Deflection

Working with people is an interesting gig. There are so many directions we can go as humans. I have observed that the easy way is the least loving but sometimes the most financially beneficial. 

Accommodating a client can keep them in your work Rolodex and schedule, but there is a price to pay in integrity when it is compromised often. Here are some for instances that entrepreneurs face on a regular basis:

1. Late client. Do we give them the full amount of session time or stay on schedule?

2. No show with payment. Do we accept money repeatedly for services not rendered?

3. Non-payment. How do we handle a client that owes us cash?

4. Abusive client. When do we call it quits if someone is rude, crude or lewd?

5. Client is not working toward goals. Do we keep taking money to pay our bills at the expense of working with a stagnant client?

6. Mismatched client and service provider. Is it ok to continue to work with someone that grates on the nerves?

7. Client has reached maximum potential in goal accomplishment with the services you have provided. When do you cut the client loose? What is the criteria for saying it was great working with you, and I wish you well. 

8. Client disappears. How do we handle the disappearance of a client with whom we thought we had a great rapport? How many times do we reach out to see if there is a road back to repair what might be perceived as a slight or insult from us to them?

Right service provider

Dear reader, deflection is an easy road to travel. I could make quick and dirty excuses for why clients have come and gone from my life, but that would simplify what is sometimes complex.  I have had clients for twelve years, seven years, two years and one session. Lots of one session clients! Maybe that was all they needed, or maybe I just wasn't the right service provider for them. 

It used to bother me when I tried my very best and a client would disappear without explanation. But then again, I have done the very same thing! It is easy to pay money, get a service and skedaddle, if we feel like we don't want to explain our reasons for departure. I have a close friend named Christine Hanenburg, that is extraordinary at repairing what is strained and stressed in relationship. I love listening to her when she shares how she places one golden stepping stone in front of the other to return her and the one she is estranged from, back onto the same path of healthy relating. 

I have this capability too, and so do you, dear one. But sometimes, the person we miss or want to reconnect with, has travelled so far from us, that they become the dearly departed! A ghost in the night that we cannot fathom or grasp hold of ... like they never were! 

Take responsibility  

Recently, I apologized to some people. I felt like I owed them that, because there was a rift. There are lots of those that need repair right now, wouldn't you agree? When I think of someone I love and spent intimate time with, I get a little teary, because so much stuff and nonsense has driven us apart. I have to take responsibility for my part in the great divide, and what I want most is peace with the people God places in my days. I don't want any regrets.

So here are my answers to the questions above:

1. Give your client the benefit of the doubt. You have been late before too, isn't that right? If the client is chronically late, you tell them that sessions will start at the appointed time. Chances are good that they will be on time for the next scheduled session. This works, because it is honest and restores respectful appreciation for each others time. 

2. Do expect and except money for no shows. I establish early in the relationship that it is the client's responsibility to make payment when they do not have a reasonable explanation, like an emergency, for missing their session. But, dear one, taking money that is not earned is like eating chips for dinner every night. You will feel dissatisfied and unhealthy after a while. I want to see results in my clients. I don't want to take money I have not earned, it doesn't feel right.

3. When a client does not pay, don't be shy in asking for the cash they owe you. They pay for their groceries and gas, and can't leave the liquor or beer store with bottles if they don't pay at the till. Your services are valuable. They should be uncomfortable when they take from you without renumeration! Just ask, and most clients will feel a bit embarrassed for not having sent you funds! 

The ones that don't want to pay for services rendered or products received are thieves. Once you have been gypped once or twice, ask for the money one last time and if they do not pay, right them off as bad debt and let it go. 

4. Firstly, you must be honest with yourself about how you feel when you are with certain people. I had a client that was a prominent lawyer in town. In our first personal training session, he shared that he had hundreds of VHS recordings of pornography. He told me not to worry about him trying anything with me since he was impotent. Within our first session he was establishing an abusive relationship. I tried my very best to be professional and I did a lot of deflecting by changing the subject, and pretending he wasn't saying inappropriate things during our sessions. It got to the point that when I thought of working with him, I would get jittery and anxious. It took his son who joined us for a training session, to say to his father "you can't talk to her like that" for me to realize what I had been putting up with. I called him on his behaviour, leaving a message on his phone line asking him to either take the high road and stop the sexual harassment, or we would cease and desist our work together. He called back and said we would cease and desist. I found out later that he had a reputation for sexual harassment and I also learned, that he black listed me when he was asked for my number by a potential client. I got the client by the way, because I had a decent reputation as a trainer. It didn't matter what the abuser had to say : my work ethic spoke for itself. 

