Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Oct 31st Daily Reflection

Meditating and centering oneself in the Lord before going into the world. Image a world where everyone would spend a few moments each morning meditating and centering themselves in the Lord. People would be nicer to each other, more merciful and loving, forgiving each others for mistakes. The anger and hurt would be less and collaboration and help would be more prevelant. Instead of imaging such a world, I am challenging you to act as if such a world exists because if we do, we will find that it does exists and see the benefits of spending the time praying to the Lord.

Are you ready for the challenge?

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Oct 30th Daily Reflection

"I am with you", what a powerful sentence when spoke to anyone, however, its power increases when spoken by the Lord. Image the life we could lead if we truly believed and acted as if the Lord was truly with us! If we went thru life with the confidence of knowing the Lord was guiding and supporting us! Our ability to positively impact would be limitless! We would move thru the world with a sense of fearlessness that even those intent on doing evil would be afraid of us! I smile because when I think about how much I have accomplished because my parents are always with me and then I think if I went a bit further and believed that the Lord is always with me, how much more I can accomplish!

How is your accomplishment improving because you believe the Lord is with you?

Monday, October 29, 2012

Oct 29th Daily Reflection

Center yourself in the Lord! Before you start the day, spend time to be quiet with him, praying and listening to his whispers.....I find that centering myself with the Lord allows me to see the love in the world around me, allows me to see the good in any situation and most importantly allows me to love those who have harmed me. Being centered in the Lord allows me to withstand the redicule of loving the Lord and proclaiming it. Centered in the Lord, I can enjoy my love affair with him, smiling thru the day, brigthening other's day.

How is being centered in the Lord, making your life better?

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Oct 28th Daily Reflection

I love today's devotion! It talks about forgiving those who have hurt us and I would take it a bit further and say loving those who hurt us because that shows true sign of grace and brings us closer to the Lord. As the Lord forgives us and continues to love us even when we hurt him so we should do to others who have hurt us. I have found that forgiveness and loving those who hurt me gives me more peace than revenge or holding the hurt. I become more powerful and ensure that they do not take control of my life.

How is forgiveness helping your reach peace in your life?

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Oct 27th Daily Reflection

I had plan on going camping on today, then I cancelled because of the weather, however, I decided not to cancel my reservation. This morning, I woke up to a beautiful day and started to worry that maybe I can still go but my friend wouldn't be able to and how do I ask her without making her feel pressured. I was getting worked up for about 5 mins when I realized, I should simply stop, take a deep breath and let the Lord decide. So I did that and a peace came over me. That is when I realize the peace in my life is always there and my turning away from the Lord causes me to loss sight of it.

How are causing the peace to go out of your life?

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Oct 25th Daily Reflection

God is with us all the time, however, it is up to us to determine open up to him, including him in our life at all times. Stopping thru the day to connect with him especially when you are the busiest makes the day so much better. It helps keeps everything in perspective and leads you to realize that whatever melt down you are going thru is nothing with the Lord by your side.

How is staying close to the Lord helping make your day better?

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Oct 23rd Daily Reflection

Walking around enveloped in the Lord's love gives you a sense of peace and relaxation that is so amazing! I just came from a beautiful life altering retreat with some incredible women and I understand why I was encouraged to attend. After a year of struggling, I can be completely open and at peace with the Lord trusting him with every details of my life and I can say my life is so rewarding, I bounce out of bed everyday. I see possibilties when others see problems. The first step is letting go, second is trusting, the third is looking for his blessings all day long.

Are you experiencing the peace of being enveloped in the Lord's love?

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Oct 21st Daily Reflection

Rejoice whenever your plans were interrupted by the Lord! I spent the weekend at Emmaus and one of the things I was telling the other women was rejoice when things don't go your way! It is so great to be able to rejoice when I am dispppointed because it reminds me that I am trying to play God and whenever we  try to play God and ascend to the judgment throne, we run into problem! As we realize that the closer to the Lord we get, the easier it is to deal with the petty things on earth.

How is your walk and closeness to the Lord making you realize that earthly things are a distraction?

Monday, October 15, 2012

Oct 15th Daily Reflection

Staying conscious on the Lord, even when the world around us is distracting....I must say my struggle to continuously do this has lessen and now I can catch myself when I am not being conscious of the Lord. I can say that being a constant state of consciousness of the Lord creates a life that is beyond words! It is as if I can experience heaven on earth, the rainings of blessings are non-stop and you have a high that is incredible!

How is staying conscious on the Lord making life more vibrant?

