Love

Once a heart that beat rapidly at the thought of love, with time, hurt, and rejection, now guards it's self and has become untrusting. 

What God can mean to be a beautiful thing can become corrupt, and hurtful. What was meant to be a treasure can quickly become tarnished.

Just as people make messes out of things, God designs miraculous lives.  He takes the messes and brokenness of  our lives and creates peaceful things of beauty.  God's glue is called forgiveness and love.  His glue will outlast any other form of glue that we as mortals try to create.

So I look at things from a different angle today.  I don't stress it or question it.  What seems as though  it could never be or ever work....is in the hands of a miracle working God.  If he wants to heal whats broke, then it will be far greater than my mind could ever imagine. If he chooses to replace it, then it will be much better.  

Leaving love, and my future in the hands of the one that created the earth, heavens, and all things, is easy.  For I know God doesn't make mistakes.   He fixes them.  

Isolation

In most of all the tests and trials I have walked through, one of the biggest things satan wanted to accomplish was to isolate me from God's people and from God.  He wanted me to be so wounded that I hated the afflictions of God's people and then become angry with God for allowing it to happen.


It took me to time realize who was causing those afflictions.  When I realized God was truly for me, then I released my anger towards him and began to fight the true enemy.


When satan separates you from God's people, you stand alone.  You don't have encouragement or anyone to remind you of who you are in God.  


That is why it is so important to surround yourself with people that are on fire for God because when the enemy attacks you have a mighty force standing WITH you.


If you allow God, he can heal, restore and renew you. He will give you discernment to know who is walking with God and those that are not.  


God does not cause evil things to come to your life, satan does, but God will use them to help you grow strong and bring glory to the Kingdom.  He will build a ministry from your mess if you allow him.  

Miracle Monday

Welcome to Miracle Monday.  You awoke, which means purpose and destiny are still attached to you.  God has plans for you, no matter what the devil has told you.


So get up with confidence, knowing God is guarding you.  He wants to see you be all you were created to be.  


The very thing you thought would kill you....has made you strong, wise, and prepared for today.


May your Monday explode with miracles!

Momma

Happy Mothers's Day to my beautiful Momma, Betty J. Sumner.  She survived her brain bleeding.  God worked a miracle in her and we are so honored to have her with us.

She has been a Woman of prayer, fasting, and God's word.  She not only taught us but lived it.  When sickness or trouble came Momma was on it, with prayer.

I am so thankful to have had my children to know such a Queen of God's word.

A Woman's Mind

We must equip our daughters to face many giants.  satan knows we are vessels that God uses to birth many things.  We birth great Men and Women for God.  We birth visions, and dreams.  So satan wants to distort our minds.  He wants to make us low self esteem and make us to feel that we are incapable of doing what we were designed to do.  That we have't to settle for less than what God has for us.  That we have't to stay in the mess that satan planned for us to get swolled up in.


satan will use, abuse, rape, neglect, abandonment, poverty, issues....to mess with our minds.  I am a product of these attacks.


Great news is...."God is the restorer".  He has taken me from a victim mentality to a victorious mind set.  God is amazing. I once couldn't hardly lift my head because of hurt, rejection and shame.  Now I KNOW who I am in God.


God will turn the very thing that satan meant to destroy you with, and turn it into your ministry of hope for others.  That is how God turns ashes to beauty.  satan comes to kill, steal and destroy.  God comes to give life and give it more abundant.  God does not require us to live in any form of abuse.  I am so thankful that God will take hurts, wounds and mess and turn it into a Miracle.


My life is not perfect but God has brought me so far.  Daily I walk toward all God meant for my life.  

Simplicity

In a world of high technology, fancy everything, sky rises....it is less often that we take a road of things in a simple form.  


Often we seek places to go and things to do.  Instead of a quiet day watching nature and listening to the birds.  


What I have found though, is that it is in the simple flight of a butterfly, that I feel free.  In the singing of a bird that I hear praise.  In the rustle of trees that I realize how amazing the wind is.  I  can see God in so many things.  He created it all and you can see clearly, God's signature everywhere. 

Stress

Everyone has different ways to deal with stress.  The key is finding that way and utilizing it.

For me in the situation I am in now...I garden.  I am growing a vegetable garden.  It is therapy for me.  It is quiet outside so it gives me time to think and relax even though I am working.

I also do a journal to help release concerns and activities of the day.

Bottling thoughts and feelings up can create ulcers in your stomach and sometimes even bring on depression.   So learning to  find ways to regroup it is good for you not only in health, but mentally.

Here are some suggestions....

Reading, walking, swimming, gardening, exercise, writing rather journal or a book, time at a park or beach, vacation, games, watching movies, music, prayer, reading God's word, talking to a close friend, enjoying a pet.

Whatever your choice, enjoy it and don't sweat the small stuff.  Things that seem huge today in a month or two probably won't matter.