My point here, dear one, is don't let anyone's position of prominency stop you from firing them when they are rude, crude, or lewd. It isn't worth the stress or money to work with people who believe they are above reproach, and in this man's case, above the law. 

5. Status quo is a common homeostatic stopping place for some people. Emotionally, psychosocially, physically and spiritually, some people like remaining where they are. I had a client that would accomplish her goals only to backslide and reset. She had a pattern of being her own project. Once I figured out that we were on a repeat, I understood my frustrations while working with her. She would say one thing and do another, sabotaging her progress with such consistency, that I realized we would be on a perpetual loop. Eventually, we stopped working together, because she was consistently inconsistent: if you can figure this concept out, then you have experienced what I have!

6. Just because you have a service you provide, it doesn't mean everyone is your potential customer or client. If working with someone makes your upper lip curl, then you have disdain. This means it is unkind and unprofessional to take their money while wishing you didn't have to work with them to earn it. I have turned down clients when I knew I would have that sandpaper to my soul feeling if I worked with them. They deserve to have someone that wants to invest in their well-being, not someone that can't wait for the hour to be up, so they can get away from the client! Don't feel badly saying no. There are other people that they can search and find to assist them. 

7. It is always wonderful to watch a client progress to the point where they simply do not need you anymore. This is the goal, for clients to become independently strong, knowing that with or without assistance, they can and will accomplish the goals they have set out to complete. 

I have what I call candy clients. They are highly motivated, set goals willingly, and accomplish them with vigour. They are honest about their shortcomings and always willing to do the work of addressing what isn't working, along with course correcting to better modes of relating and living. It is a pleasure to work with them, and it is sweet sorrow to see them go. I know I have done a good job when they start coaching themselves with confidence, and we mutually agree to a decrease in coaching frequency. Saying goodbye may be hard, because you really look forward to sessions with these vibrantly alive clients. But alas, each bird once fully grown, must fly and be free on their own. 

8. When a client disappears, it can feel like the wind has been sucked out of your sails. I have had this experience multiple times since starting by first business in 1996. Over time, an entrepreneur learns to not take things personally. While it is important to assess what may have gone wrong, we cannot read the minds of others, and speculation does not provide answers. If you cannot get in contact with the person that has disappeared to clear the air, then they do not want to be found! 

I usually try once or twice, and then let them go. They have their own reasons for distancing themselves, and we might never know the why of their decisions. Suffice it to say that people come and go, and that is the nature of being in business. Even the best and longest term relationships can end abruptly, and it isn't about whose at fault, sometimes the circumstances are beyond the control of either party. 

Loving in truth

I started out writing about the concept of deflecting, and how that is an easier and sometimes more financially beneficially road to travel when relating. This may be true, but humans that crave intimacy demand more from each other in the forms of commitment and trust. I want to trust that when I am being provided a service, it is for my benefit, and not just a way for someone to line their pockets. 

We all want to be valued, and this motivates me to become a better, kinder, honest all the time relator. The hope is that when I speak truth even if it repels some, that they someday see it as a gift they would never want to give back. 

Deflecting for a time may work but, dear one, what is the price we pay when we put off loving in truth?

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ (Ephesians 4:15)

If each of us speaks truth in love, we will grow up, maturing into who we are in Him, in all things! Christ is the model of truth being spoken in love. Being like Him is the ultimate goal 💞

Justy Not Tru deau

I'm different from everyone else. What happens to them just doesn't happen to me. The rules are different too; they don't apply the same way. I make the rules and other people follow them, not the other way round.

I resent it when people don't do as I say. That is a daring thing to do in my company. Who do they think they are? Don't they realize how stupid it is to defy me, ME!

Tiny tails

Sometimes I find myself being very generous with my patience. I allow them some leeway, to give them the idea that they have choice. But what I really enjoy, is trapping them by their ugly little tails, holding them upside down by the tip, and watching them squirm and writhe, struggling to be released so they can scurry off to do whatever rodents do. They make me sick. 

They have no stature, no dignity, no strength or command. There is nothing admirable  in them to mention here. I would have to work extraordinarily hard to come up with something remotely nice to say about any of them. It is beneath me anyway, so let's not pretend it is worth my effort.

