It’s Time

I’m a person who asks many questions and am one who can’t turn a blind eye to anything. Now, more than ever the lines of right and wrong are getting blurred, and people desiring gray rather than black or white. Why?

Why are we comfortable with walking by people who hurt, as though they don’t exist?Why, when we hear of children being sold into sex slavery, do we finish chewing our food, swallow it and then continue with our appetites? Why are will still enraged by slavery of yesterday but, won’t lift a finger to stop the slavery of today?

Who have we become?

Why have we allowed the voice of racism to rise above truth? Hatred knows no boundaries and has no limits. When we become blind in any one color, or cause, whether we’re for or against, we become part of the problem. I’m neither for or against any color. I’m for the creator of all color and all of His creation is good.

Why is it easier to hate than love? Why do we fuel fires instead of putting them out? Why do we excuse ourselves for the same behavior we despise in others? When will we grow tired of our own hypocrisy?

Why do we believe that loving others applies only to the ones we like? Why do we long to be noticed and admired by our peers? Why do we constantly brag about every little detail of our small existence? Who are we really trying to impress? Isn’t talking about the good that surrounds us, much more praise worthy?

Why are our children still killing themselves? Why do drugs or addictions still have an attractive nature to the young and restless? Why would we ever bully others into wrong choices?

It’s time to face things and make a change

It’s time to love

It’s time for our battle cry to cry for someone else

It’s time for our hearts to change

It’s time for the weak to be strong

It’s time for families to unite

It’s time for the hungry to be fed

It’s time for justice to prevail

It’s time!

Strategies to Accomplish Your Dreams

What if, I told you that anything that you dream can be accomplished? Anything! What if, I told you that the only reason you are where you are in life is because what you believe is possible? What are your dreams? Do you even remember? Do you want to be a President, doctor, veterinarian, writer, singer, musician, entertainer, preacher, teacher, trainer, coach, Olympian, or something simple like having more peace, feeling safe at night, paying your bills on time, etc. What are your dreams?

I confess that each day I live out a segment of my dream. Am I a millionaire? No, that was never one of my dreams. My dream was to have freedom in my heart, mind, and body. My dream was to love the unlovable. My dream was to enjoy every minute of my life. My dream was to have a husband who loved me. My dream was to have a happy family. My dream was to help others accomplish their dreams. My dream was to see people fall in love with Jesus.

I have many other dreams that I am currently living out and those are just a few. You may think, ‘hmmm, those are easy. I’m happy, my husband loves me, etc.’

Then I have to ask “Are those your deepest dreams?” They were for me.

Here is another one of my dreams, I’ve dreamed of being in the Olympics. You may say, ‘Ha, you’re not in the Olympics.’ You would be right, I’m not. However, I have a horse that I’m currently training and next year we are going to the show. If the Olympics are for me, I will make it there.

Without further ado, I must confess that I could have been living out my dreams at a much earlier age, but was not willing to take on the role that it all depended on me. I believed that others have stopped me. I believed that good would never be part of my life. I believed a lot of self-defeating things that prevented me from attaining my goal and because of it, it has taken almost thirty years to start enjoying the dreams that depended on me, to acquire. Here are the greatest keys for you to unlock your dreams.

1. Allow God to birth in you the dreams that He has for you. Revelation 3:8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

2. Write down the vision that God gives you. Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.

3. Believe that God only wants good for you. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

4. Pray daily, hourly or whatever it takes, until the dream begins to unfold. 1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

5. Develop a deep relationship with Jesus Christ. Learn how to do anything and everything He tells you, no matter how insignificant or strange it may seem. If He says make a cake for someone, do it. He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:16 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

6. Be generous in every area of your life. God doesn’t give us dreams to hoard them or lord them over others. He gives them to us for the benefit of all. He has good plans for you. A good plan would involve others being blessed and God getting the credit for the blessing. Luke 3:8 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

7. Get joyful in all things. God loves joy. Joy is our strength. We need joy to override all the pitfalls that we will face. If we don’t have joy, we won’t succeed. James 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

8. Here is the last one. It is the best one. Find passion in loving passionately. Do I mean this in a provocative way, yes, if you are married. The two greatest commandments are 1) Love God; 2) Love others. Jesus says when we do that, we’ve done everything else right. Why? Because perfect love, never harms others.

