~ grace to win ~
You know it seems that every time I sit down to write, my posts pretty much all start the same… God is moving and there are changes going on in my life that are so many and so fast that it’s hard to keep up with them all. My last post was on Valentine’s Day […]
Happy Valentines Day Everyone! I just wanted to touch base with you all to say, “I’m still here!”… and I haven’t forgotten about you. There have been a LOT of changes over the last few months. God is moving so fast in my life, that I hardly have time to sit down and write about […]
Your Heart Can Be Settled In Grace Hebrews 13:9 … it is a good thing that the heart be established by grace… God doesn’t want your heart full of worry and fear. He wants your heart settled and at rest, established by His grace toward you. Your breathroughs don’t come through your ability to obey […]
Each year at this time, I usually find myself pausing at some point, to reflect on the past twelve months in order to stop and give God some well-deserved “thanks”… and this year is definitely no exception. What a year it has been! Last year in December we were still in Oklahoma, this year – […]
Remember the old Kenny Rogers song titled, ‘The Gambler’? …“You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, and know when to run… When I was in the workforce full-time, there was a situation that came up that took me by surprise. In the next department […]
Do You Walk In White? “Buried with Him… that … even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4 ‘No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a “white funeral” – the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crisis of death, sanctification is […]
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14 Sometimes we just have to forget about […]
So much of the Church is comfortable sitting back in their seats while waiting on the preacher to come out and tell them all about the nice and “fluffy” things that God has in store… ie: God wants to give you, God wants to give you, God wants to give you… and while those things […]
…That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; (17)That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, (18)May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, […]
When I was a little girl I would sometimes go to church with my grandparents. I especially liked it when I could sit in the sanctuary with the “big people” and hear what the Preacher was saying. I always liked to hear the preacher rather than go in with the kids and play ‘stupid’ games. […]
How many times we hear ourselves say, “Ooh, I just can’t help myself!” …And then later we discover we really could have – IF we really wanted to. How do you feel about that? Do you feel embarrassed? Remorseful? Contrary? Indifferent? In Galatians 5:23, a portion of the Fruit of the Spirit is temperance. Another […]
…but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more; And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you; That you may walk honestly toward them that are outside, and that you may have lack of nothing. ~ 1 […]
This morning as I was doing some reading I came across this poem that I wanted to share with you. It was written by a woman who spent several years undoing some of the bad habits that a “trainer” had worked into her horse and more time spent learning her horse’s every move, wince, flicker […]
I just received my yearly stats for 2011 and I really can’t thank you all enough for reading and following my blog! I am very grateful and look forward to a New Year meeting new friends, posting more updates (one of my personal resolutions) about our ranch, what God is doing in and through my […]
Our first Christmas here in Oklahoma was a very special one to me. It was lonely because we didn’t really know anyone then. And our kids all lived in different states. Far. Away. But, God gave me a special blessing that year in the form of snow…. This was our front yard that year. […]
‘Have you ever been alone with God? “When they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples.” Mark 4:34 Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us all the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. God is making us spell out our […]
Good morning everybody! This morning as I went to let the dogs out for their morning excursion around the property, I saw the sun briefly shedding it’s light through the tree tops and ran to get my camera. See that white speck off in the distance? That’s not a flaw – that’s the sun! […]
And the parched ground shall become a pool – Isaiah 35:7 God always gives us a vision before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say […]
‘How lovely and radiant will be the Bride of Christ when presented to her Beloved. She will be wearing the “robe of righteousness and the garments of salvation” (the fine linen clean and white in Revelation 19:8) as her undergarments and “many colored robes and clothing woven with gold” as her outer garments. Her […]
Today is Paco’s birthday. So, it is for him and for Him, that I write this post. This morning as the sun rose, Paco and I made a deal of sorts. The deal is this: On our respective birthdays we each get to declare what events we want to do for the whole day and […]
Want to know how to have a good life? How about a really good life?? I can’t think of anyone who says, “Nah! I don’t want a good life. I’ll just go on and live miserable.” In order for us to grasp what living a good life means, we have to first understand what the […]
Have you ever had one of those weekends that was just so indelibly impressed into your heart and memory that you don’t think you’ll ever forget it? It was a WOW weekend for me, that despite the cliche’, was life-changing. The church we have been attending over the last few weeks was having their annual […]
Over the last few weeks I have been involved in a women’s bible study which is about redeeming the time. I have been praying that God would help me to redeem some of the time that I’ve wasted, squandered, lost in failed opportunities and so on. When I joined this bible study, I had no […]
