how do you see yourself?

Hello there my friends.
How are you going?

I hope that you're having a really nice time.
I'm on holiday at the moment, so I'm going to do a bit of book planning, and wanting to get an illustrator for my stories.

So my question is, how do you see yourself?

I was with friends as we went all out together to life group the other night, we had a meal out before we went to my friends place.

And the lord in the middle of the meal, came to me, and said ''Chloe I want you to see yourself as I see you.''

And then at the meeting a word came to my friends, that I should come out of ''hiding''.

The week before that, I heard a sermon about the Shuminite  women who came out of her hiding, and made way for Elijah, and was hospitable to him every time he was in her part of the country.
 
Elijah asked her what could be done, because she was so hospitable,   and she had no children.

So the lord blessed her with a son, but the son was out with his father, and complained about a headache, and was taken back to his mother.

She laid him on Elijah bed, and went to see him.

Now she said when asked if everything is all right, she said yes everything will be alright.

And then she explained the her son has died, and is laying on Elijah's bed.

So what can we get from this story of heart ache, but yet joy?

Is that that in our own lives everything happens for a reason?

That our own lives are filled with joy and love yet with such twists and turns that we ourselves can't understand?

Is it that it's time to come out of hiding ourselves to says to Jesus, ''Ok Lord you have me?"

Even when you're family think you're crazy? even when everything might not make sense or things seem like a struggle at the moment.

Maybe for you, the struggle is long, may for you, it feels like there's no rest, maybe for you, you just want someone to care and you just can't take care in.

Maybe for you, you're walk is lonely, and you cry out to God, with all you have like Hannah praying for a son, and when she had Samuel, she handed him back to God.

What are you doing today that is blocking you from coming to God.

How does he see you?

Like that meal out with friends, I finally got it, Jesus was out with us.
 he's everywhere we go.

And that is why we need to be a light to people, a way maker for people, to take our lamps, and not hide them under our beds, but to shine brightly like a city on a hill.

Where does God have you now?

Ask him where is he in the room, and ask him what is he wearing, and how is he speaking to you? right now personally for you?

You might not have many friends, but the ones you do have, take courage because they are there for a reason.

And God will give you many more friends, to be with.

Be it you feel like a stick, in winter, or flourishing tree, you are planted for a reason.

You are here for a reason. you are born for a reason, you have a dist-any for a reason.
You are here.


We need also to make sure that we don't crowd out Jesus, in our work place.

that we make him welcome wherever we go.


Faith is like a muscle we have to exercise it to make us strong.

And the Lord will give us the strength to make us strong for him.

Don't count God out just yet, give him a chance to show up at your work place.
 and in your life.

It's taken me a long time to get to this far, in my own life. I didn't like myself for a long time. I didn't trust any of my family, I didn't trust any guy friends, that wanted to be friends with me. I was like a horse the bolted, and the Lord came, and healed that.

He had to get me into a place of brokenness so that I can see him in all my life.

I was seeing myself as a dead tree a good for nothing, soon to be burned up in the fire tree.

Then the lord put his breath on me, and I started to grow, that all the things that I had done to me,weren't the case.

That I was chosen by him, to do work for him. and now I work for God.

He has made my path straight, and curves nice and even and not sharp, but I had to be in that place of brokenness for myself.

so to all those people out there that think that you're passed it, you have nothing good to offer. 

Take a closer look, and search within yourself, and get the breath of lord over your life, and he will help you heal.

It's time to stop bolting like a race horse and take a slower aproach to God.

Many blessings.

Chloe