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Meditation and step time!

The older I get the more I understand myself and the bull crap I have often spewed. I become more opposed to labeling anything good or evil because it’s subjective to me based on my experiences. I’m not qualified to label good or evil. It’s better for me to focus on and fill my days with love. Love of God, love of you, and love of myself. Not much time to label and judge if I’m busy loving. I’m trying to do better and not ashamed to say I’m not there yet. God has blessed me so much. I’m so thankful HIs grace has become so real to me. Let go of what you are carrying and come go with me.

In His love,

Travis

A testimony, Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

It frustrates me to no end when folks tell another folk how to feel or how they should feel.

Once upon a time….

I was teaching a class in Carrollton, Ga. I asked the adult audience what their WHY was for losing weight.

A young girl, thirteen years old, raised her hand. I smiled and called on her. She stood and said, “One day, I want to look like Miley Cyrus.”.

Her mom later explained that she was being picked on at school because of her weight.

I recall several adults shaming her because of her role model, saying that Miley was a bad role model for her. While this may be true or not true, I could see the young girl’s countenance change. She felt dejected and demotivated.

The Bible says that we should work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. What brings one peace doesn’t bring another peace. We are individuals. What motivates one may not motivate another. Those that are more mature in their faith should be patient with those less mature in the faith.

Goals and reasons change with time. I remember wanting to simply looks better in my clothes. Now, I want to honor God with my best efforts and with self-discipline for a deeper relationship with the lover of my soul. My goals have changed but I remember what it was like to just want to feel comfortable in my own skin for reasons that were not necessarily God inspired.

Never steal a persons WHY for wanting to do better. Never steal their vision. You may prevent them from obtaining peace or starting their journey.

Self-confidence or the lack thereof has always been a problem for me.

One must have self-confidence to achieve one’s goals.

On August 21, 2021, I realized that developing self-confidence was an aimless pursuit for me and honestly a waste of time. It was and is a waste of time and energy because in and of myself, I have nothing to be confident about.

However, let me be clear. I have more confidence than I ever have before and it’s actually limitless now.

I have borrowed confidence. I decided to walk in my savior’s grace and to abide in His grace and in His words of devotion for me. There is nothing I can’t do in Him. There is nothing I can’t have when abiding in Him.

Philippians 4:13
1 John 2:28

My self-esteem and self-confidence has skyrocketed because I abide in Him and in His love daily. My inheritance is incorruptible and abides in me; the Holy Spirit.

Yes, yes, that’s it. I am confident because His Holy Spirit abides in me.

You can be confident too.

No amount of money, materials, education, or partners can increase one’s self-confidence and even if it does it’s temporal.

Borrow your confidence from the only one who has any right to be confident.

Jesus.

I love you Jesus and thank you for lifting me and my countenance with your love. I’m enjoying my new found confidence.

I am your delight.

If you lack self-confidence, know that Jesus will do the same for you that He has done for me. You won’t have to fake it anymore. Believe in Him.

A testimony Sunday, May 1, 2022

Asking what your calling and purpose is?

I can help. I have found….

Our base calling is to “Glorify God”.

Glorify Him with your countenance.
Glorify Him with your speech.
Glorify Him with your self care.
Glorify Him by being happy and letting your beautiful light shine.
Glorify Him by being true to yourself and the awesome person He created you to be.

Don’t be conformed to the designs of the world but be transformed by putting on love every day.

Be happy. Your weakness is your glory. Allow the strength of God to rebuild you and reinvent you.

I am a work in progress. I am the clay and He is the potter. I submit to His love. I surrender all to my precious and loving savior Jesus.

I love you Jesus. Thank you for this beautiful day and health enough to get out and walk. Thank you for my little shadow Renzo too!

