November 13, 2011 - Posted by Dori - 0 Comments
Life in Night’s Dark Cocoon is like a wilderness really, and yet, this wilderness I am in is being used by God to create in me the woman of God that He wants me to be. This concept has become very real to me in the past week as I have finally submitted to Him and His Grace, Mercy and Peace.
In the quiet…in the stillness, I hear and see what is being done in this person, this woman, His Princess, His Daughter, His Love and the apple of His eye. It is only growth in this wilderness that has even allowed me to write the previous line. You see we can do one of two things when we are placed in a season of wilderness. We can fight it as I have done for many months now, scream and cry that “Oh, I am in a wilderness, I am in a wilderness!” our own noise keeping us from “hearing” God, or we can give in and let God be God in this time as I have now chosen to do after screaming for far to long… In so choosing to let God be God there are so many wonderful things to share with you now! I know without a doubt that I have one wing out of my cocoon and my heart burns for Him and Him alone as He heals my spirit, soul and body.
I am convinced that we are given a choice in all things, in every moment of our lives; if we choose to let God rule and reign, make the changes that need to be made; that season of wilderness will be shortened and the growth and maturity achieved will be plentiful, the fullness in your spirit will cause you to soar to the highest height! I also believe that as we soar we are to take others with us and with God choosing the venue for you to share your experience you will continue to grow beyond your pain into His perfect will for your life.
Father God has not given us anything that He did not also give to Jesus, His precious Son. Jesus was ”led by the Spirit into the wilderness”, he was tempted with all things known to man; riches (all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, which satan could not offer if they did not belong to him…hhmmm) food, for Jesus was hungry after forty days of fasting; and the ability to make it (“turn those rocks into bread”), satan told Him to jump from the pinnacle of the temple and said ”for as it is written, He shall give His angels charge over you, in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against a stone” You see satan knows the Word of God very well, he was referencing Psalm 91:12… Jesus responded to the devil by telling him to be gone..”Away with you, satan! For it is written “You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve” satan fled and when he did, angels came and ministered to Jesus! (Scripture taken from Matthew 4:1-11 NKJV paraphrase mine)
So much was accomplished in Jesus time in the wilderness and He set a precedence for us in that He came against the enemy in all temptation telling him “Away with you, satan” and he fled…so we being made in His image and having the living God living in us (I hope you do, more on that shortly) when we tell the enemy to flee in Jesus Name he must flee!
Also; angels were there to keep Jesus from dashing His foot on a stone, and to minister to Him after his time of temptation, so then, we being joint heirs to the Kingdom of God with Christ also have angels to minister to us.
Jesus had the ability to create food out of rocks if He so desired, but to win this battle He continued to fast…so should we desire to fast and pray during our wilderness time as we seek our breakthrough.
So what has my time in the wilderness done for me? How can I now be a precedence for abused women as was told to me many months ago?
First and foremost there is a maturity in my spirit, a knowing that was not there before. It is deep and complete in that I now know as never before that I will never again hold onto the abuse I suffered at the hands of others. I will continue to share freely my experiences and how the Lord has and is using them for His Glory as my choice in this is to have it no other way.
There is a Peace, His Peace that surpasses all understanding in my soul. Jesus has flooded me with His peace in the midst of not only wilderness but a period of time right this moment when I stand to loose much of what I called dear. Right now when I am daily in a place of danger to my person. Right now, when I long to be close to my family…Peace, His Peace like a balm to my soul washes through me, His Rain.
There is Joy, only His Joy where there should be none…unspeakable Joy, silly joy, consuming joy, giggly joy! Unexplainable Joy!
