“Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can come together.”
I remember years ago I was in a very dark place, I was driving down the interstate lots of construction going on, it was a huge mess. But as clear as I could tell you God spoke to my heart and said “That is what I’m doing with you, Nicole. Sometimes I have to tear things down to rebuild them the right way.” WOW! I was speechless. Has God ever tore something down in your life in order to rebuild it?
Is it painful, heck ya! Is it worth it…..ABSOLUTELY!
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.” ―
God is close to the broken hearted and rebuilds the broken!
Come let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up” (Hosea 6:1).
Old habits, old ways have to be torn down to allow the new to come. What do you need to let go off and allow God to tear down and rebuild?
Ephesians 4:20-24 we have been taught to “put off your old self which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds.
As you go through dark times, remember you are NOT alone. He brings RESTORATION!
called me by a new name
You’ve taken my shame
and in it’s place, You give me joy
You take weeping and turn it into laughing
You take mourning and turn it into dancing
You take my sadness and turn it into joy
You make all things new, all things new
Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. Isaiah 30:18
We tend to to walk by what our feelings tell us, but our feelings are fickle and CANNOT be trusted. See we can only see what’s going on in front of us or around is but God sees a much bigger picture. He sees the beginning to the end. He knows ALL the details. He knows what you need and exactly when you need it.
His plans are to give you a hope and a future, not disgrace, heartache and despair. He loves you with an everlasting love precious one. So never doubt when something begins to fall apart, TRUST that God must have something even better for you and your family! I’ve seen it so many times in our family.
In times of rebuilding having a great support system like small groups, friends and family are so important. This is where being vulnerable can be hard but I’m just telling you if you can open up to safe people in your life you will find you are not alone in your struggles. So often you find people are going through the same thing. Keeping people at bay and not allowing them in, hurts you but it also hurts them in the process because they aren’t able to do or say what God wants them to do. We are build for relationships.
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage” -Brene Brown
Highlands Worship- How I Need You
“You are powerful, God above it all I believe in You, I believe in You. You do miracles, the impossible. I believe in You, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, oh, how I need You. You stay the same, You are good in Your ways. Jesus, Jesus, oh, how I need You. You are enough, all my trust is in You, Lord” 💗💗💗🙌🏻
Ask God to rebuild what is broken in you, your family, our nation. My friend you are anointed for hard! You are NOT a wimpy Christian! YOU ARE A WARRIOR, destined for greatness. God is with you and He has trained your hands for battle and your fingers for warfare.
Declaration:
I am the God of restoration and I will do what they say can’t be done. I am in the miracle making business. BELIEVE that what the enemy meant for harm precious one I will work for YOUR GOOD! I will rebuild what’s been broken and restore to you a double portion.
In Jesus name, Amen💗
God bless you sweet friends!
Big hugs,
Nicole 💗
Good morning sweet readers! How is your weekend going? Do you have plans? Our daughter is home from college and her fiancé is here visiting from Franklin. We are working on wedding stuff some as well. I also have 2 of my grand pups since Thursday, as well as Brinley who I’ve had about 2 weeks, that’s always fun. Yesterday I taught the puppy to shake and lay down.
This Max the puppy.
Done rambling……This is just your friendly reminder to wake up and be AWESOME today go out in your world and contaminate as many people as you can with your pearly whites!! 😬
The POWER of prayer, let it be UNLEASHED in your life!!! 
Or do you say “Well that’s just great! Yet another problem. Nothing ever goes my way! Nothing good ever happens to me!” What you’re saying your children are soaking it all in and are learning from how you respond, behave and the way you speak. 
My friend God will do exceedingly, abundantly far above and beyond what we can hope, ask or think. So keep going to God, he’s our Rock, our Deliverer, our Provider, our Healer, our Victor……He is our everything. 
Its The Great Exchange….Jesus traded His life for our sins. He traded His health for our sickness, and His abundance for our poverty. He broke the curse and chains and carried all our blame. He gave His life in a beautiful exchange. You have been forgiving and your sins remembered no more.
There’s no way around pain…you gotta feel it and move THROUGH it. Your pain has a purpose. So often we try to bandaid our pain and numb it or stuff it instead of feeling it. We all deal with pain differently….tv, alcohol, drugs, pornography, food, shopping, etc. All these do is mask the pain.
Sometimes our greatest challenge is to believe His Word over our existing condition. 
