Always learning! ‘LIVING IN A PLACE OF FORGIVENESS’ Wow! Sometimes it’s not too hard, other times it is a battle! It is active! It’s a choice! It’s a mindset! It DOES NOT MEAN WE AGREE WITH PEOPLE OR WHAT THEY DID (or do) when we forgive someone! Understand this, that there is freedom in forgiveness! I’m talking here about the person who was ‘wronged’ - forgiving and attaining a freedom by doing so! By trusting the fact that God will deal with that person who had wronged us, and know we’ll experience lightened hearts after it has been hurt. How can we live constantly in this place? By having the mind of Christ! That old acronym WWJD (what would Jesus do/or say or how He would act ); should be our response over and over again.  John 3:30: "He must increase, but I must decrease" Jesus is our prime example isn’t He? Have ones lied to you? Cheated? Deceived you? Talked about you? Stolen from you? Even physically harmed you? All as Jesus was? Definitely people will indeed rea...
He is my peace! Really!!! Jesus IS my peace! But how? One way is I have to constantly throw ALL my cares (which are surmountable) on Him! Also - (like I wrote the other day) we gain peace by living in a place of forgiveness! If we have unforgiveness- we can’t have peace. We gain peace by ‘letting-go of our control!’ All by allowing God to work things all together (for our good). Sounds easy doesn’t it, but sometimes we battle our emotions, and we battle wanting to fix things ourselves. Then the frustrations, and pressures arise, stealing our peace we once had. The devil is working OVERTIME to torment our minds, the Lord simply says to “Be still and know that I AM God!” When we are still and truly KNOW Him, the enemy is defeated and God’s peace stills the storms in our lives! [Ps 46:10/Rom. 8:28/Phil. 4:7/Eph. 2:14-17 ] ~ Daneille Snowden