{"id":4841,"date":"2021-09-18T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispreciousgift.com\/wordpress\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2022-12-30T06:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T11:53:40","slug":"a-place-called-there-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispreciousgift.com\/wordpress\/a-place-called-there-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A PLACE CALLED THERE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I had written a different blog for this week; however, I woke up this morning with this blog in my heart. The Lord knows someone needs this blog this week, enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Have you experienced your day going just fine, your emotions, mind, and heart are at peace, then suddenly, you get annoyed, curious, lost focus, or distracted by something or someone and they take your soul away from your peace and rest with the Lord? I have a zillion times! Instead of praying and turning back to Him, our place of rest, you find yourself angry, anxious, frustrated, and eventually totally off course and drifting to a place called, \u2018there.\u2019<\/em> When you finally get your bearings, you ask yourself, \u201cNow, how did I get over there?\u201d<\/em> It is so easy to get over there <\/em>rather than keeping your soul here<\/em>, with the Lord. It is almost impossible to live in a world where everything around us is fighting for our attention, good and bad things\u2026 right? Jesus offered us a perfect solution to our dilemma. I have discovered in the over 40 years of my intimate journey with my Lord, every time I obeyed His words to me, I remained at rest and at peace. However, whenever I didn\u2019t obey and listen to Him, I got caught up in my emotions, thoughts, and fears, or started reacting in the flesh.<\/p>\n

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Today, I want to share a simple scripture our Lord uses to keep me snuggled in my rest with Him.\u00a0 He has already brought our souls and spirits to His Kingdom within us, our Home of rest, In Him\u2026 <\/strong>it\u2019s called, here. <\/em>It is here<\/em> where we were created to live and abide forever in His awesome love, grace, life, and presence. Normally, when we wake up in the morning, unless we weren\u2019t resting in our sleep, we wake up refreshed and alive living in His magnificent joy and pleasure. It is only when we open our eyes that our day and all its activities begin knocking on the door to our soul. If we don\u2019t take those thoughts to our Lord and ask Him to order our day together, we will find ourselves, over there.<\/em> Over there<\/em> is where anxiety, worry, doubt, fear, confusion, striving, struggles, anger, frustration, and stress live. There<\/em> calls our names all day to come over to experience death and darkness<\/strong>. But we have a choice Precious One. The beautiful scripture and words of our Lord say:<\/p>\n

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[Looking<\/strong>\u00a0Away\u00a0from\u00a0All<\/strong>\u00a0that will distract us and] Focusing Our Eyes on Jesus (Within Us)<\/strong> who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity] who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work]. <\/em>Hebrews 12:2 Amplified<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tell me, does our Lord Jesus know about distractions or what? Think about all the distractions He encountered during His brief time on earth. Jesus came on a mission to fulfill our Father\u2019s purposes. But there were many people and circumstances to deter Him from His mission. Let\u2019s look at only a few of them:<\/p>\n

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