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Are you under so much stree you don't know where to turn. Believe me, I know about that but HE has promised never to foresake me and He will always take care of me. I stand on that promise! If you nod or say I know the stress I am under. I urge you to lay down your sins before the Lord and ask HIM to change you from the inside out. Sounds simple but everything changes once you really accept God's Love and the Free Gift of Salvation. Then you will experience life as a new creature following God's plan for your life. It is not easy but worth all the things that God has planned for you. What are the plans? He will show you.
Find a good bible teaching church, bible, get plugged into the right crowd, study His word, follow His ways and believe that He died on the cross and His blood covered all sins - past, presnt and future. He kept His promise by rising on the thrid day and asended into Heaven to be with His Father. He is our interssor between the Heavenly Father and us.

Then you will want to receive the Holy Spirit to live inside you. Why? That Holy Spirit is with you everywhere you go to guide you. The best part is that you are now in the family of God and God promises eternal life to those who choose His Free Gift and follow His ways.

It is so awesome to be able to pray anytime, 24/7/365 - no appointment necessary! Life is not rosey but could be worst without God in your life. And he demonstrates His Love by trials and tribulations. Just when you think you got life all figured out - you know the answer to that. God's love is awesome. To think that I have a Heavenly Father, Jesus beside me and the Holy Spirit within to help me everyday i would probably not be sitting here writing this. I have been sick with several deseases and illnesses that are not fixable but God helps me get through each day even when I think I can't take anymore I get more trials as He tests my dedication to using Faith to Believe that He will never leave me for forsake me. He will always provide for my needs even when I worry, worry and worry some more. Slowly but surely, I now go to His book of instructions, the Bible for answers- study bibles, devotionals, tapes, cd's, dvd's, etc to renew my strength.

Everyday I thank Him for helping me get through the day no matter how bad it was, how I lost my cool, how I worried then remembered to bow and pray scripture outloud for the issue I am facing.
Besides Jesus, there is a powerful evil force, the devil, Satan, that comes to rob, steal and destroy your life, joy and anything else he can do to make you questions or make you miserable. Traps that I fall into many times. Satan can't read your mind like God can. So when it gets bad, really bad, should have been done first, read scripture or quote it outloud and Satan has to flee. I know that I wait too long most of the time and the stress gets me. They say that gray hair is caused by stress. Mine is white!

Doctors can't help me. In fact, some of the treatments made things significantly worse. Even with my Maters in Nursing, I was a stupid patient and listened to the doctor. I learned years ago when I worked in intensive care that the nurses take care of the whole patient. it is a good game we play to get the orders we need for our patients. I got to be a pro but also spoke up many times. You know how that goes. Once i became a Christain, my entire outlook changed. I could not lie to my patients just like we don't lie about our products and give you the information you need. That was very hard.
SHORT STORY: Oh yes, being a nurse in ICU, we heard stories of patients that saw children in white and could feel the breeze. Jesus was coming to get them IF they belonged to HIM they died in peace knowing they would spend eternity with Him. The non-believers always were very scared. I knew that when I went into my patient's room to introduce myself and clean the room up like I would like to be cared for and if they mentions the children that they were going to die and they did. One doctor told a patient that she was nto going to die while holding her hand. Later, I asked him why he said that to her when we knew things were going downhill very fast. She looked like my mother who died at my house in a hospice program. Thankfully, my pastor and me got to witness to her and she accepted Christ. I will see her again some day. it was rough coming from a Catholic backgound with many rituals. I actually got disowned when i quit going to Mass and got saved, joined a great bible teaching church - too much for now.
MY Mom asked me one day when I got home from work; How much longer and we hugged. I asked her if she prayed that prayer with Mike and she said "yes". I said, we have at least more day together her but will be together in heaven again. i was so thankful that she finally understood why I changed.
Life got worse with a nasty divorce but I had God with me all the time. More trials than I thought I could handle, new ones everyday. All the answers were in the Bible but I had not taken the time to spend time with God everyday. Now my prayer closet is in my bathroom. My day goes awful without spending time with Him in the morning. Once I discover that i did not take the time, I have to stop, go to my prayer closet and pray and talk to God. Pray with ceasing anytime, anywhere.

I love my Lord and Savior so much even through the painful, seemingly impossible odds and getting old (is not for whimps)! Even though I am still quite ill an needing to change AKcessories retail business, I will always remember the lives we touched with our scripture candy and thanking us for being bold to proclaim Christ on the internet. I forget lots these days but I will always remember the number of people that read my "Dare to Be Different" and other scriptures and stories through out my site.

Thank you for your support through the last 10 years. Don't go another day without checking out the FREE Gift of Salvation from God. You will be eternally grateful you did. What an awesome God I serve. Join me in my journey as I wait on God to show me how I may serve Him the rest of my life. Praise God for His FREE GIFT of Salvation!
I am glad I did.