From The Inner Voice of Love

It is not going to be easy to listen to God's call. Your insecurity, your self-doubt, and your great need for affirmation make you lose trust in your inner voice and run away from yourself. But you know that God speaks to you through your inner voice and that you will find joy and peace only if you follow it. From The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen

I struggled with my call and finally listened to that inner voice from God and have the peace and joy of knowing I am seeking God's will.

365 Days of Spirit-Filled Fruits Challenge-Day 318

It is very common at this time of year to struggle to maintain control of what and how much you eat. It starts with Halloween and the plethora of candy. It is everywhere! If you are a candy lover, like I am, you understand how dangerous this time of year is. They only way to get a handle on this is to prepare for this danger. Write a prayer and pray it every day. This becomes an affirmation and a positive for your mind to focus on. My prayer this week and the coming holiday weeks will be straight from scripture.

1Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 89

Ever heard of fog in the brain? It is a symptom of perimenapause or menapause when you are in a non-thinking, doing anything kind of mode. Your brain just can't engage in anything. I had it yesterday and ended up wasting most of my day because I couldn't think. It's one of my obstacles in reaching my goal of having a successful faithbooking ministry, along with all the other symptoms my body likes to throw at me like migraines and naseau. It is these kinds of times when I feel the most discouraged and down about things. I feel like giving up. But because of my master mind group, I was reminded about the power of affirmations and that I need to create one that would help me get through these down periods. I thought about God and a couple of character traits he has: perserverence and patience. He didn't give up on me. He perservered and kept at me until I finally saw the light. And that didn't happen overnight, so he had to be patient and wait for the time to come. So, with God's help I can perservere through the down times and be patient and wait for the blessings that God has in store for me and this ministry. Keep laying the foundation... I will perservere and be patient for God's timing.
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entagles, and let us run with perserverance the race marked out for us.

365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 79

Reassurance. What a comforting word that is. There are often times in life when we need reassurances. Are we doing the right thing? Should we do something new? Am I a good person? and the list can go on an on. We need to be reassured on a daily basis of a variety of things that life has on our plates. Because of the new ownership at my place of work, it has been thought by several employess that our days are numbered. I got myself worked up with it a bit, getting my resume printed so I can get it updated and keeping my eye out for any opportunities but I was letting worry creep in on what if I lost my job. Worry is a monster that would love to eat you alive if you let it. I decided to kill the worry monster and put my focus on my Savior and by just doing the best job I could do which is what I have always done. Yesterday reassurance came straight from the big man himself, no not God but the new owner of the company. This is second hand as I didn't witness it myself but I believe it. He said he has no intention of closing this office that if he did he would have already told us so! I killed the worry monster and got the blessing of reassurance. I never needed to worry in the first place. Worry needs to become a distant memory of what I use to do. No more worrying about anything! Take this postive affirmation for yourself or create your own: I know God will take care of all my needs.
Matthew 6:25 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lillies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothes you, O you of litle faith?