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Date: Sunday June 6, 2021
Meditation
Opportunities Daily Verse
Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV) @BIBLEGATEWAY.COM
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Soul Vibes (YouTube.Com)
6-5-2021 Collide
wk. 1 Stand Firm (New Life Christian Church Spring Hill-Facebook live watch)
Meditation
Opportunities Daily Devotion
@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories
@Sarah Young)
Psalm 105:4 Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his
face always.
Psalm 19:1-2 The heavens declare the glory of God; the
skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth
speech; night after night they display
knowledge.
Isaiah 60:2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick
darkness is over the people, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears
over you.
Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
What happens when grief, overwhelming sorry
or being stuck just takes over. Keeping
you up at night, breaking you down out of nowhere. Shutting you off so you do not have to feel?
Those catch phrases in
a favorite song or the rhythm and beats that keep us moving and on the edge of
our seats. WHEN LIFE IS HARD
- Powerful Motivational Speech
I myself am learning something new every
day. Realizing when I start working
something or on something that I have never done before and I achieve it and no
longer get mad or wrecked because I cannot figure it out in the first ten minutes. When something is so heavy, and I need to
move it and I don’t know how to make it happen. Not just physical furniture or stuff but
that stuff that takes your heart, your mind, and your spirit to move it. What spirit calls you out and drives
you. Even if you fail what is it that
motivates you to keep going. Oceans (Where Feet
May Fail) - Hillsong United lyrics
We need to stand firm in what we
believe. Be it my God, Jesus, Jehovah Jira,
or the many other names found in the Bible.
Or something else that the world offers. I believe there many paths and doors that
lead us back to the one true God. But
we all get there in our own time when we finally are ready. The Stand -
Hillsong
We all have to that low point in our lives, rock
bottom and we all own the need to want change.
We cannot force it on anyone like as parents or adults we try to do for our
kids or loved one’s.
We cannot hate because
they over there are not on the same path we are in our own here and now individual
paths. Have you ever really taken time
to learn who someone is? Beyond a name,
have you figured out what even a chapter of their story may be? What might be what makes them shine, shut
down or just be or do what they do.
More than 5 seconds of hi
how you are doing? Just the thought for
some of anyone coming up to them and asking or even talking to them, well, that
scares the heck out of people.
Many do not want others to know that they are
just as broken as the person next to them.
They do not want to let others know they have it all together; when in
truth they are really striving and starving in some cases just to breathe daily
in life.
We are all great
pretenders in everyday life. Hiding the
wants and desires or even what we have been doing. Especially if we have grown addicted to turning
to the wrong people and wrong things to get us by.
We are all human right;
but the question to yourself is who or what do you put your everything in to be
sustained and given the strength to get back up and keep going? Who or what do you allow control each day
you are blessed to get back up?
Some days I even ask myself;
even as I give thanks before hitting my feet to the floor. I wonder and sometimes think to much on just
how or what I should consider, do, or drive towards, when the world is spinning
so out of control all around me. Or even
those days that I have over done something and cannot hardly move because I
just kept pushing and not waiting on or asking for help.
It really does not
matter even if it hurts, in all honesty no matter what any of us think we all
have a birth stamp in and we all will have a time stamp out.
That illusion of
control we think we have on any day we are given. Well, it is just that.
Doesn’t make sense to
figure out what our own circle of influence of where we do have control can be
or will be?
The feeling of power
and ecstasy we feel when we have achieved all that good, that something; or even
that someone we have obsessed with or even dreamed about that finally comes to
life and things are as you imagine. Mack Brock - Still In Control
But what happens when
we put all we are into it, those things, or places or even places and it all
falls apart?
Have we made ourselves
slaves to the pain, the hurt, the hang-ups we created or allowed to rub off on us? All the doubt or excuses we listen to. All of that which drives fear that paralyzes
us, making us think or feel we cannot, or our worth would never allow such things. Yet how wrong we are when we do not believe we
are truly all children of God and every living breathing being has been created
in the Lords image. We never have to
be slaves of our own minds or that of others.
Not when the same freedom of choice and will has been given for us to
stand up and hold tight to who and what Christ was all about and who we can be because
of that. Zach Williams - No Longer Slaves (Live
from Harding Prison)
Do we hold tight to the
promise and control of the creator and the reason his one and only son went to
the cross to suffer, die only for him to live again three days later and
eternally with, in and for us. Or do
we just roll with whatever tide is rolling in and out on the path we are walking
on.
