Limits

When talking personal space, limits can be good.  When talking my yard and my neighbors yard limits can be good, after all if he is having an outdoor party and didn't invite me, I certainly would be upset if the didn't respect the limits of his yard and mine and his guests were partying in my backyard.

Sometime with the toxic people in our lives, we set limits to deal with their toxicity.  No one said we have to be doormats.

Many times we set limits on ourselves.  "I can never return to college, I have neither the time or the money."  "I will never become anything, I know I have no talent/smarts"  "I'm afraid to move on, I don't to lose what I have, even if I am unhappy/abused"

Though these seem to be based in negativity, this attitude is an acceptance of where one is with no hope of anything better.  As long as we decide to accept what we perceive as our limitations, we stay where we are.  Often we are amazed by people who are very handicapped and go on and do things we though we couldn't. The difference is they didn't limit themselves, they believed they could attain their goal and they went and amazed everyone.

How sad that we limit ourselves so often because of self esteem or lack of confidence. Would have, could have, and should have's often are no more than regrets that we didn't press on when it didn't look hopeful.

Many of us live in loveless situations...or dwell in the "What I don't have that I need to be happy"  Whether it is a nicer car, a larger home, more money in the bank or even "the right one" to share their lives with.  So many times we look back and say, "I regret I did this, I regret I did that...and if only this person had done this or that person hadn't done that...."  and so on and so on.  Thereby their focus is on the past and not on the future....on what they could have had and not on what they have.  Call it perspective or counting your blessings, it amounts to the same thing.

I notice many times when there is a great loss in someone's life, they seem to appreciate what they have. "Well we lost our home and all we had, but at least we have each other, and that is the important thing..."  Did they feel that way before the tragedy?  Sometimes tragedy gets us to focus on the important things in life.

Right now while we have this poor economy many are believing they will not pull out, like the country looks like it won't pull out.  Many are like someone with their hands in a cookie jar...trying to pull out all the cookies and not able to pull out any because their hands are full.  In bad economic times, many learn they need to let go....and sometimes they are forced into it like foreclosure.

I believe a lot of people will be returning to God in hopes, like when they lose something, he will help them out.  "Lord if you do this for me, I will never ever do this again"  Remember the childhood bargains some of us made with God?  We figured if we offered him something he would give us what we wanted.  Many times we forgot about the deal when we found the item we were looking for. We set aside the limits we had on our relationship with God and once we got what we wanted, we reset the limits.

God is amazing. God is wonderful. God has given me miracles in my life...but until recently I never realized how I limited the Lord.  And I did that foolishly.

I urge everyone, no matter where you are with God, to pray to him and ask him to send the Holy Spirit to teach and guide you.  I urge everyone to walk by faith and not by sight.  I urge everyone to believe in things unseen and walk by faith and not by sight.  We get so focused on this world and it's limits that we are blind to the fact that God is no bound by this world. His power is far greater than any other power that exists. As long as we don't believe in the power of God and we are ignorant of the his will and scripture, we limit God and we limit our angels.

God has his reasons for allowing some things and we can't see or know the greater good behind things.  The scripture said God brings good out of bad for those who love him.  Often I have heard of someone passing on and the effect on those around them, drawing someone else back to a relationship with the Lord.  We have to believe he knows things we can't see or know.  So many feel that God is responsible for bad things and doesn't love us or they wouldn't happen.

In this world we have choices and God gave us that.  We have free will and can believe whatever we want.  We don't have to believe in him. This world is a place of learning, whether it is by experience or cracking the books. Some people look at others and say, "She/He will never learn" and sometimes they don't, but I suggest that we stop saying that and pray for the person, and loose the power of God on the situation.

So many times we hear of miracles and try to blow them off as having a rational explanation.  Even when we see them with our own eyes.  When we are blind to the Lord, so often we deny the miracles that we see with our own eyes.

People who have expressed a disbelief in the lord have seen the effects of the healing I recently claimed and received.  They explain it as mind over matter.  I have to say I have never heard of a doctor telling his patient to us their mind over matter when it comes to disease.

My medicals records and tests document my diseases and their increasing effect on my life.  I spoke to my doctor because of my husband's unemployment about getting disability.  He told me the process and how my records would be asked for, and how it might take awhile but I would receive disability.  So many people over the years have advised me to go for it.  I have no income or money of my own.

Had my problems with walking had been mind over matter, or not real, 3 years is a long time to limp, be stared at and get a scooter. My conditions limited me and depressed me.  I tried to be uplifting and encouraging and not let much of what I went through show, but I wouldn't have wished all this on a dog.  My prognosis was not good...and even in 2006 when I was released from the nursing home, someone there had a meeting with my husband over the seriousness of my illnesses. My condition was so bad when my leg was operated on, the surgeon told my older daughter that he didn't expect me to survive it.  I had no idea how bad I was back then.

So here we are in 2009 and I am healed...a miracle from God.  Every illness and problem I had is completely gone.  There is no earthly explanation.  By witnessing all that has happened, my family has drawn closer to the Lord.  Disbelief has become believe and the effects of my healing have reached out to many people, even ones who go to the church this happened in.

Prior to claiming my healing, I can see I limited God.  In what I asked for in the past, he often granted, but many times I just accepted and didn't ask, or I didn't ask for the whole ball of wax, like a full healing.

I encourage you in all facets of you life to look at the limits you have set on your life...and try to look beyond and work with God to a better place to be.

The joy in my heart just beams out of me.  I have peace and joy in my heart I have never known before.  I am free of the past and the memories that would haunt me.  I am free of the damage done to me in all areas.  I wish everyone had been there with me to see all that happened and is happening.  All I can do is try to help people understand that they can do something, they can walk out on faith like I did and have their lives changed.

Right now many could say I'm in a bad place in my life.  I don't know what tomorrow may bring, but I have faith it will be a job for my husband.  I don't know where I will be in a month but I believe it will be in a much better place than I am now.  I have everything to lose material wise right now, but to focus on that would be depressing and wouldn't change a thing.  I know I was healed, and it doesn't matter to me who believes it.  I know God has a plan for my life and I know I am in the palm of his hand.  I know I have to trust in the things not seen and walk by faith and not by sight.

I have no fear or doubt as those would rob me of my healing and of the wonderful things God has in store for me. I will not let Satan ruin any more days for me.  I am living in the peace and the Joy of the Lord and I am not going to allow anything to take that away from me.  It wasn't just my body that was healed, it was everything, my mind too.  All the poison that was making me sick and struggling was lifted out of me, it is gone forever.

I always thought that all that happened was to challenge my belief and love for God and it might have been, but I tell you all that has happened to me in my healing can happen to you..., Seek and ye shall find, Have hope and faith and believe....as all these things are yours as well. God loves you!!!