Anything Bitting you?

 Habakkuk 3:18-19 "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.   I will be joyful in God my Savior.  19 The sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go on the heights."    Today, I have a full day and need to be strong and alert.   I often use this verse, when I am racing.  Today,  I see its relevance in an average day.   I was bitten by something on Sunday.   I've had a systemic reaction which has zapped me.   This reminds me of how in any moment everything, including our health can change.   Jesus,  is the only one that remains the same!!  Let's let Him keep us strong, going the heights today and always no matter what bites us!!😇❤️🙏💃

Not poverty or riches

 Proverbs 30:8 "Keep falsehood and lies from me; give me neither poverty or riches, but give me only my daily bread. 9 Otherwise, I may have to much and disown you and say, Who is the Lord?  Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of God.

My brother told me of a research poll. That found , the happiest group of people in the US have an income between 70-100k a year.  

I believe I am happiest when I am thankful for what I have.     When my eyes are on wealth I can’t get enough.   When my eyes are on lack I get anxious.   When my eyes are on Jesus knowing, He meets all my needs. I get peace.  

To the Full!!

John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."  

If what ever I am going through is based on killing, stealing and destruction it is not from God.   My hope lies in knowing that Jesus can take the horrible and turn it around.   Some how when I hold unto Him, in my troubles, and I can feel the Son-shine again.  I can feel His joy.   He wants us to have life here on earth to the full!!  I can only imagine how amazing life will be in Heaven.  Keep your eyes upon Jesus.    He'll keep you in all of your ways😇❤️🙏

In the storm, get a down grade

 Today, I am deeply saddened by the poor health of one of my dearest friends and mentors.   Sometimes life seems so unfair.  In her case, she has suffered more than anyone should have to.    Many  of my friends and loved ones have had such significant sufferings.  Some pain is so great it’s hard to think of anything else.   This is the verse she gave me today; I hope it helps you too in your afflictions.   Psalm 43:5 "Why are you downcast , O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God."   Today,  try our best to praise Him in our storms.

When I praise God in my storm,  it somehow gets a downgrade 😇

The Apple of His eye!!

 Psalm 17:8 "Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings."   It's hard to understand but each of us are the "Apple of His eye".  Jesus loves each of us intimately and is with us in our each and every moment.   "Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings!! ".  This prayer is giving me such great comfort today.  I hope it does you too😇❤️🙏

My soul cling to You

Psalm 63:6-8 "On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.  7 Because you are my help.  I sing in the shadow of your wings. 8 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me."   I have been teaching health and wellness since the 70s        If people don't get good sleep everything else is off too.  One of the very first things I try to help people with is their sleep.   Research shows that people who don't get enough sleep tend to be 25- 30 pounds  over weight.   My clients say they can't sleep.   They wake up and can't get back to sleep.   This passage is a good reminder that our rest comes from the Lord.   If you are one of those people who struggle with good quality sleep try to comfort yourself in Trusting Jesus instead of getting out of bed before you should or tossing and turning through the night.    Try to simply, "

Be still and know that He is GOD.    (Psalms 46:10)

TRUST.   He loves you and the ones you love even more than you can imagine

Godliness with contentment is great gain

 1 Timothy 6:6 "But Godliness with contentment is great gain."    Godliness with contentment to me is walking in Joy with Jesus knowing no matter what His ways are greater than mine.    It's walking in love, it's walking in TRUST.   It's walking in constant forgiveness and continual renewal so I can keep up with try, try, try again.    Godliness with contentment is great gain.    Can you embrace this in your heart today?

Know Him more!!

Have you ever met someone and you just want to know them more?   That's how we are to peruse our relationship with Jesus.  People don't always let you" know them more" Jesus wants you to continue to draw closer and closer to Him.  He know every intimate detail about you and loves you more than you can imagine.    He loves you so much He died for you to make you right with God and gives you eternal life in joy.    He longs for you too long for Him.   As you fill yourself with Jesus.  He fills you to over flowing!! 

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." 

James 4:7-8 "Submit yourselves then to God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and God will come near to you."

Are you doing it differently now?

1 Peter 1:22 " Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart."  Love one another deeply, from the heart!   Love with sincerity of heart!!   I was walking with some young people, one said,  he likes to listen to advice of older people.  He like to listen to what they would have done differently.  I have a number of things I would have done differently.  My two main things;1 I would have started reading and applying the Bible to my life, as soon as I could read.  2 I would have handled marriage differently; I’d have realized I was worth loving.    I would have chosen to love my husband with sincerity of heart even in the difficult times, instead of becoming angry and easily offended. .    Youth is a funny thing, for me I didn't see very clearly at all.  I'm thankful that at 61 I'm still young enough to have learned lessons from my youth and have time to do things differently.    The most important thing I can do now is love  the Lord my God with all my heart, mind and soul and love others with a sincerity of heart.😇💃🙏❤️🌸 If you were to give advise to someone about what you would have done differently are you doing it differently now?

Greatest inheritance

1 Peter 1:6 " In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.    These have come so that your faith -of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire- may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."

Faith is worth more than gold!!  Recently one f my boys mentioned to me, I'm of the age I need to be thinking about my aging process and how to prepare.   I'm only 61 so I feel young, but he's right.   I started thinking about how I want my assets distributed, but when I think about the most valuable asset I can leave them is Faith.   The greatest gift my grandparents and my mother gave me is not financial but spiritual.    I know that no matter what I face in my here and now it is temporary.   I know that through Jesus my eternity is set in Heaven.   That is truly the best inheritance ever!!!😇❤️🙏🌸💃🚴🏾‍♀️

Handling a big lose

1 Corinthians 2:9 "However as it is written:  "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him.""     Sometimes our loses can feel overwhelming, we can't imagine anything being able to fill the hole left behind.   We can look at the hole and the emptiness , thinking only of the lose and loose hope.   Jesus is the way to fill us to over flowing no matter how deep our lose. Fix your eyes upon Jesus, TRUST He will provide.  Be thankful in the midst of it all. " No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him."   TRUST.  

