Thank you God for this weekend!

What an awesome weekend! It flew by because we were so busy but I wouldn't have traded it for anything. Praise in the park was awesome! I love christian concerts but when it's not just a concert but a worship church service is when I really love it! I really felt God speaking to me through the testimonies and through the music Saturday and Sunday! It's amazing how in a crowd of that many people you can still feel God speaking just to you. That's just how powerful God is. 1 Corinthians 2:9 "But as it is written, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM." We will never understand what God has prepared for us if we love and serve Him. Thank you God for this weekend. Thank you for using it to draw me closer to You. Thank you for the lives that were changed. Thank you for the groups and artists that you used to share your word through song and testimony. Bless them and keep them! Amen

Thank You for carrying me! (wrote Wednesday, October 20th, 2010)

I'm so glad that Jesus paid the ultimate price for me. I'm so glad that I realized I needed a Savior. I'm so glad I understand what a Holy God is and I'm so blessed that He takes the time to think of me and light up the sky so that I can see which way to go! It's been a little bit of a crazy week for me but eventhough there have been tough times, I've felt God in my life this week stronger than ever before. It would have been easy to get down, blame God, and give up but why would I have done that when I am a child of THE King that makes ALL things good! This week (and yeah it's only Wednesday) I have been humbled by God's mercy on me. He continues everyday to reassure me that I'm His and there's nothing that can take me away nor is there anything that can not be conquered through Him. I wouldn't have shared this because I know a lot of people may say oh my gosh tell me what happened but I'm sharing because I want everyone to know just how good God is. He really does makes ALL things good. When you are going through a tough time don't leave Him (God never leaves us, if anyone leaves we leave Him) and don't blame Him. Allow God to carry you through it and then when He does, because I know He will, Praise Him! Thank You God for carrying me this week. I know that this is still going to be a long journey but I will follow you all the way. Thank You God for allowing Your will to be clear to me. Continue to work in my life, in my marriage, at my workplace, in my church, and in my family. Remove anything that will distract us from your presence and help us to always keep you the center of our lives. Thank you God for delieverance. Thank You for being MY strong tower. I love you AMEN!








I found my little "emergency telephone numbers" in my bible this morning and thought I'd share these verses. It says Paul's secret to happiness: Colossians 3:12-17. "Therefore, as the elect of God holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."

Thanksgiving is near!

Thought I'd share my sweet lil pumpkins with ya'll! Dustin and I picked these out at Mitchell Farms in Collins, MS when we went to get some peanuts to boil. Dustin's Mamaw Hall went with us and we had a really good time!

L-O-V-E

I believe and I think anybody would agree.. We will never truly know the power of God's love for us! This morning God lead me to 1 John. I turned right to chapter 4 and started reading. I love these chapters and books of the bible where the word is so good (and there's a lot of those ;)..) that you don't want to stop reading so you just read the whole chapter or the whole book for that matter. When I was reading I came upon verse 4 and had to stop. "Ye are of GOD, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE that is IN you, than he that is in the world." 1 John 4:4. As Bro Sam would say, If that doesn't light your fire your wood must be wet. :) We worry about the stupid things in the world when they are itty bitty compared to who is living inside us (if you are a born again Christian of course). I stopped reading for a minute and wrote down that verse then I started reading again. That was too good to not see what comes next. "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." This verse is saying if you have never accepted God's love for you then you have never experienced God's love. HE IS LOVE so if you don't know Him you don't know love. It's that simple. It doesn't stop there... His love, God's love is the reason we can have everlasting life! He loved us so much that He sent HIS ONLY Son to die for us! I like verse 10, it says "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." Propitiation means an atoning sacrifice. It's not about us or what WE'VE done it's about what GOD has done. Love isn't because we love God but because He loves us! And because He loves us He commands us to love others, starting in verse 11. "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." Let's show others His love. It would be a shame for a person to miss out on the love of God because we didn't show it to them. Who knows for some people the only true love (God's love) they see will be through us!

Individual Discouragement and Personal Growth

Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After he launched his first strike for God and for what was right, discouragement, sending him into the desert to feed sheep for fory years. At the end of that time, God appeared to Moses and said to him,"...bring My people... out of Egypt." But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go...?" (Exodus 3:10-11). In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God.




We may have the vision of God and a ver clear understanding of what God wants, and yet when we start to do it, there comes to us something equivalent to Moses' forty years in the wilderness. It's as if God had ignored the entire thing, and when we are throughly discouraged, God comes back and revives His call to us. And then we begin to tremble and say, "Who am I that I should go...?" We must learn that God's great stride is summed up in these words--"I AM WHO I AM... has sent me to you" (Exodus 3:14). We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him-- our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be "well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, "I know this is what God wants me to do." But we have not yet learned to get into God's stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.







This was from my devotional book "My utmost for His highest" this morning and I wanted to share :)

Chocolate Milk :)

Mark 9:1-10




When we were kids there was something we loved that we couldn’t have very often. I had a lot of those but let’s just say chocolate milk was mine. My momma only let me have chocolate milk if I obeyed her and done all of my chores. As we know kids don’t often do exactly what their parents ask them to do so I didn’t get chocolate milk very often. Momma was pretty smart. She knew that I wouldn’t always be the best child and there were times that I wouldn’t get chocolate milk. But I learned to obey her direction so that I could get the reward.



Funny illustration I know but this is the same way in our Christian walk. There’s a reason why God doesn’t allow us to always be on the mountaintop. If my mom gave me chocolate milk no matter if I obeyed or not would I ever learn to respect her? Would our relationship ever grow if I always got my way?



Yes as Christians we would love to always be sweet little angels on the mountaintop but it’s in the valley where we learn to trust Him. What’s sad is a lot of times the valley is where we forget how great our God is. The mountains in our life are there to build us up to be strong enough to withstand the depts. of the valley. If momma would have given me chocolate milk every day, I wouldn’t have liked it as much anymore. It wouldn’t be special to me anymore. God wants us to experience just how great the mountaintop is. I believe this is why He doesn’t allow us to stay there. If we never experienced the valley we would never understand the power God has in our lives.



In verse 5 Peter told Jesus it was good for them to be on the mountaintop. Peter wanted to build tabernacles there. He knew how awesome it was to be on the mountain with God because he had experienced God’s presence there. I believe God wanted to reassure Peter, James, and John of His power because of what they were going to be experiencing in the near future, Jesus’ death and resurrection. God is doing the same thing with us today. He allows us to experience the mountaintop to get us through the valley.