Stop Killing Yourself

I started reading Max Lucado’s new book, “You’ll Get Through This”.  In the beginning he is reminding us about the story of Joseph and how he got thrown into the pit.  I know that pit. I have been there.  The pit of depression, the pit of despair, the pit of betrayal, the pit of abandonment, … Read more

Spirit

SPIRIT ©2013 Diana Rasmussen Heart Broken Warrior Like a Phoenix Rising from the ashes to soar above No longer bound to fallen earth or man Death is swallowed Up in Life Spirit Lives Related articles Holiness (Poem) (scottstrissel.wordpress.com) Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit (lionessblog.com) Suffering is Holy Ground (breathedeeply.org) By His … Read more

Come Up and See

Come Up and See Copyright 2013 Diana Rasmussen When I look at life through the natural I am stuck here on Earth Trapped in time In a body that confines My placement in space Yet when I walk in the Spirit and follow His voice I can hear and see what my Father Is doing … Read more

Bride of Christ

Bride of Christ © 2013 Diana Rasmussen We are the bride of Christ He’s coming back for us * We will watch as He avenges His Bride As Justice comes to the earth * For a long time He has held His peace The Lord has restrained himself Then like a woman giving birth He … Read more

When Death Dies

“When Death Dies”

by Gungor

Like the waters flooding the desert
Like the sunrise showing all things

Where it comes flowers grow
Lions sleep, gravestones roll

Where death dies all things live
Where it comes poor men feast
Kings fall down to their knees
When death dies all things live
All things live

Like a woman searching and finding love
Like an ocean buried and bursting forth

Where it comes flowers grow
Lions sleep, gravestones roll

Where death dies all things come alive
Where it comes water’s clean
Children fed
All believe
When death dies all things live
All things live

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There is a nice symmetry in this: Death initially came by a man, and resurrection from death came by a man. Everybody dies in Adam; everybody comes alive in Christ. But we have to wait our turn: Christ is first, then those with him at his Coming, the grand consummation when, after crushing the opposition, he hands over his kingdom to God the Father. He won’t let up until the last enemy is down—and the very last enemy is death! (1 Corinthians 15:21-26 MSG)

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You are a Princess

From “His Love Letters” on Pinterest God’s Promise to You But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9 NIV)  If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with … Read more

Blessed Beyond Belief

Daily Prompt: Tagline Often, our blogs have taglines. But what if humans did, too? What would your tagline be? Photographers, artists, poets: show us ADVERTISING.  My Tagline would be and is: BLESSED BEYOND BELIEF As a man thinks in his heart , so he becomes…   When I kept telling myself I was depressed – I … Read more

Guest Bloggers Needed for ‘Under Your Shadow’

Divine Protection and Provision As many of you know, I started another blog site called Under Your Shadow.  I am looking for guest bloggers to share a story of a moment in time when you felt God’s Protection or Provision. My focus is to have a place in Blog-land to testify of how God protects … Read more

Keeping the Peace – meet Ahab

Well yesterday we talked about Jezebel and the Spirit of Control, today lets visit Ahab.  I was an Ahab, for years. I would do anything to keep the peace, I hated confrontation, I would roll-over-and-play-dead way too easily. When the Abuser said it was my fault, I just agreed, to avoid an argument.  But then, … Read more

I’m Putting Down My Rock

When I read today’s Daily Prompt, my heart sunk.  With the Word that I read this morning and the prompt I knew right away which poem I would share.  When you read this, keep in mind I wrote it to myself first.  There was a time when I was very judgmental – of myself and others.  Ms. … Read more