Valentine's Day Do Over.......
Good Morning Girls! Happy Belated Valentine's Day! I pray you all felt loved yesterday. If you didn't, I've got some Good News for you........
Every day is Valentines Day when you are a daughter of the Most High God! You are beloved! When the Lord looks upon you He smiles and says "That's my Girl. Isn't she the most beautiful, precious and perfect Girl I ever created?" And all the angels in heaven respond a glorious yes in angelic song.........
They do you know........
But sometimes we just don't feel it. Sometimes we feel as though everyone else in the world is loved by someone except for us. Sometimes we feel like we are on the outside of the love bubble looking in at everyone else smiling, laughing, and glowing in love. Sometimes we just want to pop that bubble and bring a dose of reality to those happy fools.
The happier they look the more we begin to dislike them. Envy them. And the bitterness within us grows. It is an awful feeling. We don't want to feel that way but we do. And once we start traveling down that road, it's hard to turn it around.
Yesterday for me was one of the most awesome Valentine's Days ever. I felt so very loved by so many people that it overwhelmed me. I felt as though I spent a day with the Lord all day. He kept whispering love notes in my ears by using different people in my life. I was thankful, grateful, and very aware of God's grace, mercy, and favor. I would like to do it all over again today!
But that has not always been the case for me. I have had many Valentine's Days where I felt just like the Girl described in the previous paragraphs. I have felt unloved, misunderstood, forgotten, and bitter on more than one Valentine's Day. I have watched the love train leave the station with seemingly everyone on it while I stood there alone on the platform waving sadly as they left.......and they didn't even notice. It was the loneliest feeling ever.
I know there were some of you feeling as though you were on that platform yesterday. I know it because I saw faces that looked the way I have felt. I know it because I know there are Girls who were not with their husbands yesterday. They are either gone for work, home with the Lord, or perhaps they were right along side you all day (which is the worst feeling ever).
I believe the enemy has extra fun with us Girls on Valentine's Day. He is the anti-cupid. He shoots us with arrows of lies that hit us in just the right place at just the right time. He points out our weaknesses in our marriage, our friendships, ourselves. He points out someone else's "perfect" life. He reminds of of all the reasons we are unlovable and why we deserve to be miserable on that day and every other day.
For those of you who can identify with this I want you to know that you are entitled to a Valentine's Day Do Over. Forget about yesterday. Yesterday is gone. Today though. Today, right now at this very moment YOU ARE LOVED!! You are loved by friends. You are loved by family. You are loved by people you don't even know. Most importantly YOU ARE LOVED BY THE LORD!
Not because He has to. Not because He put a ring on your finger and promised to. Not because He is obligated to in any way.
He loves you because He wants to! He loves you because it brings Him great pleasure to do so! He loves you because He created you for that very purpose.....to love you! How amazingly crazy awesome is that?
Girls, whether you had an amazing Valentine's Day or a craptastic Valentine's Day, know that you CAN have a Valentine's Day Do Over! I declare it for myself and all of you this morning! Do you receive it? I declare that we will walk in the Truth of His amazing love for us! I declare that as we walk in this revelation we will also see all of the people the Lord has put in our lives here to show His love for us! I pray that we will feel as though cupid is following us around shooting us with arrows of Truth.....reminding us of who we are in the eyes of Jesus. We are beloved. We are beloved. Oh thank you Jesus.....we are beloved........
If anyone needs a love note please e-mail me. I will be able to tell you why I personally love you!
Psalm 36:10 Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you (as we declare a Valentine's Day Do Over!!!)
Love, Grace, and more and more and more Love to you all today-
Jen
Every day is Valentines Day when you are a daughter of the Most High God! You are beloved! When the Lord looks upon you He smiles and says "That's my Girl. Isn't she the most beautiful, precious and perfect Girl I ever created?" And all the angels in heaven respond a glorious yes in angelic song.........
They do you know........
But sometimes we just don't feel it. Sometimes we feel as though everyone else in the world is loved by someone except for us. Sometimes we feel like we are on the outside of the love bubble looking in at everyone else smiling, laughing, and glowing in love. Sometimes we just want to pop that bubble and bring a dose of reality to those happy fools.
The happier they look the more we begin to dislike them. Envy them. And the bitterness within us grows. It is an awful feeling. We don't want to feel that way but we do. And once we start traveling down that road, it's hard to turn it around.
Yesterday for me was one of the most awesome Valentine's Days ever. I felt so very loved by so many people that it overwhelmed me. I felt as though I spent a day with the Lord all day. He kept whispering love notes in my ears by using different people in my life. I was thankful, grateful, and very aware of God's grace, mercy, and favor. I would like to do it all over again today!
But that has not always been the case for me. I have had many Valentine's Days where I felt just like the Girl described in the previous paragraphs. I have felt unloved, misunderstood, forgotten, and bitter on more than one Valentine's Day. I have watched the love train leave the station with seemingly everyone on it while I stood there alone on the platform waving sadly as they left.......and they didn't even notice. It was the loneliest feeling ever.
I know there were some of you feeling as though you were on that platform yesterday. I know it because I saw faces that looked the way I have felt. I know it because I know there are Girls who were not with their husbands yesterday. They are either gone for work, home with the Lord, or perhaps they were right along side you all day (which is the worst feeling ever).
I believe the enemy has extra fun with us Girls on Valentine's Day. He is the anti-cupid. He shoots us with arrows of lies that hit us in just the right place at just the right time. He points out our weaknesses in our marriage, our friendships, ourselves. He points out someone else's "perfect" life. He reminds of of all the reasons we are unlovable and why we deserve to be miserable on that day and every other day.
For those of you who can identify with this I want you to know that you are entitled to a Valentine's Day Do Over. Forget about yesterday. Yesterday is gone. Today though. Today, right now at this very moment YOU ARE LOVED!! You are loved by friends. You are loved by family. You are loved by people you don't even know. Most importantly YOU ARE LOVED BY THE LORD!
Not because He has to. Not because He put a ring on your finger and promised to. Not because He is obligated to in any way.
He loves you because He wants to! He loves you because it brings Him great pleasure to do so! He loves you because He created you for that very purpose.....to love you! How amazingly crazy awesome is that?
Girls, whether you had an amazing Valentine's Day or a craptastic Valentine's Day, know that you CAN have a Valentine's Day Do Over! I declare it for myself and all of you this morning! Do you receive it? I declare that we will walk in the Truth of His amazing love for us! I declare that as we walk in this revelation we will also see all of the people the Lord has put in our lives here to show His love for us! I pray that we will feel as though cupid is following us around shooting us with arrows of Truth.....reminding us of who we are in the eyes of Jesus. We are beloved. We are beloved. Oh thank you Jesus.....we are beloved........
If anyone needs a love note please e-mail me. I will be able to tell you why I personally love you!
Psalm 36:10 Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you (as we declare a Valentine's Day Do Over!!!)
Love, Grace, and more and more and more Love to you all today-
Jen
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