Journal of Faith: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Philippians 2:12

I shared part of my story with a group at church today and realized that forgiveness is a choice not made once, but over and over again.  I chose a long time ago to forgive myself for my bad decisions, but I find myself having to be reminded that I forgave myself.  I know now that every time I start to get mad at myself again I have to forgive again.  Yes I have to forgive myself for the same thing again.  Hopefully one day I will be done with forgiving myself for fornicating.  For anyone who doesn't know what fornication means it's having sex while unmarried.  I stopped doing that a long time ago, but I still have to keep forgiving myself for it.  There are other things in my life too that keep climbing back into my consciousness and emotions, but I just remind myself of the free forgiveness that I already have from the Lord and the forgiveness that I am maintaining for myself.  If any of you are like me, even though...

This woman totally told my story.  Be blessed singles

In the Bible it talks about going from faith to faith.  That is what I want to do this year in every area of my life.  As I trust God for things and he does them it grows my assurance that he will do the next thing.  As I continue in my Bible reading (I am still working out my faith)  I am going to look for declarations that God makes.  If God says to do something and he will do something else, I am going to try it.  I will of course be journaling this process.  How about you?  Do you want to grow your faith seed this year?  By 2014 I know that wonderful stories are going to be cronicled because God doesn't half keep his promises.  I am going from faith to faith.  Oh taste and see that the Lord is good.  I am growing and my fruit is going to show it. 

I am one of those people who tries to help everyone else and then just hopes that others will catch the Faith bug and have the same mind about me that I have about them.  I have spent so much time being disappointed and angry because I felt like everyone should think about community living the way that I do.  Recently I realized that I was trying to get others to be me.  I has costed me time, money, energy, and quality of relationships.  I didn't realize it, but I was trying to mold others into what I wanted and leaving critical needs of my life unmet.  I was being very unloving to myself and those around me.  What I thought was sharing love turned into shared resentment and emotional abuse. Fortunately when we reach the point of reflection God is waiting there with the wisdom and encouragement that we need.  I see now that God can use me to nurture myself.  I don't have to depend on a person to water me and I shouldn't.  Last year I w...

I love to love people, and it doesn't take an excuse for me to show how special I think people are.  As a single woman people tend to feel sad for me on Valentine's Day, but I disagree with that stance.  I am loved every day by the best in the business.  There is no question as to whether I am loved, the only thought that I have now is how I can show others that they are loved.  Valentine's Day for me is not about receiving love but giving it, and there is no shortage of people to love in this world.  In case you aren't sure if anyone loves you.........................I know at least 3 who do.  God, Jesus, and me!!!!  Have a great Valentine's Day everyone!!!!  I'm off to go hug, kiss, and smile at people.                                         ...

"To live is Christ but to die is gain." - This is what Paul says concerning his walk with the Lord.  Today I was thinking about the blessing of the end of our lives.  When we choose salvation through Jesus Christ death is our door to reward for a job well done.  If we take our Christian walk seriously and aproach our descipleship with intent we are running a race that will kill every part of us that isn't part of our eternal identity.  The closer we draw to the son(sun) the more our qualities come under fire. There are many times in my Christian walk that I thought this life was killing me, but it is a relief to know that the peaces of me that are burned up reveal something greater. When everything else is burned away the most beautiful parts of ourselves will be left gleaming to the reflection of our Lord.  This can only happen when we break out of our clay shells to become the eternal being that God intended....