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Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour. But resist him, be firm in your faith [against his attack—rooted, established, immovable], knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being experienced by your brothers and sisters throughout the world. [You do not suffer alone.]
1 Peter 5:8-9 AMP

Are we really always mindful of where the attacks are meant to hit the hardest?

• Mind
• Heart

These attacks in the mind feel like a strong chemical imbalance.  It’s too much.

This trip—is going to be good for you. Sometimes you have to get out of your current place—changes the scenery.  It is helpful.  You need that break; need that runaway and to be around your sisters in Christ.  This will be rejuvenating for you.

Don’t think that you are chemically imbalanced at all. It is not a result to medicine. From a natural standpoint there are things that release those chemicals that make us happy. Dopamine is what will promote happiness like exercise; dark chocolate and more.

Just started a devotional – “Detox Your Soul” and the topic is THOUGHTS!

We have these toxic thoughts—to be able to overcome toxic thoughts, we need to be able to identify them so that we can then reject them.

Looked up scripture reference–2 Corinthians 10 on casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity!

God has to help us and fight that fight with us. Because the mind is such a battle.

Ephesians 6 is another reference on putting on the armor of God.

I recently did a lesson with the youth—but instead of talking about arrows I talked about bullets to make this more relevant to our modern times. I took the Bullet example—drew the outline of the person board from the shooting range places and then explained how vital it is to not get injured in your heart or your mind.

If your heart gets shot—your likeliness of staying alive is close to none.

If your head gets shot (same thing)—chances of survival are close to none.

The brains cell don’t reproduce and that’s why brain injuries are so fatal! People go brain dead and coming back is like no chance in the natural (same with the spine). Spiritual same thing –you get hit in this area or this area your dead.

Spiritually you get hit in this area (heart) or that area (mind), because they are such vital organs you can’t afford to be injured there.  Cells go—not much of a survival chance—which is why the enemy goes after the mind and the heart. This is why protecting the mind and protecting the heart are so important.

Also, it’s better for a bullet to go completely through then to get stuck inside and the reason for that is if a bullet gets stuck inside it does something in your body that it is likely to affect the surrounding organs. It is better if the bullet goes straight through and it didn’t stay in there.

Using this source:  https://health.howstuffworks.com/
A bullet that passes through the body (creating an exit wound) generally will cause less damage than one which stays in the body, because a bullet that stays in the body transfers all of its kinetic energy (and ensures maximum damage of tissue). This is the aim of most modern ballistic design. Jacketed bullets are designed to fragment after impact, dividing their destructive power. Hollow-point and soft bullets are designed to flatten and spread, creating a wider area for their tracks and increasing the damage caused by shock waves and cavitation.

So with our thoughts– it is so much better for it to just go in and right out because if we leave it in there with the impact, it starts to affect the things around it and starts to make our condition worse!

With Bullets—if you get shot, what makes somebody live? The will to live helps us. For someone that wants to live; a fighter; this plays a big role.

Think about it spiritually. The important thing is that the thoughts go in and out. We don’t let it stay in there –because that is going to affect our condition more. Just like the bullet.  The things go in and they go right out.  Don’t even entertain it.

Just like the relapse blog on being rebuilt we discover that there is something wrong. We went on this journey and somewhere along the line we messed up. Somewhere along the line– something went wrong. Before something didn’t work—there was a piece that was being rebuilt and then something happened along the way. I have to be rebuilt again and again.  That is because there was something that got rebuilt that wasn’t supposed to be there. There is something that happened along the way that made this process have to start over.

We can get it right.

Thoughts that you have—Do you let it sit there? Or do you MAKE it go through?

We understand that our weapons are mighty in God—to CAST IT DOWN; it is just a constant thing.  We do ask, “Wheres my break? Wheres my rest?” It gets exhausting. But in God He is SUPER-natural, we don’t go dead in any capacity– the mind CAN be renewed! OUR BRAINS CAN BE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE EVEN AFTER INJURY!!

This is important–keeping this (our inspiration) is important. Support –keeping that! Prayer –keeping that. It’s important… there our ways if we are going to overcome.  It makes us stronger.

It’s so much harder to fight when you feel like no one is on your side; when your not being catered too; when they are not showing you love; when no one is surprising you or no one is calling you to see how you are doing. It is so you understand –it wasn’t people. There wasn’t something that helped you get through it –it was ONLY God!

So now when I’m through it…I had no crutch—I had no Band-Aid –you had no bandages that helped your healing. Bandages look like your healed but when you take it off it is still not healed. When you take it off—no bandage—raw…nothing covering it.

You did it raw with no medicine, no epidural; you did it raw with no fix.

This is a Spiritual Battle to Fight!
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 10:3-6

The Whole Armor of God!
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[c] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.
Ephesians 6:10-18

Note–these are ALL Kristen Rabadi’s bullet points! Thank you for sharing these words.

With Love,

Christina

Do you ever have those moments truly–can I just be honest for a few, when nothing works!
Reading doesn’t work;
Writing doesn’t work;
Crying doesn’t work;
Fasting doesn’t work;
All the prayer in the world from you and others over you… still don’t work.

That’s when you just have to GO THROUGH IT!

I am sure a few of us like me just had to “just go through it….”

Why else would He write down plain for us, WHEN YOU GO….

