Tag: trust

REDEEMED.. by our God!

February 5th, 2024

Happy Monday People!!! REDEEMED…. Thankful for my God and all he does and will do to help me through life! God is with each one of us if we let him be as we can shut him out and I can tell you life isn’t great without God leading! We all have things that happen we all make bad choices we all take the wrong road or say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing no matter who you are we all have this but we also can all be redeemed! I’m not saying go out and make mistakes on purpose and our God will forgive that’s not how this works we all have bad days but we learn! Ask God to redeem you today and go out do better with all aspects of your life as I try to do better everyday than I did the day before! If you stop and think about all the ways God has helped you it would probably be overwhelming but I do think we need to remember all that God does as a reminder of where we should be and what we need to be doing! God had someone call me not too long ago out of the blue who said they received a text from me asking them to call me which I didn’t but come to find out she had some pretty valuable information I needed to know a family member was safe and neither of us had any idea of why that call was important until we started to talk! This person was the one person who could tell me my close famijy member was ok before someone else asks me because she was there and had she not called and told me I would have panicked more than likely not knowing! Come to find out that text was sent over a year ago and somehow it popped up as if it was that moment! Tell me there isn’t a God and I will 100% tell you that you are wrong! We all have our own opinions no doubt but having God in my life is the most comforting thing there is above all else! If you don’t know God you are missing your greatest life ever! If you don’t know how to know God ask someone read the Bible or message me and I promise you will not be disappointed! Go out today and look for God in your daily walk I promise he’s there! Have a beautiful day ❤️.. I know I am!
KNOW YOUR WORTH!

February 4th, 2024

Happy Sunday People! Know your worth! Not everyone does including myself as growing up I didn’t think I was worth much didn’t think anyone else did to some degree and as I grew older got married had kids got divorced still didn’t know my worth! Be around people who lift you up who tell you your worth who push you to be your best and who are proud of you and most of all make sure you keep God at the front because without him none of that matters! When we do not know our worth we look for worth in others and lift them up and why we don’t do that with ourselves at a young age is beyond me but we don’t know what we don’t know! We all should know our worth from day one but the world is hard and will beat us down as well as people will do if we let it… key phrase … “if we let it” and trust me I have learned not to let it…. it took me awhile as I am 54 years old and only learned this a few years ago.. KNOW YOUR WORTH IT MATTERS! Your worth is Jesus’ own life. Just like Jesus’ worth is fixed and doesn’t change depending on the opinion of others, your worth is also fixed. Meaning, your worth never changes to God. Your worth is rooted in something much deeper than someone’s opinion of you, your worth is rooted in the unwavering opinion of God and that my fiends is what matters and once we realize that wow does life change!
When you know your worth and use it to help in Gods work wow what a difference life makes and we help others who use to be where we were! Now remember there are people who will not let you forget your past as they like to bring up past mistakes even from 20 years ago trust me I still hear it today and I will be the first to tell you I have made my fair share of mistakes but that doesn’t define me and you shouldn’t let your mistakes define you either! We live grow make mistakes learn and as we get older we learn more and take it to heart! Don’t let others keep you from loving yourself and don’t let others keep you from Gods kingdom it’s your life you know the mistakes you made you know you learned so go out do better and live your life for you as the past is the past! God loves you and I and he knows the mistakes we made and he knows the ones yet to come because just because we learn and grow doesn’t make any of us perfect but we live differently and it should show! Love yourself live life and be around people who love you for you and help you in life I promise it matters. I will be around people this morning at church and lunch that make me feel like I never made a mistake and they love me and they are proud of me including my Kevin Bontrager and for that I’m thankful as I love all of them more than they will ever know! Go out today and and thank God for life and love the ones you are around and have the best day ever ❤️.. I know I am!
God is with us every step of the way although we never see his actual footprints!

February 2nd, 2024

Happy Friday People! I am so thankful my God is with me daily and for any and every situation that comes up! Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to let God have it as that’s old flesh will rise pretty quickly but we can be just as quick to stop and ask God to step in and take over and he will… but we have to let him and stop with our own self!

