God Always Comes Through

Praise always, especially in the rain!

Philippians 4:6-9 NKJV Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are ltrue, whatever things are mnoble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

God’s goodness is always present, guiding us with the words we need to hear. Recently, I have learned some challenges of a loved one that has weighed heavily on my heart and soul. Add the current events unfolding in the world – from solar eclipses to earthquakes, rumors of war, resurfacing viruses, and collapsing bridges – my spirit has felt burdened. Even though I find solace in knowing that God listens to my prayers and works everything for the good of those who love Him. Last night, I was feeling overwhelmed, I searched for verse 4:6, and to my surprise, Philippians 4:6 appeared. Instantly, a sense of peace washed over me, prompting me to share this moment with you.

The world is going to get ugly. It’s going to go through seasons and transformation just as we we go through seasons and transformation; but God never changes! He has a plan for us.

Embrace this season with an open and clear heart, knowing that God’s goodness is always present, guiding us with the words we need to hear. Despite the challenges faced by your loved one and the heavy burdens on your heart and soul, take comfort in the fact that God listens to your prayers and works everything for the good of those who love Him.

In a world filled with turmoil and uncertainty, it’s essential to hold on to the unchanging nature of God’s love and His divine plan for each of us. When feeling overwhelmed, turn to the Scriptures for solace and guidance. The verse Philippians 4:6 reminds us not to be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Remember, as the world goes through its seasons of transformation and challenges, hold on to your faith and trust in God’s unwavering presence. Keep Philippians 4:6-9 close to your heart, meditate on these powerful words, and let the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Stay strong in your faith, continue to pray with belief, and praise Him in all circumstances

May your heart be full of love and peace

Vicki Manuel

What does DMV and Church have in common?

I know, some of you are appalled that I can compare church to DMV but here me out. Think about this.

When you walk into a DMV we all have a purpose, we all have a task that we want to complete. We are all waiting for our number to be called. Are you going in or will you allow the people stop you from completing your task?

When you walk into a church you walk in, you go in with a purpose in why you are there, you have a task to complete. You are waiting to see our Almighty Father; waiting for your number to be called. Are you going in or will you allow the people stop you from completing your task?

L.I.F.E.

L.I.F.E. Living – Inviting – Feeling – Engaging.

While the new year approaches it brings a time of reflection, looking back on the past year remembering the roller coaster ride of life. Some of you may see the wonderful aspects of the year and others will see where they have fallen short. Did you fulfill your resolutions last year or did they peter off within the second week? Sometimes the most positive people feel like they have failed. Failed their friends, their family or even themselves.

Today as I spoke to a wonderful friend this hit me and I wanted to share with all of you.

Life isn’t if we succeed or fail, Life is way more than that.

Life = Living – Inviting – Feeling – Engaging — Living our life to the fullest, Inviting others to join us, Feel each and ever emotion, Engaging in our spiritual self —  Our life is full of energy, love, and light. We may trip, stumble and even fall flat on our face but that is all part of living,  learning and growing.

Failing is when we believe that we are are not worthy; feeling as if we are not worthy of learning and growing — Not worthy of the love we are given by all – Not worthy to try..That is when we fail, when we give up or not even try at all.

WE are strong WE are WORTHY of all that comes our way good and bad because we are human and we will have obstacles. When we come to this obstacle we can crawl under it, we can leap over with both feet off the ground,  or we can climb over one leg at a time. Failure is when we don’t give the opportunity a chance, we give up before we even get it a try. Life gives us opportunities to learn and grow. We are worthy of doing so.

WE are God’s Children HE is always WORTHY and HE is in each and everyone of us so give into LIFE. Enjoy your opportunities and never think of yourself as a failure.

 

T.G.F.J.

On the way to a Christmas Program I was in awe by the beautiful sky, the blue clouds that lined the deep blue sky. The mountains breaking through the bare trees was a must see. I truly can’t describe how remarkable it was. All I could do was just take it all in and Thank God for the remarkable view. The Christmas Program was perfect and it reminded me once again how very blessed we all are.

Christmas is not only over commercialized, been changed to meet others needs; the day may have changed, the traditions muffled but in the end there is only ONE true reason why Christmas exists today.

