Abandonment to Divine Providence

"Your loved ones are very safe in My keeping, learning, loving, and working.   
Theirs is a life of happiness and progress.   
Earth's troubles and difficuties will seem, less overwhelming as you look, 
not at the things that are seen, but at the real, the eternal life.   
 Learning to know Me draws that kindom very near. 
Leave all with Me,
Sure of safety and protection.

Take joy wherever you go.
Be transmitters.   Love and laugh.   Cheer all.   Love all.
Always seek to undertand others and you cannot fail to love them.   See Me in the laughter of children, sweetness of old age, courage of youth, patience of man and womanhood." -God Calling

Abandonment to Divine Providence.


God's beloved, sometimes seem forsaken by everyone, yet they are still enjoying God's very real and active love, knowing they have nothing to do but stay in His hands and be used as He wishes.    Often they have no idea how they will be used.   But He knows.  The world thinks them useless and it seems as if they are.   Yet it is quite certain that by various means and through hidden channels they pour out spiritual help on people who are often quite unaware.   
Their life is their sermon.   God gives a special force to all they say and do, even to their silence, their peace, their detachment, which, quite unknown to them, profoundly influences other people.

What peace it gives us to know You are with us thoughout the day.   
Guide us into truth and knowledge, so we can make right decisions.   
Fill us with Your Spirit.   Give us Your power so we may share You with those around us.

Ever feel like 'you are not enough'?

Ever feel like you are 'not enough'?

"Progress is the law of heaven.
Higher ever, higher, rise to Life and Beauty, Knowledge and Power.
Highter and higher.
Tomorrow be stronger, braver, more loving than you have been today.
The Law of Progress gives a meaning, a purpose to life." -God Calling

Ever feel stupid and naive?
 I know I don't have the wisdom necessary to deal with such sensitive issues.

"When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you."  - psalm 56:3

Ever feel exhausted in your marriage?
Ever have a disagreement ,
Ever feel like,
'How did I end up in this marriage, with this person?'
You are not alone.

Marriage can be a process where two needy people marry each other,
they both begin a 'taking' cycle that brings anger and disappointment.    
Codependency is a common descriptive expression today.   
Of such a taking system, two people, overwhelmed with their own neediness, 
each try desparately to take from each other.    
The only real solution is access to God's unlimited supply.   
Welcome to the kingdom where God is the God of all comfort, 
where God is love,. 
and where God is rich in Mercy.  -Intimate Moments

The only answer is that each partner turns their eyes to God to be their source.
Instead of trying to get your life, meaning, strength solely from your spouse....
Turn to God to be the center of your marriage.
Get your meaning, strength, vision from Him.
Bring this into your marriage.
Instead of two needy people clawing at each other for survival and meaning,
There will be two people supported and nourished by God's grace.

Why do people steal, cheat, lie? Drop those burdens!

Drop those burdens!

Your stuff does not determine your worth,
what you can afford (or steal) is not a determining factor of your value.

"A man's worth, value is not determined by his high rank, high position, popularity, awards, money, physical appearance, state in life. A man's stability, value is known (especially to himself) when he is grounded in knowledge of who he is and who God is.   This knowledge is, and this peace and satisfaction is, fortified and strengthened with divine love daily....when it seeks the honor of God over the honor of itself.   When it obeys God's promptings."  -Thomas A Kempis

"Time and time again we will find ourselves in situations where the need in front of us is greater than our supply or the task before us exceeds our ability.   This is where God's purposes for us and His promises to us converge.   He prepares and positions us for His purposes.   Every moment of every hour.   Every experience we have matters to Him.   Since He is always at work, may we ever be attentive to Him.   May we walk this faith journey with eyes wide open, ears tuned to His voice and a heart that fully trusts Him.

When God calls us up, it is easy and tempting to look down at everything we lack, feel the limitations of our humanity and we become accutely aware of our weakness.    Sometimes the closer we get to laying hold of our calling, the more we tend to think to ourselves, I could really mess this up!    -Your Beautiful Purpose

Do you ever find yourself on the receiving end of someone sharing a secret with you?  
Possibly a dark secret?
Then there comes the wrestling with it.

My friend said to me, "That is a big burden when someone shares intimate knowledge like that."
I agreed.

But God says, "NO! 
                         Thank Me!
                         You are a channel to be their blessing!
                         So, 
                         Drop those burdens!  
                         They are not yours!  
                         You are not God!
                         Give them to Me!
                         Thank Me!
                         Go on your way in peace and JOY!
                         Let the healing begin!!!"

