Hang in there

No matter how we try to avoid going through the same ol, same ol...we will often find ourselves thrusted right back into the sam situation. God does this, not because he intends for us to suffer, or to hurt, crying in pain with tears...but it's his way of growing us, changing us, and teaching us...teaching us to trust him. To trust that he has a plan for us all, that he is a God who will turn every diificult circumstance around. We have to take on the courage of faith and tell ourselves that, Lord, I'll trust you. I'll trust you anyhow, no matter how dead or bleak the storm looks. It's difficult, confusing, and oh so very self-diminishing at times, but we have to learn to trust God anyhow. We have to take the shield of faith, and go through with anyhow praise. Despite what is and has been done to me presently, in the past, and the challenges yet to come. When we cower in fear, and give up, or lose hope, we are only giving way to the enemy to reign over us. We must rememeber that in all battles, be it life, love, or health, that we are triumphant. We always come out on top. God never, ever allows us to be placed in a pit of desperation, pity, defeat or depression without always giving us a way out. Trial after trial, lost after lost, pain after pain...Betty Wright said it best, there is always gain. Therefore, I have to be still, and watch God prove himself. That he has the best in store for me and no GOOD thing will he withhold from me. Just because my emotions are telling me that it's difficult, that I'm feeling defeated or it won't work...God's word has not said so. Hang in there, push past the hollering mouth of retreat, and know with understanding and wisdom, that God's has me in the palm of his hand, he's bearing every burden on my behalf. Be strengthen in the light of the Lord, pull yourself together and keep it moving forward, looking to the hills which cometh your help. God is always there for you, he will never leave you, nor forsake you...no matter how far you may think that God is from being in your storm, he's standing on the water, waiting for you to look to him, and "Come"...step out of the boat, into the storm, keeping your eyes fixed on him...God will fix it.

Some Soul Food...

Transition has it's way of making you feel powerless. Losing all control to the waves of the wind and the forecast of faith. Trusting God with the "turn around" and that in spite of all the failures that life have dealt you, God has good thoughts toward you and a plan for your future. Difficult it is to see, through all the fog of diappointments, through the haze of lies, and thunderstorms of losing...How God is going to perform miracles in your life and pour out blessings that you wouldnt have room enough to receive. Standing at the edge of retreat, cry out to release the fears, but take that leap of faith...letting go and letting God prove himself...that he will never let your foot slip, that he will give the angels charge over thee, that he will uphold you, that he will keep you from falling.

Letting Go

Doing my best to consciously remember to let go and let god. I am facing areas of my life that I so desire to endure, but they are becoming humanly impossible for me to sustain...but if I let go and let god be my defender, my encourager, my hope, my faith, I can stay focused. I ask the Lord to continue to remind me, uplift, and not give up on me.

Expectancy

Just like everyone is expecting the Lakers to win the championship, and betting money that they win...I am expecting some great things to show up and manifest in my life this year-I'm betting money on it. It's like that song, "Can You Feel It"...Well, I can...I can feel some much warranted excitement coming my way.

Why not??? I use to go through the motions of convincing myself, to expect the best, but prepare for the worst....that was just a cop out of doubt and subtle fear that even though I wholeheartedly wanted the best, I didnt believe the best would come to me, so I knew how to mentally prep myself to go through the worst. That adage, never got me anywhere. It was then, my negative way of thinking and negative faith of not trusting in God or trusting that I deserved the best.

I now believe and know, that despite of the negativity that I lived in and the difficult things that often overtake me, I have to remember to regroup, and focus on the silver lining. The silver lining in every rain cloud is the inkling of positive energy, or the other way of looking at your circumstance. The silver lining is the reminder to believe, to hope, to be brave, to think positive...it is the mark that after the storm, the rainbow is coming.

Timing

All things fall into place in it's own time. Things that once seemed down, will be be up, all unbelievable ideas will become manifested dreams.
Life has a way of deleting the past, and pasting it into the future, altogether cropping situations and circumstances to take what was once bad, and make it into a different picture.
God has his way of orchestrating and organizing little conincidences into a planned destiny.
It is in our doubt that we fail...fail to see as God sees, fail to believe as hope and faith would like.
It is in our lack of confidence and trust that we can not see how a dead situation will become a walking and breathing Lazarus.
Contray to many, It is not that we lack the patience of Job, but more so that we lack the courage of Joshua...when God told him that he would lead the people into the promise land;
that we lack the diligence of Elijah, when he prayed, and prayed for the rain to return; that we lack the preserverance of Joseph, to endure into God fulfills his promise...maybe we're like Jonah, and we lack repentance, refusing to give way to the will of God, the path of life set before us, because of fear or intimidation; in this we deny the spirit of change.
There are items on the shelf, up in storage, or views from unopened windows that we do not have or see because they are left up to timing. Because of "scientific" explanations of time and space, which I am not denying, our flesh is forced to rush events, always living in cloud 9 of the here and now. If we take a pause, to see past what is set before us, we can see what is beyond us.
I write this to encourage myself, that in time I will find what has been hidden from me; in time I will brace with is with me; and in time I will believe what is for me. My time in this world will not end until I have all that God has designed for me.
So, I can speak boldly and affirmably that time changes all things for good, better, and best.