Scrapping Servant

My Walk Monday #10 May 12, 2008

Hello Ladies… sorry for posting so late, we are having some technical difficulties here (meaning I got a new mattress for Mother’s Day yesterday and my hubby let me nap the day away! :o) Thank you for being so understanding.

I have been looking forward to today because I will get to visit all your blogs once again to see how you are doing in your walks with Jesus!  

But since my blog party is going on we will not be able to put another Mr. Linky up till Monday the 26th, or my party linky will go away, so you will need to link up in the comments this week and next.

 My walk last week was a difficult one.   I’m still getting attacked over here as far as temptation to be angry, impatient and mean to my kiddos (but I won’t have it!)  JJ and B.Boy have been so disobedient lately, JJ is so mean to her brother, kicking him off of things that she wants to play with and bossing him around!  It drives me nuts… but they are doing well so far today (PRAISE GOD!).  

They also did well for Joshie when he had them all by himself on Friday night while I stayed with our High school girls from church for an over-niter at my friend’s house.  (Our first event with the Youth Group at our new church :o)

It went well, we had pizza, a small scattered message, we went bowling, played Mario Kart and Guitar Hero on the Wii, we watch Enchanted then went to bed. 

I love the fact that my Bible Study each week ALWAYS has something to help me with just what I am going through, this week some things that touched me were… 

•  Selfishness - is my gain more important than someone else’s loss?
• God can use ANYTHING for good - Romans 8:28
• Yes I received Salvation, but I must seek Satisfaction with a daily filling of the Holy Spirit.
• We struggle not against flesh and blood (my family and children), but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. - Ephesians 6:12

 Now for this week’s Bonus Question: If you went to youth group when you were younger what was your favorite memory as far as events go?

 My Answer: I used to love the random trips to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts after Wednesday night service, in the church bus with our Youth Pastor also being one of the church bus drivers!  :o)  Even though I didn’t really care for their Doughnuts much I LOVED the fellowship! 

My Walk Monday #9 May 4, 2008

Yes I am still here, walking the walk, and fighting the good fight :o)  Glad to see you are here to join me again.  Sorry if I have not visited you from last week, I had a busy one, but I still plan on stopping by :o)

 All this business ended up putting me into the spot where I did not make time everyday to finish my Bible Study work or have my quiet times daily with God.  I look back now, knowing that I missed Him and want to fix that for this week…    

but God is still so good!  Last Sunday we were in Genesis chapter 5 touching on Noah’s genealogy and we talked about Enoch (his great grand-daddy in verses 23-24).  Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him!  What makes God want to take someone up to heaven before their appointed time to die?!

We looked to Hebrews 11 : 5-6 that says “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.  And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.”  So he pleased God through faith!    

We also talked a bit on the only other man taken up in the Bible - Elijah (2 Kings 2 : 11) and how in 1 Kings 18 :27 he mocked the prophets of baal asking if their god was occupied meaning relieving himself or going to the bathroom!!!  LOL!

 I have been thinking a lot on who God would want me to be to the point that He would want me so badly to be next to Him in heaven.    

 I now feel that He has shown me that regardless of any situations I go through in life He would like me to stick up for Him - yes - even if I happen to mock someone else’s god!

 I recently had an experience feeling like a small lit candle in a place with a whole lot of wind threatening to blow my flame out, it would not be extinguished but it was definitely a testing.  Through some of the testing I was fine, but now that I am reflecting on the situation (and remembering this teaching from Sunday) I feel there is a lot more that God would have wanted me to say because He would want me to error in the way of sticking up for Him no matter who I am against!  He has called me to be set apart from this world and I want to answer, “Here I am Lord, send me!”    

I encourage you to get to a place in your walk that you will stick up for Jesus no matter what… it doesn’t matter what man thinks, even if it that “man” is your teacher, your daughter, your brother… your Jesus matter’s more if someone is defaming His name.