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Oct 14th Daily Reflection

What if whenever we have a problem, face a disappointment, we stop for a moment and rejoice? Truly rejoice and give thanks and praise that this is an awesome opportunity for us, give thanks that the Lord loves us so much that he gave us this great problem! Wouldn't that we really awesome? By now you are thinking I must be completely drunk! However, if we did rejoice whenever there was a problem, we would be able to see the beauty of the situation, we could see that it is not really a problem, it's just how the situation is occuring to us and if we changed the occurance, we would see the beauty and blessings. I started to see all problems in my life as blessings of the Lord and the funny thing is they became blessings. The joy and excitement I get when I have a new problem to solve! The giddiness that I will get to use my God given talents to make a difference - WOW! What a feeling. The spiritual high I get from resolving an issue thru God's guidance! I now lead a problem free life, I live an opportunity filled one!

How are you seeing problems as blessings of the Lord?

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Oct 11th Daily Reflection

Over the past few days I have been taking about going to the Lord, trusting in him with unwavering faith and today, I would like to talk about seeing the blessings of following the recommendations. If we have a hard time, is it really a hard time or is it that we are mis-interpeting the beauty of the situation. Every situation I have been in that at first I said was a hard time, actually turned out to be the passageway into a beautiful blessing. It begins and ends with the Lord who provides only beautiful things for us.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Oct 10th Daily Reflection

Unwavering trust! Trust so intense that you can't image not trusting! This is what the Lord is asking of us. He wants us to trust without knowing what the future holds. This type of trust is difficult to achieve, however, once we achieve it, it is hard to image not having trusting in this manner. As we strive to get closer to the Lord, it is unwavering trust that will get there!

How are you handling your struggle to have unwavering trust with the Lord?

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Oct 9th Daily Reflection

The ways that the Lord speaks to us is so amazing. A friend is going thru a very difficult time in her life and she is at the "why bother" point. This is the point where only the Lord can help! So before even reading today's devotion I sent her a text telling her to keep the faith, stay with the Lord and things will be fine. Then I though did I overstep? Am I wrong? I read today's devotion which encourages us to go to the Lord with all our worries, complaints, and he will take care of us. He will provide what we need at the exact time we need it. The devotion confirmed that my text was the right thing to do. Going to the Lord is the only way to get thru a difficult time. I know is from past experience and staying with him after you have gotten thru ensures that everything is aways great!

How is staying with the Lord causing you to live a great life?

Monday, October 8, 2012

Oct 8th Daily Reflection

LOVE! This is an interesting word. People use all the time to convey an intimacy, however, do we truly live love? Do we live love in the sense that we use our love for someone as the basis of our action? Is love the first consideration before response to a preceived hurt or wrong? Or do we only live love when things are going well? I am pondering these questions after reading today's devotion which calls us to love the Lord and indirect calling for us to love each other unconditionally!

What questions are you pondering as you try to live love?

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Oct 4th Daily Reflection

Yesterday, I was an emotional roller coaster! Whenever something would happen that didn't meet my expectations I would get annoyed and then I would stop and say a small pray which would calm me down and I would be able to provide a solution. This continued throughout the day and at the end of the day, I was feeling uplifting! And I thought why am I feeling uplifting after such a roller coaster day? The answer was I did something different, I would let my emotions get the better of me but I would not react to them and by not reacting, I was ensuring I didn't create more issues. So normally a day like yesterday would end with more issues than necessary but by staying close to the Lord, most issues were resolved and no new issues were added.

How is staying close to the Lord reducing your issues?

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Oct 2nd Daily Reflection

Today's devotion is about having a love affair with the Lord. I smile when I read it because a few months ago, I decided that I should be having a love affair with the Lord and because of that affair, I was free to love everyone one around me. That incredible, spiritual lifting love where you don't care if the person loves you back because you have so much love flowing thru you! And the interesting thing is because I was so open with my love not having a care about it being returned that I almost missed the love that was being returned to me! A few weeks ago I went out with a few friends and what struck me was these were people who knows me intimately and their love was so evident, I went out with another friend and the same thing happened, her love for me was so evident! Now that I am aware, I have so many wow moments where I can only stand and say wow, did that most wonderful beautiful thing just happen?

Monday, October 1, 2012

October 1st Daily Reflection

Taking time to rest with the Lord! Yesterday, I did that instead of trying to squeeze work in and found that this morning I am much better prepared for the week. Questions I couldn't answer, issues I could resolved, all have answers and resolutions because I spent time with the Lord. Today's devotion is a good reminder because I sometimes get caught up in the day to day don't stop to give thanks or be quite with the Lord.

How is being quite with the Lord helping you?