We can only expect good when we know that His plans for us is good and if we are only sowing good. Everything I just listed is good seed to sow. You will reap a harvest of goodness when you sow good seed.

Thank you Lord for seeing our God given dreams and breathing life into them. You are the giver of life. You only give good gifts to your children. Thank you for revealing to us how good you really are. Thank you for birthing in us the faith that it takes to live a life pleasing to you. Give us your dreams and give us the courage to walk out the dreams that you have for us. With you we can do all things, but without you our plans will account for nothing. Make our lives have meaning, value, and account for the goodness in You. Let our passions draw people to you, the giver of good dreams. I love you Jesus, let it be, as in your word. Let the ones who need this encouragement find it today, amen.

Enjoy the Rainbows

I had another name for this blog a week ago, but I don’t remember what it was. This will be short as I don’t have time to elaborate. I promised everyone I would write a post over a week ago and I have been on overload for a few months now and each day seems to keep me busy until I wake up and do it again. Without further a due, here goes.

When people see me today, the person I am, they believe this is who I’ve always been. In many ways they are right. I’ve always had a heart for people, animals and harmony. I longed to see harmony in all things my whole life. But, the way I went about doing things to create harmony when I was younger looked nothing like the way I go about bringing it forth today.

I used to think that everything depended on me changing things. I now know that everything depends on me being changed. Let me say that again. I used to think everything depended on me changing things. I now know that everything depends on me being changed. Or, me being the change. I pray this helps you.

I have many regrets because I lacked vision, wisdom and foresight. Many of you don’t realize that you will regret tomorrow by what you are doing today. Why? Because, you lack what I lacked then. We all lack vision to a degree, when we only see our limited view, our perspective, limited by our experiences. Today, if I could go back 30 years, this is what I would say to me, in this order.

Michelle this may sound strange, weird or off the wall. But, because I know the outcome of your choices, if you really want, what you really want, here is how you go about getting what your really want.

1. Find Jesus. Don’t settle for someone else’s opinion or experience of Him. You find Him and don’t stop until you do. Make finding Jesus and living in His presence your number 1 ambition.

2. Get over yourself. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and treat others like you want to be treated. The pity parties need to go, once and for all. They are your number one weakness. Get rid of them now.

3. Respect your parents. Do for them, more than they’ve done for you. Respect your elders. If someone is 10 seconds older than you respect them. Don’t get offended by anything they do. It will cause you more detriment than you’re prepared to deal with.

4. Above all things, spend time with your family. Put your ambitions in a waste basket, catch them on fire if need be and put a date on the calendar every month to visit a family member. Include everyone you know and search out the ones you don’t know. Find out where you are from and embrace your heritage.

5. Find a church that exalts Jesus. Go often, but not all the time. Don’t look for people in the church to replace the family that you wished you had. Meaning, because you hardly see your family. Be, the family that they wished they had, as you become a better family member yourself.

6. Serve everyone you meet in the giftings and talents that you have. Smile often, but shake hands and hug even more. Don’t promise something that you can’t deliver on. But, make promises and keep them when you make them.

7. Don’t date until your mature enough to get married. When you do, be choosy, selective and don’t even date anyone who is self centered. If they aren’t your best friend, move on in grace and be patient until your best friend shows up.

8. Enjoy every minute of your life. Not by being selfish, by enjoying every minute..the good, bad and ugly. Enjoy your life, it’s the only one you have.

9. Show love to all. Put away all criticism and realize we all are one minute away from loosing it.

10. Pray for everyone you meet, even if for 30 seconds. Believe the best and be prepared for the worst.

11. Let your children see the love of God in you above all else. Nothing else matters in this life except the love of God. Make that available to your children no matter what you face. Don’t be so hard on yourself…no one can be a perfect anything. Make love your ambition and you’ll never fail.

