YOU are Chosen - Don't forget

YOU are precious and valuable 

to Our Heavenly Father...

Precious to the One who CHOSE you,

REDEEMED you and LOVES you with 

a LOVE that has No Measure.

It breaks my heart to see so many people

 with labels pasted on their hearts--- 

some read "failure", some read "not good enough", 

some read "never gonna' be worth it"

...some are self tagged and others allowed those around them 

to "slap" a label on by way of judgement

of past behavior, bad choices, wrong turns and down right SIN.

Let me tell you...I wore some labels for a long time...

some I earned, some were ones that I let others place on me, 

some were seemingly engraved -  not just placed - on my heart...

but once I realized how God saw me - I mean REALLY saw me,

I began to let HIS Word act as a solvent to 

dissolve each one of those destructive labels.

His Word made it perfectly clear to me that

those labels DO NOT come from 

the ONE who loves you...

He doesn't see you and I that way at all...

He sees us with eyes of Love.

 GOD choose each one of us - 

and the GOOD news is --- 

when we come to our Father,

through our savior Jesus, 

confessing our sins with a repentant heart, 

He forgives us and wipes

even the MEMORY of our Sin away.

Today - let God help you Know His Love,

His Grace, His Peace and His Forgiveness...

and most of all - - - Let Him write these words of 

Love on your HEART so that you never forget - - - 

HE CHOSE YOU!

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Always know you are Treasured and Blessed by Him!

Giving away stress...

Isn't that an odd thought?

Who in their right mind wants our STRESS?

Well, to be perfectly candid... God does.

In I Peter 5:7-8 - God shares with us that
He wants us to give Him every worry,
every anxious thought, every doubt and more!
Why??  Because "He cares for you!"
How wonderful that we can hand off
all the worries, concerns, challenges, etc. of
our life to the One who cares for us!

The Scripture goes on to encourage us to
"Be self-controlled and alert".
Wow!  Those Words hit me...and encouraged me to
be conscious of how Satan prowls around tempting us
to give up on what God has called us to do,
to miss the blessings God has for us when we are in His Will,
and to be tempted to manipulate our own way through life.

If you are like me, you might be a slight bit
hard headed, so let me encourage you - - -
God has the ultimate best plan for our lives.
We struggle to set goals and plot the
course for our future,
but true Joy is met when
God does the leading and
we choose to follow.

So pack up your anxiety and hand it off to God...
Read His Word and discover His plan for you...
and be aware that the whisperings of doubt do not come
from the ONE that cares for you!

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print and frame as encouragement.

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Always know you are Treasured and Blessed by Him!

Craving...

Have you ever stopped to think of that word: Craving?

Let me tell you...Chocolate...I LOVE Chocolate!  

Sometimes I find myself craving chocolate...

And Coffee!! Goodness, how I crave that each morning...

...such warmth on a cold dawn! Each of us have favorite foods, 

favorite TV programs, favorites past times...we crave them 

when we miss them!  We can't wait to get back to them 

when we are away from them, or them from us! 

But - that isn't what God intended...

...He desires for us to Crave Him - above all else.   

To reach for Him when we need comfort or warmth...

...to run to Him as a child would run into a parent's arms 

seeking comfort, nourishment and love. 

Each day as society urges us further away 

from our One True God, 

I find that it becomes more important than 

ever for me to truly Crave God!  

Putting Him first in my life - as He intended...

to talk with Him - - -but most importantly to LISTEN 

to Him as He guides me though each day.

I'm participating in a study that started this 

month at Proverb 31 Ministries 

and I urge you to become involved too!  

Push the clutter of your life out of the way and 

get connected to real women with hearts for God 

and a true desire to encourage each other 

as God speaks to our hearts...urging us to CRAVE Him.

Come along with me on this blog as I share various scripture

 and thoughts on how God's love blesses us daily.

More than you can imagine you are 

Treasured & Blessed in the eyes of God.