What’s growing in you?

 1 Corinthians 3:16 "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temples and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple."   We are Gods temple!! What we put in our temple includes what we feed our minds.  The thoughts we let ourselves think, the music we listen to, the morning radio shows.  What we think about expands.  

Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brothers whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praise worthy-think about such things."    An old friend of mine committed suicide, before she did this she had a lot of compulsive thinking in the wrong direction.   Her Theropist said, "You have a well worn path of thinking in the wrong direction."    That is an extreme example of wrong thinking but we can wreck this very day, if we let our brains go to dark places.    We are each Gods temple; let's feed our body, mind and soul what is edifying!!!😇❤️🙏🌸💃

Sincerity of heart all day long

Psalm 139:23 " Search me, O God, and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts.  24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."  

This is a great verse and a fantastic prayers!! There is so much power in praying the word of God. On my own my prayers can be the same old same old.   Jesus told us not to pray in blind repetition  as the Pharisees.   Psalm 139:23-4 is a heart felt prayer.  David yearned to be closer to God and to do His way.  David was a sinner, we are all sinners. I am healthiest when I, shake off my wrongs, accept the forgiveness Jesus died to give me and try try try again to remember to seek God first and do His will not mine.  It’s so easy to think I’ll do this,  when I wake up each morning.  Still I forget while I’m going about my day.   God please fill each of us with an out pour of your Holy Spirit so we can remember You  and Your ways all day today and each day!😇💃🙏❤️🚴🏾‍♀️

What is your idol?

 Jeremiah 2:5 "This is what the Lord says,  "What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me?  They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves."    Wow!!! What a powerful truth!    I noticed myself getting a judge full  heart the other day.  It was not about one thing or one person, but about a number of things and a number of people.  This verse is helping me look at my heart.   Am I truly seeking God and His Word first? Am I truly living by Jesus command, "Love others as I have loved you:".     I started a Bible study yesterday,"Learning to encourage each other in Gods Word". One of the ladies pointed out it's no good to be able to spout off Bible verses, if you don't act the part.     Today, I am hoping to keep my heart upon the Lord, so I can truly, "Act the Part".   Hope this helps you today too. 😇💃🙏❤️John 13:34 “A new command I give you: “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

Out of the over flow of the heart

 Luke 6:45 "The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks."   Wow.  What a powerful TRUTH!!   Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.  Have you ever been in a bad mood?   Sometimes I don't sleep well or I eat too much sugar or I don't take time for my wellness routines.  When I neglect my health I can easily get into a negative nilly attitude.   The biggest part of my health and wellness is starting out my day thankful and reading Gods word.   This sets the stage for my heart to be right.  What ever I fill myself with grows.  I have to be very careful that my "self talk" is the encouraging word of God.   If I neglect this simple practice my heart gets defeated and I see what's wrong and not what's right and pretty soon you'll hear me grumbling and complaining .   Grumbling and complaining are signs of the evil over flowing in my heart.   God is our strength and our song!! Today let’s let our hearts be filled with His hope and joy so our mouths will be overflowing with His encouraging words!!😇💃🙏❤️🌸

Fully alive here and then

 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; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.  Do you believe this?"   He is the resurrection and the life!!  Not only the eternal life but our life today in our hear and now!!   I was so dead in my trespasses and sins then He helped me quit drinking and freed me from the guilt and shame that I deserved.    I remember that when I quit I thought I'd be a really good person as long as I didn't drink.   Truth is I sobered up and I was still a sinner.  I still am a sinner.  The difference now is 1.  I truly do want to leave my sin behind me. 2.  I am not defined by my sin!  Jesus took all my sins, yesterdays,todays and tomorrows on the cross and washes me clean from it all.   He does that for each of us!!! Plus in exchange, He  gives us His righteousness!!  God looks at us as righteous because of Jesus not as sinners!!   Out of my thankfulness I keep trying and trying  again to do what is right because most of my heart wants to do what is right.    I say most of my heart because there is still a part of me that wants what God doesn't want for me.   I am still a sinner, I can hardly wait tell I get to Heaven and there I will no longer be stricken with sin.    3.  We get to go to Heaven, when we die here on earth!!! Even though we die, we live!!! We fully live in this life and the next because of the glorious gift of Jesus Christ!!!😇🙏❤️🌸💃🚴🏾‍♀️

Praise the Lord for perseverance!!!

 Psalm25:4 "Show me your ways O Lord, teach me your paths; 5 guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long." 

My Hope is in Him all day long!!! When I hope in the Lord, I have His peace.   I can get pretty wound up, doing this or that. Trying to "make things happen".  Some of my projects turn out and some are big flops.  When I have a big flop, I often keep trying to make it happen anyway.  I know Einstein had 999 fails before he got the light bulb perfected. So I use that when I am in my try,  try,  try again mode.  Truth is sometimes  I'm just going down a path God is not about to bless ever.  I also don’t want to give up right before the blessing.  It's hard for me to know when to quit and when to push through .  This verse is helping me today.  Psalm 25:4-5 “Show me your ways O Lord, teach me your paths; 5 guide me in your truth and tech me, for you are God my Savior, my hope is in you all day long."  I’m really glad I didn’t give up trying to quit drinking.   Praise the Lord for perseverance!!😇