Month: August 2013

August 30, 2013

The risk of a fork in your path

Risk (noun) – the potential of loss from a given action, activity or inaction.

Over a period of time an element of my past has been brought back to the forefront of my thoughts and has left me with the decision as to whether to act on it or not.

This fork in my path and this potential risk is not a situation I would normally find myself in or encourage, as I can be one of the most indecisive individuals on the planet!

Someone said that risk and faith are basically the same thing – going out on a limb and relying on God to guide your course in the best direction that fulfils His will.

So after a day of mulling it over in my brain and probably over thinking everything, I hand it over to God!

Lord if this element of my past is suppose to be in my present and my future as You have ordained over my life then let it be! Guide me in the correct direction and let your guidance serve as comfort to my defensive heart. And which ever direction I walk Lord that You will remain the centre of my everything, always and forever! Thank you Jesus for your constant presence! I love you! Amen!

August 28, 2013

Human low turn into spiritual joy

The combination of post-holiday blues and having to fall back into crazy work/life routine, has left me feeling deflated and a bit low.

I’d been on such a spiritual high before I went away and I’ve been grappling to keep hold of it..

So today is a simple post. It’s my prayer.

Lord even though human emotion and life have brought me to a point of slight low, may You be my joy today! Lord may You bring me strength to withstand any human comments that would normally upset me or downcast my spirit! Lord be my courage to stand up and smile even when I can’t honestly see anything to smile about in a given moment! And allow me to seek comfort in the fact You are God and You are within me, with me forever! Thank you Jesus for Your constant love and blessing upon my life! I love you Jesus! Amen!

August 27, 2013

I’ve been away

Hey hey hey, fear not I’m back! I went on holiday with my friends last week, hence my silence on the blog front!

I have one question for you…

How amazing is it to know that God is with you ALWAYS??

Because I think it’s pretty ahhhh-mazing!

One evening one of my friends asked another about how she wasn’t looking for her life partner. My friend with the love of her life living with her, asked my single friend, how could she not be looking for her life partner and how she could be living fully without them, since she couldn’t imagine doing anything without her other half!?

Tricky one, started a heated discussion about how you don’t need another person to be whole and be able to enjoy life fully, but that obviously to find a partner would be awesome.

I sat nodding and understood both sides of the conversation, but – what about God?

Since He has ordained my life partner and I know that without Him I know I couldn’t live life to the fullest! He is my one TRUE love! And the best bit, I don’t have to look anywhere because He is always with me! He knows my heart, my thoughts and my needs! And He has picked the perfect person for me to share my life with and when I will meet them! So I don’t have to go looking for that person either! It’s pretty cool, knowing I don’t have to worry about it, God’s got it covered!

I thank you God for your eternal love for us, I thank you that You fulfil all my needs and I pray that we use it to the best advantage to fulfil your will! I thank You that You have already found my life partner to share my life, and I pray that You will always remain the centre of both our hearts! And I pray that when we are both ready that You would reveal us to each other! I literally can’t thank you enough for your crazy love! It fills me so much I dunno what to do with it all! Haha! I love you Jesus! Amen!

August 13, 2013

JOY!

JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY!!!!!

I literally can not remember being this full of God’s love for nearly a year! There always seemed to be another thing for my spirit to tackle. Fighting my past, and finding peace amongst the chaos!

But slowly God has been walking me through different seasons of healing and strengthening my spirit, to be able to shake off the different areas of my past that haunted me, enabling me to step into the joy of his love!

God’s love is all consuming! I literally can’t stop sing his praise! Or smiling!
It is overwhelmingly awesome!

Thank you God that Your guidance has enabled me to continue walking forward with You, leaving behind my past. Thank you for Your all consuming love! I pray for all those that need Your guidance to shake off anything from their past or present that is preventing them from jumping into Your glorious joyful love! Thank you lord that with You nothing can stand against us! I love you! Amen!

August 12, 2013

Seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes

Sometimes it’s weird to hear what others think of you, or how they see you.

