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Wow...God is soooo Good! BELIEVE IN HIS GRACE! That's something that I've had such a hard time doing. I've been thinking alot about these steps and why God led me to this website, and after reading day 3's lesson, I get it. Forgiveness. He's forgiven me. I have to forgive myself. As hard as it is to do, I can't move forward without it. I've held on to my past for so long that it has stopped me from receiving His blessings. I can finally allow myself to let go of those burdens in my heart. By no means am I justifying what I've done, all of it was wrong. However, I KNOW that by God's Grace I'm forgiven and that feels incredible.

When I lost SSR (the guy I thought was going to be my husband), I was so angry and heartbroken. He didn't pass away (thank God), but I felt like I had died to him. That was over 2 years ago. When my father started to get sick 2 months ago I left him a voicemail and told him what was going on. He texted me back that he was really sorry to hear about my dad but to keep praying and to have faith. That God will be with us. I was so excited that he had responded that I didn't even pay too much attention to what he had said in the text. I thought wow, I finally got through to him after all this time. Surely, he must still have feelings for me, this is great. Well, I was wrong. I had spent over 4 years loving a man, almost worshiping a man that forgot I existed. Until very recently, I though that just because I want something so bad and I pray for it so much that God MUST want it for me too...It doesn't' mean that at all. What I want doesn't necessarily mean it's what God wants for me. He wants me to worship Him and love Him and only Him, then He'll decide what He wants for my life...and truthfully I'm relieved to let go and let Him do it. I'm exhausted!

I see God working through the people in my life, it's amazing. I've thought for a long time that I wasn't worthy of His amazing Grace, yet there He is picking me up, dusting me off and carrying me. I'm so unworthy and undeserving, but man.....THANK YOU JESUS FOR SAVING ME!

Love and Blessings,
inHishands

And I smile. Inhishands...God is working in amazing ways for you because you are finally accepting everything He has been offering you for so long. He loves you and He has forgiven you...and wants you to forgive you...and then He wants to see you move forward. See the past is not where God wants us to live. He has great things planned for our future, and He wants to use us for His glory. He can only do this when we are willing...and my sister I now see you are willing.

Yay!!!! Keep doing the steps. You are doing very well.

luv ya

It is exhausting to try to do it on your own isn't it?

Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Warms my heart to see you doing so well in the steps. Really soaking them in.

As you progress through these steps you will learn and feel things that you never thought possible. This step was something that I strugeled with for years.
Your not alone in your walk we are all her for ya
And remember, YOU ARE FORGIVEN
Praise God



Keep pressing in
God Bless
Brother Blue

Yea!!!! I am jumping up and down in my seat... I want to hug you so bad, actually so good. I get so excited when people get it.

And that was a hard one for you.

Now that you have this breakthrough, you will find other things coming easier for you to understand.

hey inHishands

wow! isnt it so amazing when we finally FEEL His grace? It is freeing and life giving. To know that what we have done is forgiven by our Creator and to walk in the light of that truth.....words can't express the pure joy and relief knowing we can give it all to Him and let it go and just breathe. Be who you are...what He created you to be, sis. She is beautiful and cherished. That IS how He sees you.

love you, girl. keep going. He has so much more to show you.

in Jesus,
love momo

I have had a woman who was saying how much I was to her. Well . . . I told her . . . I live with myself *all* the time and I'm not so impressed. And I've been hearing and reading how "a number" of people feel differently about one another once they are married.

the mirage . . . can be . . . different . . . than what we find when we get there

humbling each other, instead of making such a big deal out of someone >
is *this* a possibility

I think we need to have different people who are special people for us >
our different Jesus brothers and sisters >
not to put all our eggs in the same basket, but be in God's love
that is *all*-loving love having us love all people.
And this connects us with the others, in companionship
better than we can have with just some one person we isolate
and try to use for all we want.

forgiving > isn't it so, that even if we realize we need to forgive
someone else or ourselves . . . that even if we do this,
still we may have the problem come back and need to do it again?
Satan may bring it back, and I "might" still not be so perfect,
and so I might have a problem and need to forgive, again,
and do it better and better as I grow

But those little chickies are so-o-o-o smart >
they peck out of those shells
so they can be in the fresh air
and enjoy discovering one another
little chickies

Like this - - when I wake up in the morning,
so many issues and problems with people
and responsibilities and possible plans for today
can all come rushing right to mind . . .
not even say "excuse me", but
demand my attention *away* from You, God.
All that stuff of yesterday can be like a
chicken shell shutting me in
with my own smelly air >
I need the brokenness of that shell,
so I can get out in
the fresh air of God's love, and discover
how You lead me, today, in Your peace >
"And let the peace of God
rule in your hearts,
to which also you were
called in one body;
and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
And enjoy the other little chickies.