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Freedom Friday – Focus on God Destroys Fear of What Surrounds Us

July 28, 2017 by Patti 27 Comments

A God smile just for you 🙂

Faith in God includes having faith in how He acts - Pastor Jeremy Havlin Click To Tweet

Hoo boy!  That can be hard when He doesn’t seem to be acting the way we think He should, can’t it?

Perhaps you have an impossible situation in your life that you’re asking God to fix.  You can see what needs to happen to fix the problem and maybe you’re even telling God what you think He should do,  as if He doesn’t already know the end from the beginning.

Welcome to FREEDOM FRIDAY – A devotional, emotional, spiritual and sometimes hysterical series that I will be sharing on occasional Fridays, in addition to my regular Old Things New posts. Why?  Because though once bound in chains Christ has set me free –  FREE to live, to love, to dance, to sing, to be who God created me to be!

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The Last Sunday of August

August 30, 2015 by Patti 7 Comments

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We are beginning to feel a hint of Fall in the air, a relief to the humid heat of South Carolina.  One year has passed since we moved into our home and my feelings are all over the place today.  I love our new city and the friendships we are establishing, but I miss terribly those friends and family we left behind.

A Pastor prayed for me this past week and in his prayer he said there is no looking back at what once was but to keep looking forward to what lies ahead.  God has a plan for us that is yet to unfold.  I’m waiting and listening in the stillness today.

I hope you’ll take a moment to enjoy Sunday’s stillness too.

Blessings,

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This picture was taken at Virginia’s oldest plantation, the Shirley Plantation.

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Freedom Friday – When You’re Not Enough

June 12, 2015 by Patti 17 Comments

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Do you ever feel like you’re not enough?  Not pretty enough, not clever enough, not perky enough, not young enough, not old enough?  Believe it or not, there was a time . . . long, long ago . . .  when I could hardly wait for the time that I’d be old enough to attain the respect I felt was my due.  I’ve overcome that 🙂

Welcome to FREEDOM FRIDAY – A devotional, emotional, spiritual and sometimes hysterical series that I will be sharing on occasional Fridays, in addition to my regular Old Things New posts. Why?  Because though once bound in chains Christ has set me free –  FREE to live, to love, to dance, to sing, to be who God created me to be!

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I was raised by hard working, salt-of-the-earth type parents who instilled values in me that said, “God helps those who help themselves” and, “Do everything you can and leave the rest to God.”

Hmmm . . .

Is a 50-50 proposition between God and me what He really wants?
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Today’s culture tells us that we can become whatever we want to be and that success is ours for the taking.  We simply have to strive harder, reach farther, believe in ourselves, and never give up.  Good positive thoughts right?

 So what if we work and strain and struggle to be the best we can be and fail? And we will all fail eventually. What room does all this striving leave for the miraculous, the extraordinary, the astounding, the incredible, the unbelievable?

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Oh . . . that’s what I want!  I don’t want to do it on my own power when I can have the power of the living God working in and through me to accomplish things greater than I could ever ask or think.

The following is a list of *STEPS I’ve personally taken to change my feeling of not being enough to being exactly what God wants me to be.

  •  Let go of your perception of being in control (because things will eventually spin out of your control).
  • Acknowledge that God is God and you are not Him.
  • Turn your life over to God (if you haven’t already), accepting Jesus as Savior and allowing Him to fill you with His Spirit.
  • Confess past sin and believe that the shame, guilt and condemnation you’ve carried no longer have power or authority over you (I feel a “how to” post coming on that one).
  • Forgive those who’ve hurt you (and maybe a “how to” post here as well).
  • Take responsibility and acknowledge wrong to those you’ve hurt (and here!).
  • Keep a short record of wrongs . . . or, in other words, take responsibility for your actions as soon as you “mess up” and choose to forgive others quickly when they “mess up”.
  • Spend time with God – in His Word and in prayer – seeking to know Him intimately as “Papa God”.  Don’t rush in and out of this time, making it an empty ritual, but stay . . . wait . . . and listen for Him to speak to you.  In this time with Him He will affirm you, comfort you, wrap His arms around you and whisper sweet secrets into your ear. He longs to reveal Himself to you, to tell you who you really are in Him and to open up to you what He can do in and through you!  It is in this place alone with Him that He will strengthen you to go out into your daily life so filled with Holy Spirit power that the overflow will spill over onto the lives of those around you.
  • This is the last step:  When you come out of that place of fellowship with God, filled and strengthened by Him, go out and let the overflow of His love spill on to others!

