709 - I will Spare you!!

Good morning Lord Jesus!!  I am not sure who won the game last night, but I hope whomever was playing did a good job and played their best.  I was too busy pulling Jack Bauer out of his pain and sickness from being exposed to the WMD.  I think he is doing well and we will see him next Monday - ha ha!  

I am sitting here in my housecoat and wet hair so I will spare all of you the video today.  That just might be more than you could handle.  I studied more of Esther today and was once again impressed by our lady Queen Vashti.  The central theme of today was how hard it is live in another woman's shadow.  I am sure all of us know that to be true at least one time if not more times in our lives.  It all boils down, I believe, to that comparison game.  Been there?  Yep, me too!

Whatever package you put it in, insecurity is such a terrible and exhausting way to be.  While I seem to be pretty sure of myself on the outside, and i truly am a pretty confident person by God's grace, I too can let the comparison game get the best of me leaving me totally defeated and deflated!  Why is it you can be walking down the street just minding your own business and see a person pass you by just a tad thinner and of course with cuter hair.  Before you know it, I can go into a tailspin in one direction or another.  I either embrace her beauty and want to ask her where she gets her haircut and her secret to staying thin or I want to hate her and make up things in my mind of her reasons for masking her hurts with all these beauties.  Ever done that or been there?   

Living in the shadow of another woman, even one that you don't even know, can be terminal.   I don't think the answer is really embracing who you are or trying to real as steel to the world, I think the answer is found in Jesus!  Possibly not even knowing so much who we are in Him, but just WHO HE IS!!!  Jesus is the answer and there is no other way!!  I promise, but sometimes i have hard time believing or at least accepting!!!  Comparison game can get any ounce of God's goodness in me and hide it under the feet of defeat!  

Oh Lord - I just want to know you in your power and grace more fully.  I want to know you and the mercy that is new for me each morning!  Oh Lord, I want to hide behind you and in you!  Jesus thank you for taking the time with me each and every second of the day to minister to my mind, soul, and body!!  You are the medicine for any problem, issue, or trial i come across.  I don't need to embrace me, I need to embrace you!!  Teach me Father, show me, and help me walk in it!!  I love you Lord.!!

One of our speakers with STMM, Natalie Witcher, is speaking today at the A Woman Inspired online conference.  I hope you will go by and say hello to her!!  She is a fabulous woman of the Word!!  We are so honored to have her part of the ministry!!  Ginger Moore will be speaking as well on Thursday.  I speak on Wednesday at 10am, I believe!!  Need to check that!  

Have an awesome day.  Hope to hear from you!  

708 - Beat you like a Pinata

This is great - as far as what my precious 5 year daughter wanted to do to her sister!!!  hee hee

There has a been a huge influx of "followers" as of recent.  Hey there - thanks for caring enough to know what the Lord says thru me.  Please take a few minutes - i beg you - to introduce yourself and let me know where you come from if you don't mind - we might just live right close!!  I love new friends!  

FBC Concord new friends - hello!!  Thank you for your sweetness and patience on Friday night!!  Boy did Satan try to spoil everything or what!!!  Love to know about the way God spoke to you that night!!!  Take a moment and see what He may say to you today!!  

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707 - Protect Me from Me

So many times after I speak or even after delivering a vlog message I think about all the many roads i could have alos gone down in getting the point across of the scripture that He had lead me to.  I also think about different stories that could have been better to explain, etc...  This is one of those vlogs.  There is so muchmore I could say, so much more that I could have expounded on, so many other directions I could have discussed.  Maybe for another day!  So please bear with me!  

I asked a number of people what that statememnt - Protect me from me - yesterday meant to them.  
Let me walk in the Spirit and please do not allow the part of me that walks in the human aka the natural to stop me from knowing the fullness of Gods many lessons and gifts.

Sometimes we r our own worst enemy.Things we say can come back to haunt us.Guard your tongue. Let God have the glory not yourself.

The essence of my walk....every man/woman's prayer for the day....everyday. No matter where you are in your walk, you are human, and the human side of you tends to fall into temptations much quicker than the spirit side of you. Protect yourself, from yourself. Put in a daily prayer request for you. And at the end of the day, thank and praise God when you succeed!

********** (This one is the one I could relate with the most)  Protect me from the human-ness that struggles to overpower the Jesus-ness that I pray wins the struggle daily.

I believe when we are saved we are filled with the Holy Spirit. After that experience, we turn over our lives to the Spirit's guidance and direction. That ME is when we take control and not allow the Spirit to move and work through us.

With all that being said - here is the video that did not quite do all that I intended for it to do!  

Thank you for your grace!!