A cheerful heart is good medicine

Proverbs 17:22 "A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."   Everyday I have the opportunity to   Choose how I think about things.   I can see what's right or what's wrong.     Whatever I gaze upon grows.   That's why I have to be so careful with what I let myself think.    There is a verse in Proverbs that states,"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."  Today, be inspired to think on what is right, pure, lovely, admirable excellent and praise worthy.   (Philippians 4:8).  It's tempting to think defeat, but there is nothing profitable about wrong thinking.   Even if you do get defeated  from time to time and you will.  Pick up and go after your next victory.  A cheerful heart is good medicine 😇

Fresh start!! Joy comes in the morning!!

Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”  Oh, to desire what God desires for me and not to worry about it.   To 100% be pure in heart and have a steadfast spirit, how wonderful that will be!.  Last night I was very tired and before I went to bed I was a bit tearful, but a friend reminded me a good night sleep can really help things.  Today as I watch the sunrise I am choosing Joy.  It’s easier to think straight when you are well rested.  Sleep experts say we need 7-10 hours of in interrupted sleep daily, in a quiet dark environment. Many people never get this they sleep with their TV s or  cell phones beeping by their heads all night long.  Prolonged sleep deprivation manifests itself in all kinds of health problems one of them being chronic obesity.   For me it really shows up in being overwhelmed.   Today I hope you’ve had a great nights sleep and you are ready to take on your day with the Joy of Jesus!!!😇

Jerimiah 17:7-8

Jeremiah 17:7-8 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.   8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.  It does not fear when heat comes; it's leaves are always green.  It has no worries in the year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."  May your leaves be green and may you produce much fruit, through the strength and protection of our loveing Lord , Jesus Christ😇🙏🌸🦅❤️

Well Done?

Romans 12:5 "So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith.  7 If it is serving let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; 8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."   We are one body with many parts, let's be encouraged to use our talents to edify each other.   We all have different talents, it's beautiful!!   Today let's encourage each other, to use those talents for His glory!!    Let's be the servant Jesus can say, well done, good and faithful servant!!!😇🙏❤️🦅🌸 

Joyfully hopeful in Jesus😇

Romans 12:12 " Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with God's people who are in need.  Practice hospitality."   Be joyful in hope!!! This really hit me today.    Yesterday a friend of mine said, " you the most hopeful person I know".   I smiled at that.    It was very nice to be identified with hopeful.  Life is certainly full of obstacles and I'm 59 that same friend pointed out if I don't have the things I hope for now.  Maybe I won't get them, so what?😇.   I TRUST that God will give me everything that He knows I need and that will help me walk a closer walk with Him.   This closer walk helps me help others.  This closer walk keeps me hopeful.   Which is a joyful place to be in Jesus😇🙏🌸❤️🦅. I hope this helps you to remember to be hopeful no matter what things look like from your humane perspective.

Anxiety is it helping or hurting uou?

Conqueror in all weather!!

Romans 8:37 “No, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us!!”   Today I’m doing a triathlon with a paddle.  I’m excited but the winds are high and the temperature is cooler.   Philippians 4:13 “ I can do all things through Him who gives me strength.”    A conqueror in Jesus.   This event today is just a recreational event so, no stress.   But sometimes patience, kindness and understanding in my daily life if much harder then fighting waves and wind.  Today.  Be a conqueror in Jesus, no matter what the challenge is you face.   Matthew 28:20 “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of of the age.”  ( those are the words of Jesus). He is with us!! Let’s be conquerors!!😇🙏🌸❤️🦅

“Be”

Good Morning!!   Just Be!!   This morning I am reading the Beatitudes in Mathew 5    I'm a very good doer but sometimes my "be" is a bit off.  Only, when I  have a pure heart while I am doing good; do my efforts really seem joyful.   Many times if I'm feeling "off" in my well doing I have to hit STOP button and ask the Holy Spirit to guide me, fill my heart with pure intentions, sometimes I simply call on the name of the Lord.  Jesus, Jesus.  It's my most simple prayer and brings me back to “being” in Him, Then my works are truly with pure intent.    I hope this helps you today too.... just "Be" before you start you Do. 😇🙏❤️🌸🦅

In order for me to "Be" right I have to set my eyes upon the Lord!! Matthew 6:22 "The eye is the lamp of the body.  If you eyes are good your whole body will be full of light.  23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness    If then the light within you is darkness how great is that darkness!"      Be careful what you gaze at it will effect your “Be”!😇

Holy hands

Psalm 63:4 " I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name, I will lift up my hands."   I lift you up with Holy hands 🙌.   Try it, raise your hands, look up and say, thank you Jesus!   Praise Him with your hands lifted high!    It's truly a wonderful feeling!! 😇.  

Healing is real!

