I cant believe it is 2017!
2017 is my year for hope, healing, and Soaring!
Every year I pray and seek God for a word and verse for the next year. Every year it's amazing to see how the context of those verses become such a deeper revelation to my soul. There are many things on my heart right now that I am believing for, but when I was praying this verse really made me light up. God is the only one who can renew my strength and I will hold onto HOPE , HEALING, and SOAR with the eagles in 2017!
Now I can say I want to do all that and declaring IS the first step, but what are some practical ways this is going to happen? In order for me to set goals to accomplish I NEED a list. If I don't have a list it most likely will not happen, at least in the time frame I was going for, haha. SO I've been praying the past few weeks for God to show me the next phase, a new beginning, a new future, more than what I see right now. So I'm going to share some goals with you. My prayer is always that in sharing the challenges that I face, you will feel inspired and know that God is real, He is here with me and He is there with you through every set back and disappointment.
First I'm looking at what Hope means to me. Hope is defined as, "a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen." When God puts something on my heart I always seek the WHY. I am one of those people that analyzes everything even if I'm not saying a word. In my head I've analyzed every situation, and the why behind why things happen, before you can even get done telling me a story. This is what makes me a compassionate, forgiving, person though. I realize none of us are perfect and at the end of the day there is a specific why behind our good, indifferent, and bad choices in life. So to me hope is the essence of what we have to hold onto to survive and thrive. Without Hope we are suffocated by the circumstances that surround us on a daily basis. I have an expectation and desire that I will have healing in my life physically, mentally, emotionally, etc. The past several months I lost my hope. If you know me, you know Ive been through a hell of a lot and I am a strong person, but because of things that happened the past few months on top of everything I already was fighting and breaking my leg after declaring and "being healed" I truly lost my vision. I began to listen to the negative dr reports and negative comments from people. I began to believe the harsh ignorant words and without realizing it I had torn myself down to nothing but a shell of a person. After being told so much negativity eventually even when you renew your mind and input positive the weight of the world can be too much and you get crushed. This is why everyone needs people in their life to help them when they are in need. Everyone needs people to BELIEVE IN THEM even when they dont believe in themselves to reignite the hope and the fire when it is gone. It is up to the individual to keep feeding it once its relit, but its damn near impossible to restart when its completely cold. We all need those people who wont leave us when we are at our lowest. In my experience there are very few people in life that will show up when everyone else has walked out. I could go into a lot more about this but I'm not going to right now. Lets hold on together to hope! Hope is the catalyst for a vision for healing and soaring! Everyone needs to be reminded from time to time of the hope that God, Jesus and the Bible offer to us in our daily lives. Just having one friend see you as God sees will make such a difference in our life. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. The words that are spoken to us and over us are so important as well as those we speak. I am speaking extra words of hope to myself as well as others. I've never had a problem encouraging others in their hard times because in most of life I've been the only one encouraging myself ,with Gods strength of course, to keep going during the worst of times. When everyone else is gone, and God is silent what do you do? You keep hoping, praying, and worshiping even when you have absolutely no desire and begin to lose the vision that anything will happen. If you keep doing that, even when you don't feel it or see it, God will show up, in this case he sent one person when everyone couldn't or wouldn't. How do you reignite someones hope when its completely gone and the person has nothing left?
Reigniting someone's hope begins with igniting their hope in themselves! So I can't have hope for anything if I don't have hope in myself. If I don't believe in me, then nothing will happen. So the work begins with looking at the why behind why the hope fire went out. Once we have addressed that we can move onto reminding ourselves who God said we are, what plans he laid on our hearts, and what God sees in us. I realized that I was giving more attention to my fears than my hope. Fears of man, what people did, said, and what people plan to do. Fears that I wouldn't be able to accomplish my goals. Fear that my healing really isn't going to come and I am just going to suffer until I die. While this is a real possibility in the natural, when we focus on the hope we have in God, in faith, we can hold onto HOPE that Good is coming! Healing is real, I've seen it, I've felt it, and I've seen others healed. So I CHOOSE even in the face of uncertainty, and failures, I choose to still hold onto hope that my healing is coming and I WILL SOAR. I have hope that one day I wont have to live every single day in severe pain in every joint, facet, my muscles will work, my glands will work, my eyes will work, and my brain will work. I have hope that in all of the pain I've gone through over the years God will use for good to help someone else. My hope is that through my testimonies, through my vulnerable moments, the good and the bad ones, the happy and the sad, that you will see a God right next to me.
My goals are inclusive of replacing the negative words spoken with the positive healing words of Jesus. When I have nothing, in my weakness HE is strong! When I am falling into my feelings I then choose I am going to fall DEEPER into Gods words....
Here is my autoimmune healing page https://www.facebook.com/glutenfreegirlsautoimmunehealing/
#holdon #overcomer #overcomingonedayatatime #autoimmunehealing #ptsdhealing #healingofeverything
2017 is my year for hope, healing, and Soaring!
