Living Word Women's Conference 2011

Calling all YOUNG ADULT LADIES of LWFC...please check out this video! The women are hoping YOU are present... Promo

Feed one, Starve the other..

Ever see those starving children in foreign countries exploited on TV? Bones showing, skin frail, weak, hungry, desperate, sickly, susceptible. All because of malnourishment. Its a sad reality. Now flip the script: Ever see those figures who pose at Fitness Competitions? Muscle in hidden places, flexing without trying, ripped from head to toe, strong, well fed, poised, under control. All because of training and eating healthy. Imagine having both of those figures (the helpless starving child and the fitness buff) living inside of you. Well you do! One is called your spirit man and the other is your flesh. Reality is, one is surely stronger than the other. How did it get that way you ask? Because while we are busy feeding, training and giving disciplined attention to one, the other is sitting by helplessly starving and becoming susceptible to malnutrition. This sad reality gripped me as I took survey of my own life. My actions, thoughts, words and attitudes reminder to me of which "man" in me is being fed and which is starving. Either my flesh is becoming a glutton for the unhealthy things I watch, listen to and repetitiously behaviors thus revealing a toned and buff figure who struggles to say "no" to unhealthy desires OR my spirit is being given constant and daily nourishment through scripture reading, devos, podcasts, prayer, discipline and fasting (starving my flesh man) and thus yielding a godly woman who wants what God wants and hates what God hates! I must say I find myself back at the drawing board often because I want so bad for my Spirit man to be buff and my flesh to be frail...but if I dont feed the one AND starve the other, my demise is soon to follow! #truth

Memoirs of an Abusive Relationship

I was introduced to him
suspect from afar
yet seductive and intense ~ mouth ajar
Wooing and doting;
swag un-parallel
Love and attention,
filling my yearning well

Time,
control,
wanting only me
signs unfold
of wreckless jealousy
"Do what I say!" "
Be what I say!"
No moral fence
Each request
never enough,
growing more intense

Now hating myself,
Indulged in addictions
hoping myself to be free
Embarrassed,
needing to get out ...
abused effortlessly!

Killing my flesh is like leaving an abusive relationship that you hate that you love. It's realizing you've been attached to this person you've grown to love; accustomed to their ways and figuring out that all their actions have been mistaken for intense feelings of care or concernt. Sin habits abuse us physically be slapping us around; emotionally by teasing us and threatening to expose us if we leave; and sexually by raping us through experiences we don't necessarily desire to participate in. The ability to be free in Christ is possible and paid for at a high cost! Killing the pattern feels like escaping an abusive lover. It's necessary and the Spirit who lives inside can keep us free!