Life Is Good!!

God has been so good to me. I have realized just how much He sustains me lately. I dedicated this year to just renewing my committment to Him, to getting out of my comfort zone, going to some retreats and just enjoying time with my Creator. I have to say I am refreshed, refueled, revived and revved up and ready to go.

I have been spending as much time as I possibly can reading the Word and chatting with Him. Much like King David, I have been having these long conversations with God, about what I understand and don't understand. What should I do about certain things, really more about...am I doing the right thing? I don't know sometimes. There are situations that come up that I am not comfortable with and if I am not sure if they are right, then I won't do it. So I have been having my little talks with Jesus, telling Him all my troubles, my concerns, and asking alot of questions, and for direction.

I have emptied my heart of everything I could think of that is in there and now I am filling it up with His word. I am letting go and letting Him take it until He tells me I should move or not move. His Word is cleansing me. I don't know if you ever have things that come up that you are not sure how you should handle them, but in this season I have some of those things, so for now I put them on His shelf in His office and until He tells me what I should do, I am not doing anything with them.

So what else is going on? I am going to a Back to the Bible Conference in May, in June I am going to an Infinite Grace Conference for Women with
Women of Faith and I am so looking forward to what God is going to reveal to me while I am there. I was thinking how the world has so much to entertain us and so much to distract us, and some of those things I enjoy, but honestly, I don't think I have enjoyed myself as much as I have this year in a long time, just giving my time to Him

How Should Dead Men Live?

How should dead men live? In reality, they shouldn't! There is always a problem when dead men think they are still alive. Just look at all the horror movies built around this theme. When the dead live, there is trouble!

Since we are dead, what are we supposed to do?

We are supposed to yield to the Spirit of God and allow Him to live God's life through us. We must reckon ourselves dead to the things of this world and alive to the things of God through the Spirit.

When we can finally see that we are dead and that any life we hope to live must be lived through us by God, then we are ready to be free from the bondage of sin.

How would you have to describe your life? Is it "Night of the living dead?" Or, "Life of the living Lord?"

The choice is yours. You can choose to let a dead man live in your life, or you can choose to let a living Lord be in control. Which will it be for you?

Wow!!! That Got My Attention!!

Recently I went to a Women's Retreat and Paula Rinehart was the speaker. She was pretty amazing and I had a blast! Of course if you are woman and you are out with a bunch of other women, you know what I am talking about.

The conference was awesome, the jest of it was how everyone has their own knapsack and we have a tendency to get into their knapsack instead of taking care of our own knapsack. It was about how we want to change everyone else, we know what they need, but we don't do anything about fixing our ownselves and how God is the one who is going to take care of everyone else's issues, He doesn't need us in the way.

So ...... I took it to heart. It is easy to see what is wrong with the other person, I guess that is why instead of getting the plank out of someone else's eye, we need to get the beam out of our own.

Not only did we get blessed and reprimanded. We laughed, joked, studied, prayed, broke bread together and parted promising to keep in touch. We left feeling prayed up, filled up, loved and ready for war, we were going back to the front lines, no longer tempted to to get in other's business but ready to take care of our own!!!

I am blessed!!

Prayer for Shawn & Nathan

This is a prayer request for two boys. Shawn is 13 yoa, his mother is serving in Iraq, his father just got out of prison where he spent a year for drug possession. Shawn has been with a friend of his mother's. He is a single male with a 14 yr old son. Anyway, Shawn is angry, I am not sure the reason, because we really have not gotten the chance to sit down to talk with him. I am sure it has alot to do with his father and mother being absent in his life. He is a trouble maker at school, he gets angry and will punch any kid who happens to be around. His guardian has taken away things from him and yesterday it was football. This kid loves sports, he is good at them, but very disrepectful to coaches and whomever. Yesterday he punched a boy in the face and is now in juvenile for 24 hours. He left crying, I am sure not because he is sorry for what he did, but sorry he has to face consequences. I know he has some deep issues, I just felt led to ask everyone to say a prayer for him that God will send the right person to him to reach him or help him.

Then there's Nathan. He lived with us for eight months, he came from the boys home. He is an awesome kid, hardworking, loves church. He came from a family who had seven kids, he was eighteen and had never had a room of his own, was sexually abused by his brother and hungered for his mom's love. When he started doing well, she started calling him alot, he decided he wanted to go home, he has been gone for three months. He called the other day, he is living with an older sister, he was crying and said he tried to commit suicide, that his family doesn't care about him, he wanted to come back. We told him he could, he called three days in a row, then we have heard nothing, I am not sure what happened to him. So if you would lift him up in prayer. Pray that God draws these two boys to Himself, that He turns their hearts toward Him, because He is the only hope they have.

Thank you for your prayers and for caring, God created them, He loves them and only He can make them whole. Hugs to you all!!