2016

Looking back, I can say 2015 was a good year. Not extraordinary but good. God is so faithful.
2016 is hear and I have no choice but to continue trusting God now more than ever.
I believe this year, if you are willing to trust God, He will meet you at your point need.
Happy New Year Prosperous Soul
In His Love
Leslene
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Why do I do what I do?

When you're a mother there are so many decisions you have to carefully make. It is important that you don't make any decision based on your emotions or at that point where you just feel you cannot go on.
When you have children it's important for you to be focused and strong when life throws tons and tons of issues at you. It,s not easy to be strong. When they are settled in their beds at night, go in to your room or wherever you feel comfortable, break down and cry out to God. God knows your story. He knows your heart and He is the only ONE that can and will restore it.
You have a job to do. You have to let God know with all sincerity, that you need Him.
It is important for you to keep your mind set on Christ. stay focused, be strong, someone depends on you. So why do we do what we do? We do it because Christ gives us the strength to go on. Christ gives us the power to stand firm when everyone and everything in this world fails us. I do what I do because Christ did it for me, and until my kids receives that Christ revelation, I will keep on doing what I do....
In His love
Leslene

You Are Stronger

Whatever happened to you either made you stronger or you lost all faith in everyone and life,
But today I believe it made you stronger, WHY because you get up every morning, taking it step step and day by day.
Life can be tough but you are even tougher. BELIEVE IT!!

As Long As You Do

How often do you get so overwhelmed with joy to the point you cannot speak when your neighbor comes home with his own car. You know how they left their house early on a Saturday morning to do the shopping, then to come back with each child carrying a bag. You see the fatigue and the rush just to get inside the house and to rest from that long walk.
You know that feeling. You know that longing for your own car.
My neighbor came home not with the latest car on the market and definitely not with a brand new car, but with a car suitable for his family. Some might say "that is junk. Why spend money on that. Why not buy a new car first time?"
I'm saying, "It's not how you start, but how you finish." He has that awesome feeling of owning his first and the desire for the next one will be so big that he will eventually buy a brand new one.
We might not all have it together to start big, but as long as we start somewhere.
Oh man, his son was so excited for their car, he started washing it. That brought so much tears to my eyes.
Instead of us criticizing, why don't we celebrate, congratulate and show them we approve of their choice.
What happens when we live for Christ? God brings gifts of affection, compassion and love for others into our hearts, we cannot help but to be happy for others. Most importantly, we develop a willing to stick to God. We then find ourselves involved in loyal commitments and being happy for others then comes naturally.
In His Love
Leslene

Don't Curse The Answer

We've all asked God something. Either it's what we need, what we want or what we desire to achieve in life. So many times God has answered exactly what we want, need or desired.
But what happens when God answers exactly the opposite of your question?
Even though the Bible says you do not have because you do not ask, or ask and it will be given to you? This is what recently happened to me. I made my desire known to God for so long and He answered what I did not want. I was so angry, but surely I'm making peace with God's answer. I'm not there yet, but I know God understands me.
What I can say is, I didn't end up or I didn't choose to curse God's answer. I know that God Knows what's best for me and for my family. God's timing is perfect and He will grant my desire in His time and that is God's promise to me.
The actual point I want to make is; sometimes we curse the answer we receive in life, not realizing that it's not the answer that is at fault, but the question. I have that when we change the questions we ask, we surely will get the right and well deserved answers.

In His Love
Leslene
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It Gets So Much Easier

Growing up I haven't had the easiest life. Although my brother and sister would totally disagree with me regarding that statement. (**,). I would also say that they didn't have it easy although it seemed like they did.
My father was almost never at home(seaman), and my mom would always make a way for us to have food and a roof over our heads.
I never understood why things were the way they were, but I always knew things would get better some day.
I never for one minute thought that my mom was depending on God to make a way where all things seemed so impossible. We would always move around from one room in a house filled with people or to a house we could never really call our own. As a child I couldn't understand why my mom was so humble and In a way I saw her being the tail in various situations, but yet she stayed humble.
Today I'm a married woman with my own children and often I reflect on those days. I thank God for my childhood days. It made me so strong. I figured out who the person is who made my mom so strong. I figured out who the person is who taught my mom humility. I figured out who kept my alive when my mom went to work and I had to wait for her on a pavement. Today, I know that Jesus was the one my mom trusted with everything she had. She trusted Jesus with her life.
There are days I feel exactly how my mom felt when she had to do things that seemed impossible. Today I know Jesus and I can freely give all anxiety, burdens and that unworthy feeling to Him. He doesn't moan when I do and He even thanks me for doing so.
I have come to know Him. I have come to know myself because of Him, and I have come to know what He's passionate about. I want to know Him more every day and as I do, I love myself even more. It actually makes it easier to love those who curse, hate, judge and hurt themselves.
Love covers a multitude of sins.
In His Love
Leslene
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Loneliness....

