Turn from worry

• Have you ever been worried about something ?Why?Worry means allow ones  mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles. I remember when my daughter was being bullied at school . We together prayed and prayed every night. The bullying went on for 2 years total. There were days when she was at school that honestly I could do nothing but pray. I was so worried I was paralized in fear. As with any lesson God  teaches me I have to learn what to do in order to find peace.I have to learn exactly step by step what I'm doing wrong and make the correction to line up my life with His word.I am so thankful God loves me so much that He believes I'm worth teaching and has the patients to do so. can honestly say today Olivia and I are free and now have peace.How did I go from paralized in fear to peace?Like I said it was a 2 year journey and it began when I placed my Issac on the alter.After a year of worry and fear i remember going for a run, I needed to run away from this problem so bad i literally put on my sneakers and ran. While I was running I remember saying God I'm done. I'm done trying I cant fix this. I told God I had Olivia babtized at 12 and she is yours. I told God I placed my Issac on the alter and took her back off when things Got hard. You are the alpha and omega . I'm not.I am so sorry please forgive me.I wasted so much time worrying and day by day the worry grew to the point I was paralized in fear.No more I trust you Lord let your will be done in me. The thing is God gave Olivia to me.She was always His. my job as a parent is to raise to know Him. I have to teach her the tools she needs to build her own relationship with God  so there is another generation to serve Him. That's it.I stated studying Jesus,from the time Mary was pregnant she knew this was a gift from God. She knew God was in control and the  holy  spirit will help her raise Him. There is no story about Mary successfully intervening and saving Jesus from life on earth. That's because we are mere human and we cannot. What did she do?She trusted God. I'm not saying she didn't cry or pray or hurt.She was human she did but she cast her cares to God. Have you ever watched something terrible and have to turn your head know it will be over soon. Worry means  allow ones mind to dwell on difficulty. God says surrender you mind to Him. What I was going threw with Olivia of corse did not compare to what Mary went threw but can you surrender your mind to God by looking away from the difficulty and know it will be over soon. I believe that's what Mary had to do each time Jesus was whipped and beaten because as a mother I cant fathem how else you could get through that.I believe if we cast our cares to God  trust Him by looking away do not let you mind dwell on the difficulty God brings peace in place of worry. This is were the peace that surpasses all understanding comes in. I say its peace that does not make sense in the situation.How do we do this?What I learned was I cast my cares my cares. Cares come first if we allow it to grow it becomes worry and worry is fear of whats to come. So cast your cares right away then I always pray God I have a right to a clear mind to serve you.I surrender my mind to you.I worship you .This is my care I bring to you do not allow it to grow in my mind.Matt 6:34 says "Do not worry about tomorrow tomorrow will worry about  itself.Each day has enough trouble of its own." Each day has enough trouble of its own. Doesn't say there is no trouble tomorrow. It says each day has trouble of its own. when we worry we let it consume us and grow into fear. We do not have to fear about whats to come if we believe in Jesus because He is to come.Each day has trouble of its own. Didn't Jesus have new troubles as well every day?This is earth not heaven we will have troubles but we do not by the power of Jesus Have to let our minds dwell on difficulties. Jesus suffering was for us. He taught be showing us to Trust God no matter what the price even after death there is life with God.What I learned was I  place my Issac on the alter and no matter what i leave her there because she is safe. Issac didn't die on the alter he lived.He not only lived but thrived.I believe like Mary Abraham before he went to sacrifice Issac he looked away in order to be obedient. I think we need to know looking away is not allowing you mind to dwell on the difficulty but focus on being obedient to God. That day I went for a run I placed Olivia on the alter and didn't take her off. I'm not saying that's the end because right after that Olivia was physically theretened God allows us to continue to be tested to make sure we surrender the strong hold. But hold fast because this is worth it. After that I did look away, I didn't dwell on the difficulty . You cant change a difficult situation but God can change your outlook on it. I had a feeling to put Olivia in self defense classes. Not to fight or become the bully but to see the enemy coming and have confidence to defuse the situation. And that is exactly what happened. Olivia became confident that even if it came to a fight she would be O.K. and not just that but could just by her stance and tone change the situation. Not just Olivia but me as well,I no longer have to worry at allllllll. Now its been 5 months and the tables have turned to Olivia's favor. Through Jesus We  can have pure peace that's surpasses all understanding and surpasses worry.We just have to look away from the worry and cast our cares to God.