A testimony Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

Luke 11:13 ~ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!? We find ourselves asking for many things these days. Seeking, knocking, asking continually. Luke 11:8 ~ yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. We will keep persisting in prayer for our needs but our request will change. We read today that God is our inheritance. That is also to say that the Holy Spirit is our inheritance. We don’t have to ask for anything else but more of our God’s Holy Spirit. God give us more of your Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the great provider, the great healer, regenerator and the one who resurrects. The Holy Spirit created everything we see and can’t see. The Holy Spirit is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance, and faith. Today we place more value in having more of the Holy Spirit than having anything else. We want more of your Holy Spirit Lord. Sasha and I ask for more of your Holy Spirit in Jesus name. Amen. A testimony, Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Luke 9:62 ~ Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

If the Kingdom of God is a peaceful place……

No one living this life lives it without making mistakes. Living in those past mistakes removes peace from the soul. You don’t have to live that way. We are the only living creature that pays for the same mistake over and over again. Every other living creature pays for its mistakes once and only once. Humans remind themselves and others of the same mistake over and over again. Our Heavenly Father doesn’t do this at all. So why do we insist on making each other pay for the same mistake over and over again?

Stop looking back and holding on to your past mistakes. As well, when people remind you of your past, recognize that this is the spirit of satan who desires to be a stumbling block to your peaceful walk in the Lord. When reminded of your past shortcomings, tell satan to get behind you and then remind him of his past, present and future. It’s not a good outlook for him. It’s called the Abyss.

You have an inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled and fades not away reserved for you because of your belief in the only begotten Son of God; Jesus.

Stop looking back. Go into the little vineyard and go to work for Jesus.

Peace is yours.
Salvation is yours.
Happiness is yours.
Joy is yours.
Providence is yours.

It’s all yours because Christ died for you. Christ got up out of the grave for you. Christ is your living sacrifice and makes peace between you and God possible. All of your mistakes were nailed to that cross and have been thrown into the sea of forgiveness and have been forgotten by God.

Isn’t it time you forget your past failings too and walk in the newness of life?

Let go of your judgements. Stop playing the judgement game that so many are playing these days.

Accept love.

Fear God. Respect God. Keep Jesus commandments.
Fear the Abyss.
Nothingness awaits those whose name isn’t written in the lamb’s book of life.

Jesus, I ask you to save me, sanctify me, forgive me. There is no other name by which human beings can call upon and be saved. Only your name.

Even the dogs like me need the crumbs from my Masters table.

A testimony Saturday, April 9, 2022.

Proverbs 14:23~ In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty.

All this talk, all of these excuses……waste of energy.

You could have already gotten this done if you would have expended the energy on doing what you need to do to get it done instead of wasting energy on talk and excuses.

Self talk, Thursday, April 7, 2022

Romans 14:12-13 ~ So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more, but judge this rather: that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

Judgement. I declared war on my own judgements. Judgement of self and others.

Judgement. The second Adam and Eve decided right and wrong, they were driven out of a peaceful state of being.

Judgement. Moses wouldn’t see the land flowing with milk and honey because he represented the law.

Judgement. The law came by Moses while grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Judgement. Jesus said “Father forgive them they know not what they do.”

Judgement. The divorced person’s life is marred? Yet, Jesus said if you even look on a woman with lust in your heart you are guilty.

Even Jesus our precious savior and redeemer came from the lineage of David and Uriah the Hittites wife Bathsheba. God can take the worst situations and use them for His glory. No matter your situation, if you trust Jesus, no matter the mess you have created, if you follow Jesus, He can use it for His glory.

I’ve broken every commandment. I couldn’t keep the law or the commandments.

I believe in Christ Jesus for my salvation and for my peace. I rely on Jesus for His mercy. Im glad His mercy endures forever as the wretched man that I am requires faith in His mercy to get through a minute, an hour, a day, and a lifetime.

I sin daily. Most of the time not willfully. Sometimes willfully. I also try to die to sin daily and try to walk in the spirit so I don’t fulfill the lusts of my flesh. There is a constant warfare within my members. My flesh and spirit strive together and fight each other. The spirit is winning. Delayed gratification is always at war with instant gratification. The ego is always at war with the soul.

If you’ve turned on your own self because of some past actions that you were engaged in, feel judged or have judged yourself then know that you are suffering uneccesarily. All have sinned and fell short. The Bible says strive for perfection as your Father is perfect but the Bible doesn’t conclude stating that you are perfect in and of yourself.

It concludes that Jesus is perfect so you can rest in His perfection.

All of my trust is in you this morning Jesus.

I keep hearing the world is confused and going down.

