What kind of flower are you

Saw this on another blog and though it was kind of fun. With spring trying to come to life check this out and see what kind of flower you are. Comment me back and let me know.

Have a great day!!

God Bless each of you.

I am an Echinacea What Flower Are You?

God and no compares to HIM

On this cold and wet Saturday morning I am sitting here in my big comfortable chair studying the lesson for our Youth Discipleship training class for Sunday evening (3:16 The Number of Hope by Max Lucado) when God just popped me in the head again, (you know one of those I should have had a V-8 kind of pops right between the eyes) well in the case in the heart.

The lesson this week is on No One Like Him, the scripture is based out of Isaiah 40: 18-31. This is where Isaiah was trying to get the Israelites to realize that there was or is no one as powerful or no one that can compare to our God. Then I realized just how true these statements truly are.

Let me back up just a little bit. There is a pattern here that I failed to get until now. First before I started studying I went on line to the Living Proof Blog (Beth Moore’s blog site) and was reading where she was sharing how great our God is and how so many people don’t give him the credit when credit is due him for the big and little things he does in each of our lives. Then I started studying this lesson. Boy can I just say here that God really wanted to share some good stuff with me today.

As I started studying and I saw just why He deserves all the credit for all HE does in each of our lives. There is no one or not one thing that can compare to him in any way form or fashion. He is the GOD of all. I just want to share with you our evidence he give us in HIS scripture.

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the works of HIS hands.

Psalm 74:16 The day is yours, and yours also the night you established the sun and moon.

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things, those of long ago. I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is none like me.

John 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.

Acts 17:25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself give all men life and breath and everything else.

I know these are a lot of verses but just to be honest with you there are a lot more verses to show us that He is the God of all and these just touch the surface. If we would just look to the ONE and only in all of our situations instead of always trying to rely on ourselves our lives would be so much better. I am also talking to myself here and I feel that is the reason God has revealed these scriptures to me to help me to remember that all things are done and go through him first. He also helps me to realize He does not need my help to fix the things in my life or in the lives of the people who are around me or who reads this. He is in control of all things.

He does not need our help, if he did why would he have said “I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is none like me.” He is our God and He is in control of all things. It is just that simple it is us his children that make things so difficult.

Let us now give Him total control, let Him be the pilot of our lives. Then when we do experience the fulfilling and abundant life He has for us let us give Him and Him alone the glory for it all. After all even the heavens and earth give Him the glory why not us.

Saturday

I just want to say thank you to all who have been praying for our family and my dad. He came home from the hospital yesterday, Friday Feb.29. As I wrote in the previous blog it had been a long week. Well now we are in for the long journey to full recovery.

I know as children we think that our parents will always be around. They will never be sick and will always be there to take care of you. Then we grow into our teenage years and we feel basically the same but we also feel like we know everything and they just don't get it. How could they get it they are our parents they could not possibly understand and know what we are going through. Then we become adults and have children of our own. We are so busy by now with our lives that we don't take the time we need to to be around to spend a lot of time with our parents which by now have become mawmaw and pawpaw instead of mama and daddy.

Well, I know you are thinking by now where is she going with all of this. Well here it is in a nut shell. We need to realize that our parents have been children at one time and thought the same about their parents. They were teenagers and have gone through a lot of the same things we have just in a different time. Then there came the day when their parents became grandparents to us. Basically they do understand and we need to take as much time with them as we possibly can.

None of us young, middle age or old are guaranteed tomorrow. We are to live today as if it could be our last. So if this is so we need to come together more or as much as possible as a family. Not just the regular holidays.

I can truly say in these last six weeks or so between the trips to the hospital and the death of my lovely sister in law and then my dad having by pass surgery we need to quit taking for granted that our time will never end because we know that is not so. So take the time to spend with family or pick up a phone to a love one and just say hi. Send a card or send an email. Just take the time that God has given you and enjoy your family now while the time is yours to enjoy them.

A Very Long Week

It has been a very long week. To be honest with you it has been a very long last 6 weeks for our family. First off my daddy was in the hospital for a heart attack and had to have a heart cath and stints. Well that all went well. Then my sister in law Stacy went into the hospital and while there was healed by our Lord and taken home to be with him, but I will say this we all do miss her very much but do know that we will see her again. During all this time I was told that I needed to be looking for another job after 2 1/2 years of working for this company (this was the new owners that told me this). What has topped this all off is that on Wednesday my daddy blacked out while he was driving to the doctors for his six week followup and has a small accident while crossing 759 bridge. He was taken to Riverview Hospital where we find out late that evening he has had another heart attack. On Thursday he had to have another heart cath and we found out he was going to have to have by pass surgery. Saturday was the big and long day. With all your prayers and a God that is still in the healing business everything went well. He is now in ICU anding doing well. He will proably be put in a room on Monday. The doctors said he will be in the hospital maybe a week to 10 days and then will be sent home for about 6 to 8 weeks of healing and rest. Like I said at the beginning of this Blog it has been a very long six weeks. To all of my friends that have known about this and been praying for our family thank you very much. To those that are just now finding out about my daddy and mom please pray for strenght and healing in these next few days and weeks.

What an Amazing GOD

Hello everyone. I will admit I have not been a very good girl when it comes to writing blogs on my site. But I thought today I would fill in the spaces of the last few weeks about what God has been doing in my life and the life of my lovely family. If I had to go back in time for a little while to tell you about our Christmas holiday I would have to start back with the trip of a life time. That trip would have been with our youth to Breakaway which was in Pigeon Forge, TN. I have been on a few trips with our youth but this trip is the one that I will say was more of a blessing than any of us would have believed.

