~Transformed by Prayer ~

   

Being a Child  of the Most High God , means that we have a Direct line to the Father. we have the Opportunity to go directly to God with our Praise, Thanksgiving, Petition, Confession, Desires, Fears, Worries, Cares...We can take all of it , and  we should Take it directly to God in Prayer!

   

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The Spirit of Grace in a Conversation!

Let Your Conversation be Always Full of Grace, Seasoned with Salt, so that You may know How to answer everyone....with Wisdom & Understanding! Colossians 4:6 

Let all your conversation be such as may tend to exemplify and recommend Christianity; let it not only be holy, but wise, gracious, and intelligent. A Harsh method of proposing or defending the doctrines of Christianity only Serves to Repel men from those doctrines, and from the way of salvation. Colossians 4:6

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~ Wisdom is Out the Box ~

Wisdom has no Designated place, She will meet man/woman/child… Right Where they’re At! Even more so now with all the temples, synagogues, churches, and chapels being present in our Communities… still yet hundreds of thousands never frequent them, and therefore do not Hear the Voice of Wisdom! Therefore Wisdom must come to them who seek Her in undesignated places so that they can receive Her instructions. ~ Rev Mother Grace

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~ Change Your Life on Purpose ~

Have You ever thought about Changing Your Life On Purpose, So that you might access Your Purpose in Life? On Purpose, means it’s Not an accident that I just High Fived your forehead! Are You Listening?
…Wisdom is Calling You! ~ Rev. Mother Grace
"Now then, my Sons & Daughters, Listen to me; Blessed, Happy,at Peace are those who Keep my ways. Listen to my Instruction and be Wise; do not Ignore it.”

 Proverbs 8:32,33 

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~Transform Your Life with Wisdom~

Let us All be Wise, and not Refuse such Mercy! Blessed, Happy, at Peace are those who hear the voice of the Spirit of Wisdom within You, and seek it with daily Reading, Meditation, and Prayer! We find time for other vain amusements, without neglect considering it needful. It shows contempt for Wisdom's instructions, when we seek excuses for neglecting the means of Grace? Wisdom provides You with understanding of the very Life, you’re trying to Live! Are You Listening? …Wisdom is Calling!

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One Moment of Peace!

Finally, my brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. Philippians 4:8  #MINDsetForChange~JoGrace

Ladybug Showed Up Today!

A Ladybug Showed Up in my Loft Today! I hadn't been out since the day before and all the doors and windows had been closed...but some how she found her way in! So I caught her and set her free! Then I decided to look up its symbolism...and of course I couldn't pass up the opportunity to create an inspirational photo!

Complete meaning: Ladybug: The Ladybug is associated with spirituality and religious devotion. The name Ladybug originated in Europe during the Middle Ages, when insects were destroying the crops. Catholic farmers were said to have prayed to the Virgin Mary for help. Soon after, Ladybugs appeared and began eating the pests and saved the crops from destruction. The farmers began to call the Ladybugs “the Beetles of Our Lady” and eventually they were known as Lady Beetles. The Ladybug's red wings are said to represent the Virgin's cloak and the black spots her joys and sorrows.

The Ladybug is widely considered a symbol of luck and is seen as a good omen when it comes calling. In Sweden, it is said that if one lands on a young woman's hand, she will soon get married. In France, it is said that if you are ill when one lands on you, it will fly away with your illness.

Ladybugs are also considered to be symbols of fire and the Sun.

Ladybug teaches life is short and it teaches to let go of ones' worries and fears, to trust in spirit and enjoy life. It brings the gifts of renewal and regeneration. The message of the Ladybug could be asking you to “Let go and let God”.

Other Google Meanings: Love,Luck,Protection

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Expecting Good is a Mindset!

Expecting Good is a Mindset! Does your mind Wander aimlessly 

...or are You Wondering what Good could happen to you next? 

Open the channel for Good...then listen, take note...

because something Good just showed up!

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Staying true to Your Faith!

MINDset ~Staying true to Your Faith! Don’t allow people to bully you because of the faith You choose…and don’t beat people up because they don’t choose what you believe! We’ve all been given the Freedom to choose whom we will serve! A man shall not be established through mischief, deceit, and trickery: but the root of those living a life of integrity, with a character built up in Christ shall not be moved. But those with a questionable character appearing as godly; since they don't have deep roots, they don't last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God's word. As soon as the big bad bully’s show up in hot persecution of the professors of God's Grace, and those who acknowledge Christ Jesus as Lord & Savior; such hearers are stumbled by these things, and cannot bear the loss of anything, or endure anything severe for the sake of the word they claimed to have great pleasure in; and therefore, rather than remaining true to their faith, they change up their statement of belief.

