Curious title, huh?
Well the revival our church in in - with Bishop Ron Duncan - is such an eye opening blessing. I'm not the same person today that walked in to revival Wednesday night. The enemy is trying to steal the blessing but he WILL NOT!
Life sometimes "is not what we expect", but through the unexpected circumstances, God has a blessing waiting for us when we endure. I don't always understand why, but I trust in Him to go with me, I am not alone!
One of the hardest things I have ever done in my life is WAIT. I, like most perople, want it and want it NOW. I thank God that He dosen't work that way. I've learned that in the waiting I grow stronger when I focus on Him and not the problem. The enemy wants me to focus on the circumstance cause then my focus is off God. Not!
As of today, Friday, God's peace and comfort are with me and whatever He wants me to do for His ministry is ok. I remember that God does not always called the equipped but He equips those He calls. Ever wonder why? I believe it's beause then we will walk in His way and not our own. i want to walk in God's footsteps!
I pray you have received a revelation in your life from the Lord and that you do all you can to bless His people! Have a super blessed day!!!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Wow, have I told you how amazing God is?
I love to help people. I love to talk to people especially those I don't yet know even if just to say hi. The expression on their face is priceless! Many people go through their entire day without a word of encouragement. Hope and encouragement are shared just by recognizing their existence and speaking to them, looking into their eyes. Showing your appreciation of them. Yea, you know I'm talking about the people you walk by and the workers in the businesses you shop.
I challenge you to try it. Don't just speak to them, but look into their eyes, showing them their worth as a human being. Mean what you say, especially if you tell them to have a blessed day! Don't be all doom and gloom. Have God's love shining on your face as well as in your heart, no matter what may be going on in your life! Talk about busting the enemy in the mouth!
In the past two weeks I have not been as focused as I usually am. I've been forgetful, and not at my 100%. I've been praying about a situation and last night, it is so amazing how de-stressed I felt! For the first time within those two weeks, I could focus and realize the direction God wants me to go at this moment in my life.
God loves me so much and wants me to be focused in ALL areas of my life. I'm thankful to Him for the responsibilities He has blessed me with and I was allowing myself to get too overloaded. Never wanting to say no, not wanting to let someone down.
But last Thursday, a very precious friend of mine kinda scared me. She told me not to put more on my plate than I can handle. Well, I thought (in myself) that I can do it all. But it turned my focus to prayer even more. I want to be a willing vessel filled by God for His ministry. This cannot be accomplished without focus. I was allowing myself to be too piled with responsibility that could not be achieved because I was loosing my balance.
God, thank you so much for loving me and blessing me with friends to gently show me when I need balance in my life. Not only my home life but also my church ministry. Thank you for showing me how I can still achieve the ministry I feel you want me to and not let others down.
I want to continue to grow in HIS IMAGE and I want His focus to be my focus.
I challenge you to try it. Don't just speak to them, but look into their eyes, showing them their worth as a human being. Mean what you say, especially if you tell them to have a blessed day! Don't be all doom and gloom. Have God's love shining on your face as well as in your heart, no matter what may be going on in your life! Talk about busting the enemy in the mouth!
In the past two weeks I have not been as focused as I usually am. I've been forgetful, and not at my 100%. I've been praying about a situation and last night, it is so amazing how de-stressed I felt! For the first time within those two weeks, I could focus and realize the direction God wants me to go at this moment in my life.
God loves me so much and wants me to be focused in ALL areas of my life. I'm thankful to Him for the responsibilities He has blessed me with and I was allowing myself to get too overloaded. Never wanting to say no, not wanting to let someone down.
But last Thursday, a very precious friend of mine kinda scared me. She told me not to put more on my plate than I can handle. Well, I thought (in myself) that I can do it all. But it turned my focus to prayer even more. I want to be a willing vessel filled by God for His ministry. This cannot be accomplished without focus. I was allowing myself to be too piled with responsibility that could not be achieved because I was loosing my balance.
God, thank you so much for loving me and blessing me with friends to gently show me when I need balance in my life. Not only my home life but also my church ministry. Thank you for showing me how I can still achieve the ministry I feel you want me to and not let others down.
