Month: February 2014

Good Morning ! Let’s Be Blessed!

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Anyone ready for spring?  I am!  Ready for the spring “feel”, ready for the smell of spring, ready for spring flowers and the buds on the trees!!!!  Well, not quite yet! We are in for another winter storm, at least that is what they are saying for us to watch out for……oh, well….it will give us an opportunity to appreciate the springtime and His blessings all the more 🙂 🙂 🙂

I am going to real honest here and tell you I even like to hear the word “blessings”.  It is a beautiful word…..here is what I find when I look up the definition…

bless·ing

 noun

: approval that allows or helps you to do something

: help and approval from God

: something that helps you or brings happiness

and

Full Definition of BLESSING

1
a :  the act or words of one that blesses

 

b :  approval, encouragement

2
:  a thing conducive to happiness or welfare
3
:  grace said at a meal
 
See?  Nothing negative…..in a world full of negative, the word “blessing” has all positive wrapped up into it……I love it!  Then today when reading the word, I came across Psalm 89: 15 ” Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. “
 
And it hit me again…..the Word says allot “Blessed are those who……” but this hit me today because God has been talking to me about 2014 being the year to practice praising Him and walking in His presence and what joy that would bring to His people!  That was confirmation and what a beautiful confirmation it was!  🙂
 
When we learn to walk in His presence…..meaning as a way of life, not just 5 minutes or 15 minutes a day as devotion but as we “do our day”….throughout our day……….it was interesting that the Word doesn’t say sit in His presence, but it says walk in His presence………..
 
It also say those who have learned to acclaim Him…….I looked up synonyms of acclaim…….praise, applaud, cheer, commend, approve, welcome, celebrate………
 
So, let’s be blessed!!!!  Let’s learn to celebrate Him……to Praise Him……continuously…..turn worship music on….fill our houses with it….our cars with it……our hearts with it………. and really exalt Him for who He is in our lives and let’s learn even more to WALK continuously everyday with Him IN His presence, and the BLESSINGS will continuously be overflowing our cup!!!! 🙂  
 
Be blessed today in His presence!  
 
Kelly 
 

 

Need a little lift today? Need some freedom?

/ Kelly Savage / 1 Comment

I don’t know about you but there are those days at least for me…….those days where we need a little lift…..a little extra from the Lord. The enemy don’t play fair. The Bible does say he comes to steal, kill and destroy. Those are pretty hefty words to me! I am posting this song to share with you today as one of my all-time favorites. Ask my best friend, Denise! This is my dancing song! This is my “I don’t care who is around me, I will still dance” song” 🙂 ……

What the Lord is reminding me of these days is where the spirit of the Lord is…..there is FREEDOM!

2nd Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. and we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

The transformation process is not always easy in our Christian walk and the enemy, along the way, is like a roaring lion (1st Peter 5:8). Again, not another pretty analogy. But wait…..another reminder He gave me………which we MUST hold onto…….HE HAS ALREADY won the WAR at the cross……It is finished…

We already know what happens at the end of the book! Let’s hold true to it….and stay close to Him and the Spirit of the Lord because THAT is where the freedom truly is…….and that is for our whole walk…..everyday…..WHENEVER we need it.

So, whenever we feel weak, tired, upset, angry, sad, hopeless, tired of being tired, bogged down, chained down….you get the picture……snuggle up to His Spirit…..because He is always waiting…..enter His presence…..and there is freedom…..I can feel it now. Talk to Him…..ask Him for it……Tell Him you need it from Him……He never leaves you or forsakes you.

Enjoy the song. Play it over and over and over……put your dancing shoes on or not……but dance like no one is watching! 🙂

Have a great day of freedom!

Hold Me Jesus

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Do you Like Hugs? Do you Ever FEEL like you need a hug? Do you ever FEEL you need peace from the everyday stresses of this world? I know I do!! Sort of like that old commercial…….Calgon…..take me away!!!!!!!………Am I showing my age now????!! 🙂 I posted a video of one of my favorite songs and the lyrics are just as good! But the meaning goes deep as well. The Bible speaks of peace that passes all understanding and that kind of peace……only comes from the Lord…….not from ourselves, anyone else or of things…….

My sister in law, Shelli and I have embarked on a journey together for the last several months now. We pray every Monday morning (or more whenever needed) and we have prayer focuses and have even went as far as the prayer of “do whatever you need to do Lord” in certain situations! Boy, be careful of that prayer! 🙂 That prayer will take you places that you might have never been…..deep deep places…..and Praise the Lord, we have seen answers as we walk through WITH him…….

However, our journey reminded us of one thing consistently…….we CANNOT do our journey in our own strength….or we will fail…..hands down. We will burn out. It really is that simple.

We have a tendency to trust in things, sometimes other men, and especially our own strength……and that will leave us empty every single time. Our strength is only so strong and lasts only so long. In fact, listen to some the wisdom of the Word of God……

Jeremiah 17:5-8

“This is what the Lord says:

Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on the flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

Here are my thoughts for today: I want to to be like that tree by the stream. I want to trust in the Lord and not in my own strength and I have come to know in my life (and what a beautiful knowing it is) that the only true PEACE I really need is that of Jesus. Enjoy the song. Over and over again if you need. Sometimes I do many times a day, depending on the day! 🙂

Blessings!

Kelly