Be encouraged...

I once had a friend that became blind.  He was living wild on the world's side and got caught up in someplace he knew he should not have been.  At first he went through depression and suicidal thoughts wondering why he was allowed to live in complete darkness.  I'm not sure who introduced him to the Light of the world, but his testimony is "I had to lose my sight to gain my sight".  What is our excuse? We have our sight, hearing, activity of our limbs, yet we have not sight?  Let this not be our testimony... God wants to customize our testimony.  We have all been through some situations, not all from sin, but just life occurring, and the Lord delivered us mightily.  Lets not give the credit to anyone else...

As I was listening to Pastor C's prayer call this morning about giving birth spiritually and naturally, I had this same testimony of my friend, I had to lose my natural womb to truly be spiritually pregnant.  I gave natural birth only twice, but the spiritual birthings are innumerable - especially since that surgery 2 years ago this month. 

Take a moment and recount all the things that you had to lose to gain the true purposes of God for your life?  The devil meant it for evil, to take you out - but God!!!! He has the ability to take the mess and transform it into a Message of hope, to take the trials and test of life and transform it into great Testimonies of His Life.

As my dear friend and sister in Christ Joann found out some 20 years later - the devil had lied to her and told her God was trying to kill her, when really it was the devil doing that - God was protecting her and sustaining her all along.  So if you must listen to the lies of the enemy, just believe the opposite of what he is saying, because the opposite of a lie is the truth - and it is the truth of the word of God that brings freedom & liberty.

Each human being with breath in the body still is Created2Produce!  No matter who you are, or where you've been, or what you have done - the love of God is for you, not against you (See Romans 8:35-39).  Be blessed!
~P~

True Love

So much on my mind right now about love... Kem has a song titled "true love" - and I like the hook (which happens to be a biblical principle) "you will reap, what you sow, so be true wherever you go.  You will have what you say, thats the way that true love is made"

So to experience true love, we need to watch what is in our heart and coming out of our mouth.  We can frame our world by the words that come out of our mouth - they have creative power!  So, are your words framing the loving environment you seek?  If not, do a heart check and be mindful of what you are sowing...because you will receive a harvest of the words you speak, good or bad.

On this day that society celebrates love, I choose to continue in who I am and that is to share love with everyone the Lord sends my way - the good, the bad, the ugly - to walk in love daily, as an epistle of the Love of God at work in a person's life.  Have a blessed day and know that I love you, but more importantly, God loves you and He IS LOVE!
~P~
this was just ringing in my heart, so I had to share it...pass it on

Holiday Depression

Hello Family – I just wanted to share one of my daily devotionals.  With this being the holiday season, the depression attacks come more often…but keep in mind that we celebrate the birth/ death/ resurrection of Jesus Christ 365 days per year, and we should be a giving people all year long – so we don’t get caught up into the holiday stress that the world creates.  My true friends know that this is how I live year round.  So have a blessed week…

~P~

December 20th - God Calling devotional:

Fight fear as you would fight a plague.  Fight it in My name…Fear, even the smallest fear, is the hacking at the cords of Love that bind you to Me.

However small the impression, in time those cords will wear thin, and then one disappointment, or shock, and they snap.  But for the little fears the cords of Love would have held.

Fight fear.

Depression is a state of fear.  Fight that too.  Fight.  Fight.  Depression is the impression left by fear.  Fight and conquer, and oh! for Love of Me, for the sake of My tender, never-failing Love of you, fight and love and win.

My bible promise for today:  Psalm 64:1 “Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.”

My thoughts:  thank You Lord for continually exposing the plans/tricks of the enemy…

Be ready for battle...

I just wanted to share a text with my friends and loved ones that will help us be ready for facing all that is going on in the world today...have a blessed day.

~P~
Ephesians 6 (Message Bible)

A Fight to the Finish

 ^10-12And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.
 ^13-18Be prepared. You're up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over but the shouting you'll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You'll need them throughout your life. God's Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other's spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.

Grace - Amazing or Perverted???

God's grace is not a license to sin...truly understanding grace, its costs (that it is a free gift to us, yet it bankrupt heaven momentarily), when we truly get this - it will strengthen us to abstain from sin and not pervert grace.  Because if you truly understand the many sides of grace, you wouldn't mis-use it.

