He makes a way! Trusting God and His process!

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2 Timothy 1:7 for God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.

Romans 13:1 let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Romans 12:2 do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is; his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 3:5-6 trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him and he will make your paths straight.

Isaiah 43:16-19 this is what the Lord says, he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters.  Who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick. Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up, do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

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#Hemadeaway
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Peace and blessings wonderful people! Remember to walk in Your purpose!

Slump

I have been in a serious slump all week and I have not a clue why.  What I do know is that if I don't put forth the effort to get myself out of it then it will last a lot longer and morph into depression and inactivity.  That is not the journey or job that God has for me at this point in His assignment for me.

One of the things I have learned is that we only sink as far as we allow ourselves to sink.  If God has given us a task and we don't do it because we don't have the energy it is not His fault when we slide into depression.  I have been down that out before and it wasn't pretty so I now know what I need to do to come out of it; pray and move, move and pray.  Not get too comfortable in the funk of it and move it out of the way. 

For those feeling less than 100% and you are not sure why, don't sit trying to figure it out for too long, just ask God for guidance and help with climbing out of it and then climb out of it.  Pray and move, move and pray.  He is always there and always helping but you have to allow Him in when He knocks.

Peace and blessings wonderful people!

Walk in your purpose!

Jai Ar

there is a blessing in obedience

there is a blessing in obedience.  when I was younger and my mother would tell me to do what she said or else, I did it because she was mom and I didn't want a beat down or to be on punishment.  when I was told to do what the teacher told me to do in class, I did it because they were the teachers and I didn't want a bad grade or be sent to the disciplinarian's office or worse, have my mother find out.  for my obedience in either case the reward was always better than the punishment, of course.  I got to stay up later, got to watch tv a little longer or got to go outside and play when I did what my mother said.  I would get an "A" or "B" on a test or got to be the teacher's helper when I did what the teacher said.


I had not made the correlation between my training in obedience as a child or younger person to the task of being obedient as an adult in this growing and maturing relationship that I have with the Father.  the reward for obedience is so much greater than the consequences of not being obedient to His call on my life.  when you know better you do better.


there is a blessing in obedience. 

peace and blessings GoOD people!

jai ar

my true Source

I was thinking yesterday how truly blessed I am and about the lessons I've learned in the five months that I've been out of work, by the world's standards.

I remember some time ago while talking with a former co-worker about a mutual friend that I could not understand why this friend who was/is a single mother was always giving this co-worker money although she was married.  one of the things I would say is "you have a husband, why is she giving to you when she is single and struggling herself?".   this co-worker said the same thing and that she would turn down the money often because she knew our friend needed it more than she did.

one of the things that my reflections showed me yesterday is that when I was not married, I would not borrow money.  I felt if I didn't have it, I didn't have it and whatever I was trying to buy or pay would have to wait.  now I am married and when we had two incomes coming in we borrowed money at least three times, one of those times was when I made a considerable amount more than I did when we first married.  that bothered me because we had two incomes coming in and if we couldn't make it work with that then we didn't need to buy or pay whatever it was we were borrowing the money for and something bigger was wrong in our finances.

fast forward to today, still married, but now unemployed.  my husband makes only a few pennies more than what he did two years ago because his employer doesn't believe in giving true raises.  during this time we have not once needed to borrow money, we have had people offer to lend us money because they realize what a hardship this is, but we have not asked for any money.  our rent is still paid, may have been late a couple of times.  we still have food to eat everyday, may not be what we really want but we eat.  we still have our vehicle although we have not paid a full car note in five months.  some may ask how is this possible but there is no doubt in my mind at all.

the only way we are still above water, the only reason that we still have the necessities, luxuries and amenities that we have is because we are solely relying on our true source for all and everything we need.  we are relying on God to make all of this happen.  we look to Him for everything and I personally thank Him for this time because it is showing us so much about who He is in general and who He is to us personally.  I thank Him for what He is about to do in our lives because I know that at the end of this journey, at the end of this struggle that I have to honestly say does not always feel like a struggle, He has a blessing for us.  there is a blessing in the lesson. 

He is our provider, our healer, our counselor, our way maker and with Him we can/I can make it through to the end of this situation and walk faithfully into the blessing awaiting me.

The words that I can hang on to and trust are in Matthew 6:25-34 KJV therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.  is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment?  26 behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.  are ye not much better than they?  27 which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?  28 and why take ye thought for raiment?  consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon is all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  30 wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, oh ye of little faith?  31 therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat?  or what shall we drink? or wherewithal shall we be clothed?  32 for after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  33 but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.  34 take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

 

peace and blessings wonderful people!

 

jai ar

deliverance

I thank God for His deliverance over my life.  I thank Him for being who He is in my life and who He has been in my life, even when I didn't acknowledge Him.