A dear friend of mine has a blog and it turns out she wrote a post about me. When I read it, it shocked me. She wrote such beautiful things that I was overwhelmed. I’m not that person surely?

‘She is a woman of no compromise’

I couldn’t believe that she saw me as some kinda of strong woman when it seemed every time I saw her I was telling her about struggles. Literally days before I was sat on her sofa eating biscuits doing exactly that!

I re-read her post this morning and then it dawned on me. This is how God sees me! He sees me as beautiful, a light, a woman that He has created to stand firm for truth, love and justice.

Whoa! But again, God can see ALL my screw ups and knows exactly how messed up I am. AND He still sees me as holy!?

Now my friend however, I see her as all the things she said about me. She is beautiful, and shines so bright Gods love it can be blinding sometimes, She is such a treasure, she is always there for me no matter what time it is or what is going on! She is so strong, she has overcome so much struggle and it’s such a privilege to see her grow in strength and God love into the woman He created her to be; a mum, a beautiful heart of gold to reach out to young woman that are going through similar struggles that she has!

But to see yourself as others do is something we will always struggle to do as we will always be critical of ourselves. But God never lies and sees us as holy!!!?

Thank you Lord for my beautiful friend, thank you for bringing her into my life and for her continuous love and encouragement! Lord allow us to learn to love ourselves and see ourselves with the worth that we are to You! Holy! You love us with all Your heart and we love You the same! Amen!

August 10, 2013

We aren’t meant to have it together!

Do you ever look at that Christian friend that seems to have it all together and think, how?
How? And how come I haven’t?

Well I’m going to reveal something! You ready! They haven’t got it ALL together! They have just pasted the stuff they can’t deal with to God, freeing themselves to not be weighed down with worry and to just be full of joy! And guess what! That’s what we are meant to do!

When an artist starts a painting they have clear vision of what they want it to turn out like. If you look at the painting before it is finished it will look messing, unfinished, disorganised etc. That is how we see ourselves sometimes, however, God has clear vision of what we are to look like and through that knowledge He sees us as beautiful as a finished painting!

Yesterday I was so full of joy, I sang worship all day at work and was so happy! The day previous a huge weight was lifted as I handed over something I had been struggling with to God! This freed me to be how I was suppose to be full of joy! This doesn’t mean that I wasn’t joyful before, and on the outside no one probably saw there was anything wrong. But now I am truly free! You can’t jump up and down in praise with a huge weight on your shoulders!!

So before you are quick to compare yourselves to others; look at your walk and your journey. What are you hanging onto that you should just hand over to God?

I pray today lord that You will just come and stand face-to-face and offer us Your hand. I pray that we can take it and hand over the weights of our world to You Lord enabling the true freedom You wish for us to have! I don’t want anything to weigh me down from the things You want me to do in this world Lord. I pray for those carrying issues that they will take a step of faith and they will come to realise how great Your love for us is! Thank you Lord! I love you! Amen!

August 9, 2013

The most crushing lie

Loneliness. The fear of most people. And the most crippling lie that can creep into our hearts. It is one of the things I fear most. I don’t like getting to close to people in fear of them rejecting me or giving up on me and then I’m left alone. I have been in a place many times where I’ve been in a room full of people and in the lowest place because I have felt alone. Because I wouldn’t let God into my heart.

Don’t believe a second of it. It says a couple of hundred times in the bible to not be afraid and put our hope/trust in God!

This lie that the devil spins into your mind and heart can stop you in your tracks and choke your spirit of joy, hope, love and compassion. The moment you feel in anyway like your alone, give it to God! Straight away!

Unfortunately It has taken me awhile to accept God isn’t going to leave me, a lot of moments where I imagine God sat watching me cry myself to sleep in loneliness and Him trying to call out to me!