12. Breathe. Forgive yourself. Cry. Laugh. Believe. Hope. Endure. Scream. Breathe.

13. Enjoy the rainbows. God will give you many rainbows to remind you that He never forgets His promises. All of your dreams will come true and when they do, remember who brought them about. It wasn’t ever your dream to begin with. It was His. He wants His dreams for you to come true. Enjoy the rainbows.

Book 3-God Reveals

I am writing books to encourage a friend of mine who has been diagnosed with cancer. These are faith building books. Let your faith arise. Share this. Like this. Let’s together allow faith to rise in us for the impossible. Let’s destroy the works of sickness, disease and all destroying things together. In Jesus name.

It was a Tuesday. My mother used to visit me every Wednesday to take care of my two oldest boys. I was a single mom and she wanted to help. She had to come Tuesday, that week. She came to the salon first. I thought it would be a day like every other day. I was wrong.

I caught the view of my mom’s van as she pulled up. My eyes gazed into the sun as she got out of her van. In an instant my view went into slow-motion. I opened and closed my eyes many, many times but, the slow-motion continued. Then, like a microscope I could see my mother was sick and laboring in what she was doing. I ran to the door to help her as my mind raced, questioning how I could know this information? Was I just super smart, super noticing, super aware? Even if, I answered yes to all those questions…slow motion?? How did that happen?

I begged my mom to sit down and allow me to do something for her but, she could not get comfortable. It never occurred to me to call 911. So, maybe I wasn’t super smart. After she left the salon, she went to my house. I told her to do nothing but, play with the boys, as she always cleaned my house. I couldn’t shake what I felt on the inside of me. I knew she was not o.k., but who do I tell what I had seen?

A few hours later she called and said she was going home. I pleaded with her to stay the night. On my way home that night, I could not shake the eerie feeling I had in the pit of stomach. When I turned left on my street I noticed 3 ambulances. I knew they were there for my mother. She had been having a heart attack for hours and didn’t know it.

This story is long, too long to write in full detail. I quickly made arrangements for the boys and spent the next 5 days at the hospital. No one seemed to notice how sick my mom was, except me. I knew she was real sick and couldn’t get anyone to listen. They treated her like she was fine and was going to recover. I kept telling Rob, “my mom isn’t o.k.”! Still, no one believed. I saw and knew what I had seen was not of this world but, didn’t understand fully what was going on.

On the fifth day, as Rob and I left the hospital, my mom said, “Ggggoooodddd-bbbyyyyeeee yyyyy’aaaallll”. It happened again, as she waved and spoke, everything went in slow motion. While Rob and I was walking out of the building a voice said, ” you will never see your mom again“.
I didn’t run home and pray or run back into the room and pray. I did nothing on the outside that was visual to anyone. I had all this going on the inside of me, not knowing what to do. I was out of my league and felt hopeless. At 11:00 p.m. I got a call, I knew before I answered the call who was calling. Yes, my mom had another heart attack.

Why am I writing this? I believe that God sends warnings, signals, caution signs, red flags, stop signs, yield signs, turn around signs and usually we don’t comprehend it was God or most don’t even see the signs. He is talking, He is talking, He is talking! Are we listening? If we hear, do we know what to do? I can honestly say my lack of understanding cost me a lot. The bible says if it costs you EVERYTHING get understanding. I can honestly say it has cost me everything to even begin to understand and still, is anyone listening?

I became obsessive about the things of God so that another life would not be lost, due to me not knowing the signs. I have been rejected, laughed at, ignored, and had every wicked thing said about me. But, despite all those things, I will continue to seek His truth that reveals more than my own truth.

I will also add, I was not attending a church, I was not in any knowing relationship with God. I believe in going to church. But, my point is God is speaking to us, where we are at, wherever that may be. I have felt for years like I wasn’t the proverbial ‘good enough’ for God to talk to me or for me to hear Him. I have heard it preached from pulpits and talked about in the ladies room, about the haves and have nots of anointing, prophesy and giftedness. That is why I am emphasizing and will continue to emphasize my lack of everything that is considered esteemed. I didn’t ask to see. I had no training, yet God came down and revealed something to me. For He alone get’s all the fame.

