Breakfast For Your Soul

Friday, February 26, 2010

 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto GOD in the Heavens.
[Lamentations 3:41]

Thus will I bless Thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in Thy Name.
[Psalm 63:4]

My hands also will I lift up unto Your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in Your statutes.
[Psalm 119:48]

Throw Your Hands Up!!!

 Good Afternoon Beloved!

Happy Friday!   Can we say “WINDY!” WOW… guess we’re getting a taste of “Chi-Town” (Chicago).  Still, what a wonderful day!  Oh the power in uplifted hands.  The Bible has a lot to say about that.  I believe it is because raised hands is a sign of surrender.  What does the police officer tell the suspect to do… put his hands up.  It is a place of vulnerability.  That officer knows that the person will be less of a threat with their hands in the air.  They can see what the person has in their hands… hmm.. pause… ever think maybe that’s what God wants as well… to see what we have in our hands.  What are we holding onto that we need to release.  It is not always something bad.  What treasures has He placed in our hands, that we are holding onto.  My dear friend reminded me of that just this week.  I have been suffering with terrible writer’s block.  There are several books locked up in me.  One of them has me stuck on the first page, another the first chapter.  Janelle, has been encouraging me for a long time to put the “Soul Foods’ in book form.  Her words hit me like a ton of bricks.  “DUH!”… it just became clear to me… “what do you have in your hands Regina?… well, use that!”  When I begin to surrender to that, I felt a tremendous relief.  Sometimes, we have no idea what the problem is.  The situation seems so complex and confusing, but the wisdom of God is an awesome thing.  It’s not like I haven’t had that “thought” before.  It is not like no one had every complimented me before by telling me to “go for it!” and publish these daily offerings.  There was something special about that day…I just figure my “spiritual ears” needed a little tweaking, so that my receiver (my spirit) could catch up to it. I’m so glad that God doesn’t give up trying to get through to us. Even when we seem a little “hard of hearing”.  There is nothing God can’t do with a surrendered heart and uplifted hands…

… and that Beloved is Good News!

Y Stress? … U Blessed!

Have A Fabulous Day and a Wonderful Weekend!

Regina

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

“TOTAL SURRENDER”

“I Surrender All/No One” CeCe Winans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjsz6fRnsDc

Good Morning Beloved,

Total surrender….ouch… I don’t know about you, but those two words make me a little nervous.  What that tells me about me, is that there are some areas in my life that I’m still trying to hold on to.  Certain rooms in my temple I really don’t want Jesus to see yet.  Why?  hummmm… good question.  The best answer I can think of is, that there are independent places my human spirit that I don’t want to release… the reason … fear.  Fear of doing something that will make me look a little foolish.  Fear of failure… fear of the price that comes along with great success.  Fear of getting hurt – did you notice how many times I mentioned the word “fear”?.  That is probably the main underlying factor.  God said He “did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind”(2 Timothy 1:7)… so where did it come from?  That is a question that we need to ask ourselves.  If we can discover where the fear came from, we can overcome it.  Yesterday’s thought was ‘Get to Steppin’… what hinders our movement?  What is stopping us from releasing ourselves to the God of our Salvation.  How is it that we can trust Him with our souls for the next 100 trillion years and beyond … but are afraid to give Him the 80 or 90 years here on earth….. the question of the ages. No matter what happens, God will do us good and not evil all the days of our lives.  Situations in our life may not always be good, but they will work out for our good….

and that dearly beloved is Good News!

U Blessed

Have A Fabulous Day

Regina

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