Allison Bramlett

comfort zone

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Allison Bramlett

Life begins when you get out of your comfort zone and true life is simply submitting our will to God’s will. When we look at things from our physical, earthly perspective we miss the big picture. Real living! What or who has your attention today? What are you focusing on? Our focus needs to be on God… knowing Him, trusting Him. If you are thinking I can’t approach God (maybe it is out of your comfort zone) it is because you don’t know Him or trust Him. He is Love! He is a safe place! Today you can be honest with God because He already knows the truth. We sometimes accept things that are counterfeits because we have not truly lived outside our comfort zone and waited on God’s best. It is important to realize that knowing about God is not the same as knowing God. I can know about Abraham Lincoln but I don’t really know him and have a relationship with him. In life it takes us getting over ourselves to have relationships with others. It is a choice to know your spouse, children, friends, coworkers, family and the list goes on. It is also a choice to let someone know you. Strength comes from waiting on God’s way and living beyond your comfort zone. Today let go of your past. Don’t drag it around and quit carrying other people’s luggage too. Let the Love of God help you really live. Zephaniah 3:15-17 tells us how the Lord feels about our past. It takes God’s vision to see yourself and others for who they really are. Put on your spiritual glasses. Realize that choices today can affect your future and choose life. Psalm 16:11 says You will be known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Serving God is the greatest adventure. You have a purpose. You have a destiny.

My comfort zone has really been stretched these last few months. Our son is now living away at college. I am homeschooling my beautiful daughter. There are financial pressures. The point is everyone has things that come up in life that cause us to be pushed and pulled. The important part is being led by the Spirit during these times. Trusting the Father and keeping on your spiritual glasses of faith, hope and love. The Holy Spirit has been such a comfort, teacher and guide to me. I am constantly learning more about the Father God and His love! It is a choice to know Him. The Father today is chasing you with Love and it is zone you want to live in. Choose the God zone today. When you get in His zone and take His name, Jesus, it changes your destiny.

Here are some pics: just for fun

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Lead

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Allison Bramlett

Faith works through Love. These two things help you lead. Loving people is messy business. My son is going to college this weekend. He is the fish that is leaping out of the bowl. It seems just like yesterday he was in the back seat of my car pushing the seat with his muddy feet from baseball practice. He was messy. I would look back say put your feet down, sit still and we will get something to eat at home. Today I miss the mess. I realize that the mess meant that I had an energetic boy not a messy car. I also realize that it was my pride that wanted my car clean and probably my husband too. I also realize that laundry, dishes and other messes just mean that we live there. Those messes are now messages. Jesus gave messages in messes.

Jesus in John 9 makes miracles out of messes. Many times we want to cover up the mess in our life and act like we don’t have any. In this chapter in the Bible there is a blind guy. People are wondering what kind of mess his parents were in or he was involved in for such things to happen in his life. Jesus says the mess is here so I can clean it up. He spits in the dirt and makes a muddy mess. He then spreads it on the guys eyes and tells him to wash it off. The man is healed by the mess. When I read this I get excited to know that Jesus can take a mess and make a miracle. He does miracles in our life because He loves us. He leads us with love.

So don’t get frustrated with the mess, just keep leading with love.

not on accident

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Allison Bramlett

great relationships don’t just happen by accident. a great marriage is never an accident. Things always start out by “Falling in Love”, but you have to make the decision to “stay in love”! This means you grow in your love. So many people end up falling out of love instead of growing in love. great relationships and marriages are done on purpose! This is a choice you make for life not for moments. this means you choose to stay married and work at growing in love. also remember that connection is much greater than perfection. nothing is going to be perfect but choose to stay connected and committed. it is a choice to build a better marriage. all of this is only possible if your marriage is Christ centered. a Christ centered marriage is a never give up and there is no plan B, that is right i am stuck with you and you are stuck with me. when i said till death do us part i meant it. for me to stay focused my first love had to be God’s Word. without it i would not be able to give love, forgiveness, hope, mercy and much more. it is understanding how much the Father God loves me and that Jesus demonstrates that love so that i can also give it. so if you are feeling confused today about relationships reading this blog was not by accident but was for a purpose to encourage you that you can make it and that God has great plans for your life. take the Word challenge and read the Bible. if you are feeling not loved i challenge you to read a love letter from the God of all creation written for you. then remember to grow in love.

rebuild!

