♕ Today's Promise: "You yourselves are all the endorsement we need. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it." 2 Corinthians 3: 2-3
MORE ENCOURAGEMENT 
LOVE at LAST BLOG
Come JOIN ONE of our Wise Woman Fellowship Groups this WEEK— with 3 
different times to choose from!
~ Liora in Texas
Erin has described to us in one of the Be Encouraged videos, how we go through different seasons in our journey. I have learned that it is okay to go around some a couple of times in order for us to grow, transform and stretch our faith. I have been around some of the same seasons many times and I thank the Lord for walking me through each time, although at times it does not feel good at all.
Right now, I feel that I'm in the season of just living again. I really haven't been through this season in its fullness yet but I am excited to see what the Lord does.
A couple of weeks ago my family was invited to a sweet sixteen and there was going to be a country music band playing. I used to listen to this band a few years back and they were one of my favorites. I thought about how fun it would be to go and just listen to the music with my friends and family since I really had not been out in a long time with everyone. All week I was talking to my HH (Heavenly Husband) about it and the day arrived and fear tried to grip me. I asked my HH if that was not where I was supposed to go or if He did not want me there then to stop me or block me from going, but everything went smoothly as I got ready to go.
I arrived alone, I was very nervous as I knew that there were going to be people there that I had not seen in a very long time and I knew that there might be questions asked. I spoke to my HH (Heavenly Husband) and asked Him to help me speak and answer the way He wanted me to. Everything looked so beautiful and it was so good to just laugh and see so many other people that I had not seen in a while. There were questions about why I hadn’t remarried yet and other women telling me that they were going to look for a partner for me… The Lord helped me just smile, laugh, agree and show them that I was happy and content just as I was.
I had a great night and I also learned some lessons as I saw so many others who are living the way I used to and making so many bad decisions. I saw my old self in so many other women that night and I am not saying that I am any better, because I'm not and it's only by the grace of God that I turned my life around, but I felt compassion and love for these other women for the first time instead of being judgmental.
I had been invited these past few years to several events like this one but I never felt ready or comfortable going out to them yet. There was still a lot of fear and shame but little by little the Lord has been helping me with that. These past few weeks I have felt a little differently about going. I understand that there is a time and healing for everything and it does take time and sometimes we go into the same seasons again but He will help us through no matter what season we are in. There is a time to hide with your HH (Heavenly Husband) and there is a time to go out in the world with Him. No matter what the season, He is there holding our hand but we must not forget that EVERY season should be with HIM.
I think I am more willing to step out now and I will continue to let the Lord lead me on where I should go or not go. I think for a while I had forgotten that He gave me a life so that I can live to the fullest, not by the world's definition but by His. I really feel like He is showing me that it is okay to just go out and live and have fun, but this time with Him by my side helping me make the right decisions, guiding me through and shining His light to others. He did not do all these things in my life for me to hide at home, He has made my life a letter that anyone can read by looking at the way He has and is transforming me.
"There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth: A right time for birth and another for death, A right time to plant and another to reap, A right time to kill and another to heal, A right time to destroy and another to construct, A right time to cry and another to laugh, A right time to lament and another to cheer, A right time to make love and another to abstain, A right time to embrace and another to part, A right time to search and another to count your losses, A right time to hold on and another to let go, A right time to rip out and another to mend, A right time to shut up and another to speak up, A right time to love and another to hate, A right time to wage war and another to make peace." Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
"You yourselves are all the endorsement we need. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it." 2 Corinthians 3: 2-3
Follow #Liora’s Praise
Liora is a tithing partner. Learn more.
If you have PRAISE 
to share, please share it HERE.