 And now that I am looking at photos of candles in wind I realized a flame that is treatened by the wind can either fight to stay lit or go out completely, but the one that stays lit makes an even bigger flame than one with no wind at all!  A-men :o)   

Here’s the Bonus Question for this week:  What is your favorite verse to quote when you are scared 0r overwhelmed or angry?…

My Answer: When I am scared I like 1 John 4:4 - He who is in me is stronger than he who is in the world.  It’s a great reminder to both me and my enemy!  :o)  

 Now link up ladies and share something with us that you learned this week in your walk.  

My Walk Monday #8 April 27, 2008

Man I’m I loving the accountability God has given me through blogging Meme’s!

Just gathering up my Bible and study books every Sunday night to get these posts going is such a wonderful time for me… and I know God is using it because the enemy attacked on Sunday last week!   

 I am doing better now knowing that God has given me a little insight on the “flaming arrow” that hit me.

I noticed that my enemy is threatened by my growth and he is doing his best to make me feel defeated… he wants to handicap me so I will no longer be that threat!  He wants to stop my growth again.  Let me tell ya - in Jesus’ name - I am not the defeated one you are Satan!!!  A-men ladies?!

I learned a lot in my Beth Moore study on “Ancient Ruins” this week, or generational sins.  It was nice to look back not only to see the good (that I don’t often see) in my mommy, but also to (possibly) find some answers as to why my dad’s family is how they are.  It’s nice to find some positive in the situations I have been through learning that “enslaved parents teach their children how to live in bondage even with the best of intentions to do otherwise.”  Read this story Beth shared, it really hit me hard…   

“When I was little, my nurse Dibby’s cousin had a dog, just a mutt,

and the dog was pregnant.  I don’t know how long dogs are pregnant,

but she was due to have her puppies in about a week.

She was out in the yard one day and got in the way of the lawn mower

and her two hind legs got cut off.  They rushed her to the vet and he said,

“I can sew her up, or you can put her to sleep if you want, but the puppies are okay.

She’ll be able to deliver the puppies.”

Dibby’s cousin said, “Keep her alive.”

So the vet sewed up her backside, and over the next week the dog

learned to walk.  She didn’t spend any time worrying, she just learned to walk by

taking two steps in the front and flipping up her backside, and then

taking two steps and flipping up her backside again.  She gave birth to six little puppies,

all in perfect health.  She nursed them and then weaned them.

And when they learned to walk, they all walked like her!” 

 I am willing to break the chains Satan has placed in the generations of my family and Satan wants to leave them there so he can choke me with them!  God allowed my family to be tempted with these things, and since it is a possibility with Satan, he tries to increase the probability!  He is an opportunist!

Now this promise was really awesome!  In Exodus 20:5 & 6 God shows us that 3-4 generations may suffer from the sins of their fathers, but to those who love Him and keep His commandments He WILL show lovingkindness TO THOUSANDS of their generations!

This is the heaviest thing I learned this week and I feel very strongly about giving Satan NO MORE opportunities.  I no longer want to cooperate with him in my lazy and careless attitude, but I want to deliberately cooperate with God.

“The blood’s already been shed.  Isn’t it worth a little sweat and tears?”

This week’s Bonus Question: What is the very first scripture you ever memorized?  Or the one you first - remember - memorizing? And when was it?

 My Answer: Romans 8:1 

• “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” 
• My good friend and Bible study leader shared it with me on the night of a youth home fellowship where I confessed a heavy sin I hated myself for… (Thanks Joshie for sharing this most important scripture with me.)

Link up ladies after you share something on your walk this Monday :o)

My Walk Monday #7 April 21, 2008

Welcome again ladies… I am blessed to have you here again.

 I don’t know about you, but I have had an interesting week.  Lately I have been feeling like I got hit by one of those flaming arrows, but so blind-sighted like I don’t know WHERE I got hit!  I’m just trying to pray more and hopefully God will bring me to some kind of understanding of it.            

