Who Is It You Rely On?

My weekend was supposed to be one spent at home getting things done this weekend and relaxing. I have to say it was anything but that. Friday after I left work I went to pick my kids up and we went to best buy and I bought a new tv and a new dvd player for my bedroom. Everything was normal about Friday nite til I turned out the light and went to bed. I saw over on the wall a long huge bug of some kind that looked like it had several legs and antennas on it and it was creepy looking. I killed it and went to sleep. Saturday morning I got up and cleaned a little bit and then met my sister at tumbleweed and enjoyed a nice lunch. In the middle of a noisy restaurant it is hard to hear my youngest daughter because she doesn't speak very loud most of the time. Well in the middle of us eating all you heard was this loud burp coming from this skinny quiet girl and she laughed so hard she couldn't eat...she gets that from her mammaw. After that we went to Kroger so Natalie could buy some tickets to WWE wrestling for her, my nephews, and my brother in law to go in July. Then it was off to my sisters church to finish some more of the VBS stuff. Well I had to redraw two of the characters because they were beyond me fixing and my sister is very particular how she does things for VBS. She says go big or don't go and do it with excellence. I happen to agree with her on that as well. We were up there til later than I had expected to and when I got home I layed in the bed watching tv and fell asleep. Sunday morning I woke up to Natalie saying mom are we going to church this morning? I said yes what time is it she said 10:20am. I was like are you kidding me why didn't you wake me up when you got up. The night before I had forgotten to set my alarm and missed church yesterday morning. I do not like missing church. Well since we missed church we decided to go check out a new store up in St. Matthews my mother told us about and we bought a few things and we were headed home on the watterson expressway. Everything was fine til after we passed the wesport road exit. I heard a loud POP and then thump thump thump thump thump thump....my tire had blown and I was in the middle lane of the expressway and pulled off to the side on the off ramp to Breckenridge lane. Well I thought this is not biggie I have changed a tire before. So I jacked the car up took all the lug nuts off and started to pull the tire off when all of a sudden the jack fell down. So I had Natalie help me jack it up again and we tried to pull it off again and it fell again. We did this 3 times until I finally said OK I need to call for some help. Luckily my brother in law was at my parents house not too far from where we were at. I told him where I was and which way to go to get there but he took a different way which caused us to wait 25 minutes til he turned and went the way i told him. While we were waiting I had the air on in the car and the kids were in the back seat keeping cool and i was in the front and all of a sudden i hear Natalie say to Olivia...."Hold still and don't move". Then all you hear is SMACK across Olivia's head and she said ouch what did you do that for. It was a big spider crawling on her head. Natalie was like well if i had told you what i was doing you would have moved then the spider would have crawled on all of us and we couldn't have killed it. Well they finally get to us and we get the spare on and we first go to pepboys to see about getting tires but it was going to be over an hour before they could even look at it. My dad said just come to my house and I will put a tire from my Taurus on to yours til you can get tires tomorrow. So we went there and spend several hours with my family before coming home last nite. Then I get up this morning and my dad calls me and says meet me up at Sam's Club and we will get some tires put on the car. We were there for maybe an hour and then I went to target and came home. Yes it sounds like a typical weekend for most people when unexpected things happen, but god shows me things thru some of the oddest situations. Just like we have our mind set that things we want to do have to be certain way and its not always what god wants us to do. Just like I had in mind what I thought my weekend was going to be like and it changed on me. Just like that bug crawling on my wall. Most people wouldn't have noticed it on the wall in the dark and would have went to sleep. God wants us to be watchful for the enemy trying to creep up on us not to be sleeping. Just like my daughter burping loud in the middle of a restaurant and laughing so hard she couldn't contain it. That's how god wants us to be joyful to the point that we cannot contain ourselves so that people stop to look and say what is it about them that makes them glow with such joy. He wants people to see the joy in us. Just like I had to redraw the two characters for VBS sometimes god has to help us thru our mistakes that we make and to learn from it. Sometimes that means we have to go back and redo some things to make it right. Then there are the times that unexpected things occur that we have not control over. Just like when my tire blew and I tried to fix it myself we try to do things ourselves without asking god for help. We need to know when to let god step in and take over instead of trying to do things ourselves because there are things that only our father can take care of it just like i had to call my dad for help. We sometimes try to take a different route than what is telling us to go and we get off the path and find ourselves lost. Just like when my brother in law took a different way to get to where i was at. We need to learn to listen to the instructions we are given and not try to think we know best. That prideful spirit is what gets us into trouble thinking that we know more than he does. Just like when Natalie hit her sister in the side of the head to kill the spider and didn't tell her why to sit still is just like when god is telling us to wait without telling us what we are waiting for. We have times in our lives where god doesn't always tell us what hes doing and why because we would just mess things up by doing it our way instead of his. In the end of it all I asked my daddy for help and he was there for me steering me in the right direction. That is how it should be with us and god. We should always go to him for help and quit letting pride get in the way because we think we can handle something on our own. God knows whats best for us and he has a plan and purpose for us all. Don't let your sinful selfish pride get in the way of the destiny god has for your life. He has great things in store for you and it may not always be easy along the way, but as long as we rely on him and ask him for wisdom, patience, and understanding we will endure through it all.

