She had come back to the table to feast on His Word, eager to continue from where she
had left off.

It’s that time of year where we will gather with family and friends to share a
Thanksgiving feast. Today’s blog is a great reminder of cultivating thankfulness in the
heart and life daily so we too can be counted as bless-ed.

She was ready to dive into the Beatitudes found in Matthew 5, but she didn’t get far.
When she read a Biblical definition for the word bless-ed, (emphasis on the two
syllables, versus blessed). Her heart was pierced with hope and conviction at the same
time. Bless-ed: “The experience of hope and joy independent of outward
circumstances.”

“How does one get there,” she wondered aloud. She felt a stirring to continue reading,
knowing that He would provide the answer if she brought a willing heart to the table.

Matthew 5:3: “Bless-ed are the poor in spirit…” she stopped. She knew from feeding her
faith for all these years that He wasn’t talking about anything monetarily. She began to
write what He was speaking to her with so few words:

This has more meaning to me now; I used to think it had to do with the poor, the not-so
lucky, but now I see so much more. It’s being willing to give when others would take; to
love when others turn to hate. To not repay evil for evil. To stay in the process of
healing is to be poor in spirit, trusting that He will right what’s been done wrong. This is
the way to become part of the kingdom of heaven.

She sat there, thankful for the relief from her ongoing anger and confusion from events
in her life over the last three+ years. Feasting at His table is where she would find her
rest and her growth all at the same time.

Friend, can I encourage you in this upcoming busy season to feast at His table daily that
you would be able to accomplish much without being stressed because you are bless-
ed, and experience hope and joy independent of outward experiences. 

Love,
Kim-Evinda

In my SOAR, (season of adultery recovery), I am learning just how
progressively sexual our culture is. Yes, today’s truth is about sex!

Being single at any age is no easy feat, especially in an ever-growing
progressively sexual culture. When I ask men (names anonymous) what
they think the Bible says about sex, I’ve heard some astounding opinions
and thoughts, from, well the Bible is outdated to, well, yeah, it says to save
yourself for marriage, but you’ve already been married, so…”

God, in His Sovereignty, confirmed thru a message within days of hearing
these thoughts His why for creating sex and the how/why of sex:

• 1. For physical comfort: outside of the covenant of marriage it brings physical diseases
• 2. For emotional intimacy and security: outside the covenant of marriage, it brings emotional insecurity.
• 3. For Spiritual union: outside of the covenant of marriage it brings spiritual confusion. His Word says it; I believe it, and if I believe it, I have to live it!

Can I encourage you friend to not treat the Bible as irrelevant in such a
relevant subject of your life as sex?

Thoughtfully,
Kim-Evinda

Have you ever watched a battlefield scene in a movie and found yourself
rooting for a certain character, or a certain group of characters?

Thanks so much for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and
Trench Classes United. Today’s poetic message I can just hear in a sort of
rap song, reminds us that the mind is a battlefield but…When we look up
and remember Who can lead us to victory, we can make our
escape…safely.

Messy heart
Messy home

Where is my abode?
Where is my love?
My light that once shone?

I no longer know
and I pray

and I seek
Trying to believe
In that girl I used to be

But no longer is she

Dead and gone
Sayonara
So long

For this isn’t a fairy song
But a battle that rages on
Tired

For so long
So tired
So wrong

Buried deep
In the day to day
Forgetting the reason
I even pray

Giving up
Giving in

To pockets of bliss
Momentary sin
As I tear down this temple of His
No longer a place the Holy Spirit desires to live

At least that’s what i tell myself
As my mind races and spins

From confusion
To doubt
To anger and shouts
What is this even for or about?
I give up

I give in
Down on my knees
Praying again
For something other than this cup I’ve been given

and I look up at the full moon in the sky
Shining bright no matter the hour of the night
and wonder why?

