Wow, "God Calling" was exactly what I needed to hear today in light of all the warnings and concerns I have heard recently and my reply back that I am Trusting in GOD.
Here is what GC had to read:
Courage
I am here. Fear not. Can you really trust Me? I am a God of Power, as well as a Man of Love, so human, yet so divine.
Just trust. I cannot, and I will not, fail you. All is well. Courage.
Many are praying for you both.
I also really like scripture used in "Living the Message" from the Message Bible:
Teach believers with your life; by word, by demeanor, by love, by faith, by intergrity. Stay at your post reading Scripture, giving counsel, teaching.
1 Timothy 4:12b-13
I just felt GOD speaking and touching me.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
On my Mind...
Every time you cross my mind,
I break out in exclamation of thanks to God.
Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer.
I find myself praying for you with a glad heart.
Philippians 1:3-4 (the Message)
I break out in exclamation of thanks to God.
Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer.
I find myself praying for you with a glad heart.
Philippians 1:3-4 (the Message)
I Have...
When GOD decides to bless you, HE really can go beyond your wildest dreams. HE has given me an incredible gift.
And the thing that makes this gift stand out from anything else and any other in my life is... this gift is choosing me.
I have wanted to be chosen by someone I wanted to choose for as long as I can remember. And I am being chosen. GOD chose me soooo long ago and continues to choose me day after day. And now, HE has come in the form of flesh to choose me.
Over the last month...I have been blessed beyond anything I could ever imagine. I can't wait to see how my tomorrows unfold.
All I know is that for right now, this very minute...
I HAVE the bestest gift of all in HIM and him, my Ty.
And yes, my Heart is spoken for!!
And the thing that makes this gift stand out from anything else and any other in my life is... this gift is choosing me.
I have wanted to be chosen by someone I wanted to choose for as long as I can remember. And I am being chosen. GOD chose me soooo long ago and continues to choose me day after day. And now, HE has come in the form of flesh to choose me.
Over the last month...I have been blessed beyond anything I could ever imagine. I can't wait to see how my tomorrows unfold.
All I know is that for right now, this very minute...
I HAVE the bestest gift of all in HIM and him, my Ty.
And yes, my Heart is spoken for!!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Seek Beauty & Simplicity
Those are the titles for the past two days in "God Calling" and they just hit a place in my heart at the moment so I want to share some of them both.
March 11
Draw Beauty from every flower and Joy from the song of the birds and the color of the flowers.
I am with you. When I wanted to express a beautiful thought, I made a lovely flower.
When I want to express to man what I am-what My Father is- I strive to make a very beautiful character....
...Look for Beauty and Joy in the world around. Look at a flower until its beauty becomes part of your soul. It will be given back to the world again by you in the form of a smile or a loving word.
Listen to a bird. Take the song as a message from My Father. Let it sink into your soul. That too will be given back to the world in ways I have said. Laugh more, laugh often. Love more. I am with you. I am your Lord.
That is truly all I want to see each and every day is the Beauty and Joy around me that is GOD. I am still hoping and waiting for HIS beauty in a flower of some sort. I know that I will see HIM in every part of this journey. Oh, to grasp hold of that Beauty and the Joy HE brings in each and every thing and moment.
March 12
Simplicity...
Choose simple things always. Love and reverence the humble and the simple. Have only simple things here. Your standard must never be the world's standard.
I am sooo very thankful that GOD has never let my standards be the world's standards. Especially, when it has come to matters of my heart. Though I have stumbled and fallen many times.... HE has kept me from following the ways of the world.
Waiting for GOD's standards has led me to an awesome indescribable gift, my Ty!
March 11
Draw Beauty from every flower and Joy from the song of the birds and the color of the flowers.
I am with you. When I wanted to express a beautiful thought, I made a lovely flower.
When I want to express to man what I am-what My Father is- I strive to make a very beautiful character....
...Look for Beauty and Joy in the world around. Look at a flower until its beauty becomes part of your soul. It will be given back to the world again by you in the form of a smile or a loving word.
Listen to a bird. Take the song as a message from My Father. Let it sink into your soul. That too will be given back to the world in ways I have said. Laugh more, laugh often. Love more. I am with you. I am your Lord.
That is truly all I want to see each and every day is the Beauty and Joy around me that is GOD. I am still hoping and waiting for HIS beauty in a flower of some sort. I know that I will see HIM in every part of this journey. Oh, to grasp hold of that Beauty and the Joy HE brings in each and every thing and moment.