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Physical faith

We take the first step. Give your life to Christ . But there is always a need for more. There are levels to our relationship with God. Just like any relationship sometimes we have to physically show our love. I was talking with my husband today, I told him you tell me you love me everyday , but how do I feel the love? I explained to him he says it and I am trusting that he does. But when you say the words I do not feel it. I hear it then my memory searches for the times you showed me physically . Then I remember what love feels like and it was from you. But the love was first  physically felt . When my husband and I met we had to walk to each other, we had to talk, he went out of his way to get my attention. He sacrificed his time , his money , sleep, he thought of me first I was always on his mind. What could he do ,when could he see me , we physically had to spend time together to get to know each other. I wanted to buy him candy or a card and write something in it. So he knew I was thinking of him. God sent His son , Jesus was physically here. Jesus physically suffered died on a cross for us. God physically showed His love for us. We can physically show Him love too. Testify, fast, serve, babtized, tithes, worship, pray, . These are things that we can physically do to go out of our way to show God we love Him. Just like with my husband , when he called me, brought me flowers etc. he showed me he cared. He wanted my attention . He wanted our relationship to move forward together, to grow. We should never stop wooing God, we don't have to, we grow closer by telling and physically showing Him. He led by example, He gave us life, he physically heals us. To give is a physical action. He gives us everything. It's better to give than receive. Who knows that better than God? When I started physically expressing my faith my faith grew quickly, there is always a need for more until we r with Him, but as long as were are waiting we can grow closer and closer and closer.being obiedent to all He says is the best way to physically show Him your love.

Fasting for friends

What i love about my christian community friends is that they fill the need in my heart i have been longing for. I am free to share my love lesson from God . I can jump start another believer and the jump start me. This is true fellowship. I wish we all could sit around a table at a church together and study, pray , praise, worship together and we will one day but until then i truely enjoy my daily revival with you all. Fasting for friends was inspired by another community member im proud to call my friend. The holy spirit is awake and working through her. Today is wed . Every wed. From 6am to 6 pm i fast. I wake up thank God for however my day will go and ask him let the spirit take over me and do its work today. I get out a sheet of paper and a pen and i make a list. I write all the names that God brings to my mind even names from  my google community. I write all names of people that have come against  us hurt me or my family that week. They come against because they need prayer. I write my pastor , church members , kids, there friends, husband, his coworkers, teachers , session members, missionaries. Yes my list is long and longer every week. I circle the names that my spirit is sensitive too. The pastor,,the ones that hurt me, a new friend, and old one, someone that i havent seen in church. Then i lay my hand on the paper and pray over each one. I tell God these people all need feed by you. I fast for them today. You brought them in my life for a time , today i give them back. Then i go on with my day. When i get hungry i pray for all the souls on my list over again. Today i encourage you to join me in this beautiful gift of fasting God gave us. Love your loved ones in a most high way. Fast for your friends.

Do you know how to jump start another? Testimony!

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and found yourself saying," yeah, i know what you mean that happened to me then you begin to tell about you." God made our brains with the ability to identify , understand, and communicate testimonies. Not just that but  when someone tells you somthing have you ever felt like jumping in the conversation? Like you cant wait to share your experience? God made our soul with a need to communicate testimonies. When you get to engage in a conversation and share your experience dont you feel satisified ? He made our bodies our  mouth , mind, soul all to work together to testify our life experience to benifit another in conversation. We all testify every day in coversations but it can go two ways . Lift others up or tear them down.
We all have social circles. At church, your kids schools, work, the communities on line. In every circle there are positive and negative people. There are people im more likey to call a friend that lift me up and encourage me in our talks, then the ones i try to avoid that find a negative in every situation i present. Our testimony, our experiences, our conversations can encourage, be positive, be energizing and refereshing to others. Testimonies are meant to ignight, empower, energize, feed others. Kinda like putting a new batterie in a remote control, that was dead. Or a car that needs a jump. Some cars take a jump easy some need to go in the shop.
Have you ever been in a social circle and felt uncomfertable around a negative person like a constant negative person? Someone that every testimony every conversation is a bummer. God allows us believers to feel this so we judge accordingly. Can this person use a jump? A positive word of encouragement, a testimony of how it was positive for you, do they need a responce ? Or do they need to go in the shop? Do they need a prayer? So first , what kind of testimony do you want to give? Positive or negative. Second know your audience. Do they need a positive testimony a jump or do they need to go in the shop? A prayer in your own time? Third , feed them accordingly. We r nit the shop. We can not fix what is broke. Knowing that will help you not to try and not get offended and take it personal. If you go to jump someones car and it doesnt work :( you say well i tried sorry and you hope they get it all sorted out. While there waiting for a tow you can wait with them , you can even share a time when you needed a tow. But , thats it . Just because there car broke doesnt mean yours has. You do not need to take on there problems and make them your own. How do we not get dragged down by negative people? Know your not the machanic.
I have been thrown into a social circle where God wants to teach me how to stay positive and do my job. Give jump starts. But first i had a long journey with Him of learning what a testimony is how powerful it is and how to use it. Its a weapon all of its own.
In James 3 it talkes about untamable tongue. 3:1-2 says let not many if you become teachers , knowing that we shall receive stricter judgement. For we all stumble in many things. Good teachers know how to jump start a student. Good teachers know every child is teachable. Good teachers know hiw to encourage a student with there words. Good teachers give good positive testimonies. Great teachers know all children are teachable. Sometime they have to refer the student to a more qualified teacher that will meet their needs. James describes how faith works in every day life . Everday speech and actions should correspond with inward faith. Knowing what testimony means and how to use it can greatly benifit all involved. How can we give a testimony of Jesus?  By following the 10 commandsments by knowing his greatest commandment, love God with all your heart , mind and soul. Love your neighbore as yourself. Till it oozes out of you in testimony of what is in your heart. What is truly in your heart comes out of your mouth. Be a living testimony of who is in you.

