When we accept Jesus as our savior, we become new creations (Gal 6:15; 2Cor 5:17); God makes our spirit alive and Holy Spirit lives in us to be our guide and much more. (2Cor 3:17).

This exchange of Jesus taking our sin nature (Col 2:14) and giving us His Righteous nature (Gal 3:11,14; 2 Cor 5:17), moves us from living by our senses to living and walking by Faith (2 Cor 5:7).

With our spirit made new, God living inside each of us, our job is to laying aside the old self, and put on the new self (Col 3:9-10; Eph 4:22,24) by renewing the spirit of our minds (Eph 4:23; 2 Cor 3:18)!

One way we are renewing our mind is by taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2Cor 10:3-5), our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day as we change our sight to the unseen (2Cor 4:16-18), not rejoicing in unrighteousness, but rejoicing with the truth (1 Cor 13:6).

God is LOVE; we who abide in LOVE abide in God, and God abides in us, and in this LOVE is perfected, as He is so are we in this world            (1John 4:16,17).

So do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that we may prove what is the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Rom 12:2).

There is no fear in LOVE; but perfect LOVE casts out fear, because fear involves punishment (Jesus took our punishment), and the one who fears is not perfected in LOVE (1John 4:18)!

After returning home from being caretaker, selling your home of 38 years, packing, and moving you to your new home; God dropped a Word into my heart.

He Said, “Your dad could not have treated you the way he did, without allowing Jesus into his heart.”

Romans 10:9-10 says if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness , and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

I believe as you watched me walk in Love; Pray and Worship God daily: you Received Jesus as your savior and LORD!

Galatians 5:20 says the deeds of the flesh include outbursts of anger. This is the issue that God is working to discontinue in both of us.

God tamped down my outbursts of anger; making way for me to walk by the Spirit, producing the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

You saw much of the fruit in action with little flesh.

God helped you walked in love with me most of the 6 weeks we were there and even prompting you to apologized for raising your voice, this is evidence of the Spirit working in you.

I want you to know that when you die you will go to be with Mom in heaven because you accepted Jesus as your savior. You will join Mom in the cloud of witnesses, as Hebrews 12:1 talks about.

After Mom died I felt closer to her; we were more connected because she is in the cloud of witnesses surrounding us.

God Bless you with the Joy of the Spirit in your every day life. Amen.

I Corinthians 13:5  LOVE does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong!

Walking in LOVE transforms fear and bravado into kindness.

Tonight, I offered to play cards with, “the man who yelled at me.” I injected Blessings with every word I spoke, suggesting the game was for friendship and enjoyment of companionship. Who cares who wins? or being skunked? We are spending time together getting to know one another.

He struggled a bit with the concept: beating the other person has been inbred into his soul; but he didn’t reject it, he actually smiled and laughed a bit.

I imparted God’s Word: God set before us Life and Death: He gives us the answer: CHOOSE LIFE and EVERY WORD THAT WE SPEAK BRINGS WITH IT LIFE OR DEATH.

He said, “card games don’t count! They are separate.”

I responded, “Every word spoken leads to Life or Death! You can lift people up and Bless them even in a card game! Isn’t Joy and Laughter better than a curse?”

Live Life! Live Love! Speak Life! Speak Love! See How it transforms your life!

God is Good!

God is Very Good!

Traveling West 5000 miles round trip for the 6th time in 2 years, one the year before: we know the rest stops by heart, and the dogs have learned it is a LONG WAY so sleep!

In the middle of the trip is my favorite rest stop; a place to relax and walk up a big hill and take in the Beautiful sights!

Depending on which direction we are heading, into or out of Wyoming we are either preparing for Wind or taking a break from the wind and in January the blowing snow!

God is Good and has Kept us Safe each time through! One step at a time!

God Bless each of you this day! Amen!

It is January, I need to drive West to spend the last days with my mom. We need food and prescriptions for the 2500 mile trip. As I wait for my prescription, Mom appears in my mind. No time for shopping, I need to get home. Paying for the prescription, I leave.

I walk in the door and Bart is leaving, “I have some errands to run, be back later!”