Phasing through every season
and cycle of life
It still shines

Because it’s gift
Is light

Not power or might
But simply to shine

Reminding us all
That our God is the God that holds time

Nothing on this earth
Of value or of worth
Has ever been mine
But given to me
By the One True Vine

For He is all power
All glory
All might
Loving me still through
This dark cloud covered nights

“And I thought how [gloriously and honorably] I would set you among My children and give you a
pleasant land, a goodly heritage, the most beautiful and best [inheritance] among all the nations! And I
thought you would call Me My Father and would not turn away from Me…A voice is heard on the bare
heights, the weeping and pleading of the sons of Israel, because they have perverted their ways, they
have [eagerly] forgotten the Lord their God. Return, O faithless sons, [says the Lord, and] I will heal your
faithlessness. [And they answer] Behold, we come to You, for You are the Lord our God.” - Jeremiah
3:19,21-22

Have you experienced observing someone close to you searching,
wondering and wandering for purpose?

Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench
Classes United. While we are not to be everyone’s answer for their own
purpose, we each have a part in helping others find their purpose.

~Love Letter~
My warrior, don't allow yourself to be weary in planting good seeds, for the season of
reaping the wonderful harvest you've planted is coming!

This is good instruction and one I continually call you to. Remember I am with you
always and that should give you the incentive and strength to do good.

So many of your brothers and sisters are struggling, in the physical, emotional, in their
finances; and some are starving for fellowship with other believers. You would be
surprised how many people, even in My church, are lonely.

Look for ways to come alongside them, to be observant for opportunities to do good.
Maybe all you can do is pray; then be very diligent in your praying and the needs of
others will be met because of your diligence.

Only the seeds you plant will be what your harvest produces, some thirty, some sixty
and some a hundredfold. You can and will increase as you give of yourself, your time,
and your money. You should be excited to see what returns to you, sometimes at the
most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Beloved, I am full of love and compassion that I desire to lavish upon My children. 
~DebraDolce

​Our understanding of His sovereignty in and through all circumstances must be
accompanied by our understanding of His characteristics: loving, merciful, long-
suffering, to name a few.
What characteristics of God have you experienced today?
What if we were to think on those experienced characteristics in and thru the tough
times?
See, challenges, tough times may shake our faith IN Him, but they don’t shake His love
for us.

Truthfully,
Kim-Evinda

PS- ​I'd like to wish my amazing granddaughter Tyler Burton an incredibly happy 14th birthday. Nana loves you immensely!

​Lord, speak to me through Your Word; open up the eyes of my heart and
help me hear you.

She reached for her Bible, headed for Matthew 18 to review what she had
been reading and studying…but He had other plans.

Have you ever been stopped in the midst of a thought process and taken
down a different road? Today’s blog is a great reminder that when we invite
Him into our time of reading His Word, He shows up quietly but powerfully.

(Jeremiah 18:3b-4)
“There He was, making something at the wheel. 4 And the vessel that He
made of clay was marred” …

With the words came a pictured revelation: she was the vessel…marred by
betrayal, scarred by the taunting that had persisted for three years leading
to her now ex-husband abandoning the covenant he had made 17+ years
prior. She continued to read:

“--while in His hands.”

​The vision she saw brought tears of sadness and gratefulness
simultaneously. She saw Him holding her back when it started and felt Him
holding her even now.

She sat in that peaceful revelation for a few moments and as the picture
became even more clear, the long-awaited and silently-searched-for
answer popped like the most beautiful explosion of color that she had ever
seen or experienced. This divine moment dawned like an incredible
majestic sunrise and as she continued to read:

“--and so He made it again into another vessel.”

She now understood, and His whisper confirmed, that it wasn’t His will for it
to have ended the way it did, for her to have endured all that she had for
three+ years, however, {emphasis added] while it was going on, He was
holding her…oh, so close…and when others’ choices had taken place, He
set about refining her thru it, protecting her, providing for her, and preparing
her for whatever was to come next.