Savannah, GA Please know this from one who once felt like she was not enough:  As a redeemed child of God, a Christ follower, filled with the Holy Spirit you have everything you need.

You are not too little, you are not too much, you are exactly who God created you to be.
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What a relief!!!

Blessings,

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Prayer:  Dear Papa God, from the depths of my heart I pray and ask that all who read these words will be touched by You and that they will come to understand that they no longer have to strive in their own power but that real strength can be found in You.  You are all we need and You give us all we need at just the right time.  Lord, please strengthen, affirm, encourage and do a new thing in the lives of those who need it today.  Amen.

Scripture to ponder:  Psalm 28:7; Psalm 46:10; Isa. 43:19; Zech. 4:6; Matt. 11:28; John 15:15; I Cor. 2:10; Gal. 3:3; Eph. 2:10; Eph. 3:20; Phil, 4:13; Phil. 4:19; II Pet. 1:3

 The *STEPS mentioned above are loosely based on The 12 Steps of AA.  Freedom Session teaches a Scriptural basis for all 12 steps in an excellent 9 month healing/discipleship program.  As a former Director, along with my hubs, I can’t help but plug this life changing ministry here on my blog!  For more information about Freedom Session I’ve included a link to their website.

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Freedom Friday – God Only Knows!

March 6, 2015 by Patti 11 Comments

 “God only knows!”

A statement often used when people don’t know how things will turn out.  In reality, who does know the future but God?  We may a catch glimpse of it through God’s Word, or through prophecy, or by looking at past patterns, but only God knows the future of the world, and our individual futures, down to the last detail.

Even . . . The enemy of our soul, Satan, doesn't know what the future holds for us or how our lives will play out! Click To Tweet

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Welcome to FREEDOM FRIDAY – A devotional, emotional, spiritual and sometimes hysterical series that I will be sharing on occasional Fridays, in addition to my regular Old Things New posts. Why?  Because though once bound in chains Christ has set me free –  FREE to live, to love, to dance, to sing, to be who God created me to be!

 A couple of verses have stood out to me in my personal Bible reading lately:

“Listen to this, everyone – near and far: The Eternal One singled me out, even before I was born.  He called me and named me when I was still in my mother’s belly . . . He kept my purpose quiet, kept me safe in the shadow of His hand.” Isaiah 49:1-2 (The Voice)

. . . and . . .

“I will go ahead of you and smooth the way, lower the heights, break down bronze doors, and cut through iron bars. I will give you hidden treasures and wealth tucked away in secret places; I will reveal them to you. Then you will know that I am the Eternal, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.” Isaiah 45:2-4 (The Voice)

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Now, while these Old Testament Scriptures aren’t written ABOUT me, they are written FOR me and speak to me personally about how God works in my life and the lives of all Christ followers. He knew each of us and named us in ours mother’s wombs.  He keeps our purpose quiet and keeps us safe in the shadow of His hand. He singled each of us out for a purpose. He goes before us to prepare the way, He opens closed doors, and as we seek Him He reveals hidden treasures to us, proving that He is God!

 Do you see that?  “He keeps our purpose quiet.”

Our Pastor recently gave a message where he talked about how Satan recognized Jesus as God’s promised Messiah and did everything in his power to destroy him while He was here on earth.  He shared how each thing that Satan did against Jesus actually carried out Bible prophecy and played right into God’s perfect plan of redemption for humankind.

Satan didn’t know.

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And Satan doesn’t know our futures either.  