“A text arrived from my sister, it is a picture of my mom, she looks dead already!”

“Sorry, I will be back soon!”

Believing my mom can hang on, I hope! Twenty minutes later another text comes. She is gone.

WHAT DO I DO?  I am alone 2500 miles from family. WHAT DO I DO? My sister calls, “The pastor is here and he wants to know, what is the most important thing about Mom?”

“SHE CAME AND FOUND US!!!!!!”

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Forty-seven years earlier, my friend says, “It looks like you are moving.”

“NO, WE AREN’T!” I turn and see a U-Haul behind a station wagon and my dad is packing. Very soon I am in the third seat, leaning out the window saying goodbye, “I will write to you!”

Dad says, “NO, YOU WON’T!”

Everyone is in the car except…  “Where’s Mom?”

God has given me a dream of helping millions of women to be set free: from the lies of the devil, the garbage they have been handed in life, and from thoughts which enslaves them.

When I look at my self, I see a 56 year old woman who is only now learning how to communicate clearly. From the worlds point of view 56 is close to 60 which is when people start to die, or what I saw growing up. Who am I to think I could be used?

Walking out the door, Bart reminded me a few years ago he thought I would be using a walker, or a wheelchair by this age. During prayer meeting I mentioned how I see myself doing what Joyce Meyer is doing but I am already 56 years old, Joyce started so many years earlier. Jody spoke up and said, that is why you are going to live to 120 years old. Living to 120 is a thought God dropped into my mind when I turned 50, I am not yet even to middle age.

Tonight is the first time I have ever looked at Abraham and compare him to my life; he became a father in his old age and lived 75 more years, maybe I need to pay more attention. Abraham had to Believe God and not look at his body. I need to remember How God has healed my body and is continuing to make it new, not look or think about my age!

This God, who changed me from a broken body, bent and limping in chronic pain for 28 years to standing tall and straight with no limp, pain free, and daily run or walk 5 miles! He is able to do what needs to be done for me to succeed in helping others.

Just in case you thought I disappeared I pledge to be back to tell you all the ways God has been changing me these last few months. I have been changing by leaps and bounds as God is helping me get my house in order for Him to Use me. Already He is growing my faith to reach out to strangers I meet in the grocery store, the doctors office, or a rest stop and pray for their healing. I have not had the chance to see miracles healing but I have planted seeds for God to Water and Grow His Love in their hearts.

God Bless each and every one who reads my blog, tomorrow I will have my new logo set to my blog. I have chosen one with Marcia, and Bart likes it; I am growing and becoming normal enough that unless I say something people don’t know I spent my life being broken. God Is a Wonderful Miraculous Loving Father Who Brings Healing if you allow Him!

Do you like the logo?

My soul (mind, will, and emotion) was the part of my life that put me on a roller-coaster of Great Heights and Deep Despair; for weeks at a time depression would take over my life and I didn’t know why or have any control. I called my pastor one day I was not doing well. We talked for 20 minutes and the things she said, lifted me up, and then dropped me back into despair, and around again. Shocked, I learned from that conversation, that the words of another person controlled my feelings!

How was it so easy for my emotions to be lead up and down like a game at the county fair? Power, I gave away my power over what I thought which changed my feelings and my will to act!

MY LIFE STARTED TO CHANGE when I saw and understood Ephesians 4:22-24 and Romans 12:1-2 where God talks about renewing my mind, and 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 where He says take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

Philippians 4:8 Tells us what to think: what ever is true, honorable, right pure, lovely, of good repute, any excellence and worthy of praise let your mind dwell on these things.

Bit by bit my life improved so that now when I have a bad thought that starts to take me down; I usually catch it and kick it out of my head and replace it with a Good Thought within a few minutes, maybe up to a few hours, but never for more than a day. It is so different to live life with positive thinking and believing the best about a situation or a person. Life is a joy to live.

I do have to say it is more than just positive thinking; God’s Word Has Power to change your life and the way you think. He has set me free from Emotional and Physical Pain and changed my Soul so I am able to have a conversation with people and they have no idea anything ever happened.

Come join me in Living a Good Enjoyable life in Jesus!