Fear? What fear?

 could stand for fear if we let it.

Yesterday was my day to write something about the letter F. Initially the word that came to mind was the word FEAR. Ready to put pen to paper, I came across a quote from Marvin Gaye that caught my attention.  Marvin said that sin and fear go hand in hand.  Makes sense to me and after all who else would know this better than Marvin Gaye.

“Most fear stems from sin: to limit one’s sins assuredly limits one’s fear thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit.” – Marvin Gaye, 1939 – 1984

As I started to write I got stuck. The words just wouldn’t flow. No matter how many stops and starts I had, the words were just not there. So I did what most writers do. I stopped altogether. Let it rest and moved on to something else.  After a good night’s sleep and some prayer I decided that what I really needed to do was to examine myself and my own fears.

As we age we all have those times when we fear that ache or pain may be something other than just that – an ache or pain. Our minds play tricks on us and tries to make us believe that it’s a tumor, a cancer, a catastrophic illness. I propose that this is a healthy fear because it can motivate you into action.  It can motivate you into making that lifestyle change you’ve been intending. Perhaps it is time to really start looking at your eating habits or your exercise regimen.  Healthy fear, not life stopping fear.

And while we are contemplating this time of life in this fear state, we may perhaps have a fear that one day we may end up being a burden to our loved ones. What is going to happen if for some reason we cannot care for ourselves.  What if we ultimately die? Who is going to take care our final wishes and expenses? Hmmm….  Again this should motivate one to plan and get into place these needs. Healthy fear not life stopping fear.

Examining my life I am asking myself what is that one thing that I fear most?  Do I even have fear?  Sorry, but not all of us are super saved. Fear lurks around in all of us. I just don’t give it room is grow in my life so that it will remain that healthy fear and not that life stopping fear.

The questions I am asking today are, as I reach this age, what are my expectations? How much am I relying on the kindness of strangers to come to my rescue. How much do I really trust God as a round this corner to the middle of my personal third chapter of life?

I have said it over and over again…stop looking for the magic.  Every one will eventually have to come to grips with the absolute truth that faith does move mountains and the Holy Ghost is real. The bible says that faith without works is dead. We all must come to final terms with the sin in our lives. That thing you have been lugging around year after year saying and lying to yourself that you are going to stop doing. Consider this, sins are also our bad habits, our procrastination, our anxieties, our anger and yes, even our way of handling disappointments. What work do we need to do to align ourselves up to the will of God?  How obedient are we to God really?

All of these things are sin. Sin is defined as a turning away from God and the focusing on self: making your own rules, going your own way, having your own thoughts, satisfying your own pleasures. Sin is having way too much ‘I’ in your eye.  Defining sin very loosely:  getting stuck on YOU opens the door to FEAR and fear is indeed the opposite of faith. Amen? Amen.

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Grey Areas...

Sometimes my mind wonders and drifts and, to be honest, I believe I have reached that age when I can afford to let it. Swiftly my thoughts soar, sometimes without real direction, moving from the beauty and wonder of trees and oceans, to bible and love thy neighbor and wondering why it gotta be that way. 

Throughout life's journey, or much of it anyway, we are told what to think and how to think and why to think. It is through these orchestrated thoughts that we are told that success and prosperity are to be found. Today, however, as I let my mind wonder, it has occured to me that this kind of thinking is what can stiffle the creativity of somebody like me. This feeling today begs the question, is this the means by which I move closer to becoming somebody else instead of my authentic self?

And what about that word criticism either by self or someone else.  You know, criticism is that deadly silver bullet that can kill a desire, a purpose, a creative spirit quicker than anything else in life. 

Oh, as I remind myself, I am of the age that has given me the freedom to be me.  I am free to wonder in my mind down undiscovered highways and byways just because. I am free to climb great hills and mountains, bathe under glowing waterfalls, tell stories to somebody that just needs to have thier existance acknowledged. I am free to travel full of the power and the love of the Lord without fear, doubt or hesitation. Marvelous!

Lately I can picture the hand of God beneath me as I soar higher and higher. I am so utterly confident that He will catch me if I stumble and I am not afraid to fail because He has my back. There is absolutely no reason for any of us to not try to do that thing that He has purposed for each of us. His unchanging and powerful hand is indeed beneath us.