It is all up to me

I have big plans. I like nice things. I enjoy being served in every way. Food, drink, sex, all available to me whenever I want any of it, or none of it. I get to choose when and where and how and who. It is all up to me and always has been. 

I am one of those rare people that calls the shots. Everyone has to listen and heed. That is the way it is and that is the way it will be. If someone doesn't like what I tell them to do, I deem them unacceptable for life, and they will be marked thusly. I make sure everyone knows that I do not approve of their complete disregard of my commands. How dare they defy me 😡

Drop you hard

I don't really care if you like me or hate me. Your opinion is worthless and I disregard it without consideration. I am the one who's opinion matters, so the sooner you recognize this fact, the better off you will be. Stop with the senseless struggling you little rat, I have you in my clutches, and I can drop you hard and fast on that puny head of yours, and splatter your tiny brains under my heel. Come to think of it, these are nice shoes, I will get someone else to eliminate you. I have lots of workers, and they like nice things too.

Consider yourself informed of what I think of you, and what I will do to you if you simply are too stupid to do as I say. One way or another, I always win. You just keep that in mind, you pea brained idiot. 

Signed, 

The Right Honourable Prime Sinister of C🇨🇦nada,

Justy Not Tru de🏴‍☠️u

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Listening With Critical Eyes

Fidgeted and fussed

Yesterday I forced myself to objectively listen to and watch the Prime Minister of Canada give a speech. Behind him to his right, the Deputy Prime Minister fidgeted and fussed, looked here, then there, and back again. She was shifty and clearly experiencing discomfort. The PM on the other hand was calm and steady as he described his own activities and their resultant consequences, while attributing them to those that refuse to comply with his dictated mandates. 

When I described this to a friend of mine, she stated "Mirroring totally". That was a couple of hours ago. Just now I experienced one of those ah ha moments, perking up with an understanding of this technique. It is not new to me and I have been taught the skill on more than one occasion in counselling and coaching courses, but to use mirroring for gaslighting and maniacal manipulation is foreign and so wicked, it slipped past me like a phantom in the night! 

Establish trust

Mirroring a person's body language, facial expressions and even tone, can bring about empathetic unity, and comfort the one being mirrored. This is useful if someone is anxious or nervous about sharing for the first time, and it helps establish trust. It is reassuring to have someone seemingly feel what you feel and respond the way you do. The mirroring must not be practiced or mechanical, it is not a manufactured way of establishing rapport. I state this while assuming that the person in the counselling or coaching seat, has the best of intentions for their client and actually does experience empathy, and compassion too, while their client is sharing. 

Perpetrator feigning innocence

Not so with those that not only want to set tone, but deliberately direct a captive audience to look where they point, to prove that someone else is a threat, and dangerous to their well-being. The deflecting leader establishes a power imbalance to create the impression that they are the protector, defending the victim from the murderous villain. It is a triangulation set up. The falsified hero of the story in this scenario is sneaky, and in actuality a perpetrator feigning innocence. 

Counterfeit kindess

The Canadian PM is masterful in his comfortingly quiet gentle tones, his soft facial expressions, and his shifting from foot to foot while scanning, to engage the reporters in attendance when he does a press release. With counterfeit kindness, he spews venomous lies, describing despotic behaviours that he engages in shamelessly, while attributing them to those that behave in polarized opposite ways. He is playing to a small and previously seduced crowd that cannot face the damning truth, that they were duped. He must hold them to his sorry story to keep them in a state of stupor in order to continue his conniving. 

The heart is wicked according to scripture, and there is evidence of this truth all around us. 

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

Naïveté

The mistake I see many making repeatedly, is not comprehending the existence of evil. Some people are committed to executing wickedness on every possible level. Naïveté and self-indulgence lead a sizeable number of the population to believe most people are "good", but this is clearly not what scripture indicates. We are like naughty children that perpetually want our own way, and must be disciplined and corrected in order to show any signs of remotely being "good". This is why so many of us feel perennially bad! We know what we are capable of thinking, saying, and doing. The difference between a wicked person and a contrite one, is conscience! It hurts a bad person that wants to be good, when they betray God or their fellow man. Not so with the chronically psychopathic.

