Wordless Wednesday

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Friends

I recently have been back in contact with friends from my youth group. It is amazing to go down memory lane with them. So many fun, silly memories. Sometimes it seems life would be better if you could go back to those carefree days but isn't that just like our memory to forget all the bad stuff we went through. That makes me think of the Children of Israel wanting to go back to Egypt. So many times we go through things and maybe they were awesome fun things and maybe they were bad times that we struggled through but we went through them. Where we are now would not fit that place in the past and then we needed to be where we were so we could stand today. So I say all that to say this. I am thankful for my friends from my youth group. I am who I am today because of your encouragement and because of your walking this Christian walk with me. Thank you for going with me and thank you for keeping in touch with me. Lets keep marching on to the new places in God because we still have mountains and valleys to get through! GOD BLESS

NEW JOB

I am so excited! I got my dream job! I recently graduated in December and have been searching for a job in Foster care. I was hired yesterday for a job where I will be an Admissions Specialist, which means I will interview Foster families and place the right foster child with the right foster family. I am so excited to be walking into this job. Even as I type tears well up in my eyes because it feels like I am walking into my destiny. I will need every prayer I can get for this job but I know I will love every moment of it. Just to know everyday I will go to work and be able to connect Foster parents with children who need them is so amazing. I also realize having worked in this field previously that everyone who signs up as foster parents do not have the most honest of intentions. I will need decernment and guidance beyond my own wisdom and knowledge. So please pray for me! God Bless!!

Finding the Blessings in the Small Things

My money has been tight lately, not a surprise since I am a recent graduate. But God has been giving me (as my seister and I say) handfuls on purpose. I have been asked to make deliveries and pick ups at work which gives me an expense check for .40 a mile I travel. It takes about $30 to fill up my tank and I have used a little under half a tank of gas for these trips and I make about $54 a trip. I have been making one to two trips a week. WHAT A BLESSING!!! Today I even got another parts run that earned me $20 more. So sow your seed and God will bring your blessings in the oddest of ways. God bless

Our Counselor

Our Counselor
TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. - John 14:26

I was driving down the interstate feeling discouraged from an appointment I had just had. A former employee's company was seeking to displace me, and my company, as their source for our services. It had been one of many difficult events during those months. As I was driving, some words popped into my mind, No weapon formed against you shall prosper. I could not tell you where those words came from other than I knew the Holy Spirit was speaking them to me; I knew they were in the Bible. I knew they were in the Old Testament.

When I returned to my office that day, I searched for the key words in my concordance and found the verse. "No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you" (Is. 54:17a).

Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would remind us of the things He desires us to know. There are times in our lives when the Holy Spirit speaks into our spirit words designed to encourage us or give us what we need at the moment. That is just one of the roles of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. The more you know God's Word, the more often you'll recall verses the Holy Spirit will bring to mind for a given situation. Study God's Word and allow the Holy Spirit to remind you of the things He desires you to know.

Struggle Within

Paul talks about this struggle in Romans. We've all heard or read the confusing passage where he talks about doing what he does not want to do but not being able to do what he wants to do. It is the age old battle we all fight within. It seems there is this destiny, or promise lying within us that we feel we are to accomplish yet the things we need to do to actually accomplish that destiny seem lost to us. Maybe this doesn't make sense to anyone but me. But I feel I have this promise, calling or destiny (whatever you want to call it) and I so desperately want to achieve this promise! The question is how do I get from where I am in my day to day to where the promise is?? I have heard it said that what you do today will determine your tomorrow. I know it is in the baby steps, the planting seeds, but sometimes that promise, that destiny, seems so far from who and where you are. Sometimes it feels like you made it all up somehow in your mind. Well, I will keep you updated on how this destiny/promise plays out. I have my fingers crossed!! God Bless

Wordless Wednesday

Singles bowling night turned into three ladies bowling alone.
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