I have been in the word though - Praise God!  I finished reading through James last week and told you I would share everything I learned once I’m done… it’s a lot, but here you go, this is exactly how I write as I read…

•  chapter 1
  • v. 2, 3, 19 - God wants to teach me to endure by testing my trust in Him.
  • v. 4 - He wants to grow me and make me mature.
  • v. 6-8 - I need to pray for specifics without doubt or not expect God to work at all.
  • v. 12 - God wants to reward me with a crown when I learn to persevere.
  • v. 13-15 - sin starts in my thoughts as temptations and is accomplished when I act.
  • v. 19, 20 - I must be quiet, listen and not get angry.
  • v. 21 - I must put my self aside.
  • I must be humble and receive the word that saves.
  • v. 22-25 - I must do the word, not just listen to it, then I will be blessed.
  • v. 27 - I want to be true and unstained by the world.
• chapter 2
  • v. 1-12 - don’t show partiality.
  • v. 13 - show more mercy and be less judgmental.
  • v. 22 - God wants met to act on my faith to bring it to perfection.
  • v. 24 - and use my works to justify me. (just-if-i’d never sinned)
• chapter 3
  • v. 1 - if I want to teach I am asking for a stricter judgement from God.
  • v. 2-6 - I want God to direct my words so then He can also direct my self… I want Him to be my horseman, my pilot, my fire!
  • v. 16 - the disorder and evil in my life is coming from the jealousy and selfish ambition.
  • v. 17 - wisdom from God comes with purity, peace, gentleness, reason, mercy, good fruits, stability, and the ability to follow.
• chapter 4
  • v. 1 - my selfish pleasures are what cause my battles (both inside & out).
  • v. 2 - I have not because I ask not.
  • v. 3 - or maybe I ask with the wrong motives?
  • v. 4 - am I acting like a friend or enemy of the world?  of God?
  • v. 7 - submit to God - resist the devil and he will flee
  • v. 8 - draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
  • v. 11 - If I speak against my brother I judge him.
  • v. 12 - I am taking a position of God when I judge!
  • v. 13-15 - I shouldn’t be making my own plans but I should be saying, “If the Lord wills”.
• chapter 5
  • v. 3 - am I storing up treasures on earth?
  • v. 4 - do I owe anyone to anything that would cause them to cry to God against me?
  • v. 7 - a good picture of patience = as the farmer waits for the precious produce.
  • v. 9 - “Do not complain against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the judge is standing right at the door.”
  • v. 11 - blessed are those who endure… the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
  • v. 12 - to not fall under judgement, let your yes be yes and no be no.
  • v. 13-15 -  suffering -> pray, cheerful -> sing praise, sick -> have the elders pray and anoint you with oil.
  • v. 16 - to be healed -> confess and pray for one another.
  • v. 19-20 - it is good practice to turn sinners from the error of their ways, it will cover their sins and save them from death.

I have also had devotion time in Ephesians 2, Colossians 3, and Genesis 4, with God showing me…

•  He wants to show me mercy and GREAT love (this was nice because I am still struggling my my disobedience).
• He wants to show me His kindness.
• I have hope with Him in this world.
• I am of His household.  (And so are you my dear Christian sisters)
• God is renewing me to the true knowledge that Christ is all!
• He wants me to be compassionate, kind, humble, gentle, patient, tolerant, and forgiving.
• I want to learn better to work with a sincere heart to God, not as a man pleaser… especially with Tackle it Tuesday.
• I want to give God my first and my best in devotions to Him, not my felt-overs or just a good try, but my BEST!
• I need to master the sin of keeping my fatty-laziness to myself :o)

 This week’s Bonus Question:  What do you run to instead of God?  How can you tangibly remedy that?

 My Answer: I run to my husband - poor thing!!!  God has been showing me to hold my tongue and go to Him in times when I want to go to Joshie.  It been hard and wonderful all at the same time.  I am just thankful God is slowing guiding me out of this one through obedience and quietness. 

My Walk Monday #6 April 13, 2008

Again I feel I have had a blessed week in the Lord, I hope you have too.  It has been really good that this Meme holds me accountable to have my walk… of course if I were to come here and say I have not read or learned at all I would expect you all to lovingly rebuke me :o)  I really do mean for this Meme to help us lift each other up, bear one another’s burdens and sharpen each other’s iron! :o)  So please don’t be surprised when I stop by to see how you are doing if you have not been around… you are loved.