God reveals but are we listening. God reveals but do we know what to do? God reveals, but are we too locked up to respond correctly? God reveals, but have we put God in a box? God reveals, but does it not fit our personality, likes, dislikes, comfort zones? God reveals, have we allowed ourselves to pay a price for understanding? When I lost everything and continue to loose everything, I begin to allow the uncomfortable to be the comfort of choice. God reveals.

The Moment That I Woke Up Things Began to Change

Over the last 3 years, I have been on a journey. I have had to stop the direction I was headed and was forced to take another route. My health was failing and my body needed a solution that was real. During these times of rest and extreme overhaul of my habits, I have had many encounters with God. I am going to be as honest and transparent as I can be. Here is the beginning of my journey.

At the time that my symptoms started I was working 7 days a week, attending church four days a week and volunteering 1-4 days per week as well. I was physically drained, emotionally weak, and I felt like a failure most of the time. Nothing that I was doing was producing real life. In fact, although many great things were happening in a spiritual realm, it was only skin deep.

One day I clearly heard the Lord say, ” I never called you to be the sacrifice”. I stopped, pondered, considered and contemplated those words. I realized in minutes that I had become that old Michelle, who can outwork anyone with a smile on her face. Why, because I felt driven that God was not enough to make me something of real value, that I had to work harder than anyone to be, who He called me to be. So, I started saying no to things and making different choices.

Here is what He was showing me about me.

1. I had lost my joy. Not all, but some.

2. I had lost my focus. My focus should be on Him, not on people’s opinions of Him or of me.

3. I needed to give some attention to the symptoms I was having. I needed to wake up and notice what was going on with me.

4. I needed to fall on my face and repent for not having enough faith, that He knew what He was doing in me, for me and through me.

5. Jesus is all I need.

The next word of correction that I heard was about Facebook. The Lord said to me, “who are you posting those things for”? I said, “people who don’t go to my church”. He then said, “they don’t want to see any of that. Michelle, why don’t you post what they would want to see”. I preceded to remove everything off my Facebook page regarding my church, church service, God encounters, testimonies, scriptures, and Jesus inspiring posts. I then posted a photo of our family. In seconds my family and friends from around the world started liking my post. I was saddened that I had been so clueless.

Here are the points He started to show me in regards to posting things on Facebook.

1. Post things that your audience would be interested in, that says who you are too. Like for me, that is health, nutrition, horses, education, family, faith, outdoors, music, exercise, animals, children, skating, Christmas….etc. Before He showed me this, I only posted things about my church, and only God posts. I appeared one dimensional, aka-super religious.

2. Make your posts positive and encouraging.

3. Make your posts interesting.

4. Make your posts inspired by God, yet not overly spiritual.

5. Make your posts see into the heart of God through who you are, not what you say.

6. He made me see, how religious and cold I appeared to the world, all the while my fellow church goers loved what I posted. That was not my goal. My goal was not to become popular with my peers. My goal was to reveal the heart of God to others.

7. My posts should not be super religious, convicting, or boastful of my God activities. They should be revealing that God loves us and that I agree with loving others too.

Until we reach the unchurched what are we doing?

Lord help us to see.

He continued to show me the pride and arrogance in us, when we only see our perspective, or the perspective of our peers. He clearly showed me how, if any holy spirit activity, or church activity, made me feel better about myself than others, I was way off base. Here is a great scripture to reflect on.

^{Luke 18:11} The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

¹² I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

The 3rd thing that He deposited in me was the concept of humility. I have been on a twenty year process of humility. Sincerely, I thought I was O.K. in that department. I found out, I wasn’t. Here are my thoughts on humility. When we are humble we possess these characteristics.

1. We are eager to listen and learn from anyone, especially from people of a lower position.

2. We remove the idea that arrival is possible, obtainable or the goal. The goal is total reliance on God to achieve anything. We can only boast on His abilities. This is not condemnation, this is humility.