Alyssa Joy’s recent post said ‘present – literally means facing’ God is with us always as His spirit rests in us, and He is facing us always! He sees it all – face on! The joy, hope, love, fear, tears and downcast. He reaches out each time and if you are open to it He will comfort, love, rejoice and be excited with us! He wants to be as involved in our lives as He can, but that is a choice we have to make to allow Him into our heart! And honestly I wish I had done it sooner now I know how great it is!

Lord I thank You for Your constant love and presence in my life! I thank You that you care beyond words and when I call out You are there to comfort! I pray for those that haven’t taken the step to let You into their hearts, due to fear, that they can take the step of faith with You and learn how literally amazing it is to never feel alone again!! Thank you Jesus, ruler of my heart! I love you! Amen!

August 7, 2013

Taking a stand

Yesterday night I sat down and did the two things I have been saying that I’d do for awhile.

1) Made a prayer list for my future husband
2) prayed that I would only have eyes for Him until He brought to my sight the man He had for me to be my husband

This might sound odd, but it’s so easy to just look at someone and size them up based on their appearance. The next thing I knew I was doing it all the time, and then throw into the equation weighing up their future husband pros and cons! I was going a bit loopy!

Our human thoughts are loopy – therefore I sat there with a notebook and started to right the list. And then spoke to God. I fixed my sight on Him only and asked Him to keep it there!

It sounds odd but it’s what I needed to do to be able to do all that God wants me to with my life! And I know that there are many distractions in life that we shouldn’t be tempted by, and we need to just take a stand and ask God to help us! No matter how small or silly the thing we struggle with, He wants to help!

Thank you lord that you love us so so much that You want to know everything. Every tiny struggle You want us to reach us so that You can lay hand on our lives and share more love! I pray for all of those that are struggling with something big or small that they can take the stand and ask for Your help and guidance! I pray for faith that they will know You WILL NOT fail them! Thank you Jesus for Your overwhelming love that you flow into our lives continuously! I love you! Amen!

August 6, 2013

True freedom

I have mentioned it before but there are a couple of things that I struggle with, one being able to accept in my mind AND heart that God can forgive my past. Especially when it still haunts me. And that was what my daily reading was today – nothing like tearing up at a bus stop at 8:45am!

Ezra 9:9 ‘For we WERE slaves’

And for some Christians they still are slaves to something or someone in their lives, preventing us the true freedom God anointed us in Jesus’ death!

I don’t want to be a slave to my inability to accept that I am forgiven. And I know that God can heal this in me. And I know that it seems kinda obvious, but I just didn’t think that I should be forgiven! But He’s already done it!

I thank you God for Your glorious forgiveness and that You can heal all wounds, You can strengthen the most frail, and You can arise courage in the most placid of people! Let us not be slaves to situations or people of this world, but allow us to walk in TRUE freedom to fulfil Your plans! Thank you for filling me with Your overwhelming love! You are the king of my heart! Amen!

August 5, 2013

Colour our lives and world!

God gave me a beautiful vision yesterday. It was Him and I standing in front of each other, wearing white clothing and our surrounding was all white. God had a hand behind His back and produced a handful of coloured powder/flour, which He threw at me! It splashed colour on my clothes and the walls. When I looked around there were baskets of different coloured powder and we went about throwing around these colours playfully! Colouring our world!

I believe this is what being a Christian is about; allowing God to colour your life and allowing that colour to show Gods love to others! True faith in God is allowing Him to colour you in the way He planned and allowing Him to guide you to the place where your colour matters and will attract someone that needs to come into contact with Gods love!

Basically to be faithful you just gotta let God throw coloured powder at you! And own it! Haha!

Today I pray that if God has already coloured you that you will be able to embrace what He has given you and use it to do His will! If you have yet to have colour thrown on to you, I pray for God to have His way and that you can accept it faithfully, trusting His word and His plans for you! And I pray we can all use our colours to attract people to Gods love! We know how amazing His love is and how much it has changed us, why wouldn’t we want that for everyone? Thank you God that you select each of us for particular colours, for particular works that coincide with Your plan for Your people! I love you Jesus! Amen!