So My sister is due in a few weeks. Wow how time is flying fast. She has met the man and woman she going to be giving her daughter to a few weeks ago. She says they are nice and will raise the little girl with much more then she feels she can offer. She also said they are willing to allow us the family to have pictures and stay in contact with them and the little girl in the future! This is a major bonus if it is followed through!!!
I realize the real reason that it bothers me that she has chosen this avenue rather then stepping out and keeping the baby to raise as her own. It has to do with back 7 years ago when I got pregnant. I was not married, I wasn't ready for a child nor did I want one out of wed lock, however God always seems to know what is best for us and His way is always followed despite how we try to do it our own...You see, I seriously considered adoption for my situation, however I ended up not going through with it out of guilt and maybe conviction or even condemnation..I am not really sure but I often wonder if keeping my daughter was the right choice because of all that has occurred over the 7 years and the struggle I have had raising her on my own. Sighs, truth is, I didn't have the courage to let go, to give up my child into the hands of others for a permanent decision. So I felt it was best to swallow my guilt, swallow my shame and all that I was feeling and step out in faith and start the journey as being a single mom, trusting that God would lead me every step. And he has! smiles, He really has been my strength, my peace, my guide in raising her and being a mom.
I wouldn't go back in time and do anything different if I had to do it over. I just realize my sister is stronger then I in this area and she has more confidence when it comes to being able to let go and say good-bye. I commend her for it! I really do. I have never been able to let go of people in my life, let folks walk away or out of my world with out fighting to keep them in. I don't know if that is good or a bad thing. Sometimes I really wonder. But never the less, my sister has been given characteristic traits I don't have and I guess I'm a tad bit envious. But at the same token I know she feels the same way about me....but may never admit it...that is where we differ I guess.
I talked to my sister the other day and she agreed to allow me and my daughter to come see the baby when she is born. She also said we can take pictures and stuff of baby! So this is making it easier for me to grasp that I will have a niece who will grow up maybe never knowing our family. But I have to trust that God will bring us back together....in His time.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Words Weave Garments...What Are You Tailoring??
So I recently wrote a blog about the webs we weave with our words....and it was dealing with lies...I want to explore today with this blog the idea that perhaps our words do more then weave webs....Lets ponder the idea that our words also can weave a garment that covers as well! Words create unseen pictures to the natural eye, however it paints seen pictures to the spiritual eye. Words have the power of life and death in them....life that creates and death that destroys...That is why it is said that out of the abundance of your heart your mouth will speak. The abundance is the place of over flow...perhaps this could be our mind...the storehouse for our heart....Which is why it's important to meditate on what is good and to cast down every negative thought...because thoughts not acted on die unborn....
Think about it...where does offense start? In our heart...No in our mind...what is birthed from offense? Anger, gossip, malicious acts to those who have offended you....offense holds you in bondage, it creates words to be spoken that rest upon the one who offended you as a garment...a garment of heaviness that causes them to live in bondage to you as the master....which is not what God wants for them or you...we are to live at peace with all people if possible...slavery isn't a peaceful situation neither is being the hard task master....
What I am trying to say is that Our words and acts are threads clean and beautiful or stained and blemished, according to their moral character. Thus we are for ever weaving, and the web that we make our souls must wear in eternity. How important it is that we put into this fabric only threads of immortal beauty! If we do God’s will always, and train ourselves to think over God’s thoughts, and to receive into our heart the influences of God’s love and grace, and to yield ever and only to God’s Spirit, we shall weave for our souls a seamless robe of righteousness which shall appear radiant and lovely when all earth's garments have faded and crumbled to dust.
