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Praying for President Obama

myhealedheart — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:22:33 +0000

I’ve been a bit mortified lately by all the derogatory comments among Christians about President Obama. Whether we agree with him, his politics, or his election we should pray for him as the leader of our country. Would we not want others to do the same for us if we were in such a position? Please join me in praying for him.

In Him -

Sue

This morning God said….

myhealedheart — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:29:44 +0000

Unless your faith is firm,

I cannot make you stand firm.

Isaiah 7:9

Ahh spring, ahhh love…revisited

myhealedheart — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:21:08 +0000

Since I was a little girl I wanted to be married, and perhaps have a family. God knew my heart. I had to wait awhile to find the one He intended for me. We finally found each other and will be getting married later this year. I am in awe how God works and in awe of His blessings.

The Power of Love

myhealedheart — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:15:05 +0000

Easter morning my pastor spoke of HOPE. That we Christians can offer something other faiths, money, things, and often people simply cannot – an everlasting hope in the resurrected Jesus. I often wonder what it was like for Peter – how he must have felt that moment – when he realized that his Lord was back from the grave. Oh, the triumph of it all…the joy!

How wonderful it is that our God offers such goodness to us to offer to others rather than rules, regulations, legalism, certain behaviors, and distant, cool reserve. Our Jesus CAME TO US, down to our level where He could touch humanity, then knowing who we are, He chose to free us through His death. That is the power of true love.

Thank you Father! Thank you Jesus!

With gratitude,

Sue

Ah spring, ahh love…

myhealedheart — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:02:30 +0000

Yep, it has happened. And I never thought it would really. You see, despite my love for Christ at times I can be deeply pessimistic. So, here God goes again, blessing me in a way I never thought possible. I’m in love. Crazy, silly, deeply, in a way I’ve never been before in love. Thank you Father, for this gift. Go before us, lead, show us your will and we will simply say, “yes.”

When we listen…

myhealedheart — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:09:38 +0000

When we listen we are changed, we discover, we can then learn to understand.

Power, love, and self discipline

myhealedheart — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:57:47 +0000

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

Amen!

Commitment

myhealedheart — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:37:16 +0000

I literally read this on a Starbucks cup (yes, I am a fan of said coffee giant) and thought it quite profound. I would add commitment in faith as well because it frees us from buying into the lies of the enemy!

“The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.”

~Anne Morriss

I pray you commit today – to our Jesus and his will in your life!

Sue

Home

myhealedheart — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:21:28 +0000

Last night, as I thought through why I was feeling unsettled, I realized something. I don’t have a home. It is both literal and spiritual.

First, I have been living with friends for awhile now and all of my things are in storage with the exception of a few items. So, I literally do not have a place of my own to go to and truly be by myself and rest (something I desperately need periodically).

Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate the opportunity to have some financial freedom. I am humbled by the fact that these friends would allow me to stay in their home. It is their home though, and not mine.

The feeling was substanciated when I spent some time with the person I am dating and one of his daughters. We were all at his house watching a movie and I thought, “wow, this is their home, not mine. ” I am welcomed there but it is not mine. I felt a twinge of homesickness. Will I have a home to call my own again? I am a person that places importance on place – a place to respite, revive, just be myself…

As I found peace again in my faith and remembered that sitting at the feet of Jesus is home, some of those feelings drifted away. Then I remembered, this world is not my home.

Perhaps inside I am truly beginning to long for HOME with He who loves me as far as the east is to the west. Where this body no longer plagues me with all of its issues (enough with the acne, aches, and shortness already), where I can literally sit at the feet of Jesus and praise Him, where my troubles will be just a whisper of a memory, where my sometimes weary soul will truly be at rest as we work for Him who deserves our service and all the glory we can muster.

I pray that I will always remember to whom I belong and where my true home is…with Jesus in Heaven. I pray the same for you.

In Him -

Sue

Valentine’s Day Missive

myhealedheart — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:26:22 +0000

As I navigate a new relationship, 1 Corinthians 13 comes to mind. I know, it’s been quoted SOOO often when it comes to love and weddings however, there is a reason. I took a look at some of my relationship concerns and realized that they were solvable by applying these scriptures. Not a new thing, I know, but I needed reminding. Funny thing – when I am a doer of the Word God moves me toward Him, a place I am yearning for more and more. I am reminded – whether showing love for my Savior and God or people – love is a verb.

In Him –

Sue

1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;^[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages^[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.

11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.