"When Faith Is All You Have"

God seems to be pouring thoughts through my mind..
It is my prayer, that God alone will speak gently to your heart.

May you find yourself in utter relief at His feet, remembering that you are loved beyond measure.
Created for a purpose. 
Designed with intent.. 


When 'I find myself in that place once again'..I will remember...
'(Matthew 13:58 paraphrased)'--when Jesus was in His hometown,...
"He did little miracles, because of their lack of faith"

--lets choose not,...
to align ourselves with these hometown attitudes..
(they were familiar with Him, but they did not know Him)


May I never allow myself to become so familiar to the 'name' of Jesus, 
that I unrequitely find myself.....'only'...familiar...with Him.

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13 
'I will seek Him'..and He will find me, when I search with all my heart...

Have faith regardless of 'what you see'....
He works on the stage, behind the stage...and in 'every stage' of our lives!!!

"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see." 
Hebrews 11:1

When in the trial of a lifetime, remember...
It all may take some time, tears and rearranging of hearts..
(and maybe it is all a long time coming..but God is God....)
..and He Will !! rearrange, change and re-change, if necessary...our old habits and hardened hearts..
we just have to let Him....

He will measure your portion of His strength for each day...and He will not be late..He never is...

His Word is unchanging through the storms of life..HE has not moved...He is your Prince of Peace..

Shout for Joy...HE has chosen you...
You are delightfully His..


Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. 
They will soar on wings like eagles; 
They will run and not grow weary, 
They will walk and not be faint. 
Isaiah 40:31

and yet again..
May you find yourself in utter relief at His feet, remembering...that you are loved beyond measure.
Created for a purpose. 
Designed with intent..

"Come, let us worship and bow down.
 Let us kneel before the LORD our maker,"...Psalm 95:6

please relax in this moment with a praise song from Hillsong...(just click below)
 http://youtu.be/HvnuNKnfFns


"Be still, and know that He is God" 
Psalm 46:10

"I Wish I Knew My Purpose"

Sometimes "busy' keeps me from doing what matters most !!.
Lately, it seems one day is running quickly into the next.

A sense of exhaustion will set in on a restless heart, just as quickly as an undirected stream will soon flow into open waters.

Exhaustion and busyness steal the sense of peace and purpose that we were created for.

Purpose is absolutely critical in our eventual success.

Very often, we can find ourselves running in different directions.
The Bible tells us that...
"A double minded man (or woman), is unstable in all his ways."- James 1:8

When I am in search of what matters most, I have found it a necessity to constantly reign in rogue thoughts that seek to present themselves as of first importance.

In order to understand a life-long purpose or the daily choices which eventually feed that purpose. We must get back to the basics.

Proverbs 29:18 clearly tells us that " where there is no vision, the people perish"..

Vision can only begin with the Giver of dreams..

When we recognize that God alone!!...has made us for greater things,
that the fog begins to clear and our course comes into focus.
It is in this defining moment that...
we must decide to walk diligently, the road set before us.

 The prophet Isaiah in chapter 30: 21 leaves clear instruction..

"Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,
'This is the way; walk in it.' "

There is a great temptation to fashion excuses..or to look behind. But in the midst of excuses we can easily miss the still small voice, prompting us toward our Maker.

HE knows you and HE alone will reveal your purpose.

"Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.” – Psalm 100:3

Tired of being double-minded?
Weary of a restless heart?
Wish you knew your purpose??

Then go to the source of all good things..He knows your name, and He won't be surprised to hear from you..He's been waiting all this time to love you right back.

“You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.” – Psalm 138:16

Seek Him first and then, and only then you will learn your true purpose!

"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well."-Matthew 6:33

"Truth and Lies"

I am a reader by nature, if there is a sign, I read it, if there are words 
along the highway, I read them.

Signs are almost always placed to give direction or a message of some sort. But at times, the message needs to be questioned.
In fact, if it doesn't line up with what God says about Himself or yourself or your situation, the message should always be questioned.


I drove past the little tabernacle. The words were there for all to see...This is what I read.."satan likes you, but our God Loves you"...my head cocked, while my brows furrowed...and I began to question what I was seeing. 


It really struck me...It is half right. I am glad they got the part of God loving us right, but I was floored that a church would put it out there....that satan, 'likes' us.


He most certainly does not!
He is the enemy of our soul! 
To think that he 'likes' us for one split second is so far from the truth of the Scripture. God's Word tells us that That 'satan prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may desire.'...His Word further reveals that he comes to 'kill, steal and destroy'.


He whispers self-defeating lies and half-truths hoping to lead us further away from the One who loved us enough to call us by name. He desires to deceive us and tempt us away from the very One Who will lovingly lead us into His marvelous plan, if only we are willing to follow by waving the white flag rippling in surrender. We trust Him alone for the rescue. 


When is the last time, the enemy spoke a half truth to your soul?
Do you remember ?? 


Lie: 'You're not good at that!,' - Truth: You are good at what He calls you to. (in fact you are very good)
Romans 12:6a "We have different gifts, according to the grace given to reach of us..."


Or, maybe like me sometimes I tell myself for him ....


Lie: 'I look old.', - Truth: 'You are older,(and that's okay). It is time to release the vision of beauty, that the world has been feeding you. You are beautifully and 'intricately woven' (read Psalm 139).

Lie: 'I'll never get there', Truth: It takes time and persistence and faith to achieve the worthiest of our dreams. 
Philippians 3:14 "I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

If God has given the dream, he enables the dreamer.


Lie: I'm so stupid'...Truth: You are smart in a million ways.  
Genesis 1:27 "So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.


The list is endless.
You know the lies, you have read them to yourself. You know, because you have played their parts so many times, that they are now written all over your face, for others to read.


But, just like the sign at the tabernacle...we only got it half right.


So isn't it about time, we get the whole truth and begin NOW to unrelentingly question these half true statements and full blown lies!
You have been created for a mighty purpose. You can no longer rely on something that sounds right, when God's word tells us differently.


It is time to get out our Bibles and ask God to lead us into the Truth. We will then find within us the mighty purpose that has always been there. 


It may take some soul searching. But, 'if we search for Him, He will find us, when we search with all our heart'. (Jeremiah 29:11-13)
He is faithful to His design..He is faithful to reveal the beauty. 


He tells us to write His Words upon our hearts. When we do, we will then see, we are right in the middle of the greatest rescue of our lives, by the Only One who can. 

Indeed, He does LOVE us, and that is the whole truth.
Nothing but the truth.
And you are held by God.