Don't Lose Heart IN the Process

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     Coming away from the our 4th Annual Girlfriends Get-a-Way brings an altogether new prospective on this life God has called me to live.... away from Insecurity and Abandonment... praying to know the heart of God in others.... letting go of the past....  forgiving and living and being more intentional about it.... drinking in God's Goodness.... living by FAITH and TRUST to "Reap the Harvest He promised me.... Take back what the Devil stole from me.... I rejoice today for I shall recover it all."

     Matthew 7:13-14, "Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

     God never promised me an easy road in this life; I'm continuing to learn how to "rouse myself up" to appreciate the working out of my Salvation in Christ especially in the difficulties that come.  The Question comes, "Am I really practicing my utmost for his highest?" Well, I have found that only through the constant and continual working out of my salvation in practical living day by day can I even find the narrow way.  When the LITTLE crisis come along, immediately I see how weak I really am.  The source?  For me, complete surrender at the moment of discovery.  I tend to hold onto it for awhile, let it fester and become a "thing" interfering in my day to day.....  Thankfully, my Savior persists bringing it before me until I finally see the "milk-sop" (pampered spoiled weakling) I am and I finally let go of it!

    Oh God, you are SO GOOD!  I just keep saying wow, Wow, WOW!  Thank you for this special friend of mine, pacgirl!  A 30 year friendship; simply incredible!  "For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known." I Corinthians 13:12

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