 So… do you want to hear what I have learned?  A good one from this morning in youth group with my husband (when I had to fumble around in my purse to find paper (a receipt) to write on) was… well, let’s see if I can find the receipt now…    

• The only way Satan can hurt God is through us.   (Think about that one for a moment, it hit me hard!)
• My response… I don’t want anyone hurting my King, especially if they are planning on using me to do it!  (Ps. we were in Gen. 3)

 And some nice news!  I finished reading my Let Go book… a total God send and a blessing I will never forget!  I may not believe the same things the author of these letters did, but I know that God definitely used his words to put me in check with my self.

After reviewing what I have already learned, God showed me a bit more on what Surrendering is like for me.  You see I was reading about surrender meaning to accept whatever God sends as I looked at the photo of the giant wave from last week’s post.  It made me think about my labor with BBoy.  I had him with no meds and was thinking on what my lovely Birthing Coach would say during the super hard contractions (you see she used to surf and I think this is no coincidence!) she would tell me to “Just ride the wave”.   Now I see that that was me surrendering to the pain!  This is a great picture of surrender to me.  God just wants me to take each wave as it comes and be faithful to balance as He holds me in His arms.   

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• You see we are never alone, God is always there as our faithful friend to hold us up when we are weak.
• And even if the problems we have seem to be waves over our heads they are always under His feet!
• Many of our steps to victory come on our knees.  

 I encourage you this week to actually set time aside to pray, maybe even setting a timer to do so to keep you from distractions.

Now for this week’s Bonus Question: Do you have a favorite place or time to get alone with God?  If yes, when, where and maybe why?… If no, can you think of one you could make, giving it to the Lord as a place for you and Him to hang-out together?

 My Answer: When my kids are awake I have a spot in my family room on the couch.  I like it because it still makes me available to them and because I am close to my husband’s computer which reminds me to pray with them and pray for my husband.  When they are not awake (which is not often) I think God is calling me to a different spot (on the couch in my bedroom), which I am actually not being faithful to come to… please pray for my rebellion to stop.  Thank you ladies and remember you are loved!  

My Walk Monday #5 April 7, 2008

Hello everyone that is joining in on sharing their walk in the Lord… I pray that you will find much encouragement here as it is my heart to both grow myself, but also along-side you my sisters!  Remember if you do not have a blog please feel free to share each week in the comments what you are learning in the Lord and, or the answer to the bonus question.  Here is some of what I have learned this week… first I will start again in my ‘Let Go‘ book… 

•  I want to come to Jesus with nothing of my self, I just want Him to see His own beauty and holiness in me.
• My weaknesses can turn out to be my strengths (through Jesus) if I just accept them humbly.
• Real surrender is resting in the love of God, as a little baby rests in its mommy’s arms.
  • Isn’t that I beautiful picture of our God holding us like babies?!
• Surrender is not a huge heroic laying down of ourselves, it is simply accepting whatever God sends, and not seeking to change it, unless His will is to see it changed.
• Surrender is full of peace, if we have restlessness and concerns about what we surrendered it was not genuine.
  • This really made me question whether a couple things I have given were fully surrendered or not, I found the answer to be no… you try.
• Daily death will completely destroy the pain of final death.

These next couple really blessed me because of how I have been feeling lately, it helped me see WHY I am feeling this way…

• My imagination works overtime, exaggerating terrors of death because my self is fighting to live!  Self is trying to get me to hate all kinds of death to make me selfish again instead of selfless!
  • I have really been struggling just the past couple days regarding being needed by everyone in my family and not having time to my SELF, AHHH!  Listen to that!
• “We are tempted to become discouraged and despondent to our present situations.  We see our current trials rolling in toward us like great, overpowering, ocean waves.  Our hearts fail us with fear at the prospect of drowning.  We do not see that we stand within the point at which God, with a steady finger, has drown the boundary line.  Beyond that line the waves cannot pass.”
  • (1 Corinthians 10:13 -  No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.)
  • This reminds me of those giant VERY scaring looking waves on those surfing contests that make me feel claustrophobic just watching the surfers in the middle of the wave!  My throat tightens up just typing about it!
  • But it also reminds me of the boundary line my God drew when my son didn’t get hit by a car two weeks ago… now this is a God we can trust!
• Resisting God is the cause of all my distress.
  • Again like I said I have been bothered lately and since this book is in the format of a bunch of personal letters, this part felt like it was just for me!
• I allow myself to be so locked up within that I have no power to get out of my self.

