Your Encouraging Words

Jaime Wiebel — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 07:12:00 +0000

Thank you Lord
Jesus for all of your blessings. May I use them to bless the lives of others
just as they have blessed me.

Here are a
few reasons that I love writing. I can go back and look at how God has been
blessing my life.

For
instance, earlier this month I was really struggling with some things in my heart.
I wrote about them in a post titled, Time Alone. My
struggles were, I believe, the result of some unconfessed feelings I may have
been harboring.

The thing was
I wasn’t even able to recognize the feelings. I finally asked God to just forgive
this attitude in my heart and in that He helped me identify what those feelings
were and I gave them to Him.

First
blessing, what an Awesome God that we have that He is able to help us identify
our feelings and heal us from any that are not pleasing to Him.

Second
blessing, among many, I was able to reach out to a reader and suggest t her that journal
her feelings or struggles, pray over them, and in doing that she could look back and see how
God has blessed her through certain situations.

I was excited
to help someone with their journey in walking with Christ. I am a teacher at heart and any time I can help
someone it feels great. The blessing came through her words to me.

Her
gratitude and her encouraging words to me were such inspiration to my heart at
this late hour. I just praise God for those moments. May we look for His
blessings in every situation.

I recently wrote
a post called Nothing Holding Me Back. You see, I sometimes feel like the
things in my life may be distracting me or pulling me away from God’s heart.

The truth is
God put us where He wants us to be. We need to give Him our whole heart in
those moments or in those places. When our heart begins to fade we need to call
on the Great Healer to strengthen us and refresh our souls.

One reader
commented about this post and I have thought about what she was saying for a
long time but God put her words straight to my heart. I realized what a
blessing God is giving me in allowing me to write and share with other people
and what a blessing others have been to me.

I hope that
you are enjoying reading this blog. I absolutely enjoy writing it. It means a
lot of late nights so you will have to excuse my dark circles but what a
blessing it has been.

I would just
like to encourage anyone that is reading this to please share in the comments below.
1 Corinthians 12:27 says were are many individuals but one body of Christ. I know it takes a little extra time out of your day but what you may not realize is the blessing your encouraging words and your stories are to not only to me
but to everyone who is reading. Together we can build up the body of Christ.

You have an
amazing week and please keep Sharing the Love of Jesus in your life.

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Am I Giving My All

Jaime Wiebel — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:03:00 +0000

I want my heart to say…

Nothing
is holding me back from giving God my all.

But the truth is life happens. We get busy. Being a
mom of busy young ones keeps me on my toes. The piles they make seem to get
bigger by the second. I can clean up one mess and a mess is forming somewhere
else.

I have kids to entertain and I don’t want to miss a moment of that. I have a husband I vowed my heart
to and a house to tend and clearly that is not going so well. My heart and my strength begin to grow weary.

Remember that little green Gumby guy you could
stretch in all directions and somehow he would stay in tack. That is my heart
and sometimes my limbs.

The question I keep asking myself is, “How can I
give my whole heart to God?”

It is what He asks of us. To love Him with all of
our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

I wonder if I am doing that right. I wonder if it is
enough. I wonder if I am letting Him down.

I think about God all day long. I wonder how He
could have chosen me. With all my flaws, my insecurities, my lack of godly
virtues at times. Anybody ever sailing this rocky ship with me?

Praise God I am a work of constant transformation.

This
is what I am working on…

I give God – me.
He knows me. He knows my flaws. He knows my insecurities. He knows I am not
always a woman of upstanding character. In Matthew, we are told that even the
very hairs on our head are numbered.

Yet HE chose me.
If you are a believer in Christ, He chose you.
Isaiah 43:1
tells us, “But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who
formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called
you by name; you are Mine!”

So in the midst of all my human ways, I can draw on
the strength and power of a living God. Because my Creator, My Lord, the one
who formed me and carefully knit me in my mother’s womb, Now… He says, I don’t
have to fear.

He has called
me by name. He has ransomed me. He has paid the price for me to be free from feeling like things are holding me back from giving my whole self. He says, “YOU ARE
MINE.”

He wants us in the middle of
where we are right now. A mom, a spouse, a co-worker, a friend, wherever He put you, you are there to give Him your whole heart, right there.

A wise woman recently told me, “I don’t have to
worry about letting God down because I
was never holding Him up.” Thank you
grandma for all you’re guidance.

I don’t need to be super-human. I can’t do this
journey alone. I wasn’t meant to. I can look to God’s Word and draw on the
power of The Spirit and there I can be restored.

When my strength begins to fade, I can remember Psalm 28:7. The LORD
is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.

When my soul becomes weary, I can be sure of Matthew 11:28 Then
Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens,
and I will give you rest.

When my mind
begins to wander, I can be refreshed by Philippians 2:1-2 Therefore if there is any encouragement in
Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the
Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete
by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent
on one purpose.

When my heart feels faint, I can be assured that I
belong to God. Jesus said in John 14:1-3 Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God,
believe also in Me. “In My Father’s house are many
dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare
a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.”

Oh
Glorious Day!

Surrendering our whole heart, our whole life to God,
isn’t always easy. Take heart my friend. He has gone to prepare a place for us
and when He calls us home, He will call us by name.

What will you do until that day? Will you be able to
say, “Nothing was holding me back from being the one He called me to be?”

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