We had a total of 34 people (this is youth and 8 adults) when we arrived on Thursday I had the feeling that this trip was going to be a lot of fun but proably would be the typical youth trip. Yes, I was no different than a lot of others, I went not really expecting a lot to take place. I knew God was with us and would show up but I had no idea exactly how. We had our worship service and the music and Antwan was great. But then the kids had their group time and the adults went into theirs. But let me go back for just a minute the scripture and theme of the whole conference was AWAKEN.

Revelation 3: 1b - 2 "I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remain and is adout to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

Thursday nights adult time hit home Eddie talked about the phases that todays church is going through and how we need to awaken to what is going on around us in the world. Thursday night we were blessed by having one of our young ladies become a child of God and accept him as her Lord and Savior.

But the time that topped off it all was Friday. The time of worship was awesome you could so feel the presents of the HOLY SPIRIT in that place. Antwan's message was about Little Boy Blue this was based on the scriptures from Ezekiel 33 1 - 9. We are all watchman for Christ. He challenged each of us as to where we are as watchman for Christ, are we asleep like Little Boy Blue or are we doing the will of God.

When we went into our churches group time God showed off. First of all Kevin, our minister of youth and children spoke, then my son Mat did something that I was not expecting. He stood up in front of this group of young people and the adults and gave his testimony.

You see the reason this was so special to me is because of the things and the direction I had been seeing and living watching my son go in the wrong direction but the only thing I could do was to pray for God's protection around him.

I knew Mat was saved and knew the Lord and he also knew the things that he was doing was not in God's will for him. But as he spoke and told these young people that he was no different from them at one time. Yes, he had been on many youth retreats in the past and proably felt just like them. It was an opportunity for them to go away to the mountains with their friends and yeah set through worship and then go home. But the next thing he said was on one trip God truly saved him, but he had gotten so far from God that he no longer heard his voice. Then he told the kids of the time he had spent three days in jail and is now on three years of probation for hanging out with the wrong group of friends and ignoring God's voice calling him. He then called the kids and adults into the middle of the room and to get on their knees in prayer. He also challenged the youth to be the youth to go back and make a difference in our church because Mat had since in the past how one youth group can change a whole church. When the group got down to pray the Holy Spirit became so active in that group it was amazing. There was not a try eye in the room. It was like every burden that the young people and adults came to Breakaway with was gone.

Now we have came back and the young people are making an awesome difference in our church. They are standing up for God in so many ways it is amazing.

I will continue to write in my future blogs of the amazing work God is doing through this retreat and through our youth. I asked that each of you that may read this blog will keep them in your prayers. We all need the prayers of others to help build us up and ward off the arrows that Satan has targeted for each of us.

Why go to church

This is an email that I received that I thought I would share hope you all enjoy.

Why go to Church?
If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope! Why Go To Church?A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all." This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment! < /I> All right, now that you're done reading, send it on! I think everyone should read this! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?"

Just a quick thought

I am sitting here thinking how many different posts I have started and stopped thinking I am to write about some profound thought or thing in my life and I seem to end up never posting anything to my blog. Then I realized writing on my blog doesn't have to be all profound or theological. All it needs to be is something that I feel passionate about at the time I am writing.

So I stop to think about what am I most passionate about at this very moment. Ah, what could that possibly be. Well, as I sit here racking this brain of mine (yes for my closest friends I do have one of those LOL) I realize one of the things that really is on my heart at this moment is something that God spoke to me about last night while I was sitting in my Romans class at seminary. (Thanks Brother Roy). We were going over Romans chapter 6 and preparing for our finals next week when we started to discuss the scriptures Romans 6: 1-2.

Romans 6:
(v1) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? (v2) Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? NKJV

One of the examples that was used for this scripture was that of a dead body. You can touch it, caress it, and move it's hand but there is no responds. I had never really thought of this scripture in this way. Then there was a short story of a young pastor that was truly on fire for God and in this same church was an old deacon that was set in his ways, basically his way or no way. For years the old deacon would discourage, oppose and criticize the young pastor. One day a member of the church asked the young pastor how he managed to put up with this deacon and he simply replied, "I died to him five years ago." The young pastor had grasped the concept of the believer's death with Christ.

So as the scripture says "How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?" I truly don't think (in my humble opinion) that we have grasped the concept ourselves. If we have or had how could we continue on the way we are with worrying about the problems that our children are in or the direction they are going. Continue finding ourselves stressed out and letting our health be effected by the things that our family members put us through. Get mad and upset when someone doesn't see things the same way we do in our work place or even in church. Even as simple as being on the road and getting cutoff and getting mad and passing that anger off to the next person we meet.

I know to some people these are things that we take with us daily but even the little things worry, anger and so many other are all sins that if we are truly in Christ we have died to. We should be like the corpes and the young pastor and really die to these things. Let them go we say that we believe and trust in God then die to these sins and let him take over for us. I am not just writing this for those reading this I am writing this with myself included. And I am not saying that we (I) am/are prefect but we should strieve to be. Yes we all sin and fall short of the glory of God. But I praise him daily for the grace that he has given us all.

So what I plan to do that next time I find myself in these situations I am going to remind myself as the younger pastor said "I have died to this" and give it to Christ.

Lord, Thank you so much for the gift of grace you have given each of us that are your children. Lord I pray for strength to continue walking daily in your light and to remember daily that we who have accepted you as our Lord and Savior died to these sins with your son Jesus Christ. In your blessed Sons name I pray AMEN