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I am stepping back but leaving almost 7 years of content here for you to be encouraged. Come connect on Facebook Instagram Twitter/X Wordpress and You Tube. We are Restored People Community - formerly Restored Ministries. My main profile is Michelle Cosby Bollom - you can connect with me there too. All my books are available on Amazon & Barnes N Noble. Stay Blessed and Always Be Encouraged ❤️XXOO

When you can fully step into trust you will enter into peaceful rest and no more stress ❤️ The wise council God gives when I'm awake is confirmed by my sleeping heart. Day and night I'll stick with God; I've got a good thing going and I'm not letting go. — Psalm 16:7-8 MSG A person steeped in the ways of God will usually be able to discern the ways of God. A heart that desires His plan more than its own, is likely to give good advice, even in the darkness of the night. Sometimes we think the council of God is out of reach so we often strive for lesser recommendations. Perhaps we have such a hard time discerning between our own agenda, and God‘s, we do not trust those impulses. Are they from God? Or are they from self? We often do not know. Thankfully, God does not leave us there. Be encouraged; He is our counselor, and He will direct us. And when the dividing line between His will and your heart begins to blur, consider that the two might be falling in line with one another. If you have laid the foundation for that knowing God is your refuge, His people your delight, His plan your joy, then God has shaped your heart. Do not trust it naïvely, but trust the work God has done in it. He has shaped it to beat with His. Takeaways from Chris Tiegreen / One Year Walk With God XXOO

Don't Stress About Your Steps Do you feel that your dreams are off track and somehow you must have missed God for your own self-righteous imaginations? Joseph wasn't off track - but he must of felt like he was with all the problems he was going through after sharing his God dream with others. The plans of his brothers for harm fit with the plans of God for good. God saw the whole tragedy ahead of time and had woven His plan into it. Or…. Had God seen the plan and woven the tragedy into it? We are not sure exactly how God's sovereignty operates in the self-will of humanity, but we know that it does. Even when life throws the unexpected at us, it is never unexpected for God. We are never as off track as we think we are. God orders our steps, even when we aren't sure of them. Seek God and His will and be determined to pursue it, but don't stress about your steps. God always puts them in order. Within your heart you can make plans for your future, but the Lord chooses the steps you take to get there. — Proverbs 16:9 TPT —XXOO

You can be confused, but still remain confident in the Lord You can be bewildered, but still believing in the goodness of God. You can be worn out but still be trusting and waiting on God to move …. Job felt the same way I bet - he was all those things yet he was just as sure of his own integrity as he was of God's goodness. Job refused to be intimidated into a false confession by the accusations of his friends. Thinking of those “almost”polar opposites - I thought of my own life and how sometimes

How To Stay On Track Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He is the one who will keep you on track. Don't assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil! Your body will glow with health. — Proverbs 3:5-8 The Message

Let all things be done decently and in order. — 1 Corinthians 14:40 Do all things in a beautiful and orderly way!! (TPT) Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - we will check ya back in January for our monthly #Podcast - #ThePursuitOfAPromise XXOO -

Peace can actually be painful for some people. Some are always looking at life as one mess mounting after another. They are Hyper - Focusing on the next shoe to drop. Unlearning this way of life can be hard. For some that is how you dealt and how you were raised or witnessed life. You learned to always deal in chaos. Evil foreboding can quickly overtake and occupy your thoughts. You were the one that could get busted in the lip and keep on whistling. When the wheels are coming off the bus you knew how to change a tire quick or walk. If it's not drama filled - you don't know how to deal with it. That way of coping protected you for a time but it also actually fuels pride … never Peace. This is many people …. This was me for way too many years. It's exhausting! I crave I protect I guard at all costs Peace now. What I found is Peace is a Person. It's not found in the perfect circumstances relationship's or things of the World. He never told us to fight battles … He told us to stand firm and allow Him to handle them. He never told us all days would be rosy and restful … He said to rest in Him. He never said chase the World's peace or that faux peace will cut it … He said His Peace is super natural and sufficient and only He can give. The search for Faux Peace is rampant …. Don't be puffed up with pride on how well you can juggle all the junk thrown at you …. Stop looking for it by jumping from one addiction and compulsion to the next… Peace is never found in people chasing … ALL those things are foolish fast and fleeting. A over - full calendar can lead to an early casket. Not a full life. An over - drawn account will never be able to buy it. If you always move at the speed of the world's “lightening speeds” you will actually dim the real Light of Life that is meant to sustain and strengthen you. Peace will always be out of reach when you reach for anything other than The Prince of Peace. Just some thoughts I am pondering today …

