Less Judgey… #encourageoneanother

less judgey more loveyLess Judgey releases my heart to be more lovey…

Therefore; less judgey equals more

Happy!

Happy Sunday Friends…

Live in Love,

Lisa

When your motives are good… #encourageoneanother

i don't always say stupid things...When your motives are good, may your heart be strong…

It’s so easy for words, feelings, and emotions to run a muck in the simplest of conversations.    We may start to feel unsafe, or judged.  And our defenses start to rise…

We all want to protect our hearts…

Pride can be disguised in so many ways, but the sting that it leaves on my heart is always the same…

And it’s awful..

The feeling of playing a conversation over and over in my mind…

The sadness of not being able to change the perception of our words, keeps our minds busy for way too long…

Humility …

Is always the greatest defender of my heart….

God’s goodness is so great…

I want to keep laying my heart in His hands, no matter how I feel…

“Your goodness is so great! You have stored up great blessings for those who honor You.

You have done so much for  those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world.

You hide them in the shelter of Your presence, safe from those who conspire against them.

You shelter them in Your presence far from accusing tongues..”

Psalm 31:1-20

He is our great comfort…

He knows are weaknesses and covers them with His love and care…

This scripture is a  soothing oil to my heart…  I find my daily hope in “The shelter of His presence…”

May you be comforted by His heart of love that covers yours…

May our thoughts be grounded in humility and tenderness…

Thank You, Heavenly Father, for never letting go…

for using Your word of hope to wash our souls and protect our hearts…

Today,

As I walk in the presence of Your shadow, how I pray I would let You be my great defender..

May my words be kind..

Sweet and true…

I love You, Jesus,

In Your name,

I pray,

Amen

Live in Love,

Lisa

 “Love the Lord, all you faithful ones! For the Lord protects those who are loyal to Him, but He harshly punishes all who are arrogant, So be strong and take courage, all you who put your hope in the Lord…”

Psalm 31:23-24

Lord, soften my heart…

Happy Labor Day & Thank You… #encourageoneanother

happy labor dayWishing you

A Happy and relaxing Labor Day!

Thankful for our community of workers who make America great!

Live in Love,

Lisa

Happy Weekend…! #encourageoneanother

be more stockedI’m going to TOTALLY be more stocked!  LOL

Have a happy weekend…

Someone may need your smile :)

Live in Love,

Lisa

Let Their Walls Fall Down… #Encourageoneanother

watch carefullyEncourage each other…

Be gentle, and listen with a warm heart.

“For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation though our Lord

Jesus Christ.

He died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

Therefore encourage each other and build each other, just as in fact you are doing.”

Thessalonians 5:9

I am always so thankful… and so deeply aware of those whose hearts see the me I can so easily keep hidden away…

Anxiety can make you say and do strange things… lol!

When you chose to see the good in others they can can sense your heart of tenderness and care.

To see the good in others is my heart’s desire…

It fills my life with passion, takes my eyes off of myself, and helps me to present the beauty of God’s love in a way that I so desperately needed before I met Him…

Oh, Lord,

May my heart be tender, and my words be few.

 May you use my heart, my days, and my life to be a vessel that sees the good in others…giving them a safe moment to let their walls down…

 Your love encourages and changes my heart day by day…

It seems to me that’s the least I can do…

It’s so easy to feel judged and unworthy…and sometimes those feelings are so present that we find ourselves becoming someone we don’t want to be..

We start building walls, pushing people away… and when we walk away, we blame ourselves, or begin to judge harshly the motives of the other person…

How I pray I would be able to stop that conversation… or feeling with words of hope, beauty and grace.

Remembering who I am in You… gives me the awesome desire and strength to love bigger, and to forgive even quicker. I want to be a vessel that helps others see the hope of salvation, and the beauty of Your grace..

Today I will be more about love…. and way less about judgement…

Oh Lord,

   It is my deepest joy to leave a little bit of Your beauty wherever I go..

Forgive me the times I start to lose my passion, and get sucked into feelings of fear… the feelings that make me want to defend myself, and be someone I used to know..

That is the moment my eyes have turned  away from loving hand…

How I pray, those In my world will have the comfort to be themselves, that they would let their walls down, and see the beauty of Your love surrounding their heart…

I pray this in Jesus Name,

Amen

Live in Love,

Lisa

“For you were once in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

 Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness and truth)  and find out what pleases the Lord.

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness..

Ephesians 5:8-11

It’s Not About You… #encourageoneanother

stop being sad

It’s not about you.

It’s not about me.

It’s about loving others…

That’s what sets our hearts free :)

“Don’t just pretend to love others.  Really love them.  Hate what is wrong. 

Stand on the side of the good.”

Romans 12:9

Dear Heavenly Father,

I want to see the best in others…

I want to use my powers for good…  :)

To keep my eyes on what is true, and right, and praiseworthy..

It can be so easy to walk through our day with blinders on…

Just surviving and not seeing the wounded around us…

We are all fighting battles no one knows about…

Kindness and compassion…gentleness and humility…and a little laughter can change someone’s whole day.

I want to do that!

Thank You, Heavenly Father, for the beautiful gift of Your loving kindness which You so richly infuse our lives with..

Please fill my heart with the overflowing presence of all that You are…

Today.  I will love.

