Change is coming. A shift is happening….you better make sure your navigation system is working properly. While we are moving forward in any new direction, we need to know better roads and ways of making it to our destination. New roads are made, change happens, and unless you update your navigation system, you may be taking old roads. 

God wants us to work smarter, not harder. 

God has ordered your footsteps. Jeremiah 29:11 declares you have a purpose and it is good… God wants you to be in health and prosper. Prosper means to break out, break forth, and breakthrough.

Any of us can take a wrong step. In my latest book: THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Will America Turn Back To God?)…I shared the story of being led by the Spirit, being delayed on a trip to Kiawah, and how God ordered our steps to miss a wreck on the highway…and sent us on a different route safely to our destination. We were on I-77 and the navigation system informed us to TURN AROUND.  I called my husband to ask if he needed something and told him what happened and that I sensed the Holy Spirit was warning me through the system to turn back. The trip to Kiawah is straight down 77 to the next interstate, so there was no reason in the natural for the vehicle to turn us around. However, GOD knew the reason. I stopped at a nearby store to pick up something and when walking out the doors, my phone rang. It was my husband asking where I was…and informing me that he had left his keys in the car I was driving. I turned around and met him….and me and Mother continued onward to Kiawah. When we came up on the five car pileup…and eleven miles of stopped traffic, we both knew the Holy Spirit had ordered our steps. I live in awe of the Father’s love and how He sometimes will show us…..the why behind the what….to encourage us. 

Much like using the GPS system…which I call God’s Personal System through the Holy Spirit…where we are led by the Spirit of God…we can take a different route to avoid obstacles, avoid wrecks, and stay on track to our destination in peace. 

You need the Holy Spirit….to lead, guide, direct, and comfort you. God has equipped you to take uncharted territory…learn to hear Him at the slightest whisper at the door of your heart…and don’t ignore small instructions. The Holy Spirit is the New Wine…the Spirit of God that comforts, guides, leads, directs, and warns us. 

Remember the goodness of God and listen to Him for a fresh start…each new morning. He wants you to be like Joshua and Caleb, and go for the grapes in the Promise Land. He has already defeated the giants, we have to go in and take the land. 

The Bible declares that if you are led by the Spirit of God, you are a Son of God. He will show you better ways to do life. 

The most important thing outside giving your life to Jesus and receiving the gift of salvation is to be made whole. God wants us to remind Him of His Word on a daily basis.… 

The word remember doesn’t just mean to recall—it means put together and make whole. Dismember mean to take apart.  Sometimes when things look like they are falling apart, God is putting them back together and making it better. 

Pray daily:  I bind myself to the Will of God. God has a great plan for my life. I thank God for wise counsel and great associations. God keeps me in order, on His timing, and in divine position. 

 God loves you with an everlasting love.

HIS love and Mine,

Deborah Starczewski

The difference between success and significance is as vastly different as pride to humility. How our lives impact others is far more reaching than just here on earth—but in the light of eternity. If you have ever watched the movie..WHAT A WONDERFUL LIFE…you will see how our lives are like a beautiful tapestry, knit together by the hand of God. When we begin to see what God sees, we start to connect the dots and see the hand of God at work behind the scenes, making an impact on souls. We touch the lives of everyone we meet—leaving some kind of impression. What kind of impression are you leaving?

When someone doesn’t do something like you think they should, do you mock, laugh, joke, and ridicule? Or, do you recognize that everyone is unique and individually gifted in different ways—where all are necessary in the Body of Christ? What is your heart response?

Do you take the time to get to know people, or are you too busy to stop and notice? People matter to God and they must to us as well. 

Begin to pray Ezekiel 36:26 in order for God to change your heart to be more like His. We are being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ or either becoming more like the world. 

God sent His Son Jesus to deliver us from this present world system. We are not intended to become like what God sent His Son to deliver us from…something to think about today.

(Excerpt from GOD’S PRICELESS TREASURE, by Deborah Starczewski, published Sept. 2011)…available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.

Resources for spiritual growth and encouragement:

A LEAP OF FAITH (25 Days at the Mercy Seat)

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Will America Turn Back To God?)

Books by Deborah Starczewski

You may be sitting in a hairdresser’s chair or sitting in a seat on a plane next to someone with a breaking heart. You don’t know what is going on in the heart of any person. We all pass people by on a daily basis that are hurting, in despair, searching for hope and answers, to some who are contemplating suicide.

While we all have full plates with life—we must each take time to connect with people. Guess what? People matter to God and they must to each of us as well. 

I recently received a call, actually four of them, while about to do a short video for a website. The first three calls were from the same number with no answer. I knew the person and figured she was dialing me by accident or either in a remote area. The next call came from a number I did not have in my phone. I answered and I could hear my friend’s voice saying, “Don’t hang up..don’t hangup—someone wants to talk to you.”

I stopped what I was doing and listened to this stranger’s words. As he began to talk, I remembered when my friend called me some 15 years ago telling me she gave this man a book I had given her because he asked to read it. 

This person began to share his heart with me—how he had anger in his heart over something someone had done to him that turned to hate—then it turned to murder. He shared how he asked my friend if he could read the book. He began to pour out his heart with story after story of God’s amazing redemption and how the message in the book had gripped his heart to forgive the person who wronged him.

Anger is a weight too heavy for anyone to bear. Release anger to the Lord. Choose to forgive and watch God avenge and make all things right. He sees every detail. He knows the whole truth in every situation. Without Jesus, nothing works properly. 

The man who read the book also told me how he had been referring to me as the lady with a book ministry everywhere he went—from a country club, to his business for many years. Then he said that he saw my signature in the book just a couple weeks earlier. The lady (my friend) hadn’t been in his business in over three years—but came in that day. 

I had asked the Lord something specific in prayer earlier that morning, and God used that phone call—right in the middle of what I was doing—to answer my prayer. You see, it matters that we obey God. It matters that we keep on doing what God has put in our hearts to do with Him. Souls matter for all eternity. People matter to God and they must to you.

Never stop doing what God has called you to do. Keep moving forward. Keep looking up. Even if you don’t see the end results, when we all walk through heaven’s gate—we will see the people we have touched, unaware. Obedience is like a key that opens doors, saves lives, turns people around just in the nick of time, and unlocks destiny. Your obedience may stop someone from committing suicide or something even worse. Your life is a book that touches hearts. 

One of my favorite movies: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE…is a great movie that also shows how our lives touch others around us…sometimes unaware. 

Dare to do all God has put in your heart to do with Him today. You are an ambassador for Jesus Christ. 

You can do it…

You matter to God! GOD loves you so much.

HIS love and mine,

Deborah 

Resources for Spiritual Growth:

GOD’S PRICELESS TREASURE (How To Overcome Challenges, Be Transformed and Know Your Purpose)

A LEAP OF FAITH (25 Days at the Mercy Seat)

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Will America Turn Back To God?)

All available on-line: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, xulon.com bookstore, etc.

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