Call me a hopeless romantic but my spirit keeps hearing with an ear to hear,
Jesus love and mercy endures forever. Jesus is worthy. Jesus forgives.

Today I will forgive. Today I will feel my freedom in Christ. I will live my freedom in Christ.

I am not wicked. Wickedness is devising evil plans against your brother and sisters.

Wickedness is murdering, killing, and intentionally hurting your brothers and sisters in the name of Satan. Wickedness is the Anti-Christ which is any spirit or doctrine that is against Christ.

Most people that do what the world calls wrong are simply hurting, confused, misled, looking for belonging, dealing with chemical imbalances and the like. They don’t mean wrong. Be careful how you judge others or you might end up in your own personal hell.

I know I did. My judgements of others ended up in self judgement. I declared war against myself. If I judge you harshly who I don’t know then how much more will I judge the one I do know deeply (myself) with those same judgements?

I’ve got a lot of acquaintances explaining to me why I should maintain some moral superiority over those who to them are “caught in sin” but I’ve been down that road and it is a dead end of personal self sabotage.

I want to spend the rest of my days showing love to those who feel unlovable. I want to ensure those that struggle that there is only love and mercy to be found in my home.

I love you Jesus. I will do my best in my weakness to imitate you today. I will fall short but I know your Holy Spirit will be proud of me whether I rise or whether I fall.

Many are waiting on heaven. Im learning to dial in to its frequency here on this side.

I’ve set the station to love, mercy, freedom, and John 3:16 today.

I love you Jesus. I am loving awareness and today I will love everything and everyone that I’m aware of.

I will tell anyone who asks about my hope and faith. I will tell them all about your grace and mercy.

A testimony Monday, April 4, 2022

PS ~ God blesses me with so much. I am the most vile sinner I know cause I know me better than I know anyone else. Yet, because I fall on the rock daily, I am broken and not ground to powder. I repent daily. I pivot daily. I fall. I get back up. Im a willing worker. God loves me and blesseses me with abundance. He will do the same for you if you’ll only put all of your trust in Him and Him alone.

I love you,
Travis

Every day is a new day and offers a chance to start again. Fresh. New. Exciting. Lessons learned.

People around you may continue to hold yesterday’s failings against you but the Lord doesn’t.

Today is new and fresh in the Lord. Do your best today. Maybe approach the day smarter and give more but don’t be beholden to the past, even when people remind you of the past. .

The devil is the accuser. Tell satan to get behind you. Make today a great day in the Lord.

While people may be hard to please, the Lord isn’t hard to please. The Lord is easily approached and His mercy endures forever.

A testimony, Thursday, March 31, 2022

We’ve been challenging ourselves at home to speak no evil, not judging anyone or anything, and actively focusing on only the blessings of life.

It’s surprising how difficult that is and how often we catch each other judging people or events we know nothing about. It’s difficult to see no evil, hear no evil, and to not judge. We catch ourselves saying, “Not judging but bless their heart.” which is judging.

We are challenging each other in a fun and non-combative way during our little positive mindset challenge.

We are going to keep trying to cut the root of judgement and negative speech from our lives. Even when we try to do it and are successfully focused on what’s good and beautiful, it’s soon that we are subjected to other peoples judgement and negativity.

It’s all around us.

There isn’t any way to inhabit a land flowing with milk and honey (peace and love) if one doesn’t humble themselves as a little child and cease to judge right and wrong.

We are focusing on what is right and what we know is right. We aren’t qualified to judge wrong. Only God is a qualified judge.

God’s right is right. A man’s way seems right to him and he tries to enforce his right on everyone around him.

In my mind, God’s right is….

Love ourselves with great capacity and love everyone as much as we love ourselves. This is loving our God and the only way to love our God. If you disagree with one’s lifestyle, don’t engage with their lifestyle but don’t ridicule or judge them if they aren’t hurting you or hurting anyone around them.

As well, we are focused on being content with our wages and feeling that we are living in great abundance.

We are actively working on the amazing feeling of loving awareness.

We love everything and everyone that we are aware of. We desire to become better people.
Just my daily musings and journal above. I aspire to be a better person but find it a struggle.

A testimony Tuesday, March 30, 2022.