Take Him At His Word

God is just waiting for someone to take Him at His Word. He is actively watching to see if anyone will. If we will take His Word and mix it with faith (just believe it to be true), the Bible says that He will perform It. That is what Mary did. That’s what you and I need to do.

God desires for you and me to take Him at His word no matter how unmanageable our situation seems. Why—because nothing is too hard for God. - Micca Campbell 

God is trustworthy. We can take him at His word, and believe Him with 100% certainty. We can count on Him to be there for us, even at our lowest moment. How reassuring that is! ✞ 

Blessings,

Dalinda

He Is The Key To Our Significance

Just take a look around this world we live in, it offers up self-worth solutions at every turn. Sadly, this worldly treasure hunt only produces fools gold. It’s shiny and promising, has the feel of significance, but really it’s worthless.

Satan is in the very lucrative business of answering our desperate want ads and using the very available and equipped world to do it. People can’t make us feel significant and the world can’t make us feel significant. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God's love.

Heaven invites us to set the lens of our heart on the heart of our Savior and make Him the object of our life. Because our significance is found in Jesus alone. 

Blessings,

Dalinda

Brokenness Is A Tool In The Hand Of God

The photo below was taken Janruary of this year. It shows the inflammation on the right side of my face caused by mercury poisoning from a silver filing (amalgam filing) in my tooth. I lost my peripheral vision in my right eye as a result of the mercury poisoning because it damaged my optic nerve. Six different doctors told me that I would never regain my vision. I am thankful that they were wrong! I have 90% of my vision back and continue to detox daily at our studio, Circulation Nation of Simpsonville. God is so good!!!

We're all broken in one place or another. But when we stay connected to the Vine, He strengthens us so that we may bear fruit-even through our brokenness.✞ 

Brokenness is a tool in the hand of God.

* It is painful, but God supports and provides the strength we need to keep going.

* Brokenness is a sign of His love and activity in our life. He breaks our self-reliance because He loves us. He knows if we are left on our own, we would yield to pride and selfish feelings.
* Any discipline we experience in times of brokenness is God's way of changing and preparing us for future service. Brokenness stops at the point where our spirit yields to God's will. The moment He senses a true desire within us to obey His Word is when He eases the painfulness.

* God will never allow brokenness to crush us.

God uses brokenness to deepen our understanding in three ways:

* We gain a new perspective of His mercy and provision.
* We have a more complete comprehension of ourselves.
* Our compassion and understanding for others' suffering is developed.

God uses brokenness to reveal our need for Him. We need the fellowship and love of family and friends, but only Jesus Christ can meet all our needs perfectly and completely.

Only Jesus Christ can take our weakness and turn it into strength, hope, and honor. 

Will you trust Him to change your life?

Blessings,

Dalinda

Our Greatest Love

What better way to start than at the beginning – the creation of man and woman. One of the things that always stuck out most to me was how God truly provided for Adam. He saw that man was not good alone, and created Eve. It reminds me of how God knows everything about us and provides for us – even a spouse.

In marriage, your partner is also your helpmate and friend that can come alongside you and compliment you.

We have a precious couple in our studio that has been married for 48 years! This is pretty rare this day and time. You can tell that they are still madly in love with one another. He still opens the car door for her. :)

God is love. If you desire to truly love your spouse in a way that is perfect and complete, continue to know God. Seek God daily and allow His love to transform your heart. This will strengthen your understanding of love and your capacity to love in an extraordinary way. God brings other things, other people, into our lives. So that we learn to love Him supremely.

I am thankful for my husband, Jody. I love him dearly, but he is not my Savior; he is my fellow sojourner. 

Our marital relationships were never meant to become an Idol. We are to love God above all of the wonderful, amazing blessings He bestows upon us in this life. God does not want to be one of our many loves. He wants to be our greatest love. He wants us to see that even if we have the best of everything in this world, His love is still far better.

Blessings,

Dalinda 

So Much More

My life isn’t what I pictured it would be, but it’s better. 

As I sit and look back over my life, I can see so many times when God had His hand on me and I didn't even know it! 

Trials only mean God is sifting through our life. He sifts what we don't need out, and gives us what we do need. 

I am thankful that God didn’t give me what I thought I wanted -- He's given me so much more!

One of the best things we can do for ourselves is to realize that God knows us better than we know ourselves. 

God has given me so much more than what I deserve. The least I can do is thank Him for it. ✞

Blessings,

Dalinda

The Treasure Within The Trouble

There is enormous positive power in adversity. Adversity is what molds our character. Just as weight training develops our muscles. 

Weight training speeds up our metabolism and makes us look and feel better. It makes us stronger and more resilient in the face of accidents and all sorts of trauma. Our physical muscles become stronger when confronted with resistance, and the same is true for the "muscles" in our minds, spirit, and character. 

Remember, the presence of tension, conflict, and difficulty indicates that growth is trying to take place. When you view this adversity as natural, normal, and, in fact, even necessary, it empowers you to take advantage of its potential for growth. 

Adversity, regardless of its orgin, can be turned to your advantage when you trust God to be bigger, stronger, and more tenacious than anything you ever face. 

Blessings,

Dalinda

What A Difference A Year Makes

Even in the darkest times, we should never doubt God. Even when it may appear like our life is over and He has forgotten us, He is actually growing us into our future. 

Here is one of my blog posts from around this time last year:

"CHOSEN"

God chose you! 

Chosen: God separated you from everyone else to perform a specific task....And God consecrated You for that purpose. Wow! What an awesome thought! 

Nothing about us or our circumstances surprises God. He ordained that we should walk in those ways because we are uniquely qualified by Him to do so. He approved us, because He chose us for our specific situation. And He equipped us for every trial and difficulty we will ever face in life. What an awesome God we serve!

THANKFUL.....THANKFUL.....THANKFUL! Today, I am most thankful for "Answered Knee-Mail!" I got my report from my biopsy....NO Lymphoma!!! Another PRAISE GOD! THANK YOU JESUS! Prayer is not something to be taken lightly or used infrequently. Yet, in the rush of daily life, we often lose sight of God's presence. Instead of turning to Him for guidance and comfort, we depend on our own resources. I am thankful that though I focus too much attention on the "real" aka physical world, He is gracious and loving to prompt me again to pour myself more fully into the real world aka spiritual world. We can access His power anywhere. We don't need a wi-fi hotspot or a high-speed modem. We just need to look up. He's connected and waiting. ♥

God made us to fellowship with Him! If that fellowship demands trials for a season, rejoice that God thinks you worthy to share in the sufferings of Christ-and, eventually, in His glory. Praise His holy name! I am thankful to be a part of something so much grander than myself. 

Problems that seem insurmountable to us are simply a breath to Him. God holds each one of us in the palm of His hand.

What a difference a year makes! God was actually growing me into my future.

Blessings,

Dalinda