Dear Sweet Sisters,

I wanted to share with you all one of my very special events that happened in my life many many years ago.  First let me begin by saying that I did not become a true christian nor did I get saved, truly saved, up until I was about 28 yrs old.  But God loved me and was faithful to me as He pursued me and He continued to work in my life without me ever knowing it. He was preparing my heart to find Him and grow in Him and accept Him many years later when the time was right,which of course was His timing, what better time is there? 

Now as you all know I love to write, that is quite obvious LOL.  Writing was and still is a passion of mine ever since I was a young girl.  God took a gift that He blessed me with and then used that gift to eventually reach my heart and eventually bring me to Him.   He has also taken that gift through the years and now uses me as His vessel to reach many others who seek wisdom from Him.  One of the reasons I love to write is because writing always brought me peace and comfort during the rough and turbulant trials I had to endure throughout the growing years of my life.  When I was younger writing truly inspired me and helped lift me up out of my many pits of saddness that I often found myself in dear ones.  So many times I felt so hopeless in life and writing helped encourage me into feeling positive during those times I felt so down.   I wanted to share how awesome God truly is for anybody else who may be doubting right now and wondering if He,our Lord, does truly care for them especially since you may be feeling sad at this very moment.  May I reassure you dear ones that YES the Lord does care and He loves you more than you can ever know or ever comprehend.

Now I wanted to share with you all about the writing gift the Lord has blessed me with.  The very first poem I ever wrote was completely and totally inspired by the Lord for how else could I have written about such a thing that I had absolutely no knowledge of especially since I really didn't know God or even understand Him or things about Him.  I had vague knowledge of Him that He was supposed to be out there but I knew nothing else.  My family was Catholic and unfortunately we only wore the title Catholic and we certainly had no personal relationship with God or Jesus throughout my years of growing up.  I don't say that as a cut down to my parents dear ones for they did the best they knew how with the  knowledge they were given from their parents in their lives.   I know my dad was always seeking for answers and tried his best to guide us along with him during his search.  But then he left, due to my parents divorcing, and we never got any further than that point. 

So at the age of 12 years old I can remember sitting on my bed, in my bedroom, and my pen began to easily flow across the paper without me putting any thought into what I was going to be writing and I began to write the poem that will follow this post.  It is times like these it shows me how God reaches down to those who don't know Him but are searching for something within themselves.  The Lord places a yearning inside each and everyone of us, a yearning that is only satisfied once we have accepted Jesus into our hearts and lives.   I believe the Lord builds this urge to seek Him in all of us and it never goes away until we finally find Him and after we find Him He fills that empty void up and we will never feel that  empty void  again.  Before each of us found Jesus, if you were like me, you tried to fill that void with many other things in life.  Of course nothing ever satisfied that void because it was  a void that only Jesus himself could fill in our hearts and lives.

So dear ones I am now going to write out the poem now. (please respect that it is copyrighted along with all my writings.  You are all always welcome to share my writings with others you feel might benefit from my writings but please respect that if you share them you must use my name and print my articles in full unless you have permission by me to shorten them for whatever reason.  Also maybe even share my blog link so that they can come by my blog and get inspired somemore.  Thank you all for being so understanding!)

Okay well here it goes would you all please read this poem and tell me what you think dear ones.  Is God awesome or what?

Salvation written by Brenda (inspired by God)

God gave life to all on earth,

He gave eternal life through rebirth,

He tried to do it in goodwill,

But people started to hate and kill,

He will return to choose the best,

The others souls will never rest! 

Now ladies remember I was 12 when I wrote this and I have told myself that one day I was going to sit and rewrite it at a more mature level.  When I wrote this as a 12 year old I believe God felt writing it so simply is what was going to eventually reach me over time for these words were the beginning of the first seeds to be planted in my garden of faith that would later germinate, grow and bloom into an amazing relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

So why am I sharing this with you dear ones?  Well I wanted to show you that if you or your children have gifts use them!  Don't let them slip away dear ones you don't need to do much more than supply then with what they need and give them the time to do what it is they are gifted at.  If we don't use our gifts sweet sisters I truly believe we can lose them.  Oh dear ones don't let that happen for just imagine how many lives can be touched through the gifts you have and your children have. Think of how many lives you can reach along with your precious children!!!  I hope and pray this encourages all you moms to go and find your own and your childrens gifts and help them grow in them for the Lord.  There is a book I have that has a quiz in it to help you find your childs gifts if you are interested in knowing the name of it just let me know I would love to share the title with you all.

Well ladies have a blessed night and go build those gifts in you and your children you will not regret it I promise you!! 

Dearest Lord I pray for each and everyone of these precious ladies.  I pray that you will help them seek and find the giifts you have instilled inside of them and their children.  Lord these gifts you give us are to be used to glorify you and bless you and others.  Please give these women peace and help them see how obtainable this truly is with alittle effort and much prayer!!  I know they can do anything with you Lord so I ask you be with each and everyone of them and let those gifts begin to shine!  Thank you Lord for all you do!!  You are truly an awesome God!

In Jesus name we pray Amen

PS Thank you to all who responded to my question regarding what you may be looking for in my blog.  I appreciated your replies and your time you are all so dear to my heart!  Thank you again.

