What’s A Girl To Do???

It’s after 8:00 pm, we are just coming home from picking up three beautiful pieces of antique furniture.  I am physically and mentally whipped.  It has been one of those non-stop days, between business email and painting and children and a husband . . . well, I am whipped.

And to top it off, I have been doing the 30 day Shred with Jillian Michaels since the first of the month.  Let’s just say that woman does not even begin to know what mercy is.  So, when I say physically exhausted I am including quads, hamstrings, pecs, traps and every core muscle known to man!

I walk in the house to this!

You see that?  COOKIES!   Chocolate Chip Cookies!!  I love that my children bake.  I also love that they sneak and bake them when I am gone, even though I pretend like I am a little miffed.

Yep, that’s my empty milk glass.  I mean, really, what is a girl to do??  Warm gooey cookies and ice cold raw milk.  What would you do?

Far Above

I am going to share how the Lord led me ‘out of the pit’ this morning.  Now, it is hard to give all the details that led up to it, but you will get the gist of it.  I pray it is encouraging to you.

I have been struggling up and down with hormones of late and I can turn into a pretty crabby person.  Just ask Brian.  It is not just crabby, it is downright miserable all the way around.  I get hit by it and it can take days to recover. 

I have been meditating and studying deeply the Truth about who I am in Christ, what I have in Him and where I stand, with Him.  I have been challenged, by God, to believe His Word over what I see and feel.  In the past I would give lip service and mental assent to believing His Word, but then would go on living in my emotions, ‘feelings’, etc.

Something, or should I say Someone rose up in me this morning and I didn’t want to take it anymore.  The following is exactly what I wrote in my journal this morning.

“Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:”  (Eph. 1:20-21)

“And hath raised us up together, and made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”  (Eph. 2:6)

Okay! I need to remember, even when it comes to emotions, hormones and the crabbies, I am, right now, seated with Christ together, in heavenly places, FAR ABOVE all principality, and power, and might and dominion  and every.single.name that is named . . .

FAR ABOVE

Am I going to believe that what I see or feel is the Truth or what the Word says, no matter what I feel.

I am the head and not the tail.  I am above only and not beneath.  (Dt. 28:13)

I am complete in Him, which is the Head (far above) all principality and power . . .

I am risen with Christ and I seek those things above.  (Far above and not beneath!!) I set my mind, my thoughts, my imagination on things above!

I am holy, chosen and loved.  I let the peace of God rule in my heart and I am thankful.  His Word dwells in my richly, it makes its home in me.

I am free—I will stand (in heavenly places, mind you) in the liberty where with Christ has made me free—I have been called to liberty.

I have been chosen before the foundation of the world.

I have redemption—forgiveness.  I have obtained an inheritance, which does not include mucking around in the ‘mully grubs’.

So, yeah, I AM seated in heavenly places, FAR ABOVE all principality, power, dominion and every single ‘mully grub’!!

(this is the picture that I drew in my journal, ‘seeing’ and ‘imagining’ is actually a part of the biblical meditation process)

Oh, these little buggers try to swallow me up, trip me, grab hold of my ankles and pull me down.  The more I try to tip-toe through them, the more entangled I become. 

Some are like quicksand.  Some have tremendously strong tentacles.  Some sting and bite and leave me limping.

But the Truth is, (I am not talking about what I “see” or “feel”) I am not to even be tip-toeing through them.  I am seated with Christ—FAR ABOVE all this yuck.  I get to choose, do I want to tip-toe through this muck here below, or am I going to believe the Word when it says

FAR ABOVE??!!

Book Give-Away

I have the honor of being friends with the author of, “Walking Through Fiery Trials”, Mary Pat Jones.

I love this woman and her story is so inspiring to me.  I happened to have two copies and want to bless someone with my extra copy.

If you have endured or are enduring right now your own ‘fiery trial’ I think you will find this book the encouragement you will need.

I have shared little bits about some of the almost eleven year ‘fiery trial’ we endured and I can say I wish, oh I wish, I had this book and the Truths therein to encourage me along the way.  I can honestly say that had I had the Truth contained in this book, I believe we would have come out the other end of our trials a little less beaten up.  Possibly, it would have been shortened, as I now see how much we even brought on ourselves.

I would like as many people as possible to have an opportunity to win this book.  Would you do me a favor and blog about this give-away and let me know that you did.  I will enter your name in the drawing.

So, either post about it (linking back to this post), or mention it on Facebook.  (linking back to this post).  Come back here an let me know that you did.

If you are interested in learning more about my precious friend, Mary Pat, go to “Creative Footage” 

Thank you!!