Jeremiah 17:14 "Heal me, O Lord and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise." It's all because of Jesus!  It's His sacrifice for us sinners on the cross and His resurrection  that blesses us with eternal life and the ultimate healing!  Heaven is the reward for those who diligently seek Him, that's what it means when the Bible says "oh death where is your sting".  There is a song, "Even when the healing doesn't come".   Many times here on earth we don't see the physical or emotional healing.  In Jesus when we die we live.  John 11:25 "Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in me will live, even though he dies."   I'm so very thankful for the Gospel!! Our healing is real!! His way, His timing.... TRUST 😇❤️🙏🌸🦅

Listen… through the Word then speak

Acts 4:29 "Now Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness."   A dear friend of mine said, "I wish God would just talk to me and tell me what to do!"    I said,  "He does, through His word, the Bible."   If He talks to you through the TV or other crazy ways in might be time for meditation 😇.  All joking  aside God speaks to us loudly through His Word.     When you have an issue.    Ask God to show you in His Word the answer.     Then OPEN YOUR BIBLE!   That is how God will show you.    First pray and ask Him for the answers, then read.    I promise you He will highlight verses and make words, just pop off the page! You will find His way, when you simply ask and read 😇.  I hope this help you.  Look to God through the Bible for your annwers today and every day and boldly proclaim Biblical answers when others ask you for advise😇🙏🦅❤️🌸

Recognize a toxic thought and repent

2 Corinthians 7:1 " Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God."  I think what contaminates me the most can be my run away brain.    In the AA program we call it " Stinkin Thinking".  I have to be careful on how I think and repentant, with a sincere heart asking God to help my heart be pure and desire only what He desires for me.  😇  A dear friend of mine is Catholic and said it helps him to go to confession once a week.  As a Lutheran I have been taught to take my confessions right to Jesus.  Confession is important to our souls   2 Corinthians 7:10 "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leads no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. ".    I am so thankful God has put a desire in my heart to continually recognize toxic thoughts and actions and try my best to let them go and press forward daily with a renewed, forgiven spirit!!!   2 Corinthians 5:17” Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone the new is come!”    Confession and accepting Jesus forgiveness is the basis of my health and Welness!!

Be held

Yesterday was an emotional day for me.  When I was at my loved ones home there were lots of hugs and that was so comforting as I trembled in tears.  At the end of my day I came home and longed to be "held".  Then I realized I am being " Held.  God has me safely under His wing and all I have done or left undone is going to be OK.   Mistakes, sins and failures and triumphs all work together for His glory and I can not see the Forest through the trees sometimes, but I can TRUST God always can.  Our God is an awesome God and He Knows.....  we can't possible know, but we can TRUST.     He takes our mess and makes it our message and when life is not as we think it should be and we break in emotional tremble let’s remember we are  not alone!!   He is holding us.     I hope this helps you be strong today.   He is holding you and always.     He is holding the ones you love… you can trust God loves your loved ones even more then you do. We are safe in Our Father's arms always, especially in our passing through the powerful gift of Jesus!! Be held 😇❤️🙏🦅🌸

Thanks😇.   Psalm 61:4 “ I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.”   Psalm 91:1 “ He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.”  I also love these words of Jesus in Matthew 28:20 “ Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”😇🙏🦅

No regrets? …Trust God in all things

Today I'm going to visit someone dear to me who is actively dying.   When faced with the passing of someone I  love, part of my grief is regret.  I wish I would have..... but we can't would have or should have, anything.   What holds me,  in the comfort of our Loving Fathers arms, is knowing, He saw my everyday before I was born and chose to birth me anyways.  (Psalm 139). He can take all the things I do and don't get done and work them out for His glory. ( Romans 8:28) Thanks be to God, He puts a desire in my heart(The Holy Spirit) to "keep on keeping on". trying my best to follow Jesus.   I have to TRUST in Gods plans not mine.   He can see the big picture not me.   He can be trusted.   If I truly believe Heaven is for real then my loved ones passing is her reward for seeking Him.   I hope you like this perspective today too.   And helps you not have would have or should haves.  But just love those in your life to the full while they are with you.   😇❤️🙏🌸🦅Jeremiah 29:11 " "For I know the plans I have for you",declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 The. You will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.  13 You will seek me and find me when your seek me with all of uour heart."❤️

Got a log in your eye?

Matthew 7:3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother,"Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers eye. ". This weekend I realized I was holding my sister to a higher standard then I was living.  We have been living together for a few months and recently my heart started criticism, when we talked about the" little things" that I was getting annoyed with she pointed out I do the same things and possibly to a greater degree.   Wow.  I was trying to take the speck out of my sisters eye while all the time I had a plank in my own.   People who are married have the benefit of  their spouse helping to sharpen their saw.   I've been single for many years and I am now realizing how potentially difficult I can be.   I think it's cool how God uses our present situations to teach us to be more like Jesus.   Today, my heart is full of love and compassion as I realize none of us are perfect in fact we all fall short all the time.   Have compassion, grace and mercy for yourself and others.    ...... keep trying the journey is worth it😇.  We are saved by grace not by works but truly trying to be more like Jesus seems to keep me humble and I think easier to live with.   ❤️🙏🦅🌸

Don’t throw the pearls to pigs

Matthew 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet and then turn and tear you to pieces .”   These are the words of Jesus😇.   Recently I went to WeFest.  It’s a. Country Rock outdoor concert with many bands.    I saw many very pretty young girls, dressed very seductively.  It reminded me of throwing your pearls to pigs. Our culture says be sexy and you’ll be the boss. I think; be smart, kind and  conservative with joyful Jesus energy!! That will let you shine with the beauty that doesn’t fade ….. be very selective on who you throw your pearls too.   😇🙏🦅🌸❤️  Hebrews 11:1” Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

Create in me a clean heart O Lord!

