Month: August 2021

James 3:18
Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

I hope you are ready for a real me today because that is what you are going to get. I am not in the mood to be a peacemaker. I in no way want to sow peace today. I am probably the last person who should be writing this blog about this subject. However, here I am learning right beside you.

I am guessing we all have these days. Days where we just want to yell and scream. We may be having a fight with someone and would really rather they disappear and leave you alone for awhile. Days where forgiveness is the farthest thing from your mind.

These are the days I have to hang on to God very tightly. I use Him as my sounding board. I scream and yell at Him. He has big shoulders. He will let me burn off my steam. This way, hopefully I can put myself in check and think straight. Eventually, I can offer forgiveness and ask for it. Peace will come again.

Lord, I want to be a peacemaker again. Thank You for being with me right now and helping me find my way. ~amen

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Hebrews 12:11
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

I don’t care when I read today’s verse, and believe me I have read it a lot, I just want to say OUCH! Seriously, no discipline seems pleasant. I just want to scream, AMEN! On the other hand, I know what kind of results are produced from hard work.

I think we all know that feeling of working really hard on something, then finally success. I am not even talking about some huge event. Maybe it was studying for a test, then getting that good grade. Shoot it may have been waking up and surviving the day. No matter what it is you have reaped the harvest.

We need to hold on to those successes. Remember that feeling and don’t let go. Then share it with someone else. Let them know you have been down that road and survived. God got you through and He will do it for them. You will hold their hand too.

Lord, thank You for seeing me through my training to mu success. Let me be there fir someone else! ~amen

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Psalms 56:3-4
3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. 4 In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?

Do you have a go to verses? I mean those ones that might as well be tattooed on the back of your eyelids. Today’s verses are definitely on mine. As a matter of fact they must have been on David’s too because he said it twice in the same chapter!

Fear is a common emotion. I think it is probably even more common than love! I mean let’s get really, when you are falling in love with someone you also face the fear of rejection. Even once you find out the other person is in love with you, you face the fear of them leaving. You also daily face the fear of something happening to your loved ones. So, yep fear is a very common emotion!

Just because fear comes sniffing around all the time doesn’t mean you have to live in it. It doesn’t even mean you have to give into it. We have a God so much bigger than any of our fears. He is in control of everything, including the thing bringing you fear. It doesn’t mean the fear will always go away, but God is right there to walk through it with you. As my favorite Veggie Tales says, “God is bigger than the Boogieman and He is watching out for you and me!”

Lord thank You for always being bigger than any Boodie-man that invades my thoughts! ~amen

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Luke 10:2-3
2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

When you see a problem, do you complain or pray about it? Do you do something about it? We are most certainly called to pray. Please pray often! We are also called to go!

Matthew West sings this awesome song called ‘Do Something’. It is about someone screaming out to the Lord asking when He was going to do something about all the problems in the world. God replies, I did, I created you! Guess what? God created YOU! By you, I also mean me.

Praying is certainly where we start everything, but it is not the end. Part of our prayer needs to be, “How can I help Lord”. Send me Lord. Show me where I am needed. Give me the strength and tools I need today to be Your hands and feet. Just pray, get your task list, then Go!

Lord, what are my marching orders today? ~amen

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Matthew 13:29-30 (Read 24-30)
29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

Did you ever wonder why God just doesn’t take all the bad stuff out of your life right now? Life would be so much easier on us if everything just ran smoothly and we never faced any of those bad things, right? Or would it?

There is a lot to be said about the old adage, “Things are worth more when you work for them..” Looking at today’s society, I know I even take things for granted that I would not have as a kid, such as seeing or talking to someone. As a kid, it meant so much to get to see my cousins from another state. Today, I miss family, yes, but it is so much easier to just pick up a phone and call, text, Facetime, Zoom, Facebook, message, instagram or whatever with them. I am not saying those are bad things, but it certainly makes me take people for granted. I lose some of that specialness when we do get together. However, during Covid we learned what it was like to not get together and those things helped, but all of a sudden didn’t feel like enough. We learned to love and appreciate others again.

My point to this while, when we take away all the bad we lose sight of the good. Everything just becomes well, nothing. When we work for something it becomes so much more precious in our life.

