Daughters of the King

Just recently as i was inflicting some pain on myself, commonly known as exercise,I saw the most precious moment take place.

A little girl was standing at the oceans edge with a huge hat on,which she had it pulled over her face and continually shouted "Daddy Daddy can you find me iam hiding ".

Her dad played along with her game for a few moments, until all of a sudden he just swept her up and said "I have found you".

The little girl was hugging her daddy and laughing.

as i continued my walk it got me thinking.

I don't know were you are all at.

However i believe that God wants to minister to your heart today

I believe that God wants to talk to two types of women today.

Firstly those that are scared and still filled with shame your finding it hard to move forwarded .

Secondly those who feel like they have been left on the shelf, as your dreams and desires have never surfaced and your afraid hes forgotten you or lost you in a crowd............

Girls the bible is so clear, God knows and sees everything.

you cant hide from him no matter what your past has been.

No matter what your scared he will ask of you.

No matter what your present situation is.

He knows it all.

And he never overlooks his children.

We sometimes can find ourselves like the little girl on the oceans edge covering our faces with a variety of hats in order to hide ourselves away from our Heavenly Father

Yet just like that little girls daddy,Our hevenly Father runs towards us and picks us up, spins us around and says "My daughter of course i have found you i never took my eyes off you,you stand out in a crowd so unique one of a kind i took your past and transformed it in to beauty you no longer need to hide your face from me".

He then turns to his beautiful daughters who feel left out and forgotten and he lifts the hat of your face and speaks to your soul saying "my beautiful one i have not forgotten you, my timing is perfect I see the beginning from the end and sometimes delay is your best friend.

We serve a king who loves us just as we are.

He knows the right time for our dreams to be born and knows every intricate thought that we have

lets trust him with our all much love debs xx

©Deb Matheson

ITS ALL PART OF THE JOURNEY

Lately i have been thinking on how its so much easier to want to change the world,yet when it comes down to changing oneself the hard work begins.

Things we didn't want to address or simply didn't even know was an issue come to the fore front, giving us two choices lie down and ignore or accept the challenge and trust and live free

I would have to say that i have chosen to accept the challenge but my goodness its been one of the hardest things I have had to do

This past 2 weeks I truly have been challenged in my faith

Not as in do I believe Jesus is Lord,

but in do I truly believe He is Lord over my seemingly impossible situation.

As i have thought hard and long on this, I have been deeply moved. 

 See it can be easier when you have your surroundings in a secure spot.

Regular income,Secure home life ,Secure job/ministry,to be able quote all things are possible and a myriad of scripture

 However it can be a very different story when all is stripped away and its just you and him and a humanly impossible situation.

 When we are facing new territory it can be overwhelming and quite  frighting.

Not knowing what is around the corner can be scary  and finding that your wavering in Gods promises can be devastating.

Especially when your exhausted from the journey

Yet I am learning its through the wavering and the struggles that a deep strength comes one that is impossible to find on the mountain top.

Its in the massive wrestles we can have as we climb back up and fall down again, that teaches us amazing wisdom and enables us to press on

I don't know were your all at this morning, but I do know that God will never leave your side as we surrender our lives He picks us up and even though we may still have to walk some rocky roads he is our guide and protector

4 F words we cant live without (part 1)

Have you ever  thought your life is over,just because things haven't gone as you planned them to.

Do you question were you went wrong?

 Or think about how many  mistakes you may of made, and will you ever be able to make things right and get back up and start again ?

I want to share  this morning  1 of the 4 most powerful F words, that can change the very core of who you are if you allow them to 

1. FAILURE

Yes I can already here some of you already saying "Failure are you serious" ?

Yes I am !

Failure has the capacity to transform your life and strengthen your soul.

So many people are afraid of it ,even just saying the word brings cringes to many faces.

 Many believe that if your close to God. then that word doesn't even exist in the vocabulary ...

May I suggest your reading the wrong book.

 The bible is filled with many amazing, powerful men and women of God who have experienced failure at some point.

When we fear failure it hinders us from stepping out

It frightens us to what others may think 

And it can cause many to live in denial.

For some Failure, and just hearing the word can bring back memories of pain and shame ,

Yet the truth is Failure has the capacity to make us dig so deep that we get back on our feet and walk stronger and taller than before.

When my marrige stated to crumble a few years after my hubby's accident we had lost everything and we both felt like failures.

 Dreams we had that we were seeing multiply and be laden with fruit, had all gone.

 Our business, our homes lost.