I pray that my eyes will be open to the lost, and the hurting…

I pray my ears will be open to the sounds of distress and heartache…

Just one kind word really can change someones whole day…

Use me, Oh Lord, to help lighten someone’s heavy load…

In Jesus Name

I pray,

Amen

Live in Love,

Lisa

Sometimes we just have to let love in so we can pour it out…

Be A Proliferator of Good Vibes… #encourage

spread good vibesEncourage more..

Love more…

Spread seeds of hope, and share someone’s joy…

These are the sweet things in life that set our hearts roaring, and our spirits on fire…

Notice the good..

Believe the best.

Life is not a competition..

We all have pain, we all have sorrow…

Lord I want to be a doer of good.

I want to be beautiful in Your eyes… and a lover of the weary.

You alone, Oh Lord, satisfy my yearnings…

Please fill me with Your tender loving kindness.

How I pray to see the beauty in everyone I meet…

That my heart would look a bit deeper into the soul of those You have placed on my path…

Let Your love reign, Oh Lord,

That my life would be an echo of all that You are.

I want to be a proliferator of good vibes :)

In Jesus Name,

I pray,

Amen

Live in Love,

Lisa

“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish this race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me – the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.”

Acts 20:28

 

Tell Someone They Matter… #encourageoneanother

tell someone they matter

Tell someone they matter.

It could change their whole world… and Your’s  too :)

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me because of their testimony.  

My prayer for all of them is that they will be one, just as you and I are one, Father -that just as you are in me, and I am in you so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me…..

I have given them the glory that You have given me, so that they me be one as we are.

I in them and You in me, all being perfected into one.

Then the world will know that You sent me and will understand that You love them as much as You love me…

John: 17 20-22

It’s just amazing to my heart  how much love and time Jesus spent praying over us…

He deeply cares… He deeply understands…

He lived this life with one purpose.

To love us to the Father.

We so matter to Him.

Please, Oh Lord, Help us to love those You bring on our paths.

Fill our hearts with compassion, and our words with hope…

Help us to show others just how much they matter..

Help us to be good listeners..

Gentle spirited and kind..

May our life’s purpose be the same as Your’s…

You completely; and wholeheartedly shared the love of Your Father…even until Your precious last breath…

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing..”

Luke 23:34

Fill us with Your love, Oh Lord, that our joy, too, would come from sharing the hope that You are…

In Jesus Name,

I pray,

Amen

Live in Love,

Lisa

Search For The Good… #encourageoneanother

look for the beauty in everyone“If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!”

Proverbs 11:27

That scripture is eye opening, isn’t it!

It powerfully states that if you look for bad, it WILL find YOU…

I definitely don’t want my life to be filled with darkness and strife…

This scripture is your way out…

Look for good and YOU WILL find favor..

I chose a long time ago to believe that..and to make it my life’s mission to stay in God’s favor of love…

I don’t want to see the bad, I choose  to see the good…even when the bad is right there with it… I want to choose good.

There have been many times when I have had to walk away from situations that I knew were pulling my heart and my soul away from God’s best for me..

When the turmoil and strife has gotten so dark…

I chose good. I chose God.

I want to enjoy God’s favor of love over my life… I want to walk in His meadow of glory and grace…

As a follower of Christ, it is my heart’s desire to make a difference in my world…

Each new day, it is my choice to live a life or love, or live a life of Lisa…

I choose LOVE…

I choose to be the best me I can be to those who surround my life and my days.

To inspire hope.

To live above the muck and mire…

To leave a legacy of love, truth, and goodness.

How I earnestly pray for God to not let my heart be gripped by worries, fears, or unmet expectations…

To not get caught up in a trap of speaking ill of someone…or thinking the worst..

It is My deepest desire to see the good in everyone… and to let God use my life to love, honor, and draw other’s into His courts of love.

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”

Philippians 4:8

To be kind first.

To reach out my hand, and touch even the most difficult people who come along my path…

I am learning that every difficult situation needs love upon love…

and grace upon grace…

Dear Heavenly Father, How I pray that each person reading these words would be touched by the truth of Your goodness…

That they would feel Your calling of love in their lives.

Oh Lord, open our eyes to see the beauty in others, just as you have seen in us… especially when we didn’t deserve it…. nothing stopped You from touching us with Your grace…

How very thankful I am…

May Your glory reign..

May our lives be a legacy of love…

In Jesus Name,

I pray,

Amen

Live in Love,

Lisa

The Music Of Each Other… #encourageoneanother

lets listen to the music of eachotherPraising You, Oh Lord, for Your  sweet peace…

Your presence keeps my fears at bay and fills me with hope immeasurable…

“I think of how much You have helped me.

 I sing for joy in the shadow of your protecting wings.

I follow close behind You; Your strong right hand holds me securely…”

Psalm 61:7

Pushing hard to live in the moments of today…

Keeping my eyes focused on the hope of who You are.

My heart securely held in the warmth of Your loving hands…

Your joy fills me… and I am at peace.

My life is for a purpose…

I do not want to miss the many blessing You have in store for me…

Help me to keep my heart wide open to the sweet generous opportunities you bring on my journey…

I’m realizing they usually come in the form of an irritated grocery clerk..

An angry driver…

An impatient mom trying to drop her child off at school…

All opportunities to stretch out my hand, and touch them with Your gentleness and grace…

I don’t want to miss a blessing of joy that always comes when I love others … Just as they are…

Thank You for choosing me to be a vessel of Your loving kindness…

Your love humbles me…

I am so glad I am Yours…

How I worship Your Holy Name

In Jesus Name,

I pray,

Amen

Live in Love,

Lisa