THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE

This poem was inspired by the past few years of economic struggle…for those who have lost their jobs, can’t find new ones, lost loved ones, have suffered injustice, and everyone who is hurting because of the times that we have to face.  My message to you:  don’t give up, God IS there and He will provide.  I know this from personal experience.  He always does.  Always remember that no matter what you are NOT alone.

Always Hope

Hope is fading but I am still holding on by a thread. 

God wants me to hold on and make

me over and the Devil wants me dead. 

Keep Breathing….Keep Walking….Keep Pressing.  

Why do we wait so long before Confessing? 

I’m starving for Truth…for Meaning…for SOMETHING that feels Right. 

He said to Walk by Faith and not by Sight. 

Well I am God and I’m starting to question whether all of the Sacrifice is for nothing. 

Whether the blessings and peace are even coming.

…or did I do it all wrong? 

Maybe I am just a broken record playing the same old song. 

God please give me strength to keep going, please carry me across the sand. 

This is me begging…please take my hand. 

CONTROL+ALT+DELETE

We are taught to face reality way before we are taught that we must create our own reality.  Life is strange that way.  Almost seems backwards.  But I think it is to show us what we must do exactly to change things.  If we don’t know the bad how are we to determine what is good?  It’s the whole duality of life.  Without sadness we would not know what happiness even looked like.  And without failure we would not know what success really is. We don’t really know better until after we have walked down the path of not knowing better.  So looking back in order to project a new future, I have learned that I must move forward with a reality I want to create.  And the only reality that truly exists through my eyes is the one I have focused into being.  Same goes for you, we all create our own realities.

Statistics tell us supposed “facts” based off of past experiences.  But what statistics are about any reality created right at this moment?  None.  If nothing is impossible with God why do we constantly rely, make inferences, and base our decisions off of observable averages of past behaviors to predict the future outcomes of unobservable quantities?  Often setting into motion the very things we do not want, instead of stating exactly what it is we want and believing in God not man.  The more I learn, the more I realize that any one piece of information may be true, but ultimately it is a narrow-minded way of operating.  Opening our minds, hearts, and souls to God and letting Him instruct us is really the only valid way to learn anything of true value, of truth in general.  Through Christ and Christ alone we must put all our understanding, all of our hope, and all of our will…not man and not knowledge from man.

 “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

I’ve learned a great deal these past few months on this new journey that God has laid out for me.  It has been hard at times, painful even…but it also has been wondrous and exciting and the closest I’ve felt to being near God since I was a child.  There are so many things that are thrown into your path to teach you when you finally wake up and want to create a reality that is your own instead of letting life control you. Everything I have learned and am still learning I can’t possibly write it all out although I wish I could. However, I can say this…it all starts with now and the conscious decision to do God’s will and discover your true purpose in this life.  Once you’ve made that decision, stand up and start walking in the spirit.  Be prepared for anything to come your way by putting on God’s armor (Ephesians 6:11-13) and don’t sway or back down, just keep going.  There is nothing—no thought, action, or belief—on your path you choose that is so severe that you can’t go back a few steps and reverse it, choosing another path.  I close my eyes, ask God to guide me, and pretend I am typing out (creating) my life on how I want it to go.  When it starts getting uncomfortable and I find myself struggling or getting ill, I picture me pushing control+alt+delete on the keyboard, ending the process I have created for myself that isn’t working.  Then I pray at that very moment and say…”Lord…speak, I’m listening…”  And He then tells me where to go from there.  You’ll be amazed once you try this to see all of the things fall into place and how you don’t have to do anything to put them there besides closing your eyes and asking God for them to appear.

 

PRAYER FOR UNITY

Lord, I pray for our unity, our hearts not to be troubled and filled with fear of man, but only fear of you God.  Help us to not fall into false traps that lead astray and also help us to help one another and not speak out of anger but out of LOVE to one another.  We trust you with all of our hearts, souls, spirits, and strength and know you will protect us from evil and guide us on your narrow path.  Help us to open the eyes of our hearts and minds and not fall into judgmental or ignorant patterns of thinking, but instead keep our hearts and minds filled with the knowledge and wisdom that is of God and God alone.  We love you God and we love each other as we love You and You love us…unconditionally. 

Ephesians 4

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.  With all the lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in LOVE.  Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of PEACE.  There is ONE body, and one Spirit as ye are called in one hope of your calling;  ONE Lord, ONE Faith, ONE baptism.  ONE God and Father of ALL, who is above ALL, and in you ALL.  But unto every one of us is given GRACE according to the measure of the gift of Christ.  Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.  Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?  He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill ALL things.  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.  Until we ALL come in the UNITY of the FAITH, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of man, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in LOVE, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by which every joint supplieth according to the affect working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body onto the edifying of itself in LOVE.  This I say therefore the testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk as other gentiles, walk in the vanity of their mind.  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart.  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.  But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the Spirit of your MIND.  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor; for we are members one of another.  Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath:  neither give place to the devil.  Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:   And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs’ sake hath forgiven you. 

HIS WAY IS THE ONLY WAY

THE ONLY WAY TO HEAL

THE ONLY WAY TO GROW

THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE

THE ONLY WAY BE…

   IS THIS:

• BE STILL

• LISTEN TO WHAT GOD SAYS AND

• LET HIM GUIDE YOU TO THE WAY THAT IS PREDESTINED AND ALREADY LAID OUT FOR YOU.

  
  

UNLESS YOU LIKE GOING NOWHERE IN CIRCLES OVER AND OVER THAT IS 😉