It is marvelous to be a grown up and to feel God chip away at the last remnant of fear we may have. I am flying and I am content. It is ok to be you. It is ok for they to be they and them to be them. It is ok for me to be me.

"And they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you."  Jeremiah 1:19

(c) 2015, USA

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Happy is the man ...

is for happy...

Sometimes we just have to remind ourselves

Happy is the man whose soul is anchored in the Lord.

Happy is the man that knows peace.

Happy is the man that says, “I trust in the Lord and lean not to my own understanding”.

Happy is that man that dances a dance of freedom in the midst of a storm.

Happy is the man that can say, “I have more than enough”.

Happy is he that is not swayed by popular opinion.

Happy is he who is foundation sure.

Happy is the man that knows what the saying, “we shall not be moved”, really means.

Happy is he who knows the voice of the Shepard.

Happy is he that knows that they are chosen and set apart.

Happy is the man that understands that we are in this world but not of it.

Happy is he that knows silence and is content.

Happy is he that enjoys his own company and sees that there is indeed a difference between “alone-ness” and loneliness.

Happy is the man that takes a cue from Enoch and makes walking and talking with Lord in the cool of the day a habit.

Happy is he that knows the wonderous working power of the Holy Ghost.

Happy is he who prays like a life depends on it because it does.

         

Happy is he who prays like a life depends on it because it does.

This is happy. This is joy unspeakable.

(c) 2015, USA

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Knowing He Will ...

A Message To A 'Young' Believer

Faith is a deeply personal thing which revolves around our individual relationship with Christ.

The bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.  Just because we pray doesn’t mean that God is going to pull out His magic wand  and “poof” everything is alright, bodies are healed, money is suddenly in our bank accounts and all is right in the land. Au contraire….my God don’t work dat way. 

When I first came to the Lord I wanted everything to work out right immediately in my life. I wanted all my trouble and my mess to just disappear. I cried, I screamed I fell on my face and begged but, baby, God was not moved….or so I thought. He was moved alright but not the way “I” figured He SHOULD be moved. God was in the process of cleaning me up and getting me to look at my stuff - the good and the bad and He was maturing me in a manner that made me stop looking for an easy way through everything. With all the mess that I have been in throughout my life I have been fairly "lucky".  God was letting me know that He was my sheild from so many things that could have happened.  Chil', I shoulda been dead. If it had not been for the Lord on my side....

Think about it and ask yourself, was it easy for Jesus to carry the cross up that hill and be nailed to it and to be spat upon, whipped and bruised for me? The first thing you have to understand that that’s exactly who He did it for …. YOU so that you can live a clean and decent life without worry. A life without the burden and sin of your past. A life full of faith.

At one time I found myself thinking that faith is something that I could put on like a coat or better yet an attitude. But you see, faith is a “substance” – a tangible thing that can be touched and held. It is substance that is also a growing, living thing ever stretching and expanding through every good and bad circumstance of my life.  Faith ebbs and flows, pulses and vibrates. Faith breathes.

There are days when I just know that I am close to God. I am walking in purpose, His anointing is on me, I am blessed and a super saint. Yep, I am full of faith, walking in it and talking about it. Then there are days (many days) when I am like David in a cold, dark cave, hiding from the enemy. 

After being cast out by Achish, David fled to a cave in Adullam [1 Samuel 22:1-3]. He is overwhelmed because of the desperate situation he was in. He was obviously lonely, but he found refuge in the Lord. He felt that this cave was a prison to him. It was in this place, it is said, that he composed Psalm 142:

I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication.  I poured out my complaint before Him; I laid before Him my trouble.  When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.  I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no man that would know me. Refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.  I cried unto Thee, O Lord; I said, “Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.  Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.  Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise Thy name; the righteous shall compass me about, for Thou shalt deal bountifully with me.” (21KJV)

By-d-way, anyone that says they never felt like this is lying….don’t trust them.

So my point is this.  Faith is 'the' substance and it is also a process. The more I trust God in his timing the greater and deeper my faith is. The more I believe what He says in His Word that He does indeed hear my cry and He is faithful to me as I am faithful to Him, the deeper my faith is. The more I consult Him on everything in my life including what am I going to eat today because of my diabetes – the deeper my faith is.  The more I am confident that He will heal me - the deeper my faith is. Before I develop a major creative endeavor, I go to God. Through error, time wasted and money lost I have learned over the years that when I don’t go to God first I am generally operating outside of His will and that project is doomed for failure.