God gave Mary a child and Jesus was born. Jesus was born, gave us Faith, Hope, Joy and LOVE! He died for our sins and blessed us with more we can ever imagine.

So on December 25th every year I celebrate God’s gift to us all. I celebrate the “Christ”mas Spirit…Not santa clause but the TRUE spirit. The spirit that lives inside each of us. The spirit that gets closed out throughout the year by the hatred, the greediness, the ugliness of the world.

The ironic thing is, if we celebrated “Christ”mas everyday and have acknowledged Jesus as our savior we would always feel the Spirit. For the Spirit never dies, it never goes away..It is always there with unconditional love waiting to be noticed once again.

Without Christ there would be no “Christ”mas so today I Thank God for Jesus! For giving us hope, joy and love to all of us!

May each and everyone of you be blessed today and days after. I pray to all of those who are lost that you will be found by Christ’s light.

Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

Hugs, Love and Prayers,
Vicki Manuel​

 

S.A.D.

Originally posted in 
E Vero Magazine

 Do you suffer from…? 

You are not alone. S.A.D. is common but can be managed.

I do, but I never knew it even existed until recently. I also never made the correlation until I went back to school and learned how to listen to my body.  I am not the only one that suffers from this and if you are a woman you are more likely to get it than a man would.

I suffer from SAD. Not sadness like an average person goes through, but Seasonal Affective Disorder. The definition from definition.com defines it as this: noun – recurrent winter depression characterized by oversleeping, overeating, and irritability, and relieved by the arrival of spring or by light therapy. Abbreviation:  SAD  Origin: 1980–85
4 – 6 percent of the population has S.A.D.s it is 4 times more common in women than men. The further north you go the greater chances of you suffering from it.

Have you met the right guy?

How can you tell if you have met the right guy?

This subject has been on my heart for some time now. I have been putting it off because I just don’t feel like I am the right person to be giving advice on such a topic; but when God puts something in your heart then you just can’t fight it.

Special Offer

Hi everyone,

What a beautiful day! My prayers go out to all those who were affected by the storms that embarked our presence over the past 24 – 48 hours.

Yesterday I posted about my wonderful program that I was gifted; as a thank you for such a sweet gift I decided that I would gift one person the Spring Into Health – Crowd out the C.R.A.P. 30 day program.
The rules are simple. All you need to do is listen to the preview call and you will be entered. That’s it!

For more information go to http://www.vickimanuel.com/spring-into-health.html

Hugs and Blessing to you,
Vicki Manuel

Photo of Day – Round & Round

I posted last year that I was ready and willing to fulfill Gods will for me but the truth is I have been getting in my own way. Having a hard time separating man’s world from Gods world.
A friend of mine sent me this and I thought I would share with you. I hope you enjoy.
Hugs and Blessings,
Vicki

The Amazing Grace Project

April 25, 2013 … Round & Round

Yesterday I asked if you ever felt like you were going round & round & feeling like you were getting no where. I talked about how you needed to serve God Willingly and when you surrender to God and make him Lord & Savior of your life that we are given the Fruits of the Spirit. This is what it is going to take to get off that Merry Go Round and get on a straight path to progress. So the next step in not only learning what those Fruits consist of but knowing if we are manifesting those fruits.

The key to the reception of the Holy Spirit is repentance. John the Baptist was preaching repentance for the forgiveness of sins and as preparation for the coming of the Messiah. He was baptizing with water as a symbol of cleansing, but He…

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Let’s Play – Let’s Be Gods Children

