Times Change: Be On Your Guard

“If you were to move to another country you wouldn’t be able to meet your future husband.”

 This morning I was getting ready and I had this thought. At first I was like oh my goodness…what if? Not even a minute passed and I realized this was not a thought from my Abba Father. No this was the voice of a major looser…and I almost fell for it.

In this season of my life it is all about change. This year alone I have been to Australia, Mexico, Belize and in a few months I will be going to England. I am being stretched and taking a step into the unseen, a place where true faith is required. And the loser doesn’t want us stepping out because of what we are capable of.

That looser knows how to push our buttons, hitting us in our weak spots. But when you spend time with the Father God you can learn the difference from the Fathers voice and the voice of the ultimate loser. I know that one day I will get married! God has the right man for me, I have no doubts. As a single girl though, this topic is close to my heart.

So I turn to what the bible says in John 10:3-5:

"The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”

As sheep we learn our shepherd voice and when a stranger’s voice comes we can run from it! We can stand firm.

So as the times change I have to make sure that I am staying close to my father so I know his voice.

The devil cannot tell the truth. So when he tells you something you can just throw it in the trash and laugh in his face.

Times are changing; we have destinies that God wrote from the beginning. Inside each of us is the ability to change the world. Inside of us is a part of God that the world has yet to see.

Be on your guard! Judge your thoughts; make sure you are believing in the right voice.

Talk to you later I’m going to go laugh at the loser now! Haha!

Get Better Results In Your Health And Spirit

Have you ever been to the gym and you see  people who are getting fit and loosing weight? Then those you can't tell at all that they have been working out? Well I thought about this today as I people watched at the gym today. I saw one man who I had seen before and noticed that after all I time I had seen him at the gym he looked the same. Then I thought about myself. I was the same way when I first joined. But then I changed the way I ate and eliminated gluten I lost almost 15lbs just by changing my eating habits. 

Then Holy Spirit started talking. As a human race we want easy and fast. So when we want to loose weight we will get a membership go to the gym (maybe) get our sweat on then go home and eat the same way we have always eaten (cake, candy, chips and large portions) But in order to see a real change and to truly get healthy we have to make sure we not only exercise but also change our eating habits. 

It's the same way in our relationship with God. We say we want to live for God, so we do the expected thing...get a "membership" at church. But then when we go home we don't change our "eating habits". We continue to do the same things that we did before we decided to live for God. Going to church will not change us for the long run. We have to change our everyday lives. Imagine your weight loss plan is to go to the gym once a week and that's it. Your eating stays the same, but you at least your going to the gym right? Um no that is crazy! You will never see results! Same with our relationship with God. We can't expect to go to church once a week then then feel good about our selves because its the "right thing" to do. 

Only when we make the decision to follow God and make good choices everyday will we see our relationship grow and strengthen.

I have lived this way both in the physical and spiritual. And let me tell you it sucks! It's frustrating, and then you want to give up and eat a big bowl of ice cream.  

Do you want to see awesome results in your health and spirit? Then change how you live everyday. Yeah it hard to kill the flesh. But once the results start to show you'll know it was worth it. 

Change the way you think and live your life to the fullest. It will save your life in both arenas. 

Whatsoever Think...

Dumpsters and Alleyways

I have been practicing the secret place with Jesus for over three years now (on and off), and I really love those times. I went again Sunday morning with my Sunday school class and got down on the floor and asked Jesus to show me something about Himself. Then I waited to see where our place would be this time. I looked around and saw that we were in a alleyway, and I thought that this can't be right. Our places were normally in the great outdoors. On mountains, near waterfalls or by a camp fire. But now I was standing in a alleyway.

I decided that this couldn't where He wanted us to go and I imagined we were in another place...somewhere nicer and more to my liking. But I couldn't shake the alleyway. So I let Him take me back to that place. Taking a better look around I saw a place much like the picture above. There were dumpsters that lined the alleyway. I looked at Jesus remembering what I had asked Him in the beginning: Show me something about yourself. It was like I had asked Him again and He answered with a smile:

"I like garbage!"

Ha ha! I laughed out loud, forgetting I was in a room with other people. His face was so sincere as He said it. He moved over to the nearest dumpster and looking the contents. I looked inside too. There were broken toys, soiled paper, pictures, all kinds of things. This wasn't your normal dumpster. He took out a broken object and started to mold it in His hands. Within a matter of moments the once forgotten and broken object was like new! It even looked better than it's original design. 

Amazed by what He did, I looked in the dumpsters and pulled out a crumpled paper. I saw that it was like a Broadway play, with music and words on the sheet. I looked back at Jesus. What is all this stuff? Jesus started to explain:

Dreams, ideas, families and really this list could go on forever. Take the Broadway play. That was a great idea, but the writer thought it would never be good enough for the big stage...so he through it away. The dumpster is full of things people thought weren't worth anything or weren't worth saving. Marriages, relationships, music, books anything you can think of. I like to come here and fix what is broken. I make all things new. There is nothing too broken or too forgotten that I can not fix it.   

I thought about what He said. He makes all things new... All. Have you put anything in the dumpster? Do you have broken relationships? Dreams and idea's that you once had but decided against them? Jesus is ready to fix them, to mold them into something more wonderful than you could have imagined! He loves what we think is insignificant, or beyond saving.  He makes them beautiful. Today if you feel like something in your life is broken, let Him have it. Entrust it to Him. You wont be disappointed. 

Looking back now on the time I spent with Him, I laugh to myself. I went dumpster diving with Jesus! Ha ha! How crazy is that? It makes wonder where we will go next? I learned that if your with Jesus, anyplace is great. Try it today! Go with Him somewhere it's so fun! And who knows, you just might end up a dumpster and a alleyway.

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