Dearest Sisters,

This has been a topic that has been weighing on my heart alot lately dear sisters.  When I have spoken in the past about choosing to be content and choosing to be joyful the way to be successful at doing this is to being willing to Walk In The Spirit dear sisters.  Only the Holy Spirit can help us to stay consistent and help us to see past the things that our flesh has a hard time ignoring dear ones.  When we want to live according to God's plans for us precious sisters we need the Holy Spirit to help us to walk in our divine calling.  Too many times it is easy to get caught up in what is going wrong around us.   What happens when we focus on the wrong things happening in our life sweet ladies?  Would you all agree that when we focus on the wrong things we all get the same results which is to become unhappy, joyless and discontent in our lives?  That is why when we choose joy and contentment the sure way to cement those feelings into our lives is to walk in the spirit, most precious ladies. 

Now may I share with you dear sisters exactly what I mean when I say to walk in the spirit?  It means seeing things the way God would want us to see them dear ones.  It means responding in love and compassion to ALL things in our lives whether they are good or bad.  It means seeing past the bad we would normally see and to laugh off the things we would normally take offense to.  Smile at all things and tell yourself that you will not allow yourself to focus in on and concentrate on the negative.  No dear ladies agree to smile and laugh off the things that will only bring you unhappiness if you let them.  When our man comes home grumpy from work it means to smile at him and to minister to him and show him love and compassion and not get mad and not retaliate by being grumpy back.  Does that make sense dear sisters?     A good thing to practice is to smile whether you feel like it or not.  Smiling is a good way to demonstrate to those around you that you are walking in the spirit.  Eventually it will become second nature to you dear ones.  But while you are waiting for that to happen make it a habit to smile at your man and your children and watch them smile back!  Smiles are contagious!  My husband always tells me that my smile is intoxicating.  Smiles are another way to cement our decision to walk in the spirit.

When Jesus walked the earth He demonstrated exactly what walking and living in the spirit looked like.  He gave us the best example ever by living out what He expects us to be doing.  Even though Jesus was God He still came to earth as a man.  He felt the things we feel, He experienced the pain of life and emotions but He controlled them and chose to walk in the spirit and NOT in the flesh!  This was a choice that Jesus made!   If anyone had a reason to be offended and hurt wouldn't you dear ladies agree it was Jesus?  He had good reason to be offended and hurt by many things but He looked past everything that could of been hurtful and responded to all things in the spirit.  By being in the flesh He can truly say He knows exactly how we feel and He showed us that making the choice to live by the spirit and not by the flesh is truly an obtainable goal!  He is not expecting us to do something He himself couldn't or wouldn't do!  Wouldn't you dear sisters agree that the best example is to live out whatever our expectations are?  I know more is caught than taught when it comes to teaching our children the things we want them to know and our Heavenly Father did the same thing for us, he lived the examples He wanted us to follow dear ladies. 

Oh dear sisters our flesh wants to react to the circumstances in life that happens around us.  But what good does that bring??????  I can truly tell you from my own experience absolutely NONE!  From my own experience in life I know anytime I have responded in the flesh, to the things in my life, it certainly did not bring about any good in my life. When I walk in my divine calling and respond to things in the spirit GREATNESS has always come out of it!  Not only did greatness come out of it ladies but an example is set before my children to follow and I am also ministering to my awesome and wonderful man at the same time!  What more can I ask for?   I also become a witness for Jesus and it is a good way to win souls for Him!

I will never forget many, many years ago my man was expressing some feelings to me that were starting to sound alittle hurtful and harsh.   If I would of continued to listen in the flesh it would of become an instant confrontation between us but I didn't let it.   I chose to listen and respond in the spirit.  I know he was not trying to be mean or hurtful but if I was in the flesh I would of taken those words as a personal attack on me and I would of responded accordingly.  Being that my heart was filled with the spirit I responded in such and I guess he realized at that point that the words he was saying were sounding harsh to even him so he came over and hugged me, and said he was sorry, that was totally on his own accord.  It wasn't because I told him I was offended or hurt.  As of today I truly have no recollection of what was even said to me.  If I would of responded in the flesh I would of instantly snapped back in my own defense, I would of started pointing out what I felt were his faults and it would of become a very huge fight.  Hurtful words would of been said back and forth between us and daggers from the tongue would of been thrown at each other.  Scars would of been left on both of us and I would probably remember everything that was said between us up until today.  But when we walk in the spirit ladies hurtful words are spared, daggers and not thrown and scars are not left behind!   We see past the flesh and we see things in a different light!  Are you with me dear ones?  Are you saying AMEN to this?  I know you all know what I am speaking of dear ones and you are all capable of walking in the spirit for I have complete and total confidence in all of you!  I totally believe in each and every one of you and I know that you can all be successful in this area of walking in your divine calling!  Dearest sisters if I can walk in the spirit you all can do so too!   It is nothing more than a choice.  It is nothing more than a prayer asking our Heavenly Father to fill us with the fruit of the spirit.  The spirit lives within us dear ones we just need to unleash it and give over to it the things our flesh wants to control.  You will all find that once you learn to walk in the spirit you will find your life to be so much more peaceful and joyful.  You will be more content and your children will also strive to walk in the spirit with you!

Thank you Jesus for being with us always!

In your precious name I pray! Amen!