Breast Cancer Awareness Month series.
When you're facing a challenge with your health like breast cancer, life can begin to feel a bit squeezed, and like our beautiful flower in the graphic above, whose petals appear to be pressed up against the top and sides of her world, the pressures that surround you may be squeezing in on your life.
But, if you take a closer look at this flower, she's actually flourishing. She's just continuing to grow and bloom, even with the sides pressing up against her. Why, she looks as if she's out in a wide open field, letting her petals unfurl and dance in the breeze! And it's all because of the source of life WITHIN her.
God can do that for you. He can become that source of life, that "river of life", that flows continually, flooding your life with newfound sources of strength, help and peace. Even in the midst of a health crisis. We know this from firsthand experience and you can read our story in our October 1st blog. Because we understand the challenge of breast cancer, we know that there is a greater power at work in the lives of those who know God and allow Him to come into their lives.
We want to encourage you to get to know Him, to begin to walk through life with Him, to begin to let Him live within you, right in the midst of your "squeezed world".
When you walk with God through a tight spot, you'll begin to slip through life with thoughts like this:
God is with me, I will not fall. God will help me. He'll be a refuge and strength in times of trouble. (paraphrased from Psalm 46)
And then like us, you'll just press-up against verses like this when you're squeezed:
"It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!"
Praying for God's strength to be in you today,
The Velvet Lime Girls
Today's resources:
Thermograms are a safe way to monitor your breast health and this article by Dr. Christiane Northrup discusses the benefits: Thermograms
A thermography team we've worked with:
Mobile Thermographic Imaging
Healing Scriptures - Dodie Osteen
Previous resources:
Breast Cancer Conqueror
50 Healing Verses
Strong Spirit
(A great message to build you up in your spirit)
It Is Well With My Soul - Bethel Music
(A great message to build you up in your spirit)
It Is Well With My Soul - Bethel Music