Lord thank You for walking me through things and not always just taking them out of my path. ~amen

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Galatians 6:9-10
9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

You may have heard Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” He went bankrupt several times before building Disneyland. It almost didn’t make it because the city of Anaheim rejected the idea saying it would only attract riffraff. However, did you know he refused to hire little known cartoonist Charles Schultz when he applied for a job?

After Fred Astaire’s first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.” He kept that memo over the fire place in his Beverly Hills home. Astaire once observed that “when you’re experimenting, you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, that you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.” But there is a reward for perseverance:

What do these guys have in common? They didn’t give up. Neither should we. We are going to get kicked when we are down. It is going to get tiresome and even exhausting. But we don’t give up! God sees you! Keep running the race. Never give up! Never surrender!

Lord give me strength to keep me running my race! ~amen

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Psalms 147:4
He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

I have been in love with this painting since I first laid eyes on it. I have tried to find the artist with no luck. It speaks so loudly to me. In the middle of my darkness I feel small and all alone. Yet, if I just look up I remember God determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. How much more does He love me than those stars. You see He sent Jesus and Jesus didn’t die for the stars. He died for you and me!

I certainly can’t name each star. I can’t even count them.. The greatest astrologist in the world with the most scientific equipment can’t either. Yet, My God hangs them.

No one is more powerful than God. He holds the universe in the palm of His hand. Not only does He know the names of the stars, but He knows mine too. He loves me so much that He gave His life for me. To Him I am so much bigger than a star! He loves me to the moon and back!

Lord thank You for loving me to the moon and back! ~amen

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Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”

When you are struggling or just having a rotten day, how wonderful is a smile? Those are simple rays of hope when you are in the middle of a tear filled day. That smile brings you good news, peace, good tidings, and salvation. That smile reminds you God still reigns, even in your pit. Sometimes that is the permission I need to just not be OK.

I know that probably sounds strange, but it is true. I fight with my depression. I fight to not even acknowledge that I am struggling. I attempt to plow on through. The problem is when I do that instead of accomplishing things I make a bigger mess. Those are the days, I need to take a deep breath and remember God still reigns. I can relax and quit trying to control everything.

Dark days happen to everyone. I am pretty sure we proved that in 2020! No one is ever immune to bad things happening to them. We Christians just have a hope we carry around with us to battle those days. We have a hope like no other. Our God Reigns! He is still in control

I thank you Lord that Your still reign Now I can just breathe! ~amen

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Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.

Have you ever heard someone say, “This too shall pass”? They always seem to mean well, but it really doesn’t help much. As a matter of fact, sometimes it comes across more like, grow up and move on! You don’t deserve a moment to be hurt, angry, or sad. Well first let me say, you do. Grieve, please take time and grieve. Then, when you are ready let’s take a look at the promise God gave us and the real meaning these people wish to convey.

Today’s verse aren’t saying there is no pain, or you will not encounter rotten times of your life. What it assures you is there is a time for everything and nothing stops time. So while you are valid in your emotional stress and you need to work through it, know you are going THROUGH it. There will be an end some day. For now though lean on God and grieve. He will hold you until your ready and can see the ‘Son’ shining again.

Lord thank you for walking me through my grief. ~amen

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Leviticus 26:3-5
3 If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, 4 I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. 5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.

I have said this before and I will say it again. This blog is what is going on in my life and I am just bringing you along for the ride. If you relate or learn something all the better. However, at the end of the day, I am preaching to me!

Today is no different. I find myself at a fork in the road. I know which road to travel, but it is so hard to let go of the other path. I feel obligated to it. It has been a struggle. I knew the road was going to come to an end soon, I just didn’t realize how soon. I have questioned every step. I don’t want to make the wrong choice. Today it all came to a head. I made the choice and I know what I am suppose to do. Today’s verses confirmed it all for me.

As I step out into the unkown and unfamiliar territory, I know I am following God’s lead. I know He will bless me and keep me. I know I have no fear. I am doing what the Lord has called me to do. I won’t lie; it still is not easy to say good-bye to the old familiar road, but it is what is best for me. So on to new adventures!

Lord, this is not going to be easy, but I know you are with me as I travel down this road less traveled. ~amen

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