“I said a prayer for you today,
A prayer without one word.
Because I knew not what to say,
I simply asked the Lord.
He knows my very thoughts,
sees my heartaches too.
And so I knew he understands,
the pain that lives in you. “
I have been at an annual family conference that we have attended for many years. I have noticed the Lord keeps allowing me to cross the path of other women carrying something we each have in common—pain.
Grieving mothers, splintering marriages, heartbroken parents, women doubting if they heard God right as they pursued their dreams. Wondering if they were really called to this path, maybe even thinking they are so broken that nothing will make it better or stop the pain.
As we were reminded in one session, these thoughts are a lie of the enemy. He distracts you and fills your mind with doubt. He wants to make you believe that you will never succeed. When we listen, and believe it, then we begin to wallow in it. Thoughts like, “I’m a failure so what does it matter anyway?” fill our head and we give ground to the enemy as we give up the fight.
Instead, we need to claim who God says we are.
I am a person who loves the Lord.
Wholly righteous because of HIS righteousness alone.
My focus is on serving him, loving him, worshiping him, and living a life that brings him glory.
The mistakes I have made in my life, the failures I have endured are not to bring me shame but rather they give my testimony traction as I share with others how pain, yes—even loss, can be used to bring glory to Jesus if I can lean on him in my troubled times.
People wonder how they can survive losing a child?
—-Only with Christ!
How can marriages be restored and trust be rebuilt?
—-Only with Christ!
How do we move past the shame, the labels of failure?
—-Only with Christ!
You see it’s not what I do or don’t do, it is who I believe in or don’t believe in, that makes the change.
Blessings sweet friends…
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I still believe in Millie’s Miracle
☆｡･:*:･ﾟ Hebrews 11:1 ｡･:*:･ﾟ☆
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