Push Through Anyway!!!!

You know god shows us things through some of the oddest and worse times that we have. I have been sick with a sinus infection for a week and a half now. The first day of being sick I had a high fever and body aches that were so bad it made me dizzy and I wasn't able to stand up on my feet. It was a struggle to get up and go to the bathroom. I made myself get up anyway. I barely ate or drank that day and could not sleep nor could I breath very well. That night sleeping was impossible and I was very tired. The next day I had to go back to work once my fever had broke. I pushed myself to get up out of bed and to go to work and every day at work has been exhausting trying to get over this, but I knew I had to come to work. Everyday I push myself to work and get everything done that I can. Then when I feel like I cant do anymore I push myself even more and say you can do this. Why is it when it comes to living for God and doing things for god we just say I cant do it or get lazy? We always want to find an excuse as to why we cant do something for God or when we are going through something we want to give up. Just like I had to push myself through the sickness to work my job so that I can take care of my girls I should do no less when it comes to the things of God. I should give no less effort. Sure it can get hard sometimes and you have the enemy attacking you at every side, but that is when we have to press in and push through anyway. Jesus took all those beatings, was mocked and ridiculed, and hung on a cross and died for us. Why is it that we find it difficult to live for him, tell others about him, or even find it difficult to give up the things of this world for him? If he can endure that for us then we should do no less for him. When it seems as if you have no strength and you just cant give it anymore push through anyway. Your strength comes from him and push through anyway even when you don't feel like it. You will find that he has given you more strength than you realize that you have. Don't give up on him because he hasn't given up on you. He has equipped us with everything that we need and all we have to do is trust him and push through anyway. So when you find yourself wanting to give up, let temptation get the best of you, sickness coming upon you, the enemy hitting you from every side, or whatever it may be you are going through at that moment just stop and say God I know you have given me the strength to get through this help me to push through.

Is Satan Whispering In Your Ear?

I am in awe and humbled by the things that god is showing me. He is preparing me for something I cannot even fathom. God does not have us do something without him equipping us and preparing us in some way. We just have to learn to listen to him and to trust him. We often feel unworthy and unprepared for something he would have us do, but that is when god will use us out of our obedience and he will shine through. Don't let the enemy get ahold of you and tell you that you aren't worthy to do what it is god has called you to do. Is Satan whispering in your ear? Have you told him your not listening to him anymore? He only wants to destroy you and what god has planned for your life. He wants to keep you in that place of confusion, chaos, loneliness, and pain. He wants to keep reminding you of the things you have done in the past. He is constantly at our ears nagging at us to listen to him. Ask God to deafen your ears to what he keeps whispering and let god whisper in your ear how much he loves you. He has a plan for your life and if you trust him he will show you the what it is he would have you do. Not all of us are called to be minsters or pastors, but he has called us all for a purpose. No one has a greater purpose in life than another. We are all part of the body of Christ and it takes each part of the body to work together even down to the smallest of things for it to function. Don't ever feel like that you are insignificant in what you are doing for the god. He has put you in the role because no one else can do what you can do. He has placed something in you that no one else has. You will be able to touch peoples lives that no one else can touch. So don't let Satan keep whispering in your ear the negative thoughts, the hurt of the past, all of the hidden sins, or whatever it is he is using to keep you from what god has called you to do. He has no power over you and you just need to tell him your not listening to him anymore.