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Let God’s Love Melt You
I think it was in a Spurgeon sermon I was reading recently where he said, “Let God’s love melt you.” I think he was talking about letting God’s love melt a heart of stone. But it also applies to what we have been talking about with trying to get out of a freeze state in…
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Mobilizing and Immobilizing in Safety: Imagery of God’s Presence
In the Polyvagal Theory, there are 3 states: VV – safety, daily living; SNS – fight-flight, danger; and DV – freeze, life-threat. This chart shows the activation and deactivation that happens in a trauma response PVChartv10q.pdf. You can see that the colors on the chart are green (safety), yellow (danger), and red (life-threat). Your body…
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“Closer Walk With Thee” by Fanny Crosby
Hymnal Page Scan: Closer Walk with Thee Keyboard Recording: 1 I am happy, O my Savior,For I know that I am Thine,Thro’ the pure and perfect cleansingOf Thy precious blood divine:But my soul would rise still higher,There are greater joys for me;I am longing, I am prayingFor a closer walk with Thee.For a closer walk…
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Imagery of Being Guided by God’s Love: Shepherd, Cords of Love, and Carriage
I have been talking in previous posts about fight, flight, and freeze and how these defensive responses protect us. Our minds are always scanning the environment for threats. When it perceives a threat, it starts sending warning signals to us. But as I’ve been talking about, I grew up being taught to push past those…
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Imagery to help us remember that earthly suffering is temporary: a scale and a timeline; 1 Corinthians 4:17-18
I’m going to write today about some imagery we can use in our meditation time to remind us that any suffering we experience on earth is temporary. Yesterday I was writing about the imagery of carrying your cross and following Jesus. It is comforting to remember that we only carry our cross through this life…
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Learning how to conform to God’s will: journaling exercise and imagery of walking hand in hand with God on His pathway
In my previous voice note I talked about some imagery you can use in your meditation time to help with learning to submit to God’s will. Well, it’s imagery and a journaling exercise. Journaling the events of the day can help you process your day. And then in this exercise, if you write out 2…
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Voice Notes with words to hymns and a video of a sheep that is cast down
I added voice notes with me whispering the words to these 2 hymns today: “The Unseen Hand” by A. J. Sims – Learning to Live by Faith and “The Lord Will Answer Prayer” by Fanny Crosby – Learning to Live by Faith. I hope that’s helpful. My throat is still hurting so I can’t whisper…
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“Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” by Walter C. Smith
Hymnal Page Scan: Our Great Redeemer’s Praise page 7 | Hymnary.org Audio Recording: 1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise,in light inaccessible hid from our eyes,most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. 2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might;thy justice like mountains…
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Christian Meditation: God, the Righteous Judge
In my previous posts, I wrote about how God is the Almighty King ruling over His creation. As King, He is the Lawgiver. In this post we will see that God is also the righteous Judge. At the end of earthly life, everyone has to stand before God’s judgment bar in His court in heaven.…
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