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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly I believe in God, (THE GOOD) who is bigger and more powerful than any sickness or any trial that I have to face in life. (Psalms 27:1) I believe He is never, ever surprised by what I am going through, and that He has a plan ahead...
Positive Promises of God
Positive Promises of God If there is one bit of advice I could give someone who is going through a trial, it’s to surround yourself with positivity. I had NO IDEA when I started this journey how many amazing positive promises there are in the Bible. I was raised in...
Faith over fear
faith over fearWhen the doctor calls with test results but doesn’t want to tell you over the phone, you know it’s not a good thing! That’s what happened to me in the summer of 2023. I had not been feeling normal since fall, but it wasn’t until early spring that my...
Happy Thanksgiving
happy thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!!! There is something so precious to me about gathering around the table at Thanksgiving time and expressing our love and appreciation for each other, and for all the blessings that God has given us. This year, I have so...
Believe
Believe “Believers believe, It’s what we do.” My brother Paul said this once in one of his sermons and I could not help saying a great big “AMEN” because it’s so true! It’s a no brainer. If you are a believer, and you have trusted God as the higher power, then...
Sharon’s Corner
sharon's cornerSharing encouragement for those going through hard times and testimonies to build faith11/21/23 When the doctor calls with test results but doesn’t want to tell you over the phone, you know it’s not a good thing! That’s what happened to me in the...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I believe in God, (THE GOOD) who is bigger and more powerful than any sickness or any trial that I have to face in life. (Psalms 27:1) I believe He is never, ever surprised by what I am going through, and that He has a plan ahead of time for my life. I believe that ALL THINGS work together for my good because I love God and because He has chosen me to be His child. (Romans 8:28) And I believe He wants me to be healthy and prosper in life (John 1:2) and that He wants me to live abundantly (John 10:10).
I also believe there is an enemy, Satan (THE BAD) who is constantly at war with the forces of good, and he would like to influence me NOT to believe. He would like to plant thoughts of fear and doubt in my mind to win me over to his negative, self-degrading way of thinking. Satan has an agenda for my life too, only it’s not a good one. He wants to have followers too, but the end of following him leads to death (Proverbs 14:12) He goes about “seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8) Why would I want to follow the thinking of a guy whose goal for me is to kill, steal, and destroy my life? (John 10:10) And because I believe that Satan is just as real as God (but not nearly as powerful), I am compelled in my heart to follow God and not Satan.
So if we know who the Good is, and who the Bad is, then who is THE UGLY? The ugly is a person who is living by doubt and seeing the bad in everything. The ugly is me. The ugly is any of us without hope. Jesus went to the cross for the ugly. He made a way for us to become holy and beautiful. He made a way that we could trade in our ugliness and become new creatures. When we give our hearts to Him, and He places His spirit in us, we become like Him, and that changes us from Ugly over to the good side.
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Positive Promises of God
Positive Promises of God
If there is one bit of advice I could give someone who is going through a trial, it’s to surround yourself with positivity. I had NO IDEA when I started this journey how many amazing positive promises there are in the Bible. I was raised in church, and did manage to memorize some Bible verses along the way, but seriously had no clue how powerful and positive God’s Word could be in my hour of need.
Once I realized my source of hope was in God’s Word, I couldn’t wait to get up every morning and look for new encouraging things to think about. I started writing God’s positive promises on little pieces of paper, gathering them in my journal, and also started noticing them in sermons and books and articles. God’s Word is so powerful and once He makes a promise, He keeps it. End of story. So when you read, “I am the God that healeth thee!” you can trust that He will do it.
Surrounding yourself with these kinds of positive promises from God’s Word can make a huge difference in how you take on the rough days. Be prepared for lots of little miracles along the way, cause the showers of blessings are just waiting to pour over a child of God who chooses to live by faith and reject the negative thoughts of the enemy! THE ENEMY, you say…Yes, but that’s for another day! To be continued…
Faith over fear
faith over fear
When the doctor calls with test results but doesn’t want to tell you over the phone, you know it’s not a good thing! That’s what happened to me in the summer of 2023. I had not been feeling normal since fall, but it wasn’t until early spring that my Dr. started sending me for tests to investigate my symptoms. Five years earlier I had been through two surgeries to remove two different types of cancerous tumors, so you can imagine the thoughts running through my head as I hung up the phone.
If there is one thing I learned five years ago, as I went through all the tests, biopsies, and surgeries, it’s that you have to really guard your mind from heading down the wrong thought process when it comes to these trials. You can either choose to believe or choose to doubt, and being a believer in God as my higher power, I chose to believe. My motto five years ago was “The Bigger the Trial, The Bigger the Victory!” And that’s what I kept telling myself every day.
