Laced With Grace

Today’s post is quite different than what you may normally find here at Laced With Grace. However, after months of waiting and many prayers, Iris, myself and my friend Heidi want to share a video with you. It is our prayer that this video will inspire all of us and also bring comfort and healing to those who have been sexually abused as a child.

If you would like to talk with Heidi, she has graciously offered to reach out to you. Please email her and she will be glad to pray for you and help you walk your path toward healing through the power of Christ.

Please pop back here after watching and leave an encouraging word for Heidi in the comments.

We serve a God of healing and He can and will use your struggle, hardship, even tradgity to bring you healing and bring Him great honor. Today could be the day you step out onto that path. Please let me know if I can pray for you as well.

Blessings, Lynn

Tomorrow morning my small group of gals from church will meet up with me as we begin the fall session of Women’s Bibles study. The study we will work through is Conversation Peace.

Take a look at this photo.

These are all snippets, clippings, articles, and scripture verses I have collected over the years that center on the words we speak. My favorite verse, I scribbled down years ago on the back of a business card. It has been hanging on the bulletin board in my office ever since.

It’s been many years now that I have walked this path of faith in Jesus. The longer I travel the more I learn about the very real power we have in the words we speak. I don’t understand it all but I know that when we speak, our words restrain or loose power in the spiritual realm.

I’m thinking that the next seven weeks of Bible study will be helpful to our group of ladies. But, I’m pretty sure it will be me who learns the most.

So, I leave you with this that I gathered at some point in my “word” collecting. I pray it speaks truth into your heart, your speech, and you join me to bring healing into our world through the power and the Word of God.

All that you will ever be or accomplish hinges on how you choose to control what comes out of your mouth. What you allow to occupy your mind and mouth, you can either bless your life to great heights of success or send it orbiting into realms of failure, sadness, and discontentment. Proverbs tells us “For as he thinks in his heart so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 and Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart for it determines the course of your life.

Be Blessed, Lynn

I read this recently in a devotion that came across my computer from Rick Warren. It was so powerful I have felt led for weeks to share it here with all of you today. I pray it brings truth and freedom into your lives this very hour. Hugs, Lynn

We set expectations for what our lives should look like and then stress out when we aren’t as successful as we think we should be …

Have you ever had a big build-up for an event that you thought would make you happy only to be let down? The anticipation of Christmas is always better than the actual day. It finally gets here and you go, “That’s it? It’s over? No more presents?”

The gap between expectation and reality happens in relationships too. So many marriage problems exist because the husband or wife thought marriage would solve all their personal problems and their spouse would meet all their needs. All that does is set them up for massive disappointment. No spouse can meet all your needs; only God can do that.

Because sin entered the world, there is emotional distress and disappointment with other people and with ourselves too. We set expectations for what our lives should look like and then stress out when we aren’t as successful as we think we should be, or our bodies don’t look as good as we want them to, or we still struggle with bad habits or addictions that we know we should have overcome by now.

Now that doesn’t mean we should stop striving for Christlikeness; it just means we need to adjust our expectations. This world we live in is not heaven. It is not perfect, and it never will be. We are not perfect, and we never will be while we’re alive on this earth. So give yourself and everyone around you a break, and remember to thank God for his grace in this broken world.