"I mean to save you more and more, and guide you on the way you should go.   Trust and be not afraid." -God Calling

"Your mean boss is not the enemy, your divisive neighbor is not the enemy.   The devil himself is your enemy, and you have everything you need to put him and his power under your feet.   You don't have to be mighty in stature to be mighty in battle.   You don't have to be beautiful or strong, or even physically fit to change the world, you just have to know that far greater is He that is in you then he who is in the world.   1 John 4:4   He wants to do abundantly above and beyond all that we could ever ask or think, but there is a clincher in this verse - it is according to His work within us."

Often times our current obstacles, setbacks and trials seem totally unrelated to the call of God on our lives, so they are easy to misinterpret.   It is easy to think, "I'd be living out my call if I didn't have to deal with this issue.   But the thing is, whatever 'this issue' is, it is your training ground testing and proving you, preparing you for a life of depth and significance."  

"Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered."  Proverbs 11:13.  

"I will not allow my past to speak to me except to teach me.   We had walked through years of crisis, health, and financial battles leaving me a a rootless, weary traveller, while so many others seemed established in their lives.   The life I longed for and the life I lived seemed a great distance apart."

Habakkuk 3:17-18 (NIV)

¹⁷ Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

  

If you have two coats or extra food, give to him that has none.

"You are Mine.
Remember you are a daughter of a King.
Try to see yourself as surrounded by My servants.
They are doing everything for your well being.  
Feel this as you go through the day,
Feel this and all is well.

Lose sight of all limitations.
Abundance is God's Supply.
Turn out all limited thoughts.
Receive showers and in your turn, shower."
-God Calling

"He that has two coats,
let him give to him that has none,
and let him who has food , do the same."
-Luke 3:11

Stop Controllling Others and care for Yourself!

Expect not one miracle, but many!

STOP CONTROLLING OTHERS AND CARE FOR YOURSELF!

"If we listen to ourselves and our God we will not be mislead!   Give yourself what you need and learn to  live self and God directed lives.
Giving ourselves what we need and learning to live self and God directed lives requires faith.   We need enough faith to get on with our lives and we need to do at least a little something each day to begin moving forward.

Few situations in life are ever improved by not taking care of ourselves and not giving ourselves what we need.   In fact, we may learn most situations are improved when we take care of ourselves and tend to our needs.   Learn how to care for yourself.  

Giving ourselves what we need is not difficult the formula is simple.

In any given situation:

Detach
 and
ask what to I need to take care of myself?"
 -Codependent No More


This is not a selfish thing.
  God says:
"Love your neighbor as yourself."
So we must know how to love ourselves before we can truly love others.

We we learn our value,
that we are valuable because of Him,
We can lay our lives down willingly,
not from compulsion,
or a sense of martyrdom,
not being a doormat.
We become freed to give out of a true love.
We know what we are giving and why we give it.
It does not diminish us in value or meaning,
but actually points to the ONE who gives us all of our meaning.

"Why are you sleeping?  
Get up and pray,
otherwise temptation will overpower you!"
-Luke 22

Don't Waste Your Life -July 9

Help me to see my own faults and not to point to others.

Help us to love each other.  Encourage each other.

What is there in the world that if you didn't have it, you would pay a million dollars to have it, but in already having it, we ignore it?

Lord, for the blessings I already have, I thank You!   Open my eyes!
My spouse, my family, health, freedom, peace.........

"There are daily wonders that will waken worship if I open my eyes.
Lord, please open our eyes. 

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror.   The mundate was clear, Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.   There is creation and creator, nothing more.   And creation gets all the meaning and purpose from God."    -Don't Waste Your Life

You are being guided -July 8

"You are being guided but remember that I said, 
I will guide you with My eye.    

And My eye is My purpose,
My Will.

To guide with My will is to bring all your desires
 into oneness with My will, My desires.   

Make My Will your only will.   
Then My Will guides you!"

-God Calling

Are you playing God? Sooner or later all gods get fired, or tired. -July 7

Please help us to know You as we "do the next thing."  Please help us to be faithful to the duties of the present moment.

"Success in the temporal world would not satisfy you... "

Help us not to think of what we 'could have had.'
Please help us to see and be thankful for all that we DO have.

Being kind to our spouses is not a sign of being a doormat.  
I know who I am and I lay my life down willingly.  

"Those who won't care for their own relatives,
especially those living in the same house (our spouse, our children)  have denied what we believe.  
They are worse than unbelievers!!" 
-1 tim. 5:9 


"There are no slackards here!"  

"We are the same as the people that are our hero's.   It is  how we feel about ourselves that makes the difference.   We need to value ourselves and make decisions and choices that enhance our self esteem.   Learn to value yourself as if you are valuable, not desparate.   Trust yourself.   Assert yourself.   Respect yourself.   Honor yourself by being willing to think independently to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of your own perceptions and judgements, to honor yourself is to be willing to know not only what we think but also what we feel, what we want, need, desire, suffer over, are frightened by or angered by and to accept our rights to experience such feelings."   -Codependent No More

"Sometimes we impose ourselves on our controller,
but sometimes we are invited there, even dragged there.  
When was the last time somebody put you in charge of his or her problem.   'If you are going to tell me what to do, why don't you just do it for me?'   Sooner or later all gods get fired or tired.  
We are supposed to help one another
but how do we know when help has morphed into a quest for control?  
The first clue is that the helper is doing all the work.  
Simultaneously the one being helped lazily lapses into the mentality of a victim of his or her own weakness and all the while gets to be the center of the strong person's attentions.  
What a deal.  
You can't deliver people.  
Only God can.  
Let God undo that tangled up mess and retie your security to Himself.  
He is the One with the power."  
 -So Long Insecurity.

The supply will surely come. -July 6

"Never let yourselves think we cannot afford this or shall never be able to do this.   Say, the supply is not here yet, but if we should have it, it will surely come."    - God Calling