{"id":930,"date":"2012-10-09T03:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T03:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2016-01-22T03:18:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:18:36","slug":"radiant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Radiant"},"content":{"rendered":"

4\u00a0<\/sup>I sought the Lord, and he answered me;<\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he delivered me from all my fears.<\/em>
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>Those who look to him are radiant<\/strong>;<\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their faces are never covered with shame.<\/em><\/p>\n

~Psalms 34 4&5~<\/em><\/p>\n

Deliverance from our fears has become something totally different to me in my adult years.\u00a0 As a child, I had the hope that it meant all to be feared would vanish…\u00a0 now, I see it as not being removed from all my troubles but having the fear vanquished, in spite of my circumstance.\u00a0 When we live in Christ he gives us his fearless Spirit, a Spirit of sound mind, love and his power; all we need to stand peacefully amidst what was previously our terrors.<\/p>\n

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Fear is a negative controlling power, being set free from such a force is a profoundly joyful experience.\u00a0\u00a0 Thankfulness replaces it and that is a gift beyond measure.\u00a0 Yes thankfulness itself is the gift.\u00a0 It is a gift from Jesus Christ that warms the very soul inside out; as the verses posted above so perfectly take the words right out of my mouth!\u00a0 He takes our fears, we look to him in response, so truly thankful, and we are set aglow with Christ in our souls!<\/p>\n

This\u00a0requires no effort on our part, it is a process we go through as we grow in our relationship with Christ.\u00a0 He gifts it to us and we just need to be ready to receive it, as another taste of his MASSIVE love for us.<\/p>\n

I feared so much more then just the health issues I was having… I feared asking for healing…\u00a0 He asked me to just be willing to be healed… to stop trying to contain all my fears… While I do not expect to be ever completely whole in body on this earth I clearly see Christ healing the eternal me, and a huge illness that needs to be surrendered to him was my instinct to protect my own fears.<\/em>\u00a0 When the symptoms stopped their daily relentless march, the ill march of my day to day changed to pleasant child like surprise and a thankful weepy woman walking through her day aglow.\u00a0 I choose to let him love me as my healer and peace giver each and every day.
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Oh how GREAT THOU ART and HALLOWED BE THY NAME.\u00a0 MY GOD and MY KING and MY JESUS!<\/em><\/p>\n

Always Lady Mac and Rothaich<\/p>\n

TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4\u00a0I sought the Lord, and he answered me; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he delivered me from all my fears. 5\u00a0Those who look to him are radiant; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0their faces are never covered with shame. ~Psalms 34 4&5~ Deliverance from our fears has become something totally different to me in my adult years.\u00a0 As a child, I had the hope that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}