Today I want to get lost, drowned, in your rivers of Love Lord. Saturate me and dunk me good! I need the refreshment and to be filled! I am headed to the place where these rivers converge. Maybe you want to leave the banks and dive in with me today. Maybe you will start out standing in the shallows, or swimming , but me I have dove in head first, now let your waves crash down over me Lord. Fill me with your love for your people and a holy reverence toward you! Let the wounds of the past and disappointments from past seasons wash away. Renew me Lord. I think I will swim a while here, friend! I hope you do today too! (I will go now for the King of Kings has entered the scene and has joined me and I must laugh and be with him awhile!!!)
Tag: life
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Doors of Abundance!
I don’t know why some doors are more difficult to enter through, but they, at least, seem to be. Today I sense an opportunity to enter a door of faithfulness that leads to abundance! One step in and the changes begin immediately. It is choosing to no longer partner with old voices of shame and lack, and embracing the abundant life Jesus paid a heavy price for, for me and you friend! It does begin with a choice and there are giants that want to deter us from entry, but the blood of the lamb is covering so, they can only mock and discourage. Maybe like me today, one of the giants is a lying mirror of mockery, but that mirror is from a fun house and is not reflecting true, turn your thoughts away from it, and the jibes being hurled from it of past failures and who the enemy wants you to be. This is what I am doing! My life is not my own and the one who loves and has redeemed me is calling me through the open door. Let us run today friend, through those open doors!
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Ruth and Rusty Wings!
Tonight I am dusting off these wings and spreading them to fly! I feel a bit rusty when it comes to putting down my thoughts in writing. I have learned to just begin right where I am, so I will flap these wings and begin to lift.
Today I had a profound revelation for my life of Ruth 3:11. “And now, my daughter; do not fear. I will do for you all that you request, for all the people of my town know that you are a virtuous woman.” If ever you found yourself in need of redemption in life, oh man I have, you would share in my joy! It was a surprise, the redeemer was the one that came to me when I was 4 or 5. He has stayed with me through the pain, the grief, he saw the betrayals and he forgave those I perpetuated on him. I guess I will just leave that there, only he knows the extent of what he has endured and carried me through. I used to dream of a man seeing the ups and downs and loving me through it all and I finally found him. Truth is he found me. Jesus, God and Man! It was my time, or his time for me! The surprise was the realization that it is done. It is one thing when I believe and read the stories of those who have gone before, then such another thing to find myself in the story, and finding I have crossed over to the victory side and it makes the faith, the persistence in believing worth it. I used to accept this scripture in Ruth as mine and many others, but something changes, like seeing a vision dimly is to a vivid dream, my life before to being chosen and redeemed. I am not speaking of salvation, for that has been mine since childhood. No, I am speaking about the way Ruth asked to be redeemed by Boaz. She lost her husband and her life and was a stranger where she was. I too have lost many times and things, but today I heard him say: “And now my daughter do not fear, I will do for you all that you request!” And my story changed, just like that and I too am like Ruth, redeemed!!!
Man or woman, child, or seasoned, Jesus waits to lavish his love on you and turn your story into more victory. Choose him today, he is just a prayer (conversation) away!
Butterfly Vuela 