Testimonies and trials.......

There is an amazing power in testimonies. Testimonies are meant to cause a revival in believers. They are meant to renew and refreshes and energize another believer. Testimonies encourage each other to resist evil and hold fast to Gods word. John had the best testimonies , in revelations 1 it explains it beautifully. John bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ. We are witnesses of Jesus Christ. We must stand and testify to the things He has done for us, to energize the spirit in another. Its contagious let it be. About a year ago i felt the desire to stand up on Sunday morn at church and give a testimony of what Jesus has done for me that week. It never failed every saturday evening I would know exactly what I was supposed to stand and say. At first i really didnt want to do it. I didnt want to stand up and have everyone look at me i was insecure. The devil really preyed on that too. I went to church the whole way there im talking myself out of doing a testimony, by the time it came to joys and concerns i was just were God wanted me humble , weak, of few but powerful words. I would leave church and satan hit me hard. Some of the biggest trials of my life were during the year of testimonies. But week after week sat night i knew what to say. Sun at church when it was time there i was more and more humble week after week because after a testimony satan would attack. For some reason I knew i couldnt stop. Even though satan tested me hard God always Gave me a reason to testify by the end of the week. I told God as long as there are reasons ill testify. Satan tested me harder and harder and the reason to testify were smaller and smaller. But there was still always sometime. Finally about 6-7 months in I had a horrible week. Satan must have been mad because that week my daughter was being bullied at school coming home crying every day, my finances hit rock bottom, my husband asked for a divorse, I was exhausted to the point of thin and sick. Saturday rolled around and I had it. I asked God why , why are you allowing this for me? Have I not stood on Holy ground in your house and testified to every good thing ??? Saturday night I still had no testimony to offer. That night while my family slept, i stood in my kitchen and called out to satan. I was shaking but i stood strong as i could and said. Satan, by the power of Jesus Christ in me you are a bump in the road, MOVE i have a job to do. I am marked by my maker, you will have to take my life to stop me. And you do not get that right. I will still serve my Lord Jesus no matter what you do. I dont know why i dont know how i knew to call him out . All i can say is the holy spirit in me took over and stepped in. I felt peace after that . I felt strong . I went to church the next morning had no testimony but asked permission  to not stand in my seat but come to the front of the church. Honestly i was a mess that day . I had little sleep, my eyes were swollen from weeks of tears and i was in no shape to be giving a testimony. I stood up there and said im not hear to testify for all the good God has done in my life Im hear to tell you all the bad. I named every single thing. Talk about humble. Still to this day that was one of two days I have ever been that humble before God. After i named everything i said im testifing that i still believe. I told them satan is a bump in the road and no matter how bad it got I will still testify that i believe. That day I was attacked by satan in church. Out of respect for my church family Ill never say how but, satan used a person in the church i did not know to attack me at my most weak volnerable time. I was caught off guard to say the least. To satan nothing no place on earth is off limits. After a few dayes of prayer i asked God please help me . Teach me what you are trying to. That week i spent learning all i could about the enemies in the bible and in my alone time with God he was teaching me to know the enemy see him coming. Over the seven months of testimonies and trials God also reminded me He was building my confidence in Him. No matter what God always was there for me and gave me something to find peace in in the end  of the week. No matter what happened in my life and when i could not take any more the holy spirit would take over. By the end of the year God healed everything in my life . I still gave testimonies but my out look changed. When i was tested first i saw it coming so i wasnt caught off guard and full of emotion. When you  are confident and emotionally strong .the testimonies get bigger and the tests get smaller and smalker till  God shows you the mole hill you made out to be a mountain he made look like a grain of sand. I still give my testimonies but now i encourage my kids to as well. And as i said before nothing is off limits to satan not even my children. I seen them tested as well. I keep telling them God gives back what satan takes and there is always and will always be something to testify for. Now i know my testimonies can inspire and encourage others as they did me every week. Now i testify of hiw God has blesses me only for the benifit of other believers. There is power in testimonies for all of us. There is a lessson chance to be obedient chance to mature your faith through them. Looking back it was a crazy year but i love God more. We need to testify for each other. Its important to not hinder our children in any way to orotect them. God will. We must encourage them to testify

10 commandments for every day life....

