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I am no one special other than special enough that GOD loves me
- ordinary, neurotic at times, loving, angry, Sometimes forgiving,
can be judgmental, worried, fearful, sometimes smart, mistake-ridden
​imperfect me! 

And if GOD loves me in spite.. HE certainly loves us all!

What you can’t forgive you become

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Forgiving can be so difficult but so necessary!

I heard something that was shocking. “What you don’t forgive you become”

Not forgiving is tying yourself to the offense or perceived offense.

Life has triggers all around us to try and have us hold on to not forgiving rather than the forgiveness of CHRIST.

I was a victim of child sexual abuse. For the longest time, I not only had hate for the offender but also myself.

It was not until I let it go. And forgave, that I too was able to receive forgiveness.

GOD forgave so much!

Chance after chance we were given. And we failed. And the LORD gave us JESUS, HIS beloved born son to be sacrificed. All so we no longer had to wear our inequities. We no longer became our shame.

JESUS was spat on, whipped, mocked and in the worst physical pain. Yet, HE stood in the gap of HIS offenders and asked the FATHER to forgive them. Yes, forgive those who were persecuting HIM!

When someone hurts me, the last thing I think of is praying to the FATHER for them that hurt me. I, instead walk about with anger tattooed upon my soul. Ripping peace from my heart.

So, who is this hurting? My offender? Ummmmm, no!

LORD, help me forgive today. Help me to let it go! Forgive me, FATHER for those things I do that hurt others. Teach me LORD to love like YOU do. Break my heart for what breaks YOURS. Show me to lay it down and pray for those that hurt me. Release me LORD from any bitterness, anger and resentment that I am holding. Amen!

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Writer’s block or Not

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I am sitting here at a loss of what to write this morning.

I was awakened at 4 AM, couldn’t sleep. I was still tired and tried to go back to sleep.

Going back to sleep seemed to be a fight.

I started praising GOD.

Something a bit disturbing occurred. I had trouble finding words.

Perhaps, the tired in my mind - not sure! However, it bothered me. And off I went on a tangent, (in my own mind) on how terrible I am that I cannot even focus enough to give the LORD my full.

Eventually, the fatigue took me adrift and I fell back asleep.

I woke up about an hour later, feeling “off”.

I read the verse about how Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy.

Lately, it does seem that I may be under a bit of an attack. I say “bit” because in my heart of hearts, (much better than my mind), I AM the daughter of a KING and the winning has been done! I have victory “And I am convinced that nothing will ever separate me from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither my fears for today nor my worries about tomorrow--not even the powers of hell can separate me from God's love.

And certainly not a bout of poor focus!

So, the beating up of myself stopped.... and I instead picked up my cloak of the LORD’s love.

And look at that.... the words flowed out whilst in the middle of a writer’s block! JESUS always wins!

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Today IS a New Day

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​Today, I will put my shame away!


Today, I will stomp out what tries to drag me down!

​Today, I will rise! I am not who I was yesterday!

I am not who I was even but a moment ago!

GOD’S mercy and grace provide renewal. Each and every morning.

So why? Why do I hold on to the shame and guilt of yesterday?

No more! JESUS shed HIS blood for me so that I am washed clean. I accept HIS love and then repent.

Repent of all I have done that I know of, and that even I may not be aware of!

I am covered! And those things behind me are gone!!

Time to put it down! Let it go! Brushing off the title of victim.

Today, I will assume my rightful title of warrior and victor!

Yep, today....

#ThankYOUJESUS ❤️

4/3/2015 0 Comments

No More Bondage - No more shame!

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Hiding…. With Easter upon us, the idea of hiding hit me. We make a game of hiding Easter Eggs and then scavenging around to find them. It is a fun game. However, how often do we hide behind images, money, drinking, bad relationships, drugs or ourselves? Most often we want to hide due to the big old “S” word. SHAME!  There I have said it. Guilt is not so bad, it is an emotion or feeling that generally does not attach to your wholeness. Change a behavior and sometimes you can remove the guilt. Shame, though is different. It attaches and then starts to eat away at every fiber of you. The more you hide, the more you have to hide. IT is a viscous cycle. Most all of us have some degree of shame that we carry around like a two ton brick.

Today is the day we remember the death of CHRIST. Christ took our shame. It was hung on the cross with HIM. That is HUGE!!!! You do not have to live in bondage anymore. CHRIST was nailed to a cross in the most horrifying way so that we can have freedom. We can have freedom to live, to be forgiven and to have a close relationship with GOD. Are you seeing how BIG this is yet?

What is it that you love most in the whole world? What is the person, or even an item that you attach so much importance to that you believe you would die if it should perish. With that image of your prized and loved attachment in your mind; how would it feel if you to offer it up as a sacrifice so that someone else shall have freedom. Would you even do it???  GOD DID.

That is the kind of love that we are so freely given. GOD gave us his child. I have 5 kids and I have to tell you, I COULD NOT do it. The mere thought of it brings me horrid anxiety. Luckily, we are not asked to.

People all over the world are being brutally killed in the name of JESUS. And many of those saints are willingly sacrificing themselves because of their faith. I admire that kind of deep faith. I cannot honestly tell you how I would react in that situation. But GOD loves me anyway.

I Deni, have taken the LORD JESUS as my personal savior when I was 17 and generally re-commit that vow as often as I can. BUT…. GOD only asks us to do it once. That is all it takes for JESUS to enter your soul, and your heart and the change begins. The shame falls away. Will you have personal storms to handle? OF COURSE, will you have to handle them alone? NO WAY! Get it?????

Let me ask you this??? What do you have to lose?

1 John 4:9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him

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    I am Deni, short for Denise. I grew up in a Jewish home, in a Jewish neighborhood and a Jewish family. In 3rd grade we moved. We moved to a mostly non-Jewish area.... that is where JESUS found me. I say found me because I yet had not acknowledged it, but would find out later.......by grace, HE HELD ME ALL ALONG, just a lil Jewish girl from Philly.

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