March 12
Simplicity...
Choose simple things always. Love and reverence the humble and the simple. Have only simple things here. Your standard must never be the world's standard.
I am sooo very thankful that GOD has never let my standards be the world's standards. Especially, when it has come to matters of my heart. Though I have stumbled and fallen many times.... HE has kept me from following the ways of the world.
Waiting for GOD's standards has led me to an awesome indescribable gift, my Ty!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
My HEART is...
I have really liked the song, "Spoken For" by Mercy Me. I have known for a long while that my heart has been spoken for by the LORD. HE has always continued to grab a hold of it and has kept it for HIMself for so long.
I have always dreamed that someday GOD would allow HIMself to come in the flesh, so to speak, and my heart would be spoken for here on earth. Or maybe I should write that GOD would bring the man of my dreams into my life and I would know my heart was spoken for.
Well, I am pretty sure that I can say that I am 99.9% sure that I have never been here before (that would be a line in a song thanks to Brian McComas). My heart has never felt the way it is at this exact moment before. I would also say that I am almost 100% sure that my heart is finally spoken for.
By being spoken for by JESUS and thanks to my Ty...
My heart is smiling...
My heart is skipping beats...
I think, My heart is finally spoken for.
PRAISE JESUS!!
I have always dreamed that someday GOD would allow HIMself to come in the flesh, so to speak, and my heart would be spoken for here on earth. Or maybe I should write that GOD would bring the man of my dreams into my life and I would know my heart was spoken for.
Well, I am pretty sure that I can say that I am 99.9% sure that I have never been here before (that would be a line in a song thanks to Brian McComas). My heart has never felt the way it is at this exact moment before. I would also say that I am almost 100% sure that my heart is finally spoken for.
By being spoken for by JESUS and thanks to my Ty...
My heart is smiling...
My heart is skipping beats...
I think, My heart is finally spoken for.
PRAISE JESUS!!
Sunday, March 02, 2008
As you Wish
That line from the movie "Princess Bride" was used in church this morning. I think it struck me because of writing what I did yesterday. I know when I started this journey on this blog I wrote how on a daily basis in my life I have looked to GOD and said "Here I am, send me". And yet, I liked this too today. To stand before our RISEN SAVIOR and to give HIM all and respond to HIS calling, prompting, nudge, whatever you want to call it, by saying, "As you wish."
The message was pretty much about being in a season of 'winter' and when you're in that season and feel like running, don't run away. But run to, run today, and run together.
Just made me thankful that I have a RISEN SAVIOR to run to, that there is no time like today...why wait?, and that I have others who are willing to run with me. I am presently not in a winter, I have just past through that season and am sooo thankful to be in this spring.
GOD has brought new in my life in just about every area. It is refreshing and I look forward to watching the flowers bloom. If that makes sense to any of you. At least it does to me.
Today, tell GOD "as you wish" while you are running to HIM. And make sure you reach out and ask others to run with you.
The message was pretty much about being in a season of 'winter' and when you're in that season and feel like running, don't run away. But run to, run today, and run together.
Just made me thankful that I have a RISEN SAVIOR to run to, that there is no time like today...why wait?, and that I have others who are willing to run with me. I am presently not in a winter, I have just past through that season and am sooo thankful to be in this spring.
GOD has brought new in my life in just about every area. It is refreshing and I look forward to watching the flowers bloom. If that makes sense to any of you. At least it does to me.
Today, tell GOD "as you wish" while you are running to HIM. And make sure you reach out and ask others to run with you.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Starfish
GOD does continue to bless and speak in so many ways. A story is going on right in front of us and we get to choose whether or not we are among the characters. GOD has already designed our part, it is up to us whether or not we meet HIM in the story and decide to participate.
Thursday night was my last class meeting for my first class in my Masters program. Our professor gave us a poem and told us to start collecting things that encourage us or touch our lives...I thought, isn't this what my blog is all about. Recording my part of the story. If I would keep or write about everything that has touched my life and encouraged me...I don't think I could. GOD is just so amazing and has done so much just for me, times that by all of you. What Love that demonstrates all the time.
Are my eyes and ears open to the RISEN CHRIST? Do I see HIM and hear HIM in everything? Do you wonder why you continue to journey everyday down a path that seems to have no ending? Can you not see the end of your tunnel? Do you wonder if your life makes a difference?