I had to start there before I wrote anything else.  i may have said this before in a previous blog but this bears repeating.  several years ago God charged me to write my life story and i started it but didn't get far.  He has now charged me to write another book, which is in the process, and while i'm pulling that one together i decided to go over my minimal notes from the first book and in reading what i wrote before i have to thank God for deliverance because my mind was so scattered.  i am telling you, the notes within the notes emphasized how unsettled my spirit was.

because my mind was so all over the place i have to start this book over because even though a few sentences make sense, it's just too far all over the place to even think that it can be used in it's entirety.  i thank God that He has kept my mind, i thank Him that He has kept my spirit, that He has kept this gift that He put in me for Him so that i may bring it all to fruition as His vessel.  i thank Him for keeping the blessings He has for me because of this gift, because now that i am being obedient to Him in every thing He tells me to do He is going to release those blessings in abundance.

i love my God, my Savior, my Healer, the lover of my soul and i thank Him for every part of my life and for every lesson it has taught me.

peace and blessings wonderful people!

jai ar

Matthew Deuteronomy and Job

over the last few days I have been reading these three books in the bible; reading about how Jesus knew His fate from the start and went into the crucifixion for us and the resurrection for us.  How Moses had guided the chosen people from Egypt and how they betrayed and angered God during those travels, how Job was so faithful to God that even while tested and his loss he still trusted God for his restoration.

yesterday this statement rested on me; if the one can do it for many why can't the many do it for the one?  now I have to admit that I was initially thinking in a selfish way because i'd spent the entire day at mercy hospital with my grandparents for various reasons.  I was thinking how I am the one that my family relies on to get things done, I am the go to person, if anything needs to be researched or answered they come to me and at times that is a heavy cross to bear because it taps into my immediate family time and my own personal desires.

but this morning as I was reading how Jesus rose from the dead on the third day as He had promised and how Moses had pleaded to God not to destroy the people that he'd led out of Egypt to and subsequently forfeit on His promise to those same people and how Job had still believed God for his restoration although he had lost everything it hit me that the statement was not about me and my selfish thoughts but about Jesus.

God created man to fulfill His desires for man and we failed so He created Jesus.  He created Jesus solely for the purpose of saving our souls that we were so happy to toss in the fire as we formed golden statues to worship.  we who complained about how long it took us to get from point a to point b when in fact we were the cause of the delay.  Jesus took on our sins, took on our illnesses, took on our complaining and doubts and fear and disbelief and He allowed Himself to be betrayed and beaten, He allowed Himself to be hung on that cross between two thieves, He allowed Himself to be ridiculed, mocked and cursed just for the sake of our pitiful souls.

so the question remains; if the One can do it for many why can't the many do it for the One?

peace and blessings wonderful people,

jai ar

Amazed

He is connecting the dots and the image of His Glory is becoming clearer as He moves through my life.   I thank God for the  spirit of obedience. Had I not obeyed His call and assignment I would be in a totally different mental and spiritual mindset.

I am amazed by all of the things that God is showing me, by everything that He is doing.  My excitement is hard to contain!

Several years ago while I was still in my messy state, but easing my way out, God placed on me the assignment of writing a book about my life.  He said that my life will encourage others, it will help them to see that someone else has gone through some tough and treacherous times but I continued to turn to Him for hope and help and made it through.

I started that book and then made the choice to put it down, my thinking was I would wait until the grandparents were gone because they were not aware of all that happened, that I would wait until the kids were older because they would better understand. That excuse satisfied me but not God, He allowed me the reprieve.

Later He put in me the assignment of mentoring/counseling or I should say life coaching but I had convinced myself that I could not do that because I didn't have the education, I didn't have the knowledge.   That excuse satisfied me but not God, He allowed me a slight reprieve.  Not long after He put it back on me and I gave the same excuses, thankfully I was working for a company that would pay fir my education so I a ent back to school thinking that was the solution.  However I then had not time or energy to work on what He wanted me to do.

Let me say this; whatever God wants you to do for His Kingdom, for His Glory, believe me He will make sure you do it.

So because I had no time or energy to give to what God had expressly directed me to do He made sure I no longer had those obstacles and since I have finally gotten an understanding, I finally say yes to whatever He tells me to do things have really been moving in the right direction.

There is so much more to share and I will later.

Peace and blessings wonderful people!

Jai ar

the light gets brighter

this morning while on my prayer call we were led to this verse:  Matthew 18:20 "for where there are two or three gathered together in name, there am I in the midst of them" KJV

what came to my heart/spirit immediately is the image of individual lights turning on and as they come on one by one they make the area brighter.  Psalm 119:105 says "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" KJV

God is light, He brings light, His life and word are light.  He is in us, He lives and dwells in us and as we continue to open ourselves to Him we are each individually, light sources.  As we continue to connect with likeminded spirits, followers (true followers) of Christ and as we continue to grow in Him and He in us, we bring our lights together and with each light that enters into the space the darkness dissipates (goes away) and the light gets brighter.  I said on the call this morning that this particular group of women/sisters/believers of and in Christ is a force to be reckoned with and we are going to shine so bright that those who do not believe will have to wear shades at night.

The next year is about to be one of our greatest years, God is about to do some awesome things in our lives as individuals and collectively because He has already started the work in the last quarter of this year, or should I say we have finally been obedient in starting the work He has given us.

I love what God is doing and is about to do in my life and the lives of those that I am connected with and I pray that He opens me up and strengthens my spirit of discernment, wisdom and obedience so that when the time comes I will know who is not of Him, I will know what to do with and for them and I will follow His every instruction.  My God is so awesome.

Peace and blessings wonderful people!

Jai Ar