Exodus 20 God spoke 10 commandment. He commanded these words . Command means to give an authoritative order. To tell, direct, instruct, require.I like  the word require. God requires His people to  live by His rules. I don't know about you but right now I'm so honored to be His . I'll try to meet any requirement needed. I'm honored to be commanded by Him. Today I was talking to God and asked Him how do I survive / thrive at being a sports mom? I have a daughter that's a cheerleader and a son that plays all sports. They are both young so I have a long road ahead. I know there is no way in the WORLD I can do this alone , and I really don't want to. I know if anyone has there child in any extracurricular activities you understand my request to God. How do I not get caught up in the desires of the flesh??????Gal 5:19-21 desires of the flesh include adultery, fornication, uncleanliness, lewdness, idolutry, sorcery, contention, jealousy, outburst of wrath, selfish ambition, dissension, heresies, envy, murder, drunkeness, revelries. These sound familiar? I'm sure I've seen them all played out during a little league ball season. So back to my question in my prayer today, how do I survive being a sports mom? Well, quickly I felt the need to refer to the Ten Commandments. As I restudied the commandments I knew God was telling me if I live by these commandments in all situations of my life I do not have to get caught up in the desires of the flesh. God commands me to live by these requirements in every situation every day no exceptions.
Thou shall not have any Gods before me.....keep my priorities in order. God, family, school, activities. God chose this for my child's life! I need to recognize this is an oppertunity for my child to build a relationship with God through prayer and encourage that. Teach my daughter to pray for her squad and her coach. These children were put in her life for a period of time each one of them. I need to teach my daughter to be an example of daughter of God , and focus on that . Teach my daughter by example to keep her priorities in order.
Thou shall not make for yourself an idol......  Do not put anything or anyone in a place where only
God belongs. Give credit where credit is due. By keeping your priorities in order with God first , you realize the coach , team, parents, kids, field, time etc. is all in Gods control and Being obedient to His commandment , He will cover you , your child, your family in a shield of favor for your child to be an example.
Thou shall not bow down and worship them.....Seeking to please God and God ALONE, being obedient to His commandment is not only freeing but pleasing . What I mean is, knowing you have one judge one person to please to answer to, one person that wants to help you and work with you . If you are pleasing God it is pleasing to others. Therefore you are free from the chains of trying to please others all the time.
Thou shall not use the Lords name in vain........ Don't make Him look bad. Be an example of The way He is raising you. Rebuke the desires of the flesh and being obedient to His commandments keeps vain at bay. If you put pleasing God first in your priorities nothing can be self seeking or vain. god knows our heart seek Him first.
Remember the sabbath by keeping it holy.......Every day is the sabbath . Every day you should put God first, everyday make time for just God. If I am too busy with kids and their activities to pray , spend time with God alone, pray with my kids , help my church. Than I'm more busy than God intended me to be. Therefore I need to go back and check my priorities. Every day the world wants to suck me into the drama , I need to spend everyday with God helping me not to be.
Honor thy father and mother........How did Jesus honor His parents? Seeking God, being obedient to Gods commandments.
You shall not murder....... If you hate you murder a chance to honor God . Hate kills . Hate separates you from God. Seek God first all else is added! Hate subtracts.
You shall not commit adultery ......... When you love God you want to be obedient to His commandments and not dis loyal to Him . I am HIS . I want to fight all desires of flesh with the fruits of the spirit. To be loyal to Him.
Thou shall not steal..... God gives! Satan takes. Give credit where credit is due, everything give God credit. Do not take what is not yours , fame , credit, job, etc. Always
 give because God gives to you.
Thou shall not bare false witness...... Don't lie! God says the truth will set you free. Lying puts you in chains. Let your yes be yes and no be no. Anything in the middle is a lie . When I put a God first He reveals the truth . He lets you see it and therefore act in it.
Thou shall not covet...... Thou shall not want!!!!!I do not want anything more than the life God chooses for me and my kids. Anything I want on Earth cannot compare to what God has for us.
Keeping my priorities in order God first. By letting the Ten Commandments become part of me, enables me to keep His greatest commands. Matthew22 love God with all your heart, mind, soul the most second love your neighbor as yourself. Knowing this allows us to not just survive but thrive at anything and any situation we are in. We do have free will. We have a choice to be obedient to his commandments but the consequences are all in His hands. I want the consequences to my actions to be a result to what He request of me.