Maturity is faith. I am not afraid and I am willing to accept the exact answer I need at any given time. I trust God will never harm me, leave me or lie to me. Many times His answer is not now or just a plain and simple no and I am ok with that.  I have some great and wonderful projects in my heart that I want to accomplish in my life time.  I am a creative spirit and I cannot sit idle for too long. Faith comes in when I realize that my creative and splendid ideas may not be God’s intention for my life THIS day. Every morning I ask God to show me what he wants of me THIS day. Show me who is it that I am to share the gospel with THIS day. Who can I pray for THIS day? What poem, sonnet, blog posting can I write THIS day that is going to encourage somebody and let them know that they are greatly loved and cherished by my God? I stopped telling God what I am going to do and have learned to let God tell me. And if I am not to compose that thing, so be it. It is God's will and not my own. I still want to write the great American novel some day and that is coming because my Daddy said so. I still want to establish the Oby House but I will only do those things when it is God’s will and He has made the time right. God told me one day to not get it twisted. He does not serve me and He is not at my beck and call. All I could say was “Yes, Lord!”  Who am I? Did I create the heavens and the earth and all therein?

No one ever said that a walk of faith was easy. But the rewards are splendid.  I never in a million years thought that my family would come to me for prayers and encouragement or to just sit and talk over life’s difficulties. I never thought in a million years that I would know peace and joy unspeakable in this lifetime. I really never understood or could see my life without turmoil in one form or another. I have peace and I know real love and more now. I am truly blessed.  I may not have a fancy house nor do I drive a fancy car. The miracle is that I have what I need and I am satisfied.

Let me share with you a devotion from Dr. Charles F. Stanley as printed in the In Touch Magazine (July)

The Power of Patience

Picture waiting in a checkout line that hasn’t moved for 10 minutes. Many of us would feel frustrated. We live in a generation that expect instant results.

Everyone struggles with some degree of impatience. We’re born with this trait – think about a 3 month old who wants milk in the middle of the night. The inborn reaction is to fuss at the first hint of discomfort and keep at it until the need is met.  Patterns from our old flesh nature, like impatience, make this a continual battle for most people, but one that is very worthwhile to fight.

Let’s consider the biblical definition of patience.  The word can refer to both longsuffering and perseverance – that is not giving up or yielding under pressure.  It reveals itself when we are willing to wait without frustration while suffering or experiencing some strong desire.  What’s more, patience means accepting whatever the Lord chooses to give (or not give) and willingly receiving it on His timetable.  In the meantime, we should pray, obey, and persist as we seek God’s direction.

The danger of impatience is that we might miss the Lord’s perfect plan and blessing. But when we trust our Father’s will and timing, we’ll know inner peace.

What causes you stress? Carefully examine whether you are taking matters into your own hands or releasing the circumstance to almighty God.  Follow Psalm 37:7, which says, “Rest in the Lords and wait patiently for Him.” Seek His way and His timing. (Chil’) anything else can be destructive.

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You Gotta Have Faith, Child. --- a story

It was Aunt Eunice and my grandmother who taught me how to grow and appreciate green living things.  Along with beautiful roses they both grew beans and squash and even corn. The stalks of corn seemed to reach as high as the sky as though they were reaching up to heaven to thank God for the sun and the rain. 

Aunt Eunice was known to tell her corn stalks that it was their duty to grow tall and sweet. From the time I was itty-bitty to the time I was grown, if it wasn’t my grandmother it was Aunt Eunice telling me, “Take care of God’s green earth and it will take care of you.”  As I grew older I began to appreciate all of the hard work those two strong black women put into coaxing something out of that hard Arizona clay.  They were right, too.  We never were hungry even though we were very poor. 

Aunt Eunice had a whole lot of faith that the seeds she would plant in that dry Arizona desert would grow into tall stalks of sweet corn or beans or squash that would feed her family.  Her labor of faith brought to me a deep understanding of how to maneuver through life’s difficulties. 

She told me that as we are faced with hard Arizona clay kind of problems, we have to turn on the faucet and pour out some of that sweet well water called faith. That Aunt Eunice  deep, abiding kind of faith. Then we have to carry that heavy bucket over to that problem, especially in the heat of the day, and drown it; talk to it like Aunt Eunice talked to that corn. Her advice was to tell that problem that you will not be overcome, overwhelmed or defeated by it because the Lord was on your side. Then she would say with joyous laughter, "Stand back, child, and give God some room to do His work. You just give Him thanks and watch how He will come through each and every time. Amen?" 

