NEVER DESPAIR

You clothe us with righteousness and dignity.

NEVER DESPAIR.

Be a channel of helpfulness for others.
Have more sympathy, more tenderness towards others,
your lives shall not be all care.
My strength is your strength.  -God Calling

Help us to know You and love You.

Give thanks.
Pray.
Obey.
Do not Fear.
Do not instill fear in others.
Do not point at others faults.
Guard your thoughts.
Give.
Be at peace.
Peace not leisure.

Lord Give us wisdom.

MARRIAGE:   A wise person will hear and increase learning and a man of understanding
will attain wise counsel.   Prov.  1:5   Lord help us to accept each other's guidance and direction
to stay on track.

In conflict?
How can we "In all things be more than conquerors through Him who loves us".  Romans 8:37

We can get out of a conflict a spiritual discipline that will greatly strengthen our faith and establish our spiritual character.   Temptation is sometimes necessary to confirm us in the spiritual life.   Our spiritual conflicts are
amongst our choices blessings, and our great adversary is used to train us for his ultimate defeat.  It is possible for us in our spiritual life through the victorious grace of God to turn to account the things that seem most unfriendly and unfavorable.    -Mrs. Charles E. Cowman.

Feeling like a prisoner............ of debt.

Feeling like a prisoner of debt.

Life with Me is not immunity from difficulties, but peace IN difficulties.

My guidance is often by shut doors.

Joy is the result of faithful trusting acceptance of My will,

when it seems not joyous.

My love opens and closes doors.

Joy.

Be calm.

God has promised that His Spirit will  guide us 

and His word will direct us. 

God's word and Spirit serve as guardrails for life's journey.

Lord help us to be easily guided by Your Word and Spirit.

"Lord, early I will seek you.

My flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land.

Where there is no water."   Psalm 63:1

"I am with You in this barren place.

I will give you the peace you are longing for.

HERE I will give you spiritual food.

You are always with Me no matter what the circumstances and all I have is Yours.

You cannot live by money alone,

but by every word that proceeds from My Mouth.

When we grow thirsty we learn to cry,

"The light of Your face is my Life!"

Why do we sometimes feel so poor, and needy, and thirsty?

There we learn to seek You.

It is not our achievements but being with You that changes us.

Thank you that you are teaching us to turn to You in everything.

Thank you for teaching us that we don't have to be reactive in self preservation.

Lord,

I lift up our families, 

I thank You for the priests of our homes,

and that You are giving us wisdom to be debt free,

that You will guide us to freedom from debt.

Forgive us for speaking negative words.

Thank You that Your are guiding us to freedom.

Show us the way. 

Both of us are pretty wierd.

When we criticize others and use their shortcomings as an excuse not to love them.....

This is not what You,
Love,
have called us to.
But we can only accept others unconditionally with Your help,
and ONLY with Your help.
Help us to accept other's as You accept us.
Help us to know how to best show You in our service
to our bosses,
our co workers,
our friends and family.
We have to start by reaching who we can reach
and
touching who we can touch.

GOD WILL EQUIP US WITH ALL WE NEED TO DO WHAT HE HAS CALLED US TO DO!
Help us to see this Lord!

"Wait.
Wonders are unfolding.
Silently comes the Kingdom.
No man can judge when it enters the heart of man.
Listen quietly.
Sometimes you may get no message.
Meet Me all the same.
You will absorb an atmosphere.
Cultivate the silence.
Each word or thought of yours can be like a pearl that you drop into
the secret place of another heart,
and in some hour of need, the recipient finds the treasure and realizes for the first time its value.
Do not be too ready to do,
Just be.
Individual effort avails to nothing,
it is the work of My Spirit that counts."   -God Calling

MARRIAGE:
Frankly both of us are kind of wierd,
neither of us is perfect,
but I am sure committed to you.
We take our spouses with full knowledge that we will disappoint each other gravely,
that we will hurt each other deeply.
In spite of this we commit ourselves to love,
knowing each others weaknesses and failures.
Love is an unconditional commitment to imperfection.  - Intimate Moments.

Are you afraid of others?