This is what the Lord has promised in Deuteronomy 31:6: “The Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” What was true of God then is true today—He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

If you have been praying for an answer and you don’t see any and you think God isn’t there you’re wrong he is! Make sure you step out of your box to see all of Gods blessings and not just the ones you want and they way you want it as I think we miss many blessings because of our own tunnel vision in our way! God is here with us if we let him! I can’t imagine a day an hour a minute without my God! Thanking God in the first thing I do when I wake up as I’ve done it for so long now it’s the first thing on my mind because I fully know I was not promised another day but here I am granted another day.. what will I do with this blessing I was given! I am going to thrive today and know that I am Blessed and that God loves me and is here with me and no limits on what I can accomplish today! So let’s get started and know God is with us! I hope you all have the most blessed day and make something happen today do something different step out of your comfort zone and take a chance! ❤️.. I know I am!
waiting and Waiting in peace two different thing!

February 1st, 2024

Happy Thursday People! Waiting and waiting in peace are two different things as we choose how we wait! It is so hard to wait especially on certain things as we have all bcome so use to instant and sometimes it just doesn’t work that way! When we must wait and we don’t want to our minds start racing start thinking bad thoughts and if we don’t stop it it will keep going! We choose to think what we want whether want to believe it or not! I think when we like/love someone sometimes they can do no wrong no matter what they do and we justify why they do what they did or do! When we don’t like/love someone well nothing they do can be right and we start picking away at every little thing! People love one another for a short time or even a long time and something happens and although they talk good to each other and everyone else for years one thing happens and well now they are bad and then we only find the bad to talk about and nothing good is said! We choose how we think how we act what we say and what we do good or bad we all have that choice! We can all be Christians and all be good people but we will still have a moment where we lose it or our minds takes us down a place it shouldn’t or we get mad and say something we didn’t mean yes every single one of us are capable and do this and it doesn’t matter how good you/ or I want to be it happens as that’s why we are human and we are all sinners … it’s life! How we react and act after that moment is what matters and it matters with all involved and just because you forgave and went on someone else may not it’s a daily struggle sometimes with people and we just need to rethink our selves and how we look at things! I’m choosing to look at things positively and look for the good in people and not the bad because again we can find whichever one we are looking for so therefore look for the good in all today and see how that goes! I know doing this we will all have a blessed day ❤️
WAITING on God… we don’t like it but it’s necessary!

January 31st, 2024

Happy Wednesday People! Oh WAITING…. I don’t know about you but I do not like waiting but I have learned sometimes it’s needed and sometimes it’s necessary!

Now then stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes .. 1st Samuel 12:16

Like this says when we plan something and it goes according to plan we have a date we are looking forward to and we know it’s coming! Waiting for prayers to be answered is hard as we do not know when it will happen we do not sometimes even know what that change will be but we know we are asking for something! Sometimes we don’t even know what we are looking for or what to expect we are just praying and looking for an answer every day! One thing I have learned is when we pray and ask for things after we pray just thank God for the answers and the change as we don’t have to ask over and over but we do need to let God know we are waiting on him instead of trusting our own self and when things are lined up and we listen and follow God … answers come.. the answers come from God so don’t have tunnel vision to where you miss Gods answers and direction as I do think sometimes we want specific things and miss God because it wasn’t what we wanted or what we thought should happen! God made changes in life many times but I have finally learned to wait and follow God as his way is best and although I didn’t know I needed it or someone God knew and when w listen to God and wait it’s so worth it !!!! Hard to wait and sometimes we want to throw in the towel but why because if ……..we throw in the towel does that mean we give up on God because we got tired of waiting and not having it our way .. hmmm could be … do not get tired of waiting on God he may just be changing you before he answers prayers as sometimes we are our own worse enemy and don’t even see it! We cannot put timelines on God we just have to believe have faith do what is necessary to wait and let God!! Let God change you and answer prayers his way you will not be disappointed you may even be happier and more successful oh wait that’s not a maybe it’s a definite you will be happier more successful and filled with more love than you can imagine! Have a blessed day ❤️.. I promise you I am!!
Live today and make your dreams happen … no regrets needed!