Shield of favor

My son Hunter plays baseball. When it comes time for the dad's that coach every year to go in and pick their draft, somehow Hunter gets the shaft. He was one of 2 second graders on an all first grade team. All his friends in his grade were on another second grade team together . At first when Hunter told me I was upset. I knew even asking the people in change of the league would not change anything but I called anyway. I explained these two teams play each other how is this fair???? And of corse they assured me it was. Well all I could do was pray. So I did. I prayed and asked God to show favor on my son. God can go places we can not. God alone can make fair was was not made fair by the world. I asked God I do not care if Hunters team wins or looses but can you please  build a relationship with my son through this game. Can you place Hunter were he is needed on this field and help him play his best game?I had faith, every single game Hunter played , I went early, I walked laps around the field with my son and prayed over the whole field. I taught Hunter how to make prayer circles. We circled the field in prayer. Hunters coach put him at first base, he thrived there. Hunter ended up getting his friends out . Turns out God made Hunter a pretty good hitter as well. There was one game in particular that Hunter hit 6 home runs in a row. I'm not kidding at all, the other teams coach actually called and reported my son and his coach and said Hunters bat had to be illegal. The baseball league sent someone to my house to get Hunters bat and take it to get measured and weighed. Of corse it was legal. All I saw was my 8 year old intimidated grown men . I saw Gods favor actually come to life. That wasn't all, God took it to another level I didn't see coming. Hunter had to play against his friends and before the game I walked outsite to tell Hunter get ready we had a game and I saw him sitting at the picnic table praying:) I stood there with tears in my eyes listening to Hunter 8 years old saying" I don't care if we win or loose let us all have fun , please let me play well in front of my friends on the other team and this game is for you God. " he finished just like I alwayed finished prayers with him at the field" my bat is my rod my mitt is my shield" amen!!!Hunters team lost big but Hunter hit a grand slam and hit ball over the fence:) all the kids from both teams stopped the game and ran to hug Hunter. They let him run the bases while the coaches search over the fence in the weeds for the ball to give him. That is gods favor. All season Hunter took his bat and wrote in a sharpie marker all the games and dates God allowed him to hit a home run. The bat was covered. When he made all star the coach that overlooked Hunter became his new coach. During all star season kid after kid saw Hunters bat and asked what was wrote all over it. Hunter explained proudly God used me to hit a home run. The boys thought that was cool. I'd love to tell you that all star season was great and easy for Hunter but it was anything but. It seamed like the more we prayed the harder it got for Hunter . He never gained favor with the new coach but he continued to gain favor with God. All star season ended and by the end we as a family were all exhausted emotionally. From there Hunter knew God is alive in him and he knew how to talk to God. Hunter continues to thrive at sports no matter the circumstances. We no longer worry who's on his team or who the coach is. Now we know and Hunter knows God shows favor on him. I could give you example after example of Gods favor in our life, Gods favor is real and it had a power all of its own that is untouchable. Do not get discouraged by the worlds favor but instead grow stronger in faith and confidence of Gods favor. God can go places we cannot , he can go to the hearts of those we cannot. Ask God to teach you His favor. Ask Him to remind you of when He showed you favor and you may have not noticed.since this I have noticed many moms grow angry and offended when this happens to their own kid. I just tell them doesn't matter if team is fair or win or looses but your child could have a great game, focus on that. Psalms 5:12 for you bless the righteous oh lord, you cover them in favor as with a shield. And HE does. He really does, just like Hunter and I prayed my bat is my rod and my mitt is my shied. Ask God to cover your family in favor as a shield.

How to not have a Groundhog Day !

I'm sitting here tonight after another heavy day of dealing with difficult people and uncomfortable situations. Another, another , another. This is what God keeps bringing to my mind tonight. Another. Do I thank Him for another day and another chance? Of corse I do, but repeating another difficult day over and over is surviving, not thriving. What is thriving? Definition is: to prosper, to increase. So why do we repeat dealing with difficulties daily to the point of mental exhaustion? Ok let me explain it simply. Wake up , go face the world, get kicked, be kind, come home pray Lord help me with this situation . Repeat,  repeat. A year ago God showed me you cannot change difficult people but He can change your outlook. But even though I see them now as spiritually handicapped and feel sorry for them and I'm not reacting or lashing back out at them. It's still another day, they r still there. Even though I'm growing and maturing daily with God, I'm not done with this. I asked God tonight , how do I go from surviving to thriving at this? When do we get comfortable in uncomfortable situations ? When Lord, do we sleep in the middle of a storm? Matthew 8:24 suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.
Not sitting, not resting He was asleep. So my question has an answer, because Jesus not only survived the storm but thrived in it. Now Jesus knew difficult, really difficult. But how did he not just survive earth but thrive forward with Gods plan? First of all LOVE. This is true, pure, filtered, love. Agape:is selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love. The highest love. Jesus loved God with the same love He loved Him. Jesus loved God so much He knew the only way to show God His love was obiedence. Jesus knew that his heart belonged to God, anything that happened was flesh wounds. No man can separate what God has brought together. I have had the pleasure to experience agape . I love God so much that for me the only way I can think of to show Him my love is to respect HIS WORD ( fear of The Lord) that I become obiedent. I have to stop trying to fit scripture in my life and fit my life into the scripture. How do not have another difficult day? How do I thrive ? How do I sleep through a storm? Easy, Do what Jesus did. Matthew 8:26 stand and rebuke the winds and the waves. You thrive by having faith and knowing by the power of Jesus Christ in you, you can rebuke the difficulties one by one. Because God first loved us we know this love. If we know we can stand and rebuke we sure can sleep in a storm. We can thrive through obiedence.

