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Choices are Power!

12 Mar

Choices are Power!.

Choices are Power!

12 Mar

Inspiring one dreamer at a time!

 

Choices are Power!

Our choices are power! One of the most important things in Life is freedom of choice!  I believe that we are the leading characters in our own life story!   I also have a personal belief that God the Creator is the author of my life story, He holds the pen.  However, He has given me a free will to choose what my life will be.  He tells us that we have the power to choose life or death.

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

:20 (KJV)That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.ither choose life or death, blessing or cursing. 

Are you holding the pen to your life story or have you handed over to other people, or circumstances? I often hear people say “I didn’t have any choice but to do this or to do that!”  It is true that sometimes it seem as though we have no choice, but we always have a choice.   We often think by not doing anything when circumstances are too difficult that we have not made a choice, when in reality, by doing nothing, we’ve made a choice! We chose to let the circumstance write that paragraph or chapter in our life’s story.

Unfortunately, many of the circumstances in life are not fair or just.  In life we are always going to have conflict. Many times in our story the circumstances are the villains.  They are the bad guys because once we surrender to them; they like to dictate how we live from that point on.  Sometimes we live years of our lives chained or imprisoned by a circumstance where we thought we had no power to make a choice, but the good news is we still have power to make choices. Let’s make a powerful decision to come out of that circumstance and began a new chapter in our lives!  We can turn the page and break the chains of past decisions!

Yes, sometimes it is easier said than done, however if you know that you were created to have a good life then the decisions are easier to make.  You must realize that God wants better for you! He has already written a good book about you!

Psalms 139:13 (KJV) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

 

I hope that from this day forward that you use your power to make great choices for your life!  My prayer is that your life story will have a wonderful ending.  It is not a fairytale to believe that you can be happy ever after!

“An Author Speaks”

11 Mar

“An Author Speaks”.

“An Author Speaks”

11 Mar

It was a privilege to be a guest Author on Gridiron Granny Football Fanatic.

http://www.gridirongrannyfootballfanatic.blogspot.com/2015/03/welcome-christine-gilliam-hornback-to.html

Slow and Steady Wins the Race!

26 Feb

Slow and Steady Wins the Race!.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race!

26 Feb

Inspiring one dreamer at a time!

Slow and Steady Wins the Race!

Have you ever just had a week of being busy but it seems like nothing is getting done?  Face it, life happens!  Sometimes our great plans of what we were going to do for the week, year, or even our life changes.  The key is to be willing to roll with the changes!  Yep, that has been my life recently, but yet when I look back I can see that I’ve accomplished much more than I thought I had.   I’ve actually made some huge strides toward some goals that I’ve been trying to meet this year!

It may sound wonderful to go through life without any bumps in the road, but I believe it would also be very boring!  I have found that when the bumps of life happen, that I can use them to my advantage. They can show me a true picture of what I am made of. Sometimes they detour me to another pathway that was good for me.    I admit there have been some huge bumps at times, so huge in fact; I really never thought that I would make it over them. However, God’s grace is always sufficient for me!

2 Corinthians 9:8  (KJV) And GOD is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

This week’s blog is not to brag on how much I’ve gotten done, but rather I want to encourage you to see how much you are getting accomplished! Take time to realize that God is co-laboring with you by making all grace about toward you!  I want to encourage you… don’t give up on your goals or dreams, but press in even when it seems that nothing you do is accomplishing much.  It was the Tortoise that won the race, not the Hare.  Slow and steady wins the race! If you haven’t quit, then you are still in the race, the prize is up ahead!  Keep contending! Life is a marathon, not a sprint! Can you see that you too have made great strides even though you may feel as though you are taking baby steps toward your dreams!

I cheer you on my friend!  I would love to hear about your successes….

 

Painting for Fun and Therapy!

24 Feb

Painting for Fun and Therapy!.

Covenant Essentials – Blog

19 Feb

Covenant Essentials – Blog.

Changing the Landscape!

19 Feb

Changing the Landscape!.

Changing the Landscape!

19 Feb

Changing the Landscape!

Storm Painting!

Inspiring One Dreamer at a time!

It is a rainy Georgia Monday.  I was thinking that soon the spring rains will begin so that all of the earth will be nourished.  I was also thinking about how that a lot of rain changes the landscape.  Have you ever noticed that when the rain comes down really heavy it causes streams of water to flow quickly over the landscape?   The quickly moving water sometimes washes the land away to change the appearance of what was there before the rains came!  This is truly why the Lord sends refreshing rains to us.  To change us and to wash away the former in order to bring in the new rain of his Presence!

Yes that may seem a little deep for some of you, but many times in the Bible the Lord refers to the water, Living Water, wellsprings, or the rains as his Presence. When he floods us with his Presence we are changed.  I know some people  will immediately tune me out or stop reading this altogether.  I understand, because if we are all honest, nobody relishes or likes change.  Usually we do not even seek change unless we become so miserable with our circumstances that it drives us to look for something different.  However, God is a God that is constantly moving and in order to “flow with Him” we need to let the rain of His presence sweep over us and change us so that we can move with Him.

But you may be asking why?   Why must I change, didn’t God call me just as I am.  My answer is yes He did call you right where you were, but He never intends for us to stay the same.  When you received the Lord, your spirit man was changed immediately this was the born again experience.  You became a brand new creature on the inside!  However your soul,which consist of your mind, will, emotions, and intellect did not get a new birth, and neither did your body!  In order to live in the purposes and perfect will of God we must according to Romans, present our bodies a living sacrifice unto him and be willing to change.

Romans 12:1 (KJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

We are earthen vessels that were created to contain the Presence and the Life of God.  We receive the Living water flowing from God to sustain us.  However, His word speaks of a river of Living water, this is the overflow of rain that I am talking about.  This overflow in our lives is to minister to others.  The Lord wants our lives to touch other people who are desperate for His presence.  I want to be used in that way! When my life is over  on this side of Heaven, my prayer and my hope is that I did what the Lord purposed for me to do on the earth.

Yes I know that this blog for this week may seem “preachy” but in the world we live in today, the landscape of everything that I’ve known to be safe and secure is being challenged.  My place of safety which is the Lord has never changed.   He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  He is a refuge for those who seek Him! .  I feel an urgency to encourage at many people as I can to seek the Lord while He may be found and get into His river! Nobody loves you or longs for your company more than He does!