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Recover Your Life

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Life often demands that you keep going even when you are tired.

When you are burdened with grief, you still have to go to work.

When you are battling anxiety, someone still has to do the dishes.

When you are restless to go but must stay right where you are.

“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭11:28‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Jesus invites us to walk with Him, work with Him, and watch how He lives in the fullness of God’s love every day while bearing a great burden.

Your world may be dripping with unmet expectations, foundation-shaking experiences, and unbearable obligations.

Or it may be boring and frustrating with endless monotony.

Whatever is happening around you, Jesus wants to walk with you through it.

Lean on His strength and let Him love you right where you are.

However you get away with Jesus – time in the Word, time in prayer, time in worship, time in silence- lose yourself in His love and recover your life.

Surrounded

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“Because of the Master, we have great confidence in you. We know you’re doing everything we told you and will continue doing it. May the Master take you by the hand and lead you along the path of God’s love and Christ’s endurance.”

2 Thessalonians 3:4-5 MSG

My prayer for you today is simple: that you would know that God’s love surrounds you.

You are surrounded by LOVE.

Love surrounds you when you get up in the morning

Love surrounds you throughout the day.

Love surrounds you as you lay down to sleep.

You are surrounded by God every minute of every day.

You may not feel it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there or that it isn’t true.

God is true and He is there.

No matter what you are facing today, I have great confidence in you.

I know you are trusting God with the impossible and depending on Him as your faith in Him grows.

As you walk with God, may He fill you with peace that passes your understanding and an endurance to keep going.

I pray that today you will be aware of God and the love He is surrounding you with.

Freedom

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“But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.”

ROMANS 6:22-23 MSG

It is Jesus clothed in the white garments of resurrection, bearing the fresh scars of the crucifixion declaring to the universe that the power of sin is broken. 

The power of sin in your life can feel like a noose around your neck that day by day begins to tighten until you feel trapped, choked and bound. 

It is a lie.

You do not have to live in its bondage anymore. 

Through Jesus, you are set free.

The power and control has sin has been broken.

You are free from its endless demands, requirements, small print and a false sense of control. 

Jesus took that noose upon His own neck for you.

He took the penalty it demanded, death.

Then He conquered death in a blaze of glory and held freedom in His hands. 

Wherever shame lurks and condemnation whispers, wherever fear and anxiety choke, wherever lies and rejection linger – Jesus is. 

He is love, power, mercy and forgiveness. 

He washes away the stains of your past and brings to you new hope for your future.  

The power of sin has been broken.

You are set free to live life saturated in His love and filled with His power.

How will you live the truth of it today?

Made For It

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You have been made to love and be loved.

You are made to need it.

Not just any love – God’s love.

When we look to humans to give us what we need, we find they are just like us- flawed and doing the best they can. 

Their love is not meant to fill you or fulfill you, it may even fail you.

You are made to be loved by God, every minute of every day.

His unending, unchanging, un-quitting, transforming love. 

The love you need today is God’s love.

“God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.” 

1 John 4:16-17 NLV

How did Jesus live in this world?

He lived loved and secure in His relationship with God.

May you live as loved as you are. 

Walk

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“And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.”
2 John 1:6 NIV

Love always takes a step of faith.

It always feels like a risk.

It is always worth it.

Jesus died and rose to life so that you could live in the fullness and freedom of His love.

God will work in you but He will not walk for you.

That is up to you.

What does walking in love mean to you today?

Let All That I Am

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“Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.”    Psalm 62:5 NLT

All that I am…

Daughter, wife, mother, friend, dreamer, detailer, realist, writer, speaker, cook, cleaner, pastor, inspirer, frail, my own worst critic, stubborn, strong, passionate, fearful, faithful, wonder-full, beauty-full, worry-full, redeemed, restored.

Rest…

Hush anxious thoughts. Put down the to-do list. Quiet fear. Close the door. Rest in abandon. Embrace peace. Breathe silence. Cease to think, worry, or wonder. Just be.

Before God…

Not before bills. Not before responsibilities. Not before failures and faults nor achievements or success. Before God the Creator, Provider, Peace Maker, Redeemer, Savior, Lord, Father. Sovereign, Merciful, Strong, and Gentle. Powerful, Passionate, and Purposeful.

For my hope…

Tender expectations of possibility. Easily bruised. Unrealistic. Fantastic. Wonderful. Amazing. Hope.

Is in Him…

Wrapped in the arms of grace surrounding the soul. Hope not in temporal things but in the eternal One God in three expressions- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Hope not in temporal circumstances but in the embodiment of LOVE itself.  

Beyond Measure

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God loves you beyond measure.

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

You Are Loved.

You are loved today, tomorrow and will be loved every day until your death and then beyond into eternity.

Nothing can separate you from God’s love. 

Not fear.

Not shame.

Not worry.

Not finances.

Not circumstances.

Not the rules of men.

Because of Jesus you can live in the glorious freedom of being a cherished child of God.

Are you?

Your Love Life

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“Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. Most of all, try to proclaim his truth.”

1 Corinthians‬ ‭14‬:‭1 MSG

My friend, go after a life of love.

Having more money, more stuff or more accomplishments will mean nothing if your life is void of love.

Life with Jesus is a lifestyle of loving God and loving people.

As Jesus teaches you how to receive His love everyday, He will teach you how to love others.

That is it. 

It really is that simple.

Who are you going to love today?

Not Earned

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Clothed with humanity, God’s Son gave his body to be the sin-offering so that God could once and for all condemn the guilt and power of sin.  So now every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit!

– Romans 8:3-4 The Passion Translation

Because of Jesus, we are free to live.

Free to live loved.

Free to know love.

Free to love.

Not because we work really hard to deserve it.

Not because we are strong enough to do everything perfectly.

But because He gave Himself for us.

We are free to live, not according to the strength of our flesh, but according to the strength of God’s love.

All that God requires of us has been satisfied in Jesus.

And Jesus is satisfied to live with us, love through us, forgive us, and empower us to live in the full freedom of His finished work.

May the dynamic power of the Spirit of God within you fill you with overflowing joy and an uncompromising desire to celebrate this truth all day long.

Drenched

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“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,”

Ephesians 1:18 NIV

Jesus opened wide the door for you to walk with Him every day and draw from His unquenchable love to pour into every area of your life.

My prayer for you today is that you would be so drenched in the love of Jesus that it drips off you and onto everything you touch.