She was still highly irritated when she thought of them and certainly didn’t have them in
mind as she began to read her Bible.

Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word and Faith-Filled Friday with Kim-Evinda
and Trench Classes United.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The
commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes…

I don’t need you to convict, correct or convert them; I just need you to love them.

Her eyes widened with unexpected conviction. Nowhere in that passage was there
room for anyone else or anything else but God and the things of God.

No one or nothing is perfect; nor can anyone or anything convert, let alone convict
anyone of anything but the Word of God and God Himself. It is HE who makes wise the
simple, or the unlearned. It is His statutes that bring joy to the soul, helping the heart to
not only rejoice in the heart but to rejoice in the unlearning and learning revelations that
come to those who truly seek Him. It is His commandments that will open up the eyes of
their hearts.

Friend, is there someone getting on your last nerve? Perhaps you can put their names
in this portion of scripture for a bit of perspective? I know it’s certainly helping me

Love,
Kim-Evinda

​Tuesday Trench Truth

I’ve recently experienced this with someone close to me. There was a conflict; I thought we were working through it. I was so wrong; she unexpectedly exploded, not literally, but emotionally and poof, our friendship was in pieces.

The only hint I had was a statement she had made just a few days prior about there being tension between us for years. I literally had no idea. But as the Word of God says, out of the mouth comes what’s in the heart.

Friends, unresolved resentments lead to emotional explosions

How many notifications to you get a day…from all forms of media?

​Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench Classes
United. Today’s message is a great reminder that a lot of times, we choose our
distractions.

In a world full of notifications pulling at you to opt in
You must learn how to turn the notifications off and opt out
Protect your peace
This world needs you more than ever
To keep vigilance
And stay in prayer
On your knees

Humble yourself
Asking Lord, please
I want so badly for You take this cup i have been given
But i know right now You are simply asking me to sit in it

This uncomfortable feeling
The false lights
and noise building
My body yielding
My Soul fighting
To keep on trying

Sit in it

This uncomfortable pit
Your breath taken
Your body shaken

Live in it
and don’t for anything give in
You are so much stronger than this

Your roots deeper
The valley greater
The darkness whispers
Let’s break her

Your faith wavers

Sit in it

This isn’t it
This uncomfortable abyss
There is so much more than this

His watching eye
Peeping through the clouds of the night
There to remind
That He painted these skies
and this moment in time
Is just a small blip
In a story so much greater than this
So the question is

Can you sit in it?

As the clouds ever so slightly shift
Revealing an orange sky
Of brilliance

Can you sit in it?

Can you begin again?
Grow again?
Start over again?

As He stretches you so thin
and you begin to question
Your importance

Remember this -

All He asks is for you to sit in it
and let the true work of HIS hands
Move and shift
As you experience the true glory
His true gift-

A life fully lived
A life with Him

Here is where you sit in it
and let the reality of eternity begin…

“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen
are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Have you ever watched a friend in a new relationship? You can’t help but
see the influence of “love” in their attitude and actions, right?

Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench
Classes United.

Today’s Love Letter stresses the importance of praying for a Christ-like
love in our daily lives.

​~Love Letter~

My love, continue to pray for your love to grow and increase beyond measure, bringing
you into the rich revelation of spiritual insight in all things. This is a good prayer that I
truly desire to answer.

If you could just see and understand what love does in the lives of those around you
and throughout the world, this would change you.

Spend time in My Word and make it a vital part of your life. Spend quiet time in prayer,
listening for My voice. It's in the still, in the quiet, when I know you are listening that I
come to you.

Seek to increase your love for Me and for those in your sphere of influence. It's so
important to love the things I love and to hate the things I hate, which is sin.

I so desire that you grow and increase beyond measure in your love. People cannot
resist a person that loves. They want to be in your presence, and this gives you a great
opportunity. Beloved, everyone that you influence in turn influences others, so make it
good. 

~DebraDolce

“It was about our sixth or seventh month of homeschooling and I showed up to the kitchen table
to check my son’s work from the day before and begin our current lesson. But I brought some
things to the lesson that I shouldn’t have: anxiety over my current marital problems – and there
were many – frustration from the school day before, and just an overall crappy attitude as a
result of my past colliding with my present.
“My son sat timidly, waiting and I know that I know he was checking my emotional
temperature, and he was intuitive enough to know, it was definitely climbing.

“As I checked his work from the day before, my temperature rose, and soon my emotions
reached a boiling point, and I literally snapped as I grabbed the glass tabletop and lifted it up
and slammed it down, not once, but twice and I would have gone for a third, but it did
something that I will never forget: it shattered, everywhere!
This is a true story, and as horrid as it sounds, God used that boiling point as a breaking
point to deal with my unresolved anger.
Friends, unresolved anger doesn’t just go away; it must be looked at and dealt with.

​Join us for Surrendering to Serenity coming to a trench near you soon.

Surrendered to Serenity,
Kim-Evinda

The question hung in the air like a floating balloon, though not so pleasant to look at.
“Mom, did you test positive?”

Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes
United. Have you ever hesitated between honesty and nondisclosure? Today’s blog
shares about one of those times where fear interfered with true integrity.

