Faith-Filled Friday We are surrounded by challenges, whether those of our own or those we
know. Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench Classes United. Today’s Love Letter is a great reminder that nothing knocks Him off His throne and all things will be used for our good and His glory if…we allow Him in it to rise above it. ~Love Letter~ You all experience times of testing, which is normal for every human being. But I will be faithful to you. I will screen and filter the severity, nature, and timing of every test or trial you face so that you can bear it. Each test is an opportunity to trust Me more, for along with every trial I have provided for you a way of escape that will bring you out of it victoriously. Each thing you go through is an opportunity for your faith to increase and be strengthened. As you hold on to My promises, believing them for you during your testing, you will experience victory. Stand on My Word and believe that all you are experiencing will be used for your good and My glory. This should encourage you and even give you strength. Remember I will be faithful to you. You should be excited to watch yourself grow, to see yourself standing on My Word. Your victory will be a great light for others around you. Beloved, continually surrender the things that come at you so that you can overcome them all. ~DebraDolce
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Thursdays Trench Truth This past week in our How to Love Who you Love trench, I asked this
question and was not surprised by the response: How many of you are going through a situation right now that feels almost hopeless? Almost everyone raised their hand! Letdowns can knock us down or cause us to rise, especially when we keep our eyes on the Author of Hope. Join us for Living fueled by Hope to learn how to not fall down when others let us down. Hopeful, Kim-Evinda Wednesday Word After her journaling time, she reached for her study on Isaiah, praying for understanding
to dispel her insecurities about this particular study. Within the first paragraph, she kept hearing “Matthew 6.” After the third time, she remembered the assignment they were to do before the next board meeting. She reached for her Bible, eager to begin. Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes United. Have you ever wondered how to apply what you read in the Bible to your life? Today’s blog offers a solution for this very powerful principle, one that will help us to not only abide in His word but be changed by it. She remembered the first part of the assignment, which involved four things so that’s where she started. In her mind she rewound to the day before, scene by scene and prayed: God, please forgive me for certain attitudes, actions and negative words of yesterday towards those I love. Cleanse my heart that I can come to Your table clean.: 2 God wash my mind of anything learned in the past about this portion of scripture that I might learn new truths, new revelations for where I am today and where you want to take me. 3 God, show me how this applies to my life, in my life today and 4 grant me the courage to carry these out. Amen. So as I read through the first six verses, with many stops along the way, certain words sent me on a sort of personal detour as conviction seeped into my soul. I mean, it started in verse 1! “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.” When we do something good, kind, generous, it needs to be for an audience of One. I’ve been known to make sure the person at the register taking my order saw me put a tip in there. Or how about boasting about all I’ve done for someone? Can you relate? As I continued, the conviction seeped deeper, though not necessarily just for myself, but I’ve always struggled with how to maneuver through the whole social media platform thing with our ministry because of these words from Jesus Himself:: 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you (announce what you’re going to do) as the hypocrites (people who do eternal acts with earthly, hollow motives) in the synagogues and in the streets (social media can be replaced here) that they may have glory from men. Assuredly I say to you they have their reward (on earth but not in heaven!). I can’t help but smile as I realize I only got through the first four verses of this passage And yet, my heart is heavy with this burden: how do we utilize social media as a way to encourage, draw others in without shouting about the good we’re doing, will do or can do? His word is clear about not letting the left hand know what the right is doing, in other words, in secret, for an audience of One. I know I can’t change, control or convince others, Lord, but keep my motives pure as I use cyber space to heed the call. Thoughtfully, Kim-Evinda Tuesday Trench Truth Why do we have such a hard time talking about depression, despair?
Maybe if we talked about it more openly, there would be less suicide, and more victory in overcoming it. See, true despair can be defined with this acrostic: Denying Emotional Support Personally and Internally Regressing. Life was never meant to be lived or figured out alone. Join us for our Living fueled by Hope trench to learn how to embrace emotional support personally and internally and move forward instead of backwards for a brighter future filled with acceptance and understanding with new friends who become like family. Hopeful, Kim-Evinda Monday Message What is it that you do when going through a gut-wrenching time in your life?
Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench Classes United. Today’s poem is a great reminder that praise in the midst of a problem brings victory on so many levels. My heart Is screaming My eyes Bleeding Bloodshot from staying awake The sleepless nights Calling out Your Name Yeshua Yahweh Show me the way The way out Removing all my fears and releasing all my doubts My heart belongs to You But this wall has kept You out Brick by brick I lay Lie on top of lie and sin on top of sin Crushing under the weight Of what was built by my own hate Crying out, “Abba, Father, let me in!” and I hear you whisper in the wind I’ve been here all along Holding on Patiently waiting To hear your battle cry Blow the trumpets Shout My Name For it is not by works But by grace That you have been saved Your Holy Spirit opens the gate Not a second too soon Or a moment too late For this is a battle and for this moment i prayed To fall down in Your glory As Your Spirit adorns me In power and wonder We will never asunder Every tide that pulled me under Only drew me in As my faith began to swim and when i sank You held out Your mighty hand Always drawing me back in How gracious You are! Faith-Filled Friday In a world of distractions, how do we prioritize what really matters?
Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench Classes United. Today’s “Love Letter” is a great reminder that when we put Him first in all we do, our heart will not betray us. Love Letter~ The seed sown among thorns represents one who receives the message, but all of life's busy distractions, their divided heart, and their ambition for wealth result in suffocating the kingdom message and it becomes fruitless. While that is not My will for you, I know it is easy to slip into distractions when you become busy. Do you not know that it is the busyness that is the distraction and that leads you to a divided heart. And then there’s the ambition for wealth, which has been proven to suffocate My Word, especially as the ambition for wealth takes over your desire and ambition for Me. This is seen as you fill your heart and life with things you think will satisfy. The more you fill your life, the less fulfilled you feel. Now your life is full of these fruitless things and none of them bring satisfaction to you and you've lost your way. When the recognition comes, come to me and repent; surrender this weakness to Me. Return to Me, your first love so that we may have fellowship again. I will not compete with any of the things of this world that you think are important. Beloved, remember to seek Me first and I will add all the other things to you. ~DebraDolce Thursdays Trench Truth “It’s the ‘I’ll never’ syndrome. I’ll never be this or that. I’ll never have this look, or that body or enough money or the right whatever. Since I was a child, I have always felt a sense of despair which then I would over-compensate with laughter or jokes or being the class clown. But my sense of despair would keep me up at nights with nightmares and/or panic attacks, plaguing my mind with scenes that were definitely fictitious to the core. My sense of self-worth was wrapped up in a façade of others’ opinions of me, for example, my mother, teacher, or friends. What they thought of me must have been the true me, so I traveled with their opinion, heavy on my back. This lack of self-worth (Symptom 3 of the Root of Despair) prevented me from doing more for myself, setting goals, and keeping them. Many times, my sense of hope was gone because my sense of self was so diminished that I could not see the future. I felt stuck. I wasn’t worthy of anything and didn’t matter to anyone.” While her struggle didn’t address a specific situation, we can see what a sense of despair does to us: it sends us looking for hope in all the wrong things, places, and people, seeking the basic needs of life: to be loved, accepted, and approved of. Friends, we were all born with the need to love and be loved, to accept and be accepted. Join us for Living Fueled by Hope to learn how to do this healthily coming to a trench near you in April. Hopeful Kim-Evinda Wednesday Word She smiled as she read about each of the plagues the Lord brought about
in the days of old, not because they were funny in any way, but because again, truths pranced off the pages and into her heart, dancing with joy and stomping on the lies she’d been every so subtly buying into Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes United. Today’s word is a great reminder that there’s always something to learn from His Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (Bible). I had gotten through the seventh plague (hail) and was noticing some common themes and some powerful truths that I just can’t help but share, especially considering what is becoming a common belief: that the Bible is outdated and full of bigotry. See, truth is never outdated, never gets old and though it may be painful to swallow and/or accept at times, (more often than not ) it is always relevant for us on our way to Heaven. So getting back to Moses, Pharoah and the plagues, there are many truths that I’ve gleaned thus far, but allow me to share the first one that brought light to my current circumstance and this loooooong season of healing: Moses ALWAYS obeyed, no matter how humiliated or frustrated he may have felt, he NEVER said no, I won’t do what you ask or say what you tell me to say! That’s not to say that he didn’t question God’s requests, but he didn’t allow his fears, his doubts, his frustration and/or his pride to interfere from obedience. Friends, that one truth alone is enough to chew on for a while, because no matter what kind of pressure we are under, whether it’s pressure from others, or a certain someone or a particular circumstance, God blesses obedience. As you read from the Oldest Book in the World (the most popular, I might add) I encourage you to ask Him how the truths apply to you, to your life in your current circumstance… Thoughtfully, Kim-Evinda Tuesday Trench Truth Thanks for joining us for Tuesday’s Trench Truth.
Most of us desire pretty much the same things, Somebody to love, someone who loves us in return; however, there are many who may not recognize and/or acknowledge these needs. This leads us to put our hope in others. If our childhood was interrupted in any way, or void of the deserved nurturing, there is a much stronger propensity to place our hope in others. When others let you down, do you fall down, or are you able to rise up without resentment? Join us for Living Fueled by Hope to learn how to not others knock you down when they let you down. Monday Message When my dog wants to go out and play – too often in the day -- I find
myself saying wait, hold on, wait to my fur baby but when I am told to wait… Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench Classes United. How about you, when you’re asked to wait…indefinitely, how do you respond? It is in the waiting that perfecting happens. To be baptized by Your fire Is my soul’s true desire Holy Spirit consume me Lend me Your strength and grant me Your power Why you ask would I desire Something so dire? To bask in Your presence Shekinah Yahweh I am ready to fight But my heart is armored up These walls they can’t break Until Your Holy Spirit takes His place In my heart In my arms The tingling sensation Of becoming one in Your nation With my sword I cut through Every lie of the enemy and every attempt to tempt me Knowing my family and generation is watching and depending on me To close every door Of curses that lure and entrance our hearts In a web of deceit Making us not believe That our Father in heaven Is more than ready and willing To be our escape Our saving grace and by the blood of His Son We become one Of His children His sheep Mild and meek Eating our bread From the palm of His hand Because we asked He said: “,,,Behold, I will send forth upon you What My Father has promised; but remain in the city Until you are clothed with power from on high.” Luke 24:49 and all we must do is ask and believe Wait and receive |
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