Words as weapons

The PM has had extensive training in narcissistic navigations. He is charming while aiming sharp objects at his opponents, using words as weapons. To argue with him is a fools endeavour, and a waste of time never to be retrieved. He lies proficiently, and manages to stay resolute despite the waves of hate directed at him from all quarters of the globe. He is adept as a salesman of savagery but underneath it all, he has been bolstered and bubble wrapped for this moment in the crimson glow of the blood moon. The indoctrinated are the indoctrinators, and the funny thing is, he has no clue that he is subject to God, as he attempts to secure his own kingdom here on earth. 

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple (Romans 16:17-18)

Eating mud pie

He has a hellish father and cohorts that speak the same vile language of lies. But he is want to understand that his demise is imminent. Clearly the drama teacher did not study with seriousness, the history of men that behaved as he does. It is only a matter of time before we each get our just desserts, and some will be eating mud pie a little sooner than others! Not that I can predict death dates, dear one! I just acknowledge here, that we will all return to the dust of the earth when our days on it are done. 

Pray for him

Christians all over the world are praying for the PM and those he influences. We simply must for the sake of their souls, and because God commands us to do so. Believe me when I tell you that praying for him requires humility after witnessing what he has done. But I know from personal experience, that no one is beyond God's reach!  

While I periodically pray for the repentance of the PM and his underlings, along with all the wicked ones that have committed heinous criminal acts, I pray more for those that have suffered at the hands of the blood thirsty. God help them as they face the trials and tribulations that await them when they reconcile themselves with Truth. 

Sanctity of life

In the mean time we see the actual meanness of those that speak violence and death. Those for whom the sanctity of life is a mere trifle to be toyed with. They are the ones that are duly warned thusly:

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man (Genesis 9:6)

God takes image bearing seriously. We are to be reflections of Him and His love. The wicked reflect their father, and LORD help them, I don't know how they can look in the mirror without scaring the hell out of themselves 😈 

We must listen with critical eyes. This is a hearing and watching skill set that we can develop so that the detection of frauds is made simple when they are in our faces! Use this technique to save yourself from being duped:

• Watch
• Listen
• Learn
• Discern
• Read scripture and compare men to Christ not to other men

Let us end in prayer

Dear God:

We pray for the salvation of souls, including those that have travelled far from you. We know that no-one is beyond your reach, and our hope is repentance for the Prime Minister of Canada. 

Please forgive me Father, for my irritation in his continued position of power. Your timing is perfect, and I am repeatedly reminded that You are Sovereign, and since You created the universe and all creatures inhabiting earth, I will relinquish what I perceive as personal control over the situation, once again to Your will and Your way. 

In Jesus Risen Name

Our Father, who art in heaven ... 

Groggy

Groggy. I am groggy like I went to a party where I ate and drank too much, to entertain myself long enough to be able to justify my departure. 

I was stuck

Years ago I attended a party that most would think of as spectacular. The house was gorgeous, the people were stunning, and the food was presented artfully. I tried to find someone that I could connect with that had some depth, and I did this while getting somewhat drunk. I had to stay because my former husband was enjoying himself. I was stuck and trying to make the most of the situation.

The problem that presents when I feel trapped is misbehaviour. I become a little mischievous. I ate, I drank, and I found someone to be silly with to cope. The food table was covered with deliciousness, and an open box of tempting Black Magic chocolates. 

Naughty indulgence

"That Old Black Magic has me in its spell" ... Do you recall the commercial for these assorted candy delights? They were a family staple in my house at Christmas time when I was a kid. I experienced some nostalgia while eyeing the individually crafted mystery tour chocolates housed in their decorative box on the elegant dining room table. I saw it as an open invitation to naughty indulgence. I still giggle when I recall my completely inappropriate behaviour. 

Rude

With my new companion as witness (it just so happens she was the cousin of the party hostess), I selected a chocolate, and took a nibble. I put the bitten candy back in the box and chose another, tasted, and replaced it into it's nest like home. I took another, and another, replacing the bitten each time, and started laughing uncontrollably. I almost choked to death because between bites, I didn't do enough chewing. I know, I KNOW this was rude, but so is nonsensical purposeless talking ad nauseam without substance or meaning. The chocolates were a perfectly packaged representation of emptiness, and the people at the party were pretty empty too. No evidence of essence to be found.

• While the chocolates were delicious at first, they were also sickening 
• While the people were attractive at first, one sound bite from each was enough for me to want to stop trying and tasting 

Hold no substance

After all the preamble above, I return to the groggy feeling, like I have been at a very bad party that I still can't leave. Like I want to misbehave because the people throwing the party put on a good front but their thoughts, words, deeds, hold no substance, and are empty calories for the mind and soul. 

