Standing Strong in His Grace

FiveMinuteFriday.com Life is a lot like working a huge million-piece puzzle!  Jesus is the missing piece of this puzzle called life...You can try many things to attempt to fill that missing piece, but He is the only person that was meant to fit perfectly. Sadly, we try to fit many different things into that mold: Alcohol, drugs, and fornication to name a select few sins. It is very saddening in this day and age...addictions are at an all-time high. A staggering 46.8 million Americans battle substance abuse in the past year in 2022. I am just curious to know how many of these Americans call or profess to be Christians? On google it refers to substance use disorder...I just don't think so!  It is very apparent in this day and age that we are a "sin-sick society of people," thus trying to fit anything into that place other than Jesus. We are attempting to worship sin, and that is why we are sin sick. Anything we put before GOD is an idol...and I hate to tell you this, but th

People look at the outward appearance,  but the  Lord  looks at the heart... I Samuel 16:7 I am pretty introverted and quiet in person all my life. Writing has always been my passion and an outlet for me. I do not know why I'm like this, but it is what it is. I am sixty years old and unless the good Lord changes my personality, I don't see me changing. A lot of people have judged me in the past because of my outward disposition.  But something really transpires when I write, my mind dislodges all these words, and I am filled and can relate better with my writing.  I am a much different person on the outside, I am reserved and shy and frankly I do not have much to say. I don't have a happy go lucky personality by far. I am not a people person and very introverted. I just cannot see this as a bad thing. God made me this way for a reason. My giftings are just different...If I see myself through everyone else's lenses, I will never measure up. I have to see myself as God se

  The   Lord   God is my strength. He will make my feet like  deer’s   feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills. Habakkuk 3:19 FiveMinuteFriday.com Hello and welcome to my blog. Today's Five Minute Friday word is "make." There are times in this journey called life, when I cannot seem to take one more step. During these times I tend to stop and pull away and isolate instead of moving ahead.  Life can be really difficult at times, and our feet don't seem steady.    The road ahead of us may not be paved or on golden pathways. It may be an uphill walk with lots or rocks and crags in the way. It may be a tough terrain and we will not be able to make it in our own efforts.  That is more than likely the place where you are right now as you are reading this.  You have fell away because it seems that you are not in the right place... A lot of those times we may not think we are in God's will.  We may question where actually God is taking us in this life.   Are we up

  Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord  is.      And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,  speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, Ephesians 5:17-19 FiveMinuteFriday.com Today's five-minute Friday word is Capacity. The definition for this word is the maximum amount that something can hold or contain. I am wondering how much of God we can actually contain. Can we actually be full of by His Holy Spirit and how are we filled?  I believe that we have to be able to release what GOD has given us...we cannot hold on to His grace or glory...  So, does that mean we can be intoxicated with the Spirit? I am not so sure about that...I don't think Paul is "comparing" debauchery to a life of being led by the Holy Spirit. In my experience its to the contrary we will want to speak to each other in spiritual songs and not spiritual

FiveMinuteFriday.com This week's word to write about for five minutes is specific. Does God have specific thoughts of us? I really believe He does according to this scripture.  We are probably on his mind more than we realize... The scriptures also say that His thoughts of us outnumber the grains of sand in Psalms 139.   HE is GOD and I am sure HE spends a great deal of time with us on his mind. I don't think he wastes his time thinking about us. He has high hopes and plans for us.  I do not think he sits around worrying about us though. I am a worrier at times so I know how my thoughts can be. I don't think GOD thinks that way about us.  GOD is also working behind the scenes on our behalf. Alot of times when we worry, we are consumed thinking of worst-case scenarios...He has thoughts of peace and love and hope about us and to give us a hope and a future. He is not a gloom and doom GOD.   He is a good Abba. We don't know what He specifically thinks of each one of us. Bu