Mark 4:17, Proverbs 12:3
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MINDset~For Giving!

MINDset~For Giving! ...I Love Listening to the Holy Spirit when she (wisdom was referred to as a she,teaching coming soon) says Give...it's so awesome when you're able to bless someone unexpectedly! Yesterday as I'm checking out at the cash register (the only one in line, at the moment) a song just continued to play in my head...I shared it with the cashier and kept singing, "So Blessed" (Jill Scott) ...then as I was ju
st about to pay for my stuff, I looked up from the card swipe keypad and there was that voice..."Pay for her stuff"...Ook ...I look at the cashier and tell her (pointing) to ring that stuff too...she looked a little puzzled, and then proceeded to tell me that all my stuff had been rung up! I smiled and said I know ring hers up too!...she said, with your stuff...again "Yes!" Another coworker was also standing there just looking like, OK! The customer retrieved her items said, Thank You!, and the cashier said keep singing as I left! I was the one Blessed...oh how Good it is to be able to Give! Blessings~ Jo Grace

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God can Speak Directly to You!

MINDset ~As one of my teachers said, “The Greatest tool in the Hands of the Oppressor is the Mind of the Oppressed!”… Rest because God is with you/within you resolving each and every situation! Even in your imperfect faith, His Grace will still be sufficient! #Mindset~JoGrace

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Most of You aren't Breathing Properly!

MINDset ~Most of You aren't Breathing Properly! When you're Worried and Stressed your breathing is very shallow...and even when you're Not feeling like you're stressed...it pays to be Mindful of your Breathing, few people retain a habit of natural, full breathing which is required for maintaining a good mental and physical state! (things you learn in 20yrs of Aesthetic teaching) Breathing improves oxygen, which plays a vital role in the circulatory and respiratory systems. Oxygen that is inhaled purifies our blood by removing poisonous waste! Irregular breathing will hamper this purification process and cause waste products to remain in circulation.

Now let’s take a spiritual breath…Lord Jehovah breathed into mans nostrils the breath of life and man became a Living Soul. Use your physical breath as a daily meditation to inhale the Spirit of the Living God, it will purify your life and assist you with removing the excess weight and toxins in your Spirit! (things you learn in 30yrs of living/studying to show thyself approved) Cast your cares on Him, take back your breath…the Lord GOD speaking to your bones (physical life), behold, I will cause Breath to enter into You, and Ye shall Live! Live, live, live in the Grace god has given You! Practice daily breathing, impact your Mind, Body, and Spirit! We are spirit in a physical body and both must be attended to in order to sustain a Long Healthy Life! Stop right now…Inhale…hold 4secs…now exhale hold 6secs…Aahh! 3x or more… You just extended the life of your lungs! Enjoy your Breath Today…Blessings! Read Genesis 2:7, Job 33:4, Ezekiel 37:5, Anxiety~1 Peter 5:7

Just a few Benefits:
• Reduces stress and increases energy, aliveness and sense of well-being
• Releases toxins from the cells of the body: 70% of toxins are released through the breath itself, so when you breathe more you release more!
• Allows old emotions, memories and past traumas to arise and release in a safe and gentle way!

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What Do You Need to Survive, Really Thrive… Food? Water? Air? Facebook?

Mindset ~What Do You Need to Survive, Really Thrive… 

Food? Water? Air? Facebook?

Because a large percentage (up to 60%) of the body is made up of water, and each day it uses water, it must be replenished…and the lack of water will have a major impact on how well your organs function! (the brain is composed of 70% water) So you may feel fatigued, a lack of energy, lethargic, and your skin will begin to show signs of dehydration! We know it’s possible to survive without food, but without water, surely death is near! How many days do you think you could live without water?  You probably wouldn’t even think of trying it? 