Above all there is a deeper understanding, like to the depth of my being understanding of just how deep His love is for me, for you too, yes but for me. That has always been hard for me to say. If I say us, it includes me without saying me. If I say, you I don’t have to include me so when I say me, I am admitting that He feels I am worth His sacrifice….that being said…
YOU are also worth His sacrifice…Jesus died for me yes but He died for YOU too! His sacrifice seems to be easy to say but the depth of what He suffered to bring us from sin and death to forgiveness and life is very difficult to say. He was bruised, beaten, He was bloody and “unrecognizable” as he was taken to hang on a very rough cross that He had to push up on to catch a breath until He was spent…His Blood shed for me, for you, for us that we might gain life with Him forever…
Please take this time, if you have not already to give your life to Jesus who gave His life for you. Ask Him to come into your life and to take over and forgive you and enjoy the freedom of life in Christ…
Blessings to you always, Dori
July 22, 2010 - Posted by Dori - 0 Comments
Hello and once again I thank you for reading and commenting, it means a lot to me.
I wanted to direct you (because I don’t know how to link both blogs…) to the sequel to Wings of Change.
It is http://nightsdarkcocoon.blog.com I pray you are encouraged as we continue walk this path together.
Many Blessings! Dori
July 16, 2010 - Posted by Dori - 0 Comments
I just want to thank you all so much for taking the time to comment on my blog. It is my life you are reading and it is my sincere hope to be able to touch women, children and men too who have suffered abuse in form or another.
You all are keeping me writing! I will be starting a sequel soon, hopefully within the next few days. I will have a link to it from here.
Thanks you again so very much and have a Blessed day!!
January 26, 2010 - Posted by Dori - 0 Comments
I have struggled for some time with writing so I guess it was not meant to be until today. As I seek the Lord’s guidance on He wants me to convey, it seems that the key word is HOPE. The hope that can only be found in Christ. The hope that can only be strengthened by an increased relationship with Him. The hope that gives us life.
I can hardly believe that January is almost over! It has been almost one month since I last wrote and yet the Lord has placed in my heart that I am to set a precedence for abused women, that I am to continue on for a while more being transparent in my sharing. I know I am to trust in Him to guide the path my words take and I pray constantly that I will be making a difference in a woman’s life for Him. I am also seeking Him for the direction this is to take.
In the past month I have led a Christian Education class at a rehab center. As much as I fought against it, it was great! I passed around my Hope Bible where all the hope scriptures are highlighted. Almost every one there picked one and read. Holy Spirit had His way and we were talking up a storm about hope in Christ and even about Biblical Archeology! The participants loved it and said that the Bible now felt more alive to them! YEA GOD! Once again I take absolutely no credit for what Holy Spirit did in that room.
The Lord has also used me in some very humbling situations where He has called me to prayer over sicknesses and the issuance of prayer cloths for some women. When a request came for the prayer cloths I prayed about it and found the color I thought the Lord was telling me to buy…in the remnant bin! The tags told the story of the size of cloth…I got them home and the Lord told me another story, the cloth lengths had been multiplied! Many women were to be blessed. I took the cloths to my ladies prayer group to be prayed over and it was amazing how deep the prayer over each one was. They have now been sent out to be laid on others for how ever the Lord sees fit.
As I work on my new normal, my best friend and I have rearranged my living area, I have a new job, praise God! AND Number four and I are talking after 7 months. We are arguing quite a bit right now but there are also many promises being given. We will take our time for sure to see the fruits of those promises but I believe Matthew 19:26 where Jesus says~ “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” While He is talking about the need to be a poor man to follow Him as it would be harder to leave all your wealth behind, I am sure that we can take this also to mean that God can handle the impossible situations in our life as well. This is one of the things I say often. While I know the reconciliation process will take some time, and it may not happen at all, with God’s help and guidance I now know that I can leave it all at the Throne of Grace.
I plan to take one day at a time and to lean heavily on Jesus in this because the risks are so very present and real for me. Some day I long to be speaking to you and be able to introduce you to my beloved husband. This you can be assured will be a true miracle and in so doing will speak volumes for you, my precious Sisters. For in that introduction will stand HOPE in it’s biggest transformation, FAITH in capital letters, and LOVE that endures beyond addictions and separation. There is the chance that this will not happen fo rme BUT above all we must remember that our true HOPE is in Christ.
