Jesus Loves Us... Did YOU Know?

You ever love something so much that you feared losing it? So you begin to come up with ways (consciously or subconsciously) to protect and shelter it so that you don't lose it... only to smother it in such a way that the very risk you weren't trying to take, you've forced!

I've had a second chance, despite my path along the way... And I know that God is real because He allowed me to experience true love! It is NOT a storybook romance, it was an intentionally connection and willingness to love in spite of how I may been struggling with whatever life was throwing my way.

How much more does our Father in Heaven love each of us? I reflect on how my children may do something that is wrong, and I don't just cast them away. How my job may not run smoothly, but I'll push through. How our vehicle may act up, but it still can be used. God knew that given the opportunity to understand His love for us, that it REALLY is unconditional, and that He would sacrifice His Son for us, and that one day, the light would come on and we would get the picture... but, that even if we never did, we were so important to Him that He wanted to ensure that we have a way to live life to the fullest! That's love...

True love is in part determined by your commitment to each other, by the way you live out your lives together day by day, expressing your love in every possible way through respecting each other, encouraging each other, and serving each other minute by minute, hour by hour.

True love must be other centered. You see the real problem in most marriages that are under siege is self-centeredness. The surface issues may be money, in-laws, the distribution of household chores, the kids and/or sex. Underneath those issues lurks the “kingdom of me”. When my needs, my expectations, and my desires, determine my behavior toward my spouse the only one I truly love is me.(http://www.marriagegodsway.com/2011/11/true-love.html)

I've found that when I focus on others, and it's done in love... I can't go wrong. The love is felt and intensified by the genuineness of it. It is an undeniable good thing. Here's to remembering just how much I am loved this day, and showing Christ's love to others... God bless

Write the Vision... Make it Plain

The Word of God speaks of the just living by faith... (Habakkuk 2:2 - 3)

² Then the Lord answered me and said:

“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
³ For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.

What has the Lord shared with you... impregnated in your spirit, that has grown in your belly over the years? What have you yearned to do that you have entertained, dreamed, and nearly been able to taste? Aren't you tired of being pregnant? It's time, truly time to birth the vision that God has given you... the plans for your life isn't scripted, not predetermined, but through God, are predestined for just what He promises. This is greatness!!!

Some of us are walking around with heavy burdens, full bellies of ideas, concepts, truths that God has given us that was never meant to be held for a lifetime. NOW, is the time to release what we have carried for far too long!

Pray. Ask the Father how to pursue what was placed in your spirit. How many people are standing by, needing what you have been holding onto. Why are you waiting for the "right time," "money ain't right," "I have to many responsibilities," perfect timing that may never come.

This year I have been challenged with the time of birth... I have nursed an idea since the age of 7, pursued what was in me last year... and am now ready to give birth to what God has called me to... It is scary, exciting, and unnerving all at the same time. I can't let that deter my drive. This is my year to push to another level!

New job, new faces, entrepreneurship, branding, marketing... it will all take place this year! Traveling, working hard, and let's not forget my primary foundation of newer levels in God, family, relationship... this year is not just full of promise, but sealed with expectations of the manifestation of what God has shown me over the years. It is time...

Be encouraged, your best is yet to come! Much love