"Lift up your heads from earth's troubles and view the glories of the kingdom.   Higher and higher each day see more of heaven.   Speak to Me.   Long for Me.   Rest in Me.   Abide in Me.   No restless bringing Me your burdens and then taking them away again.   Abide in Me.   Never lose conciousness of My strength and my protection.    Stay sheltered and at rest.   Learn in the little daily things of life to delay action until you get My guidance.    By what you do in the small things those around you are most often antagonized or attracted". -God calling

Secret revealed.

Objectively, 
The secret may have to be addressed.
Consequences may have to follow.
Those who it could affect may have to be informed.
Subjectively,
It makes me sick to my stomach because of a fallen culture, including my own and those in leadership around me.  And then I have to remember to turn to God.
God Believingly, 
I do believe in God's mercy and forgiveness.
(I thank Him for His mercy and forgiveness in my life!)
I hope and pray for a new life for that person.
I pray for direction.
I pray for them to be wrapped in God's presence, healing, hope, power, and direction to change.
I also pray for those in leadership positions for the same....God's direction, presence, healing, hope and power in their lives.

"Do not be overcome with darkness, but overcome darkness with light." -Romans 12:21
"Do not weary of well doing."  -Galatians 6:9

Grace, receive it, then share it.
"We have all received grace for grace.   -John 1:16
Grace can only be received, it can't be earned or deserved.

"As you see the slow progress you make, you will gain a divine patience with others whose imperfections trouble you.   Swift recognition of the selfish in your desires and motives, actions, words, and thoughts, and the instant appeal to Me to change that.   Obedience.    Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth but what is necessary for building up that it may impart grace to the hearers".  -God Calling

"Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.  Psalm 90:14


Remember how far you have come.

A person's value is not in his money, position, awards....

"A man's merits are not to be estimated by his having many visions or consolations,
nor by his knowledge of the scriptures,  nor by being placed in a more elevated position.
-but by being grounded in true humility and replenished with divine love.  

By seeking the honor of God." - Thomas A Kempis

When it seeks the honor of God over the honor of self. 

When it obeys God's promptings.

By obedience, I mean:

Daily prayer, 

giving thanks, 

guarding your thoughts, 

giving to others (no matter what their relationship to you), 

being at peace, 

peace not leisure (not laziness), 

not fearing - trusting, 

not instilling fear in others, 

not pointing fingers at others faults.

The cocoon is all part of the plan,

if you tear open a cocoon too soon, science tells us that the wings of the butterfly will be underdeveloped.    The caterpillar spins itself into a cocoon and stays there, seemingly dead to the world.    It is in the stillness that we hear God.   It is in the waiting that character is formed.

Travel steadily along His path.

He will honor you, giving you the land.   Psalm 37:34    

If we wait, nuzzled close to God, when He releases us, we will have a beautiful flight.

"I am bound to fight for you,
to plan for you, 
to serve you a sufficiency of all within My Power.
Think how vast that provision can be.   
Never doubt.
Wonders beyond your dreams.
They only need the watering of a grateful spirit, a loving heart and obedience."  -God Calling

We can speak love, joy, and peace into our world, or we can speak
strife, hatred, deception, and all other manifestations of evil.

Lord, please help us when we don't have the right words.
Please let our words speak life to others.

The kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned and to stop oppressing those who work for you.  -Is.  58:6

I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before God.
We prayed that he could give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as we travelled. -Ezra 8:21

How rich you are!

How rich you are!

I will never leave you or forsake you.   -Hebrews 13:5

Do not fear the future when it holds so much for you.
Set your affections on the things above, and not on things on the earth,
you will see how rich you are.

I have promised that for every day you live, 
the strength shall be given you.
Do not fear.
Do not doubt. -God Calling

Our homes should encourage, humor, show appreciation, forgivenss, a sense of belonging where we are believed in and accepted.   Creating a home with an atomoshpere of love, forgiveness and laughter brings healing into a broken world.

How wonderful it would be if the 'sweet' aroma of God was manifest in our homes.
What sweet joy and peace would charactarize our homes.

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.   -Psalm 90:14

The next morning Abraham was up early 
and hurried out to the place where he stood in the Lord's Presence. -Genesis 19:27

I will shout with joy each morning because of Your unfailing love!

This kind goes out only by prayer and fasting. -August 31

"You must live a life of communion and prayer if you are to save others.
Take My words as a command to you.

By prayer and fasting.

Pray and deny yourself,
and you will be used marvelously to save and help others".   -God Calling.