Delusion debilitating

Lies and liars have captured the attention and imaginations of the mindless with old black magic. The spell is long lasting and the delusion of something delicious in exchange for life and liberty, is debilitating for those that have succumbed to the nonsensical deliberate deceptions. 

I knew what I was doing with that box of chocolates. I was rebelling in a childish way, against being polite and pretending in really bad company. And this is what has gone on far too long with far too many people. Am I condoning bad behaviour? I don't think so. What I am suggesting is that we stop pretending that conversations with liars will in anyway change their behaviours or minds. 

Groggy regret

Trying to have a deep conversation with a box of chocolates never works : they like being pretty on the outside. They are ever so slightly tasty at first, and then cause you to choke if you taste too many of them. The empty calories leaves a bad taste on the tongue, and a groggy feeling of regret the morning after. 

I implore you, dear reader, to consider your contributions to the nonsensicalness of what we are experiencing. The perpetual repetition of what the candy coated are saying has us parroting propaganda. If we don't look, sound and taste differently from them, then we are just like them.

Search your soul

Black magic is not a spell I am under. Black magic is what we face as open eyed self and other aware humans. Please search your soul and ask yourself how you may be aiding and abetting this wicked force that has thrown the wool over so many souls. 

We are each accountable for upholding truth at all costs. We cannot afford empty words that have no substance, and do not move the needle in the direction of course correction. 

• I implore you to speak and live truth without compromise 
• Your integrity is at stake; and 
• Our choices to stay or go from the bad party depend upon each of us choosing righteously

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness (2 Timothy 2:15-16)

Satan's Spade

A concerted effort is required by many to enact mass murder. 

The list of co-conspirators and grave contributors is vast. From doctors to public health nurses, to teachers and preachers, reporters and of course, the instigators, the initiators of this whole drama trauma. Those Satan soaked starters of strife, that perpetually lie without a hint of conscience. Not only have these life thieves dug graves for their victims, they have dug them for themselves, and for their own children.

Toxin generated disease

The felons have done some impressive digging with Satan's spade. It drips the blood of those they have viciously, heartlessly murdered. Families are being decimated and crippled as members succumb to toxin generated disease, and then drop dead, exiting this life for what awaits them in the next. 

Satan gets a shrill thrill each time someone gets sick, suffers, and dies without the Saviour. He knows what fresh hell they will experience in the next or nether world. What they experience there, will be no where near as comfortable and easy as this life, even if misery was a person's constant companion. 

Embarrassing to witness

This is why the push, the shove, the constant repeat of messages that have worked on those that do not trust in God, and do not want to believe in hell. If the masses can be manipulated, and they can, to do themselves in, the raise a little hell crowd celebrates. It is diabolical and devilish and quite frankly, embarrassing to witness. 

The wicked are entertained with each kill, and the would be victims defend the murderers as though they were a trusted friend or relative. It is hard for this writer to comprehend, and painful to watch from the sidelines. 

Prime Sinister

When a Prime Sinister (I misspelled Minister purposefully) turns on his country and declares civil war via veiled threats, we know we are dealing with the demonic. It is disheartening to see the ease with which so many acquiesce to the subtle, and now very obvious temptations, of the devil. 

I have selected two portions of scripture to help us understand the human condition.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak (Matthew 26:41)

Love not this world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world (1 John 2:15-16)  

While we live in these earthly vessels, there is a battle between our physical desires being satisfied and our soulful purposes being accomplished. The battle between flesh and spirit wages in each human being, and the tug of war is real. We face temptation without strength to resist it when godless. It is only the strength of God that can muscle us to resistance! 

Sigh with relief

When we accustom ourselves to reading scripture and praying to God thusly, we can sigh with relief, trusting Him to provide what we simply cannot gasp hold of on our own:

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me (Psalm 22:19) 

Wanting God's help is the beginning of a life free from the demands and commands of the wicked. They can do and say and suggest whatever their blackened hearts desire, but it does not bend or sway those that seek strength from God ALMIGHTY!

