Two visions is DIVISION. Division is an open door for the devil to steal, kill, or destroy. Where there is strife, there is disorder and every evil work.
Category: Heart
My Friend, My God
Unoffendable Heart

Is there someone you need to call today and reconcile with? Is there anyone you need to apologize to for building walls or being easily offended? Why don’t you examine your own heart like I will be examining mine today. Let’s make some phone calls. Reconcile. Kick bitterness in the butt. Let our kids see an unoffendable heart.
Every time you toss someone out the door, you are uprooting the tree you have planted, and you have to plant a new one. It’s like a new home. It has all new trees planted around it, and none has any stamina or girth. It’s easy to plant new trees. It’s difficult to water them every day and to see them grow and become a hundred years old.
God Gives Us the Desires of Our Heart
That is such a difficult verse to wrap your mind around. There are so many things we want. It’s like, what’s everything? Is everything a new car? A new house? What is everything? Define it. The world defines it as owning a lot, being successful, having power and influence, a new boat, a new car, a new house, and everything that is on edge and trendy—cute clothes and nice hair, right? That is how we define it in the Western world. Now, what truly is everything? Every man is searching to be loved, accepted, and known, right? Man just truly wants to be in community and to be used by God.
He walked out of a meeting one time, and he was super excited. “That was so awesome!” He was really celebrating a victory, and suddenly he realized, “Wait a minute. I can’t take credit for the victory if I am not going to take credit for the fall. I need to be stable in God. Stable and fixed in the wins and the losses.” He began praying all day. He prays so much that he prays every single minute he is awake. He is praying for his clients. He is praying through things. He is like a mountain. They move over time, but it is very slow. You can’t actually see it with your physical eyes. That is the character and the depth of my husband.
Heart vs. Outward Appearance
Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.
God Changes Me
Separation Anxiety
You know, I’m a first-time mother anticipating my first child while balancing a career. I’m working my way to being a partner in my firm. I’m now a manager. I worked really hard to get where I am, and I want desperately to continue my career and be a mom.
At the end of ten weeks, I wake up and get myself ready for work and get her ready to be dropped off at day care. I’m ready to go back. Let’s get this thing started.

They say, “Just lay her down in her bed, and she’ll be fine. We’ll get her when she needs us.” I look around. I’m in this room with infants in their cribs, and none of the workers are in there. Everyone’s in the adjacent room. I pick her up and hold her. I start to weep. I don’t think I was made for this. I don’t think I was designed to take my baby and lay her down and leave her for someone else.
I hold her for a really long time. I start to weep silently, soft sobs. No one can tell. The tears aren’t flowing. No way. I don’t want anyone to see this tough business woman as sensitive. I’m dressed in my suit, ready to kill that day. I lay her down in her crib, but I hesitate to leave. The crib looks cold to me, looks lonely. I stand there for a minute with my hand on the side of the rail. Can I leave? How am I going to leave? How do I do this?
Only a mama knows. God designed us beautifully for this love affair, and that’s why it hurts our hearts. Happy Mother’s Day to the women who lay down their lives every day for future generations!
Seek Him!
Sharon Kay’s birthday would have been this week. She was my aunt—but only 11 years older than I was. She took me under her wing, babysat me, took me shopping, and treated me like I was pretty cool. She took me to K-Mart to teach me about the importance of working hard. She forced me to help with inventory. Later I became an accountant, so clearly I secretly loved it. I loved being pursued, and she did it so well.
I loved her outgoing spunk! She was an atmosphere changer!
She passed away when she was only 43 years old.
I was devastated. My faith was rocked to the core. I was mad at God. I was angry. I reached out for help from a pastor. He gave me permission to be angry with God. I wrestled with God for a long while.
On the other side of that, I was forever changed!
Sharon Kay (later in life) loved the Lord with all her heart. She became a courageous seeker of God and truth. She knew the Bible better than I did. I remember discussing it and thinking to myself that she seemed “more like a Christian than I was.”
She carried a joy I didn’t understand. Before she passed, she said, “Either way, I win. If I live, I win. If I die, I win.”
How could she believe that?!
I realized that if I were in her shoes, I couldn’t have said those words because I didn’t believe them. She shared with me all she had learned. Honestly, it shook me up and compelled me to search for answers. This changed my life, my future, and future generations! She’s been gone from this earth a long time. I have never turned back from pursuing God.
If it weren’t for her, I would not be who I am today. Every life I touch, she’s a part of that. Every person I pray for, every miracle I witness, every victory in Jesus, I believe she shares in that reward.
I’m so grateful that she shined her light so brightly that it showed me the love of God more than I had personally ever known. I love you, Sharon Kay! Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I will see you again! ❤️❤️
Beautiful life!
Have you struggled in your faith? Have you been rocked to the core? I encourage you to seek counsel and, most importantly, be honest with God. Seek Him above all else.
Love,
Sheri
What Relationship Means

Being Obedient to God
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV)
That word ‘acknowledge’ there means to know God relationally. In everything you do, be in communion with God. That’s really what it means.
If you go out and do what you want to do, and that includes sleeping around and making immoral choices, then you are not acknowledging God in all of your ways. He is not a God of sin. This message is not designed for people who are trying to fulfill their fantasies or their sinful desires.
This is for people who are truly seeking God with all of their heart, soul, mind, and strength. They are seeking to know Him. They read the Word. They are falling in love with God more every day. Those people can do this. God gives them the desires of their hearts.
When you’re not really seeking Him, when He is not your first priority and you are not pursuing Him with everything you have because He is good and you want to know Him, then the desires of your heart may not be purely His. They may be your desires for the old things your flesh used to want—you know, bigger house, nicer car, better body, somebody to love you, somebody to fill your void.
Well, God is your void filler. He is your house. You are His house. You have everything you need in Him, and there is nothing that you lack. Lack is not your portion when you are in Him. I think it takes a while after we begin seeking God for the desires of our heart to transfer from our old, worldly desires to His desires.
But once you are seeking Him and you really know who you are as His child, He puts His desires in your heart. He puts in you the desire to take care of orphans and widows. He gives you the desire to help people. He gives you the desire not to honk the horn and be mad at somebody who road raged you or drove you off the road. He gives you the desire to offer freedom and forgiveness. He gives you the desires of your heart because He is placing His desires in your heart.
The more you seek Him, the more you find Him and the more He gives you His desires. When that happens, you’ll know. If the desire in your heart is to go out and smoke and drink, that’s not it, okay? You’ll know when it’s God’s desire. If you’re walking and you see someone and think, “I feel like I should give this person twenty bucks,” that’s probably God’s desire in your heart. He is going to provide the twenty bucks, and He is going to want you to give the twenty bucks away.
You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more. (Psalm 10:17-18 NIV)