Following that same mindset but using this thought, Mind, Body, and Spirit…let’s say one-third of our being is Spirit, and like water it is used daily!  Un-Replenished you began to experience spiritual fatigue, depressed, uninspired, and unenthusiastic about life…and at some point you will experience a spiritual death! Like the signs that show up on dehydrated skin as fine lines, and wrinkles…it is the same with your life!  Replenishing your spirit (with music) brings movement back to your body, and singing (from your heart) stimulates your mind so that it can create! Creating is an expression of a spirit-led, spirit-fed life! And just as the natural body requires food for nourishment…the spirit must be fed spiritual food daily! So let’s ask that question again…How many day’s do you think you could live without your spirit?  Oh, but so many are trying it? 20% Living in Spirit, amongst the 80% of the walking dead! Is your Spirit alive? Can others see it? If not, open your bible, download some fresh spiritual software! #BeRenewedinTheSpiritofYourMind~Ephesians 4:23, John 4:24, Restore~Isaiah 38:16

No Competiton in Grace!

There's no competition or competitors when your operating in Grace.  

When you're not  in Grace you compete with people Role to Role,

 my ego is just a little bit bigger than yours, tiles, positions, status, fear etc

When you're flowing in Grace you connect with people Soul to Soul...instead of competing, your spirit is alive and begins creating, you're excited about discovering what your souls can create together!  

Or simply enjoy, and or appreciate each others Gifts & Presence! 

Say it with an Open Heart!

With an Open heart you make a suggestion...

which means you have taken into consideration the heart
concern of the other person! Presenting the best resolve without creating
 more possible damage, or an undesirable outcome!

Opinionated Bully's!

What spews out of Your mouth, spews from within Your heart...You may want to keep Your opinion to Yourself! Otherwise all men will know the tragedy that's seated in Your soul!

The Consequences Belong to You!

Freedom of Choice, means we also accept the consequences of those choices! So don't Beat people up because of the choices you've made!

Stop Beating People Up!

If you beat people up because of their choices, then you deny the right to your own choice! Christ didn't push himself on folks...he said, this is who I am...You Choose whom You wish to serve! This is my Benefits package...it contains Eternal Life!

You choose, I've already made a way, even if You choose not to Except me or it (my benefits). Freedom is a Choice...stop Beating people up about their Choice! #RealChristLove

Choose Love!

Choose Love and remain Free. Freedom of Choice...I choose to love people regardless of Color, Race, Faith, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and their Choices! They have a Choice! I choose to Love and remain Free from anger, hatred, prejudices, judgments! Freedom is a Choice, that begins with Your mindset! Me I choose to Love & Be Free!

How to Avoid Recession Suicide!

How to Avoid Recession Suicide (or help someone else)... Recession Proof your Mind and the mind of your children!  Avoid isolation  surround yourself with positive, optimistic people!  Mental Stress is a major contributor to increase in suicide...unemployed, unable to pay your bills, mortgage, car note, and your children's extravagant toys, etc., has brought changes in your lifestyle.

Having to downsize has contributed to your mental stresses/anxieties, magnified by that of your spouse, children, extended family and friends! As a matter of perspective, you may need to address some underlining Spiritual factors!  ...read more on my previous blog http://graceupclose.blogspot.com/2012/07/recession-suicide.html

Recession Suicide!

MINDset ~The Recession has given people time to assess the gods they created in their lives! The gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand…which provided nothing for their souls! Some, most of whom never knew him, still searching and looking for stuff to fulfill them! Some lost their minds, committed suicide (literally, spiritually), still crying over the lost of their stuff! (homes, money, cars, etc)…

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Money, fame (the Jackson family has proven this), and the appearance of Success doesn’t guarantee peace & true prosperity! Only a mind-set built in the consciousness of Christ will sustain Your life… “in him we Live, and grow in the Grace which has been given to us!” Yes, I lost a lot of stuff too, but Thank God I knew the principle behind… “Build Your House, Before the Storm!” Acts 17:28, Daniel 5:23

Mindset for Change!

Mindset ~ For true conversion there must be not only a change of the way, but a change of the mind. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9

Let those that are the called according to God's purpose, comfort themselves, that whatever God has purposed, it shall stand. Isaiah 14:24

Surely as I (God) have thought, so shall it come to pass; as he had shaped and created it, and drew the form and image in his own mind (Proverbs, wisdom was with him before the hills and valleys were formed), or fixed and settled it there, so should it be done in due time, as everything is that is determined by the Lord! Nothing is casual, or comes by chance, but everything as it is purposed of God; and that as everything comes to pass which he (our God, the most High) has resolved, so every such resolution proceeds from thought, and is the produce of the highest wisdom and prudence!

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Need a Little Love Workout?

