Today

Today, I want you to be thankful for my hedge of protection. I want you to close your eyes, and see with your heart that I am holding you in my arms. I want you to love me with an urgency that you have never known. I want you to pray with a conviction you were not aware you had. Today, I want you to believe that no weapon formed against you shall prosper because my shield covers you. I want you to take hold of the peace that I have sent you, a peace that cannot be stolen unless you allow it. I want you to stop relying on your own understanding and know that my wisdom is more than enough. I want you to cling to my Son, and never let go, as he will guide you to the heavens. Today, let me be your Deliverer, fully, without hesitation, questions or doubts. Today. Right now. Let me be your God.

Awesome God

I am an awesome God. Worship and praise me, focus on me and my ways, and I will secure in you a peace that man cannot provide. No matter how far you think you have fallen from me with your sin and rebellion, you are never out of my reach. My hands go before you, to cushion you when you hit the bottom. My arms will draw you back to me, where you belong. In my presence, surrounded by my love, grace, and mercy. I will shower you with the blood that I shed for you, and you will be made white as snow. I love you. I will not forsake you, I will never turn from you. I am your deliverer.

Give me

Give me your heart, as I am the one who can put the delicate broken pieces back together. Give me your sorrow, and I will transform it into strength. Give me your fear and I will mold it into hope that cannot be contained. Give me your broken spirit, and I will tenderly cradle it while it mends. Give me praise, and I will will give you peace. Give me your pain and I will give you healing. Give me your life, I have already given you mine.
Jesus

Love

Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times
Leviticus 19:18 Love your neighbor as yourself
Song of Solomon 8:6 For love is as strong as death
Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, love your enemies
John 13:34 Love one another, as I have loved you
Romans 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to a neighbor
Romans 14:5 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who
loves another has fulfilled the law
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy;love does not
parade itself, is not puffed up;does not behave rudely, does
not seek its own, is not provoked,thinks no evil;does not
rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;bears all things
believes all things, hopes all things,endures all things. Love
never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:13 And now abide faith,hope love,these three;but the greatest of
these is love.
1 Timothy 1:5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart
1 Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent love for one another for love
will cover a multitude of sins
1 John 3:16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.
And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another

We are

We are either equipped by our past experience, or handicapped by it.

Author Unknown

This came across my path and I was in awe of the dignity of it. Not religious in any way, but hopeful and wonderful all the same.

You and I,
We meet as strangers, each carrying a mystery
Within us, I can not say who you are
I may never know you completely
But I trust that you are a person in your own right
Possessed of a beauty and value
That are the earth's riches treasures
So I make this promise to you
I will impose no identities upon you
But will invite you to become yourself
Without shame or fear
I will hold open a space for you in the world
And allow your right to fill it
With authentic vocation and purpose
For as long as your search takes
You have my loyalty

Another day

Another day has passed, and you have not just merely survived. You have had joy, peace, hope and love abundantly. I have held your hand and guided you through the maze that seems unending. I have held your heart, when the winds of change make it feel like it is crumbling into dust and blowing in a hundred different directions. I have been the iron rod that stands you straight when the weight of the enemy on your shoulders is too much to hold up on your own. I have been the waterfall of cleansing, that flows over and through you, and replaces the bitterness with a laughter that can not be contained. Another day has passed, and you have have not merely survived, you have conquered.