Now to share some of what I learned from my Breaking Free study…

•  I will be blessed in what I do if I become a doer of God’s word.  James 1:25
• When I allow God to bring my problems out of the closet out into the light that is where Satan loses his stronghold.  Hebrews 4:12-16
• God wants me to let Him be the power that stimulates progress.
• The very things that I do not chose to cut out of my life in disobedience might become strongholds in the lives of my children!
• God’s glory is the way He makes Himself recognizable… He wants to show Himself through us and to us.
• I need to do things in a way that He may be seen through me and to me.  1 Corinthians 10:31
• “When God used the analogy of a river, He described a peace that can be reatained while life twists and turns and rolls over boulders.”  Isaiah 48:18
• God’s presence is the basis for our courage in a storm.  Matthew 14:25-32  Watch this Video!

Now I come to this week’s bonus question (sorry I did not post one last week): What is your most recent favorite verse in God’s word and why (if it isn’t obvious)?

Mine is Psalm 121:1 because God has been comforting me with it lately when I know I am not supposed to go to others for strength before Him, I will share the whole chapter because it is AWESOME!…

•  I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun will not smite you by day, Nor the moon by night. The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in From this time forth and forever.

My Walk Monday #4 March 30, 2008

Sorry Ladies for the delayed message today. I have been struggling pretty heavy in the very things God is calling me to be obedient on. Letting go of my selfishness and laziness is no easy battle. It seems like many new tactics are being tossed my way, but the difference is this time I am actually TRYING to fight!!!

 If you are also going through a tough time, please feel free to post that on My Walk Mondays this will help us to know how to pray for and encourage each other.  

 This reminds me of a bit I wanted to share last night when I couldn’t manage to get this post written.  As you know I am still reading the ‘Let Go‘ book… and one of the first things I wanted to share from this week’s devotions was…

To bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2) or possibly to bear the burden of their imperfections?!   (That’s something to think about now isn’t it?  Definitely something I need to work on, I am so judgmental and controlling.)         

Here is more of what I learned…

• I must not expect too much from other’s but be patient with their faults, as I myself am faulty!
• to keep peace in a relationship I should be quiet, prayerful & surrendered, refusing criticism and jealousy.
• to seriously think about death (one of the new tactics in my battle) is not necessarily bad, it keeps me aware of my weaknesses and keeps me humble in God’s hands.
• irritability under correction is worse than all other faults combined (ouch!)
• the sting of correction wouldn’t be felt if the old self were dead.
• the more correction hurts, the more it was neccessary.
• the moment I start listening to self screech complaints in my ear is right when God’s whisper gets drowned out (I would much rather hear God than me, how ’bout you?)
• I shouldn’t make important decisions during times of distress.
• the only way I can profit from God’s counsel is to maintain willingness to sacrifice ANYTHING to Him, no matter how much it hurts self.
• I cannot become strong until I am aware of my weakness (well maybe that weakness is what I am learning about lately, because it has been pretty hard.)
• I need to find a balance between learning and doing, like faith and works you know?
• I need to be careful of taking up old habits and focus on building resistance to self.
• my freedom is more valuable than what I am afraid of losing.
• I need to be faithful to practice what I am learning so God can entrust me with more (I am always praying for growth and hoping that I can be a beautiful woman of God someday, but I cannot expect to get to my thousandth step if I haven’t yet taken the second!)