Let's lead with our ears today and not with our mouths. Be more intentional with the words you speak today. Weigh your words and measure the pace. When you're slow to speak, anger rarely gets to take the reins because this pace diffuses its haste. — Thoughts from Breathe Daily Devotional by Charlotte Gambill Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. — James 1:9 Click the Bell

"Now my beloved ones, I have saved these most important truths for last: Be supernaturally infused with strength through your life-union with the Lord Jesus. Stand victorious with the force of His explosive power flowing in and through you." —Ephesians 6:10 TPT XXOO

Proverbs 29:25 is a warning, it tells us “the fear of man brings a snare”.. Being overly concerned about what people think of us, and fearing their possible rejection of us is actually a dangerous trap of the enemy that he uses to try and control us. It will either muzzle or silence us from speaking the truth, when necessary, or provoke us to say what people want to hear instead of the word of the Lord that they need to hear. — Rick Renner Click the Bell

How you look at a problem will determine how quickly you get out of it. No temptation has come upon you except what is common to mankind. For God, Who is faithful, will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear; but with the temptation, He will make a way of escape, so that you may be able to bear it. — 1 Corinthians 10:13 AFV XXOO Michelle

These things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day! Habakkuk 2:3 (LB) Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. ~ XXOO Michelle

Here's a story about a recent off the cuff comment that was less than genuine — and it had me sharing some important promises for living the life you want. Come connect with us @restoredpeoplecommunity ❤️

Rejection - it doesn't feel good. But what if it's really God's protection for you? Sometimes we must trust the Divine Departures and Gifts Of Goodbye. Not everyone can go where God is taking us. Seasons change and friends can come and go. But only One remains! Trust God with the sifting of the wheat from the chaff. He knows what and who you need to do His will. Some friendships don't last for long, but there is one loving friend who is joined to your heart closer than any other! Proverbs 18:24 TPT ~ XXOO Michelle Cosby Bollom

Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance. You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion. I leave my destiny and its timing in your hands. Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places. I'm overwhelmed by the privileges that come with following you, for you have given me the best! The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more, for your whispers in the night give me wisdom, showing me what to do next. Because you are close to me and always available, my confidence will never be shaken, for I experience your wrap-around presence every moment. My heart and soul explode with joy—full of glory! Even my body will rest confident and secure. For you will not abandon me to the realm of death, nor will you allow your Holy One to experience corruption. For you bring me a continual revelation of resurrection life, the path to the bliss that brings me face-to-face with you. — Psalm 16:5-11 TPT In Your presence is Total Celebration. - Psalm 16:11 CEB. Happy Holy Week! Blessings to you this Resurrection Sunday & Happy Easter

When things seem soft and shaky and short lived - there is only one thing that stands firm & forever …True, the grass withers and the wildflowers fade, but our God's Word stands firm and forever. —Isaiah 40:8 MSG

LORD, you created so many things! With your wisdom you made them all. The earth is full of the living things you made. — Psalm 104:24 ERV Message translation states “Overflow” in place of the word full. God is full of endless possibilities - maybe it's time you start believing for something greater… His hand is never shortened! Get ready for an “overflow” especially when the world is screaming at us with much fear of lack. XXOO Michelle Cosby Bollom #RestoredPeopleCommunity

Shout "Hallelujah!" because God's so good, sing anthems to His beautiful name. — Psalm 135:3 MSG Instead of shouting a Oh'Hell Naw … Let's learn to instead raise a Halle-Lu-Yeah! Your weapon is a melody. I raise a Hallelujah!!!! With everything inside of me I will watch the darkness flee In the middle of the mystery Fear you lost your hold on me! Louder and Louder! I raise a Hallelujah! I go to sleep In the middle of the storm. I raise a Hallelujah! Let's hear our praises ROAR! Up from the ashes Hope will arise Death is defeated The King is alive! Sing a little louder… In the presence of my enemies Sing a little louder… Louder than the unbelief Sing a little louder… My weapon is a melody Sing a little louder… Heaven comes to fight for me Louder and Louder! Let's hear our praises ROAR! Up from the ashes Hope will arise Death is defeated The King is alive! #RaiseAHallelujah Turn up the volume and place it on repeat today if you need to. ❤️

