The Healing Freedom of Abba Father

Proverbs 3:5-8 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart;  do not depend on your own understanding.  Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom.  Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.  Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.”

Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

Psalm 16:11 

you make known to me the path of life

you will fill me with joy in your presence, and 

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

The Healing Freedom of Abba Father 

Let Him speak life into your bones and rejuvenate your soul. 

Let Him be the safe place.

The place you cast doubt and He says, "No my child, I am with you!" 

The place where you express anger, and He turns it into singing songs of worship. 

Let Him be the place where you cast fear and He turns it into security and love!

Know that He has grace and mercy and love for His children always. 

Let the lovely bones of your body breath Him in with the deepest breath! 

Let your soul start healing from the inside out. 

There is no reason to fear my Father tells me. For He is with me always! I truly believe that.    

There are so many times in my life whether I was on the wrong path or the right path that a situation I was in could have been worse. When I was a young christian I found myself asking why weren't you there? Don't I matter to you? Why don't you care? Why am I alone? 

But see, He was there! He was always there. Protecting me from what could have happened. I made choices that led me down a path and in the midst of my troubles my Father still cared and loved me and protected me. I just didn't feel it, because I was so far away from Him. I had taken a wrong turn and it is so easy to do when you make your own choices. In my selfishness I looked at Him and said, "why didn't YOU do better than this God?" 

Now I can see what might be a troubled situation and I steer clear of it where I can help it. I seek Him first, and He guides my path. It is so much nicer this way, trust me! 

But if I do find myself in a situation that is uncomfortable I know that I have the armor and strength of God and the enemy will and does fear that! 

I know that with the right actions and judgement I will win every time no matter the outcome here on earth! 

If you'd like to comment about something please do. I'd love to hear your thoughts or struggles. I'd love to pray for you. 

Confidence in His Grace

Ephesians 3:12, "In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence." 

Hebrews 4:16, "Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."

Confidence is something I have always struggled with. Will I be good enough, what will they think of me, did I do that right, did that sound right, are they talking behind my back, why am I left out? 

You know the petty, but very real wonders of this world for some of us! 

People can be so judgmental at times that the fear of being in front of others has caused us to protect ourselves and resist that quiet sweet call from God telling us to step out in faith somehow. 

I wear many hats, and each one comes with a step of faith God has called me to or put me in. Over the years I have learned to give myself grace as if God himself were standing right next to me talking me through the steps. Now, I am by no means perfect, but I knew that giving and receiving grace was something I needed to work on.  I use to be so bound by chains of anger when something was out of place, not done right, something wasn't completed, I sung a song wrong or out of its original order, friends or family disappointments. I could go on! 

Grace is something I have learned to give myself when my house is not spotless and the dishes are over loading the sink, grace when I don't have dinner done and I have to run and get something that costs twice as much that someone else made and I know it will probably give us all cancer or something because I did not make this meal from scratch! 

I've even learned to breath in grace when I know I'm doing the best I can, yet, still failure follows somehow. We all have an insecurity of that word! Failure...... 

Let it roll off your tongue a few times, because what I've learned is some of the best lessons and gifts from God come from failing in my life at something. I'm not trying to say I am proud of my failure, or that continuous failure is okay. It's not, please let me make myself clear! Some of mine have been followed by real pain and a time of repentance and steering clear of sin.  However, some failures I have just simply learned from, fixed the problem and moved on, I've realized it's okay to fail at times. 

 

The most beautiful thing I have discovered is that there is love from my Father in Heaven and He wants me to learn and perform at my best. When I fail He weeps with me. His arms are open to catch my biggest fall. I can trust in that and there is freedom in coming and kneeling before Him even when I feel my confidence to do so is very small. 

This beautiful reality has given me a new confidence today I have never had. I love being a child of God. I love sharing about what he's done in my life and what he's doing! Having the confidence to step out in faith is scary at times, but so, so rewarding.

Have you been believing a lie about confidence and God's great grace? Let yourself hear from God and comment below or write me privately about it. 

Introduction

My husband Joe and I Christmas 2015 at my parents house in 

Oklahoma.

My three children; Coehn 11, Baylea 8, Joey 5 

and I at my middle sister's wedding in Oklahoma