It's OK to be Weak!

  All of my growing up years I felt down to my core that I was powerless.  My 2 brothers raping and beating made it seem that way BUT THEN I went to church camp.  The pastor said that Jesus loved me and wanted to be my friend,

  I will always remember that moment 56 years ago when I was leaning up against a big old tree and prayed to this one who wanted to be my friend for the first time.  I was 11 years old and suicidal.  I talked to Jesus and told Him that, if He wanted me, He could have me.  That moment an immense weight left me and has never returned.  

  His power helped me rise above it all--even incest!  God's power still does lift me higher than I can imagine. That's what I pray for all of you!

  Only God could give me a loving husband, 3 precious children, and 8 grandchildren.  All I ever wanted was to be a part of a loving family and HE gave me one of my very own!!  As I look at the lives of my perpetrators, I AM the winner.  One is dead and the other one a social outcast.  They reaped what they sowed!  It DOES happen.

  So, as you ponder, your weakness, I urge you to view it as a good thing.  God says "My power shows up best in weakness!"  Our weakness is an open door to God to come in and turn all our failures into successes--if we invite Him to do so.

  Just tell the Lord you're sorry for sinning against Him.  Ask Him to forgive you; to put your sins under His shed blood; and to erase all of the charges against you in your books of life that satan is using against you.  

  That's it.  

  Then read your Bible to be reminded over and over that the victory was yours the moment you came to Christ.  I suggest the Passion Translation so you can feel the deep deep deep love that God has for you!

  Hugs,

  Dawn

     

I Hear His Whisper...

There is no greater power.

As you live your life aligned with my kingdom through the surrender of your own will and ways, you will find that the fruit of freedom is more expansive than you ever could have imagined. The sweetness of living awakened to the marvelous mercy that covers every piece of your story is more satisfying than striving toward and accomplishing a thousand self-serving goals. I even take your every failure and produce goodness through it.   There’s no need to rely on your own limited resources when you have access to my resurrection power. I take what seems hopeless to most and work my redemption power. I will use everything for the benefit of my beloved ones. Watch as I turn even your darkest day into a beaming beacon of my glorious light. You will see the treasures that resulted from the pressures that threatened to smother you. But they didn’t. I wouldn’t let them. So come and exchange your weakness for my great strength and delight. Arise in the power of my love today. Awaken to life again.   Adapted from I Hear His Whisper for Women written by Brian Simmons

Ephesians 1:19 The Passion Translation   I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you!