Vicious Cycle

I feel like I'm in this vicious cycle of closeness with God. I go through seasons where I feel I am where I should be in my walk with the Lord, then there are other times, like now, that I feel like I'm so far away from Him. There are times when I feel I can't read my bible enough, I can't pray enough and I can't praise Him enough and I love those times. However, there are times, like now, when I just don't feel the pull to do those things. As I've mentioned before I am not very good at self discipline, and this is one of those times when I really wish I was better at it. I know that if I was, and I was just in the discipline of sitting down every day to spend some devotional time with Him, that I may not have times like this, or as dramatic as this feels anyways. It just seems that there's always something that gets in the way. I have good intentions but good intentions aren't enough.

One of the things that I'm going to do is talk to my wonderful, God fearing husband, who has incredible self discipline,to see if we can set up some time each day, preferably in the morning, to do a devotion and pray together. Hopefully that one constant will help me to learn to be more disciplined and maybe help me break this vicious cycle.

Are you surrounded by Christians?

Something I've discovered in the last year or so, is that I'm surrounded by Christians. People I've known for years, yet never knew they were Christians. Since I have started letting my love for God shine forth, I have found that there are many others that have a love for God as well. Why is it as Christians we're so hesitant to tell others about this? All the awesome things He does for all of us every single moment of every single day, and we can't pay Him the respect of speaking His name to others. Now I'm not saying you've gotta preach a sermon to everyone. However, I've found that just a simple sentence starter like "Boy God sure blessed me today by....." or "I've been praying about....." or "God must've really wanted me to.....". These are not big announcements, but these are things that I share with people now all the time just in every day conversation. I give Him His credit when it is due to Him, which is ALL the time. In doing so I have found many brothers and sisters in Christ and I'm so happy to know that I AM surrounded by Christians. It's just a shame that we're all so afraid or unwilling to share that with others for fear of being rejected. If they should reject us because we have a love for God, do we really want to have a close relationship with them anyways? It also opens the doors for us to see those who need our prayers, if they only knew what they were missing!I challenge you to wear your love for God on your sleeve and let the whole world see it. You too may be surrounded by Christians!

Never Underestimate God

I work at a furniture store and, just as the economy has affected many other businesses that provide unessential services, it has affected us as well. I love my job, it's nearly perfect for me! This is a small family owned and run company and I've known the owners for roughly 20 years or so. It would make me sad on many levels if this store should have to close. So each day on my way to work I pray that God will bring me customers that want to buy and that don't have to finance anything. I've been a little frustrated because He hasn't done that much lately, if at all. Today is no different in the sales department, BUT, as I'm looking at the money we took in today, it's nearly $2000.00!!!! I haven't sold a thing today, but 2 people came in and paid off their layaway, and 1 person made a payment on it. I was so excited, so I said out loud, "Wooo Hooo, go God, that works too!!" This will prove that God has a sense of humor cause He actually answered me with an "I know". LOL So if you ever think that God isn't answering your prayers, maybe you're just not looking at it in the right way, maybe He is, but He's doing it His way, not yours!

The Bible Experience

The post below has prompted me to look into the Bible on cd. Now the Bible on cd isn't an inexpensive purchase so I needed to do some research before I bought one. As I've found out through listening to different podcasts, if I find the voice annoying or grating it doesn't matter what the person is talking about, I won't listen to it. My searching brought me to The Bible Experience. I wanted an audio Bible that was going to hold my attention and suck me in. I really believe that this will do just that! Just watching the video on the website blew me away. I cannot wait to get this in the mail, it can't come quickly enough!!

Thank God for Technology

I've been struggling this week with some issues of Vertigo which makes reading anything impossible. Especially the small, close together print of my bible. I've really been missing it alot. Well this morning in church Pastor Dave said in his sermon "what if we could Google God?" He meant, what if there was a search engine that God was the one that gave the answers, that if we typed in a question, God would answer it. That would be so awesome, and scary as well, I'm not sure I want to know the answers to some of my questions. Which got me to thinking, DUH!!!! I may not be able to sit down and read my bible myself but there are COUNTLESS places on the internet that I can go to that will feed my soul with scriptures and sermons. So here all this time I've been feeling starved for God when there was no reason to be. Itunes even has a podcast of the bible!! Never forget what an awesome tool God has given us in the internet, it can do countless things for us if we use it right.

The Breath of God.

The Breath of God, this is something that us Christians have heard often, from the story of creation, where God breathed His breath into Adam to give him life, to the New Testament where God breaths on the disciples to fill them with the Holy Spirit.

However, have you ever REALLY thought about this? God, the Almighty, Powerful, risen Savior, whom loves us more deeply than we can imagine, has filled us with HIS breath, the very breath that He breaths. It gives me goosebumps to think that every time I feel the power of the Holy Spirit working in me it is truly the breath of the one true God that is working in me. Wow!! It humbles me to think that something that we do all day long and give no thought to, just breathing in and out, something that seems rather insignificant and nothing we give much thought to unless we have difficulty doing it. However when God breaths into us we are filled with such an overwhelming sense of awe and the true power of God, simply by His breath, something so small, something we don't give much thought to. If this is what God can do just by breathing, WOW, we can't even begin to imagine what other things He can do.