I want to continue to grow in HIS IMAGE and I want His focus to be my focus.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Friends ....
Have you ever thought and realized how blessed you are with friends?
God has enabled us to reach out and make new friends with every opportunity, every moment of the day, in every situation.
I makde it a habit to speak to every person I pass, to smile but I do always try to say Hi or have a blessed day. I love to see the smile on their face and especially the suprised look for me to be speaking to them.
That's really sad, cause it seems like everyone is too busy to make friends these days. You are missing a wonderful opportunity to make a change and bless someone's life. You may be the only person that makes contact with that person today. Don't miss your opportunity to show God's love.
So I challenge you to do the same. Speak, smile or hold the door for them to come in. Notice the expression on their face and the feeling in your life!
Be blessed!!!
God has enabled us to reach out and make new friends with every opportunity, every moment of the day, in every situation.
I makde it a habit to speak to every person I pass, to smile but I do always try to say Hi or have a blessed day. I love to see the smile on their face and especially the suprised look for me to be speaking to them.
That's really sad, cause it seems like everyone is too busy to make friends these days. You are missing a wonderful opportunity to make a change and bless someone's life. You may be the only person that makes contact with that person today. Don't miss your opportunity to show God's love.
So I challenge you to do the same. Speak, smile or hold the door for them to come in. Notice the expression on their face and the feeling in your life!
Be blessed!!!
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Good Morning!
God
Offers us His
Outstanding
Devotion to
Make us
Obedient and
Ready for a
New day with Him.
Inspire others please, and
Never forget
God loves you!
Offers us His
Outstanding
Devotion to
Make us
Obedient and
Ready for a
New day with Him.
Inspire others please, and
Never forget
God loves you!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The Quietness of God
Good morning all, I ususally wait til lunch to blog, but I am impressed to share now.
This morning when I woke up, I thought it was Friday, then I said no, it's Wednesday. In the shower I realized that it is only Tuesday! Duh, we ministered at Food Pantry last night -- and we are always scheduled for Monday. So then I realized something as I was checking my church email, I noticed God's quietness.
As I read my morning inspiration -- that my precious brother in Christ Stacy sends each morning -- I noticed how quiet it was in the office. Before the music begins, before the phones start and people coming in, God allows me a quiet moment to meditate on Him. To ask Him to bless my day. To ask Him to place me where He wants me, and especially to encourage those that need encouraging.
This last week has been so totally hectic that it was overwhelming. But THROUGH it all, God was in the midst. As my precious, wonderful husband had to remind me late last week, I need to chill!
I need to come to grips with everything going on and somehow slow down and cope. That's where God must be placed --- BEFORE all the chaos! In His quietness I will gain strength, knowledge, peace and comfort to battle whatever comes my way! To be victorious in CHRIST, not in Wanda.
So I encourage you today to stop and bask in God's quietness. Allow Him to minister to you and give you the armour you need today.
God bless you and I pray you have an awesome day in Him!!!
This morning when I woke up, I thought it was Friday, then I said no, it's Wednesday. In the shower I realized that it is only Tuesday! Duh, we ministered at Food Pantry last night -- and we are always scheduled for Monday. So then I realized something as I was checking my church email, I noticed God's quietness.
As I read my morning inspiration -- that my precious brother in Christ Stacy sends each morning -- I noticed how quiet it was in the office. Before the music begins, before the phones start and people coming in, God allows me a quiet moment to meditate on Him. To ask Him to bless my day. To ask Him to place me where He wants me, and especially to encourage those that need encouraging.
This last week has been so totally hectic that it was overwhelming. But THROUGH it all, God was in the midst. As my precious, wonderful husband had to remind me late last week, I need to chill!
I need to come to grips with everything going on and somehow slow down and cope. That's where God must be placed --- BEFORE all the chaos! In His quietness I will gain strength, knowledge, peace and comfort to battle whatever comes my way! To be victorious in CHRIST, not in Wanda.
So I encourage you today to stop and bask in God's quietness. Allow Him to minister to you and give you the armour you need today.
God bless you and I pray you have an awesome day in Him!!!
