Day Seven: God The Healer: Holy and Blameless

                                                                      Day Seven

                                   "that we should be holy and blameless before him."
                                                                     Ephesians 1:4


Well, I hope that all of you have been finding one thing to praise God about, something I admit I have been wonton to do.  True, I pray for my own heart to be surrendered and for God to put a muzzle over my mouth that I may not speak out of turn, but I seem to always forget to praise him so hold on one moment while I do that...what I just praised God for, was for the fact that not only is he healing me and us, but that in his heavenly perspective, in the future tense, we are healed and we are complete.  And yet that he is not done with us, I praise him for that, and that he will complete the work of healing that he has done in us.

I praise God for the message of today, that he calls us to be holy and blameless before him, that that is in fact a spiritual blessing that he imparts to us.  Before I set aside time to praise God, I was going to write this long epistle about how we should clean up our acts to become holy and blameless, and for the most part this is the case.  We have things we need to lay down, all of us, that get in the way of a real relationship with our Lord, however, I don't think this is what this is saying.  I believe this is saying that we are already holy and blameless.

So, yes, if you have been a faithful reader, I have an anger problem and have lashed out in the past towards people to Calvary Chapel Healdsburg, my kids at the elementary school, my old boss, and now towards my husband's friends and even sometimes my husband.  Well, if you are a faithful reader, I want you to know that through constant prayer and diligence for healing, I have been able to slowly rid myself of that anger.  And, you who read this, no doubt struggle with some vice, whatever the spiritual milieu, and I hope that through your own practices you can lay that down.  But, despite our work at ridding ourselves of our negative coping strategies, we can praise God that he already sees us as a complete work and that through our pain, trials, mistakes, he imparts to us the gift of holiness and blamelessness before him.

So, I dedicate this to all of you, no matter what the spiritual practice, willingly offer yourself up to the one who cares, for me the Father of Lights, for he sees you as that perfect and complete creation and he loves you for who you will be.  In his eyes, you are holy, blameless, clean, perfect.  In the Christian sense, Christ cleans you up by his blood when you come to him, you need not try to do it on your own.

Be blessed and find rest in God's gift for you today, and let that be the healing balm that comforts your heart.  No need to journal today, unless you need to, but I simply ask that you share what you learned today about God's gracious gift of personal holiness with someone else today.

In his Son's name, I pray for your continual healing and dedication to him.

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Ephesians 2:10

Day Five: God the Healer: Blessings From God

                                                                Day Five

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places..." 
Ephesians 1:3


As you know doubt have started down your journey towards recovery, there will be good days and bad, not so good moments, and some happy.  A good suggestion that was always spoken to me during the depths of my despair is to praise God from where we are at, yes, that means in your darkest hour, find something to praise God about.  As it says "Blessed be the God and Father..", I mean, not only did he send his son to die for us, but he sent us love, peace, joy, eternal life, and he promises to never leave us.  He is our eternal I am.  Just knowing he is always with us should be enough of a praise report right there.  So, I challenge you this week, in your most hardest moment, praise God for something...even if it is that bird flying by.

And know that when we bless the Lord, the blessing comes full circle.  He blesses us when we bless him and yet he doesn't just bless us because we bless him, he blesses us even if we don't bless him.  It says "who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing", so I dare you to ask the Lord for a spiritual blessing because there from heaven above (in the heavenly places).  Ask the Lord for the peace of God, you know you need it.

Spend a little time in your prayer journal or in the lines below, praising God for whatever comes to mind.  Don't think, just let your thoughts flow.  Then, ask God for the blessings from heaven, for what you need personally.  And he will give it, not because you deserve it, (well, that's another story), but because He loves you and cares for you, he really does, dear one, so ask him for what you need.  Be it, strength to get through the day, healing from the pain, what have you...Just be honest.

Remember, he is near you and he hears you.  And, he wants to bless you.

"And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ."  Philippians 1:6


He's not done with you yet; you are a work in progress.

Be patient, dear one, be blessed in his love for you.