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How to Choose What to Forget and What to Remember.

Posted on August 31, 2016December 21, 2016by tara.dickson

     Being forgetful is not something we pride ourselves on. In fact we do everything we can to remember things. We take pictures, capture videos, journal, and record every special moment possible. Since the beginning of time people have sat around campfires telling stories and handing them down from one generation to the next. […]

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"Father God, please use the dead things to nourish "Father God, please use the dead things to nourish the soil of my heart," I cried!

I didn't even know where that came from.

But it was the cry that surfaced when he began tilling my heart.

As we have traveled this "grieving with hope" journey, I have realIzed a few things.

One, our hope is not in our circumstances but rather in our God...The God who brings life from death. 
Also, this journey is not an either/or thing.

You don't grieve or rejoice.

You do both and you do them in motion.

What I mean by that is, the very act of "lifting up our eyes" in hope is, us taking a step of faith into the lives that God still has for us!
It's trusting that though we may have lost a job, a relationship, a title or a loved one, God is already in the act of bringing life from that.
Praise His name forever! ❤️
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #hopeforthefuture #renewyourmind #joycomesinthemorning #lifeafterloss #hopespringseternal #rejoicealways
Have you ever wondered what it means to LIVE by th Have you ever wondered what it means to LIVE by the words that come from God’s mouth?
Matthew 4:4 tells us that
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Just like our bodies need bread to continue living, our spirits need the word’s breathed by God to sustain our souls.
Breathed by God beloved.
Of course it would be these words alone that have the power to actually Revive us.

Revive us according to your word God.

This is how His yoke becomes easy and His burdens become light.

It happens when we fill our hearts with so much of Him, He spills out in the pressing. 
I want to drip Jesus. 
Don’t you?
#becausehelives #onethousandgifts #hestillmovesstones #renewyourmind #hopefortheweary #liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast
One day , I ran across this quote I’d saved from One day , I ran across this quote I’d saved from T. Davis Bunn-
“The whole world's out there screaming for our attention and only one little voice in our heart is whispering ;The answers not out there. It's in here.”
Oh how I want to listen to that still small voice beloved! 

There have been times in my life I desperately wanted to hear from God. You have too. 
Isaiah 30:21 says,
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you saying, This is the way, walk in it.”
Now more than ever it’s imperative that the sheep know the Good Shepherds voice. 
We could just make up our own path but why would we do that when He can see down the road? 
He can direct our steps and lead us in triumphant procession. 
Want to hear more on this topic? 
Check out the Seek and Savor podcast in my bio or on my website. 
Episodes like: 
How to Hear the  Voice of God in a World That’s Loud. 
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #listentogod #hopeforthefuture #trustandbelieve #dailydevotion #rejoicealways #lifeafterloss
I laced up my shoes and headed out the door determ I laced up my shoes and headed out the door determined to get my walk in before the sun set, much sooner than I’d like. 
It was unseasonably warm and I only needed a light jacket. 
As I exhaled the stress of the day and inhaled His presence, I began to lay my requests before Him.
Ten minutes later I found myself switching over from prayer to worry and strategizing how I could help the Lord in the things I’d  asked him to do. 
I pulled myself up short and pictured myself literally handing it all over to Jesus, again. I’m sorry, Lord. I let out the breath I didn’t know I was holding. 
I need you.

There is comfort in abandonment friends. 

When we cling so tightly to our plans and our will, we start to fear they will be taken from us.

They become something we must protect.

When we abandon ourselves, all that we are and all that is ours to God, there is freedom in the releasing. 
It’s a laying down of our will so that we can pick up His. 
Though the plans we lay for ourselves may or may not come to pass, it doesn’t mean God’s plans for us are over or that He isn’t good.

I breathe out my agenda and inhale His. 

There must be an emptying and filling for our hearts to grow.
It’s a bit like breathing.”

“For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah. 29:1 (NIV)

#liftupyoureyes #seekchrist #seekandsavorpodcast #renewyourmind #anxiteyrelief #hoperestored #lifeafterloss #joycomesinthemorning #dailydevotionals
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantl “Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think.”
Eph.3:20

We serve a God of FAR MORE beloved.

Somewhere along the way, whether by fiery arrows of doubt and fear from the enemy or by our own insecurities; this truth becomes threatened.

We begin to think small.

We begin to ask for little.

We begin to tell ourselves to settle for less. We may even begin to think that we are hoping for too much.

Ah, what welcome relief to know that we serve a God who is able to do far more, ABUNDANTLY  than all we ask or think.

And the cherry on the top is the next verse: According to the power that works within us! 
When you follow Jesus and His Spirit comes to live inside you, you have this same power. The one that raised Jesus from the dead. That’s no small thing friend.
So let’s dream with God.
Let’s set our minds on things above rather than the earth. 
Let’s ask and seek and knock and do it all for His Glory. ❤️
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #hopeagain #abundantly #christinyou #heisable #ourgreatestadventure #renewyourmind #overcomer #graceupongrace
One stormy day, I was praying for friends walking One stormy day, I was praying for friends walking through the same storm we walked through with Alan. 

I was wondering about all the longings God had placed within my heart to breathe His words of life. 

I was considering the hearts of women who had shared their own deep griefs with me and aching to see them walk in Hope! 

My heart felt like the branches on the trees outside,bent by the power of the storm surrounding them, yet held fast because of the tree they are a part of . 

I remembered that I am no longer like the limbs that are dry and brittle  that once blown on, crash to the earth. 

I began to look at the rivers of rain streaming down from the sky and across our grass and I could picture in my minds eye the lovely creek I like to walk by and how full it must be from the downpour. 

This image was so vivid! 
But, the words the Spirit deposited in my heart  were more so.

“With Jesus only, is it possible to go from an empty, dry place to one that is no longer empty and dry but FULL to the brim. 
It’s banks exploding with all the goodness the Lord fills us with.

I began to examine my heart before I had focused my gaze on him this morning and I realized this…
Left to ourselves we may be depressed,scared, alone and downtrodden but;
Filled with Him we become streams of Living Water, overflowing the banks of our own lives , and reaching out to water the dry places around us.

If this met your heart today save, share and click the link in my stories for the rest of this story,”How Lent and a stormy day expose your heart.”
#liftupyoureyes #lentdevotional #christourhope #renewyourmind #jesusloves #onethousandgifts #lifeafterloss #grievingwithhope #joycomesinthemorning 

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