Every year I pray and seek God for a word and verse for the next year. Every year it's amazing to see how the context of those verses become such a deeper revelation to my soul. There are many things on my heart right now that I am believing for, but when I was praying this verse really made me light up. God is the only one who can renew my strength and I will hold onto HOPE , HEALING, and SOAR with the eagles in 2017!
Isaiah 40:31 (NIV) but those who HOPE in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will SOAR on wings like eagles;
they will RUN and not grow weary,
they will WALK and not be faint.
Now I can say I want to do all that and declaring IS the first step, but what are some practical ways this is going to happen? In order for me to set goals to accomplish I NEED a list. If I don't have a list it most likely will not happen, at least in the time frame I was going for, haha. SO I've been praying the past few weeks for God to show me the next phase, a new beginning, a new future, more than what I see right now. So I'm going to share some goals with you. My prayer is always that in sharing the challenges that I face, you will feel inspired and know that God is real, He is here with me and He is there with you through every set back and disappointment.
First I'm looking at what Hope means to me. Hope is defined as, "a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen." When God puts something on my heart I always seek the WHY. I am one of those people that analyzes everything even if I'm not saying a word. In my head I've analyzed every situation, and the why behind why things happen, before you can even get done telling me a story. This is what makes me a compassionate, forgiving, person though. I realize none of us are perfect and at the end of the day there is a specific why behind our good, indifferent, and bad choices in life. So to me hope is the essence of what we have to hold onto to survive and thrive. Without Hope we are suffocated by the circumstances that surround us on a daily basis. I have an expectation and desire that I will have healing in my life physically, mentally, emotionally, etc. The past several months I lost my hope. If you know me, you know Ive been through a hell of a lot and I am a strong person, but because of things that happened the past few months on top of everything I already was fighting and breaking my leg after declaring and "being healed" I truly lost my vision. I began to listen to the negative dr reports and negative comments from people. I began to believe the harsh ignorant words and without realizing it I had torn myself down to nothing but a shell of a person. After being told so much negativity eventually even when you renew your mind and input positive the weight of the world can be too much and you get crushed. This is why everyone needs people in their life to help them when they are in need. Everyone needs people to BELIEVE IN THEM even when they dont believe in themselves to reignite the hope and the fire when it is gone. It is up to the individual to keep feeding it once its relit, but its damn near impossible to restart when its completely cold. We all need those people who wont leave us when we are at our lowest. In my experience there are very few people in life that will show up when everyone else has walked out. I could go into a lot more about this but I'm not going to right now. Lets hold on together to hope! Hope is the catalyst for a vision for healing and soaring! Everyone needs to be reminded from time to time of the hope that God, Jesus and the Bible offer to us in our daily lives. Just having one friend see you as God sees will make such a difference in our life. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. The words that are spoken to us and over us are so important as well as those we speak. I am speaking extra words of hope to myself as well as others. I've never had a problem encouraging others in their hard times because in most of life I've been the only one encouraging myself ,with Gods strength of course, to keep going during the worst of times. When everyone else is gone, and God is silent what do you do? You keep hoping, praying, and worshiping even when you have absolutely no desire and begin to lose the vision that anything will happen. If you keep doing that, even when you don't feel it or see it, God will show up, in this case he sent one person when everyone couldn't or wouldn't. How do you reignite someones hope when its completely gone and the person has nothing left?
Reigniting someone's hope begins with igniting their hope in themselves! So I can't have hope for anything if I don't have hope in myself. If I don't believe in me, then nothing will happen. So the work begins with looking at the why behind why the hope fire went out. Once we have addressed that we can move onto reminding ourselves who God said we are, what plans he laid on our hearts, and what God sees in us. I realized that I was giving more attention to my fears than my hope. Fears of man, what people did, said, and what people plan to do. Fears that I wouldn't be able to accomplish my goals. Fear that my healing really isn't going to come and I am just going to suffer until I die. While this is a real possibility in the natural, when we focus on the hope we have in God, in faith, we can hold onto HOPE that Good is coming! Healing is real, I've seen it, I've felt it, and I've seen others healed. So I CHOOSE even in the face of uncertainty, and failures, I choose to still hold onto hope that my healing is coming and I WILL SOAR. I have hope that one day I wont have to live every single day in severe pain in every joint, facet, my muscles will work, my glands will work, my eyes will work, and my brain will work. I have hope that in all of the pain I've gone through over the years God will use for good to help someone else. My hope is that through my testimonies, through my vulnerable moments, the good and the bad ones, the happy and the sad, that you will see a God right next to me.
My goals are inclusive of replacing the negative words spoken with the positive healing words of Jesus. When I have nothing, in my weakness HE is strong! When I am falling into my feelings I then choose I am going to fall DEEPER into Gods words....
My lifetime verse is, Matthew 19:26 With God ALL things are possible! I truly have believed that for the past 20 years. Thank you for joining me on this journey of hope, healing, and not only walking but soaring this year! Thank you for the encouragement and positive you are sending my way.
Here is my autoimmune healing page https://www.facebook.com/glutenfreegirlsautoimmunehealing/
#holdon #overcomer #overcomingonedayatatime #autoimmunehealing #ptsdhealing #healingofeverything
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