“I sent you a text last night.” As soon as she said it, she knew she had made a mistake
because the text was anything but clear.
“Mom, all your text said was ‘oh, crap!’”
She started to defend herself, backed into an emotional corner by her own fears: What if
they don’t let me take my granddaughter on vacation, again? What if my son gets sick
with it again and winds up in the hospital again? What if he loses his job? What if her
eldest grandson uses this as ammunition for his opinions of her? The fears were like
firecrackers going off in her mind and all she wanted to do was run and hide, wait it out.
Within a couple of days of returning, she was feeling sick, but tested negative…the first
time. But as her cough persisted and her fever rose, her son had insisted she take
another test. It had been almost a week since returning from vacation and saying good-
bye to Ty-Ty and Bryden. She had checked on them both almost daily, asking about
symptoms, praying they were asymptomatic. When she dared to retest, it had been
positive, and the mind games began.
Her daughter-in-love’s frustration in the background brought her back to the present and
her son confirmed that she was pretty ticked off after the car door slammed.
“You should have just owned it, Mom, instead of defending yourself.”
“You’re right.” She went on to explain just a couple of her fears. Her son listened and
said he understood those fears. In the middle of their conversation, as if her own
diagnosis of Covid wasn’t enough, she heard her daughter in love return to the car and
say something to her son and slam the car door again.
“Tyler just popped positive!”
Her fears were heading towards reality at a speed she couldn’t keep up emotionally or
physically and she began to cry.
“Mom, it’s going to be okay. We’re going to pray right now.”
As he prayed, she couldn’t help but see that one twinkling star of his strength under
stress shine in what felt like her dark, desolate sky.
Before hanging up, he assured her again it would be okay; that he was concerned about
her and keeping her oxygen up where it belongs.
The next day, sitting in her quiet time, she realized her fears had overridden her integrity
and when she tried to rationalize with them, she had only made things worse. She also
had a habit of once recognizing her part in a problem of wanting to get right to the
solution…for the other party to get right to the solution. But everyone handled their own
fears differently and she was going to have to let go, let God and trust that He would
intervene on behalf of their relationship and grant understanding and grace on both
sides. In the meantime, all she could do was allow her daughter-in-love that space.
The tattoo on my arm Romans 8:28 reminds me that ALL things work together for good
for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. God can right what we
do wrong…

​Waiting,
Kim-Evinda

Did you know rage and all its forms is in the Bible 25 times! It’s safe to say that our
Heavenly Father understands rage, which is truly unresolved anger.
When someone steps on your foot, can you say ouch? What about emotionally, when
someone says or does something that either hurts you or angers you, how do you
handle it?

​The truth is many say nothing at all, but…it goes into a sort of boiling pot, the emotional
reservoir, and every single time our emotional foot gets stepped on, the pot gets added
to until eventually…even the smallest thing sends it boiling over.
Unresolved anger needs to be looked at to avoid a spill-over of emotions. Join us for
Surrendering to Serenity, coming soon.

Surrendered to Serenity,
Kim-Evinda

​Did you know that conviction whispers and condemnation screams?

Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench Classes
United. In today’s poetic message, you can literally feel the emotions of conviction
tugging on condemnation. Often, we are our own worst enemy and when we do
something we know we shouldn’t or are not where we know we need to be, how do we
handle it? Be sure and read the portion of Scripture she includes in her message.

A blanket of thick fog
Sits upon the grass
Waiting to leave its morning dew
For nature to start its day
Afresh and anew

and as I walk through
My hands disappear
My feet hindered from view

yet, here I am again, Lord
Looking for You

But the fog full of sin
Is too heavy
Too thick

How can I make it dissipate?
When it all just feels too little too late

You gave me a blank slate
and with red paint
I splattered it with my sinful human ways

My body weak
My mind tired
No discipline
No desire
How do I transpire?
Lord, won’t you take me higher?

But I’m stuck
Here in this flesh
This fog causing an even bigger mess
Lord, show me the way
Show me how to break through and truly press

Press me into new wine
Remove the wood from my eyes

I need a revelation
A renewal of my mind

​But more than anything Lord,
I need your strength
For all of time

“Seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to
life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His
own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious
and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by
lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith
supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in
your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in
your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness,
and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and
are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is
blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former
sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about
His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you
will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.” - 2
Peter 1:3-11

When asked if you’re an audible learner or visual learner, how would you respond?

Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench Classes
United.

Well, if I were to answer that question, I’d say I’m both. Today’s Love Letter confirms
this; that when we read the Word of God, it is life to our souls; and when we speak
what we read…well that’s another form of life to our lives.

~Love Letter~

My child, your words are so powerful that they will kill or give life, and the talkative
person will reap the consequences. Speak life over yourself and over those you love.
Continue to speak life that you don't negate the life you have spoken. Speak life over
your country, over your state and over your city. Then begin to speak My Word over
every situation, for My Word is life and produces life.

Come and spend time with Me. Talk to Me, then be still and listen- what do I want
today? Sit quiet in My Presence and allow Me to hover over you, touching your mind,
your heart, and your flesh.

Stop the negative twirling in your mind by speaking Scriptures and releasing your
praise. You see praise changes the very atmosphere where you are. Walk like King
David with My praises continually in your mouth.

Others will love being around a grateful person, they already receive so much
negative. Beloved, come and soak in My Presence.

​~DebraDolce

Welcome to Thursday’s Truthful Humor where we pull truth from humor.

A boy was riding his bike past a restaurant and stopped when he read a
sign that advertised fat-free French fries. 
“That sounds great,” said the health-conscious boy. He locked up his
bike and went in and ordered some. 
He watched as the cook pulled a basket of fries from the fryer.
The potatoes were dripping with oil when the cook put them into the
container. 
“Wait a minute,” the boy said. “Those don’t look fat-free.” 
“Sure they are,” the cook said. “We charge only for the potatoes. The fat
is free!”

Wow, with so much deception in all things life, we need to be filled physically,
emotionally and spiritually with things that give life that we would not be deceived in
the name of false advertising in any area of life.

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Kim-Evinda