There is a Time for Every Season Under Heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1

As the years have gathered my days, I've grown. I have come to a point in my life where I truly enjoy God! I let Him love me and I love Him back! I let Him comfort me and I then go and comfort others. I don't blame God any more but, I see Him in everything! The journey IS life, we will never arrive as long as we walk on this earth so I've learned to see each day, each moment as a chapter in my life's journal whether it be a great day or a dark season, God is in it with me.

I'm also aware that the enemy is always prowling about with one mission in mind, to rob me of my joy and to get me to doubt God. There are times when I lend ear to the whispered lies and I become ensnared. Not for the long lengths of time as when I was younger and thought God was responsible for pain and suffering. I've grown in the grace and knowledge of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and I find myself falling much less and for shorter periods of time. That's because I read God's Word each day and I have a personal relationship with Him!

I have struggled with worthlessness because of the things that happened to me in my life. Growing and healing is a process and He is teaching me about many things that I look forward to sharing! This blog is a place for my thoughts to find their voice! I hope you enjoy visiting here just as if you were going to a friends house.

Jesusdeevah is a name I chose because it reminds me that I am set apart, special, precious and treasured by my Father in Heaven! So much that He sent His only beloved Son, Jesus, to suffer and die for me! Then, on the third day He rose from the grave and conquered sin and death so that I could be with Him forever! The lie is that I'm worthless, the truth is that I am worth dying for!

John 3:16,17... For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life! God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it but to save it!

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Thursday, September 21, 2017

You Don't Own Me

My first instinct when I'm wronged or someone I love is wronged is to get defensive. As I've matured in the Lord I have taken note that my defensiveness diminishes quickly and my heart sees the offender more as a broken person rather than someone to be despised. I am much quicker to pray than to curse one of God's creations now. That's not to say we don't need to use wisdom when we are dealing with an offender. Forgiveness does not mean we go running toward the problem! Forgiveness is an act of the heart that sets you free of any strongholds or bondage that the situation could have held you in. Without forgiveness we are just prisoners in chains. We are to release ourselves from the chains and through that freedom others will see the power and glory of God! His Love has no boundaries so it can travel much further and deeper than our hatred. Also, the work that His love can accomplish far surpasses all the damage that our resentment ever could.That is precisely why we are not to hold on to the situation but we are called to give our burdens to Him. God's love covers a multitude of sins and can change any willing heart. We are not the Savior, He is. It's not our job to fix someone else. It's our job to place them through prayer into the presence of God so He can love them. Our act of love is to set all involved free through forgiveness. To God be the glory!

Mark 11:26, "But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."

That scripture alone propels me into obedience to God's request. The gate to heaven is narrow, which means we cannot fit through it if we are carrying anger, resentment, bitterness... Let's be sure that our hearts and souls are not tethered to the pole of bondage. I choose FREEDOM IN CHRIST. No one owns me but Him.
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