 Did I mention yet that I love this book and am glad God moved me to buy it and that He is helping me be faithful to read it… I love how the writer constantly refers to our flesh as self, because where he says “self” I would be so prone to saying “me”, but that is not the me I want to be, I would much rather be detached from me/my “self” and find Jesus in my loss of life.  (Matthew 6:25)

My husband was blessed to teach on Sunday in main service and was having a hard time thinking his message was too rough, well let me tell ya… it was exactly what I needed to hear!  It was on Genesis chapter 12: reviewing Abram’s journey.  From the beginning he disobeyed!  (There’s that word again!  Of coarse this message was for me!)  Here is his disobendiences… 

1.  he was supposed to go from his relatives, but he brought Lot with him!
2. he did not stay where God told him to go because of a famine in the land
3. he lies about Sarai not being his wife

Here are his consiquences…

1. Lot’s daughters slept with him and had sons: Moab and Ben-ammi (both the Moabites and Ammonites came from these sons, enemies of the sons of Israel)
2. He picked up maidservants in Egypt where he ran to, also picking up Hagar who bears his first son… this effects the present day war in the middle east.
3. Pharaoh gets angry and kicks him out of Egypt making him a bad witness of God’s name.

Why the disobedience?  Loneliness, depression, fear worry… sounds like a snow ball effect of sin to me. 

Remedy… STOP!  recognize it as sin, look at it, let God show you how disgusting it is, repent, be diligent.         

1 Samuel 15:22 (my notes) it is better to obey than to sacrifice… verse 23: rebellion is as witchcraft to the Lord.

 Jude 24-25 “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.”         

A-men! Now know that you are all loved by our Lord and I am happy to see you here again. Good Night.

My Walk Monday #3 March 24, 2008

Hello everyone that is visiting for My Walk Monday, Welcome!

 I want to encourage you all to visit the other’s participating here.  Please encourage them in some way in what they shared.  I know it may be hard to read what everyone wrote, but be encouraged as I am today knowing that the longer the post the more time that person probably spent in devotion time with the Lord!  Praise be to God!  Let us effectively practice in sharpening one another!              

For the past two weeks I have been faithfully reading the book I felt impressed upon my heart to buy at the ladies retreat I went to recently… I have been learning a lot, here is my list… (When I read books I write things that stick-out in a separate journal so I have it all in one place to pray over it and let it sink in better.)

* If I want to die to my self I must willingly suffer.                     

*  God is jealous for my attention and wants what I am most reluctant to give up (what I lean on more than Him).  If I am not willing to give it willingly He might take it in love to teach me… do I want this?

 * He removes the human help to supply us with Himself (this is hard but I want Him to be first).                     

* We receive according to our faith, either much or little (I have been praying for a new home), this was encouraging.

 * I need to be careful regarding my resistance to the Holy Spirit.  I need to stop refusing to drink when I am brought straight to the fountain.                     

* I need to receive poor circumstances with an enduring trust in the love of my Lord ie. my recent birth experience.

 * I need to recognize when I turn good circumstances bad with the attachment to my love of self.                    

* I want to be fixed, but that is not what I need… I need to be slain!  I need to stop looking to be changed automatically and let brokenness come.  Only that which is first broken can be fixed.  (Heavy I know)

 * In my walk I need to stop focusing on living and being kept alive…  Instead I need to let death come.                    

* I need to recognize when I am not willing to conform to God’s plan and change when I do.

 * The trials I go through and the strength He gives me come in the same measurements (always enough).                    

* Despair at our imperfections is a greater obstacle than the imperfection itself.  (Read that again)

 * I need to concentrate more on Jesus…                    

 * If I focus on the things He so wonderfully gives me, I am still focusing partially on me.

 * God wants me to LET GO so I can be free to walk closer to Him (He wants me!  This was also something strongly impressed upon me at the Ladies Retreat).                   

* Faith will help me joyfully accept what God has permitted.  (Where does faith come from?  Rom. 10:17)

 (These next two go hand in hand as they where really heavy on my heart last Thursday because on Tuesday and Wednesday I was really close to panic attacks and partial pity parties!  I felt so attacked and lied to by the enemy!)              

* I need not be concerned with how I look or what others will think, I just need to focus on doing God’s will for my life.

 * “One quiet moment in the presence of God will more than repay you every bit of slander that will ever be leveled against you.”  (Even by the enemy)             

 * I need to welcome hardship with friends as the hand of God helping me to grow.  

* Either fully surrendered, calm, peaceful and effective or selfish, afriad, angry exhausted and distrated???               

 * I need to stop continually talking about my problems and just hand them over to God.  