What a promise that tells us that God will deal with those causing us trouble. It is right and just for God to trouble your troublers. — 2 Thessalonians 1:6 TPT God will do what is right. He will punish those who are causing you trouble. — 2 Thessalonians 1:6 ERV

Don't allow the world's viewpoints or religious doctrines to determine or diminish who God is for you. Grab a hold of this Promise! #ThePursuitOfAPromise #RestoredPeopleCommunity Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]—Ephesians 3:20 AMP

Choose not to enter into the “ fray” of others any longer. Fray: a fight, struggle, or disagreement that involves many people. If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone. — Romans 12:18 BSB

Examine me, God... Make sure I'm fit inside and out So I never lose sight of Your love. But keep me in step with You, never missing a beat. ~Psalm 26:2-3 MSG For a runner to obtain the prize, he must give his very best effort to the race. Success doesn't come without sustained commitment. A haphazard approach will not cause any significant changes to take place in your life. You must be diligent, determined, and committed. Be a finisher - not just a starter My #TodaysTakeaway ❤️ XXOO

Colossians 1:11 tells us of the infinite power and glorious night that helps us endure hardships. ❤️ Merry Christmas and we will catch you in the New Year #ThePursuitOfAPromise --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Romans 12:12 - a great promise! Rejoice!

Psalm 119:50 - Tells us what brings life and comfort in our afflictions ❤️ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Psalm 5:12 today let's us know delight and celebration - a party that never stops!

Psalm 47:1 tells us what all people's need to do for Joy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Let Philippians 4:4 be your declaration and prayer #YourRxForJoy

Psalm 71:23 gives us a reason for our lips to shout for joy and praises! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When the cares of our hearts are many - Psalm 94:19 let's us know what cheers our soul!

Proverbs 27:9 - tells us about a friends advice ❤️ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Proverbs 15:15 tells us the difference of when things go right or wrong

Psalm 22:26 - Seek & Praise and your heart will rejoice with everlasting joy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Psalm 19:7 tells us what gives us joy and light … it also protects us and makes us wise!

James 1:2-3 tells us when hedged in by various trials that we reckon it nothing but joy - the testing of our faith leads to power of endurance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Rejoice with a glorious Joy! Listen to todays prayer and promise from 1 Peter 1:8. ❤️#YourRxForJoy

2 Corinthians 6:10 let's us know that even when our heart aches we still have the Joy of the Lord. Listen to this promise and a prayer for you today from #YourRxForJoy - available on Amazon Joy runs much deeper than despair. Kindle & Paperback

December Prayers & Promises all for JOY! Join us and increase your Joy.

Twisted and perverse lives are surrounded by demonic influence. If you value your soul, stay far away from them. — Proverbs 22:5 TPT --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Let No Debt Remain .. except the debt of Love ❤️. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. ⁹ The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰ Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. — Roman's 13:8-10 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Come out of all agreements with anything less than My Perfect Love. I work ALL things for good for those who love Me and Love like Me.” —Jesus — XXOO Michelle Cosby Bollom A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not snuff out. In faithfulness He will bring forth justice. — Isaiah 42:3 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. — Romans 8:28 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. — Proverbs 3:5 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. — Proverbs 4:23 He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.” — Exodus 15:26 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. — 2 Chronicles 7:14 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices." — Mark 12:30-31,33 "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. — Matthew 5:16 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.— John 1:5 This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. —2 Timothy 1:6 -7 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." —John 13:34-35 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. — Romans 12:2 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. — 1 John 4:18 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. — Psalm 34:17 Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.— Psalm 44:5 But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.— 1 John 4:4 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. — Luke 10:19 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. — Romans 8:37 Therefore you have no excuse or justification, everyone of you who [hypocritically] judges and condemns others; for in passing judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, because you who judge [from a position of arrogance or self-righteousness] are habitually practicing the very same things [which you denounce]. And we know that the judgment of God falls justly and in accordance with truth on those who practice such things. —Romans 2:1-2 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.— 1 John 4:8

