My Face book status :)

Thankful to my Loving Lord & Savior who has continued to bless me in spite of myself, who has shown me His grace & mercy does not run out, who speaks in the midst of all this world may throw at me ~ it is in HIM that my Joy is everlasting :) Thank you Lord Jesus for saving my soul :)


That was my Face Book status tonight ... but it dawned on me that is is so much more than what I put there ... so often in my prayer time I find myself drawn to pray for the children who are neglected, or worse abused whose parents don't care enough to protect them or worse yet are the ones abusing them.  It amazes me that after I pray for these precious children whom I know God LOVES and cares about that I am then burdened to pray for their abusers, for God Loves them too.  In fact He reminds me that although my reaction to them may be to hurt them in the same way or worse, His reaction was the cross.  He loves everyone and His desire is for each person to come to the understanding that we have a choice of our forever after.   You may not believe this but we all will have a "Forever After" !  My choice is to spend my forever after with HIM.  And you may chose to do the same or not as you wish.   It's the easiest thing to put off believing that tomorrow is another day and therefore what's the big rush?  However today is the day of salvation and tomorrow isn't promised to any of us, at least not tomorrow here on earth that is!  We are promised an eternity.  How & where we spend eternity is up to us individually.  I can't chose for you and you can't chose for me.  In fact God has given us this choice because of His great Love for us.  


I chose Christ.  I chose to take a stand, and say as Joshua did, "As for me and my house we will serve the Lord."  This often conflicts with my idea of how things should work.  You see I'm still learning and growing and walking on my journey with my Lord ~ so basically there is still lots of room for 'improvement'  and all I can really say is Thank You God for Your great patience with me and my growing pains :) 


Eternity.  Forever After.  In the fairy tales the princess is always rescued by the prince, who then marries her and they live happily ever after.  In reality God told us that His Son, Jesus Christ, the Savior will be our Bridegroom and when it is time He will come and collect His bride (the church, aka all of His believers) and we will live together forever without end.   Unfortunately there will be those who choose not to believe that He is who He said He is, and they will allow that unbelief to keep them from seeking the truth and discovering that He is all that He has told us He IS.  They will have an entirely different forever without end from those who are HIS.  It will be a never ending knowledge that they could have been with their creator God and instead they are forever separated from HIM.  Never to be able to bridge the gap between Heaven (with God) and Hell (without God) has between them.  


So it is with this view towards the Love of God for all mankind which does include the vilest of sinners that I must pray for them to repent and accept the Love of God and His gift of salvation before it is too late.  For it is truly our mission to share the love of Christ with everyone, every where.  


If you have been one of those who thinks they can't be forgiven by God because of some horrible thing that you have done, or are currently doing that is a lie from the pit of Hell.  God told us if we believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior (accept the free gift of salvation) we can be with Him for all eternity.  It's that simple.  So what's the problem?  Satan seeks to destroy our soul.  And he will do whatever he possibly can to keep us from believing and accepting Gods word.  A little doubt here, a lot of doubt there ~ here a doubt, there a doubt, everywhere a doubt, doubt!   Once we buy into the lies from the pit of hell we find it harder and harder to accept the truth of Gods Love.  Therefore we must be more diligent in what we 'take in' such as in our reading material, our viewing material, and our "listening" material.  What we read, watch and hear does impart something to us so we must combat the things of this world that would draw us away from living our life for God.  Give up the garbage, give up the not so obvious garbage, and even then keep pulling the "weeds" out of our way! " Weeds"  such as bitterness, deception, anger, hatred, to name a few.
My question for you is: "Where will your forever after be?"  Prayers you make your choice wisely.  


Good night (or rather good morning) and May Gods blessings be with you :) 

Sabotage … self saboteur… both need dealing with!

