Grand Rising to you!
If you don’t need the introduction, scroll to the message :)
Might as well shoot straight – I was just a broken person, and in many ways, just like maybe you might feel in a potentially shattered life; and in some ways that I don’t even know until the Lord Jesus makes it real to me. I am sure I still have weak human emotional places to be exposed in which I am broken & in need of Christ Jesus to be made stronger and even more whole in my soul, and closer with Christ than I have even known so far.
Wow! That is huge for me to realize, because of all Jesus has done for me so far! Whether in the minor things like road rage, when people cut you off, loosing a loved one to life on the other side of this world, or just getting through the holidays while peeking through the window of houses that seem to have it all. Jesus, my friend, is everything for EVERYTHING. In other words, I still need Jesus to make me stronger to survive in this world through Christ.
Okay, I will read this later with you. So be patient with me. I just have a story to tell in a world that doesn’t want to hear, so it takes time and faith trusting in God who does that work. It’s Him that makes it real. I release this to Him now.
The world needs Jesus. I have a story about him to tell. Will you listen to hear?
I have discovered the grace in God WITH Christ, who found me on my darkest journey, when my husband died. Through deep pain and disappointment, during times we have experienced so much loss, this is where we begin to search from nothing to find Someone.
My story didn’t end there in darkness; and that is why I write for you today. I have discovered that Jesus really has hoped for me, even before I even knew I needed to hope, or even before I wanted to be healed and made whole. Sometimes the pain is all that we can feel. And, that pain can become a place of existence in a place called life, but it is darkness.
I believe someone will identify with this today, maybe you.
I am on the other side of brokenness and this is basically my story of HOW Jesus has made me whole again. I feel restored! I feel renewed! I have peace and hope and joy and a love like I never knew was possible! We can talk, but a love beyond human comprehension!
You will either read this or not, but this message is written for you.
The world may say, “I can handle this?” or “I got this”, or even think & believe that Jesus is not real, but you can’t argue with all Jesus has done for me.
I hope you take time to consider if this message is for you! Because it is! Read it all and then decide, but don’t negotiate with the opportunity to know Jesus, because if you reject Him today, He will walk away. You can always come back to him, but it will be harder. The choice is now, when He draws you near to Him by His Spirit; and this is the message of how to be made whole again. We all have brokenness in our life.
The question Jesus asks us: Do you want to be made whole?
Introduction:
When Jesus opens your eyes, life begins to make sense. I have been broken, just like you have been hurt in your life – in this world, and in one day or another pain is inevitable in some way or another. This is not a negative post; this is encouragement in the truth that YES, there is HOPE to find life, have life, and HOW to learn to live again in Jesus Name, I pray.
Jesus is the story of HOW
I have been made whole in my brokenness – to never be the same again.
Jesus is the story of HOW I have been made whole in my brokenness – to never be the same again. This may sound silly, but brokenness is a place to begin to grow! Like a seed must become a plant, the shell must fall off to become the life that is inside the seed. I can’t say yet all that is on my heart to say, but one day, we can talk about it.
This started out as an inspirational “Holiday Post” of the “let downs” in traditions of men, because in my later years, holidays are a place of large changes to what we once placed our hope in for love, peace and joy. I found my spirit of joy again, even in the holidays. But I did lose that joy for holidays too, just like I used to try to recreate that 1st kiss with my husband, by re-tracing our steps at the WV State Fair Grounds – year after year, until one day I discovered what my husband already knew. We can never go back to recreate a moment as it was then, but we can create new moments – if we will let go of chasing what was then, to discover what is now.
This is better than we think. To God be the glory! When you receive this you will never be the same. My soul is leaping in my body with a joy that is so real. I write for you to know that is Christ Jesus alive in our hearts! IF we will receive this, we will never be the same!
There are many kinds of brokenness we can feel when life tosses us some tuff punches. We are not trained for “spiritual” soul boxing – not from our soul anyway, and life can beat you up if we let it; or if we just don’t. We feel the punches in our soul & spirit of where the pain is the greatest; and that pain is life-altering whether we want it to be or not.
you may not WANT IT but
brokenness is a place to begin to grow!
But we are not stuck! Jesus come to set the captives FREE – from all habits, hang ups and addictions. What might those look like in your life? Jesus come so that we can discover what DELIVERANCE feels life from being tossed back and forth by what people can do.
When things that used to try to control us, no longer has any power over us! This is my story over and over and over again, of some of the things Jesus does for me; and if my God will do this for me, which He does, I know my God will do the same if not more for you too!