Let’s Play – Let’s be Gods Children

For those of you who know me, know that I have been debating to leave my day job for months. The job that provides food on the table, gas in the car, and all the other conveniences in this life. I call it my Blue Cheese Job; old and stinky, sometimes I like it and sometimes I don’t. It has been a blessing to say the least but it is now draining me of my energy to do fully what God has in store for me. I feel in my heart that this chapter in my life is ending so why do I hold on so tightly? Is it fear, is it not knowing what the future will bring? Or is it just being patient and waiting for the right time? When I think about quitting I get so excited, the excitement where your belly gets butterflies and your smile reaches from ear to ear. But, when it comes to actually giving my notice I get all squirrelly. I just can’t seem to do it. Is it fear or is it not the right time? How does one know the difference? As Christians it is so hard to separate our thoughts from Gods thoughts. It seems as though I get signs all the time of what I should do but by the time I read the whole thing it becomes confusing, such as, I will here a sermon on being obedient and do as God has said when He says it on His terms, not mine but then the next sentence says “be patient”.  How do you know when the right time is? Today, I had the opportunity to ask my preacher that very question. His answer was basically the same as everyone else’s. Only you and God know that answer, you will know. Sigh….That was not what I was looking for. He did suggest that I pray for wisdom. To ask for guidance and direction. I appreciated what he had to say and I left.
On the way home instead of turning left, I went straight and ended up at the park. I had never been there. I was just going to sit in the bandstand/theater building they had built and read the Bible. Then I realized on the other side of that there was a playground. I headed straight for the swings. I love the swings, wind blowing on my face, kicking up to the sky. Then it was onto the slides. I remembered a couple of days ago hearing someone asking “what was your childhood passion, what made you feel happy?” The first thing that popped in my head was playing on the playground and swimming. As I was climbing up to the slide I noticed that there was a creek running along the park, I love water! After I was done playing I went over and just sat beside the creek. Listening to it sing, it gurgled and burbled. Watching it flow fiercely over the rocks, so hard that it was creating waves, but these waves were going backwards (I don’t know the terminology for that.)  The more I sat there and watched the more it reminded me of life. Up further around the bend the water was flowing calmly over the smaller rocks but as it curved around it came in fierce (reminded me of a crowd on Black Friday night waiting after the doors had opened) over the dips and larger rocks picking up speed causing the water to flow so fast that it was back tracking causing white water, just as we do in our lives we get so caught up into the situation and get in such a hurry that when we get to our destination we have to take 2 steps back to realize that we have reached it, if we had only slowed down.
As I got up I decided to get back on the swing, this time I was facing away from the sun only because that was the direction I was going in. I was on there 2 seconds before I got up and turned around. It only felt right when I was swinging toward the “sun”. I swung with my eyes closed, feeling the warmth of the sun and the cool breeze in my face, I felt so calm and peaceful. Then before I knew it, I jumped off!!!! Me?, I was shocked. I got back on and swung some more, I thought hmm, I wonder if I can do that again? Sure enough once again, I jumped. This time it was fun, wondering when my feet would hit the ground. I got on again, this time fear set in just a little bit and when I jumped I tried to hold on to the chain. It didn’t go as smoothly as the first two times. I did land on my feet but my arm got pulled. I decided, that was enough. Trying to learn from all that I do, I decided that I learned that I  need to just let go and stop trying to hold on! Just in our lives we try to hold on to the past that we don’t experience and allow God to guide the way.
We are the children of God. What do children and parents do best? They play, they laugh, they share, they talk, hopefully they grow an amazing relationship and most importantly parents teach their children. What better way to get close to our Father then to play, to bond, to listen, to learn and to build a relationship. The innocence of a child’s mind has the ability to have more Faith then any other. So, when you feel you need to get close to God and prayer just doesn’t seem to be doing it. Let yourself just be, get back to your innocence and just play.

So, did I get the answer I was looking for? Probably, but I have yet to ungrasp the past, and the comfort of what I know, so I am not hearing. I have two choices –  He conforms to the life that I choose for myself, still having the opportunity to do His work OR I can choose to conform fully and completely to His life that He has planned for me. For now, I am going to be happy and fulfilled with what I have in my life. God has and will continue to bless me, when the time comes I will know when to let go and I will be at peace.

Many blessings and hugs to you!

Vicki

Steps to Your New Year’s Resolutions

Dear Readers,
This is the article that I mentioned that would be in É vero Magazine. Unfortunately, the magazine is going through a revamp so the article wasn’t published. The good news is that I can share with you, right here, right now!

2014 is now here, with that, is the dreadful New Year’s Resolutions.  Every year we say “this year is going to be different”.