January 30th, 2024

Happy Tuesday People! Love this quote as it is so true! If we do not live our lives to the filliest and push ourselves and do things out of our comfort zone we will be doing the same thing over and over! I guess to some this may be ok and if that’s you that’s ok as that is what you want and do! If you have dreams and wish for this or that and do not do anything different or get out of your comfort zone one day you will look back and have the regret of not doing more and once that time comes it may be too late to do those things! If you have dreams and plans step out and try them is it scary absolutely, is it a guarantee it will work absolutely not but I will tell you if you never try it then there is zero chance of moving and changing! If you try and it doesn’t work that’s ok as you tried give it 120% of everything you have and when you think you’re at your end give it another hard push as you may be closer to getting over that hill than you think but if you give up you will never know! Life is hard sometimes scary and I think sometimes we question what we are doing and that’s ok we should but God is with us everytime we do something everytime we need him he’s there waiting on us to talk to him! Live your life as we never know how much time we have left and it could be shorter than you ever imagined so don’t put things off live for today and tomorrow well let’s deal with tomorrow when it arrives! I hope you each have the most blessed day and I hope something amazing happens today! ❤️
Thankfulness is needed daily as we all have coming good to thank God for!

January 29th, 2024

Happy Monday People! Being thankful comes easier for me to today than it ever has in my life and all because I know Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior! I know being thankful is necessary for all circumstances around us every day we get to live another day! No matter what is going on we always always have something to be thankful for and we need to focus on the good not the bad! Nothing stands still so whatever is happening will pass and the next thing will come along and we won’t even remember why we were upset with time in a lot of curcumstances! We thank God for the good and when we are happy and when things go “our” way but we also need to continue to thank God when things go wrong when a “speed bump” happens because God is still God and still working on our paths and he deserves our thankfulness daily! I learned this lesson hard a few years ago and when things were not going well I focused on the people and knowing I didn’t understand what was happening and I let it disrupt my life only because it was people I loved and still love and to this day still dont understand it but I learned to let it go! We can’t help what others feel nd do! I learned to call out to our God and with time I started having peace still don’t understand it but I have peace because God showed me my life and what I needed to do and that I understood! When things go wrong and it involves ones you love just ask God to show you peace and even though you may not understand it just be you because you deserve peace and respect and God made each one of us the way he wanted us! Just remember because you have peace and can move on other people may not and if someone doesn’t forgive you and want to make mends you can’t make them and if you try it may make it worse just pray and deal with yourself and God will take care of the others between he and them not your issue to deal with others and their path but it is Gods and he will! God deals with all of us with his way and each one of us he deals with in our own special way because each one of us have a different path but God knows! In my own circumstance I think I learned God was moving me and although I didn’t understand and hated how it was unfolding with others my focus was wrong and I made it worse as when we don’t understand something we try to “fix” something when we really don’t know why and I’m here to tell you that you cannot “fix” what you don’t understand! I think we all try to “fix” things daily without full understanding in so many areas of our lives! Pray and ask God to guide you and give you peace when something is happening that you don’t understand I promise it’s a better way not easier sometimes but better as we all need to take more time to understand! Have a beautiful and warm day ❤️.. I know I am!
Help is on the way…. God!!!