Fast forward to this year, I found myself sitting in the cancer ward with an Oncologist telling me that this time the cancer had spread to my lung, and that I would need to have chemotherapy. Words like cancer, oncology and chemotherapy are in a category of their own, and somehow they are always partnered up with fear, worry and helplessness. Getting bad news can honestly shake you to the core, and weaken you physically, emotionally and mentally, and I’m not gonna say that I wasn’t shaken by the news. But what happened next in my mind would make a huge difference in my entire life moving forward.
Happy Thanksgiving
happy thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!!! There is something so precious to me about gathering around the table at Thanksgiving time and expressing our love and appreciation for each other, and for all the blessings that God has given us. This year, I have so much more to be thankful for.
I have an incredibly grateful heart toward my family who have taken numerous days off of work the past several months to be physically here for me when I needed Jesus with skin on. They have nursed me and encouraged me and made me laugh in the midst of some not so fun times. They have gathered so many times around me to pray for the pain to be gone, for the dizziness to be gone, for the cancer to be gone! And each prayer has been another victory, as God has shown His love and healing power for the little things as well as the huge ones.
I have a close circle of friends who have been up at all hours of the night standing in the gap when I didn’t even have the strength to stand. They, along with my church family, have been solid as a rock showing so much love and support for us with meals, cards, texts, pictures, scriptures and did I mention meals? What a great blessing each gesture has been.
And my thankfulness would not be complete without thanking God Almighty who chose this trial, and then provided everything I would need ahead of time to get me through it. Faith, Peace, Hope, Love just to name a few, and then there is the BIG ONE: Healing. I’m thankful that my last scan showed that one of my tumors was reduced down to 75% and the other 90%. I’m thankful that while I have testified of His healing power from day one, God has been showing up and doing the healing inside my body that will continue to lead to an incredible testimony.
This holiday season I am enjoying life to the fullest, and I am grateful on a whole new level. I cherish every single hug I get from my nephews and nieces. I get tears in my eyes when my grandchildren kiss me on the cheek. I am basking in the fact that life is fragile and it is not guaranteed that we will always be here to enjoy it. I am thankful for having the strength to get out of bed. I’m thankful when I can stand up long enough to do a few dishes. I’m excited when I have enough energy to help tidy the house.
Hug your family a little tighter today, and be grateful for all the things we take for granted.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Believe
Believe
“Believers believe, It’s what we do.” My brother Paul said this once in one of his sermons and I could not help saying a great big “AMEN” because it’s so true! It’s a no brainer. If you are a believer, and you have trusted God as the higher power, then there is no amount of bad news that can stop you from believing. Just like a corn seed grows into corn, and a mamma sheep has baby sheep, we as believers have the seed of faith inside of us just waiting to naturally come out.
The sad thing is that our believing muscles usually only come out when our faith is tested by a trial. The scripture is chock full of examples of God’s children facing giants, storms, enemies, and sicknesses and overcoming by faith! So the journey to believing is not a fun one. It’s a hard road but it leads us to stronger faith. I’m no better than any of the patriarchs of the Bible who had to go through tough times, and hold on to an unfailing God to get me through. So I was not surprised by the trial, because I know the foundational truth, that trials come to make us stronger. So I just accepted the trial, and felt honored that God had chosen me to become one of those testimonies of His overcoming power!
Don’t get me wrong by thinking I am some super spiritual woman of Faith who never thinks negative thoughts. There are days in every believer’s life when that seed of faith gets clouded over with fear and doubt, but if we choose ahead of time, that we are going to ignore the voice of doubt, and believe in hope, the end result is so much better. If I had let my mind go down the road of “what if’s, ” I know I would have given in to what I call the “dark side” of thinking. The reason I call it the dark side is because it leads to all dark things like sadness, hopelessness, depression, helplessness. I knew if I rejected the “what if’s” and trusted God to take me through it, I could be confident in Him and in every single promise He had given me in His Word.
Nothing but good has come from believing God’s Word and trusting Him during this season. He has given me peace, confidence and joy during the biggest trial I have ever been through. It has not been easy. It has been really hard. Hard on me, hard on my body, hard on my family, hard on my friends, but there are three things I have enjoyed throughout:
1-The Favor of God.
2-The Love of my Family.
3-The Powerful Prayers of my Friends.
Life doesn’t get much better than that!
Sharon’s Corner
sharon’s corner
Sharing encouragement for those going through hard times and testimonies to build faith
11/21/23
When the doctor calls with test results but doesn’t want to tell you over the phone, you know it’s not a good thing! That’s what happened to me in the summer of 2023. I found myself sitting in the cancer ward with an Oncologist telling me that the cancer had spread to my lung, and that I would need to have chemotherapy. Words like cancer, oncology and chemotherapy are in a category of their own, and somehow they are always partnered up with fear, worry and helplessness. Getting bad news can honestly shake you to the core, and weaken you physically, emotionally and mentally, and I’m not gonna say that I wasn’t shaken by the news. But what happened next in my mind would make a huge difference in my entire life moving forward.
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