Love~Meditation#99

Love can make You stronger, with heart healthy benefits that range from faster healing and better control over chronic illnesses to Living longer. Women and Men in good marriages have a much lower risk of cardiovascular disease than those in high-stress relationships! Your daily dose of Love for yourself and others can make the difference in your Heart Life!  

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Are You Contributing to Your Anxieties?

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you could add any other negative material...

or listening to negative people...list goes on...etc

Grabbing the newspaper, or watching the news first thing in the morning (all day) 

and reading all the bad news in the world. Your heart will be full of cares,

 anxieties and even fears. 

If you constantly feed only on earthly things which cannot satisfy, 

you will fill your heart and mind with cares and worries. ...
Matthew 6:33… seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, 

and all the comforts of God will be added to Your spirit!

How does Your Personality Type affect the Execution of the Plan?

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Success is Determined by the Presence of Peace?

Success is Determined by the Presence of Peace or lack of Peace...
What is it for a Man/Woman to gain the Appearance of Success,
but Yet have no identification with their own Soul?

Study to show thyself Approved!

We Get All the Good because Christ has already been subjected to the bad, that's Grace...so Live in what's been given to you by the Spirit of a Living God!  Stop listening to the tongues of bad teaching, who keep you Captive in Egypt...with captivating messages that appear with such excellence; all you do is say Amen, coming into agreement with words that keep your Soul in bondage! ...instead of the Liberty, which Christ Jesus, through the Passion of the Father who would give his only Son for you to have Life! This life, by faith...established in Grace, exist only to those who have Knowledge with Understanding; and a inner working of the Spirit (counsel of god), developed, and experienced in the Presence and Peace of God! ...and again I say "Don't be follower, Be a Student!"  Study to show thyself Approved

My Discovery of Blogging!

I write constantly, consistently, daily, anytime, anywhere...

discovering Blogging is like Breathing for Me! ~JoGrace 

A Father's Day Story, For Grandfather's who Make up the Difference!

Jo Grace

Samuel J. WharryMy Grandpa was a Wise man...he often rested in his reclining chair with his bible in his lap...working in a Steel Mill supporting a large family, and their families...he was a garage barber on the side...he had a huge garden with fruit trees & vegetables...did his own landscaping, greenest lawn on the block...built his own brick BBQ pit with a smoker on one side and a metal resting cabinet to keep the cooked meat hot...then enclosed it by building a patio around this huge brick walled pit with it's own chimney...in addition to being a Master BBQ'r...way ahead of his time...he purchased 3 properties (one very prominent piece he owned was sold due to the lack of wisdom of the family :( Oh what it would have been worth now! He was a Man worth Running bath water for...and my Grandmother gladly did so...as she sipped her coffee in her China cups...she'd pour a little for me in this delicate china saucer! He was such a great example, and spoiled me so...there has been none who can be compared to that of Samuel Julius Wharry!  When he past away...my grandma said..."Well that's it for me, there will never be Another!"  

 Love, love, love My Grandpa!              

Out of the House of Bondage!

For those who have Chosen to…

No Longer Be a Follower, But a Student!

The awesome thing about becoming a Student (studying), is that God will reward you for your diligence; more than often you will receive some form of confirmation in the area in which you have chosen to study. Confirmation comes as a way to stir the excitement for learning and proves you are making a worthy investment in your time, and indeed supernaturally impacting your Spiritual Growth.  By choosing to be a Student and not a follower, you will accelerate your learning and increase your learning curve; being a student of the bible, growing spiritually impacts your ability to learn and succeed in all areas of Life!  Being a student, applying what you have learned and sharing it with others causes you to grow exponentially.  Freedom and Liberation comes through education, not just inspiration and motivation… “The most powerful tool in the hands of the Oppressor is the mind of the Oppressed!”

A student diligently attending to the art of learning provides a healthy environment for his mind to grow; and a healthy growing mind contributes to the whole body, mind, and spirit transformation.  A student that study’s and renews his mind daily, undergirded by the grace obtains knowledge with understanding.  Maturing as a student you will then cultivate a relationship with the Holy Spirit, the counsel of God; and through divine revelation enter into an intimate space of grace, filled with his presence and confirmed by his peace! (in your spirit, not someone else’s)

"Following the Footprints in Your Soul!”

“The only Footprints You should be Following are the Footprints in Your Soul!”

Don't Be a Follower, Be a Student of Your own Soul!