We all love to have friends. We all love hanging out and just enjoying ourselves, and that just sound and seems all good. But is it really all good?
From a very young age we learn about people automatically we find out, that is what we need in our lives. as you grow older it becomes more evident that you rely on those people to make you feel good not intentionally off course. This then becomes your weekend routine, or for some a daily one.
Do you think this is good for you?
You even begin to feel lonely when they not around. You feel empty because they bring purpose to your life. What about you? Do you bring purpose to your own life? How can you when you depend on others to do that for you? in your teen years, this happened and it's brought into your home your marriage and your children do the same thing.
Have you forgotten what you love to do or, have you ever tried to find out?
Do it today! Sit still for a few minutes and think to yourself. "WHAT DO I LIKE?" You'll be totally amazed. The moment that is established, you won't feel that loneliness anymore. There's one quote that is so dear to my heart. It helped me in so many ways. I hope it will shed some light of how you need to master this loneliness and truly find God's purpose for your life. "PURPOSE", what an amazing gift.
"Loneliness is not the absence of people in your life. Loneliness is the absence of purpose. Once you have purpose, the right people will follow.
People will rule and disrespect you when you come as the tail.
People will respect and imitate you when you come and establish your dominion gifted to you by Christ.
People will find their purpose through you when you are genuine and honest about who Christ says you are.
In His Love
Leslene

This Season

It might not be seen yet or feel like it when you step out of your home, but it's definitely evident in the heart. I feel the change. I see the change of this new season in me and through me. I am so excited because God makes all things new.
Do you want to feel that awesome new change in your life? Are you tired of experiencing the same season year in and year out? Well, why don't you try what God is saying. It's so amazing. I am already excited for you. Follow the instructions below, be consistent, be committed and watch what God will accomplish in your life. It's Spring, a new season and I want you to feel it and see. Be excited and celebrate while following what God is saying.
"Anyone who intends to come with Me has to let Me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow Me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, My way, to saving yourself your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you! What would you ever trade your soul for? - Mark 8:34
Wow! Instructions for life. We can and will never go wrong when we choose to follow His word.
This is a season for your soul to prosper and it will be seen externally.
In His Love
Leslene
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Restored and "Remembered by God"

In 2012 I wrote about a friend of mine having her second miscarriage in less than a year. What a sad moment. A moment no one understood and I guess some of us still don't and never will. I don't think I ever will. I've never been in that situation, but what I do know is that God made me feel something so intimate during that time, my friend and her family was grieving, I begged God to take the pain away.
There was a moment during all their pain, as if more that just a miscarriage was taking place. It was a time we all felt that the family was so torn apart, so divided, so unhealthy and so allowed by God. You almost wanted to blame God, but a mother and a father who felt the loss more than I did, more than you did, more than the people who knows them so intimately. The two of them decided to trust God more then ever. They refused to allow the enemy to use their grieve against them. This evening while watching them from a distance, I saw not a broken family, I saw not a perfect family, but what I saw was... A scripture on the wall... I saw Joel 2:23-25
"Be glad then, you children of Zion...For He has given you the former rain faithfully...So I will restore to you the years..." What an amazing scripture coming to life within me once again. Today three years later I saw a gift remembered by God given to a once broken family... "Restored and remembered by God."
A new baby boy. I couldn't hold him and I almost felt jealous when my husband and daughter could go near him. I wanted to push them out of the way because I was yearning inside to hold a child, a promise that God never forgot about, but I couldn't hold him, at least not yet. Soon baby soon... (**,) I saw the joy and I definitely felt the joy. There was so much boasting, not of arrogance but of what God has done. He is exalted through all of this. I am reminded of what Cindy Trimm wrote; "Remember, where there are no obstacles, there are no triumphs, and there is no story to tell."
This family has an amazing story to tell and believe me, at the right time and season, the world will hear and believe in the Almighty Christ Jesus.
Three years later I am saying, "Glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more then we might ask or think." Ephesians 3:20
Go to the link below and read part 1 of this amazing story.

http://clayoungadults.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/she-is-pillar.html?m=1
In His Love
Leslene
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Day 3 - He Is On Line (My Shepherd)

This morning when I got to work, everything was offline. No one could clock in, no one could send out e-mails. The server along with everything else was off. Now I prepare myself for lots of phone calls from the different areas in the building. Just as I predicted, the calls started coming through, asking me what the problem is. I located the IT guys and while they trying to resolve the problem, I sent out an e-mail saying, they are busy resolving the problem. Now, I have a choice to be irritated by all the calls coming through, I can answer everyone's "WHY" and be irritated even more and send the e-mail to all users explaining myself only ones even though everyone doesn't have a pc or making use of the server.

Then I started looking at this whole scenario,  and should I have a problem in my personal life, I don't have to call people to sort it out. I have a God. He is the best problem solver. He is NEVER offline. He is ALWAYS available. I can COUNT on Him to NEVER let me down. You know what the problem is, why people don't go right away to God? They want to see a physical person standing in front of them. They walk by sight and not by faith. If God has sorted something out for you once, He can and will do it again.

I declare today:

The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. HE leads me to still waters. He restores my soul......When I walk through the valley of shadow of death, I will fear, NO evil.

In His Love

Leslene

Day 2 - Endless Praise "Psalm 46:10"

How amazing is the moment you see the crash coming and God leads you to His word. The word you don't really want to read and meditate on. – But when you do meditate, you get that warm feeling inside you and every detail of God's word is revealed. "Revelation upon revelation."

How can I not feel like praising God. How can i not feel like going on. How can I allow my emotions to take over my whole day and the day has so many hours still left. Your own thoughts rages at you. You feel the responsibility of so many things just come caging in like a wall falling on you and covering you- BUT at the voice of God the earth itself melts. The Lord All-Powerful is with me. (v.7)

God brings wars to an end. That war inside you. This is the reason you have a need to fast. For this reason you have to hold on. So many who does not know Christ has placed their trust in you. Your children look up to you for that extra boost, and even your husband comes to a point where he sees that x-factor in you.

The only thing you can do is take God on His word – remind Him of it and wait. Your strength will be renewed. You will not faint nor grow weary, "Why?" – the word of God is your strength.

You have no choice but to "Calm down,  and learn that He is God"(Psalm 46:10), give Him that endless praise he so much desires.

In His Love
Leslene