That was my Aunt Eunice and this is what she taught me.

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The Light of Life, Pt. 1

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams."     

Acts 2:17 KJV

God said that in these last and evil days that He would pour out His spirit on all flesh. With this marvelous gift we are able to lay hands on the sick, including ourselves, and healing will, indeed, take place. We are healed because we believe and hunger for righteousness. God cannot lie and His power is within us. This power from on high is more powerful than any of the failings of this world.

It came to me that our bodies are temporary vessels that wear with age. We all know this to be true when out of the blue you need glasses to read with or taking a nap in the middle of the afternoon is time well spent. We get older and our bodies seem to need a lot more tender loving care than it used to.

These temporary vessels, however, house our eternal spirits - spirit man, if you will. As we pray we gain access to God's greatness, His power from on high that created all things in the heavens and on the earth. The power from on high that heals and restores each and every worn out cell. I read someplace that every cell in our bodies are replaced every eleven days. And the new cells have memory and they mimic the cells they are replacing including the sick cells.

If that be so then the miracle to me happens at the exact point of re-birth of the cell. God in His creativity changes the memory of the sick cell, cancels the over-all sickness and replaces it with good health and the light of life. Why? Because we love Him. We trust Him. We seek Him through His word of truth which says that we are healed by His stripes and in the name of Jesus.

My Lord, you are so utterly amazing!

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What I Thought Was So Just Ain't - Aging through God's Grace

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More than enough, too ...

“So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.  And they that had eaten were about four thousand”.  Mark 8:8-9 KJV

More than enough, too…

There are times (like today and maybe even yesterday) that I am filled to the brim with wonder. I am not particularly worried about anything. Well maybe I am concerned about this thing they call aging which seems to be producing these body ailments and more and more grey hairs that also seem to be blooming on my cranium overnight.  Ok, I am wondering.

I mean it really is ok getting to be 65.  Really it is. I am just in a state of wonder. When did this happen? I look back at events in my life and they all seem like they took place just yesterday. Has it really been six years since I moved here to the bay? Has it really been six years since I last had a full-time job?  I mean after all that is a tremendous blessing and proof that God is a “keeping” kind of force in my life.

Remembering that day that I sat in this same place and declared that for God I will live and for God I will die. I resolved to live and walk by faith – trusting in His holy word that says the He would supply all of my needs. (It’s funny how God will bring you to a place of absolute dependence upon Him - I'm just sayin'). If I told you how much money I really live on every month you would probably say that’s impossible. But here I am and here it is. I have yet to be hungry. I am sheltered and safe and it is still all about Jesus. This, too, makes me wonder. He is more than enough.

The bible says in Psalm 37:5 “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”  Not that I am so righteous or even all that holy. But the Word of the Lord also says that if we would have the faith the size of a grain of a mustard seed what we see as impossible becomes possible.  That mountain with all of its clefts and jagged edges and slippery places becomes a small mole hill that is easily traversed because of God’s grace.  We don’t even have to have huge amounts of this thing called faith and God, with his ever abounding grace, comes through time after time after time. Isn't it a wonder?

Let’s not get it twisted. I don’t have a whole lot and if I allow what I do have to be measured against what  this world says is symbolic of success, the average Joe would say I have nothing. What you see as nothing is more than enough for me and that, my dear, fills me with wonder. 

As I meditate on the Word, I often look at the familiar stories and wonder why exactly are they written in the bible. What are we to really learn from that particular story?  There have been many interpretations of the Word of God, as we know. Some of these interpretations have totally missed the mark and have been slanted it to fit a person's particular earthly agenda. But when you really study the word and ask God to reveal the truth of why and how come that story is being told, the revelation is often amazing. God in His infinite love and wisdom reveals so much to us through these stories. God's Word does indeed breathe and it is alive. Though written numerous years ago it still reveals and instructs as though it were written just yesterday. Going back to the basics, I sometimes read the stories that we have heard time and time again and low and behold - fresh manna! Oh, how this fills me with wonder!

