The F word

I used to think the best word ever was 'freedom'. You could take away anything but one could always have ones freedom (if in strong willed mind only).

But I now think the best word is 'forgiveness'. Without true forgiveness we have no freedom. To forgive ourselves and others. The unspoken of assumption of 'unconditional love' is forgiveness.

Yet God was wise enough to give us free-will, to forgive or not.

So perhaps it's both F words. Total, immediate forgiveness needs and leads to freedom.

life changing decisions

Am I willing to rock the boat after 17 years together risking everything? Especially if it means ensuring my child(ren) grow up in a family full of love and the LORD.

We've been together for 17 years and the last few years have been the hardest. Right now it looks safe and comfortable. But these are words I would reserve for my home not my relationship. I'm a dreamer and I need more. To risk losing it all is better than settling for something less than all it can be.

My man and I have the opportunity to have the kind of relationship the LORD wanted his children to have. Our relationship has huge potential. And i want it all. Am I asking for the impossible? probably

picnic photos

fav photos of us at the mo...

GOD's kids

the difference between me and a non-christian is i know
to really put me first is to put the LORD first

the older I get the more I realise and experience this
To put the LORD first is to love him first
To love him first is to obey him WHOLEHEARTEDLY

what does putting me first look like?

it's making me better at loving others,

accepting myself with all my strengths and weaknesses and so making it easier to accept others,

it's learning every day what it means to live a life of eternal purpose...what i do and say is not just about me but it's from the generations before and for the generations after me..

the BIGGER picture,

it's fulfilling my biggest dreams and sorting out what's important in life,

it's opening the floodgates of heaven and giving me things i didn't even dream or imagine,

it's showing me how to be the best me....by experiencing first hand that

LIFE IS NOT ABOUT ME...

IT'S ABOUT ALL OF US...ALL GOD'S CREATIONS...

ALL HIS KIDS GOING HOME FOR ALL ETERNITY

DREAMING

Imagine...

• if every christian in every country prayed for one thing on one day....would we see mountains moved??
• 365 days in a year... if every christian agreed to pray for the same thing on each of those days...could we change the world??
• if we could fulfil the Lord's words and 'do even greater things than these', greater things than he was doing in his time...GLOBAL CHANGE??

my top 5 prayer list off the top of my head:

1. to remove evil from the lives of children so Satan couldn't touch them. Then it would be a priority for christians everywhere to reach every child in every nation and raise up a generation who would bring the LORD's eternal plans closer to completion...imagine if the LORD is waiting for that generation to complete his masterplan?
2. to remove poverty from Africa - dedicate one day of prayer to each country...to set them free from poverty would be to remove the chains Satan has put on their destiny...to set them free from what binds them and give them back their future. This would require action on our part too...churches to help villages, denominations to save one city each, find people jobs, build shelters, provide food and water....because the LORD will still need us to be his hands.
3. to unite each denomination in the body of christ so we can become that awesome body that he prayed for us to be in John 17 - to be one. each part serving in it's unique way but united with one purpose - our God's great commission. We don't have to be the same but we can each do our part without judging the other and pray for each other.
4. to save christian marriages and remove sexual immorality from christian families - sexual abuse of children, adultery, sexual immorality of any kind.
5. to fill us with his love - the LORD's perfect love which never fails. So that we will have compassion for the lost and His cause written on our hearts. So that we will be passionate about what He is passionate about and never give up on each other and our neighbours. One of Joyce Meyers book titles - REDUCE ME TO LOVE. I would pray that for each of us believers.

i can seriously dream...

but just IMAGINE if we could globally affect change just by praying together in unity...