This whisper of understanding filled her with a never-before-experienced
kind of love that kept her and would continue to keep her in her Father’s
hand.

Friend, the truth is everything that happens to us goes thru our Father’s
hand; however, only He has the power to right what was done wrong to us
if we remain in His hand, on The Potter’s wheel.

​Love,
Kim-Evinda

There are usually three reasons our faith-legs become wobbly in the journey:
          I. The mistaken thought that life should be easy or easier, that God will
               prevent and/or protect us from tragedies that affect us and those we love.
          II. We don’t understand His sovereignty, so we lose confidence in His ability to
               get us through any tragedy.
          III. We have no concept of our identity in Him and our value to Him!
I pray these truths soak into your soul and are lived out in your life.
Love,
Kim-Evinda

Unglued…to be separated from that which you are glued to…
Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench
Classes United. What is it you do when you feel like things are falling apart,
or nothing’s going the way you thought it would? Do you become unglued
from Him who is in ultimate control? Today’s message is a great reminder
of our human condition…and His love for us despite us.

I am incomplete
and I can’t compete
With the voices and the thoughts
That pull me in
and drag me on

Making me believe
This life isn’t meant for me

Un-whole
Incomplete

Who would want
Or even dare to love
The likes of me?

The dark parts
Hidden in my heart
That I’ve been waiting to be removed

But too little
Too late

and I’ve come unglued
Letting them hinder
My every move

What’s the use?

To be bright
To be clean
Seems to me
A farfetched dream

No longer is she
The joyful girl she used to be

and I hold on to this small string
Of hope
As i muster the strength
To believe this is God’s way

Of refining me
and renewing me
Into the creation
He only knows
and He only sees

That future version of me

Pure white
With a soul that shines

That girl is there
and that woman is me

If I can just hold on
To this hope
and choose to believe
In a God that only has goodness
and mercy for me.

Zechariah 13:9
KJV
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and
will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It
is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Malachi 3:2
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
2 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For
He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap;

1 Corinthians 3:13
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
The work of each [one] will become [plainly, openly] known (shown for what it is); for the
day [of Christ] will disclose and declare it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire
will test and critically appraise the character and worth of the work each person has done.

​Have you ever done something for someone only to feel like you’re the one who got the
blessing?

Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench Classes
United. Today’s love letter is a reminder that keeping close to Christ brings out a
kindness that keeps on giving and makes life worth living.

Love Letter~
My love, if anyone drinks the living water I give them, they will never be thirsty again.
For when you drink the water I give you, it becomes a gushing fountain of the Holy
Spirit, flooding you with endless life! Come and drink of Me.

When you come closer to Me, spending time with Me and studying My Word, then the
Holy Spirit will flood you and you can walk the same walk and do the same things I did.
To be a blessing to others is such a blessing.

There are so many in need all around you. Some may be secretly hurting in your own
house or family. Are you sensitive to those closest to you? Do you look for ways to
encourage, even strengthen others?

When you put My Word into practice you are a living epistle, known and read by all. You
have the wonderful opportunity to influence everyone you come in contact with. Now
that's exciting?

When you spend time with Me each day, you'll be all geared up to go out and make a
difference all around you.
​
Beloved, the lives you touch will in turn touch others, and others… 
~DebraDolce

Last week I touched on the difference between being angry at God versus with God,
which is at denotes a distance from God while with reveals closer to Him. But let me
take that a step further today and go into some reasons we become angry at God:

There are usually three reasons for anger directed at God:

• I. The mistaken thought that life should be easy or easier, that God will prevent and/or protect us from tragedies that affect us and those we love.
  
• II. We don’t understand His sovereignty, so we lose confidence in His ability to get us through any tragedy and trial.
  
• III. We have no concept of our identity in Him and our value to Him!

Do any of these truths resonate with you? Drop me a comment; let’s chat.

Thoughtfully and humbly,
Kim-Evinda