"The way will open.  
God cares and His plans unfold.
Just love and wait.
Love is the Key.
No door is too difficult for it to open.
What causes have you to fear?
Have I not cared for and pretected you?
Hope on.
Hope gladly.
Hope with certainty.
Be calm.
Calm in My power.
Welcome the training!
Do not worry about others lives,
you must be perfected first in My strength."  -God Calling

Lord help us not to work as to the fear of man, 
but help us to do our job as to You.
Help us to be strong in You,
to turn to You. 

God will equip us with all we need to do,
what He has called us to.

Help us to see this, to see You!

Are you bored? Or are you afraid?

Relax, Do not get tense, have no fear.
All is for the best.
You must learn soul balance, poise in a changing world.
Claim My power.
Never think you are too busy.
As long as you get back to Me and replenish after each task,
no work can be too much.
My joy I give you.
Live in it.
Bathe your spirit in it.
Reflect it. -God Calling

It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in the old stagnant life of sin.
You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living,
tell you ho to live.
We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing,
when we felt like doing it.   Ephesians 2:1-3

Are you bored if the day is simply full of responsibility and duty?
It is easy to become addicted to the adrenaline of conflict and chaos.
In the path to wellness,
there will be many boring days.
Many days will be full of nothing but responsibility, self-discipline, and hard work.
The life of stability builds the potential for excitement minus the drama or trauma!
You can move away from desiring unhealthy excitement that is full of danger or continual drama and move toward the kind of healthy excitement that develops from new found opportunity when you reach out to your God given potential.
The key to hope is self control, plain and simply doing whats right, no matter what you feel like doing.   Start catching ourselves making comparisons and tell ourselves to stop,
avoid tripping each others insecurity buttons!    Nobody get to take away our dignity.   -Beth Moore

Love the people I give you.

Glad indeed are the souls with whom I walk.
Walking with Me is security.
The coming of My Spirit into a life,
and its workings are imperceptible,
but the result is mighty.
Learn of Me,
Ask yourself- Did self prompt that?
And if it did, oust it at all costs.
You can not understand My teachings on your own.
But as you go on obeying Me and walking with Me,
and listening to Me,
you will understand and then you will see
how glorious are My teachings and revelations.-God Calling

Please make it clear to me where,
and to whom do You want me to lay my life down to.
Who ever is in my path?
Even if it is the same people over and over?

"It does not have to be mind shaking!
Love the people I give you.
It is in the ordinary that I come most often".

We have to start out by reaching what we can reach and touching what we can touch.
The choice will come!

He will equip us with all we need to do what He has called us to!

How we live our lives privately eventually comes out publicly.

Never Despair!   Be a channel of helpfulness for others.
Have more sympathy.
Feel more tenderness towards others.
Your lives shall not be all care.
My strength has conquered depression, sorrow and death. -God Calling

We are works in progress.
Quit over reacting to your short comings.
Let's give a new definition to emotional well being -
progress, movement, not perfection should be our goal.
Refuse the guilt for being less than perfect.
Walk forward with all of the 'less than perfect' humanity.
Grow in the knowledge of our Lord.   2 Peter 3:18

"To honor our self is to be in love with our own life,
in love with our possibilities for growth and for experiencing joy,
in love with the process of discovery and exploring our distinctively human potentialities"
All made possible as we come to know who we are in God.
Movement doesn't change us,
soul engagement does.
Either we humble ourselves,
admit our daily need for more of His life and influence within us and we are beautifully changed in the process.
Everything we do is in response to the life giving power of God mightily at work within us.

What we do in secret from day to day seems of little consequence,
but in due time,
those small hidden choices either reveal a life of discipline or laziness.

- secret to a successful life by Jeff Olson

How we live our lives privately eventually comes out publicly.
Either we grow in our faith and become more intimate with God,
or we fall away from Him.

"My eyes are not focused on the storm, 
but on the living God,
who controls every circumstance of my life."
Proverbs 9:10  

By knowing You, we will begin to understand You.

Private prayer times mark our lives with true power.
To know the Lord is to walk intimately with Him.
His power energizes us to do the things He has appointed us to do.
We more clearly see what in our schedule is an unaccounted, unannointed work
and we seek to align our life with God's best purposes for us.
When we are intentionally engaged with God, we are more fully engaged in the work He has
assigned to us.