 We had moved 12 times in 4 years in to motels, hotels, holiday ins, with 3 children and suitcases.

We had to give away our long term family pets,which caused a lot of sadness, grief ,anger and much pain.

and while all this was going on we were still trying to keep  the remnent  of the church God had told us to plant together,

A church family that once flourished  in the community especially with the drug addicts and prostitutes.

Sadly we we were fighting a losing battle.

and decided to close that chapter of our lives.

My husband had an aquired brain injury from his accident and was having copious operations,so no longer able to lead.

 and I was trying  to keep everything together, like it had always been.

Until eventually all desire was gone.

I found I had lost my Joy, and so my strength to keep going failed.

  

Failure screamed at me every day, till i got sick and depressed and filled with shame and truly bewildered at how something like this could happen to my precious family,that now our  all fractured and broken and separated  (but praise God he is doing a mighy work of healing,his way HIS time)

 Then one day as i was praying, well more like having a tanty, pity party with God on the beach.

 HE  showed me so clearly that things may of failed, but that did not make or any of my family a failure.  

Failure is more than a word,that is often connected to shame and embarrassment.

 Failure can be the very springboard to something amazing if we lay down our fears and what others think, and truly surrender all that we are and have to our God

dont get me wrong thee was a few times i had felt he had up and left me yet i clung to HIS  promise that he would never leave or forsake me

Some of the worlds most famous people and achievement's in the world  came about because of Failure ....

my goodness we only have to start at the begining  in the Garden of Eden and work our way thru the Psalms with King David and so many others

here is a look at what the merrim webster dictionary says about failure

 fail·ure (flyr)

n.

1. The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends: the failure of an experiment.

2. One that fails: a failure at one's career.

3. The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short: a crop failure.

4. A cessation of proper functioning or performance: a power failure.

5. Nonperformance of what is requested or expected; omission: failure to report a change of address.

6. The act or fact of failing to pass a course, test, or assignment.

7. A decline in strength or effectiveness.

8. The act or fact of becoming bankrupt or insolvent

 

sounds depressing when we read it like this

 

 BUT HOW ABOUT READING IT LIKE THIS

 

Failure has the potential to strengthen our heats and soul and birth within us a warrior spirit .

a spirit that shouts to us each day GET UP AND TRY AGAIN  xx

God shops at woolworths

You’re worth more than you think!

Recently, I was scanning my groceries through the self-serve checkout when I placed a single Zucchini (courgette) on the scales, punched Z, and, to my surprise, the machine told me one single zucchini was more than I expected.

Sadly, I didn't think a small single Zucchini would be worth very much at all.

Then I thought that perhaps we approach God in the same way, basing our worth on what we think, or what others have said we are worth.

At different stages in one’s life, sometimes it can feel like not very much. Yet the amazing beautiful truth is that God doesn't have scales.

When we approach Him, He doesn't look up our name, type and size and say, ‘Oh you’re only worth this much.’

When we approach our God and listen to His Words, He reveals our worth and we come to know we are priceless to Him.

No human being or bank could ever contain the amount we are worth. God created us “in His image”, to be in relationship with Him.

When we have had painful words spoken to us, or situations have happened to us, it is in our human nature to believe lies of how unlovable we are, or how damaged we are.

That is why it is so important to turn to the Word of God, the Bible, and trust God’s valuation of us, as it protects our minds from the lies that try to destroy us.

Today, remember that you are worth more than rubies and pearls, so priceless. As Jesus sacrifice for your sins proved, you are literally to die for.

So, next time you’re in the supermarket scanning your groceries remember you are one priceless gem with incredible worth.

 

Gods Pause Button

Definition of PAUSE

1

: a temporary stop

2

a: a break in a verse

 

Have you ever experienced a Pause moment in life.

Its a moment that we often mistake  for something more.

as if we have been frozen in time

I know when my Pause moment arrived, i felt as if God had clicked the eject button and every dream and all hope was lost.

Yet God never presses the eject button

He does however sometimes need to press Pause

 

I love how the merriam-webster dictionary defines it as a break in the verse,

It doesn't say the song is over,it just is a break, a breather, a Pause

Pause moments are hard to understand .

How do I know ?

I know because  i am in one at the moment,

so many dreams and things paused after an accident affected our family

 

Yet there is one thing I am learning, and that is  Pause moments are powerful moments if we allow them to be.

 I struggled with mine for a while,God had pressed pause and i was still running on my own steam.