A moment ago the Lord impressed upon my heart that this is the last post. I am saddened but glad that I can now work with Jesus in getting this out to you in an effort to show that you are not alone in your fear, in your sadness, in you hope and in your faith.
Through it all remember that Jesus is holding your hand as you sit in the palm of His. I pray Jesus Peace, Love and Joy be with you always in the midst of the storm, for you are protected in the shadow of His wings!
Psalm 36:7 ~ How precious is Your loving kindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
December 27, 2009 - Posted by Dori - 6 Comments
Today I speak from my heart. Christmas is such an awe inspiring day and time of the year. This year my focus was on Jesus but it went hand in hand with my pain in missing my husband.
My best friend and her husband kept me close under their wing. I am real grateful for that…We went to a friend’s house for Christmas Eve dinner after service. They welcomed me with open arms. It was great fun, they are a lively bunch. Half my mind was on Number Four, however, and I sobbed when we got home and I could be alone…
Christmas day~ After a time of sharing about what we hoped to give back to the Lord this year and a time of prayer then presents, mmmmmmmmmmmm I baked cookies and a gingerbread cake and really tried to keep busy, it helps to keep busy.
My Sister and Brother in law called before they even called my mom. They gave me all the Number Four news but I asked them to, they were more than willing to share. He is living in the park where they all work during the work week which is 4 days for him then he spends 3 days at the house. He drinks almost every day, my brother in law says it is effecting his work, he shakes and stuff from the alcohol trying to leave his system and his body wanting more. Number Four is getting laid off in a week and he hopes to be getting something in another part of the park through the winter. Number Four talks about the good times we had in our marriage, sometimes he gets mad that I left…seems like he still does not get it and no one is brave enough to tell him. He is very lonely so my brother in law is in constant contact with him especially when Number Four is at the house so “the echo is not so loud”.
I told my brother in law what the attorney is offering me and he was appalled. He said that Number Four said it is the attorneys battling now I said that was not true; that I am very active in the case and things are not being done fairly. He said he was going to talk to Number Four but who knows, and if he does, who knows if Number Four will even comprehend it all. He had wet brain syndrome at one point from the alcholic coma he had gone into, and that does not just go away especially if he is still drinking which he is.
My Sister and Brother in law talked for over an hour and I felt such hope in that Number Four talks about me and misses me. BUT not enough to give up the bottle, my emotions are like a roller coaster…My house, I was told, is the way I left it right down to my reading glasses on the end table. Guess my sister was wrong about my things being taken. My brother in law is glad that Number Four has a room in the same home they do at the park. They are able to keep an eye on him and also he does not have to drive much. My heart just soared for most of the day getting all this news; I guess I was ready to hear it.
I told my brother in law that I loved Number Four so much but that he had made the choice of the bottle over me and I could not go on with that, the door had been open a few years ago with the hitting part of the abuse. Even though it was only once, experience tells me that once that door is opened it does not close again, I could not chance going through that inwhat could have been a worse way, the words were bad enough, and I could see that he was getting to the point of hitting and kicking me out of the house again. My sister and brother in law are more accepting of it all more now and have told Number Four that I am still family and their friends and that what is between Number Four and me, is between us but they were going to continue to talk to me. That was huge.
I lived on this conversation all day knowing that Number Four wants to know what I have said in conversations and e-mails between my brother in law and me, I have never trashed Number Four just said what is true. I felt a feeling of hope that I should not allow to come in because the fact is in this situation… I am just going to be hurt again if I do. To be honest I had not really given in to much in the way of feelings other than to just get through the past few days, yesterday also was the last day of my part time seasonal job. That is another story, I am not sure what the Lord is doing with the job thing, He knows I really, really need to work…
So today is not really stellar because it is all catching up with me. My heart is so broken, my brother in law said he will call me right away if “something” happens to Number Four. We had to talk about that too…it is a real possibility and something we need to be prepared for.
