Totally engrossed in the real love of God

Totally deep in the touchable love of God....
We can spend many years of our lives out of place--trying to be accepted by the world, burdened by insecurities, buried in guilt, and full of emptiness in our hearts--or we can live a life of supernatural peace in God's presence.
If we lack the understanding of who we really are in Christ, we will walk around with an orphan spirit, but God has adopted us as sons and daughters. We are children of a great and mighty God; It's just that some of us do not realize this truth.
As you may know from previous articles, I have lived for years under the spirit fear and it was not until I was immersed in God's love that the burden of fear was lifted off of me. It was one of the first days that I got to experience constant peace. It was the day God let me feel His love for me.
We should know that it is when God reveals His perfect love to us that we are able to really love both ourselves and others unconditionally. After all, God Himself is the definition of Love. "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love" (1 John 4:8).
“I remember the first time I was knowingly immersed in the Love of God. My entire being was consumed with the love of Father God. I was one of many in an outside congregation of people attending The Call DC on August 16, 2008. I was freely dancing in uninhibited, abandoned worship to God and as I danced, I began to feel wave after wave after wave of the Father's love filling me and totally consuming my entire being.
After that encounter, I noticed that I had a deep love for the people around me--even the ones I did not know-- It was the love of God coming through me. As a matter of fact, I saw a girl bowing on her knees with her head to the ground praying and I just felt compelled to go up to her and tell her, "I love you." That is the pure love of God. He had just baptized me in His love and now I had plenty of His love to give away. I became totally fearless in love.

Love and marriage was supposed to be forever.

When we are single we are so jealous of the couples we see on the streets but as soon as we manage to get a partner, the single life starts to call for us again.

Why?

The first reason to break up is jealously. We always fear our partner is going to leave us or is already sleeping with someone else. This is out biggest thought and the nightmare that keeps chasing us day and night. How do we get rid of it? If you cannot trust your partner with your life or you cannot trust her 100% percent just drop her like a stone. She is not worth a single second of your life. You are wasting time with her that could be much better spent with another great girl.

The second reason is money. When you are living with your couple, 70% of arguments will be about money according to Dale Carnegie Book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. If you both cannot manage your money together, you are in serious trouble. One possible solution might be frequenting a seminar about that.

Third reason is the bad sex. If you cannot satisfy your partner sexually or if she cannot satisfy you, you will end that relationship soon or later. Reading a good book or teasing your partner might help it

Forth and last reason is the past. What you partner had done in her past will be something she will carry with her forever and you too and there is no way around.

If your partner was engaged in drugs, prostitution or assaults, you know you will always be one step back with her and always fearing she will lower herself again.
Love looks ideal, but only on the other side of the barrier.
When you cross the river, the green land turns dark, and the land you left, turns green.

Diet and a lifestyle change....

Differences among a diet and a lifestyle change.........
As happy as I was to only gain two pounds last week, of course, I'm much happier to have lost six this week. And it's hard to ignore a pattern I've seen over the past 14 months - almost every time I've posted a gain for a week, it's been followed by a loss, and often a significant one.

What's it mean? I can't really take much away except "Stick to it!"

When I gained last week, I focused on the other ways that I had succeeded and forced myself to start my new week with a good attitude and a clean slate. This week was a really good one regarding both food and exercise and I even managed some indulgences -- nachos, a mozzarella stick, a half of an egg roll and ice cream were my splurges of choice.

Again, I think it all comes down to the same thing I keep harping on - this is a lifestyle change. And I find a lifestyle change mindset to be very different from a diet mindset.

Here's what I mean:

On a diet, there's a start, which means there's also an end. How you act after you feel like you've reached the end could undermine all the hard work you've done.

With a lifestyle change, you're committing to permanent change. You have to work to find the changes you can live with for the rest of your life. Results may be more gradual because you're not cutting out everything "bad," but I think they'll also be more lasting.

On a diet, you're either on a program or off it. Every time you slip up, you might feel like you've screwed it up, which could trigger feelings of failure and cause you to give up entirely.

With a lifestyle change, ups and downs are par for the course. We see this in our entire lives, why wouldn't we see it with how we eat and exercise?

On a diet, the main measure of success is often the numbers on the scale. A loss is a reason for celebration; a gain is a reason to wonder what went wrong and judge ourselves.

With a lifestyle change, it's easier to put things in perspective. Yes, reporting my loss or gain is the first thing I do here each week, but I also try to look beyond the numbers on the scale to gauge my success. There are so many reasons that you might gain weight in a given week that have nothing to do with if you did anything "wrong"... our bodies are confusing things! Sodium, exercise, menstruation - they can all complicate what the scale tells you. But when you look at your changes in the context of your whole life, successes are easier to find - going down in clothing sizes, feeling energized, breathing better, etc. And when you focus on the big picture, it's easier to put temporary gains in perspective and get past them - I may have gained two pounds last week, but that's no reason to undo more than 80 pounds of loss! And this week I'm especially happy that I didn't let last week derail me!