Friday, May 15, 2009
God's Timing
We humans are so impatient. We seem to thrive on instant gratification. We want it and we want it now -- no questions asked! But man are we short changing ourselves!
We pray and ask God for His will in our lives and then we do what WE WANT to. Then comes the blame game -- God why did you allow this to happen to me? When in reality I got exactly what I deserved, because of impatience and trying to play God.
I am walking through a few trials now, but I am not alone! I will NOT let God's Hand go. I know when I feel weak, He will then carry me. He has placed a group of His ministers, my friends, in my life for me to lean on. And I have promised Him that I WILL NOT allow a wall to be built by the enemy. God will see me THROUGH this, not around it, not over it, not even under it -- but complete victory by perservering through it. I AM NOT ALONE!
I thank God for His timing -- and the patience to hold out, grow stronger in Him and come out VICTORIOUS!
Remember me and my family in your prayers!
We pray and ask God for His will in our lives and then we do what WE WANT to. Then comes the blame game -- God why did you allow this to happen to me? When in reality I got exactly what I deserved, because of impatience and trying to play God.
I am walking through a few trials now, but I am not alone! I will NOT let God's Hand go. I know when I feel weak, He will then carry me. He has placed a group of His ministers, my friends, in my life for me to lean on. And I have promised Him that I WILL NOT allow a wall to be built by the enemy. God will see me THROUGH this, not around it, not over it, not even under it -- but complete victory by perservering through it. I AM NOT ALONE!
I thank God for His timing -- and the patience to hold out, grow stronger in Him and come out VICTORIOUS!
Remember me and my family in your prayers!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
God's Love
Do you really know just how much God loves you??
Well, let me tell you how much He loves ME! He has entrusted me with responsibility that sometimes I really don't want -- being completely honest here! I often ask "why can't I have it easy like so and so?" Then we have the privilidge of being tried, and often I get to see how so and so handles it -- sometimes well and most times they turn their back ontheir responsibility.
I pray and ask God to help me to accept the tasks He has for me each day. He gives me the strength to push flesh to the shadows and walk in Him. Even when I really don't feel like pushing self behind and make a behind of myself, He is there to pick me up and love me!
There may not be anybody out there who understands this blog, or even has felt the same way I do. You've NEVER asked God why, or I don't feel like this today, or why don't you try that person and not me. But one thing the Lord is still teaching me is it's ok to fall as long as I learn from my mistakes, do my very best thru Him not to repeat them and to share my errors with others when HE prompts me to.
So today, I would like to thank God for His wonderful love to me, for His patience and most of all HIS GRACE! God is so good!!!
If you find yourself mulling in the daily mess sometimes referred to as life -- look up at the clouds, look around at the landscape, look in the mirror at yourself and thank God for His wonderful creation ... we were created in His image for His purpose. Think positive thoughts and ALWAYS keep a prayer and a song on your mind and heart!
God bless you today!!!
Well, let me tell you how much He loves ME! He has entrusted me with responsibility that sometimes I really don't want -- being completely honest here! I often ask "why can't I have it easy like so and so?" Then we have the privilidge of being tried, and often I get to see how so and so handles it -- sometimes well and most times they turn their back ontheir responsibility.
I pray and ask God to help me to accept the tasks He has for me each day. He gives me the strength to push flesh to the shadows and walk in Him. Even when I really don't feel like pushing self behind and make a behind of myself, He is there to pick me up and love me!
There may not be anybody out there who understands this blog, or even has felt the same way I do. You've NEVER asked God why, or I don't feel like this today, or why don't you try that person and not me. But one thing the Lord is still teaching me is it's ok to fall as long as I learn from my mistakes, do my very best thru Him not to repeat them and to share my errors with others when HE prompts me to.
So today, I would like to thank God for His wonderful love to me, for His patience and most of all HIS GRACE! God is so good!!!
If you find yourself mulling in the daily mess sometimes referred to as life -- look up at the clouds, look around at the landscape, look in the mirror at yourself and thank God for His wonderful creation ... we were created in His image for His purpose. Think positive thoughts and ALWAYS keep a prayer and a song on your mind and heart!
God bless you today!!!
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