When is the last time you thought about the seven loaves of bread and a few fish that fed four thousand? Jesus had all of the people to sit down and wait for the miracle.  The bible didn’t say anything about the people complaining in the wait. Four thousand people sat down in the grass in groups and waited with great expectation to receive. And receive they did. Jesus blessed those few small fish and those seven loaves of bread and the increase came forth “pressed down, shaken together, running over.”  Everybody received more than enough. So it is with me and you and all of us. To this day I have no idea how it is that He is keeping me and to be honest I don’t need to know. He keeps me and this knowledge is more than enough, too.

#soulwriter 

Books by Debi Mason:

What I Thought Was So Just Ain't - Aging through God's Grace

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ISBN-13: 978-0692236475

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Arizona Clay: A journey of self-discovery

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And Jesus Said Come ...

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest into your souls. For my yoke is wasy and my burden is light.                                                                     Matthew 11:28 KJV

It wasn’t until I reached my age of reason – so near 65 I can taste it – that I realized just how fast the world is spinning. We can reach destinations hundreds of miles away in a matter of hours. We can hear the voice of someone that is in another country just by punching in a few numbers into that mystery box we call a cell phone. The list goes on and on. We are moving at the speed of light and most times we don’t even leave the safety and comfort of our homes or offices.  We conduct business and make major money transactions through a computer screen. Information flies at us from every direction imaginable. Because of this age of technology, we spin. We spin faster and faster with each year and new “gotta have it” device.

We have become a nation of tired and burdened folk. We work day after day trying desperately to keep up and keep in step with what our culture now believes is necessary to find that most elusive happiness or success.  If we don’t make the grade, anger and total dissatisfaction step in. We are miserable and make everyone else around us most miserable. We have unrealistic expectations that define peace as having the latest gadget or gizmo. Life’s treadmill is our continual placement of one foot in front of the other and not moving anywhere. We are tired from all that running in place. True?

It is clear that the Lord is telling us that what we are struggling for is not found in the latest Apple Watch, or tablet, house, car or on Facebook. True happiness and success is not measured by what we have or what it is that we do. Having nice stuff is great and if God blessed you with something be grateful. The 11^th Chapter of Matthew, however, is asking us to keep it all in perspective. Things will never define who we are and whose we are.

Our burden continues to be our struggle to get and to show off. Jesus is speaking and telling us that it is time to fully submit to Him and He will take struggle out of life’s equation. Through our surrender, and only through our surrender, will we find rest, peace, happiness, success. If we are truly striving to be more like Christ we should know that His soul is a soul rested. Jesus knows what it means to let go of the worry of not having enough. We are to let go of the struggle and the burdens we face in this life and we will find the ultimate rest. We will have that peace and succes in our homes, on our jobs and in our ministries.

As I get older and with an ever growing desire to be more like Him I better understand His humility and His humanity. Doing life His way is so much easier for His burden is indeed light.

#soulwriter 

Books by Debi Mason:

What I Thought Was So Just Ain't - Aging through God's Grace

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ISBN-13: 978-0692236475

Release: June, 2014

Arizona Clay: A journey of self-discovery

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ISBN-13: 9781606964880

Release: June, 2009

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is for Simple Praise

He is my way maker when somebody has the nerve to not recognize that it is the God in me that makes all things possible.

He is my healer when I need him to be…

My eyes when the way gets cloudy or unclear.

The ears I need to hear direction and council or even the prayers lifted for me and with me. Oh how I appreciate those that love me today.

He is indeed the wise council I seek. Oh, did I tell you? I lean not to my own understanding.

He is the peace that I need this morning when the enemy of my soul tries to move in on my thoughts. Listen up devil, you are a defeated foe and have no power over my body, my mind, my spirit, my house, my finances, my family, my life. In the name of Jesus I plead the blood and it is well.

And I am grateful.  I am dancing that dance of freedom in the warmth of the new day sun.  I swirl and turn and find joy in its fragrance.  Lord, you didn’t have to wake me but you did.

Amen.

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Books by Debi Mason:

What I Thought Was So Just Ain't - Aging through God's Grace

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Amazon.com (Kindle edition)

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Barnes & Noble (NOOK edition)

ISBN-13: 978-0692236475

Release: June, 2014

Arizona Clay: A journey of self-discovery

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ISBN-13: 9781606964880

Release: June, 2009

Follow me on Twitter:  @DebiOak