Lisa K. Spivey

Always In My Heart

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All you need is LOVE

The year was 1967 when the Beatles debuted their song “All You Need is Love” for the first time. The song was a number one hit and the Beatles went on to be one of the greatest Rock Bands of all time. Those four words penetrated the hearts and souls to everyone to this day because everyone has a need to be LOVED. But, do we really show each other unconditional love?

As my husband and I were eating dinner with our GRANDS a few months ago, we were watching an elderly couple share a meal together. He was caring for her. While she ate he rubbed her back, stroked her hair and yes he would sometimes need to feed her. Throughout the meal he told her over and over again how much he loved her, and then at the end of the meal he got up with her in the middle of the restaurant and danced with her. I knew nothing about this couples life, but I knew so much about who they were as people. Their LOVE IN ACTION toward one another was such a beautiful thing to share in with our GRANDS.

I started thinking more about ways to SHOW LOVE. I want to challenge you today to look over this little list I have put together and DIVE IN.
-Go visit kids who are in the hospital
-Help Teachers get the supplies needed for their classroom
-Put a surprise note/sketch in your spouse or kids lunch
-Bring a meal to the neighbors just because
-Take flowers to the nursing home
-Write a letter to a deployed or wounded military through Operation Gratitude
-Ask your check out person at the market how their day is going and give them a SMILE
-Pay for the persons drive thru in back of you and tell the cashier you don’t want them to know it was you

These are just a few to get started…HAVE FUN and ENJOY THE JOURNEY!

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Unconditionally Yours~An Unexpected HOPE

Last week I had the privilege of being on the podcast “The Christian Perspective” with host Owen Hemsath. If you have never had a chance to check out the show or even if you have I want to encourage you to pop on over on Tuesdays at 4:30pm. Owen does a fantastic job of bringing different topics weekly so check it out and be sure to be an active participant in the show as well by calling or leaving your comments in the feed.

The title of last weeks show was “What do you do when you’ve lost everything?” What do you do when you find yourself paralyzed by a situation in your life that leaves you hopeless? Have you ever been there? I know I have. In 2003 I found myself in the midst of a divorce after 15 years of marriage. As we stood in front of the judge, his decision was that only one parent could have guardianship of our three children and that guardianship was given to my former husband.

Because I went for ten years without seeing my kids I had lost HOPE. I talk about this in Chapter 7 of my book, Big Girls DO Cry. I questioned if I was even a “Mom” to my three children until one day God spoke to my heart and reminded me that man can never take away something that God has given. My HOPE was renewed. I knew God had blessed us with these three gifts and I started praying for HIS redemption story that would take place. Because the truth is every single one of us has a redemption story as we look to the cross.

A few months ago, I got a call from my kids step mom saying that she would like to have open communication with me. I was elated. She went on to share with me that she was sorry for all the years that I had not seen the kids and she felt they had made the wrong decision. I in return could apologize to her for the things that were not honoring before the Lord years ago because I wanted to see my kids and acted in my flesh. This was God’s heart. Two women sharing with the kids best interest at heart. After I hung up the phone I realized that God had answered a 10 year prayer request that many people had been praying. I was humbled, thankful and in awe and overwhelmed by God’s love.

Since that phone call, my relationship with my children has been restored and it is wonderful being together again. I am so proud of my kids, how they have had an open heart and for their step mom placing a call to me a few months ago. In the midst of trusting God I received an unexpected burst of new HOPE!

May you too trust God with all of your unknowns and know HE is the original promise keeper!

“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for!”~Job 6:8

The Christian Perspective@TCP Show

Abiding In Christ!

This past weekend I was honored to serve at our Women’s Spring Conference at Calvary Chapel in Oceanside. Our theme for this conference was ABIDE and I feel like I am still relishing from all that God poured into us.  As I sat listening to our warm, funny and very relatable speaker Donna Jones, she reminded us that GOD CHOSE US.

John 15:5 says “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing”.

It is the vinedressers role to care for the vine and to attend to each of it’s needs.  Even to the point of lifting it off the ground and reposition it so that it will bear sweet fruit.

You see, because the real truth of it is ABIDING in CHRIST happens in every moment of everyday life and sometimes that gets messy.  It’s in the moments where a phone call comes and a diagnosis has been given that doesn’t make sense.  But GOD.  It’s not understanding why my children aren’t following Christ, but knowing I get the honor to stand in the gap for them.  It’s knowing I serve the GREAT I AM, the keeper of my heart and there is no turning back and I choose to ABIDE no matter the cost in every circumstance of my life.  It’s where my roots are deep and I will not be shaken because of CHRIST in me.

Gods love sets us free as we release and align ourselves with the one who is in complete control.  May we continue to trust as we ABIDE in CHRIST!

A Good Place To Start

Have you ever looked forward to something with anticipation only to be let down once the event happened?  It’s like someone took the wind out of your sail, the balloon burst and everyone ate the birthday cake without you.   But at the heart of it all is the ROOT of everything.  In chapter one of my book, Big Girls DO Cry, I talk about Loss and Living and basically how I went through the motions for years trying to convince myself and everyone else that I was “okay”. The truth. I was a dead woman walking around on this earth and not living Free in Christ.

Plain and simple the running from God had to stop.  The walking in denial had to stop.  A good place to start was with God, the one I had been going through the motions with.  I wanted so much more for my relationship with my Heavenly Father, but felt I was now unqualified because I was listening to another voice. Ever been there?  The enemy will try to convince you that God does not love you and God can not use you in His Kingdom.  I want you to know that those are complete lies and if you are hearing these things they are not from God at all.

As I began to walk in the freedom of knowing WHOSE I was in Christ it was like coming up for fresh air.  I have the confidence of knowing that GOD is in control and my faith is growing.  Are some days a struggle?  Sure.  The difference is I know on those days I stay in the Word longer, pray harder, and speak out His promises more.  I am choosing to keep my eyes on the eternal as I prepare for the BEST party ever in Heaven and the celebrating will never end.  Are you ready?  I guarantee you there will be lots of cake and everyone will have a piece!

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