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You are Valuable

20 Monday Feb 2017

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Dear sister,

You have infinite value and worth. God values you highly. You are a complete original. No else like you. By God’s design you have been bestowed with various gifts, talents, skills and opportunities that perfectly fit with your personality and temperament.

There is no need to apologize for being a gifted person. Gifts are just that, gifts. We give all glory to God for what He has placed on our lives.

This is our time. The time God appointed us to live and work for His glory and pleasure.

Many of us hold back in fear because we are perfectionists, fearing we will make a mistake, get it wrong. God is not looking for perfect performance from us. It is not possible. But a perfect heart of devotion that desires to please Him and do His will at all times is. Despite, fear, insecurity and self-doubt, continue to move forward in His plan and purpose.

Let yourself create. Give yourself permission to speak, act and add to the conversation of life. Create a body of work that points to the Saviour. Don’t wait for someone else’s approval or for another to open doors for you. Stir up the gift God has given you and go for it! Take courage and walk worthy of His calling. God is with you.

B

The Anatomy of Desire

01 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Dear sisters,

God guides and shapes you though your souls deepest desires. Desire is a powerful, energising force that runs deep within your heart. Allow yourself to discover and give voice to what you want and desire. Do not be scared to articulate the secret desire of your heart. make them your prayer and give thanks for them. Get in touch with your desires but always be willing to surrender them. Otherwise, desires become demands.

God draws us forth along our lifepath through the avenue of our desire. A desire fulfilled is a tree of life. What we desire has its own pull and we are motivated to action. We are inspired to seek what we desire. We enjoy the process towards its attainment and eagerly anticipate it fulfilment. Gratitude and thanksgiving well up in our hearts and out of its abundance we give praise to God for His goodness.

As we delight ourselves in the Lord, He will give us the desire of our hearts. Trust your desires, but be willing for God to shape them more fully by the Spirit. Give them your focused attention and live in delighted anticipation of their arrival. God is at work in you to will and to do for your good pleasure. Move towards your desire each day despite any resistance or opposition you may encounter. Do not draw back in fear. Our self-doubt causes us to question the validity of our desire at times. Do not be deterred or distracted. Become increasing clear about what you desire and continue reaching for it. God will send encouragement, comfort to you, and resources are waiting along the paths where he leads.

Take bold Acts of Courage in the direction of your dreams and in so doing glorify the Lord.

Blessings from Sister B

Questions to ponder: What do you deeply desire? Can you find just the right words to express it? Will you give yourself permission to pursue what you desire? Will you take courage in the face of fear?

 

 

 

 

Wonderful Word#1 Dare

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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DARE.

DARE to believe you can.

DARE to dream big. What would you be doing if you had no fear?

DARE to REVEAL who you are to others. Define yourself.

DARE to rejoice and ENJOY life.

DARE to expect good things to happen. Walk in your favour.

DARE to walk by faith.

DARE to love, even when it costs you something.

DARE to live according to your inner guidance, your conscience.

DARE to be different. Swim against the tide.

DARE to CREATE. Bring forth your contribution to the world.

DARE to ask for what you want.

DARE to say what you REALLY feel.

DARE to SPEAK UP. For yourself and for the oppressed.

DARE to take MASSIVE ACTION in the direction of your calling.

DARE to BE YOU!

I DARE YOU.

DARE.

 

 

Are You Scared to Live Your Truth?

25 Wednesday Jan 2017

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Dear Lord,

I love You and praise Your holy Name. I want to become who I am, for You glory. Thankyou for my place in the Kingdom. I have a function and assigned tasks within it.

Because of being controlled by others in the past, I have a great deal of trouble in owning my own calling and giving myself permission to do all the things I would love to do and experience in my life. As a child and into my teenage years I was scared to live, scared to try new things and have fun. I was the girl with her nose in a book sitting on the sidelines observing everyone around doing fun things but never joining in, not even wanting to. Books were my safety, my secure place, my escape. I could retreat into the thought world of the authors and live vicariously through them.

Later in life I was the homemaker who subscribed to numerous homemaker and craft magazines, always making and never creating. Sometimes I would make something, or write something, but my motive was usually to please others or save money, not necessarily to simply enjoy the process of being creative for its own sake.

I have always loved learning. I now realise that reading, writing journals, studying and sharing with others is all a part of my teaching gift. One of my superpowers. I have always loved watching documentaries and biographies about others who have done amazing things with their lives. I love beauty, art, music.

This year I have set my intention to be beautiful, be creatively brave and to live my truth. I even created a poster and put it on the fridge door to remind myself of what is important to me this year. I want to live a beautiful life and cultivate a beautiful heart. I know I must be braver, stronger and be willing to share my story as part of my ministry. I need to create, make, do, share. Own my calling as a creative person. By Your grace, I can, I will, I am. Writing this blog is a part of this. Sharing from the heart as I open up to all You have for me in Kingdom life. My prayer is that as I open up and become more vulnerable, more honest in  sharing my attempts to step out in faith each day, that those who read may be encouraged and emboldened to do the same.

Fear, get behind me. Amen

B

Question to ponder: What would you be doing if you had no fear?

 

All You Have to Do Is Ask!

25 Friday Jul 2014

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Hello believers,

How truly wonderful it is to know God and walk in relationship with Him.

I believe God is wanting to encourage us today to ask Him for more, much more. More than ever before. Stretch yourself. Could it be that we are limiting God by failing to ask for what He desires to give us? Is it possible that we are living well beneath what was possible if we only had the courage to ask?

 Eph 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

He is able to do so much more. Always more!

Be bold in your requests of God and have confidence that He will answer. So, what will happen if you ask for something that is not His will? Simple. His answer will be No.

But how do you know if you don’t ask?

Share your thoughts and any testimonies by leaving a comment that makes us smile.

Blessings from,

Sister B

 

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Courageous woman of Faith: Corrie Ten Boom interviewed by Katherine Kuhlman

08 Saturday Jun 2013

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Be inspired by this vintage interview from God’s ‘Tramp for the Lord’, Corrie Ten Boom. She was a faithful servant of the Lord who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 for hiding Jewish people in her home in Holland. She and her family were then sent to jail and then to the horror and indignity of a terrible concentration camp called Ravenbruck. Corrie experienced many miracles there and was freed only one week prior to all the women of her age being sent to the gas chambers to be exterminated. After being freed Corrie preached the Gospel around the world even into old age. She now walks hand in hand with Jesus upon the streets of gold!