Selah - pause and calmly think on that.  I mean meditate on the grace of God.  I challenge you to study for yourself what the grace of God is all about - the unmerited favor - the ability to do what He has given us to do - His ability resident in us - I mean study that out and it will go from being something that is so commonly perverted, to something that we truly see as AMAZING!

God's love is sooooo amazing that if I were to post a blog every minute, it still could not explain it - but I challenge you to seek Him for yourself, and a better understanding of grace...

Love always,
~Paulette~

Overwhelmed & Excited

This morning I am overwhelmed by the Lord, and excited about all that He has in store for His children in this season.  We are in a season of overflow - all it takes to step in is faith the size of a mustard seed.  I encourage everyone to stir up the gift within.

The inital gift is life itself.  Then the gift of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  When we really ponder on Him, all that we have in Him, we can get overwhelmed to overflowing.

Be encouraged this week, find yourself in a bible study or church setting, expecting to hear from God.  Have a blessed week!
~Paulette~

Anointed...

This was sent to me from a friend (a Holy Ghost connection for such a time as this - that iron sharpens iron).  I asked her permission to post it on the blog, so enjoy the flow of God through Darlana Harris:

Yall bare with me as I just feel like writing today.  I am just on FIRE for the Lord!  He is so marvelous.  I just thank Him for allowing me access to Him and His being and all He has and all He is!  I thank Him for opening doors that no man can open and closing doors that no man can shut.  I thank Him for allowing me the personal privilege to call Him "Abba Father".  I thank Him for being that intimate and personal whereas I can call Him, "DADDY".  Truly we are "Daddy's Girls".  He holds me when I'm lonely; rocks me when I'm afraid; clothes me when I'm naked; shelters me when I am cold; chastens me when I am bad; and then tattoos my face on the palm of His hand.  He stores my tears in His jar.  He loves on me and loves me when I feel no one else cares.  He rebuilds my self-esteem when I allow man to tear it down.  He fortifies me when danger is near for he is my: Prophet, Priest, Provider, and Protector.  He covers me for He gives His angels charge over me that my feet may not dash against a stone.  He's changed my name because I have wrestled with Him and He has said that YOU WILL NOT BE THE SAME.  How can we be the same when we enter in His presence?  How can we continue to do old things when He's doing a NEW thing within us?

How can we feel loveless and unloved when He said, I AM LOVE!!!  He told Moses, tell them that I AM sent you!  He is ALL that we need; you fill in the blank.  What is He to you today?  I AM __________?  I AM that I AM, need I say more?  Let me finish my story.  He loves me so much that He sent His only begotten son down to become sin and die for my sins and the sins of this world.  He died that I may live and have eternal life.  What kind of a God is that?  Can Buddha do that?  Can BAAL do that?  Can Allah do that?  He loved me so much that He forgave me for the times that I left Him.  You ever have someone to walk out on you and come back?  Isn't that how we do God?  We just take Him for granted and walk in and out; in and out of His life yet He loves us so much that He keeps taking us back.  It’s like the story of Hosea in the bible when God told him to marry the harlot and the harlot kept leaving and coming back with babies that weren't Hosea's but God said I am married to you as you are married to the harlot.  He used this marriage to tell his people that all though you sin against me, and are worshipping other idols; I still love you and I'll take you back!

Oh, how good it is to know someone is there and present with me through each and every situation I encounter.  How awesome is it that I can partake of His goodness and His benefits.  How awesome is it that I am grafted into the lineage of ROYALTY!! He said that we are a peculiar people, a royal priesthood.  I am because He says that I am!  Amen!  That is so comforting to know that He holds his Word above His name, but His name is also JEALOUS.  He will cast down anything that separates us from Jim.  He said, My name is jealous.  Nothing should come before our father.  NOTHING!!!!  He said, He will give you the desires of His heart as long as you walk upright before Him.  He said, if we seek His kingdom first and all of his righteousness then He will give us the desires of our heart.  Is that too hard?  I don't think so.

Are you in love with Jesus today?  Do you feel the outpouring of His spirit today?  Take a moment and just get quiet before Him and allow His very essence to resonate within you.  I hear Him say, Be still and see the salvation of the Lord.  Be still and know that I am God.  I am the Lord that HEALETH thee.  Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but I will trust in the Lord!!!  DO NOT GO THAT WAY AGAIN!  Reposition yourselves, line up with HIM!