Are You Waiting For A Financial Breakthrough?

Did you know that the common prayer that's requested from many people is that God provide a great deal of money to have things and to be able to have a blessed life. But did you know that you are already blessed? 

It’s true! We don’t have to ask for the blessings God has provided us.  We have everything we need already because of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. What we need to do is reach out in faith and trust that God loves us so much that we never have to be without anything.

We Are Powerful Beyond Measure

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us."

Going Through Hell? – Keep Going!

I am one who is always in a FABulous mood... Why, because I know that I can't change the cycle of life! You see in life there will be ups and downs, circles and turns and other things that you have absolutely no control over. Why? I'm glad you asked, Simply because emotions are contagious, and how you focus your attention can either keep you stuck on how you feel or switch gears to where you want to go. It is our attention that is sitting in the driver's seat of our mind. Most people seem not to know this. They think that if they keep talking about something, resisting it, pushing it away, worrying about it, or even thinking about it, somehow they can get rid of it or prevent what they fear from manifesting.

This is just the opposite of what you should do if you want to free your mind from stress, overwhelm, worry, or fear. As Winston Churchill said, "If you are going through hell, keep going!"

If the truth is told, much of the pain, suffering, and dissatisfaction many people feel is self-inflicted because we are ignorant of how powerful our attention is to direct our physiology and reactions. We focus all too often on what we don't want. This will keep you stuck on the very thing you don't want, so much so that we typically no longer know what we do want or what we really value.

Another way that we get ourselves into trouble is by hanging around negative people who radiate emotions such as fear, anger, hatred, or judgment. Even people who refuse to look for what they can be grateful for and cling to sadness and depression can drag you down because emotions are contagious! Likewise joy, appreciation, and gratitude are contagious. They're just not as prevalent in our society yet, I hope.

When we decide we want to get out of hell-the jail we put our minds in-we can learn how to release old emotional residues and shift our focus to where we want to go. It's when we keep expecting the worst, keep our attention on negative news and negative people, and hold ourselves back for fear of disappointment that we stay, well, disappointed!

Can you see how backwards this is? It's time to learn how to free your mind and be willing to live the adventure of your life instead of simply surviving and tormenting yourself. Science is showing how we are assigning the meaning to our lives. We may as well create a storyline that helps us to grow and flourish instead of making ourselves suffer through hell on earth.

So if you are going through hell on earth, keep going!

Thank you Dr. Valencia Ray for this FABulous point of view on life! Is has made me stronger and I continue to life by the quote from Mr. Winston Churchill!

Be you and live life! Just keep it real, and keep it FABulous.

Falling in Love with God: The Greatest Romance

STOP LOOKING FOR LOVE!!!! You heard me right! If you want to experience a sustainable love, then STOP looking for love... Why? Because, we have every reason to be enthralled in romance! The greatest gesture of love known to the universe was made toward each of us by the Author of True Love. We are not simply liked and enjoyed; we are passionately, deeply, obsessively loved! 

How does it go again? 
“God so understood the world…” “God so cared for the world…” “God so respected the world…” “God so accepted the world…” “God so disdained the world…” “God so rejected the world…” 

No…God so LOVED the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. God made a bold and unflinching proclamation of abiding, endless love to all mankind, and Jesus came to be made a fool of, all in the hope that He would win the hearts of His beloved ones. Only a passionate lover is willing to look foolish for his beloved. 


People, we desperately need a new romance. We need to take a good, long look with fresh eyes at the Lover of our souls and internalize the high price He paid for the chance to be reunited with us. I hope we have not stared at our painted images of God for so long that we are no longer impressed by what we see, for it’s not the typical picture of enchantment. Unadulterated passion and pure, ambitious love are not presented to us in flowers and sunsets, but in straw, wood, nails and blood. 


I wonder in our day if we can even comprehend the nature of real love. Do we spend much time anymore contemplating a love that isn’t sexual or pleasure-oriented? Are we even inclined to pursue an endeavor that demands self-sacrifice? 


“There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God – having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.” 2 Tim 3:1-5 


We have lost the fervor of our affection for God because we have become deadened to the meaning of real love. Love gives. Love is not self-seeking. Love cannot keep anything for itself. This kind of love is increasingly foreign to us. Like some kind of Dead Sea that only receives and never gives of itself to anyone else, we die inside because we don’t love. We must make a concerted effort to dwell on this crazy, extravagant love of God until it captures us again in the flush of romance. We need to fall in love with Jesus.  It is the only cure for the cynical and indifferent heart. 


We need that love to make us fearless in our devotion. We need the kind of passion that turns us into willing fools, people who couldn’t care less what the world thinks of us. I want the kind of passion and love for Christ that is oblivious to everything but Him. If He holds my heart, I need nothing else. The sound of His voice makes my heart pound, and there’s no room in my ears for any scorn or insult. I say I want this kind of passion and love because I’m not quite there yet. But I’m being wooed, and the more I attend to His affection, the more this romance grows, and the more my heart longs only for Jesus. I want the love described in the Song of Solomon: “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.” 


This is the love that turns ordinary people into saints! This is the love that turns you and me into the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. This is the love that softens the most hardened of hearts, the love the world simply cannot ignore. It is this love that gives us courage and compels us to be faithful no matter the cost. 
The heart in love with Jesus has no room for compromise or deception, since it only desires more of Jesus. The moral courage and conviction we lack, the absence of zeal and fervor in our faith is easily cured, if we will purposely incline ourselves toward Him. It is a sweet romance that beckons to us… so let us fall in love again! With God that is!


TheFAB: Jennifer Hartline