January 25th, 2024

Happy Thursday People! Help is on the way…. even the song says so by TobyMac which I love! Isiah 41:13 says “For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you”. No God is always there and I do believe he puts things in motion before we pray but we need to pray as he wants to hear from us he wants us to need him and he is always there! Sometimes we think he isn’t helping but he is always helping we just need to make sure we aren’t missing it because we are looking for our ways and sometimes it’s hard but change how we see help … it matters! We all have bad days bad times bad situations every single one of us but we don’t always show that side or talk about it! I believe people need to see both sides so people don’t feel so alone! We look at others and think they sure have everything they have it made but do they as we don’t know from outside appearance! I get up every day to live and when I walk out my door and go to the office I put my smile on no matter what as life is good and just because I have a bad moment or time doesn’t change that so we never know what someone else is going through so be kind! I have my days I have my troubles I have my worries but no matter what I have my God and I know every choice makes a difference. I try not to let the bad moments get to me like I use to as I know all I need to do is stop pray and ask God to help me walk though it and he does and I know it! When we worry and react we make mistakes we make moves we wouldn’t otherwise make so before you do that out of worry stop pray and give it a minute so you don’t make it worse only to have to correct something else later after God has helped the first situation! Give God the time needed and give the situation a moment or the conversation a moment or the phone call a moment before reacting to as when when we react 99% of the time we wish we had waited and you would think at some point we would learn that but our minds take over when we are upset and I don’t care who you are we all do that at some point! Give things a moment give yourself a moment to calm down before reacting so our brains don’t take over in haste including myself! I have learned this took a minute as that was life but there is a better way I promise and it’s Gods way… try it out today when something or someone upsets you just stop pray take a breather then go back and deal with it as we can’t let things just go without resolution but we can work together to make it better 🙂 try it today I promise you will be glad you did! I hope everyone has a blessed and wonderful Thursday ❤️.. I know I am!
SECURITY… God has what we need to feel safe!

January 24th, 2024

Happy Wednesday People! Security… what makes you feel safe? For me God is my security and I have learned to call out to him whenever and wherever I am when I start feeling unsafe, worried, anxious etc… and let me tell you when your focus is on God during these times he does and will get you through it.. been there many times! We can worry all day and night, we get anxious and start making the wrong moves, we start doing thinking we will “fix” it and a lot of times we make it worse… pray talk to God and he will get you through in the best way possible if we have faith! When my eyes open of the morning before my feet hit the ground I thank God for another day then I pray for many before getting up as it takes a minute and then my feet hit the floor and I start my day and one of the first is reading Gods daily word to get my day started right then I post to share Gods word in hopes it helps someone else start their day! I would love to know if you love reading these post as I can’t seem to start my day without it and every morning I am so exited to read todays word to see what’s in store and share it with you! If you need security and to feel safe just talk to God I promise he’s there and will help through the strongest storms with ease! I hope you all have a blessed and warm day ❤️.. I know I am!
GRACE… we need it as much as we need to give it!

January 23rd, 2024

Happy Tuesday People! No one is perfect not one single person here on earth! People mess up say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, with the wrong person but guess what it doesn’t have to define you as it was a moment in your life … the past! People deserve Grace whether you believe it or not! If you have had a friendship or relationship or whatever it is for years and then one thing happens even a big thing and it splits that relationship completely around then it was bound to happen as sometimes people look for the first reason not to get along! Work it out or move on do not dwell on things out of your control! If someone has it in for you or against you more than likely anything you say or do will not change that as their mind is made up and sometimes it’s easier to be mad than make up but what is sad is what is missing … so much! All sides miss out on love, help, family and so much all because of something that happened yesterday last week last year last decade and all that time it stayed on your mind!!! Wouldn’t it be easier just to make up forgive give Grace just as our Jesus did for us! Look in the mirror and if you are not giving Grace to others why do you deserve it! Sometimes it’s hard to give Grace to others or even our selves but it’s deserved and I can tell you my God has given me so much grace over my life and is still giving it that I have no right not to give it back to people and I know it! We can be mad upset angry or whatever you want to call it but don’t live there! People who do you wrong avoid you as egos get in the way and other people but in the end all that matters is people and the relationship we have with them! People who do you wrong tell it to others then find it hard to make up because they know what they have told others and what will they say and then it becomes a struggle that bothers you suck it up and do the right thing and I promise the ones who talk back well just let it be as it will pass and someone else will be topic for a day! Life is good people are good and worth the effort and worth GRACE including yourself! So today give Grace to yourself or to someone else who deserves it from you and see how your life changes right before your eyes! Try it and let me know how it changes things all from a simple call or I’m sorry or please forgive me or however you need to say it and if that person doesn’t accept don’t worry you did your part so it’s off you now you can pray for them and yourself knowing you did the right thing! I hope each of you have a beautiful day and I believe it will be warmer today ❤️