These same robes of righteousness we create for ourselves are the same ones we create for others by the words we speak about them...We are to be preferring others over our self and be like iron sharpening iron with our words. We are not to be tearing down, gossiping or causing others to be wearing garments that are stained or blemished by our words...Speaking ill of another, lying about them, degrading them are just some ways we weave garments stained for others to wear. Speaking out of offense and anger (with or without just-able cause) are other ways we weave garments with our words for others that are not pretty. The most radiant garment you can wear out side of the one woven with God's Glory is the garment created by another persons words. For the Bible commands us to love others as we love our self....perhaps the reason so many peoples words weave garments that carry weight of death or even bondage is because they do not love themselves first....so they have no idea how to really love others. So let me encourage you to look at the garments others are wearing that they have woven for themselves by the words in which they speak about their own life...if they are beautiful garments radiating with life and color then perhaps this person knows how to love and can weave for you a garment of beauty with their words...These are the people to get up and around...People who prefer others over self and this is evident in how they speak of one another....not with words of enticement, flattery or impure motives but out of LOVE....a place that knows not offense, knows how to be iron sharpening iron, knows how to weave with their words garments of life for others and not death....knows how to endure a wrong, knows how to be long suffering... Read 1 Cor 13 (the love chapter)
For what one does in secret will be revealed openly...even in the studio of a tailor...the seamstress works on sketches and ideas for garments in their studio and brings the finished product to the floor for critiquing/revealing....lots of thought, detail and time is put into the garment they are sketching...ooh how the Body of Christ could learn this lesson when it comes to weaving garments with our words.....Instead of running to others when things don't go our way..we should run to Abba Father (God) and let speak to him about the situation, people for when we do, our words don't weave garments for others, for it is He who makes all things new..and while our words have power to create a garment for the ones we speak of, He is the master tailor and turns our words into a covering for that person...Hence where love covers a multitude of sin comes into play...God is a tailor who designs His garments to not just be worn but to cover from head to toe the one wearing them...Hence why it is so important to allow what He says about us weave us our garments to wear.
So let me have you Selah and ask this question...what garments are you weaving with your words for others to wear? Garments of covering or garments of death?
As I was birthing this blog for several weeks, God was doing something internally in me that will be revealed at a later time....but it was Yesterdays message that confirmed to me that I must release this blog because we are coming into a season where offense will be running ramped and how we respond will determine what garments are weaved by our words for us and others...Also we are living in a season of recovery for a season of discovery and it is crucial that we are aware of what comes out of our mouth every given minute. It is time to speak words of life that weave garments of beauty for others and our self. Even Lazarus was commanded to take off the garments of the grave (death) and put on garments of life when Jesus raised him from the dead....Jesus was stripped of his garments of life as he was nailed to the cross to put on the garments of death that were weaved by words of crucifixion by the "religious" and the pharisees. However, when He rose from the grave He had been given garments of life weaved by the words of His father. Selah
The world was created by words spoken...drops of water were weaved together to create oceans, seas and rivers by the words spoke by God. It was particles being woven together by the voice of God as He spoke these words; "let there be light" into the atmosphere. How much more should our words be weaving together.....for the Glory of God...not for the tearing down of others. Remember there is life and death in the power of the tongue....so choose words wisely and carefully for we will have to give account of all words spoken when we stand before God on our judgement day....not for the words of others..but the words that come out of our mouth.....so choose today to start weaving garments of covering, life and beauty for yourself and others and as you do Love will begin to defuse offense from operating in your life..and causing you to live in bondage...because all offense does is set you up for death....NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM OFFENSE. NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM WEAVING GARMENTS WITH WORDS OF NEGATIVITY!
WORDS HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE DESTINY OR DESTROY DESTINY!
Take time to invest value and thought into each word that comes from your lips so that you weave a garment of covering (life) for those around you....choose to wear the garments woven by the words of God and others who see value in weaving garments of covering, life and honor for you!
Think about it...where does offense start? In our heart...No in our mind...what is birthed from offense? Anger, gossip, malicious acts to those who have offended you....offense holds you in bondage, it creates words to be spoken that rest upon the one who offended you as a garment...a garment of heaviness that causes them to live in bondage to you as the master....which is not what God wants for them or you...we are to live at peace with all people if possible...slavery isn't a peaceful situation neither is being the hard task master....
What I am trying to say is that Our words and acts are threads clean and beautiful or stained and blemished, according to their moral character. Thus we are for ever weaving, and the web that we make our souls must wear in eternity. How important it is that we put into this fabric only threads of immortal beauty! If we do God’s will always, and train ourselves to think over God’s thoughts, and to receive into our heart the influences of God’s love and grace, and to yield ever and only to God’s Spirit, we shall weave for our souls a seamless robe of righteousness which shall appear radiant and lovely when all earth's garments have faded and crumbled to dust.
