Are you healing?

Since it is late today's blog is going to be a short one. 


I found the following prayer out of a book I have called, "My Pocket Prayer Partner for Women." This is a book filled with different prayers and verses and small testimonies to help you in anytime of need. This particular book also has a variety of subjects. It ranges anywhere from anxiety to marriage. But tonight we are going to look at the subject on healing. The prayer for healing is...

Heavenly Father,

Oh, how I need your healing touch.

There is only so much that medical science 

can do, but You are the Great Physician. 

When Jesus was here on earth, He was

Your representative, and He healed many.

Whether it was fever, mental torment,

withered limbs, deaf ears, or blind eyes,

Jesus never turned anyone away. Thank

You that You care about my physical

health too. Please make me well today.

In Jesus' name,

Amen

A verse that goes along with this is..

Jeremiah 17:14

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise."

Hope you had a great day! :)

Raeann

Loving is forgiving

Well, this first part has nothing really to do with the title of todays blog so here it goes.

Last night I went to see a fellow Pi Zeta Phi sister perform at her release cd concert. It was truly amazing! I love her songs because you can take anyone of them and apply it to your life and it just makes you know that it all will be okay. It was a very fun evening! Then today my family came down to school to take me out to celebrate my birthday that is coming up and I received the best birthday surprise ever! They brought the little girl they babysit and she is my little buddy and I was just so excited to see her! It was a great surprise!

But as for they title, loving is forgiving. What does this mean to you?

I recently had two close friends tell me that they did not want to be friends anymore and this has been on my heart for the pass week and this morning in bible class we were studying from the book of 1 John and this lesson just really spoke to me. The lesson was about forgiving, no matter what has happened. The teacher said that if we love we have light and if we have light we have the truth. But if we hate we have darkness and if we have darkness we have lies. That if we hate then the truth is not in us. But if we love then the truth is in us. Forgiveness is love. If we don't forgive, then we hate and we don't have the truth. We can't go on loving someone that has hurt us without forgiving. If we want to stop hating, then we have to start forgiving. So if we have the word in us, then we have overcome evil. So even though I was hurt by these two people I still love them. Even though I love them, do I forgive them? It is hard to forgive them right now but I know that God wants me to and so if I could only tell them to their face that I forgive them for what happened and that things can go back to the way they were (with limitations though). I hope that if you have any hurts or have been hurt by someone that you can find it in your heart to forgive them.

Hope you have a great day!

Raeann

Powerless

Continuing in the bible study I am doing it says that in our attempts to deal with out lack of control, we worry about the details in our lives. We tend to pretend that it doesn't matter or we become angry and resentful. We isolate ourselves from others to keep the pain at a distance. We try to control our circumstances and the people around us.


We are too proud to admit that our lives have become unmanageable. The pride can weaken our faith. Which cuts us off from God and prevent us from recognizing our own powerlessness. This allows us to refuse to reach out and ask for help. When facing our powerlessness and admitting our weakness, we invite God to step in and change our lives. 


To complete Principle One we need to take four actions:
1. Stop denying the Pain. Psalms 6:2-3 states "Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony. My soul is in anguish. How long, O Lord, how long?
2. Stop playing God. Either we are going to serve God or ourselves, we can't do both. Matthew 6:24 states "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."
     We fail to control ourselves and others when our "self" is out of control. 
3. Start admitting our powerlessness. Matthew 19:26 states "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." 
     We need to recognize our human limitations and quit trying to resolve the issues by ourselves.
4. Start admitting that our lives have become unmanageable. Psalms 40:12 states "Troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me."
     With this confession we finally acknowledge that we're out of control and powerless to change on our own. 


We need to admit that we are powerless and be willing to turn our lives over to God and that we are powerless without Him. 


A few questions to think about:
1. Of what are you still in denial, or what are you still trying to control in your own power?
2. Are there any other "masters" besides God in your life that you're still trying to serve?
3. What are some of the things you keep doing that you really don't want to do?
4. Can you relate to Psalms 40:12? How?


Hope you had a great day!
In Him,
Raeann

Denial

I have recently started going to Celebrate Recovery at Memorial Road Church of Christ and I have purchased the Celebrate Recovery Bible. Along in the bible comes daily devotional and todays topic was denial. How many of you are in denial? Or do you even know if you are feeling like that? At the top of the lesson it gives the verse Hebrews 12:1 which states, "Therefore, since were are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."


Many of us have hurts, hang-ups and habits from the past. I know for sure that I do. Is this holding you back? I know that I am being held back by them a lot of the time. And because I have allowed myself to be held back by them I have lost friendships from it. Which is something no one ever wants to go through. Then there are some of us hung-up by guilt. Do we have past guilt? We beat ourselves up for something that has happened in the past and even it has already been forgiven we still beat ourselves up. I beat myself up everyday for things that have happened in my past. But that does not do me any good. It just hurts me and brings me down. Check out Philippians 3:13-14. "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Let's try and not beat ourselves up.


At CR there are different principles to help you recover from whatever it is you need to recover from. Principle One states: "Realize I'm not God: I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable." We need to remember 1 John 4:18, "There is no fear in love. But perfect loves drives out fear." We will always have God's unconditional love, power, grace and complete forgiveness. We just have to stop holding on to our past failures. Think about the following questions.
1. What past hurts are you holding on to?
2. What past or present actions make you feel guilty?
3. What are you afraid to change in your life? Why?
4. What are your fears about the future? Why?


Hope you have a wonderful day!
Raeann

Lean on God!

Well, I have never really blogged before so this is my attempt to blog. Hope you enjoy!


This past week has been hard for me and I have thought about lots of things to do to make it better. But I finally came to the conclusion that the only thing that could make it better was myself and God. I have never turned to Him more than I have this past week. He has helped me figure out so many different things. Sure it has been a rough road but anyone can get there, all we have to do is trust. See, for me trust is a big thing. I struggle with that and since I have struggled with trusting it has come back and really hurt me. Now I am putting my full trust in God my Savior. Because He knows the way for me and exactly what to do when I am in need. I am so thankful for the conclusions that He has helped me come to. I hope that God can do the same for you! 


1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.