30 day Challenge

Ok, I've been really slacking on updating...I've decided to challenge myself to blog everyday in September. Check back and see if I've lived up to it.

I AM SO GLAD THE LONG WEEKEND IS HERE!! Praying that God will bless the Jubilee!

Think about it...

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
-Hudson Taylor

Birthdays

AUGUST 11th - I want to wish Christina a belated 30th birthday!! Happy Birthday girl (not like you will ever see this)you are now the big 3-0!! Love Ya Girl!!





AUGUST 18th - I also want to wish Clare a happy 23rd birthday!! Happy Birthday hope your day is GREAT! Love Ya Clare Bear!!

Blessing

Psalms 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

7Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

11Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

This passage of scripture was a blessing to me and I thought I would share.

He desires to lead, guide and direct us with His eye (in a peaceful way)(vs.8), he doesn't want us to have no understanding (like the horse and mule) and be lead with a bit and bridle. He wants us to get to know Him, like Jer. 9:23, 24 says (this is one of my favorites)

23Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

vs. 10, then we can choose whether we are to be surrounded with mercy or sorrow, am I trusting God or am I having MY way.

vs. 11, if we have an upright heart, we can be glad and rejoice in the Lord!!

SPOILED?

“I don’t think I’m spoiled!…hmmm, but I do remember that time when I was 10…”

Being the youngest (of only two of us), that has been a comment of mine. I was thinking about this in this thought. God does not raise any spiritually spoiled saints. We usually don’t get what WE want when WE want it. And he expects us to have a good attitude about it in the process. According to the dictionary here is what spoiled means:

Spoiled – (WordNEt – online dictionary)
adjective
1. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or over solicitous attention; "a spoiled child"

I like this definition better:

Spoiled – (Webster’s New World Dictionary)
To let a person have his own way so much that he demands or expects it


I started thinking, Lord, I don’t want to act like a spoiled brat with you. So God doesn’t move in the ways I’ve thought he would, he doesn’t answer prayer specifically like I thought he would. It seems like everything I want (all my desires), he does the opposite. God allows/ordains certain things to happen in a saint’s life, it is according to His will and to this we must submit.

But how am I submitting to it? How do I react when these things happen in my life? Do I “act out” in any way, hurt because God didn’t DO what I thought HE should have DONE, WHEN I thought HE should have done it? Does my belief in Him remain the same? Am I still willing to trust Him the same. Do I pray, read, study and fast (consecrate) like I should (as I was during or before God seemed to start to work). Do I do the known will of God with as much fervor and zeal as before?

Or am I “acting out”. I won’t stay as consecrated as I was because it just doesn’t seem to do any good. Or I won’t stay as committed and faithful as I was to the work of the Lord, because it doesn’t seem to be paying off.

God is still asking the question, “Lovest thou me more than these my child, what will you answer be?” (for real?) “I love thee more, I love thee more than ALL of these, I love thee more, I love thee more, more than these.” OR is it “I love my free time, my ways, my actions, I love my opinion, my lukewarmness, my attitudes more than you, I love them more, I love them more…more than You.”

I guess in all this I am saying that God is going to keep us in a test until HE sees all blemishes are out of us. All “acting out” is gone and we are able and willing to TRULY submit to his will. Say “Amen” and keep on going, believing, though not fully understanding WHY, but wholly trusting in His perfect plan for my life.