It's okay if you know it's okay!

In the world we live in, it becomes easy to get discouraged. We often ask ourselves why a loving God will allow for so much suffering. We are told that to suffer is to be more like Christ who suffered for our sins. However, the Love of God does not translate to suffering and pain to those who truly know God as LOVE.

It is impossible to know the mind of God as His ways are Higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts. However, it is our view of situations and circumstances that cause our reaction, beliefs, and/or states of awareness regarding all things.

 It is our perception of events that causes us to accept one incident as a blessing and another as pure suffering. How then do you view the trials and tribulations that come into your life?
Do you immediately respond with sorrow, fear, complexity of confusion?

Do you fluctuate between faith and hope and disbelief and worry?

Do you beat yourself up for your "human nature" that causes you to question your worthiness as a strong man or woman of faith when you find yourself experiencing the pain and sorrow that comes with some of the most incomprehensible events of your life?

Ask yourself, however, how often you have found yourself in this same position emotionally and spiritually?

How often have you felt this way?

Is this feeling not becoming familiar to you?

Look back on the times you have been here before and look at yourself now... Haven't you always made it through?

 Haven't you been blessed beyond measure despite the adversity?

Although life has not always been comfortable and every day not a perfect one of peace and abundance, haven't you always been "okay"?

In the Midst of It All

An interesting phenomenon occurs when we find ourselves in the midst of twists and turns in what we thought was a direct path to our destinies. We see these events as devastating. Sure! We are moved by our emotional reaction to these events, but when we stop to really reflect on the goodness of God in the midst of it all, we are always able to locate His Love for us being magnified. It becomes a relatively difficult task, however, to focus on the goodness of the Most High, to be thankful and to hold on to the fact that through every other situation in our lives, no matter how uncomfortbale, we have always been "okay". It becomes a challenge to us to not allow our thoughts to control us, thoughts of how these events befell us, how we could or could not have prevented these events, what we should have or could have done differently, what life will be like after these events, what these events mean about us, our character, our relationships with those we love. We over-exaggerate the impact of our own situations on our livelihood, as if each twist and turn has a terrible cause with a terrible effect to come. However, we must still give thanks, we must still know that ALL IS WELL AND IN DIVINE ORDER. We must know that the inevitable changes that occur on our path are changes to which we will eventually adjust. We have to become more accepting, more willing to accept that what we thought was one way may actually be a different way regarding our lives and our futures. However, in the midst of it all, in the midst of all the changes, all the 'difficult' times, that GOD never changes. GOD's LOVE never fails. In the midst of it all, GOD remains the same. In that thought alone, we may find solace, faith, and serenity. GOD is still GOD. This too shall pass...

Step out on Faith: by KjB

Is God urging you through your experience, thoughts, dreams, or gentle nudging that He wants you to do more? How are you spending your talents and gifts to advance the Children of The Most High God, to leave a legacy of God's love on earth that will impact generations to come? These visions and dreams are the desires that God has placed in your heart.

One common misconception when one reads "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will will give you the desires of your heart" (Psalm 37:4) is to believe that translates into God will give me whatever I want (desire). Very wrong, indeed.

This phrase actually means that as you line your life up to God's Divine Will and develop the character of His Word, you begin to walk into your destiny and live in your purpose. As a result, the desires (burning on the inside of you) are changed. God PLANTS these desires within you!

What, then, has God been urging you to do, to go higher~ to move from glory to glory? If these desires have been revealed to you, what is stopping you?

FEAR? Fear is not of God! It is a manipulation of the mind, to paralyze you from moving forward, from impacting others, from giving God glory.

God does not instill in us a spirit of FEAR but of a STRONG mind. When we truly embrace the concept of Hebrews 11:11...now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen... We may activate the POWER God has given us to co-create our own destinies!!!

Take that vision, that dream, that desire that God placed upon your heart and start praising God today as if it has already come to pass!!

Meditate on that strong positive emotion (the strong mind) and watch your desires manifest. This is the true substance of faith.... Creating the attainable. With God All Things Are Possible!

STEP OUT ON FAITH! GOD HAS PLANTED IT IN YOUR SPIRIT~ GIVEN YOU A VISION! USE YOUR FAITH TO BRING THESE THINGS TO FRUITION!

Why stay stagnant/paralyzed with fear?Commit daily to tap into the power of the Most High. He has equipped you with everything you need to propel yourself forward.

Remember! Keep your mind on the end result and fear not the journey or how you will get there.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path. Proverbs 3:5-6