I need to spend some real quality time at Jesus feet today…My best friend has my car for work, hers broke down. That is a good thing as it forces me to just be. I know I will struggle with things I think I need to do, if I am busy then I can not think and if I am not at Jesus feet I will not allow myself to feel the brokenness. At His feet we can not help but feel that brokenness.
He wants us to feel the brokenness, because only in the brokenness can He fill us up again with His Peace, His Hope, His Love. So today, I wish you His Peace, His Hope and the fullness of Jesus Love…
December 24, 2009 - Posted by Dori - 4 Comments
How can a person live in a body and not see that body, not care to see it because to that person it represents ugliness. This is the question I asked myself this morning. I caught a halting look at my legs in the shower. I don’t think I have cared to shave them since leaving California…I should not even mention the pits! I never would have believed that a woman could grow that much hair in those places! I was apalled at myself. I have been so adamant about not being lovely that I am not taking care of normal girl things. I feel as though the Lord is trying to show me how He feels this past week. Now it is time to act on the reality of what He thinks, as usual I am beginning with you.
I was at a church function last week. Three people told me I was beautiful. They were women friends of mine. “Don’t they know that is not so?? YUCK!” That was my first response, I was speechless. I had no words not even a thank you could or would escape my mouth. “How can they think that” ran through my mind. I finally pulled it together enough to thank them and explain a little that I had a hard time believing that myself so I just did not know how to respond and yes Mom did teach me manners. I just feel like me being beautiful is a real far stretch. Another avenue for the enemy, another lie? Another tactic of abuse…
The truth is~
The king is enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your Lord. Psalm 45:11 (NIV)
Can you imagine~ HE is enthralled by my beauty? By your beauty?
It is Christmas Eve and I have never felt more unlovely in my life. The past two weeks have about beaten me to a pulp. Between my temporary job, another bout of bronchitis, more bad news from my attorney and my full time job falling through, I feel like I need to be mopped up off the floor, there is not much room for joy.
A friend called and left me a message a little while ago, wishing my heart to be filled with joy and reminding me that the Lord has promised to be our husband, He is and always will be.
Isaiah 54: 5 ~ For your Maker is your Husband, the Lord of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth. (NKJV)
Our Lord is not a husband who will abuse but who will lift up, not a husband to belittle but to praise, not a husband to hate but to be enthralled with our beauty. He is also not a husband who will leave us lonely, He provides friends. I am so blessed to have my best friend sticking to me like glue this Christmas. Without her, my sons and other family memebers who are surrounding me, I would not make it. He knows that and He provided. Who has Jesus provided for you this Christmas to get you through with the ability to continue to praise Him?
This year, the message is the same, so very powerful and life changing…Jesus was born. Had He not been born we would not have had Easter, no Easter, no salvation…It all began here, on Christmas with a baby boy in a manger and an obedient teenage woman. There is still a glimmer of the wonder and awe of the Christmas miracle in me so I know it is only temporarily being covered by this present pain. I want to be an obedient woman of God, I want to be trusted as Mary was trusted by God.
Let this be something we strive for in this approaching new year as we work together to leave the past behind and move forward in our new normal with Jesus at the wheel.
I wish you His peace, comfort and wisdom this Christmas and in the coming year.
December 14, 2009 - Posted by Dori - 132 Comments
My walk through the grieving process crossed a new threshold the other day ~ Anger…
By nature I am not an angry person and it takes a great deal to make me angry; so when I had some unpleasant paperwork from Number Four’s attorney come to my e-mail via my attorney; I surprised myself at my reaction. I was rip roaring mad, not just a little angry, we are talking infuriated angry.
