You can not take on the enemy, if you don’t have rock solid balance, focus or a foundation.

A rugby player can’t take on his opponent without balance.   The second his opponent comes for the ball, he will fall in the tackle.   He wont even be able to run with the ball without proper balance.

Have you ever felt like everything is happening at the same time?  Lost a job, lost a loved one, broken marriage…  what happens if two or more of these challenges come at the same time?

When David took on Goliath, he had balance, focus and a rock solid foundation.  His balance, foundation and focus was only on God.  You can have strength, but without God as your balance, focus and foundation, you will still fall – like Goliath did with all his strength.

I stood next to my dad’s lifeless body, and my knees gave in.  The trauma took all my strength I had left out, of me.   Prior to that, exactly 9 months to the day, the trauma was from one extreme to the other.   I couldn’t even run, my legs didn’t allow me to.    I only had one thing left in me – God’s promise.    The promise that He will never let me down.  

Hebrews 12:2 teaches us that we must clear the path for our race.  The race of life.  We must look unto Jesus and let Him be our focus.

Hebrews 12:2
“Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God”

Do you remember when Jesus was in the dessert, and everything He had to endure?   He had faith and focus.  His balance was His Father, our God.

Where is your focus?  On what is your balance?  And what is your foundation?   In this life all sorts of traumas will come our way, but we must stand firm in God.  On His rock solid foundation.  There is nothing that can make you fall further than your knees, when your foundation is God.  Then all His amazing promises are what we live by.

Joshua 1:9
“Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous!  Do not be terrified or dismayed (intimidated), for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go” What an amazing promise it is, when we are strong and courageous, knowing that we are not alone, God is with us wherever we go.

Be whole today, and not be hindered.  Be strong in the power of God’s might.  Don’t allow this world, and the things in this world, to keep you from trusting, believing and waiting on God.   God is well able to make a way where there appears to be no way.

Anything that disturbs your peace, or brings confusion, is not from God.    It must be bound and cast out of your life in the name of Jesus!

What is keeping you to focus on God, and only God?   Have you had so many challenges lately that you don’t even know what causes the most confusion?   Do you find yourself sometimes in a situation where you can’t even put a sentence together when talking to God? 

When you fall, remember that falling on your knees is where God works best.    I have a prayer book.  When I can’t get words out, I write letters to God.  Not only can God hear us, He can read too.   Join me in starting your own prayer book.   When you also write to God your every emotion – good or bad..  you will physically see all the factors in your life that needs to be eliminated.   You will be able to deal with it all one by one and cast it out.   Get rid of the bad; everything that is not from God and amplify the good.

Before you know it, you have prayed; you have physically seen how each prayer was answered – (remember, God’s time is the only time.   Don’t demand your time from God.   Just believe and never give up.  There is no bigger sin, than disbelief).   As you keep your prayer book, you will see in time that your letters have gone from confusion to gratitude.   Your letters will become testimonies.

God tells us in many places that He will never leave us, nor forsake us.   Believe it!  Its true!  Human beings will let us down some time or another.   It might come through as unintentional, or just plain utter betrayal.  Ask God to help you forgive them.  Don’t be too hard on yourself – and don’t believe that trust and forgiveness is the same.   Forgive them, to set yourself free.    

When you trust God, and only God, you will never go through this feeling of betrayal again.  When a human being hurts you, or a relationship comes to end, or you lose a job, it’s because God has got something better in store for you.   He will wreck your plans, before it wrecks you.  God will never betray you.   Learn to trust God, and only God.

Hebrews 13:5 Let your character be free from love of money, being content with what you have; for He has said “I will never desert you, nor will I forsake or let  you down or relax My hold on you”

BELIEVE IT!

I challenge you to love Jesus, only love Him, tell Him, show Him, live for Him, stand for Him.    Don’t ask anything, just love Him, thank Him and believe Him. 

Every love story is beautiful, but the one with Jesus, is my favorite.   

If I tell you my story, it would be of love.    Love when my world crashed and crumbled.   Love that never lets me go.   

Its a love that casts away worry, fear and doubt.    A love that never gives up on me, and doesn’t expect anything but love, in return.  

Jesus loves with a grace, bigger and more than all my sin.   A love that lifts me higher and lights up my way.  

No matter what I go through, His eyes are always on me.    Eyes filled with love.    Arms always there to catch my fall. 

There is no greater love, than loving your child, and that is how He loves us too.   Knowing that I am a child of the most High, the only God; is the best feeling I ever experienced.    

