Trust and Faith with plenty of belief

A story from Corrie Ten Boom:

Often I have heard people say, "How good God is!

We prayed that it would not rain for our church picnic,

and look at the lovely weather!"

Yes, God is good when He sends good weather.

But God was also good when He allowed my

sister, Betsie, to starve to death before my eyes in

a German concentration camp.

I remember one occasion when I was very discouraged there.

Everything around us was dark, and there was darkness in my heart.

I remember telling Betsie that I thought God had forgotten us. "No,

Corrie," said Betsie, "He has not forgotten us. Remember His Word:

"For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him."

Corrie concludes, "There is an ocean of God's love available - there

is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that

victorious love - whatever the circumstances."

No matter what the circumstances.

Never Doubt.

God has not forgotten.

God's love is available there is an ocean of his love and plenty for everyone and yes there is enough for you.

No matter your problem, God and his word and his promise is there for all!

Yes your problems may feel overwhelming, they often do feel that way.

My prayer and wish is that your problems and circumstances never get as dark as those that Betsie and Corrie Ten Boom had those days in the concentration camp.

My prayer and wish is that you always take time to pray, to give thanks to live a life of gratitude.

A quote from E. M. Bounds:

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt,

prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

Trust perfected is prayer perfected.

Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it.

Trust is not a belief that God can bless or

that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now.

Trust always operates in the present tense.

Hope looks toward the future.

Trust looks to the present.

Hope expects. Trust possesses.

Trust receives what prayer acquires.

So, what prayer needs, at all times,

is abiding and abundant trust.

He will bless you, your prayer and your door is about to open.

Never quit just before the dawn of a new day.  Some people have the impatience to quit just before the new door was about to open.  Don't let that happen to your answered prayer, or to your efforts to a better way.

It takes effort, answered prayer often comes with our free will to work towards a better way.  But God has the ability to place people in our path that makes those ways easier and he blesses us with all the tools needed.

Tools like Faith, His word, His promise, His love.

Never give up

Never give in

Never ever lose the gift of love and forgiveness.

Dream Big, Pray often, Love Forever, Laugh for no reason and always, always take time to smile!

As always smiles sent your way !  : )

10/03/11

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Being Spiritual, Having Faith, Sharing your Love

 

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

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Let your religion be less of a theory

and more of a love affair.

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“One sees great things from the valley,

only small things from the peak.”

~G.K. Chesterton

All three quotes by the same man.  All three.  To me they all tie together.

 

To me, faith is not to be pushed onto another, or even tried to pull from another.

Faith is not magic, it is belief, it is trust, it is love.

I have seen much more from any valley, learned more from the valley and have the ability to set my standards and goals better from that same valley.

If your on top of the mountain sure you see farther but the details are not as crisp nor do you get a true sense that you understand what is happening down there.

In the valley you know whats happening.  You feel it, touch it, sense it and your part of it.

I will take the valley everyday but sure, I want to climb that mountain and get to its top.  But don't ever wonder if I don't want to help and hang out with those in the valley.

That been there done that feeling never gets lost when your trying to inspire, lift, love and motivate others to learn how to live and leave that valley.

Pain and suffering exists.  I know that, you know that.  So understand this so does the ability to make a difference, to smile, to laugh, to love, to dream.

Even if your in the valley we as spiritual, loving Christians know that we shall fear no evil, because of our Love for the Lord and our faith in his word.

I don't believe in purple unicorns.  But I won't take away or belittle you or ask you to give up your belief.

Many of those who run or doubt or have not faith in these magical things as they call them.  Do however.

You have the right to your belief in purple unicorns, thats fine but try not to have such a hard, dark sarcasm about the Christian faith.

For we understand Hebrew 11: 1

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen.

I know I have used this much lately. But faith is what we all should have in abundance.

Its what we should be grateful for, what we love and cherish so.

Which takes me back to the second quote above.

Let your religion or spiritual belief and faith be less of a theory and discussion and more about sharing love, sharing that smile, shining your light.

You live like that, people will start to understand your love affair with faith, with God, with the story of Jesus.

They will seek out and find because of the light and love you have shined all around them.

Not because you pushed them.....pulled them and dragged them to the word.  No that has not effect.

But with love they will see.  Now will they see right away, will they want to run to the light always.  NO of course not, and thats ok, your still living the life of love, laughter, joy and faith.

Not a bad thing to want to share at all is it?

Not a bad thing at all.

I love to write and share and inspire and give to you that gift that flows through my fingers.  Do I make mistakes at the keyboard.

Sure I do, just as I do in life.  I need a editor, lol, I need that bad. However I do believe that my 961 posts that I have written and shared here and on Redgage, and on Triond, and on Blogger and MMSO (MakeMeSmileOnline) have an impact just the same.

Impact and love and inspiration shared with the reader.

Not a bad thing at all.

Share that smile of yours, first with yourself in that mirror each morning and then with others.

Share that laughter with yourself first of course others will find it flowing freely from you.  They will laugh as well its contagious.

Share that love, even if you feel unloved, or in that valley of despair love will find you.

God loves you every day and when you seek him, you can't help but see him, feel him, sense him, love him.

He is all around.

He is in all the good that this word still shares so freely.

God is indeed everywhere.

You just need to seek and have faith and love.

Dream ~ Smile ~ Laugh~ Love always

and as always smiles sent out to you!  : )

10/02/11

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