Now I know Paul is speaking to spouses when he says not to let the sun set while we are still angry BUT I took it to heart and my attorney got the brunt of all my anger in an e-mail back to her. I did however ask forgiveness and let her know that the anger is not directed at her, but at this situation and my fear of how it may turn out.
“In your anger do not sin” : Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, Ephesians 4:26 (NIV)
“Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. Isaiah 54:4 (NIV)
Notice we are not told not to get angry but not to sin in anger. I was careful not to sin in my anger last week, but I did let my righteous anger show in a productive way by expressing and addressing each issue seperately and completely. Fear??? Well I am still dealing with that and I am counting on the Lord to help me to trust Him more completely and in all things. I also would like to not take my fears back after I have given them to Jesus, can you relate?
Jesus showed righteous anger when He entered the temple and turned over the tables of the money changers.
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. Matthew 21:12 (NIV)
This was Abba Father’s House Jesus’ anger was justified. It grieved His Spirit to see people buying and selling in His Father’s House.
Feeling anger at some point in your grieving process is normal. How you deal with it is going to be and always will be your choice. The abuse that has happened to you was not your choice but you can choose now to live better not bitter. Choose your words carefully and, I am telling you from old experiences, don’t let the heat of the moment carry you away. Be intentional in how you deal with your anger over your situation and within your grieving. Take some deep breaths, scream into a pillow, take a bubble bath. Whatever you need to do to calm yourself down, then pray, pray, pray that the Lord give you direction in how you handle this anger that will come upon you if it has not already.
We as women who have been abused have a great thing going for us! That is that we are in a position to touch other women who are experiencing what we have experienced. Our numbers are growing as the days grow darker in this period of time so close to Jesus coming back. You have no idea where, how or who you may touch just by your actions. I can honestly say that I did not completely act the way I would have wanted too when writing my attorney last week. I did not pray before I wrote to my attorney. I may not have sounded so sharp in my e-mail had I just taken a few moments and let the Holy Spirit guide me. He does such a better job than Dori does. Try not to let that be part of your story.
If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:11
Let this Scripture be able to be said about you as you travel through The Angry part of Grieving…
December 14, 2009 - Posted by Dori - 1 Comment
“I” had something I was going to write today about but…Please watch this 5 minute video and then we will talk about what the Lord showed me today. I pray it touches you deeply. I suggest tissue…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMj084Ggwww
My friend Debbie showed this video to me today. It was used in part of the sermon she had heard this morning. There are a few reasons I feel the Lord took the original thoughts for today and changed them to this one.
This is probably the most powerful 5 minutes I have experienced in a very long time it spoke volumes. Here are a few things I am feeling led to share.
First ~ This shows that although Mary was just a young teenager, she not only chose to listen to Father God she chose to submit and act in complete obedience to Him no matter what the cost, which could have been great for her had Father God not sent an angel to Joseph who also chose to obey; again no matter what the cost. This allowed the Father God to work in Mary, the one He had chosen to bring about His purpose, Jesus coming to earth to save His children.
Second ~ This also shows the cost for her obedience in that she watched her precious son, mocked, tortured and hung on a cross to die for the sins of mankind. Think about it…this is not a pain that any of us has or ever will feel. None of us can even begin to imagine the depth of Mary’s pain.
Third ~ This was so exciting to me! I have been a Christian for many years and I actually just got what the three kings is all about! When you watched them reverently kneel at Jesus’ feet and gently place their gifts before Him ~ When you read that they had come from afar ~ This is what struck me~ Those three kings stood for the rest of us, the gentiles, those not of Jewish desent. They were acknowledging Him as Lord and Savior of us all!!!! Jesus had come to save each and every one of us and they knew that. The depth of this has been there all along and I just got it…God is so good! Thank You, Holy Spirit!
