August 31st Daily Reflection

Our society is so focus on being strong and avoiding being/appearing weak at all cost so today's devotion is so relevant because showing signs of weakness and being so comfortable with it that it becomes a conduit to be closer to the Lord. Using our weakness to realize how much we need to depend on the Lord for everything in our life and thus gain so much more strength.

how are you using your weakness to become closer to the Lord?

August 30th Daily Reflection

Apologies for missing a few days. I have been constant with my readings and applying their directions to my daily life. Some are much easier than others but all resulted in a wonderful feeling as I drew nearer to the Lord.

Today's devotion is another reminder of how great it is to stay close to the Lord. It reminds us that he is with us all the time even those times when we think he is not. I had an interesting conversation with a friend who professes to be a Christian but is convinced that the Lord sometimes leaves us. While it might feel that way, I believe the chasm between us and the Lord is because we have tried to leave him and stop listening for him so it appears that he has left, however, it is we who have left.

How are you experiencing the closeness of the Lord?

August 25th Daily Reflection

Today's devotion is a nice continuation of yesterday's which talks about the fact that being fully open and honest in the presence of the Lord requires practice and training....it is not something that comes quickly and during the practice and training, we will make mistakes, resist, revert back to our old ways....however, because the Lord loves us unconditionally, these breakdowns are opportunities to become better.

August 24th Daily Reflection

Giving yourself to the Lord with such abandonment that you are open and honest about everything - a recommendation that makes it easier to be open and honest with one's self and if we can be open and honest with ourselves, without thinking we become open and honest with others....at that point that we are open and honest with others we are truly being a child of God....a child of God who loves without restraint, who comforts without selfish consideration, who gives without thought....

are you ready to be open and honest with yourself?

August 23rd Daily Reflection

entrust your love ones to the Lord!!! I read this devotion and a deep personal issue I was dealing with suddenly became an non-issue. I was wow the Lord spoke to me in such an amazing manner that an issue that I was convinced was not solvable or the solution I could think of was not acceptable to me just disappeared. Entrusting your love ones to the Lord is the most liberating thing one can do....

August 22nd Daily Reflection

Adversities, things not going your way, questions of faith - all root causes found in trust or rather lack of trust! Trust is something so easy to corrupt and loss, however, remaining trusting is what is necessary to continue the journey with the Lord. Trusting the Lord when really bad things happen, trusting the Lord when things are not going your way, trusting the Lord when things are great and wonderful and glorious. Trust, trust, trust is what is needed to get close to the Lord, staying close to him and being the conduit of him.

trusting that you are having a Lord trusting day.

August 21st Daily Reflection

Waiting, waiting, waiting, a word that most of us hate to hear - but a word that is necessary in our vocal as we walk along the path to get closer to the Lord because getting closer to the Lord requires us to be patience and waiting for his glorious gifts...I trust that waiting is taking on a new meaning and you are excitedly waiting for the Lord....

August 20th Daily Reflection

I see today's devotion every day and in many aspects of my life - how the Lord continuously heals me...and like today's devotion, sometimes the healing is slow and painful and other times it is so instantaneous that I am shocked....it was also inspiring how others provide healing thru a kind word, jester or simply sharing themselves....

how are you helping to heal God's world?

August 19th Daily Reflection

How true is today's devotion as I approach my 40th birthday, I realize that things I use to be attracted to now longer hold the lure that spending time with the Lord and doing his work does. It's really interesting how focusing on the Lord, makes everything so much more intense and allows you to see what really works for you.

how is being with the Lord helping you see the glory of your life?

August 18th Daily Reflection

Today's devotion continues the theme of being excited when adversities come your way. That impossible tasks/situations are actually a great blessing because it forces us to return to the Lord and if are beside him, remain close. Only by being with the Lord is impossible remade as possible.

how are you remaining close to the Lord today?

August 17th Daily Reflection

Embrace all trials and difficulties as a blessing from the Lord! Because these blessings allows us to stop and give praise becoming closer to him. When we start seeing trails and difficulties as great things in our lives, we achieve a transformation and closeness to the Lord that makes every and any thing possible in our lives, community and church. A simple thought that is difficult to implement....

August 16th Daily Reflection

I woke up this morning eager to find out what is today's devotion and then I see it is the instruction of being eager to spend time with the Lord! How appropriate - taking a few minutes every morning to be with the Lord, not as a task to get thru but an exciting opportunity to renew oneself and prepare for the awesomeness of the day!

Wishing you a God loving awesome day!

August 15th Daily Reflection

Love today's devotion because it reminds us that challenges are opportunities to look for blessings. It is easy to see blessings when things are going right but when things are going wrong, we tend to stop seeing the blessing of the Lord. Only the Lord can judge and when we stop seeing the blessings in things we preceived as wrong, we take over the Lord's role as judge.

Looking for blessings of the Lord in every and anything of the day....