DELIVERANCE
From things that used to have power over us,
no longer has any power over us!
Jesus is the other power that sets us free
from the darkness that wants to cover our soul!
We can see God!
We don’t do it ourselves – that’s religion; and religious people’s belief who don’t think they are broken or blind, or battered, abused, or oppressed, or bankrupt. Jesus come for us because we are all those things, until we believe on God to see.
Pure in heart means, we know, “I am NOT enough!” “I cannot do it on my own!”
Can you imagine how Jesus felt when he looked at the crown without a shepherd and begin to teach and what must have Jesus felt when he said …
~ Blessed is the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
What things you have become to depend on, count on & look forward to, that when something changes in that situation or circumstance, it leaves you feeling broken and at a loss?
I write to encourage you from my broken pieces, because I searched for God and discovered that GOD IS ENOUGH!
I write to encourage you from my broken pieces, because I searched for God and discovered that GOD IS ENOUGH! I literally asked God, “Are you enough?” I found out through my time of searching and discovering that over my time with God in my purposed and activated faith in God’s Word, I have been healed and set free from my brokenness and have discovered (found) true peace in my inner soul.
I literally asked God, “Are you enough?”
I searched for Him.
I discovered His Enough.
Today, I can say, yes, God is enough; and I have learned what is more than enough!
HE IS!
Be encouraged my friend!
God is enough!
Jesus is the power to make you whole again!
Jesus is the power to make is whole again. And, as always, once you discover something good, you know how to get there in any and every situation! When we search for God and find Him through the Son that he did send for us.
Always remind yourself that it is written in John 10:10, where Jesus tells us WHY he came! Jesus also tells us why the thief comes.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. Jesus continues telling us that he came *that they may have life and have it to the full – John 10:10.
*Who is they?
We are ‘they’ before we find the healing light
in the Life that’s hid with Christ in God!
In Jesus’ Name
we search to find… the healing light… in the Life …that’s hid… with Christ… in God, in Jesus Name!
Then, we tell the Good News to others who need Jesus, just like we need Jesus!
We are either on the side of (we were and have been delivered and set free) in Jesus Name with Christ in God; or we are on the road of the brokenhearted, the bankrupt, the blind, the bound, the broken, the oppressed – those that have been beaten down by life; the depressed, the anxious – JUST LIKE JESUS WAS; and just like I feel many times in my life.
My story is that Jesus come to set the captives free! Jesus has done this for me! I had to search for God to find His love for me! I mean really to know God and know and believe in His love for me.
I am telling you all this to make the next part about Jesus relevant & believable to you in your life, too. I encourage you to search for God to find Him; and when you find Him, you will love Him, because you will know with all certainty that God has surely first loved you!
This is the Good News we must tell the world; and that is why I write to you and tell you, Jesus is my story of being made whole! I might not be able to tell you all my stories in detail here, but I can tell you WHY Jesus come and offer you my testimony that I have desperately needed the message of Jesus Christ! God’s Word provides Strength in the very mist of all our deepest weakness.
I offer my testimony that God’s Word provides light in our darkest night, medicine to our every wound – most including the hole in our soul when we need the power of Jesus showing up in our most broke brokenness and deepest pain.
God’s Word provides shelter in the storms and my testimony in the Lord Jesus, God’s word is a fortress when we face the enemy.
There are many kinds of brokenness and disappointments and confusions in this life; but all from the same source of darkness. And the struggle in the darkness is real for so many people, emotionally in one way or another, we all can identify with pain.
There is so much brokenness and pain in this world; and we desperately need the message of Jesus Christ – That is my testimony: We need God to heal our inner brokenness of our lives. We need the POWER of JESUS to restore our lives and help us to live and be made whole again! Where we live together and not be offended, but grown to a place of love like Jesus.
This is my story, and God’s Word is WRITTEN for your story too! To be made whole in your soul. My goal is the share my story through my testimonies, so that you might choose to, and hopefully will, search for the Light of Jesus in the brokenness you feel; so that you know that you can be made WHOLE AGAIN in God with Christ; and that you WILL be stronger at the broken places.
And, I said all that to make this relevant to you today.
I had to allow the Lord to lift my soul up
and yet, once again
: )
WELCOME TO HOPE IN TODAY!
The Lord woke me up with refreshment to my soul that I believe is a choice to encourage you in the same message. This is my faith in a living God who loves us!
