I should be asleep, but I read this in "God Calling" by AJ Russell for May 12 and just had to share it:
"Turn out all thoughts of doubt and of trouble. Never tolerate them for one second. Bar the windows and doors of your souls against them as you would bar your home against a thief who would steal in to take your treasures. What greater treasures can you have than Peace and Rest and Joy? And these are all stolen from you by doubt and fear and despair. Face each day with Love and Laughter. Face the storm. Joy, Peace, Love, My great gifts. Follow Me to find all three. I want you to feel the thrill of protection and safety now. Any soul can feel this in a harbor, but real joy and victory come to those alone who sense these when they ride a storm. Say, 'All is well.' Say it not as a vain repetition. Use it as you use a healing balm for cut or wound, until the poison is drawn out; then, until the sore is healed; then, until the thrill of fresh life floods your being. All is well."
Funny thing is I remember this one when I was in Korea.... though it was only the 'all is well'..... God spoke then with a friend sending me the words to the song after I had read this while the song actually played in the background. Just LOVE the way GOD continues to speak through it.... and LOVE the hugs, reminding me that I AM EXACTLY WHERE I'M SUPPOSE TO BE AT THE MOMENT!!
I feel I NEVER write any more and yet GOD truly has spoken so many different times at exact moments and I feel soo sooo soooo much is going on in my life that needs to be written here, or at least in my journal (which hasn't really been written in since I was in Korea).... that is just so sad. I even noticed on here with blogging that I have five different entries that have been started where GOD was speaking but I just didn't have the time to go back and finish them or use the Daily Bread and God Calling entries that spoke to me.... NOW I don't even know if I know why they touched me, but I'll keep those drafts in the draft/entry log through Blogger that only I see with the title I gave them.... for that at least gives me an idea that GOD was talking at the time, I just didn't take the time to share those thoughts and words and get them down. They go all the way back to October of 2009...
REALLY excited to finally be living life to the fullest again. Just gotta finish up this LAST project for Grad School and I'll have my Masters. It was fun walking and celebrating Graduation last weekend with close friends and some of the women I went through it all with.
I wanna LIVE, LOVE, and LAUGH again like I was created to do. Oh yeah, that reminds me of what I read in the book "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan for Bible Study on May 12. I finished the last two pages right before going and it opened my heart to experience GOD throughout the whole night. The only thing that wasn't great about the night was losing a phone call with someone I LOVE talking too.... hard sharing what GOD was and is doing with someone you care deeply about and then get cut off but, I guess there is a reason for everything.... Just TRUSTIN GOD.
Anyways, here is what the last paragraph in the book had written and what made me cry because I was moved by GOD and exactly what I LONG to do again with 100% of who I am.
"Now close this book. Get on your knees before our holy, loving God. And then live the life with your friends, your family, parents, spouse, children, neighbors, enemies, and strangers that He has created and empowered you through the Holy Spirit to live. May you be able to say at the end of your life, along with Paul, 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.' ~2 Timothy 4:7-8 (ESV)"
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