Believing, what you are still believing in.

Hi there,
Just me.

How's your day going?
I hope that you're good.
Well it's autum here, and there is no wind, and it's such a lovely day outside I'm going out shortly to enjoy it.

Lately I've been listening to Joyce Meyer, cause I slept in and missed church in the morning, then I talked to my friend in duendin, so I missed night church.

And this morning my older brother Sam rang me, for a Freddy update, and well Fred heard my voice but couldn't see me, because I'm still down in Invercargil.

I've learnt alot recently and this is what is on my heart, and yes if you could see Fred you'll understand.

Upon my talk to my brother, he was looking to see me, but because I wasn't there, there was a God mode. we hear God's voice, but we don't know where he is, because we want to see him, in human form.






Fred is also a very busy cat, trying to pick him up, is like holding a wiggling kid. he just wants down.

He's got things to do on his list.
Much like my mum ( Sorry mum.)




How many times, do we come to Jesus with a small spirit,  not wrigging around like Fred, not putting it off for a time we really need him.

But coming to him every day, of our lives, to build ourselves up, and know that we are strong in Christ but also in ourselves.

One thing that is hard to understand, we all have these struggles.
Feeling of insecure, maybe we think we give up to easily, on something, that at the time felt right.

Jesus is an all consuming fire, and he knows our needs, you know, he knows excatly what we need, at the right time.

We don't need ''baggers or gossipers.''  and toxic environments.

But we need to extend love to them, and grace.

One thing about moving away from home, when things are different,  moving down here, was interesting. sure I run to steven, and he's probably thinking, help what have I done to deseve this?
I thought I hurt him once like really hurt him, like don't talk to me again, sort, like I wanted to fix it.

and do you know what it was?

Going to a different church!

I see that, now, that he didn't want people talking because, where I work it's increbably gossipy, and I get that now.
That distance is a good thing,
One friend said to me about my work, '' wow, can Chloe manage a boy friend?''
 I can't picture it.''


We need to stop living through people, you know, be like that kite, in the wind, yes it's tethered to a string, but the more you let it out, the higher it gets.

How many of us, feel like we're that kite, struggling to get free from what others think?

You know, if might, be family, it might be friends, it might just be that we really need to break away, from those people.

It's not a matter of being a victim I'm not talking about that, healing comes with time, and knowing Him.

You know God gives us beauty for ashes, we can't keep our ashes, we can't keep the old way of doing things.

We are a new creation, we are made in his image, and beauty isn't everything it means in your heart, if you're heart is healed then you are healed a new creation.

But if you're hurting, we hurt people.

YOu know, Hosea?

God came to him and said to him go take a wife who is adulterous wife, but here's the thing. and we get caught up with this.
But what is the real story?
The Israelites, coming, back to repentance  to the Lord.

You know, sometimes we go through things, and we miss the point, we have to be sorry. And God loves the way we are.
You know, he is always watching over us, wanting us to win in everything we do. not to give up half way. not to extend mercy.
We need to give ourselves a favor and forgive.
You know not everything is going to work out, that is life.

But we aren't failures, we are loved by Christ, a new creation.

Come back to the drawing board.
Chloe