Let us pray,
Lord, we thank you for loving us before we even knew to love you. You made us, loved us, saved us, and are still continuing to teach and guide us each and every new today. Father God, we love you and thank you with Christ in our heart; and in Jesus’ name we pray. Help us hear from you clearly beyond the distractions of this world. Help me write as you guide, as this message is more than just for me. In Jesus’ name, amen.
If you will be patient with me, I will just tell this as it comes to me and trust that this is the way the Lord, Christ Jesus, intends on us all to hear. This is my faith.
First, to begin, God has already prepared this message for us!
I was inspired last night, that I felt it, traditions must change to allow room for each person to grow up into their full potential. And, this morning, how do I say it, when the Lord reminds you of something you have learned by him, it’s like changing gears in my jeep to trust God with a joy in my heart to let go and let be and let God direct all our paths together, even if in different ways.
Be encouraged!
If ye the be Risen with Christ, SEEK those things which are above WHERE Christ sitteth on the right hand of God!
SET your affection on things above, not on things on earth.
For your “old person” is dead.
Your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall also appear, then shalt ye also appear with him in glory!
There’s more there to read that is written in Colossians 3:1-25 and to study your life with Christ in God.
Inspired 2 things to remember:
1. Family traditions: We want to cling to what was; the things we have found a bond and happy unity in a moment. We want to recreate those moments. But life is meant to change and to grow. We can keep the memories, but what happens when life takes a turn? Can you change gears on different terrain?
2. The hunt in life is for you, too.
Life is called the way, the truth and the life.
It’s not called family traditions – and there is a glimmer of Mark 7 in Religious traditions making the Word of God of non-effect even in our family traditions, but the Lord my God has been so gracious to me to deliver me from holding on to the past, which would make new steps into reaching forth things ahead of non-effect.
You have this Today.
Whether Today becomes a traditional holiday is indicated on the calendar, but how our heart handles the change is the greatest freedom to new life a person can ever find!
Search is on my mind!
Search to know God and to know the Son that He gave in His Word that is written for you to know Him. This truth will set your heart free to enjoy the joy of the Lord with Christ in God.
The Kingdom come! On earth as it is in Heaven! This is for Daily, even holidays!
Isn’t this good?
But wait! There’s more!
Don’t let the blessings of life take priority over the searching for life!
Here are some examples of what the Lord has put on my mind:
Let’s think of some humans in the Bible who really were wanting to help another, because of love in the name of “toxic-love.”
Peter comes to mind! The only one who got out of the boat to walk on water! The one who denied Jesus three times! The one Jesus said, and go tell Peter…! Peter, the one who Jesus shows us that the Church of LIFE is built on the revelation of WHO Jesus is! Peter was the one who said to Jesus, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!” And, Jesus said, blessed are you for no human revealed this to you, but my Father in Heaven!
It is written – Go search for it!
God wants us to go deeper into His Word to know Him in Jesus!
The message the Lord has on my mind is especially for the holidays.
Be encouraged!
We humans, tend to want to drag along the same, but sooner or later, our humanity must adjust to life changes. Bodies grow up and move away, things can get in the way, and bodies expire, but LIFE with Christ in God is forevermore and this is the place Jesus is building for us to discover with Christ in God.
I keep saying that, because the Lord has helped me more than you can ever know, because my God is a personal God; and that is why I write to you, other gods let us down and leave us feeling at a loss. But my God gives us life and lifts us up when we are down.
When you change gears in a Jeep, there is a time the clutch has to be engaged, so that the transmission relaxed, to change gears to continue on …
“Engaging the clutch allows the power to transfer from the engine to the transmission and drive wheels. Disengaging the clutch stops the power transfer and allows the engine to continue turning without force to the drive wheels.”
Life is like driving a Jeep with a Clutch!
If we forget to use the clutch and set our limited vision as thinking we can keep things the same and never change, it’s like Peter trying to keep Jesus with him and keep him from carrying his own cross.
Traditions in and of themselves are not bad, but if they consume us that we can’t adapt to change, then our life will seem to halt as we have come to know it so far.
There’s so much more to life that we haven’t seen or experienced yet!
For our soul and the soul of every person on this earth!
Peter said, “not you Lord.” Now, we know that is funny today because where would any of us be with out Jesus’ sacrifice for us! Without his death, there would be no resurrected life.
Jesus changed gears for us!
And, we are learning from Jesus how to keep our engine going, even when life gets to crossroads and changes.
How do we keep joy in our heart? We change gears with Christ in God.
Riding in my Jeep is like living life in God!
