Growing in Spirit and Truth

There is a word that has been in my thoughts for several days. The word is, [positive]. This morning, I had a couple more added, [confident and courageous]. I looked up positive in the dictionary, it has 11 meanings as an adj. and 2 meanings as a noun. I am not going to write all these meanings. The #1 meaning is: that will not be changed and is not to be questioned;definite.#2. perfectly sure; certain. I was watching Beth Moore on Wed.'s with Beth. This is where I got the words confident and courageous. They fit with the word positive. She also told about a statement one of her daughters made while sitting in a doctors office. She said, "He knows it is scary to be us". I thought, that's sooo good, He does know. He not only knows He cares. He has given us His Spirit to comfort us while leading us in Truth. We can only be positive about the Truth we know. If we aren't in the Word..the Word will never be in us. God knew from the beginning that we would have to

Hi..... I just finished a new book.."The Noticer" by Andy Andrews. A friend at church gave it to me to read. It's about a man name "Jones"..he helped people who were in a bad place in their life by giving them a new perspective in their situation. This made me think of Jesus...He's our "Noticer"...He notices every detail of our lives. I thought, wouldn't it be great if Jesus just showed up and talked us through our troubled times. We all have times in our lives when we feel separated from everyone and everything. It can be due to many things..the death of someone we love, sickness, being hurt by someone we trusted or just life in this old world. We begin to think no one cares. Well, that isn't true...Jesus cares and He notices our pain and tears. He has noticed every second of every day of our life. He has guided us through all of our hard times even when we didn't feel His presence at the time. We may not hear His voice but He has

Lam. 3:21-23 "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope." 22 - "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassion's fail not." 23 - "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. If you read my post yesterday, I guess you could hear where I was. I want to impress on everyone that reads these blogs to write down what is in you whether it is in a blog that the whole world can read or just on a piece of paper that no one will see but you and God. We tend to bury what is in us because it may seem too negative to express. I will continue to write my heart and it may not always be pretty but it will be laid out there for the Holy Spirit to do with as He wills. I am writing with expectancy more and more each time. Thank you, Jesus Yesterday, that was everything in me in print. Today..this very morning, I was sitting as I usually do drinking my coffee. Not even realizing I was thinking. A clear picture of why I

I have a question.... Has anyone ever been at a place in their life, where they did not know how to not be human and did not know how not to believe at the same time? We live in an imperfect world that expects perfection especially from Christians. Actually, even we Christians expect each other to be perfect. I don't know how to fill those shoes. Jesus is the perfect one, not me!! I don't want to be a fence straddler but I haven't gone far enough to not be human and I have gone to far to stop believing. It feels so much of the time, when I walk out my door, I'm walking head on into fiery darts. We have armor for those darts (Eph.6:11-18) so they can't kill us but they can sting pretty bad. As I was praying this morning, I heard in my spirit..... People are not the enemy..Satan is...and...people are not perfect..I AM GOD'S WORD IS TRUTH...ALWAYS HAS BEEN...ALWAYS WILL BE STAY STAY STAY IN THE WORD..BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE THE WORD..STAND STAND STAN

This title is a chapter in a book I am reading.."HAVING A MARY SPIRIT". The author, Joanna Weaver was going through as she refers to it, "black difficult times with my friends". She said the word confound was the word that kept coming to mind to describe her situation. She looked the word up and it meant, "to confuse or perplex as well as to contradict or refute." An archaic meaning is to defeat or overthrow. She said, the bible seemed to go along with the last meaning because God had only confounded His enemies in scripture. But she knew this wasn't the case this time because He had continually reassured her of His love through this. She knew this wasn't punishment but a necessary pruning. "But why this confounding? this pain? this frustrating confusion?" (her words) Another word that kept coming to her was "meekness". She was telling her friend about it and her friend asked, "what does meekness mean"? Joanna told h