My love story… my ultimate love story, is Jesus.

My story, my life, my walk, my talk and my song; is about Jesus. 

Its my story filled with Faith, Love, Life, Hope, Kindness and most of all, a commitment that will never let me go ❤️

1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:4‬ ‭AMP‬‬
“Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant.”‭‭

• Love – intense feeling
• Joy – feeling of happiness
• Peace – freedom from disturbance
• Long-suffering – patience in spite of troubles, especially those caused by other people
• Gentleness – kind, tender, mild-mannered
• Goodness – quality of being morally good
• Faith – complete trust in God

Faith is my absolute favorite on this list.    When you accept Jesus and have a close relationship with God, all the fruits are just the best part of everyday life.  

Faith is challenging, yet so very rewarding.   Having Faith when times are easy, is easy 😊   But keeping the Faith when times are tough; that is when it becomes challenging.   The bigger the challenge, the bigger the reward.   The last 3 years in my life, was testing and trying – and my Faith in God, and my God pulled me through every single situation, every second of every day.    After losing my dad early 2017 – and the spiral from thereon, my Faith just became stronger and stronger; because I was weak, and that was the best thing that I could ever face.   When we are weak, God is strong within us.   Give it all to God, don’t try and do His work for Him 😊

Think about which one is your favorite fruit of the spirit and focus on that.   Let it grow stronger.  Work and focus on it more and more every day.  Make that your one word for 2020.  When ever you are in a situation, speak your one word out loud.   Practice it, live it, love it.  

The Godly freedom that comes with the fruits of the Spirit, is indescribably amazing.   I just don’t have words for the feeling of love and freedom and peace that I find in Jesus every second of every day.

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Mark 11:22-24 ESV
And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Sunday morning, I was sad and wanted to go home so badly. I prayed and prayed. The first week after I moved in, I went through tremendous trauma – here all alone, and dealing with everything, as well as the move to a different state – was just getting me down. (its now 4 weeks since I moved here)

I got on my knees, and my words were crystal clear “…God, if You want me to stay here, please show it to me in Your Word. But please God, show me clearly either to stay in this city or go back to the jungle…” Still today I don’t know why I used those words, but I did. And after I prayed, I opened my bible on a random page and started reading.

Luke 24 : 48 & 49
“Your are witnesses of these things. Listen carefully: I am sending the Promise of My Father upon you: but you are to remain in the city until you are clothed with power from on high”

And I burst into tears; confused and in the same time amazed and touched and everything great. The exact words I asked for minutes before in prayer, God answered me.

God speaks to us the way that we understand. And I was open, I listened, and understood.

I am by nature focused, have direction, strong minded, strong willed, I don’t take the bull by the horns – I take the bull and the horns and I go. Not knowing what God has in store for me here and now, is not an easy thing for a personality like mine. But resting in His Hands and feeling my Faith grows by the second, is the most peaceful feeling I have ever had in 43 years. And through all the years He gave me all the right Gear.. and He wants me to share it with you.

Years ago God promised me in Phil 4:7 that He will give me peace that transcends all understanding, and He is keeping to His promise – as always ❤

“If ever I have to trust, now is the time”

Haven’t we all felt that at some stage in our lives?   Today is no joke, today I have to trust God even more than ever before.

I find myself, living in a house 1500 km away from everything and everyone I know.    Everything I am and worked for, for the last 43 years. How did I get here..?    Well that is simple, through God, and God alone.  

Before I made this move, I prayed, fasted and prayed some more, for something to stand in the way of me moving here.  Even thou living coastal was what I always wanted, I am not sure I wanted it now – this minute.  I was “pushed” into this now.   Today I know it was God’s hand that pushed me in this direction..  I still own a house 1500 km from where I am now, so it doesn’t make any sense.
The more I prayed for God to stop this move, the easier He made the move.   From finding the perfect house to the actual move – every step was child’s play.

If it was about me and not all about God, I would most definitely not be here.  If I could go home today, I would be there in a blink of an eye.    And I will tell you more about why I can not move back home now under My Own Life Category, today’s date. 

So now that I know God wants me here, I am patiently waiting on Him to use me where He needs me.  If there is one gift I have, it’s the gift of fully trusting in God.   Faith!

Let’s take this journey, holding tight onto God’s Hand.  

Psalm 37:5    “Commit they way unto the Lord, trust also in him, and He shall bring it to pass”