There's 2 sides to every coin and 2 sides to every story. There's 2 sides of the street, 2 sides of the bed, 2 sides to almost everything. Oh' the pendulum swing ... Yes or No Right or Wrong Go or Stay Winners or Losers Every thing has 2 sides. Recently while driving the traffic was at a stand still and I noticed I was in the left lane and it was a Merge Right situation. I could tell many were caught off guard as well and were sharply cutting over to get back to the right as the left lane closed abruptly. It was stressful and frustrating and soon became a bit chaotic because everyone wanted to be ahead of the other person. As I waited for the aggressive drivers to go ahead, I started thinking ... Where was the notice that the one lane was going to end? How were we to know we needed to Merge Right? This could be dangerous ... Why is everyone in such a hurry? Can't they see that the left lane ends and we can't go anywhere? Do I jolt out there and push my way to the right or keep waiting...? Something about “Merge Right” spoke to me. Daddy God was downloading a spiritual truth from a natural situation. How many times do you find yourself in the wrong lane? The wrong line? The wrong choice? Do you ever have buyers remorse? We all hear the saying to “just stay in your lane” etc. But what if God is closing the current lane and needs you to Merge Right? You are gonna have to leave your lane or risk getting hit or stuck or come to a complete dead end. Sometimes there are no warning signs that you need to leave one lane to go to the other. Sometimes there are and we were too busy to notice them... Do you wait till everyone passes or just jump out in Faith you won't get sideswiped? What if you are holding so tightly to one side and you should be on the other? What if you are to flip that coin, cross that street, adjust things, wake up on the other side of the bed or whatever spectrum you have been living or find yourself in? Of course some things are clearly easier to decide sides ... Heaven & Hell Good & Evil Justice & Corruption Truth & Lies Love & Hate But still there is always 2 sides 2 ways you can choose to go. Today, ask yourself... Does this side I currently find myself on represent my goals, my values, my thoughts, my future, my destiny, Jesus? morals? Love, goodness, Truth, justice, Heaven...? Do I need to possibly Merge Right? ... and try a new path, perspective, choice, decision, way of doing things so that I am not caught off sides for the things that matter most. Maybe that stay in your lane stuff is not so good advice after all... “Every word You speak, every truth revealed, is always right and beautiful to me, for I hate what is phony or false. ~ Psalm 119:128 TPT ~ XXOO Michelle Cosby Bollom #LiveRestored #MindBodySoul www.restoredministries.org --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Lord works out everything to its proper end — Proverbs 16:4

God always makes his grace visible in Christ, who includes us as partners of his endless triumph. Through our yielded lives he spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere we go. — 2 Corinthians 2:14 TPT

“Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭12:21‬ ‭CSB‬‬ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“This is what I pray for you. I pray that you will continue to love each other more and more. I pray that you will know God better and better. I pray that you will understand all those things that are true. Then you will be able to choose what is best in the way that you live. Then, on the day when Christ returns, you will be completely clean. You will not be guilty of any bad thing.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭1:9-10‬ ‭EASY‬‬ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

An Invaluable Opportunity Count it ALL Joy … Really? Count … The cheating spouse The unfaithful friend The wayward child The disrespectful teenager The cancer diagnosis The overflowing toilet The flooded house The burned down dreams The cranky kiddos The crying baby The brutal summer heat The long frigid winter cold The crappy service The dishonest people The crashing stock market The loss of a relationship The failing health The impending death The angry accusers The lies The corruption The rising gas prices The eviction notice The hot pavement to sleep The busted washing machine The stalled car The flat tire The loss of a job What??? Seriously? Yes, Michelle, count even ALL those — and so much more as Joy.

I pray that the God of peace will give you every good thing you need so you can do what he wants. - Hebrews 13:20 NCV

…Grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. I recently saw this verse in Psalms and thought what an awesome prayer David shared here. What a prayer that we can pray today. It's easy to gritch gripe and complain and not want or will to do the hard or unlovely things we may need to do, but we have a helper with us! The Holy Spirit in us helping us and we can ask Him to help us to have a more pleasant and willing spirit. Here is the verse in the passion translation … “Let my passion for life be restored, tasting joy in every breakthrough you bring to me. Hold me close to you with a willing spirit that obeys whatever you say.” — Psalm 51:12 You know we love for people to #LiveRestored at #RestoredPeopleCommunity Come connect with us on all social media outlets.

A man of kindness attracts favor, while a cruel man attracts nothing but trouble. - Proverbs 11:17 TPT Click the Bell

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; -1 Peter 2:16 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. — Galatians 5:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, — Isaiah 61:1. Come connect with us @restoredpeoplecommunity