Fourth ~ Jesus was in the saving business on earth right up until He took His last breath on earth. He forgave and saved the one thief who called upon Him, hanging next to Him, and let him know that they would be together that day in paradise. This also gave substantiation of the apostle Paul’s statement that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8 (NKJV)
Fifth ~ but not last as it is only the beginning. Easter morning, the stone rolled away from the tomb entrance, Jesus standing in the shadow of that huge stone takes a look at the now empty burial cloths, His obedience to Father is done, mankind has been redeemed. He heads out of the tomb, He makes a some stops to show Himself to those He knew would believe He has risen, before He rose up to Heaven to continue His healing, and restoration business in a new and most glorious way.
To me this 5 minute music video made by obedient servants of the Lord has spoken volumes! NOTHING is impossible for God. He has redeemed us by choosing to be born of a virgin and to die a humiliating thieves death. This all so that we might live! That we might thrive under His wings. That we might be hope-filled and free, that we may be healed.
I pray that this little entry has spoken volumes to you today, that your hope has been renewed, that you keep looking up to your Saviour, your Redeemer, that you find freedom and healing from your abuses past or present in Him.
December 8, 2009 - Posted by Dori - 6 Comments
God is so amazing as He places things on and in my heart to share with you! As we continue to explore the pain in our hearts, in the deepest parts of our being due to the abuse in one form or another that we have experienced, we can stand assured that our Father in heaven goes deeper than that pain, deeper than the cracks in our vessel, deeper than we can even go.
You see in our quest to go deeper to be able to deal with our hurt and pain in an effort to let God heal those places, He has already been there. At each step of the way He is waiting to touch you there, to bring the healing that is so desired not only by we who have been hurt but by He who created you. He wants you to be whole again, He wants you to trust Him enough to heal your heart, mind, body and soul. Remember with out a shadow of a doubt that when Jesus went to that cross over 2000 years ago, you were on His mind, His death was not in vain and neither is your situation. He will use it all for His good as you become healed and reach out to others.
Jeremiah 1:5 states ~ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (NKJV)
No, not all of us are ordained to be prophets to the nations but the point I am making here with this scripture is that the Creator of the universe, our Abba Father knew you before you were even in your mother’s womb. He has a plan and a purpose for each and every one of His children no matter what they have done or been through. It is important to hold on to that promise.
Jeremiah 29:11 ~ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (NIV)
I believe that God’s plan for me right now is to reach out in vulnerability and truth to you who are going through abuse or are just beyond it but brokenhearted, to share His hope even as I share my struggle. The good days and the bad days are all in His hands where we find safety.
Why am I stressing these things so strongly today, some over again? Well I was talking to a friend over the weekend and just sharing the horrific week I had emotionally. I said that I trusted the Lord was there and getting me through it. She just blurted out “Well look at your DNA!” Her tone of voice was, well duh what are you thinking; of course He is there!! THAT is when it hit me! We share DNA with the creator of the universe!!! It just does not get any better than that!
Today it was very strong on my heart to share these things as the Lord has called them to my mind. It is a struggle to hit the publish button so I am sure you need to know these foundational truths or be reminded of them today.
Isaiah 44:24 ~ ”This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, (NIV)
When Jesus came to earth and gave His life as a perfect sacrifice, an atonement for our sins, we who came to believe in Him also became joint heirs of the Kingdom of God. If we are then, joint heirs with Christ, the son of God, we share the same DNA as our God,the Creator of the universe.
Romans 8:14-18 ~ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 17 and if children, then heirs – heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (NKJV)
Likewise, our sufferings, though truly painful, gut wrenching and agonizing cannot compare to what is in store for us. On earth, for me, if just one person is encouraged and can know that they are not alone by what I write here then it was all worth it. In heaven we can not even begin to imagine what that will be like except to know that none of this time will be remembered painfully if at all.
DNA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints or a recipe, or a code, since it contains the instructions needed to construct other components of cells, such as proteins and RNA molecules. The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in regulating the use of this genetic information.