Christ helps me in my life, like the clutch enables me to climb steep hills and keep my momentum and speed. Christ helps me in my life, like the clutch helps me downshift to a gear to slow me down and to stop at intersections. Christ in my life keeps me going on down the road with Christ, in God, in Jesus’ name.
This is better than I thought!
Peter saying to Jesus, “not you” was a step in the way of Jesus going to the cross.
And, in the latter is to repeat itself in humans across the board. We want to spare those we love from carrying their own cross too, meaning we all have a cross to bear and we humans still want to jump in the way of the cross – even with our limited knowledge to save or to spare someone we love from “this happening to them.”
I am not going to try to edit this. My God will speak it to us in the way we need to hear His encouragement!
Love and Toxic love was the title I first heard, so I will most likely leave that as the Title of today’s post – unless the Lord changes my mind when I get that far?
We want people to follow in our footsteps, heritage & traditions, but traditional values steal kill and destroy – if we forget the spiritual concept of making new foot prints following our heart.
Old age can rob the youth of another by trying to recreate what once was and never can be again, as it was, but there is a new with every grand rising!
Every age is a new opportunity for new discoveries. Letting go of holding on to the past is growth with Christ. Every new day is a gift from God to appreciate and to search for new expectations that ‘God’s enough’ is not just enough and is not just no more and no less. God’s enough is extraordinarily and abundantly MORE than anything we can think or imagine!
Be encouraged!
To let people grow is of the same movement of God’s love for the world to be born again in God through Christ, in Jesus’ name, and this my friend, is never-ending love, relationship and closeness that never ends!
Trusting God and living with Christ is the most impressive thing!
Can you think of some more Bible examples?
The Lord reminded me of when Peter said “not you Jesus: …
Toxic love or Agape Love? That is our human Jeep so to speak.
Before you learn how to drive a standard engine, the car will buck on you until you learn to be one with the car.
In the Bible, we are human, no different than Abraham and Sarah, but we do have Christ with us, as Abraham walked and talked with The LORD, before the Lord was born.
These things are not an accident. Like a butterfly, what if the butterfly only looked at the situation of the caterpillar?
Faith is not supposed to know all things; and Sarah laughed and thought or said something like, “not me” but the Lord is over all Human reasoning!
Be encouraged in your situation!
God provided that ram, not Isaac, but in obedience to the Voice of the LORD, Abraham took his son to sacrifice him, because he knew life is in God!
You can’t drive a jeep in a car.
No one can truly experience true life in life without God.
The jeep or the car is personal choice, but that’s still the message!
And God counts faith as righteous.
Faith is with Christ in God in Jesus Name; and there is HIS JOY and HIS PEACE to be search for and found in HIM alone!
Continuing on as I believe the Lord gave this message to me.
The world wants to recruit us to be like them.
Even if we are not careful, we want things to stay the same and even be like us.
This is really better than we think.
If we are honest with Christ in our soul, we want our kids to follow our tradition and always be nearby. But this is selfish love. And selfish love can become toxic love if we don’t know how to change gears in this life. Jesus is always the way, the truth and the life.
We have to fight to be unique in this world; like God made our identity to be.
We have to fight and search for the path God wants us to take.
We are uniquely made by God to discover our own path with Christ in God and in Jesus Name.
There’s more, but for today,
I am learning that letting go is where life is found. Letting go of holding on too tightly to things of the past.
I am learning the grand rising of each day of being thankful to God for life and life everlasting!
I thank God for holding us all!
And the next Scripture on my mind for couple of years now … Forgetting the things of the past & reaching forth the things ahead.
It is written! I won’t steal your joy by giving it to you!
Search for it in God’s Word that is waiting to bless you by His Love for you!
God’s love for you is extraordinary real and sincere and more than you can ever think of or imagine, and yet, His love can be found!
Your life is hidden with Christ in God and when you receive this, you will never be the same.
I hope this is a blessing to you.
Lately, again, I don’t have time to read to edit, so just as it is Lord! Let my life be a light of your Love and the salt of your Peace!
Father God, in the power of the Holy Spirit, cause us to seek you, to find you and to know you as my Lord!
Love in Christ Jesus,
Karen Rowe
God is both Savior and Lord for us; and He is still God.
I would love to hear from you if this has blessed your heart in some way! And, if you would like to ask for prayer, please ask. We will pray, and in fact, you don’t even have to tell us, as long as you tell the Lord – He’ll put you on our heart with Christ to pray for you.
