I just want to take a moment to brag on God. He is so good to us! Yesterday morning I asked God if He could help me find a scripture for a friend that was going through a hard time. I couldn’t remember where I had read it but I wanted to send it to her to lift her up. Later that evening I grabbed my Bible and as soon as I opened it up, there it was! The scripture that I had asked God to help me find. I quickly picked up my phone and texted it to my friend and told her how God helped me to locate that scripture just for her. She was glad to hear it. Thank you God for helping me be an encouragement to my friend!

The scripture was, Psalm 5:3, “In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.”

The Lord hears our requests and we can wait in expectancy for Him to bring great things into our lives.

Another thing that God is teaching me and that I have heard in church over the last few months is to pray the promises of God. This has really helped me to focus on His Truth and realize that the Word of God should supersede every thought that I have.

I can let things go that begin to overly concern me and trust God to take care of me and do what He says He will do. So when a worry starts to come in my mind, I take hold of a scripture that tells me what is actually true and what I should be thinking. When my mind is focused on Him, it is clear and then the Holy Spirit guides me into greater truth.

So I challenge you to let this become a habit if it is not already. Find those promises that are specific to your situation to give yourself hope because God says that He has “plans to give you a hope and a future” – Jeremiah 29:11.

There is something that God has been teaching me for the last few months and it has really given me a new perspective on how important each encounter is that we are given. I can be very task oriented and sometimes choose the task over people’s feelings. I don’t always see it at the time but when I look back I see that I could have been more sensitive and I am quick to apologize.

When I have work to do, I make a detailed agenda to help me get things done quickly, efficeintly, and on time. I focus on what I have to do for that day and the best way to get it done. As soon as I get to the place that I need to be (whether it be work, church, the store) I take off running and follow my plan and stick to it.

I see now, how I have chosen my to-do list over relationships and people. I am more aware now that there are people where ever I go that need to talk and I need to be sensitive to that. There are encounters that God puts in front of me and I can’t rush by them anymore. The Lord has shown me how there is blessing for others when I choose to be flexible. He is trying to use me and there are people that need reaching out to or need to be prayed for.

I have made it a habit now to literally take my agenda in my hands and ask God to take my agenda and to plan whatever He wants to for my day and my year. I pray for Him to intervene and I have seen how He always causes things to turn out even better than I imagined. I still have an agenda and goals I need to accomplish at work or when I volunteer but I have made a commitment to let God lead me throughout the day even if it means taking me off my agenda.

Hello Blog Readers! :) I shared this with some friends a couple months ago and wanted to post it on my blog. I heard it on the radio and I often remember this great piece of wisdom: Essentially the speaker was comparing love to a muscle. The more we use our muscles the stronger they become. In the same way, the more we use love, the more we exercise it and the greater our ability to love becomes. When we exercise our muscles to make ourselves stronger, our muscles can become sore and they hurt. When we use our love there are times when we will unfortunately get hurt by others. But as we exercise forgiveness and continue to practice love, it is then that our love is strengthened. ♥

I usually start off my prayers with, “God I thank you for, fill in the blank.” This morning I was in my car driving over to my friend’s house and I started to pray. I said, “God, I thank …” And then I stopped because I couldn’t think of what to say first. I had so much that I could say to fill in the blank. So then I smiled and started again and said, “God, I thank you that I have so much to be thankful for.”

Thank you again to all my readers and to God who encouraged me to start this blog to get me on my way towards my dream of publishing a book one day.

In case you haven’t read, I made a commitment to post every week. I’d also like to turn on the comments part of this blog soon. I hope you will write! I love to hear from my readers. <3 I will keep you updated. :) Thank you.

At first when I started this blog, I intended to post whenever I felt that God was giving me a word. There was nothing wrong with that except that I started to post less often very quickly. It wasn’t that God wasn’t talking, it was that I stopped posting because I started thinking in the natural. You see, I kept thinking that if I made a commitment to post every week that it might be forced and wouldn’t turn out good. Or I thought that if I wrote too much this week, then I wouldn’t have anything left to post next week. Lol. What I failed to realize was that God is my great Provider. He can supply anything. Even if I feel like I don’t have anything to start with, no matter what the situation, I can step out in faith and I will see Him show up. He is faithful and can move in a powerful way if I’d just open up that opportunity. I have a BIG God that can do above and beyond anything that I can ask or think. (Ephesians 3:20). He will meet all my needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:19