Chemically, DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called nucleotides, with backbones made of sugars and phosphate groups joined by ester bonds. These two strands run in opposite directions to each other and are therefore anti-parallel. Attached to each sugar is one of four types of molecules called bases. It is the sequence of these four bases along the backbone that encodes information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic acid RNA, in a process called transcription.
Within cells, DNA is organized into long structures called chromosomes. These chromosomes are duplicated before cells divide, in a process called DNA replication. Eukaryotic organisms (animals, plants, fungi, and protists) store most of their DNA inside the cell nucleus and some of their DNA in organelles, such as mitochondria or chloroplasts.[1] In contrast, prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) store their DNA only in the cytoplasm. Within the chromosomes, chromatin proteins such as histones compact and organize DNA. These compact structures guide the interactions between DNA and other proteins, helping control which parts of the DNA are transcribed.
Psalm 139:14 ~ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. (NKJV)
As you can see DNA is the basis from which we are made. As we pray to be more like Jesus, rejoice and remember that we share His DNA, that is why we can become more Christlike for He has allowed us to be joint heirs with Him.
December 3, 2009 - Posted by Dori - 0 Comments
Joy, Courage and Hope ~ all such positive and strong words. All the things I believe I have in me and yet all are missing in my life today…or so it seems. Nothing in particular happened today to make it this way I just seemed to go into a downward spiral as the day went on. I am not even sure that there is a category for the things I am feeling today, unproductive, that might be a good one. Another aspect of grieving the end of my marriage and the circumstances surrounding it? maybe.
Instead of Joy, Courage and Hope I am feeling saddness, weakness, and hopelessness and yet I know that those are lies from the pit.
I know that I am filled with the Joy of the Lord, that is what gets me into Holy trouble sometimes! The fact that I can not help but let my Joy show!
I know that I have courage because, you see I have every reason to believe that as a child of the King, His very own Princess. In fact His angels watch over me. He, Himself has brought me through so very much proving this point over and over again.
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; Psalm 91:11 (NIV)
Hopelessness ~ How can that be in me at all, I always speak of His Hope to get us through. In fact I read this last night ~ “When we loose hope, in essence it’s because we believe that God’s lovingkindnesses have ceased~that there’s nothing more we can expect from God, that He has reached His limit.” That was written by Kay Arthur. I can not imagine believing that He has reached His limit with me; I have always held so much Joy, Courage and Hope in Christ because of His lovingkindnesses toward me in spite of me. He can not be reaching His limit now, I am sure of that.
So why then these feelings…
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8
I don’t freely give the enemy of our souls credit for anything but we do need to be aware of his tactics and as Peter said to be self-controlled and alert. I feel as though todays feelings are an attack of the enemy. You see if he can keep me off this page, keep me from hearing from God in order to write because I am too busy feeling sorry for myself then I can not be there and share with you to bring you the Hope of Christ in your situation. I believe that the Lord called me to write this blog, to be vulnerable in the sharing and by doing so, in obedience to Him, He can be a strength to you through me, just a willing broken vessel.
And so this day I REFUSE to give in to the devil, he knows no new tricks and is playing the same storyline in my head, so I say be gone in Jesus Name! I stand on the promise for all of us that “NO weapon formed against you shall prosper”!! Stand with me as you fight the same old storyline, don’t give in…
I also believe that if there is taunting from the enemy then you are in the right place with God, if not you would not be a threat and therefore would not need to be bothered. An evangelist I heard once said that if you don’t wake up in the morning and run smack into the devil then you had better get on your knees.
Standing in obedience to God is tricky business BUT we can hold fast in the knowledge that we ARE protected, loved and needed by God. HHHmmmmm Think about that!!! The creator of the universe protects, loves and needs us, better than that He has CHOSEN us…If we can but think upon these things the saddness, weakness and hopelessness will indeed be replaced with God’s Joy, Courage and Hope.
I pray God’s Peace for you today as you are reading, I also pray that His, Joy, Courage and Hope be abundant in your life.