When you go through deep waters,
    I will be with you.
When you go through rivers of difficulty,
    you will not drown.
When you walk through the fire of oppression,
    you will not be burned up;
    the flames will not consume you.
Isaiah 43: 2 NLT

So this clearly tells us–there will be moments in life when nothing works. You just gotta go through it.  It is deep, it is difficult, it is oppression–but we won’t be consumed by it. Only because God is with us and He cannot be consumed. God is Sovereign.  He is sovereign over our situation.  He is sovereign over our darkness. He is sovereign over pain and any of our problems.

Just ride it out. Wing it. Do it. Go through. Eventually all will pass and we move onto the next thing of life so quickly.  What are we going to do reacting to something we cannot change?

It’s only for a moment.

Therefore we do not become discouraged [spiritless, disappointed, or afraid]. Though our outer self is [progressively] wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day by day. For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]!
2 Corinthians 4:16-17

This is actually producing for us. This is giving us our own personal powerful purpose in God that is specific to us.  Everything will fall into place and everything will eventually make sense. Even if it doesn’t now, it will…

Maybe you are still asking why the sudden loss? The job, the person, the finances, the relationships, the credibility, the peace, the joy, the love…. sometimes in one fell swoop we are down to nothing. This is where we have to dig deep beyond our torn emotional realm to tap into the spiritual realm where there is plenty to carry us through.

As I am just coming back from a life changing retreat in the very presence of God, the attacks, blows and punches of life are still coming my way. Every day things will hurt a lot less as I keep pressing in that spiritual realm. God knows all things and made me unique.  He loves me beyond measure and beyond anything on this earth. He will uplift me for all the world to see –that when nothing else worked, He did just fine. He never left me. Even through my own madness. I love that about God.

When all else has fallen or failed, He is the one that will always remain. So let’s just be still. Let’s press to keep our soul calm. Sometimes saying nothing works wonders. You didn’t get it, well God will give it to you. You weren’t thought of, well God is thinking of you always. He will give you the BEST things for your life. He loves to work on a ground that seems useless. This is where pure power is displayed.

With love,
Christina ❤

Blessings to all… Just wanted to share a blog that was written by one of my spiritual daughters in the kingdom –Kristen Rabadi. May God continue to give you a grace to write words of encouragement! With Love, CCM

It is not that I do not want to speak or share but realizing in the interests of many, sometimes I become so intimidated I fall in the place of silence.  I then rather not speak so often. But isn’t that how most of us are? We continue to give life to a situation leaning toward negativity. It becomes toxic.

I am leaning towards whatever happened in the past, God used it to put an expiration date on it. A huge lesson learned, for even in our moments of weakness He intervenes and we all know why.  Most importantly, where our place really needs to be.

Most of our thoughts need to be cancelled out immediately and not shared.  The fact that I am walking through a process of ruminating becomes frustrating to ME more than anyone else.  The one effected by this is ME more than anyone else. I need to be well, get well and stay well. I do apologize for ever upsetting others and even myself in moments of madness. I can acknowledge that it is not always our intentions but that it still tends to happen. However one may see it–in most cases feelings are always going to present. I wish that was not the case but in that aspect it is! This is exactly where we must push through in our prayer time and in our walk that God has for us.

I had to battle through a lot of thoughts. Less of this and less of that. It is not fair to fight this way. It is not fair to me. Most times I feel like less of a woman in those moments. Less wanted. Less influential. Less impactful. Always pushed aside by many–history repeating itself and finding myself alone most days. But that is my own personal battle.  In this state, there are no words to appease any of that.

I know where I stand. I know what it is for me to have to move forward. It is a painful place. But one I must learn to endure.  Rejection in anyway can certainly be protection. But it still FEELS like rejection. This is a very familiar place that sucks so bad. I remember moments where I would get so dressed up on the outside– I did everything to beautify myself. But inside I would be such a mess. Crying inside where no one can see or hear. These days then became the worst days of my life that press on my mind.

I THOUGHT I looked beautiful…felt that way for a moment. I thought this would help.  I thought this would make me drown out what was really happening on the inside of me. But then the reality would hit. No matter how much work I had to put in to be beautiful, people still went on about their ways and I would still be in that position where I felt so unloved and unimportant. That is the largest dagger to my soul. I don’t want to be in that place again.

It sucks but you know what—I know that I am going to find peace in my own version of ugly, in my brokenness (AGAIN), in my pit, and in my own war that was superbly created for me. Rejection is always going to race around me.  Now I got to learn how to push past all this and really….. REALLY be more mindful of that glaring truth. Many will abandon us but never God.  Many will not love us but never God. Many will reject us but never God. He is only redirecting us! All these “RE’s” I am finding myself in. And I heard screaming in my soul RE-calibrating you… RE-setting you! I’m like, “Wow AGAIN LORD!” I have to seek Him in these moments of violent warfare.  Here is the RE—it means preposition, in the matter to introduce again and again and again! Until we get it…the part that is continuous is that part that is necessary for us to become the EXPERT!!!!!!!!!! So now we have RE-demption! We have reconciliation. We have renewal, restoration and recovery!

He is recalibrating me! Resetting me.

I have to think now that I have been rebuilt for battle!

I will find rest somehow in the battles! And when it is time to rise up then I rise again! I can’t stay down.  I can’t stay silent.  I can’t stay the victim! I am the victor! I have overcome! These thorns are ways for God to increase and present His strength! That will be my place of peace. So when I pray in my madness–He will sit with me there too, until I rise again. He is recalibrating me. Again and again. I have to love His persistent effort over my life. I must be important to Him indeed!

They won’t rise, until I rise!

Villagers in Israel would not fight;
they held back until I, Deborah, arose,
until I arose, a mother in Israel.
Judges 5:7