"In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight."
Leading a busy life, I feel I need to take a break and spend more quiet time with the Lord this year. I feel like I get so caught up in doing life, I forget what is most important. When making decisions I forget to stop and pray for God's direction. I know that he has plans for us (Jeremiah 29:11) which may not always be our plans. We need to focus on what really matters in life.
God transform me into a new person by changing the way I think. (Romans 12:2). Help me to put you first, focus on your word, and the plans you have for me. Amen
Friday, January 9, 2015
Look to Him in everything you do!
Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do and he will direct your paths."
We need God in our lives. We cannot do anything without him. We need to trust that he will take care of us.
NickProverbs 37:5 "Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him and he will help you."
Are the things you doing bringing you closer or further from Him? Are the people you spend most of your time with bringing you closer or further from Him? Are you leading others in the right direction, on a path of obedience and bringing them closer to God?
We need God in our lives. We cannot do anything without him. We need to trust that he will take care of us.
NickProverbs 37:5 "Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him and he will help you."
Are the things you doing bringing you closer or further from Him? Are the people you spend most of your time with bringing you closer or further from Him? Are you leading others in the right direction, on a path of obedience and bringing them closer to God?
Monday, January 5, 2015
Friendship
Romans 1:12 "When we get together I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours."
I was just talking about how I felt like I was the person I was in college and the person I am now because of the friendships I had developed while in college. I honestly felt like I was encouraged in my walk with the Lord, by the way my friends lived, how we hung out, what we did, what we didn't do. Now that I'm married I feel we need other Christian married couples to help us when we fall, encourage us when we're down, be there for us when we need it as well as we need to be there for others. I recently read a blog post about ways to help your marriage survive and one of the points were to have Christian friends. Then today I read that verse in Romans! God sure knows how to work in our hearts! I am so thankful I have friends who don't act as if they have it all figured out, or have the perfect marriage or the perfect life. But rather, I have friends who are struggling and not afraid to ask for prayers, friends who are willing to give us encouragement but also needing it. Those are the friends we all need! Friends that are real, authentic, true, peculiar treasures as my favorite author, Robin Jones Gunn, puts it (also in Exodus 9:5 kjv). In the last part of Isaiah 43:4, it states how I feel about my closest friends. It says, "You are precious to me. You are honored. And I love you." I'm looking forward to more game nights, hopefully worship nights, hanging out and discussing God's plans for our lives and sharing prayer request. I may miss those long nights singing worship songs by the fire, my college church group of close friends, and having so many Christian friends around anytime I needed them, but it's not too late to keep in contact more with those I love, those Christian friends who do care that I am friends with now, both from college and those I've met since and thru church. You all mean more than you'll ever know to me. Another new year's resolution for me is to be more intentional with my friends, spend more time with them, send them text messages reminding them they are special to me, pray for them, send them Bible verses as encouragment because you never know when they might be needing it. God knows and if he's putting it on our mind, chances are they are needing to hear it! I love you my peculiar treasures! You are loved and honored! Thanks for being such great friends!
I was just talking about how I felt like I was the person I was in college and the person I am now because of the friendships I had developed while in college. I honestly felt like I was encouraged in my walk with the Lord, by the way my friends lived, how we hung out, what we did, what we didn't do. Now that I'm married I feel we need other Christian married couples to help us when we fall, encourage us when we're down, be there for us when we need it as well as we need to be there for others. I recently read a blog post about ways to help your marriage survive and one of the points were to have Christian friends. Then today I read that verse in Romans! God sure knows how to work in our hearts! I am so thankful I have friends who don't act as if they have it all figured out, or have the perfect marriage or the perfect life. But rather, I have friends who are struggling and not afraid to ask for prayers, friends who are willing to give us encouragement but also needing it. Those are the friends we all need! Friends that are real, authentic, true, peculiar treasures as my favorite author, Robin Jones Gunn, puts it (also in Exodus 9:5 kjv). In the last part of Isaiah 43:4, it states how I feel about my closest friends. It says, "You are precious to me. You are honored. And I love you." I'm looking forward to more game nights, hopefully worship nights, hanging out and discussing God's plans for our lives and sharing prayer request. I may miss those long nights singing worship songs by the fire, my college church group of close friends, and having so many Christian friends around anytime I needed them, but it's not too late to keep in contact more with those I love, those Christian friends who do care that I am friends with now, both from college and those I've met since and thru church. You all mean more than you'll ever know to me. Another new year's resolution for me is to be more intentional with my friends, spend more time with them, send them text messages reminding them they are special to me, pray for them, send them Bible verses as encouragment because you never know when they might be needing it. God knows and if he's putting it on our mind, chances are they are needing to hear it! I love you my peculiar treasures! You are loved and honored! Thanks for being such great friends!
