Every Love Story

I once saw a saying on a back of an IPhone case and I immediately loved it:



 

Every Love Story is Beautiful,

But Ours is My Favorite

 

Do you have a love story? Do you have someone in your life that makes everything worth while?

Is there someone in your life giving you a reason to wake up and face the day? Is there someone who you can't stop thinking about or is receiving much of your attention minute after minute? Is there someone who you think you can't live without and if they were to leave, you would just die?

 

Seeing it is Valentines Day and the world is focused on love, I would like to add my two cents in worth. I have someone who makes my heart stop when he looks at me. I have someone who isn't embarrassed in being seen in public with me. I have that someone special who thinks I'm the most beautiful woman in the world and doesn't think I need to change a thing. I have a prince of a man who comes home to me every night and patiently waits for me to start the adventure of life out with him each morning.

 

He's become my soul mate and my best friend. No matter what happens around us, I now know I can count on him. I wouldn't change my life with him no matter. It hasn't been the easy but I can now tell you it's been well worth it and we are moving into a time in our lives where we are moving in agreement, friendship, and a greater, deeper love.

 

The problem: Others. What others think about our relationship. Family members who can't stand one of us. Confidence in our self so we can rise above those who talk and judge us.

 

Solution: Growing deeper in love and allowing God's love to reign supreme in our relationship. For without the greatest Lover, Friend, Counselor, Companion, and the Savior of all time we would not be celebrating this Valentines Day as a couple.

 

In fact, we would probably be Divorce Court or the Jerry Springer Show screaming at each other like a banshee. We have had so many ups and downs in our marriage it is indeed a miracle we still like each other.

 

So, if you are like how we were just a year ago, hating your spouse, disappointed in one another, and the trust has flown out the window, may I suggest you turn to the Greatest Valentine to ever to walk the face of the earth. He's waiting for you to ask Him to come into your love life and change it upside down. Believe me, it will be worth it for in the end, isn't it for He's Glory anyway?

 

God Bless.

Time Off

There comes a time when you need to take some time off to get your life in perspective. I have to admit, I may have gone a little overboard. I may have been boarding on a deep depression and if I would have allowed myself to go there, I am not sure I would be able to return to the living.

There may have been even times when I allowed myself to pray that God would take my life for I wondered what the point to it was anyway. I can honestly say, I only have myself to blame. I have a dream. But unlike Martin Luther King, I am not willing to lay down my life for it.

I know what I just said before and yes, I have contradicted myself. You see, I was having a pity party and usually when a person has a pity party, they say things they don't really mean. Unlike Martin's version, I am not willing to let go of everything I believe in for my cause.

However, I am willing to get back onto the saddle again, allowing God to take the ropes, start back from where I left off, conquer some fears and misconceptions I have about me. I am now one step closer to not allowing what people think about or say about me bother me.


So I am going to take it one day at a time. Rest when I need to and see where this all takes me.

God Bless.

100 Days of Scriptures of Encouragement: Day 100

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

It's been a fun 100 days and I've learned a lot. This is a perfect verse to end on. Nothing needs more to be said.

HE'S OUR REFUGE AND OUR STRENGTH AND HELP IN TIMES OF TROUBLE.

Why? Because He loves you! Trust in Him and you can't go wrong. Let Him lead you and guide you into a special place in Him. Embrace your troubles and brake free into the other side.

You are loved. He has died for you. He gave His word just for you. Live, breath it, and abide in it, and who knows, I just might be your neighbor in eternity!

God Bless.

100 Days of Scriptures of Encouragement: Day 99

Psalm 9:9

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

He doesn't forget you. He see's your trouble. He's provided a way out. Take it, read it, brand it into your heart. Trust in it. Rely upon it, and rest in knowing He's all your ever going to need.

No one else on the face of this earth knows what your going through, how you feel, or what you've been through because He has seen your who life pass before Him. He doesn't sleep. He never rest. He's always working things out for your benefit.

He loves you! He's name is the Most High. He's the King of King and Lord of Lords. He's the soon coming King, He's the Messiah. He's the conquerer. He's your guide. He's the Alpha and the Omega. He's the Lover of your soul.

He's Jesus. The Son of God who die just for you. He looked ahead into your future and said, "Lay the burdens on me, Father." He did it all. He loves You!

He'll be your refuge. Test Him and see.

God Bless.

100 Days of Scriptures of Encouragement: Day 98

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

Thank You, Father, for You willingness to comfort me. Thank You Father for everything and that I shall be in eternity with You.

Thank You, Father, that I don't fully understand what You are trying to say in this scripture that You will give each person their own interpertation of what You want to tell them in these words.

Bless them, Father, as they read this encouragement day. Remind them that You haven't given them a spirit of fear and remind them of the hope they have in You as they trust in You to bring them through to the other side.

Amen,

God Bless.

100 Days of Scriptures of Encouragement: Day 97

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Thank heaven your not God. Better yet, thank heaven's I'm not God. Thank heaven's God is God and He spreads out His grace to reach every last sinner.

Thank Heaven's God is paitent and He doesn't get upset because not everyone is a Kenneth Copeland or a Benny Hinn.

Thank heavens He is willing to meet me and guide me and draw me to Him where I'm at.

Do I long for a greater walk and a higher faith in Him? Of course. I press on towards the mark of my high calling and I work out my own salvation with fear and trembling. If I'm doing that for myself, I don't have time to judge you and if your doing what your suppose to be doing then you don't have time to judge me.

I don't want your trails and tribulations, and you sure as heck don't want mine for they are a handful. I'm not out to make it appear I know or think I'm better than you, I, just like you, is trying (not so good grammer) to just make it and get through my time on earth. (By the way, I'm being raptured. I don't know about you.)

Yeah, I'm no miss know it all, but what I do know is your my brother, or sister, and together, we can agree to move mountains and reap the benefits of eternity with our Savior.

God Bless.

100 Days of Scriptures of Encouragement: Day 96

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Have you ever thought about how it is possible for Go to see every thing that happens in the world whether it be good or bad?

Because He's all onimotent and He never sleeps or slumpers. Wow, I have a hard time keeping my eyes awake to read my bible and to think God never sleeps and He sees all? Amazing.

It's also amazing how I know this and still do the things I do. After all, God's watching and a cloud of witnesses are watching my ever move too. Its scary how I can pass that thought from my mind. It's even scarier how those thoughts never cross my mind until I've done something I know not to do.

If I really blieved the bible like I do, than I should be aware of His presence in my life at at times. But I'm human, living in this fleshy body who wants its own way and throws a fit when the spiritual man arises within me.

Yep, God sees everything good and evil and strangely that's comforting to me. If He sees the bad, then He sees the good and He sees where I am at in life and what my needs are. More importantly, He sees my heart.

He sees a heart that longs to abide in Him day in and day out, every moment and second of the day. He sees my hurts and the pain words have caused me and the evil that has come my way from satan and his dimionions as well as from people who say they love me.

Indeed, He is the God who takes note of the good and the evil in this world and He's even more concerned about a girl in a small town in Ohio who struggles with life and her sins but yet crys out, "have mercy on me, Father, for I have sinned." And the amazing part is, He sees you right where you at and still calls you by name and commands the angels to protect us and sends the Holy Spirit to lead us into a right relationship with the God of the universe.

God Bless.