 Psalm 51:10" Create in me a pure heart, O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me.  11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing Spirit to sustain me."   This is so beautiful!!!  Today I hope it can be each of our prayers.   We all fall short.    I wish my failing would be one and done,,,,but alas my sin, my failing is continual; praise the Lord,  so is His Mercy!!!!😇🙏🦅🌸❤️

Be the “ apple of His eye”

Psalm 18:32 " It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect  33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to stand on the heights.  ". Psalm 17:8 " Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings."    Lord, give us strength, value and protection today and always, Amen!      I love,  that He gives us strength in our weakness!  His power is made perfect in our weakness!  Being an athlete, “feet run like the hinds of a deer” really translates for me in my physical endeavors.    Yesterday I had a minor health scare, turned out to be a a big nothing but when considering my mortality I reflected on how I’m spending my time.  I’m wanting to go “ Seize the day” lately    But thinking of my family.     Just evaluating if I’m really being who I am called to be, knowing I’m falling short.     Today I’m inspired to get my strength from the Lord and face difficulties in relationships because I am the “ apple of His eye” He will protect me in my physical and emotional needs.     I would hate to go home to Heaven and realize I hadn’t attended to my own back yard.    I hope you like this today too.  Be fit and be blessed.  Kimberly😇

Boldly boast!

 Jeremiah 9:23 "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong boast of his strength or the rich boast of his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast about this; that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight."   Boldly boast in Jesus!!! Last night I was a a country rock concert called "WeFest

" I have never been to this event and it's been in my back yard, (so to speak) for years.  I'm turning 60 next year and I have this deep desire to get out of my comfort zone and see what I can see, do what I can do.    So, when the opportunity came up to experience “We Fest”,  I went for it.   During the concert an artist said, "any body out there love Jesus?"   I immediately raised my hands and shouted yes!" I was walking in the front of a crowd at the time and for a moment I almost hesitated, about proclaiming my devotion to our Lord.  But Wow! does it feel good to publicly, boldly proclaim devotion to Jesus!!  Lately I have been in a bit of a funk, but this morning I have a rejuvenated heart felt joy energy!!   I am confident it's because I boldly proclaimed My love for Jesus.     Today, be inspired to boast boldly in our Lord!!😇🙏🦅🌸❤️you will be filled with kindness, justice and righteousness through the powerful gift of Jesus!!

Hope floats!

Romans 8:18 "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.......8:25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."     Hope for today, Hope for tomorrow, Hope in all things😇.   Lately I've let myself get "tired".   I don't take enough time to sleep and get " Down time".  My thing is, I don't want to miss a thing!    I tend not to recognize my own "tired".   But what I know,  is in this state I focus more on what's wrong and not as much on Hope.     It is a Humane condition,  only conquered by the powerful gift of Jesus.   Today, may we all simply walk in Hope😇🙏🦅🌸❤️

May you over flow with hope!!😇

 Romans 15:13 "May the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace as you trust in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."😇.   Powerful!!!    Over flow with hope!! I started out today in Romans 5 and thought about sending out something about how our trials are opportunities( Dr. David Jeremiah message for the day).  But found my heart jump for joy when I read 15:13.   May the God of Hope fill us with joy and peace!!  Joy and peace are ours regardless of our trials.  So beautiful, so powerful!!    Trails are our opportunities to learn and walk in His joy and peace TRUSTING Him all the way!  Every day!!😇🙏🦅🌸❤️

Shinning from within!

Matthew 23:25-26 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.  26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish and then the outside also will be clean."   Sunday, my sister said, “you look really good today”,  I said, “yes it's a really cute dress”, she said, “no it's you, your "Kimmy" is showing.” 😇.   My Kimmy is the Lord.   I have been lower on time in the Bible this Summer then I usually am.   It shows in my heart.    I feel more overwhelmed and conquered when I don't get good quality time in Gods word and have quiet time to reflect and pray.  My Dear Friend Judy said to me, " people who have Jesus in their heart, look younger."   She was right!   When I seek first Jesus and trust him all the way in the middle of all the distractions I feel an energy in me that is radiating.    I believe it's Jesus shinning in me.   When I get too busy to be still with God daily my, shine get dull.   Today I hope this inspires you to reflect on whether or not you are truly shining in Christ Jesus.     😇🙏🦅🌸

Know them by their 🍎 fruit

Romans 15:1 "We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2 Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up."     Love is a verb!  We are to lift each other up.  Be kind and love.   It's beautiful to love the unloveable, hard too.   When I truly look in the mirror I would be that unlovable too.  I am full of lustful desires and sin even though my hearts desire is to be pleasing to God, I suffer with being humane.  Love is a verb. Today through the powerful gift of Jesus; Be love, even if you don't "feel" like it.    Helping each other in our weaknesses and truly loving loving each other with a pure heart.    

Is a way for us, to be known by our fruit!