I've Been There, I'm Not Just Telling People What I Think

"Don't feel bad if someone REJECTS you. People usually reject EXPENSIVE things because they can't AFFORD them."

 There is deliverance and victory and peace and joy over whatever these emotions may be in our life. We can experience it if we choose to. Emotions  is possible to overcome, what is for some people, the most crippling negative emotions and live a fuller life, not only for themselves but also in service to others.

Emotions are a gift from God. The capacity to have an emotion all comes from God. Bad emotions are coming from our conduct, or from those things that have happened early in our life and we wonder where they came from and oftentimes they're handed down to us by others who reject us, for example, or who are bitter toward us or who didn't really want us to begin with. So there's a whole range of emotions that are good, emotions of love and joy and peace and all the rest. But it's those that devastate us that oftentimes we don't even know where they come from or why we feel them.

God glorified through human emotion. God is glorified, by the fact that we can love Him, that we obey Him, we cherish Him, we serve Him. We live our lives for Him because of who He is, so its really in our emotions that we express our true feelings toward God. We love Him and so we sing that, we pray to Him because we believe in Him. So He gave us emotions to enjoy life and to be able to express ourselves toward Him and toward others. It's when these emotions get bent out of shape, it's when they get off track and we begin to feel guilty or we begin to feel rejected and bitter in our life, that everything turns sad.

If you'll think about it, if your life's full of fear, you can't have any peace and be afraid at the same time. You can't have any joy and be afraid at the same time. If you feel rejected, you can't have any real good relationships in life, you can't feel good about yourself, you can't feel good about other people, you can't feel that they feel good about you — devastating emotions.

This is a common question, "Why would our gracious Father allow grief and suffering?"

 If somebody I love very very much walked away or was killed in an accident, naturally I would grieve. That's my capacity to express my regret, and my hurt and pain over someone. All emotions are permitted by God. The emotions that are profitable are those emotions of peace and joy and happiness and contentment and forgiveness and concern. Those emotions that result in my being willing to give myself away in order to help someone else.

What  is perhaps one of the enemy's most common or crippling lies?

One of his most crippling lies I think is that 'you're no good, you don't count, you're a nobody...no matter who you are or what you've done, but you, but you, but you. I think it's one of the most crippling lies of all. God loves and has accepted us, yet the devil does his best to deprive us of that.

Emotions with a prayer.  Talking to God about our circumstances is the key to getting delivered. In other words, if I go to His Word and see what He says, then I got o Him in prayer and thank Him for what He says.'Lord, I don't understand this, I'm trusting You to give me understanding because You promised to do it.' That is the way to nail down the victory over whatever you're going through in life.

When it comes to healing...

A personal relationship with Jesus and understanding his acceptance and his forgiveness and his kindness and his salvation and all the rest and that he loves us, that's where the healing comes.

I want people to realize that I've been there. I'm not just telling them something that I think. I know what each one of those emotions feels like, and how God delivered me from every single one of them.

God bless us all!

Do you trust God when His answer is "WAIT"?

God knows it's difficult to follow when you have no idea where you're being led but He wants you to know that where ever He leads will be a place of blessing. When God tells you to wait it's because He's seen what awaits. When He tells you to be still it's because He knows the timing is not right. When He says no, it's because He has something way better than you can ever imagine. He wants you to blindly follow Him and trust that when the timing is right His perfect plan will come to real.

God's answer to your prayers will not always be what you expect but keep in mind that it's perfect. It's not easy to trust the Lord when He negates to give you what you so want but it's during this time that Jesus asks, "Do you love me? " Prove your love and trust Christ even if it doesn't make sense. Praise Him through your anger, through your frustration, through the confusion. Don't second guess His work or His plans for you. Trust Him... you will soon see His purpose for your pain. "He is working in you. God is helping you obey Him. God is doing what He wants done in you." 

God knows what's best for you, He might have other plans for you. 

"Do not get upset when God says "NO" to your prayer, you may thank Him later."

So, pray that God help you find joy in His presence and comfort alone. Sometimes you forget that relationships (on all levels) are never yours to begin with but gifts from Him. God will guard  heart and help you be more conscious of the things that sway it, and pray that God would really take this feeling of burden off of your shoulders. Whether you find someone tomorrow, next year, or never, pray that you would always be more than enough for Him, and pray that God help you learn to trust in His plan.

"Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own.

Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t assume that you know it all."

By faith wait expectantly for what has already been written. Don't focus on what's happening or all the things going wrong, fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith. (Hebrew 12:2)

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I am learning to say with confidence, “Lord, You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb, I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalms. 139:13-14)

Hi, My name is Jeancresia. I'm the writer and founder of the Your Lady-in-Waiting.. Out of my own brokenness  came an internet ministry to help those who are hurting, betrayed or abandoned and most especially to those who are praying for their God's best. It was through my own personal healing and the transparent sharing of my experiences which I have written for our beloved readers that have led me to start a page for the "Ruths" of this generation. It's a difficult and hard road that I, as a woman of God that wasn't treated right have been walking. Through this process of waiting for God's best, I have learned to glean wisdom from my mistakes and share it with others. As we seek to love Jesus with all our hearts and to be busy about our God's business, He will bring a Boaz who just may be in the near distant skyline. The road of being a lady-in-waiting is not an easy one, but I have found treasures, kindred friends, and wisdom along the way. I have found the lover of my soul to be right by my side as I walk in this field of His Amazing Grace. His song is my delight and He is faithful and true.

So to you who is  reading this right now, there is beauty behind you. There is strength behind those rivers of tears you cry. There is a loyalty that has passed the test of endurance and hardships. There is a heart of royalty that has been hiding behind the humility and low places you have walked in and in the fields where you have worked. You feel either invisible or conspicuous. You have felt like a foreigner and completely out of place. You have felt so misunderstood, but your difference has been preparing you for the greatest season of your life. If you trust God, you will be guided to the other side of that field you have felt so lost and hidden in. Your losses have been great and you have sobbed a sea of emotional waves  of many nights, but He sees you. He hears your hearts cries. What you thought was ugly has really been Him bringing out the rarest beauty out of you. Your twilight is really you being set up for your greatness. He sings out His loves songs upon you and He will publicly celebrate you in due season. He sees you. He knows you. He loves you. And He calls you "HIS DELIGHT". You have been hidden from the eyes of many lovers so that the right one will see you from across the field. Despair will be but a faded memory when you walk into His covering of HIS REDEEMING FAVOR and GRACE. You thought this was the end of you, because you lost it all, but it's really the beginning of the GREATNESS He has set up for you. The best thing to do now is to PRAY and let HIM lead the way.

 Love, Cresia Alba, Your Lady-in-Waiting President Copyright 2015 

Lady in Waiting: Becoming God's Best While Waiting for your Future Boaz

For my readers:

"Our God is a God of second chances." - Job 33:29

We all know Ruth's Story in the Bible. I was moved by the purity of her hope, but then the unexpected happened–I began to weep.Every tear unearthed memories of my own age of innocence, when I too believed that my life would unfold with such accuracy and simplicity.Somewhere along the road I had left behind the little girl I once was. I scoffed at the dreamy teenager who yearned for happy endings,and even convinced that a series of wrong turns had disqualified me from receiving God’s best. Even though I had repented and rededicated my life to Christ; I still feared that I forfeited my right to God’s promises.  But it reminded me of Ruth’s story.

One evening after dinner, with tear-stained hands I leafed through the book of Ruth. The Lord started teaching me about Ruth.  He reminded me that their story is proof that God is a God of second chances.

The most admirable thing about the character of Ruth was her faithfulness, loyalty and devotion that she had displayed to Naomi. Even in her grief she still cared and helped others. She invested herself into her mother in-law and the God that she loved and served. She inspired the community around her. Her reputation was well known about her. She shined when she didn't even try. Boaz noticed her from across the field and he heard of her faithfulness and loyalty by word of mouth. You don't have to make your presence known when you are exuding excellence in all that you do.

The question is "Are you a Ruth"?

God desires for us to see Ruth and Boaz’s union as an example of how He “notices”, loves, and redeems each of us, especially those who feel as though life has ravaged all promise and purpose.

So now when I optimistically dreams of my future, instead of weeping, I employ my tongue as the “pen of a ready writer” calling those things which be not as though they were (Rom 4:17), believing that I can be blessed with a second chance Boaz, God’s very best.

We are expected to learn from her story and to follow her example by genuinely submitting to  God whom she trusted her present and her future with.  And to the woman who feels that your situation is so dire and your past so shameful, that no one is equipped to love someone like you–be encouraged!