Here is the poem my Professor gave us on Thursday to start adding to our collection:
Every day, an old man walked the beach with a pail, picking up starfish that had been washed in by the tide, and throwing them back into the sea. One day a young boy stopped the old man and asked, "Why do you throw the starfish back? It doesn't matter. They will only wash up on the shore again tomorrow." The old man picked the starfish out of his pail, threw it as far as he could into the sea and replied, "It mattered to that one."
If you think your life, your story, your journey, and the things you do in it don't make a difference to someone then look above and ask the RISEN SAVIOR to show you the way. Lean on HIM daily, draw ever closer to HIM and learn to Love HIM more and more each day. For your life does matter to HIM. Amazing how HE continues to pick us up and throw us back into the sea, into the game of life every time we wash back up to shore.
I went home after class and had my quiet time....I found it interesting that the message in "every Woman, every day" went along with these same thoughts. So I met the RISEN CHRIST again in that moment. Here is what it said for February 28:
We are to love God above anything else in this world, with as much strength and passion as each of us possibly can. We demonstrate this love for God by focusing our thoughts and energies on those things He's prepared for us to do and that are also pleasing to Him.
Does this mean God is your one and only constant thought through out the day? No. But even as you think on the various other things that demand your attention, should you be loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind? Absolutely. When we demonstrate responsible stewardship of the life He has given us, our lives offer proof of our love. (taken from "Every Woman's Battle, page 70)
I also loved the prayer offered in the same book on the following day:
Holy God, You who deserve 100 percent of my love and affection, show me the parts of my heart that I've given away to others. Please make my heart whole and make it wholly Yours.
That is my prayer too, I want to be wholly HIS. I want HIM to have all my thoughts, strength, and passion. Wholly HIS...I like the sound of that. HE is my everything and shouldn't I demonstrate that same love by giving HIM ALL of me.
Thursday night was my last class meeting for my first class in my Masters program. Our professor gave us a poem and told us to start collecting things that encourage us or touch our lives...I thought, isn't this what my blog is all about. Recording my part of the story. If I would keep or write about everything that has touched my life and encouraged me...I don't think I could. GOD is just so amazing and has done so much just for me, times that by all of you. What Love that demonstrates all the time.
Are my eyes and ears open to the RISEN CHRIST? Do I see HIM and hear HIM in everything? Do you wonder why you continue to journey everyday down a path that seems to have no ending? Can you not see the end of your tunnel? Do you wonder if your life makes a difference?
Here is the poem my Professor gave us on Thursday to start adding to our collection:
Every day, an old man walked the beach with a pail, picking up starfish that had been washed in by the tide, and throwing them back into the sea. One day a young boy stopped the old man and asked, "Why do you throw the starfish back? It doesn't matter. They will only wash up on the shore again tomorrow." The old man picked the starfish out of his pail, threw it as far as he could into the sea and replied, "It mattered to that one."
If you think your life, your story, your journey, and the things you do in it don't make a difference to someone then look above and ask the RISEN SAVIOR to show you the way. Lean on HIM daily, draw ever closer to HIM and learn to Love HIM more and more each day. For your life does matter to HIM. Amazing how HE continues to pick us up and throw us back into the sea, into the game of life every time we wash back up to shore.
I went home after class and had my quiet time....I found it interesting that the message in "every Woman, every day" went along with these same thoughts. So I met the RISEN CHRIST again in that moment. Here is what it said for February 28:
We are to love God above anything else in this world, with as much strength and passion as each of us possibly can. We demonstrate this love for God by focusing our thoughts and energies on those things He's prepared for us to do and that are also pleasing to Him.
Does this mean God is your one and only constant thought through out the day? No. But even as you think on the various other things that demand your attention, should you be loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind? Absolutely. When we demonstrate responsible stewardship of the life He has given us, our lives offer proof of our love. (taken from "Every Woman's Battle, page 70)
I also loved the prayer offered in the same book on the following day:
Holy God, You who deserve 100 percent of my love and affection, show me the parts of my heart that I've given away to others. Please make my heart whole and make it wholly Yours.
That is my prayer too, I want to be wholly HIS. I want HIM to have all my thoughts, strength, and passion. Wholly HIS...I like the sound of that. HE is my everything and shouldn't I demonstrate that same love by giving HIM ALL of me.
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