My Place of Grace

All across America flags are flying, speckling and dotting front door posts of houses, town squares and government buildings. July the 4th, Independence day, a day of celebration and commemoration of the birth of our country's religious freedom. We love to celebrate. We love our freedom. But do we remember how it came about? How we achieved it? The sacrifice our first settlers made and why? God...The desire to worship and serve God Almighty was the driving force behind the Declaration of Independence. I often think of the saying that freedom isn't free...and that's the truth. Our country started with nothing but a faith in God, they didn't know where they were going, when they'd get there, or even if they'd get there. But in faith they went. Jesus Christ, too paid a dear price for our freedom. For us to take that for granted with Jesus, with our forefathers, our service men...etc...is in itself a tragedy. Let's take this day to remember all that it cost for...

The last post I wrote was entitled "Don't Hold Back" It was basically about being afraid to give your all for God. Well, since I wrote that post I had an experience with my good friend when we met for lunch. This is a simple story, but I am telling it to make a point. This post also deals with fear. Not the holding back kind of fear, but the leaving your comfort zone kind of fear. Why is it that 2 grown women fear walking into a crowded restaurant? Oh, we walked in(to the lobby) where we both looked at each other and as if we could read each others minds we turned around and walked out. At that time we both had to laugh at our insecurity. But the reality is...there is something in us holding us captive. It's the F word (fear) I know it is...and now I am determined that the next time we meet for lunch that we are going to conquer our fear no matter what! I know this sounds really silly...but how many times during the course of our lives do we let these fearful insecuri...

What are the enemies that threaten our life, our well being? Enemies can be defined as anything trying to destroy us, or in the spiritual sense, anything that hinders our relationship with God. Whether your enemies are of the human nature, or those of more subtle varieties, such as fear, shame, pride, guilt, self indulgence, self hatred and a myriad of others that infiltrate our land and try to steal out joy, we have a most powerful God waiting for us to trust Him and he will take them out! Read this chapter in 2 Samuel twice through. The first time as it is and the second time make it personal to you by replacing any reference to enemies with what ever enemy you are facing in your life right now. God's word is truth. Will we believe it? If so, we have access to it's power to use in overcoming our enemies that try to keep us bound to this world. Let us, as David did, praise God for the things He has done and is going to do in our lives! Blessed be the name of the Lord! 2 Samue...

Hi All, I just added an awesome video introducing "Emotional Freedom Technique"(EFT), founded by Gary Craig. The video can explain the technique better than I can, but I want to share it because I have seen great results with it. The concept is gaining emotional freedom and also freedom from physical pain by tapping the acupressure meridian points in the body. The web site at the end of the video is very informative as well, and provides a free manual to get started. It's free, it's easy, and it works! so if you're having any kind of problems in your life; why not give it a try? Let me know what you discover, I'd love to hear back from you! Here's to freedom! To view the video, scroll down to the bottom of this blog and click the EFT video icon. God Bless!