Broken

I Choose to overcome!
There is an ancient art in the Japanese culture that is called Kintsukuroi that
takes broken things and repairs them with gold.  Think of that.  To look at something that is broken, good for nothing, something that most people would look at as trash & to instead see art waiting to happen.

 
When you are struggling.........
When you are tired........
When you feel like you have nothing left to give........
When you feel broken........

Remember you were created to endure and overcome!

 

 

Isaiah 48:10“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”

So many times in our lives things happen to us or are said to us that affect us in a way that we couldn't have ever prepared for. Remember it is all part of the refinement process. I read this online today and wanted to share it.

One day I prayed to my Lord
You are the potter and I am the clay
Mold my life to look as you do
I want you to give me a new being.
He said I do not like you, I'm going to break you
And in a new clay, I will transform
But in the process, I'm going to make you cry
Because I'm going to take you through the fire

I want a smile when everything goes wrong
I want a praise instead of your complaints,
 I want your confidence in the storm
And I want you to learn to forgive

Allow him to do the work of healing and remaking you

 so you will know you will become stronger than ever and not look like this!

Zechariah 13:9 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The LORD [is] my God.

1 Peter 1:7 - That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Malachi 3:1-18 - Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.   (Read More...)

1 Peter 5:10 - But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].

Job 23:10 - But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Proverbs 17:3 - The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Psalms 66:10-12 - For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.   (Read More...)


Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

Psalms 66:10 - For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.