You Received...Did you Accept

So, I think in an earlier post I wrote about receiving and accepting. Well the other day God really drove home the point (sometimes I need real live things to happen to truly get it). I came home one day and I noticed the chair in the front room pushed back - this means one thing - someone was at my front door and the dogs jumped in the chair to greet them with their "friendly" barks. So, I opened the front door to find a package at the door. I brought the package in and it was for me. Now, let me say I did open the package and there was a little note in the box as to whom the package was from. Well, the "from" and I had not been seeing eye to eye for a couple of weeks and I just was like grrrr so I literally put the tape back on and sat it back out on the porch - seriously I did this and then proceeded to go on about my day. I no sooner got to the end of the street when God nugged me with - "Daughter, you just received a beautiful gift one you did not deserve...did you accept the gift? Is this how you sometimes accept my gifts - you receive them yes, but then put them back on the shelf?" Oh, wow did that speak volumes to me. Years, Months, Weeks or even days ago I would have beat myself up for my actions... things like "you are so ungrateful, what an awful person, you don't deserve anything" but because of what the Holy Spirit has been teaching me ... NO CONDIMINATION, I AM FREE FROM THE YOKE OF SLAVERY...I thanked God for the valuable lesson and the gift...and let me tell you - when I got home I opened up that package and displayed the beautiful gift inside and received it and accepted it with a gracious heart. See I did not deserve the gift - to deserve would have made it a reward and not a gift. The same as when God sent his Only Son to become a sin offering for me and die on the cross and saved me from my sins - my sins which are REMEMBERED NO MORE. I do not deserve this, but God loves me, loves you so much that HE GAVE ... Have you Received Christ? Have you Accepted all that comes with the gift of Salvation.... It's a lot to wrap your head around and chew on...but never quit chewing and learing and receiving and accepting ... We have a loving God who wants the absolute best for us ... Scripture Reference: Romans 8:1; Galations 5:1; Jeremiah 31:34 & Isaiah 43:25

Are you Free?

Cont from Wed ... To hlep things sink in a little bit more and keep me focused...should I fall back to wrong thinking and remind my self that there is No Condimination and why ... I am then reminded of Galatians 5:1 "For freedom I am set free through Christ Jesus. Stand firm then and do not allow yourself to be burden again by a yoke of slavery." Again there is that free word - I am free from a yoke of slavery...mine is my mind - my thoughts at times can get out of control - but then I remind myself or should I say the Holy Spirt in me reminds me that I am free and I need to stand firm...and then we take it one step further ....

"Because" - May 7, 2013

"For those who are in Christ Jesus" cont from yesterday and the days before that ... Well I am in Christ Jesus ... and He is in me ... but how could that be, did I really believe these words - when I professed Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour and accepted Him into my life ... did I fully accept ... did I truly understand what that ment ... I didn't feel any different - I still struggled with some pretty heavy stuff ... but when I truly understood NO CONDEMINATION I realized that I no longer had the "right" to condem myself in the ways that I was (or others) that I no longer was alone and would never ever be alone again...then I went on to read verse 2 of Romans 8:1-2 and I love the first word of verse 2 .... "because"

No More Condemination - May 6, 2013

So, like I said in my earlier post I had to chew on Romans 8:1...I had to chew on the word condemination ... so lets define condemination according to Websters ... a statement or expression of very strong and definite criticism or disapproval...WOW ...and most of the time I was the one criticising myself and I will not go into the things that I said about me, no sence of giving life to dead words...so once I got the meaning of condemination down and looked back at the scripture, "Therefore there is now NO condemination" ... there is the word NO...NO CONDEMINATION - none, zilch, natta, zero ... I am not to condem myself (or others for that matter) and now I needed to chew on the last part, "for those who are in Christ Jesus"....

Chewin on the Word - May 4, 2013

Ok, let me say from yesterday - the incident that occured was not a single thing - but what it did was bring up everything else from my past - things that I allowed to define who I was and note I always picked the negative things to define who I was - I did not feel worthy of the others until .... God truly brought Romans 8:1 & 2 to life for me...but even with Romans 8:1 that had been give to me years ago ... "Therefore there is now no condimination for those who are in Christ Jesus"... it wasn't until recently that he brought them up to me again ..."Therefore there is now no condimaination for those who are in Christ Jesus"... no condimination ... I had to really chew on those words ... to be continued.....

On the Road to Victory ... May 3, 2013

A couple years ago March of 2011 to be exact my life was turned up side down - now thanks to God and the people he placed in my life it is upside right again. In March some words were spoke of me that tore me to the core - the sad thing with this is they were spoke by someone who did not know me or the circumstances/struggles I was going through - but the power of our words can be and was overwhelming. I gave life to these words and started believing these words - and it caused great stress in me and my family - oh how satan works - for Gods word tells us in Ephesians 6 "Put on the full armour of God so that you can take your stand agains the devils' schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against te authorities, against the powers of the darkworld and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavely realms." Thanks be to God he is teaching me how to overcome, and I have overcome .... VICTORY...I will tell more about how I overcame tomorrow ....

Time Past

Wow, has it really been almost a year ... blogging is not easy, I am just lazy or I need to get over the fact that others may read my post ... dah is that not why we blogg... So my last post was April 1, 2012 ... today is Januray 19, 2013 and a lot has happened in this time. I recovered from my stress fracture that occured in March. My son left for the Marines, I went out and to his graduation from bootcamp and I now have a Marine for a son that was in June. End of July went back to CA to see my Marine graduated from SOI. I made a few trips to CA this past year ... went back out in October to hang out for his birthday. In my previous blog I had stated that I was training to run a marathon, I did it on October 20, 2012 very exciting day for me. It was tough and my hamstring started talking very loud to me around mile 16 and slow as I may have been I finished in 5 hours and 40 min. Very proud of myself for doing this. I must tell you during this whole time my husband has been deployed, he left on the 3rd of February. It was hard not having him home to see this accomplishment and share the joy with him, but he was with me in my heart. In December you will never guess where I went - lol - back to CA this time to see my son graduate from his MOS school BUT not only that - my husband was back in country and for the first time in 11 months I had my boys together at the same time. On the 22nd of December my husband got to come home and wow has it been great having him back!! I started this year of by going to Florida and running in the Disney half marathon challenge - that means on Saturday the 12th of January ran a half marathon and then on Sunday the 13th of Januray I completed a full marathon. Now I will be very honest and tell you my times were so very slow ... but I completed it and at the end I received the Goofy Medal (along with Donald for the half and Mickey for the full). Quite proud of myself. This year already has a half marathon in its future with several other runs to come. This year is going to be a year full of change and i am going to use this spot to help hold me accountable so you can help hold me accountable by following along and I will challenge you to make some changes also. Every year I start the year off with a 21-day prayer fast and this year will be no different. I will be praying for several people, for several different things, for clariety, strength, knowledge, wisdom and understanding in this journey of life. I will also as I stated last year continue to focus on nutrition and exercise. I will contine with a couple Bible studies and you will probalby hear about them also. The nutrition is the part I struggle with the most and this year I am going to try and incorporate more raw into my husband and I's life style (don't tell him). Well this is enough chitter chatter for tonight. I hope that I can be better and be on here consistently - if anything for me. Good to get the things out of my head - look forward to hearing some response - positive, encouraging response - makes for a better place.