bow under the weight of anger and unforgiveness, insecurity, jealousy, fear, anxiety. We are preoccupied with our money, our status, our food, our figure, our health, our relationships.   We obsess about others and turn our focus, our preoccupation, our worship to the things around us.

In Beth Moore's words, she was talking about how we view men, "They are neither gods, nor devils."    But I say this about everyone!    Other people (no matter what sex)  are neither gods, nor devils.

Beth says, "Insecurity is every where, it's epidemic.  We all have just enough meanness in us to occasionally enjoy a peck or two at somebody we know to be weak.   Maybe we are in a mischievous or terse mood or maybe just tired of tiptoeing around a person.   Let's take a good, long look in the mirror and make absolutely sure we don't see a mean woman staring back at us.   We need to encourage one another's security.   Not enable one another's insecurity.   Catch yourself making comparisons and stop!   Personalize the other person who feels threatening to you.   Our goal in our relationships should be to encourage one another's security.  Let's deal with our insecurities and cravings for attention in ways that don't minimize those around us!

When we work from an activated mentality of God given security, we are fully capable of thinking another woman is beautiful without concluding that we are ugly.   We can esteem another persons achievements without feeling like an idiot.   We can admire another persons terrific shape without feeling like a slob.   Where on earth did we come up with the idea that we have to subtract value from ourselves in order to give credit to someone else?  It is our insecurity that makes us constantly draw wrong conclusions.

You were made to be God's dwelling place.  

"How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord!"

You, beloved, were created to be exceptional.  
You can come to love God more than any other living soul on the planet."  -Beth Moore

If we can refocus we can win peace and kindness, and forgiveness.

THE VERY DAY I STOP PRAYING,  
THE TOXINS RETURN TO MY EMOTIONS 
-Beth Moore

Feel off balance?

Ever feel off balance?

Seek by constant contact to know Me more and more.   Make Me the one abiding Presence of your day of which you are conscious all the time.

Choose which relationships are most valuable and make time for them.   Which people in your life replenish and strengthen you?   Do you treat your spouse as the most special person in the world?   Or are you more polite to the neighbors?    We teach our children to be polite, but how polite are we to their father/mother?Are you listening?

 Be fast to listen and hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.   -James 1:19

Do you feel like a loser?

Be watchful to hear My Voice and instantly obey.   Obedience is your sign of faith.   Why do you call Me Lord, Lord, but do not do the things I say to do?  I am not talking about the sermon on the Mount, keeping My commandments and 'being good', I mean the following, in all, the Inner Guiding that I give.

The steadfast secure life of My disciples is not built in a moment, but is laid by acts of obedience, daily following out of My wishes, the loving doing of My Will.   The House of Obedience is the truest expression of a disciple's adoration and worship - it is there that I dwell.

How poor the understanding of the one who thinks that money to be used in this good work or that is the great gift to offer.   Above all I desire Love, true, warm, childlike Love, the trusting understanding love, and then the gift I prize next is the gift of the moments, all of the moments.     What it means to give Me the moments.   The little things you planned to do, given up gladly at My suggestion, the little services, joyfully rendered.   See Me in all .   -God Calling  

Ever look at other group pictures, people's pictures and lives and feel like you are 'less than'?  -You know that feeling.    You see groups that maybe you feel like you should be a part of...  but you are not in them.   You feel like an outsider.   You feel like you don't measure up, are not successful enough, just aren't showing any "wow" factors like everyone else.   Maybe feeling a bit like a loser.

God knows that we don't have it altogether, but as we embrace our imperfections and acknowledge we are weak, we gain the ability to become strong.   It is to our advantage to know we have a selfish bent, wanting our way.  He knows our insecurities, our jealousies, our obsessions.   He takes our weaknesses and turns them into strength.

God is watching you.  Know that SOMEONE is watching you.   Your efforts are not in vain.   Someone DOES care if you do good or bad. Others ARE affected by your decisions.

You think you are ordinary, but by uniting to God, by walking with Him, you have linked yourself up to the most powerful, of most integrity, most holy force.   We are transformed into holy and powerful people.  

Remember Him.  

He makes us someone.   He makes us to prosper in what we do.  He makes us fearless.

He accepts and loves us.

WE BELONG TO HIS GROUP, 
HIS FAMILY, 
we are in His pictures.

Coincidence or Divine Appointment? -August 2, 2014

Lord we look for You
and in gaining You we gain blessing.

Why does it take so long for us to get here?

We think, I would be better off with another job, different people.
But people really are the same everywhere.

I will magnify Him as I respond to His great love.
My desire is to make knowing and enjoying God the passionate pursuit of my life.

We can be a thermometer or a thermostat.
Thermometers go up and down depending on the circumstances of the weather.
But themostats set the climate.   Instead of riding an emotional roller coaster,
set a course of stability- choose faith not fear. -Corrie Ten Boom

When darkness overtakes you, light will come bursting in.
You do not have to fear bad news, trust confidently in the Lord to care for you.
Be confident and fearless and you can face your foes triumphantly   -Psalm 112

Coincidences or divine appointments?
"The Lord directs the steps of the godly.   He delights in every detail of their life  -Psalm 37

Dear God, I did not like You.

Hide Your word in My heart, that I might fully enjoy You and Your abundance.

I will never leave you or forsake you.    There is no bond of union on earth to compare with the union between a soul that loves Me and Me. Priceless beyond all earth's imaginings is that friendship.  
In the merging of heart and mind and will, oneness results that only those who experience it can even dimly realize.  I came to show you how to live life and live it abundantly. -God Calling

I was raised Catholic.
When I was growing up, I thought that the purpose of my life was to be a martyr.
I thought that was an honorable goal for an individual who wanted to love God.
I believed that following  God is inherently dangerous.
That proclaiming God is deadly.
So, then I decided.

God, I did not like You.
And....
I did not want to be a marytr.
I wanted to survive.

Then, I survived.
I realized, surviving is not enough.
Surviving is like being alive, but dead.

Then,
I turned toward You again,
I realized then that,
I wanted to live.
I wanted to be fully alive....

Then,
I found You more.

And,
then I found out that my PURPOSE is not to suffer for Your Name,
but to find joy in loving You and glorifying You.

I find that the only place to get abiding peace is in spending time with You.
I run to You.
You are the only one who can anchor me.
Without You, living is still like death, and death is the end.

I hear in my heart,
I hear You say.
"Come sit with Me. Live in My Presence, protection, and guidance.
Know what real joy is. "

I am learning that yes, there is evil bent on destroying goodness and good deeds.
But in this journey, I find that I am, we are,  not alone.  We are not without a powerful Ally.
The goal of my life is not to be destroyed by evil so that eventually in some twisted way this will bring glory to God.
The goal of my life is to live in relationship with God and to be anchored in Him when times are good, or hard.
The goal of my life is to be so 'twitter-pated' by my relationship with Him that nothing else matters.
To be so in love with Him, that as a result, His Presence is felt by those around me.
They are drawn to Him as a result.

I know I have a long way to go, so many personal sins, imperfections, and flaws.
Please forgive me folks when I mess up.
At least now, I know, I can share with you which way I am going.

Put a dream in my heart.
Show me what a liar that enemy is and reveal to me my next place of promise.