Greatest gift is love 😍❤️❤️❤️❤️

What is your craft? What do you do that seems easy to you but hard to others? What comes easy to you was first your interest , then you learned about it. It sometimes takes years to make it look easy. It   Takes longer to be a master at it. What about during high school, you had an interest go to college learn what you need for a associate degree, learn more  to get a bachelor, learn more to get masters and so on. But the interest was there right. It just came to you one day. And how far you take it is up to you. The holy spirit was given to all who except jesus . Its there it is in you. It has more power than just being there. There is knowledge , wisdom, discernment, faith , healing, miracles , prophecy , tongues, interpret. 1 corinth 12:11. But one and the same spirit works  all of these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. So you got the gift the craft the interest in there . How much you want to learn, how much time do you want to put into developing your gifts is up to you. The spirit in us wants to give us all , but we must want to learn what each one is is how God want me ( Angie) to use them. The spirit wants to teach us how to use them to encourage and revive and direct the spirit in others for Gods glory. I loved hair and makeup from the time i was little. I went to school for it and graduated in 2000 over 14 years i continue to learn about it. Now to me its easy to do anything its like  an instinct. I can look at any person see them as they are face shape and see what cut color make is needed or not needed to make there natual beauty shine. Now add the spirit gifts to my craft, not only can i help fix the outside but i can see a need inside each believer, and listen and encourage them . Afterall every job is a service. You are serving each other how much though? Give a man a fish , he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime. This leads us to vs 27 you are all the body of Christ there are apostles, phrophets, teachers, miracles, helps, etc . Same spirit given free rain in you through love can be all of these through you when needed. The way God showed me was a baseball team. You have a pitcher , catcher, 1,2,3 baseman etc. every player helps each other . Everyone is important. Everyone serves each other. Everyone is important even parents watching , the man that cuts the grass for the field. Can not have a ball game with out everyone. To win the game, a team must work together. You must help each other. You must be thankful for every person because they are all needed. Then you have a coach, who places you where He needs you, and you work and learn how to develope your craft there. The stronger you are at your place on the  field the more help you are to your team. What does  it take for your coach to send you to all stars? You like your place your interested in it so much you practice it in your free time for the benefit of the  team. What does it take for the little league all star to take it to pro? What does it take for a high school student  interested in hair and makeup to get to a master stylist? A gift! What i learned after 14 years is not what i can do or add to make someone beautiful its knowing what to take away. Take off some dead ends take off too much makeup take off the insecurity. Show them less is more. You dont need to hide behind all that mascara you dont need long thin overbleached hair. You dont need to try look like anyone else, your beautiful naturally, let me show you. It takes away from your natual beauty when you spend alot and try to look like someone else. We are supposed to all be on one team . We all makeup the body of Christ as we were made naturally, beautifully. Take the gift Accepting Jesus He gave you, ask God help you magnify to you how to take each gift pro or get a masters in. I remember i was at a ball game watching my 8 year old play. Hunter prayed before the game he was playing against his friends . He asked God win or loose let me play well and all of us have fun. He said God my bad is my rod my mitt is my shield, this ones for you. That game , im not kidding he got up to bat and hit the ball over the fence off the field. The other team won , but all his friends talked about for weeks was Hunters hit. I asked God what would it take for me to be up at bat? What would it take for me to hit it over the fence a grand slam for you? Well , i asked this question for a year with RELENTLESS STUDY. Then i realized as Hunter did before the game, doesnt  matter if i win or loose i just want to do my best and its for God. Chapter 13 vs 3 although i bestow all my goods and feeds to the poor ,  and though i give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. No matter what you do for others if it is not out of pure love and respect for God and his people to prosper . Its all for nothing. The greatest gift God gives is love. Share His love.