Do you believe in God? Do you believe in John 3:16 (NIV) @BIBLEGATEWAY.COM 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
What is it that drives
you each day? What is it that you are
standing firm on? What is it that keeps
you where you are even when you are not feeling it! Whatever IT might be for that season.
What is your life like
when thinking about love, life, and laughter ever after?
I remember as a kid
really liking someone, and I have been writing since I was old enough to learn
how to hold a pen or pencil. But my so-called
friends I hung out with back in the day wanted to know what I was writing one
time and remembering that I was very hesitant on showing them. Then when I did; they destroyed me. I remember leaving their house in tears,
wandering in the dark and it was the first time I had ever been to their house
out in West Sand Lake. Hitch hiking a
skinny 14–15-year-old kid trying to find my way home. I was blessed with the good Lord watching
over me; yes, I was under the influence.
When I was young with no family around, I drank and did things I thankfully
grew out of before becoming a statistic.
But I stranger stopped and picked me up and anything could have happened
that night. Yet he took me back to
where I was trying to go without incident.
One of the many times
my confidence and trust in people that we think we know pulled everything I was
right out from under me. Later as the
years went by, I learned what happened to those people. Becoming an alcoholic divorced and actually
having sons that went to prison. Well, their
kids turned out to not be very good soul contributors to the world and they
fell in the bucket of lost statistics.
It doesn’t make me feel
any better or put that notch that was cut out of me back then back into
place. In fact, over the years, I
learned over and over that you can know someone all your life and never really
know that person.
Everyone has a story,
and everyone is either pretending to be something, someone else or they are
battling the demons to just be alive.
The unfortunate circumstances
of yesterday and all those that we are allowed to cross paths with, connect or
even have scars or give scars. They are
all blessings and lessons in the journey we are allowed.
The sun will shine
after every storm. We just have to be
patient and have faith in all that is good to see the growth. As it is said by @tobymac #SpeakLife “We
don’t have to agree on anything; to be kind to one another.”
So, what does that have to do with scars, patience,
and faith? Everything! My heart could have hardened easily knowing
that I was a throw away kid or the fact I
tried so hard my entire youth journey just to find me and be something
worthwhile even when I thought I would only have that if I could have someone
just love me.
My story and pieces of
me over time is just it; pieces of my story and who I am. We all have some the same but different or
maybe there are those that have pieces exactly the same.
What are we doing with
it? I guess that is the point I am
heading to. What are we doing with all
of the yesterdays that are gone? Are
we allowing our scars to heal? Or are we
festering and purposely going to make someone pay for what others have done or
we have allowed them to do?
Let it go whatever it
is! Let it hurt and gain from the pain
and grow forward! Let it heal and see who you really are in the eyes of the creator!
I don’t know what that
looks like for you, heck I do not even know what that still looks like for me. But I believe in all I am, and I am doing my
best with all I am given. We have to
purpose to be a good person no matter what we feel. We have to purpose to let go and drive for
that harmony that change allows. We are
not promised tomorrow, so we need to live and make the best of the life we have
and appreciate every breath and movement we are given.
In the blink of an eye
or the whisp of the wind everything can change.
I can assure you even
if you are not feeling the blessings of your life right now. You are blessed. From every broken heart, broken bone, scar
internally or on the surface, from wandering into the night, out of the woods or
being robbed of hope and promise and made to grow up in darkness or becoming
darkness because we allow loneliness make us believe we are truly alone. So, we become or do things to fight how that
makes us feel.
We are never alone,
never have been. Jesus is right there
waiting for you to call upon him every moment of every day. Not just during the bad, but the good and learning
who He is and who the father is.
I will never fully
understand that which was, or how I am favored but I know the scars I am thankful
for and the fact I would have never learned who Jesus is and the Fathers heart.
Even when it hurts Got
was, is and always will be and we are all here for more than what the world can
give or take away. Know that you are
loved and fully known! Believe in
yourself and believe in Christ the one and only who went through pain beyond comprehension
and sacrifice that we could never live up to. For the greater good and purpose of life,
love and eternal grace through His salvation.
Many may not get this, and
many will. I am thankful that despite
losing my way and giving up on writing or allowing others to see in any part of
me as a kid. That the maker of all the heavens and earth never gave up on me
and no matter how crazy it sounds or confusing it reads. He allows this mind maze to keep tapping out the
love, grace and so much mercy in all the pieces of my story that led me back to
him and gives me the strength to keep fighting forward to flicker in his light.