* I need to rest knowing that God permits the actions of those that hurt me, and be obedient, quite and gentle no matter how hard it may be.               

 * I must determine to only hope in God.  

* I need to humble myself and submit under His hand, and become submissive and manageable as soon as I notice resistance or disobedience within.               

 Week 3 Bonus Question: What Bible studies or books of the Bible are you currently going through?  And how do you feel about it/them?  

My Answer: I am going through Beth Moore’s ’Breaking Free‘ with the women’s Bible study at my church.  It just started last Thursday so I haven’t done any of the homework yet, but I am really VERY excited.  I now that God is going to do a work if I am faithful to not jump off the potter’s wheel (Isa. 64:8 :o)  Just the DVD introduction last week was awesome… here is some of what I already learned…           

• Victory always begins with a cry for help.
• Am I more frightened of the Holy Spirit working than I am of the enemy?
• God wants victory in our lives to be the rule, not the exception.
• God wants me to know what went wrong so I can learn… that is is why He doesn’t just fix me.
• Our prison doors are locked from the inside!!!!

(Need I say more on how exciting this study could be!?)  WOW!  I am also learning a lot out of James (that I also write separately in a journal), and I figured I would share that all once I am done with the last chapter.

Just another thought.  I will probably add the things I want to share on my Monday post throughout the week from now on, so it’s not all late on Sunday night :o)  If you want to do the same just start a post after your devotions on Monday morning and save it as a draft adding to it each morning till Monday.  See you around my wonderful family in Christ.

Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.  Eph 6:10 

My Walk Monday #2 March 17, 2008

Last week I shared with you all about how God was leading me to finally be obedient and let go, well He was really reminding me of this all week, it was amazing to me!  My God is so stinking good to me, I just need to be willing to listen!! 

The first “reminder” was through a new blog friend, (Michelle at Delightful Evidence) God had a song waiting there titled (guess what?!) LET GO!  Listen to the song HERE and check the words out HERE, my goodness!!!       

 The second was another song on the radio in the car by Barlow Girl titled (GUESS WHAT?!) LET GO!!!  Listen HERE and see the lyrics HERE. 

I learned… He wants to supply ALL my needs, I need to stop worrying and looking behind or ahead, nothing will happen unless I’m obedient, I need to trust that He’ll catch me, I won’t make it if I continue to do it alone… and I do feel so alone… but I am ready to live what I believe!     

I was reminded just tonight in my My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers that I need to be still, and know that He is God (Psalm 46:10).  I found I need tenacity, which is more than endurance, “It is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire.  Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off.”  “‘Cause I’m about to let go, and live what I believe, I can’t do a thing now, but trust that You’ll catch me, when I let go!”  Will you let go with me?  I can’t wait to hear how you all have grown just this week, and get to know you better with…      

 Week 2 Bonus Question: How do you minister for the Lord?  Can you share a photo?      

My Answer: My husband and I serve in Youth Ministries, Jr High and High School now.  It has been our calling from the Lord to (as my old youth Pastor would say) “Preach the Word and Love the kids”.  It has been an incredible blessing over the years and I praise God that He still wants to use a wretch like me.  And the photo is an old scrapbook layout (of coarse) of us with our 5th graders :o) 

I’m Starting a new MeMe… March 11, 2008

…My Walk Monday…

 I am starting this in hope to have a home for accountability and encouragement in my walk with Christ Jesus.                 

Each week I would like you to share a post on a bit of your walk with the Savior.  It could be anything like what you learned that morning in devotions, what you are struggling with, a new worship song you learned, a prayer request,  a new Bible study you started, a praise report, you get the idea… anything that is a cause for growth in your relationship with the Lord.

   I will also have bonus questions posted from week to week with hope that you will answer and we will all get to know each other better.  After you write your post and answer the bonus question sign-in to the Mr. Linky for the week you are participating.           

 I shared my first post below and made a button (below) so you can post it on your blog to encourage others to join.  Just click the button below to find the page with the code to copy and paste the into your sidebar.

 Ah yes, and if you are a non-blogging Christian that would like to participate you could leave your info in the comments on each week’s post :o)  

Find all of my - My Walk Monday posts HERE.