Guess that's part of being human and thinking we can hold the world up when we ourselves can hardly  stand 

 I have learned some valuable lessons and continue to each day in regard to Gods Pause button.

One of the most important things I am learning, which sadly i thought I knew, is He never presses Pause without a reason,

He presses Pause because He knows the plans he has for us.

He knows us better than we know ourselves ....He sees the whole story not just one line or chapter.

He sees the beginning and the end 

so if you feel like your sitting in the middle of a Pause, remember its not forever.

 its just a break in the verse of the song called life

 Allow yourself to flow with it.

I know its easier said than done, but trust me fighting it leads to exhaustion and frustration 

 

I love all of  psalm 139  but take a moment and read what  vs 13-18 say

 

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
 How precious to me are your thoughts,  God!
How vast is the sum of them!
 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand —
when I awake, I am still with you.

 

He knows us and cares for us

 and when we come to the season of Pause, or if we find ourselves in it right now, meditate on this word and know that he knows what HE is doing

 

 

 

 

Breaking the chains

As i choose to write this i realise that we may have many different views and many different experiences.

 Yet even though we may all not agree on the same things, we can choose to disagree and continue to journey together, that's the beauty about diversity.

 Its not division that makes us powerful to help one another its diversity,being unique and accepting we are all different.

  A women guide to nakedness was conceived in my heart during a very dark time, and Iam still in the very early days of having the honour of  carrying the dream in my heart,

 knowing that one day God is going to allow me to give birth to this amazing  vision.

 But until then i choose to nurture it and share my "pregnancy"journey with you all.

When God spoke the words, A woman's guide to nakedness in to my heart,i knew straight away i was about to be stripped first.

 Its like anything in life, when we are called to teach or specialize in a particular area  and help others in a certain subject you first have to go through  the training....

Gods desire is for us all to walk in freedom, however for many of us the very thing that keeps us bound has shame and fear attached to the chains, inevitably they drag us down, 

I have done many things in my life that i am not proud of,  but i have also experienced first hand the amazing Grace and Mercy of a heavenly Father who removes all shame and fear

and HE fixes that which is broken

Over the next few months, A woman's guide to nakedness wants  to look at and address some areas that we as women have or still do feel imprisoned in ...

Areas like Abortion,Adultery, Alcoholism, Anorexia,Anxiety, Bulimia,Depression, Self worth , Shame and Guilt ..... and the list will go on.
when things are brought in to the light Darkness disappears

 If you yourself  have experienced any of these areas, please feel free to send me a private inbox if you want your story to help others and i can post it anonymously.

Our MESS is always a MESSage to anothers  freedom if we allow it

So today as you go about your life, I want you to be aware of one powerful amazing truth ....

NOTHING and that means NOTHING can ever separate you from the Love of God ...

No matter what you have done in your past, or what you may do in your future, when we come to him and ask for HIS forgiveness he forgives us ..

He is not a God with a big stick who judges us and beats us ....he sent his son to die for us that's  how much he love us all  ...He removes our shame and sets us FREE
Isaiah 61 1 God tells us that He opens the prison doors and sets the captives free xx 

  

Love on the battle field

A thought came to me early this morning, whist thinking on the Anzac spirit it took me on voyage of various stormy seas I have recently encountered ....the thought was Do we really care?

Do WE the Bride of Christ display such qualities to those wounded in battle?

Do we display a similar spirit to families who have members that are lost in the stormy seas of life ?

Do we really fight for those who have been taken captive and are now POW ?

The more I think on the Anzac spirit the more I long to display those character traits in my own life as well as seeing them displayed in our churches and our communities

WE ARE IN A WAR ...weather we like it or not.

 YES, we know the battle has been won and that God has the victory but we are still in a WAR here on earth

I so trust if we truly took hold of this reality,then a True Anzac spirit would permeate our lives and how we are to those who are wounded.......

If we accurately took hold of that reality there wouldn’t be a big, To hard basket in our minds when it comes to those getting hit by the enemy

You see WAR is WAR the ship we have embarked up on is not a cruise liner were we sit back and think everything is rosy and sip on Gods goodness without a thought for anyone else ....

Outside of our comfort zones ...are brothers and sisters who have gone AWOL..The pressures of the fight were just too much.....

Others have been taken as a POW..Caught by the enemy like trophies, weakend by the pressures of life

Furthermore many lay wounded unable to walk the road set before them, and this isn’t always due to their own doing, This my friends is what we call causalities of the battle......to be continued ...