Bragging on my daughter's and daughter-in-law's photo skills

The top picture is my grandson a few months back here with his sweet smile, courtesy of Ashley, his sweet Mama. I know for certain, that I don't just think he is cute because I am his "Oma"!

This picture was captured by Sheila on a beautiful fall day in Fairbanks, while they walked along some hiking trails..you can see the already fallen birch leaves on the boughs of this spruce tree and more in the background turning the wonderful gold just before they fall to the ground.

Love. I keep coming back to it. Its not like the love these two horses have for one another. Its the kind that tells another human being they are totally valued, totally accepted, absolutely worth dying for. Its the kind of Love that is God, that comes into our spirits when we are born again into His kingdom. Its the love that "never fails". What do you do with someone who is destroying their lives?Love them. What do you do with someone in your life that is harming you on a regular basis? love them. What do you do with Christians in your life that are acting anything but "christian"? love them. What do you do when people gossip about you and spread false rumors about you? love them. It was the Creator's idea to start with. He is all about loving unconditionally. He is all about dying for us when we do not earn or deserve it. He is all about going the extra mile a thousand times over to make sure we are winners in the end. He is good all the time, really, really good! In case you are wondering, I am writing this to encourage myself to love, love and love some more. Not judge, not criticize, not hold grudges. Just love, bless, and love some more. Because what the world needs now is Love sweet love!

GOOD NEWS!!!!

As I slept, God came again. Thoughts of green, only growth, only new life in every stituation because God has come to the earth and brought His kingdom with Him and left us in charge to bring the good news. His Kingdom promises restoration, happy endings, miracles, good news, good relationships, good health, protection from the evil one. Only Kingdom is manifesting as I meditate on the unseen and bring it to the seen world. How? he kept telling me in my dreams, think on it and think on it and think on it until it is more real than the world you are in....you owe it to the world. You have learned, it has been imparted to you, you have been equipped with the truth, now you have to think on it constantly....not any other thing in the negative, not any thing that is not absolutely surrendered the Lordship and kingship of our Lord and Savior...everything you think on has to be lined up, noble , of good report, praiseworthy, of good report, a blessing and an edification, and a blessing only. Think on this, think on it, and think on it, and say it to yourself, and see the world through His eyes. The kingdom has come and its fullness is here, we just have to see it with our heart, get the truth into us now, that is why we prophecy in part and love in part because our minds are only renewed in part...Oh the Kingdom of God is here becasue Jesus defeated Satan once and for all, and made him a public spectacle. He did not hide this victory, He rose and conquered the evil one’s reign. HE no longer reigns, only the King of Kings now. Is your life filled with the evil ones doings? Start thinking on God’s truth, His words, HIs promises, HE has come now, its done, it is spring and the winter is past, behold your King and His words...as you think in your heart so you become. You are not the carrier of the divine Kingdom because of your rank, training, or giftings but because of the Blood. Ministers who go and preach the gospel with signs and wonders following, do so because they constantly think on the Kingdom and what it is and what it looks like and Who brought it and how good He is. HE is here! Rejoice for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent (not grovel in your mistakes and sins but change your thinking now) for the Kingdom of God is here. Victory is here! God is good all the time!

Change my mind?

You believe what you hear, so do I. You know what else? I meditate on what I hear. I am sure you know where I am going with this. What I meditate on becomes my reality. "As a man thinks in his heart, so he is"Proverbs 23:7. I hear, I believe, I meditate, I create the reality of it. It works the same for all of us. So H1N1 hits our state, and we think FEAR.

Fear of sickness, fear of death, and fear of the unknown have already penetrated our state like a secret weapon. Our real enemy is not swine flu, its fear. Facts and concerns are floating around our lives like so much debris and we are meditating on it, believing it, and creating realities of it in our own lives. Job 3:25 says "for the thing I greatly feared has come upon me." Fear opens the door. So enough about fear.

Now you know what your enemy is! But GOOD NEWS!!!! here it is, and I know you have been waiting to hear it. What is the solution? you are asking yourself. There seems to be no hope!

The good news, is that if you change what you hear, God will change your future. You say "what?" Its true, if I start to hear only good news all day long, what do you think I am going to start to believe on? and meditate on? and create in my own life? Yup. GOOD NEWS. It depends on what I hear. When fear attacks my thoughts, its time to change what I hear. Its time to increase my hearing of good news. The good news.....the Bible is full of it.

The Kingdom of God has come to this earth. In His kingdom there is no sickness, disease, swine flu, fatal outcomes, worsening finances, defeat, depression and death. NONE. Jesus said to pray that His kingdom would come in every situation. He said, Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers because His kingdom had come. He said He came to heal the brokenhearted, because His kingdom had come. He said we have a future and peace filled with hope and not evil, that we have been delivered from the Kingdom of darkness and translated into another one...His Kingdom! He wants us to prosper as our soul prospers....So much good news.

So what I do when fear tries to come, I remember again that I am listening to the wrong news and its time to increase my hearing of the good news because out of the abundance of my heart (or my meditations) my mouth will speak and everyone knows I will have what I say!

So change what you hear today. Get some good news in your ears and start to think constantly on it. This war between the devil and God's people has to do with what we think....Jesus, by spilling His Blood, has already triumphed over the devil. For this reason the Son of Man was manifested, that HE might destroy the works of the devil! YEA!!! Praise the Lord. He wins and so do we.