Lindylou - Walking Through Womanhood

Heaven and Hell are real places. Unless someone is deep into the occult or under the influence of alcohol or another sense numbing drug, most people imagine they will go to heaven or at least a nice neutral place. Few people willingly say they are going to hell. I have heard people pronounce this judgement on themselves because of an act they did that they deem hideous, but if given the option to check our final destination as one might check the boxes of what you want to eat on a hotel room service selection, nearly all would check the heaven box. So if going to heaven or hell is truly a choice, and it is, what sends people to hell. Literally it is God that moves us to our final destination, but He is simply fulfilling our choice already made in our life. We--the people of the world--individually either send ourselves to heaven or to hell. But how, one might persist? And what exactly is the choice that made the decision so absolute? JESUS is the critical choice. A perso

As Brothers and Sisters of God, Christians, Followers of Jesus, we are asked by God to love each other, but also unnaturally -in the worldly sense- are drawn by God's love within us to LOVE one another unconditionally. It is said, "They will knew we are Christians by our love... of each other." We are told that we know that "we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." The want of love is so universal. The world talks about love as much as the church, and quite frankly, shows expressions of love toward others. There is an appeal to being and receiving love. So what then is TRUE LOVE that is in the Brethren of the followers of Jesus Christ, that is so unlike that of the world when it loves. It is the love we have of God that produces in each of us obedience to God. 1 John Verse 2, "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments." This true love is spiritual love, n

I am a mess. A delightful mess to God and therefore to myself but not to others... always. In this life I have learned to live by His acceptance and to let other's view of me to fade in light of His. Throughout my weak life, I so long "to do", to be used by God, to partake in His ministry here on earth. Being alive and thus living on earth at this present moment I have no other choice-- if I am to be used by God, it must be practical. But I have a great defect, I am a sporadic mess, or so it seems to me and others. God Chose me! For me this is enough. Fortunately for me, this highly qualifies me for God's team. He prizes in the weaker vessels, the ones that are continually emptying themselves out because they can find nothing good in and of themselves. I frustrate human endeavors - their grand plans become muddled messes in my hands because I am fumbling around, up one day and down the next. I am vulnerable to affliction and derailed often. I am a tar

Morning Prayers are very important.  They help to start your day out with a God-centered focus. However, morning prayers can be difficult because you want to get started on your day and so many things are needing to be done; you have a lot of distractions. If you still have children in the home, morning prayers sometimes feel like an impossible dream because after a time of being apart--during the  night--children often come to you and have many needs. You can try to rise earlier, to provide extra time for you to spend in prayer because you feel you have so many things to get done. Some people finds this helps. The importance of making time for morning prayer reminds of a saying by Martin Luther: “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” - Martin Luther quote. The great German reformer, the man for whom the Lutheran Church began, Martin Luther, is quoted as saying he needed to spend at least three hours in prayer every morning because

I have been doing a series of articles on prayer: Struggling To Pray Learning to Pray , and Now, Help Me to Pray--Aloud. So many Christians find "serving God" easier to do than praying. Matter of fact, "doing" comes easier than praying. We do every day - all day long - whether it is for God or not, BUT don't we also talk? Why do we struggle so much to pray? We certainly don't struggle in talking. We are very relational. We text, twitter, Facebook, chat, IM and even occasionally phone one another. We are very familiar now with the technology of "talking" to someone who is not physically with us, therefore, if we apply our current abilities of modern communication to "talking" with God in prayer we should be pros! In this post I am going to cover praying aloud! I am not necessarily talking about group prayer, but verbal prayer. Our thoughts can run around flitting about as ideas pop into our conscious mind, but when we sp

To pray one must have faith, discipline and practice. I will begin with these three things in coaching how to pray. I can only help because I have run into all the floundering difficulties myself and continue to need to be reminded of these basic principles. Praying takes faith - believing God is Who He says He is in the Bible and that what He says about life and us is true. Prayer also takes persevering discipline to push through the instinct to get up and to be busy about the day or to go back to bed. Finally, praying is a skill learned -just like every other form of communication- and therefore it takes practice . FAITH When you kneel to pray (or you may sit or lay prostrate before the Lord or any other position), you will commonly be bombarded with so many thoughts. Some will be doubts. Others will be things you need to do. Hopeful some will be longings to be with God and things you want to pray about--focus your attention on these things. An excellent way to brin