3. We look for the good in others and are drawn to others because of the goodness we see in them.

4. We long to be like children, simple in heart, submissive in attitude.

5. When asked to do something we are grateful that we are available for the task.

6. There is no task too low for us to do.

7. We don’t carry comparison charts.

8. We do esteem others higher than ourselves.

9. We don’t feel the need to correct, talk, show, tell, help, advise or re-align anyone, except ourselves.

10. We give everyone the benefit of any doubt.

Here is the last thing that I will discuss today. One day the Lord said to me, “Michelle, what do you think people would think of someone who attends church 4 days per week, but has no time for other people. “Other people”, would be children, spouse, co-workers, neighbors, friends, and family from around the world. As I sat and pondered that question, I started to cry and truly hated what I had become. I realized what a mess I had become and that my walk with Jesus would never be seen because, my priorities were wrong.

Here are the priorities I am striving for now.

1. Take care of my relationship with God.

2. Take care of me.

3. Take care of my relationships with the people I live with, my children, family, and friends around the world.

4. Be friendly, approachable, and full of joy daily. Pursue my God given assignments with joy in and out of my house.

5. Notice, notice, notice others.

7. Give my all, in all that I do. But, not to the detriment of myself.

8. Attend my church and be faithful to it and God.

My goal in writing this is to bring illumination to the wrong direction that I was headed, fully convinced I was going in the right direction. I am not here to judge you. I pray that what was shown to me, may reveal things that you may need to alter. I write this with a broken heart, that in my zeal, like Paul, I missed the mark.

Since I have started implementing these basic truths I feel the entire world opening up for me. I get approached by strangers everywhere I go. I have been asked to give my testimony many times and pray for tons of people. Why? I put away my religious ways and put their needs above my own. I don’t need to talk about Jesus to feel important, I get to talk about Him with people who long to hear about Him.

I pray this gets us started on a different course of balance and vitality with purpose. You have a call on your life. Your call is to be the best you that God can design. It is a call that produces all the gifts of the spirit, flowing in love and normal living. I can honestly say, that had I not changed I don’t know where I would be? But, because I did change, everything in my life is getting better than I could have imagined, including my health.

May you start your journey this day.

If We Love God We?

1 John 4 The Message (MSG)

Don’t Believe Everything You Hear

4 My dear friends, don’t believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.

^2-3 Here’s how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ—the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person—comes from God and belongs to God. And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought!

^4-6 My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world’s language and the world eats it up. But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.

God Is Love

^7-10 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.

^11-12 My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!

^13-16 This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit. Also, we’ve seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. We know it so well, we’ve embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God.

To Love, to Be Loved

^17-18 God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.

¹⁹ We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.

^20-21 If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.

What can we say then?

1. If we don’t love people, we don’t love God!

2. There is another spirit in operation that deceives and divides.

3. Fear chokes out love. If we live in fear, we don’t live in love.

4. Love, banishes fear.

5. If we boast, “I love God”, and hate our brother, we are  liars.

6. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. Meaning, everyday, all the time.

Summary:

Let’s stop being full of fear and lying, instead love God, and our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Thanks for reading, like and share this. If we don’t get this message right, we have done nothing else right.

Go Tell Them I Love Them!

This is a story about how for 3 nights in a row, the presence of God came into my bedroom! The spirit of God had spoke to me 6 months earlier about doing something and I did not do it, I had no faith that God could use me. Here is my story!

I can’t breath, I thought as I was gasping for air!!!! I was eight months pregnant with my daughter Joy, who is now ten. ” What are you doing to me, I asked, are you trying to kill me? ” I could hardly breath, the weight of God was so heavy on me! It was in the middle of the night, although I rarely slept, tonight felt like I would literally die!!!! I want to say this again, I really thought I would die!