August 14th Daily Reflection

There is a saying that "the more things change, the more they stay the same"....sometimes it is use from a defeatist point of view, however, the reason they stay the same is because the Lord never changes and when we are grounded in the Lord, changing things are easily dealt with so it appears to be more of the same.

what are your thoughts?

August 13th Daily Reflection

Learn to enjoy life! Relax more! Be closer to the Lord! Very simple commands that even a 5 year old can understand, yet most of us forget to follow them even though when we do, life is awesome and everything is possible. I am going to attempt enjoy life today, relax more and spend a bit more time getting closer to the Lord.

How are you going to spend your day?

August12th Daily Reflection

We have been so conditioned to think that weakness is a negative when really it is a positive! Today's devotion re-enforces that - when we are weak we are more willing to go to the Lord and that closeness to him allows us to reap the rewards of his blessing. Sometimes it feels that following the Lord goes against everything that society teaches us.

what do you think?

August 11th Daily Reflection

Go to the Lord, go to the Lord! Such a simply urging but so difficult to follow, even for those of us who are believer!  Opening oneself to love sounds so easy but is so difficult - we constantly undermine the loving relationships we have and then blame others for its demise. However, once we start loving the Lord and only the Lord, it becomes easier to love others and for us to stop undermining our relationships with others.

August 10th Daily Reflection

I attended a Landmark forum course about a month ago and they talked about transforming oneself as the way to living a life you love. Great ideas and ways of living was presented and when I read today's devotion, I could only smile because it deals with transforming ourselves to get closer to God! The more we have a positive interaction with the Lord, the less we have negative things in our lives. That's because as our trust in the Lord grows or faith and hope becomes more solidified and every and anything becomes possible. Using my energy positively by keeping the Lord by my side. Another way to live the life you love.

August 9th Daily Reflection

Wearing the robe of righteousness! What a wonderful privilege that we constantly shun because of our unrighteous behavior. However, today's devotion gives us the appropriate guidance - instead of shunning the robe of righteousness shun the unrighteous behavior. Easy to say, difficult to do but quite possible! Being constantly aware of our thoughts and actions helps us shun unrighteous behavior.

how are you shunning unrighteous behavior today?

August 8th Daily Reflection

Teaching others to grateful is the best way to show our gratitude to the Lord and all he does for us. I am sometimes overflowing with the various things I can be grateful for - the Lord's great work, the wonderfulness of all the people in my life and the great community that I live. Gratefulness - another path to full freedom.

August 7th Daily Reflection

Today's devotion is spot on! The more I try to understand what is going on, the more I get confused and that is a source of great frustration, however, today's devotion mentions that if we don't concern ourselves with understanding, then we achieve the elusive peace we keep searching for - how great it is that finding peace is thru thrusting and loving the Lord!

August 6th Daily Reflection

Today's devotion is awesome because it reminds us that only the Lord can solve our problems! And it reminds us that once we give our problems to the Lord, with faith and trust he will resolve them therefore we can continue praising him even during times of turmoil and troubles. How freeing it is to know that with the Lord by my side, every and any thing is possible and all problems are solvable!!!

August 5th Daily Reflection

Today I was late in reading the devotion because I was trying to pack as a friend normally says "10 lbs into a 5 lb bag". Then I decided before I get caught up at the office, I would stop and read the devotion and I could only smile to myself since it talks about being quiet with the Lord. Taking in his presence so that any hurried activity becomes slowed - a reminder that a leisurely pace accomplishes more than a hurried pace. I can think of numerous times when I was rushing around only to make so many mistakes that the rush became counterproductive. Slowing down to go faster!

I am slowing down today, are you?

August 4th Daily Reflection

It is so freeing once you realize that staying close to the Lord means staying on course. It's like a light bulb goes off once you determine that the only plan you need is the plan to be with the Lord in good and bad times, when you are happy or sad. This freedom provides the opportunity to truly enjoy the Lord which means truly enjoying life!

August 3rd Daily Reflection

Today's devotion appears to have been written with me in mind. How true and poignant reminder of the power of our words and how our carelessness causes unecessary pain. I have countless examples of this in my life. Fortunately, I have countless examples of when my words have brighten someone's day, provided them the encouragement they needed and inspired them to do things they didn't believe they could do. The sentence that really speaks to me comes from James 1:19 - My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. A timely reminder as I embark on a journey of inspiration of others.

August 2nd Daily Reflection

Sacrifice - time to be with the Lord - sounds like a difficult task, however, when I sacrifice time to be with the Lord, I find that instead of it being a sacrifice, it is one of the best investment I can make. Being with the Lord makes everything seem so simple and easy.

what are your thoughts....

Aug 1st Daily Reflection

Today's devotion is rather interesting because it hits at the source of most of our troubles - feeling unloved! However, if we focus on loving the Lord and receiving his love - the feeling of being unloved goes away because the Lord is the only one who can love unconditionally. By focusing on loving the Lord, you actual become easier to love and it is easier to love others getting closer to loving unconditional as the Lord  does.