God has a plan for each and every Christ follower.  Do you believe that?  Two of my life verses are,

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jer. 29:11 (NIV)

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“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good,” Gen. 50:20 (ESV)

Satan is the enemy of our souls.  He was defeated through Christ’s death on the cross and since then he has made it his mission to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10) those who call themselves Christ followers.  He knows prophecy. He knows that Christ will return again and that he will be defeated, so his aim is to create as much havoc for God’s people as he can, in hopes of destroying us.  But sometimes the thing he attempts to destroy us with is the thing that will bring God the most glory! Click To Tweet

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To stand strong against the enemy it is important to know who you are in Christ. (I gave you some Scripture references in the last FF, which you can refer back to HERE).  Satan loves to throw accusations at us.  Our Pastor has said many times that Satan would love to make you believe something about yourself that is untrue so that you will act like someone you’re not, but . . .

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To know Him, and who you are in Him, it is important to spend time with Him.  It is important to seek His Truth in Scripture because the Truth is what has the power to set us free.  I Cor. 2:16 NIV says, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”  Did you hear that? Scripture says that we have the mind of Christ!  His Word is like food and water to us.  It nourishes and strengthens us so we are able to live in victory rather than in defeat.  It is through the Word that our minds are transformed (Rom. 12:2) and our thoughts become Christ’s thoughts.

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He had no idea that some of the things he used to try to destroy my life played right into God’s plan for my life and my unique redemption story!  If he had, he may have left this good little church girl alone to live a less than extraordinary church life!

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What about you?

How have you handled your past failures?  Do you still carry shame or do you believe God when He says that Jesus paid the price for your sins?  Have you forgiven yourself? How have you handled the sins that others have committed against you? Are you still wearing the “victim” label or have you accepted your new identity in Christ?  Are there any lies that you believe about yourself, lies others have told you or lies directly attributed to you by the enemy of your soul?  What about the “hard thing” you are facing right now?  Will you let that thing defeat you, or will you allow God to embolden you to stand strong in Him, knowing that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose? (Rom. 8:38), knowing that He goes before you to prepare a way for you and that He does have a plan for your life?

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The answer to those questions is what will make Satan either regret or rejoice in the fact that he ever messed with you!

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 Believe that He has a good plan for your life and that your story can be used for Him.  Believe that your life has purpose.  Step into it!  Walk boldly forward even when you aren’t exactly sure where He’s taking you.  He goes before you and He is behind you!

Now THAT is exciting!

Our God, the one True God, stands above and behind history, the history of nations and individuals, directing and orchestrating events for His ultimate glory!

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Freedom Friday – On Age and Being Relevant

February 13, 2015 by Patti 22 Comments

Six months living in our new South Carolina home and I am content.  We’ve found our church home.  We’ve made friends we can share a meal or a cup of coffee with.  I’ve found a favorite grocery store and . . . dream of dreams . . . my favorite “junque” store!  We have four times as many sunny days as we did back in Washington State and when I walk outdoors, even on the coldest winter day, the sun makes me smile . . . and smiling on the outside brings a smile right down into my insides.  It is good.  Most of the time . . .

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Welcome to FREEDOM FRIDAY – A new devotional, emotional, spiritual and sometimes hysterical series that I will be sharing on occasional Fridays, in addition to my regular Old Things New posts. Why?  Because though once bound in chains Christ has set me free –  FREE to live, to love, to dance, to sing, to be who God created me to be!

When I began this Freedom Friday series my very first post was about Feeling Lonely,  an emotion that wasn’t unexpected given that we’d just moved clear across the country to a place I didn’t really know.

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My next post was on Friendship With God, where I talked about the challenge I gave myself to become more intimate with God by spending more time in His presence and waiting on Him to reveal Himself to me.  Would that change me?  It did.  It has.  God has brought me to a deeper knowledge of Him through the reading of His Word and journaling what He has been saying to me.  What a luxury it has been to have more time with Him then I did when I was so busy.  How blessed I’ve been to be able to spend extended time in God’s Presence.

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Though my husband’s demanding work schedule prevents us from beginning a ministry like Freedom Session right now, smaller one-on-one ministry opportunities have opened up to us.  We LOVE and believe in Freedom Session so much that it is sometimes disappointing to think that the door may not open for us to be involved in that same ministry again, and I’ve had to lay it all down and say, “Lord, I surrender the future to you and whatever you have for us is okay.”