These same robes of righteousness we create for ourselves are the same ones we create for others by the words we speak about them...We are to be preferring others over our self and be like iron sharpening iron with our words. We are not to be tearing down, gossiping or causing others to be wearing garments that are stained or blemished by our words...Speaking ill of another, lying about them, degrading them are just some ways we weave garments stained for others to wear. Speaking out of offense and anger (with or without just-able cause) are other ways we weave garments with our words for others that are not pretty. The most radiant garment you can wear out side of the one woven with God's Glory is the garment created by another persons words. For the Bible commands us to love others as we love our self....perhaps the reason so many peoples words weave garments that carry weight of death or even bondage is because they do not love themselves first....so they have no idea how to really love others. So let me encourage you to look at the garments others are wearing that they have woven for themselves by the words in which they speak about their own life...if they are beautiful garments radiating with life and color then perhaps this person knows how to love and can weave for you a garment of beauty with their words...These are the people to get up and around...People who prefer others over self and this is evident in how they speak of one another....not with words of enticement, flattery or impure motives but out of LOVE....a place that knows not offense, knows how to be iron sharpening iron, knows how to weave with their words garments of life for others and not death....knows how to endure a wrong, knows how to be long suffering... Read 1 Cor 13 (the love chapter)
For what one does in secret will be revealed openly...even in the studio of a tailor...the seamstress works on sketches and ideas for garments in their studio and brings the finished product to the floor for critiquing/revealing....lots of thought, detail and time is put into the garment they are sketching...ooh how the Body of Christ could learn this lesson when it comes to weaving garments with our words.....Instead of running to others when things don't go our way..we should run to Abba Father (God) and let speak to him about the situation, people for when we do, our words don't weave garments for others, for it is He who makes all things new..and while our words have power to create a garment for the ones we speak of, He is the master tailor and turns our words into a covering for that person...Hence where love covers a multitude of sin comes into play...God is a tailor who designs His garments to not just be worn but to cover from head to toe the one wearing them...Hence why it is so important to allow what He says about us weave us our garments to wear.
So let me have you Selah and ask this question...what garments are you weaving with your words for others to wear? Garments of covering or garments of death?
As I was birthing this blog for several weeks, God was doing something internally in me that will be revealed at a later time....but it was Yesterdays message that confirmed to me that I must release this blog because we are coming into a season where offense will be running ramped and how we respond will determine what garments are weaved by our words for us and others...Also we are living in a season of recovery for a season of discovery and it is crucial that we are aware of what comes out of our mouth every given minute. It is time to speak words of life that weave garments of beauty for others and our self. Even Lazarus was commanded to take off the garments of the grave (death) and put on garments of life when Jesus raised him from the dead....Jesus was stripped of his garments of life as he was nailed to the cross to put on the garments of death that were weaved by words of crucifixion by the "religious" and the pharisees. However, when He rose from the grave He had been given garments of life weaved by the words of His father. Selah
The world was created by words spoken...drops of water were weaved together to create oceans, seas and rivers by the words spoke by God. It was particles being woven together by the voice of God as He spoke these words; "let there be light" into the atmosphere. How much more should our words be weaving together.....for the Glory of God...not for the tearing down of others. Remember there is life and death in the power of the tongue....so choose words wisely and carefully for we will have to give account of all words spoken when we stand before God on our judgement day....not for the words of others..but the words that come out of our mouth.....so choose today to start weaving garments of covering, life and beauty for yourself and others and as you do Love will begin to defuse offense from operating in your life..and causing you to live in bondage...because all offense does is set you up for death....NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM OFFENSE. NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM WEAVING GARMENTS WITH WORDS OF NEGATIVITY!
WORDS HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE DESTINY OR DESTROY DESTINY!
Take time to invest value and thought into each word that comes from your lips so that you weave a garment of covering (life) for those around you....choose to wear the garments woven by the words of God and others who see value in weaving garments of covering, life and honor for you!
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