I AM STILL STANDING!!!!

"...I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thou seed may live." -Deuteronomy 30:19

I have a choice to make a difference or miss an opportunity.
I have a choice to speak a loving word or a word that hurts.
I have a choice to build a relationship or to destroy it.
I have a choice to be content to complain.
I have a choice to show compassion or o judge.
I have a choice to love or to hate.
I have a choice to bless or curse.
I have a choice to avoid temptation or to yield to it.
I have a choice to understand or to condemn.
I have a choice of life in the Cross or death!

YOU ALSO HAVE A CHOICE.
CHOOSE THE CROSS.
CHOOSE LIFE!

-above piece written by Beverly Courrege -

I have been through many challenges in my life time and there have been times that I thought I wouldn't make it but in those challenging times I always chose the cross. Even as a little girl, facing things that no little girls should have to face, I chose the cross and it is only through the cross that I was able to overcome. One would think that by now the enemy knows me well enough to know that it is not in my nature to back down from a spiritual battle; and each time that he hit me with his best shot and each time that life throws all it can at me, I bounce back stronger and more determined. At the same time I am grateful for my challenges because it is what brings me to the cross each time and it reminds me what the source of my strength is because I know that I cannot do it in my own strength.

The person I admire the most; the one person in this world who truly chose to live His purpose and not for one second to lose focus of what that purpose was, even though his purpose was to die so that we could live... Jesus Jesus Jesus O what a wonder you are. You boldly stood alone, facing death and not even a glorious death but instead a brutal, shameful death in the way you were treated in the final hours of your life... you paid the ultimate price so that I could live, you paid the ultimate price, you gave your life so that I may live a life of abundance. You didn't die so that I could live my life on medication for sickness, mental illness, my addiction, my pain, my sorrow; you didn't die so that I could live in poverty and in bondage; you died for my freedom, you died so that I could live a life free from illness and pain and the bondage of addiction. You died so that I could live an abundant life, a prosperous life!

And just like you Jesus, I choose to follow my destiny, the one that was set out for me before I was even born! I praise God that I am able to choose life, to choose to live the purpose for which I was created!

I CAN BE SURE THAT ALL MY NEEDS ARE MET

"The Lord who watches over the sparrow is committed to watch over us as well. We all have basic physical, emotional & spiritual needs. Our world is filled with endless opportunities and material blessings that past generations could not have imagined. Yet even today our faith can still be challenged to trust God for the most basic physical needs of shelter, food and clothing."

"BECAUSE OF THE CROSS GOD HAS PROMISED TO SUPPLY EVERYTHING THAT I NEED."

"Not only does He meet our physical needs, but He meets our spiritual and emotional needs as well. Christ died so we can have the riches of God's gifts of grace, joy, emotional well-being and life. Christ paid the ultimate price on the Cross so that I would not have to ... in Him all my needs are met."

Quotations by Beverly Courrege - Because of the Cross

After dropping off the kids this morning, meditating on the scripture in Matthew 9:28 where Jesus encountered the 2 blind men wanting to be healed and Jesus said them "do you believe that I am able to do this?" I have read this scripture so many times but received a new revelation about what it means... in an instant these men were healed because they believed that Jesus was able. I don't have to wait for days, months years, for my healing to take place, for my needs to be met, for my dreams and desires to be fulfilled in the land of the living, for my double portion, to reap what I have sown. As a believer who accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and savior, as a believer who lives my life and the decisions that I make and the way that I raise my children, according to the principles set out in the word of God, living a life of obedience to His word and everything in it; because the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ was my choice, this morning I believe and receive the word of God as my benefits package in that it clearly states what my benefits are, as a born again Christian... This morning I believe and I am expecting great things to be released through the activation of my faith, believing without a shadow of a doubt, that He is able to do this, the question is do you believe that He is able?