Stay calm pick a spot

My father in law makes recurve bows for hunting. On every one he engraves the words " stay calm pick a spot" .I asked him what do u mean by that ? He said when your hunting and you see your target, your adrenalin kicks in  if you control it and stay focused on one spot of the target, you will hit it. As i was asking the question God was showing me another answer . In any stressful , emotional, exciting situation. Identify the emotion you are feeling anxiety, fear, stress etc. ask me to search hour memory for the fitting scripture. You will find peace that surpasses all understanding. Cast , your burdons, questions, fears to me immediatly. I am in control. Stay focused on me. Stay focused on my scripture my word. I will hit the target through you. I shot one arrow to earth one perfect arrow( jesus) and i hit my target through Him. This happens alot lately . I can have a conversation and hear God in them all. Listens to Him through others conversations. Key is listen for Him

I know you:)

Luke 13:25-28
This is about the narrow gate: there are levels to your relationship with God , just like any relationship you have here. It takes interest, attraction , love , patience, endurance, faith etc. ask any couple that has been married  60-70 years or more, were there hard times , what does it take to make it last ? Love and  exceptance is proble at top of the list. The narrow gate is difficult. So difficult that Jesus said vs 24 many will seek  to enter and not be able. Let me give you a great example of this. I have ADHD . I have my quirks , to say the least. I am aware. Honestly as an adult now approaching 40 I can say this all my life I felt alone and in my own world. My brain is unique as everyone's is but I am made more aware of it every min of every day. I have a lot of ideas and solutions floating around in my head I just have a harder time getting it started. Therefore you become anxious fidgety restless and eventually angyry until you figure it out or get help. There is much more but I'm not going to get into all about me for a reason. Anyway I have finally after all these years have a understanding of me. For a most important reason , my son is exactly like me. I have been through a lot in life trying to get to this point in life that I love me. I understand God took his time in making me quirks and all it made me , me. I'm Angie no one else is all me. I have been miss diagnosed , over diagnosed , shamed , really sick physically from wrong meds to the point my thyroid was destroyed. I never fit perfect into one diagnosis so they gave me many in my life . But I'm not supposed to , no one really fits perfect to any diagnosis because God made us all different. But. Now all I got is what the world calls ADHD , what God calls Angie. And I am just bursting inside of the fact that God even took time to make me let alone as fearful and wonderful as I am. I appreciate my master. I appriciate his work. I no longer have a need to fix me. If I did I would be telling God basically , you didn't do good enough I'll finish now. I'm saying after years and years of asking God for help ang asking God what is not your work help me let it go. Now I'm left with Angie. And I'm ok with that. When I told my family and my husband ok guys this is what kinda explains me. This will help you understand me the most. They said ok and that was that. Well, that hurt. I never said anything but, it hurt ALOT. How could you raise me from birth or been married to me 16 years and not want to go further into my world? I found out , well I knew but just had to now face my son had ADHD. He is nine . I didn't want children because I didn't want them to have my genes , but I prayed and asked God please don't let them be like me. Well, God had other plans. He thought about Hunter when HE  made me. Who better to help Hunter than me????  Only Him. So just like Mary I gave Hunter to God. I knew from the second I was pregnant with both my kids I was not raising them alone . I asked God to let the Holy Spirit guide my steps. Anyway , when I taked to teachers theorists doctors finally came home and even though I have it I threw myself into studying everything I could on it. How to help him with school everything. I looked at my husband and my mom and said Hunter has this  gift too. They said ok and that was that. All the hurt surfaced again but more intense because Hunter is and innocent child.i took a deep breathe walked outside and said Jesus , you knew you were different too and had to feel alone. You sought comfort in God knowing your father knows you. And just like you , I let HIM show my how well HE knows me. Please Jesus now help me find comfort in knowing you and I know Hunter. I want to share this with someone . Back to Luke , many will seek the narrow gate and not be able too. I can't being to tell you how hard it's been to get to the narrow gate. When you try santan wakes up and takes notice. But , God is inside you and He does not loose. I decided, one day 5 years ago I had enough,. I stood in my kitchen repented said good by to this world as I knew it and relentlessly headed through that gate. Just like I did all my life trying to let God show me how I was made, just like I dove into learning everything I have to to help a Hunter. I looked at the gate 5 years ago and said I see your face Lord, I'm coming no matter what. I turned and said, Satan by the power of Jesus Christ in me, MOVE. You wil have to take my life to stop me now, and you don't get that say!!!!!!!!!!! You are only a bump in the road move! And I walked WALKED through that gate. I have spent every sec with a God in prayer time and study since. For no reason except , I want to know everything I can about HIM here while I'm on earth. I don't want to wait, I don't want to waste time. I don't want Hime to say as HE did in the rest of vs 25 when the master of the house rises up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock and tell Jesus you know me we had dinner I told people about you. And Him say I don't know you.
Does my husband really know me????? Does my parents?????? Yes they know my quirks and accept and love me but do they know how my brain works? Do they know how I think. I understand Hunter I studied everything I could about childhood ADHD. When Kelly had stomach prob I read everything I could on intestines . When I sought healing in a God he lead me to a great theorist who help me really get me. During all the theopy. I found answers of why my mom is the way she is and my dad and  my husband. I really spent hours studying their traits. It made me love them and appriciate them and how intricate God is. It was healing. Their traits explain why they say ok and that is that and my traits explain why there is no ok to me. I have a desire to learn and find a answer.
I have had hundreds of people ready my blogs , my family and my husband never have. God is sooooo amazing. You see learning about Hunter and how to help him in school, I learned something that healed this all for me. With ADHD children they need to feel hear see to learn . It has to be visual  to make the the words understood. So God knows I have to see things and feel things to understand scripture. And I do. That's how I can explain it cause God lets me see and feel every scripture I learn. So I'm not mad at anyone they helped me Know a Gods words. Kelly once said to me he wanted a Devorese I remember the feeling I had , I said to Kelly ok and that was that. I felt he didn't really know me anyway. He never wanted to. He wanted a Devorese . He wanted to give up.he didn't want to go through the narrow gate and stick it out. He tried he seek to enter and will not be able. Wanted a Devorese wanted to quit. We can not ever grow content with our relationship with God. We must always always always want to learn more and look at each level and say I want more. What's next, we have to stand at the gate and say I see your face and I'm coming . No matter what. Look at the world as you know it and say you are not worth it you are a bump in the road. You have nothing to offer me. You no longer have chains on me. I love you Lord. I want you to know me. Show me all you know. Then just like vs30 they will come from all over the first will be last the last will be first. Vs 30 to me is what God showed me. Now all I know about my family and friends I want to shephard them to the gate first. I want them to enter . I want them to get to know God and let Him show them how he made them. Then I can go last . That's why I'm writing this I want you all to enter through the gate. Let God really know you let him show you how and why you are masterfully made. You are free to love others with pure concentrated love. It's agape. There is pure love after you ask God to filter out you. You have to take you out . When you learn to love yourself the way God made you as the child He made you and appriciate the time the master craftsmen put in you. You love you. There is no need to be anything to anyone. You are out all that's left is love for how God made them. Today a teacher and a doctor said Hunter May have ADHD . Hunter look at me and said  nervously" what does that mean mommy? " I looked at him and smiled and said , it means God really loves you Hunter . And he said, " Really" I told him yep. He loves you so much He gave you a special gift. Someday , you will see what it says in the bible come to life. You will see blessing and miracles for real. You will see mountains melt like wax before God. For real. And guess what , you don't have to feel alone because you got me. Hunter said ok and that was that.:)