” GO TELL THEM THAT I LOVE THEM, ” He said! I thought….me? Why me?? No one listens to me!!! Every time I talk about you, people turn and run!!! ” They don’t know that I love them,” He said. I felt His pain; His pain was ripping my heart in two!! I did not say no, but I did not say yes, I just wanted to live and I could not get any air into my lungs!! I was crying so hard that it made breathing even harder. All night He kept me awake and all I could do was cry and try to breath!

The next night it happened again only this time I seen the face of our pastor’s son, his name is Mike. Six months earlier He had showed me what Mike looked like to him, it was heartbreaking. He said, “ tell him I love him, ” as His presence came down on me again!! Here we go I thought, I can’t breath again! As I was gasping for air, I heard his cry for this child. My heart broke in two again! I thought…… Jesus cries over the people who don’t seem to care, I want to be like Jesus! He kept me awake to talk to me about the people who walk blindly around not able to see who they are or who He is! This was a love, I can not clearly describe but will try. He kept after me most of the night again, I cried and worked hard just to breath. He kept saying, “ they don’t know that I love them, go tell them that I love them!”

Night three; He woke me up again! He said, ” GO TELL MIKE I LOVE HIM!! “ I agreed!! He showed me His love for Mike. He showed me His love for all of His children. I asked how to explain what His love looked like!? He showed me a newborn baby. He revealed to me how fragile they were!!! He showed me what it looked like to care for, pick up, and the care that we take in even the smallest of details regarding a small baby!  He said, ” You know when the beauty of a newborn is so breathtaking that you carefully kiss them on the forehead, so you don’t hurt them?”  I said, ” yes.”  He said, ” that is how much I love them!!! The love that you put into kissing your child on the forehead and all the care you put into raising your children and caring for them is comparable to the love that I have for my children.”  I said, “I think I get it!” I will tell him and I did!

Let me ask you a few questions, o.k.? Who do you love more than anyone else in the universe? Think of them right now! Are you thinking of them?? Imagine that this was your last day to see them!!! If you had one hour to spend with the person that you loved more than anyone else in the world, how would you treat that person?? What would you say? How would you act? Now I can assuredly tell you Jesus is more passionate than you! What ever you would do, He has outdone you!

Roman 5:8 But God demonstrates His love for us, in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

Why am I telling you this? Jesus loves you!! He loves you!! HE LOVES YOU! You are very important to him! You really are! He sees your frailties and wants to embrace you, in spite of all your frailties. He longs for you to know Him! He kept me awake for three nights to reveal to me the depth of His love for you! We all long to be loved and His love is PERFECT! He will not leave me alone until I tell you, then I will have to tell you again, and again and again…until you believe it!

It took months, of my first pastor saying Jesus loves you…yes you, before I could believe it. We get rejected so much and lied to so much that when Jesus shows up, we treat him as though He is like everyone else! He is not! He is like nothing you can imagine and more! He is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! He longs for us to long for Him!!! We have so many unworthy longings, He is the only thing I have ever met that rightfully deserves to be longed after!!

How do we find Him??? He says when you seek me, you will find me, WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART! The first time I met Him, I was in my living room wanting to die!! I held my bible up in the air toward heaven and said,” if you don’t reveal yourself to me now, I am out of here! “ I was serious and He showed up in an instant! We spent the day together and He revealed His plan for my life that day! His plan is perfect and beautiful just like Him!

Here goes reader; do you want the best thing that could ever be? Are you desperate for a life worth living? Do you long for all of your heart to beat with love? Have you craved love and acceptance your whole life always feeling short handed?? Pray this tiny little real prayer with all your heart and mean it!! Jesus, I need you in my life!!!! I am tired of me!!! I want something real!!! I want to know you!!! I want to know that you are real! Do whatever you want to me, anything is better than this!! Become real to me now!!! Thank you!!!

I will end on this last thought, but one worth meditating on for a lifetime! 1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us. His love is perfect and is worth investing all that we are into the love that He is! When we are full of Him, we than can turn around and love others, like He has loved us!

If you would like prayer, please leave me a private message. I love to pray for people and would love to see your life change. Until next time, thank you for reading, Michelle.