Comforting Love

Father, Your comforting love
Just wants to hug me and make everything better.

Your comforting love
Engulfs me
Telling me
You understand my thoughts, my emotions, my circumstances.

Your comforting love
Breaks through the pain, the grief, the sadness, the disappointment...
And soothes my heart with peace.

Your comforting love
Reprints the picture...
It erases the gloom, the ashes, the dirt,
And brings the sunshine.

Thank You Father, for Your comforting love
That comes...
Even when I can't give anything in return.

Your comforting love comes and holds me tight.
Til my ears hear the heartbeat of Your heart of love
As it softly whispers,
"I love you...I always will,
 I am here...everything is going to be OK.

A Heavenly Perspective

A Heavenly perspective

In the midst of "bad news, sickness, missed appointments, disappointments, unpaid bills, pink slips, death, clogged drains, arguments, misunderstanding, rage, panic.....

Is very difficult to maintain.

A Heavenly perspective in earthly chaos takes effort, abundant grace, and a renewed mind.

Yes, this is the reason the Savior came to earth, suffered and died, rose victoriously...
He came so He could lead us to victory...even in the midst...

A heavenly perspective:
 Believes the Word that was spoken and written.
 Gazes upon Jesus
 Sees as the Father sees
 Hopes and trusts
 And then
Hopes and trusts some more...

A heavenly perspective:
 Opens the heavens
 Sees and expects the blessing
 Releases possibilities
 Knows a battle is raging but is determined to win victoriously.

A heavenly perspective results in a different outcome...
An outcome of perseverance, trust, joy, peace.

A heavenly perspective is possible,
When we call upon our Helper,
Lean on our Beloved,
And saturate our minds in the Truth...

The fragrance of this perspective is
Peace, joy, health, rest...
Contrast that to the odor of just the earthly, seen perspective
Worry, anxiety, negativity...

Lord I need Your help to have a heavenly perspective!

That New Day

I declare it is time for the new day to fully dawn...

That new day
When my soul no longer
Responds to the circumstance and the unknown
In shadows of fear...

That new day
When my imagination is no longer
Used by the enemy
To imagine what can or will go wrong...

That new day
When my soul and emotions will no longer
Be the boss
Concluding truth from such a narrow space as the visible realm...

That new day
When my mind along with my heart
Will know it is fully loved by God...

Yes, that new day
When fear disappears
And I can respond to my Beloved Lord
With, "I will go with You..."
Even though it is beyond what I understand
Or what my senses have ever experienced...

That new day
When my soul does not react to the circumstance
Because it believes the truth of being dearly loved...

That new day
When my imagination can run free
Dreaming the goodness of God...

That new day
When my soul is expectant, joyful, and believing
Even though...

That new day
When fear cannot touch me
Because Truth reigns...

That new day
That I can respond wholly to my Beloved
Because the shadow has passed,
Revelation has been deposited,
And freedom reigns...

That day when the dawning breezes have conquered
And I am able to step into the fullness that the Father planned for me
As He thought me into being...

The day when the dawning erupts!
The day of His Great Gladness!

Bathed in Light

When my world becomes bathed in light
Those dark shadows have to flee,
The unknowns are no longer scary,
And the gray disappears.

When my world becomes bathed in light
Those lies are seen for what they are,
The traps are evident,
And that net will no longer be able to keep me from my destiny.

When my world becomes bathed in light
Hope over takes despair,
Joy wins over sadness,
And the spirit of His acceptance of me tramples those condemning accusers.

When my world becomes bathed in light
My fears of failure,
And those anxious thoughts of what might happen
Are replaced with courage, confidence, and peace.

When Jesus comes and baths me with the truth of His love
And turns the eyes of my heart on...so I can see...
I am bathed with the light of truth...

Yes, the truth that I am magnificently loved... even though...
Even though I think I do not measure up
Even though I rejected Him with my words,
Even though I am in a mess right now...

When the eyes of my heart receive His light...
I realize that He is so good
And the Love He has for me is beyond my comprehension.

As He baths me in His truth
I enter into that beautiful, broad, green place
That is saturated with the fragrance of hope.
That place where the circumstance no longer has to control my emotions,
 Because the truth of His love now reigns
And frees me to look outside the box,
And believe...

As the King Surrounds Me

You come and surround me with Your Presence
Yes, even when my heart cries, "No, I am not ready yet, I don't understand..."
You continue Your pursuit
And surround me with Yourself,
You surround with those outstretchedl arms.

And the fragrance of Your poured out heart of love,
The fragrance of Your suffering love
Seeps into my soul
In the darkness of the night,
In the midst of the violent turmoil,
In the utter chaos...

Yes, the fragrance of Your unceasing, forever love
Breaks through the pain, the fear, the despair, the chaos
And delivers peace and protection...
Your fragrance gives me another thought,
A better thought, a true thought...

And I hold it tight
Like a bouquet upon my chest
And I breath You in...
And as I am inhaling Your sweet fragrance
I hear those words again.
Those words I cannot begin to comprehend
But the deepness of my heart so want to be true...
"My dearest darling, you are so lovely,
 You are beauty itself to Me!"

This certainly is a love like no other...

Song of Songs 1:12-14

The Strength of the Lord

I receive the strength of the Lord today
For it is my inheritance as His daughter,
To be filled with His strength.
Strength that will fill in all the gaps, every area of need.
Strength that will wipe the slate clean of all the lies I was believing,
Strength that will allow me to put on my eyes of faith
So I can see what He sees,
And hear with clarity His whispers of love and truth.

This strength allows me to hold my head high
It reminds me who I am, a royal one, who is ever blessed and plentiful.
This strength allows me to sing and rejoice
As it gives me another picture to look upon...
This strength allows me to proclaim with confidence
That I shall live...prosper...
It allows me to remember that My God is good, He is for me...
And I will see the goodness of the Lord in my land today!

Oh when I receive the strength of the Lord
That enemy runs
Because my Lord is stronger than any other...

"I will be strength to him and I will give him My grace to sustain
 No matter what comes. None of his enemies will get the best of him,
  Nor will the wicked one overpower him...." Psalms 119:21,22

His Hands of Love

His hands of love
Have always been upon me
From the moment He thought me into being...
From the moment He placed me in my mothers womb..
His hands of love has been upon me.

No, His plans were not for pain, disaster, or failure.
His plans for me have always been for good,
And although the enemy comes in like a wave,
A tyrant to destroy all hope...
My God is there...with His hands of love,
Sending His host of angels to fight the invaders...

Each step of the way
Each step in the journey of life,
His hands of love are upon me...

These are the same hands
That bear the piercing of the nails that hung Him on the cross.
Willingly, He gave His everything
To give us the abundant life of
Forgiveness, freedom, wholeness, peace and joy
And that abundant life of victory...

Yes, these same hands of love are holing me today,
Through the circumstance,
Through the unknowns,
Through the scary...the new,
Through the "whys"
Through it all!!!

They are holding me steady
And making me who He intended me to be

"Your very hands hold me and make me who I am."
Psalms 119:73a TPT