Sunday, January 4, 2015
A New Year...A Year Of Looking Back
As part of my new years resolution, I decided to go back to old journals and reread verses and chapters that stood out to me when I first started being on fire for God. I want that passion back. I want that passion to bounce off me onto my children, my husband, my friends, my other family members and even my enemies and those I don't know. So here's to a new year of looking back to that time, right before I was baptized as well as right after... when I was a college student trying to figure out where I belong, who I was in Christ...a place when I first started making my own life decisions and the way I felt led to lead my life. Those days I really became involved in my church at the time and felt led to helping with youth groups, college groups, and mission work. Those were the days I was truly on fire for God and truly knew what it meant to be in a relationship with Christ, not just accepting him into my life and letting him sit there while I ran my life however I wanted. Those were the days, I realized I wanted God a part of my life for real. I wanted him to not just be a part of my life but rather be my life. I feel over the years, I have slowly lost that passion... then it comes back for awhile and slowly drifts away again. I want that passion I had in college to come back to stay. This is the year, I feel it can, and I'm going to do all I can to keep it that way!
Tonight I read Matthew 26-27. These were two of the first chapters I ever started journaling about when I received a journal from a close friend in college for my birthday to go with a book she bought me. She said she felt I could use the journal to wrote out prayers and thoughts from the book. I wrote below her note "I will record everything in this journal; my thoughts, my goals, my experiences, events, and verses that are speaking to me and even my prayers. (When I started keeping a prayer/scripture journal, I felt God really worked in my heart; therefore, plan to use my blog as my personal journal to write what God is saying to me.) I want that passion back and this is how I feel will help me do just that.
These chapters talked about all the things Jesus went through. He was spit on, mocked, insulted, betrayed... but he still asked God to forgive these people. He never once got angry and try to defend himself; he did not hit or spit back. Instead he did nothing. He prayed. He even asked God to forgive those who have done wrong to him. Sometimes, we need to do nothing... doing nothing gives us time to stop and pray. That may give us an answer as to what we should do in times of feeling betrayed, hurt, or upset.
Tonight I read Matthew 26-27. These were two of the first chapters I ever started journaling about when I received a journal from a close friend in college for my birthday to go with a book she bought me. She said she felt I could use the journal to wrote out prayers and thoughts from the book. I wrote below her note "I will record everything in this journal; my thoughts, my goals, my experiences, events, and verses that are speaking to me and even my prayers. (When I started keeping a prayer/scripture journal, I felt God really worked in my heart; therefore, plan to use my blog as my personal journal to write what God is saying to me.) I want that passion back and this is how I feel will help me do just that.
These chapters talked about all the things Jesus went through. He was spit on, mocked, insulted, betrayed... but he still asked God to forgive these people. He never once got angry and try to defend himself; he did not hit or spit back. Instead he did nothing. He prayed. He even asked God to forgive those who have done wrong to him. Sometimes, we need to do nothing... doing nothing gives us time to stop and pray. That may give us an answer as to what we should do in times of feeling betrayed, hurt, or upset.
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