The Pains of our Past and Present difficulties leave great voids in our lives.  These voids can quickly be replaced by bitterness.  At first, bitterness seems harmless, after all, it is only positioning oneself to be prepared against the next attach, but bitterness is more than this, it is becomes a poison within the heart that creates a cycle of reliving the hurts.  The Lord seeks to Love us out of the pains.  He doesn't want us to have to live with damage of the soul as our main definition to live.   Please join me at the following link as I seek to just be of assistance to you in order that you can start to be healed out of the pains and live more in the present love of Jesus.  It is a journey, but it is worth it.  I speak this from personal experience. http://pastordaniellabitternessseries.weebly.com/

The Lord Jesus Christ keeps no record of the wrongs that we have done.  Seriously, I find this to be amazing.  I remember wrongs done to me as young as a two year old, and here I serve a Lord that sees NOT my sins of the day, but instead looks on me with LOVE.  I am floored at the Love that the Lord Jesus Christ carries for us. 

I don’t think that we can honestly take in all of what it means to be loved by Jesus Christ.  We are so accustomed to having our nose rubbed in every small misstep that when someone mentions that the Lord does not keep record, we figure that such a statement has to be untrue. I Cor 13:5 tells us that Love keeps no record of wrongs.  Love-the absolute essence of Jesus Christ-keeps no record of what you and I did wrong today.  Instead, His steady, life altering Love forgives and forgets.  Amazing!  I bow before Him, and humbly take this statement as the truth that it is over my life.  We will never know another love such as the Love of Jesus Christ for us.  Amen, Lord, Amen.

Pastor Daniella https://Twitter.com/PastorDaniella

The Love that we are given by the Lord Jesus Christ is so stunning to me.  To have love offered to us daily that is Kind, Patient, never in a state of Envy, never boasting or too proud to not make us first in His eyes, not self-seeking, not easily finding anger against me, and keeping no list of my daily wrongs.

He gives without failure ,on His part, knowing that He will be returned a love that falls far short of His, and never once does He hold this against us.  There will never be another love in your life like that of Jesus Christ. 

The greatest harm...so many have never really experienced the REAL love of Jesus.  This love of Jesus can only be experienced when you start to allow Him to SHOW you what He is like.  https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella  

When the Pains of the past start to lose their power over our lives, it is almost a bit disconcerting. You've lived for so long trapped within the emotional pain of the past that freedom seems too foreign to handle. Please take heart, the longer you live without the anxiety, worry, doubt, and fear, the more normal this state of thinking will become. We weren't meant to live broken. Peace of mind was supposed to be the frame of mind and perspective applied to the entirety of life. When you start to feel that quiet nudge to believe, trust it. Jesus is the lifter of our heads, not the torturer of our souls. Pastor Daniella https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella http://myalabasterbox.org/ 

When the Pain of Life Starts Losing its Power

The pains of our past put great effort trying to write the pages of what our future will look like. 

I had tried for years to move on past the pain of my earlier life.  I thought if I just mustered enough will power towards the pain, and shoving it deep within me, that it would never again raise its ugly head.  I was wrong.  What I ended up forming inside myself was a barricade. Determined to allow no one to hurt me again in life, I placed myself in the middle of the barricade walls and attempted to live my life.

At first glance, you would have thought this idea was working for me, but then my barricade started to crumble. No matter how hard I worked to rebuild it, it seemed in a constant state of decay.  I couldn't understand what was taking place in my life.  I had become very good at living within my walls.  Why was it now that things were changing?

The difference, Jesus had made it past my barricade and was showing me the love that He was offering me in my life. This love was one that I couldn't turn away.  His love was different.  Instead of Him coming to list all that was wrong with me, He offered me comfort.  Instead of Him rubbing my nose in all I had failed to move past in my life, He saddled up beside me and allowed me to see I was loved "AS IS".  

The more I accepted that His love was different than what I had been offered in life, the more a difference took place in my heart.  The memories of the pain were still present, but somehow the need to focus on them was lessening.  Slowly I was much more preoccupied with the Love of Jesus for my life than I was of the pains caused.

The Lord Jesus is a healer, but He seeks to heal you to fullness, if for the first time in your life.  He doesn't just carelessly aid His followers with some band-aid fix.  Instead, He comes to the corners of life where you are hiding and starts LOVING you out.  

We serve a loving, mighty Lord. I will eternally be humbled and grateful for all He is doing in my life. https://twitter.com/pastordaniella   http://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com/

What does the the Unconditional Love of the Lord really mean to me when applied to my life?

Many of us have been loved conditionally.  We have been rewarded with love due to our behavior or performance.  Jesus does not love in this manner.  I make that statement, but honestly…do any of us fully know what that means to us?  I don’t think we do.  I think we have a head knowledge of it, but to allow it to penetrate into our heart…that’s when the love of Jesus starts to affect our lives in the manner it was designed to do.
It does not matter what you have done in your past or what you will go on to do in your future...none of it will cause Jesus not to love you.  You are His…nothing will change this.  This statement here is not license to go and do as you wish, but more rather a statement meant to CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!!  I have just told you that you are loved in your entire broken state.  I am too!!!  I too am broken.  Broken by my past.  Heart on the floor, pain ridden, dead inside without my Lord Jesus Christ at my side.  But the love of Jesus transformed my life.
When I started to see what the love of Jesus meant for me, my Faith became more than a statement and instead, it became the blood by which my body survives.  I started to understand that someday, through the love of Jesus Christ in my life in a very personal way, I would look beyond my pain and instead into the eyes of the One who loves me.
The love that Jesus offers will mean something different to each of us.  To me, it is a healing from situations in my life that are honestly insurmountable for me.  I can’t justify or understand the pain I was placed under while growing up, but what I can do is to allow my heart to be loved by my Lord.  https://twitter.com/PastorDaniella http://pastordaniellaministries.weebly.com/
Pastor Daniella  

Romans 8:31 If God is for us, who can be against us. I think that this scripture can be read and never really taken in for what it should mean to our thinking. We live in a world where if one person loves you, another hates you. If you’ve found favor in the eyes of the masses, there are always those willing to speak against you. The scripture tells us that “If God is for us, who can be against us?” At a quick glance, we could read this scripture and think? “Well, I am constantly finding myself on the losing end of someone looking on me unfavorably. So why does this scripture have any weight in our lives? Honestly, it is due the content of what the scripture is unveiling to us about where the focus of our approval should be sought from. “If God is for us”…this part of the scripture is your clue as to where all your importance should be placed, on God. In other words- Since the Lord God is FOR ME...WHAT does it matter if anyone is either For me or Against Me. I have all the approval that I need wrapped up in the knowledge that my Lord God is in full approval of me. When we allow the scripture to pierce into the fiber of our daily lives, we find a soundness of mind takes place. Where doubt of self used to reign, an empowerment is birthed from the understanding that God is for us. Where we derive our source of strength from is very important in life. If we are going to allow the opinions of others more validity in our lives than God’s view point, we will live out our days in nothing less than a roller coaster existence. Our emotion will never find stable ground. Stability will come from one understanding in life. You are God’s, He loves you, and “If God is for you, who can be against you?” Romans 8:31 Pastor Daniella