He is ALL MIGHTY ... grin 

God The Almighty

Godly Global Reset

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good (Psalm 14:1)

God is not subtle

I am always astounded with God's communication style. He is very interactive. This morning I procrastinated in opening my Bible. I have a cry fest each and every time He and I are alone in His word, so I admit to being hesitant. Sometimes I say to Him Lord, "I don't want to cry all the time!" The feeling part of reading scripture would be easy to avoid if I just didn't go in there, but it is in His word that I find my solace and joy. It is also in His word that clarity is sharpened, because God is not subtle in the least. Our behaviour is a direct result of our thought life, and Psalm 14 is crispy crunch concrete as an astounding description of what we are witnessing!

Prior to reading Psalm 14, I prayed and made some observational statements with God's ear open to my spoken thoughts. I said "God they have killed people, and they don't believe in You. They have done horrible things" ... Next, I asked Him, "Where should I go", while I opened the Bible and started flipping through. I said "Galatians, Exodus ... Psalms?" The stop in Psalms was quick and easy, not because Psalms is a go to for me, because it never has been. I landed there because I asked Him where He wanted me to go. And the words I read made me weep : they matched what I had spoken to Him only seconds before opening the Good Book. He truly is interactive, dear reader!

Upon reading the opening lines, I was hungry to continue. God is immutable and unchanging, and I have come to rely on this truth! While God is mighty to change the minds and hearts of humans, He remains the same, consistent in His messages and actions. When I read about wickedness, I am always looking for how God will redeem the righteous! It is a thrilling story of search and rescue every single time. 

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God (Psalm 14:2)

Grin. Is God looking down from heaven on your, dear one? Is He seeing you seek Him to understand? He was looking down on me! I cannot help but be gleeful, knowing my Father in heaven scans His creation looking for His children. While I sought Him, He already had me in His sights.

Continuing in Psalm 14

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy : there is none that doeth good, no, not one (Psalm 14:3)

This is quite the indictment on humanity. The LORD did a spotlight search from heaven and concluded that all men had become corrupt and in His words, filthy.

I think about 2019, and how despicable the human race had become. Can you image the saints in heaven looking down, shaking their heads at us in shock, and then looking toward God with a cringe while tucking into their holy garb, not wanting to see His facial expression! I think of His kids saying to each other "What is Dad gonna do to them?"

In 2019 God screeched us to a halt. Each man and woman had to ask themselves: 

• Who is in charge of my life? 
• What will I do next? 
• Who will help me? 
• What does all this mean? 

These next verses describes what we have experienced at the hands of the wicked ones that plot genocide:

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge  (Psalm 14:4-6) 

Poor means afflicted or weak, is this you, dear one?

Autonomy 

It is February 14th, 2022 and the poor that have taken refuge in the LORD have taken to the streets! They have unified and with one voice, their hearts cry is for restoration of autonomy, the blessing of freedom of choice that is installed in each human when crafted in the womb. 

This autonomy has been stolen, in one home, one classroom, one church, one office building, one restaurant, one location at a time. Humans have imposed upon humans since the dawn of man, and it is God that says you have choice, and I can help you when you call on me to make the best choices for you, and in all of your relationships. 

And this is my driving point. While the wicked want to decimate relationship with God and destroy unity amongst brothers and sisters, God has ensured that the opposite has happened! We needed this Godly Global Reset, wouldn't you agree, dear one? Weren't you sad and lonely, perhaps even slightly despairing, prior to your call to God the Father? 

Come-awake

This whole situation necessitated us to take action in word and deed. We all needed a shakeup, a shakedown, some ground-shaking-come-awake moments to determine: 

• Who is in charge of my life? 
• What will I do next? 
• Who will help me? 
• What does all this mean?

This is the conclusion of Psalm 14

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad (Psalm 14:7) 

Here are the answers to the questions above:

• God is in charge of your life
• Call out to Him for salvation
• He will set you free from captivity 
• This all points to the One. The meaning in our suffering and salvation can be found in scripture

These are the words Jesus spoke to the minds and hearts of those that know freedom is not only something to believe in as our God given right, but that it is available through God Almighty, the one that formed and shaped each of us:

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18-19)

And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears (Luke 4:20-21)

Fulfilled in your ears

If you have read to this point, you have been given the keys to freedom you crave and long for. My eyes are fastened on Him, are yours, dear reader? He declared within the hearing of the enemy, that scripture was fulfilled in your ears. If you are friend to the living God, you receive these words of life. If you are foe, then you question and doubt, and remain in a state of godlessness. 

I leave you with this wonderful encouragement. Just as I declared above, redemption is built into God's plan for the righteous.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14)

The Godly Global Reset was always part of His plan