Yes I’m still on my weight loss journey, however I’ve taken a few detours along the way.  In the process I’ve learned a few things.  I could go all negative and say it’s taken me too long to learn & therefore I will just quit.  However I really don’t want to quit.  I don’t want to be a failure at this.  And more then that I don’t want to be unhealthy.  Really I don’t want to be unhealthy.  
That said, the question then becomes why then am I a self saboteur?  At first glance I really didn’t think I ever was the one sabotaging my journey.  In fact I would have sworn I was innocent of that charge!  But most recently I have discovered that the fact is I am a self saboteur.   I know that carbohydrates when consumed in to high a quantity will set me into a carb overload frenzy.  I also know that to break that cycle requires me to be more diligent to avoid that overload in the first place, that not happening then requires me to just stop eating and take full responsibility for what I am eating.
I seem to have been caught up in the idea that I could simply blame my weight on all of the issues I have rather than owning the fact that along with my health issues I still chose what I consume.  Yes I still have health issues that make it harder to lose the weight however the weight can be conquered and brought under control if I stay on top of my food choices.   
Unfortunately once I was derailed (and I do know exactly what derailed me, it was an error on the settings for my sleep apnea treatment) and hit a plateau that just didn’t seem to want to be broken ~ I s l o w l y  fell only to crash & see my weight climbing back up!  
Waking up to the realization that I have been my own worst enemy is by no means a small consolation, it means I have to stop myself from being self destructive.  I have to really come to terms with I can live without whatever craving has hit my system at the moment.  I have to walk away more than just the pounds!!  I have to walk away from the cravings, I have to walk away from the underlying cause of my self destructiveness.   I still haven’t come to terms with why I am a self saboteur along my journey but I can see my actions in a hold different light now that I recognize the destructive behaviors that work to keep me from my ultimate goals.  
With the discovery comes new challenges.  No longer can I state that all my weight problems were due to my health issues.  No longer can I ignore the part I have in my weight not being healthy.  No longer can I say, “I’ll walk it off tomorrow” because tomorrow may not be any easier to ignore the cravings I’ve allowed to run rampant.   I can see how much I need to be completely committed to the journey.  Not just when the journey is working!  Even when I am diligent if the weight stays unhealthy I have to remain steady and continue on with my healthy choices instead of giving up!  I had hit the plateau (seriously by no self destructive actions on my own it was a machine setting malfunction ~ and that is the bald truth) but once the plateau had shown it wasn’t moving for a while I stopped trying so hard.  I basically gave up.  I had the attitude, “it really doesn’t matter what I do since it isn’t working”.     Now I realize that had I not given into that attitude I may not have to start the process all over again.  I could have simply moved through the plateau and ended up in a healthier state. This realization hasn’t come too late.  I can & I will be reaching my goal it just has taken me a little longer than I wanted.  I have to begin my journey all over again to get the habits I had been living with back in control.  And once they are well established I hope the results will follow like they did last time if not that won’t stop me from continuing in the path where my health drives my choices and my attitude will remain what is best for me rather than nothing works so why bother.     I think sometimes that is how the enemy of our soul sabotages us on our spiritual journey.  If he can’t get under our skin one way he attacks our underlying attitudes so that we give up.  It’s so easy to give up when we think what we are doing isn’t working.  And it is so easy to fall for the lies of the enemy when we are not keeping a healthy spiritual diet of time spent in prayer, in reading the Word of God and in just basking in His presence.     Where do you stand today?  Not yesterday, or last month or year but today?  Do you find yourself growing busier and therefore have less time to spend with God?  Do you find yourself getting weaker spiritually?   Don’t let a “plateau” derail you!  Don’t let a weak attitude keep you from entering into all that God has for you.  Today is the day to move ahead in God, for yesterday is gone never to return and tomorrow isn’t here yet if it even arrives for we are not promised tomorrow!  So move ahead with God today, close in with Him and listen to what He has to say to you.  Be blessed and know that God Loves YOU don’t listen to the lies the enemy of your soul speaks to you!!!!

May God bless you today

Another day to Praise my Lord & Savior

Well I woke up this morning, tired and sort of dragging from a rather not so restful night of sleep... one might say, "go to bed earlier" another might say," you don't sleep long enough" ... but I say it makes no difference since I have sleep apnea, when I take off my mask or nasal pillows and immediately fall back to sleep and then get up a few hours later feeling as if I haven't slept the actual bed time or the actual number of hours spent supposedly sleeping doesn't matter... and yet all of my tiredness makes no dent in my Praise to God!!!
 I can be ready to fall asleep yet does my heart sing praises unto the Lord God,
Jesus Christ the Savior !!!

How could anything keep me from Praising Him?  can anything keep Him from caring for me? NO!  Nothing hinders His Love for me, Nothing keeps Him from pouring His love into me & my life.  Nothing prevents His care for all that concerns me.  
Therefore I find more and more the desire to Praise Him stronger than ever before!  But even more I'm learning how I simply can't keep it all to myself.   Today I may have woken up feeling like I still needed to recline in my bed and close my eyes but at the same time I immediately praised God for another day, another day to share His great Love for all of us.  You may disagree with me but He died in order to save the world ... for anyone & everyone who accepts Him as their Lord and Savior!  Yes that includes the vilest of sinners if they repent and accept HIM as their Savior he will forgive them & save them from Hell.  (Hell = separation from God for eternity)

The purpose of telling you all of this is to simply state that God deserves all our praise no matter how we may feel.  We need to realize truth is truth and facts are facts and the truth is that God alone is Worthy of all our Praise forever without end,  and the fact is He LOVES US and desires a real, personal relationship with each one of us.

May you all be so blessed as I am with the knowledge of the truth of Christs love for you and enter into a real relationship with Him as I have ~ if you already have a real relationship with Him then may you grow ever more in Love with Him daily praising His name!!!!

A M A Z I N G

ALMIGHTY
MAGNIFICENT
ALL POWERFUL
ZEALOUS
INCREDIBLE
NOBLE
GREAT GOD

Amazing  AMAZING   AMAZING     do you get it????   GOD  IS AMAZING!!!!!!!

and here I am in AWE of HIM
 more in love with Him then ever before
 waiting for whatever is next on my journey home.  

Looking at the journey thus far & find myself wondering how it is that I am loved so much by my Heavenly Father that He would send His Only Begotten Son to die for me?  How can my Lord and Savior have so much Love for me that He would ransom me from the pits of Hell?

And seriously how can I respond in any other way but complete surrender?   I know for years I ran in the opposite direction ... I know that my rejection through those years caused Him great pain... and yet, still HE LOVED me!!!

There is nothing that I could ever do to repay Him.
Thankfully He doesn't require repayment.
How can I not find this whole situation anything but AMAZING?