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Well, my sweet, awesome husband and I went to talk to the surgeon yesterday. Had to confess that yes, I am a  medical delinquent. No excuses.

He said he thought he would have to take off my right breast. A mastectomy [I'm telling my boob to hang in there. God's healing you.] Anyway the surgery is not until April which is fine with me because I want to go to Florida to visit Jim's sister.  The Dr looked at me and said, "you are coming back?"

LOL  Told him my word was good and I'd be back.

In the meantime, I am reading the Word of God and being so filled with life that I'm not sure my friends can stand me : )  But I am on fire. God has awakened me. And I cling to Him. His Word has once again come alive. So much so that I have to stop and just shout Hallelujah when I  read it.

I am alive!

Amazing that the enemy comes to give me a warrant for my death, and God intervenes and I have never felt more alive.

The other day the Lord told me - "I have ordered your steps. Fear Not. Trust Me. Walk it out and I will walk with you. Rejoice. Fear not the path still in shadow. You will be pleasantly surprised. Rejoice and lead others to life."

God is so good. My life is hid in Christ. I died in Baptism and have risen with Christ. Read Romans and chew on His word.  So deep  So Alive.

SO I am doing good. Proclaiming His Word.

Also looking into nutritional ideas to help my body recover from my diet of cokes and hamburgers and sittin like a lump.  No more.  Good foods are going in and I am moving. I no longer live to eat but am eating to live. My stomach is no longer the ruler of me.  I am submitted to the Lord.

Look at our culture - the only thing we do is eat together.  WE are a country that lives to eat. No wonder we are fat. So for me - no more cokes - 2 weeks now. My body has had more veggies and fruit in the last two weeks than its seen in years.

God bless you all.

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3 John 1:2  Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospereth.

Hope and Faith

Hope is not a wish. Hope is as solid as cement. It is not based on a wish on a star or before you blow out birthday candles. NO - Hope is tangible. Rock solid trust from the spirit. Hope lives in your core. Gives strength to you from the inside out.

In Strong's concordance - hope is defined as the expectation of good. Expected good, not a wimpy 'hope so'  But a strong I expect it to be.

Faith in Strong's means the conviction of the truth of a matter. Belief.

Hope and Faith are backed by God's Word.

Hebrews 11:1

11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

We have good reason to fear not.  FAITH and HOPE

Now there are things that undermine our faith and hope

Faith stealers  

1. Negative thinking - confessing doom, bad reports rather than the Word of God

2. Not Reading the Word of God but wallowing in the lust and dust of the world.

3. Surrounding yourself with those who do not believe.

4. Knowledge without wisdom - 

5. Believing the EELs - Enemy's Evil Lies

6. Failure to spend time with the Lord

7. Fear is the biggest faith stealer there is. A believer should only fear God.

Instead - build up your faith and hope 

1. Read the Word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal things you need to know.

2. Surround yourself with those who can believe and pray the prayer of faith

3. Immerse yourself in the things of God. 

4. Take the Lord's communion and ask if there be anything you need to repent of or anyone you need to ask forgiveness of.

5. Stir up the faith God has given you. For faith is a gift.  Eph 2:8

6. Put on the whole armor of God

7. Resist the devil

8. Write down the promises of God - scriptures that speak to your heart

9. Meditate on those. Memorize them. Speak them aloud. Record them and listen to yourself state the truth.

10. Rejoice, Praise the Lord, rejoice

Go boldly rejoicing in the Lord. For in Him we live and will not be defeated.

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1 John 5:4

⁴ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.