How do you rest and do nothing on the sabbath????

Ok on Sunday a friend asked me a question and I know many have this question so I'm going to explain it how it was explained to me. I asked God, seeked the answer and now I can knock, practice this. The question is .......How do you rest and do nothing on the sabbath??????well , first let's look at the definition of rest. Rest-the first definition is - relax, take a break. (Put you feet up. )That's the first definition. What the world thinks of when you think of rest. Second definition- be placed or supported. Stay in a specified place( his hands rested on the rail.) either way, YOU take a break. But how???????.do u do nothing or take a break?  Remain in God. Gen 2:2 God rested. He rested after His work after He created us. Remember the sabbath . Let's look at this remember the sabbath and keep it holy hebrew holy means set apart. In col 2  Paul explains that we are not bound by the old test and reality is found in Christ. Remember the sabbath and keep it holy. Remember Christ and keep Him set apart. Shouldn't we do this everyday? Shouldn't we be supported by God and set apart everyday time with Jesus ? Just as eve was deceived by satan our minds can be deceiving. Do not conform to the world. Do not think rest means what the world says it means. What did God himself do? Rested after HE made man. The sabbath was made by God for us to rest in Him. Think of it as a reboot, .My son goes to school all day and picks up a bad habit from another child when he gets home I spend time with him and stear him back on track. If I didn't , day after day after day eventually the habit is harder to break. God wants us to spend time every day with Him so He can stear us back on track and prevent bad habits from growing into strongholds. God created everyday for us to spend time with Him. If you go to church every Sunday and that is the only day or hour you spend with Him a week, how does your relationship grow? If I spent one day a week one hour a week with my husband when we were dating ??? Ummmmm prob would never made it past dating? Remember the sabbath and keep it holy . Remember God every single day He gives you and keep Him holy by setting time aside to be with Him. Build your relationship  daily . He is holy.  Remember the sabbath is pretty important cause it's in the ten commandment. We should set aside one whole day to spending time with God.but make go to church on Sunday not just for the sermon but enjoy fellowship. When you are building your relationship with God everyday, then you truly enjoy Sunday church. You are then free to use a gift , talent God gave you for the betterment of the church. Work Sunday school, collect offering, take prayer request , lead prayer. Sing, start a choir. Etc. We all have a skill for the church. When you are spending time with God every single day, he can show you what. Making snacks or coffee before sermon, youth leader, mission trips.you do not know till you spend time with Him. Enjoy church, help your church grow . Mature in your alone time with God every single day. So to answer the question , how do u do nothing on Sunday? You don't. You spend time enjoying Sunday