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In my intimate times with Him, God has been saying to me from Isaiah:

“Rest in me; in quietness and trust you will find strength; I am waiting to answer you; in waiting for Me you will find happiness.  And when the answer comes He will say: “Go this way. There is your path; this is how you should go.  I will see to it that your efforts are fruitful.”

Is this right Lord?  Do you really have something more in store for us?  I rest content in this place of “cocooning”, allowing God to minister to and strengthen me after four years of pouring out.  It is good, very good.  I believe that He does indeed have more for us because the story of healing He has done in our individual lives and in our marriage will not be wasted.  So I wait with expectation . . .

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until . . . just this week . . . the doubts began to flood over me again, making me feel like the opportunity to minister the way we used to might never come again.

Sometimes it doesn’t take much to throw me off balance:

I’m at the pool where I’m taking water aerobic classes.  The pool is warm, I love to swim, and I’m one of the younger class participants so it makes me feel great about donning my swimsuit!  After class I go into the locker room to change and see myself in the mirror.  How cruel to put a fun house mirror in the dressing room.  My thighs and tummy look larger than they do in the mirrors at home and there are dimples everywhere!  My skin looks just like the skin of an old woman.

But the mirror doesn’t lie.  It’s me . . . the almost 60-year-old Patti who (on the inside) still feels like the 17-year-old Patti who loved swimming in the cold lake, then lying on the dock afterwards to warm herself in the summer sun.

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This thought pops into my head, “You are old!”  I get dressed and head home where my husband is waiting for me.  The thoughts continue and increase in volume as I drive, “Don’t you think you are getting a bit old to do any type of effective ministry?  You’re reaching the age where no one will listen to what you have to say, especially young people. You aren’t strong enough to do a ministry like Freedom Session anymore. You don’t have what it takes.  You are finished.”

“You are IRREVELANT!”

So with that word ringing in my head, a word that has been assaulting me over and over for the past couple of weeks, I walk in the door of my home.  My husband sees my face and asks how I am, to which I answer, “I am old and IRRELEVANT!”

“Whoa!  Where is that coming from?”

No answer from me for several minutes . . .  then, “I want to retire.”

I don’t even work a job outside the home anymore but in in my head I’m thinking that I want to retire from responsibility, from caring about people, from pouring into the lives of others . . . from ministry . . . because I’m pretty sure that what I have to offer is of no interest to anyone. It doesn’t matter that I have a story to tell, that I have hope to offer to the hurting, or that I’ve seen the power of a redemption story shared.  It doesn’t matter because I am old and irrelevant!

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Then I ask my husband, “Am I delusional?  Are all of these Scriptures I’ve been reading just a lie?  Is all of the encouragement God has been giving me just in my head?”

“Absolutely not!” he answers.  “We can’t live our lives to the fullest if we aren’t giving back!”

“But look at all of the old people who seem to disappear into the background of the churches, becoming invisible.”

“They are only invisible because they allow themselves to become that way,” my wise husband answers.

And I remember our dear friends Roger and Connie, still active in ministry to others.  I think of Elder Pete and his wife Barb who are so key in the support they give to young Pastor Peter.  I think of my own sister and brother-in-law, Sharon and John, who are still actively leading others through weekly Bible studies.  All people in their 70’s.

I go in to take a shower and as the water pours over me I hear in my spirit another voice saying, “We are not called to be relevant, we are called to be salt.”  The very words I typed into my iPhone notes on Sunday as our Pastor Roy spoke.

Awww . . . yes Lord.  I am not called to be relevant to the way the world operates today.  We Christ followers are a peculiar people.  Set apart.  Different.  And it really doesn’t matter if I’m not relevant because I’m called to be SALT!

Sometimes I speak to myself in disparaging ways and I need to remind myself of who I am in Christ!

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Sometimes it is the enemy of my soul who speaks lies to me and I may even believe the lies . . . for a little while . . . but I refuse to stay there, listening to the voice of defeat, because I have the very God of the Universe living inside me and He always turns me back toward the Truth!

