Walking It Out!

When I was a little girl and I would get mad at my mom, because she wouldn't give me my way, I would say (under my breath and at the opposite end of the house) I will NEVER be like you!! Well, the Lord has a very funny sense of humor!! Funny thing is my life mirrored my mother's life in so many ways!! So, I found myself walking in the same circumstances!! Of course I broke the generational iniquities BUT, nothing changed!! One day I asked the Lord, ok what am I suppose to learn in all of this!! As the saying became very fresh in my mind - You will always get what you've always gotten, if you keep doing what you have always done!! Hmmm... ok, yeah... So, what does that look like I asked?

He showed me the Image of Christ Jesus and He was bent over on his hands and knees, blood dripping from Him! And I remember Him saying to me You have to walk it out so that I can show you these things!! I didn't really LIKE that answer and rebuked the devil in the process!! I think we give the enemy too much credit! We blame him for things we do!! A lot of times we blame God for what the enemy does! Kind of distorted huh? Anyway, as I got over myself, He reminded me that we, as Christians are sacrificing our lives (walking it out) so that people in our own family and generations to come may be FREE!! He asked me one day, do you want to see your children walk this walk because of your unwillingness to submit to Me? That hit me like a ton of bricks!! It was so profound to me!! Of course the answer was a H-E -Double Hockey sticks NO!! I don't wish this walk on anyone especially, my children! At that moment, I said it stops with me! As Mary said, Let it be unto me as You have said!!

So, next time we want to judge those who have cancer or other various diseases or those who are single parents, (that are single parents due to numerous circumstances like death of a loved one, prison of a loved one or divorce) remember, God is not surprised by our circumstances and He trusted them enough to allow it to come to pass!! Not everyone can walk the walk that you are called to walk! And you are the only one that can walk it out! So, love on them and walk WITH them, encourage them instead of condemning them!! Speak life into them, not death!! THAT IS WHAT JESUS CHRIST WOULD DO!! Isn't that the goal? To be more and more LIKE HIM!! Today is your day, Choose this day whom you will serve, for me and my house we will serve the Lord!! Again, be careful of the things you say and think about others because you never know when YOU will be walking in the position of those you are judging, just like me!!

Walking In His Faithful Love,
Jacqueline

A Life Consumed

Have you ever wanted something so bad for even someone else that it has consumed your prayer life, your walk, your talk, your thoughts, and your dreams? Well, for the last 2 years I have let thoughts of my husbands release consume me. God’s promises to me about giving me a new husband out of an old one consumed every aspect of my life!! I concentrated on the promise and NOT the PROMISER!! How did that happen? Well, very easily and subtly. The last week I have been reminded that God is SOVEREIGN!! Which means HE knows ALL and sees ALL!! Just when I thought it would happen this way, something came in to destroy that thought! Then I would think it would happen another way then destruction came again! Well, it can’t happen that way or this way then?? How is it going to happen?? Some things are not for us to know! He planted a seed in my heart a while ago about the way it was going to happen but it was ONLY for me! Where did I get off track? I made this ‘thing’ an idol!! Thinking I know what God is going to do and the strategy He is going to use to get the end result to come forth!! HA!! Boy, let me tell you how WRONG I was!! You see, my focus was on the circumstances and trying to figure out what God is going to do instead of on God himself!! Yep, I admit it!! I am human!!
So, in His correction of reminding me of WHO HE IS, He has completely had compassion and mercy on me! Knowing that I cannot do anything without Him, I had somehow left Him out of the process and been arrogant enough to think I knew what God the Almighty was doing? Seriously? Who did I think I was? I have come to realize that there are just some things that I don’t need to know! For example, I don’t need to know what your issue is, or your need is to pray for you!! In fact, I like it better when I don’t know! But, in the same instance, I want to know?! Why? Because I am human being made up of fleshly desires!! So, after He allowed me to get over myself and grieve!! When you kill your flesh that has been so dominating in your life for so long there is a grieving process!! Just like when someone dies, we grieve our loss, we also in that same process grieve what we didn’t have and what was stolen from us (what we could’ve had)! In this process I have truly realized that I haven’t been happy in a very LONG time!! So, now that I am over myself I believe that I can enjoy my life and BE HAPPY!! Be WHOLE in Him!! Have my JOY in Him back!! Trying to figure out what God is going to and how He is going to do it IS EXHAUSTING work of the flesh!! But, there are ways that seem right to man but in the end will cause destruction! There is a VERY sobering reality! Just a reminder that I don’t have all the pieces of the puzzle, but, that I am a piece of the puzzle and although, I may not make a difference in everyone’s life there is that one person that I have meant and made a world of difference. The world doesn’t need anymore Big and Important people. The world needs people that are compassionate and merciful to just ONE person!! And it all started in the Beginning with just one person (Adam) and Ended at the cross with just one person (Jesus)!!

The Strength of a Man

The Strength of a Man!!

The strength of a man isn’t in the width of his shoulders, it’s seen in the width of his arms that encircle you and protect you.

The strength of a man isn’t in the words he speaks, it’s in how he keeps his word.

The strength of a man isn’t in how respected he is at work, it’s in how he is respected at home.

The strength of a man isn’t in how hard he hits, it’s in how tender he touches.

The strength of a man isn’t in the size of his chest, it’s in the heart that lies within the chest.

The strength of a man isn’t in how many women he’s loved, it’s in whether he can be true to the one woman he is trying to love.

The strength of a man isn’t in the weight he can lift, it’s in the burdens he can carry.

The strength of a man knows when he has a good woman, and doesn’t do things to lose her, but does everything to cherish her.

And finally the strength of a man brings out the strength in a woman that she never knew she had.