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Allison Bramlett

One of my dear friends shared a daily devotional that she was doing with me. She said it reminded her of me. Now let me begin by saying when someone says this reminds me of you there is that moment of terror, but this one turned out to be very encouraging. It was about marriages and relationships. It spoke of how many times we treat our relationships like rental property instead of as home owners. It encouraged having an owner’s perspective for your relationships to be successful. My dad has also shared this same thought with me and many others before too. The point is that an owner’s mentality shows commitment regardless the situation or circumstances. Rather than being dismissive or passive with problems and considering moving, an owner becomes aggressive and sacrifices to face and mend the problems. Owners restore and repair while renters just move. Today you are faced with the opportunity to restore or to run. I encourage you to work at your relationships and see the mighty hand of the Lord restore. It says in Ezekiel that when you speak life over dead things and old things they can live again. Let faith arise in you and speak life over your relationships. Nothing is impossible for God! Let the Holy Spirit be the carpenter of Love in your life…..

Periscope Perspective

Posted on July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 by Allison Bramlett

Periscope Perspective! Periscope is a new thing for me. It is a free app that you download and are able to live chat on while people can comment, ask questions, send hearts, etc. For me it is a great tool to share with others. The thing that I really like about periscope is when you open the app and start your broadcast the camera is facing out toward the world around you. You then have to double tap the screen to the camera flip toward yourself. Why am I sharing this with you? It is because I personally like the Periscope Perspective. The idea that we should look at the world around us first and not be so self centered. My mom always said to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. It is so important to step back and look from someone else’s view. When I do this I am normally moved by compassion, mercy, grace and love. I challenge you today to look out first then tap back on yourself.

Extreme Living

Posted on July 28, 2015July 29, 2015 by Allison Bramlett

Many times we say it has taken “everything” to get me here. Everyone has an everything. We are not alone in our struggles. The question is are you willing to have Extreme Living? Everyone has seasons of drought in life, but are you a rainmaker? (read the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 18.) Do you bring refreshing. God has sent you to your job, your family, your friends, etc… do you bring breakthrough to the lives around you? Are you willing to live a radical and extreme life of love. I call extreme living discipleship. This crazy I will do anything for the Father God. I am a disciple. A disciple is a learner; or a follower who puts into practice things they have learned. I am committed to Jesus.

3 steps that I choose to live by to be successful in extreme living.

1) Submit. Submit is not an ugly word. You can tell submission to God by how you react to others: boss, parents, coworkers, authority, family… For me submission has been confused with agreement at times. Submission is not submission until you disagree. I tell my children control what you can. And that is YOU! Your emotions, attitude and reactions. Self Control! Your attitude and body language say it all.

2) Serve. How do you serve those around you? How do you serve the Lord? Elijah and Elisha in the Bible is one of my favorite stories of learning to serve, and serving someone with an attitude at times. Your purpose has to be bigger than pettiness and offense so that you can serve beyond your emotions and opinions. The Bible says that the greatest among us is those who serve. It is a choice to love and prefer others. It may seem like a hard decisions but once you do it the rewards are awesome.

3) Succeed. To succeed you must have success and to be successful you must have a successor. As a parent, I want my children to succeed me and be a greater success than I have been. Their success helps me measure mine. Elijah was even more successful to me because he had an Elisha. Also, to succeed you can’t quit. Who are you disciplining? Can others copy you and be successful? Is your attitude, which is contagious, worth catching?

I challenge you today to not make excuses, but to make a plan to have purpose. The Father God created you with a purpose and a plan, Jeremiah 29:11. Jesus has to be bigger than what you have been through, taught or remember. God wants to exceed your expectations. On the path of life, you don’t need people who can just drop you off, or ride with you, but you need people to get you up and push you to your purpose. We are entering a season of change, our oldest and my favorite son, Hunter is headed to college. Our youngest and my favorite daughter, Caitlyn is headed to a new year in High school. I am praying that they surround themselves with people that push them to their God purpose and that they are pushers to those around them too.

My Boy is catching a new vision, college.

Blogging!

Posted on July 25, 2015July 26, 2015 by Allison Bramlett

I am so excited to begin my blog journey. It has been a desire of mine for years and with the help and inspiration of my dear friend, Shelly from loveledmehere.com, I am taking the blog plunge. I have been sharing my life with others for years as a wife, mom, friend, sister, daughter and Pastor. Covenant Church Douglas, Ga is where I get to hang my hat. This year I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 20 miracle years.

I have learned that in life you can be three different things: victim, volunteer and/or Victor. We have chosen to fight for our futures, our family and each other and be Victors. A victim is always blaming someone else for what is happening in their life, a volunteer does not care who they affect but chooses to do what ever they want no matter what, and a Victor chooses to live by faith and see the best is yet to come. It takes Love to live victoriously! Also, Love never fails: 1 Corinthians 13! I also know it takes Faith to Forgive but that is another blog…. I though about quitting many times, but then I noticed who was watching. I want my children to follow me in love and living victoriously.

Choose today to take the rear view mirror off of your past. Stop being a victim. Stop being a volunteer. Start being the Victor, the Father God created you to be. It is a choice to fight for your future. It is a choice to fight for your family.