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Check out these verses.  They are for YOU and for ME, because I know everyone gets discouraged:

  • I am complete in Him Who is the Head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10).
  • I am alive with Christ (Ephesians 2:5).
  • I am free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).
  • I am far from oppression, and fear does not come near me (Isaiah 54:14).
  • I am born of God, and the evil one does not touch me (1 John 5:18).
  • I am holy and without blame before Him in love (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:16).
  • I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2:5).
  • I have the peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
  • I have the Greater One living in me; greater is He Who is in me than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).
  • I have received the gift of righteousness and reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).
  • I have received the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, the eyes of my understanding being enlightened (Ephesians 1:17-18).
  • I have received the power of the Holy Spirit to lay hands on the sick and see them recover, to cast out demons, to speak with new tongues.  I have power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm me (Mark 16:17-18; Luke 10:17-19).
  • I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him Who created me (Colossians 3:9-10).
  • I have given, and it is given to me; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, men give into my bosom (Luke 6:38).
  • I have no lack for my God supplies all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).
  • I can quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one with my shield of faith (Ephesians 6:16).
  • I can do all things through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:13).
  • I show forth the praises of God Who has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).
  • I am God’s child for I am born again of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God, which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23).
  • I am God’s workmanship, created in Christ unto good works (Ephesians 2:10).
  • I am a new creature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).
  • I am a spirit being alive to God (Romans 6:11;1 Thessalonians 5:23).
  • I am a believer, and the light of the Gospel shines in my mind (2 Corinthians 4:4).
  • I am a doer of the Word and blessed in my actions (James 1:22,25).
  • I am a joint-heir with Christ (Romans 8:17).
  • I am more than a conqueror through Him Who loves me (Romans 8:37).
  • I am an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11).
  • I am a partaker of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:3-4).
  • I am an ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20).
  • I am part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people (1 Peter 2:9).
  • I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).
  • I am the temple of the Holy Spirit; I am not my own (1 Corinthians 6:19).
  • I am the head and not the tail; I am above only and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13).
  • I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14).
  • I am His elect, full of mercy, kindness, humility, and longsuffering (Romans 8:33; Colossians 3:12).
  • I am forgiven of all my sins and washed in the Blood (Ephesians 1:7).
  • I am delivered from the power of darkness and translated into God’s kingdom (Colossians 1:13).
  • I am redeemed from the curse of sin, sickness, and poverty (Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Galatians 3:13).
  • I am firmly rooted, built up, established in my faith and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:7).
  • I am called of God to be the voice of His praise (Psalm 66:8; 2 Timothy 1:9).
  • I am healed by the stripes of Jesus (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24).
  • I am raised up with Christ and seated in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:12).
  • I am greatly loved by God (Romans 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4).
  • I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power (Colossians 1:11).
  • I am submitted to God, and the devil flees from me because I resist him in the Name of Jesus (James 4:7).
  • I press on toward the goal to win the prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward (Philippians 3:14).
  • For God has not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).
  • It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20).

 List taken from: Joyce Meyer Ministries

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So this is the real me this week.   An inspirational blogger who has her ups and downs just like every other Christ follower.  A ministry person who is having a time of refreshing while waiting for the next thing.  A woman entering her 60th year believing that the things that God has planned for her future are greater than she could even imagine.

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 Prayer: Papa God, thank you that you give us discernment to know the truth from a lie.  Thank you for your promises that tell us who we are in you and that you always KEEP your promises.  For anyone reading this who may be listening to the lies of the enemy I ask that you would bind, gag and muzzle the enemy in their lives in Jesus name, and speak truth into their spirits, truth that would pour down into the very depths of their beings and change who they believe themselves to be. Speak to them who they really are in You!  Lord, please restore hope to those who are feeling hopeless and give them a glimpse of what you have in store for those who love you.  We lean on you for strength as we wait for the new thing you want to do in each of our lives. No looking back but looking ahead to what you have for each of us in Your Kingdom. Amen.

My dear friends, God loves you so very much and so do I.

Blessings,

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