Working Fridays are my favorite days to work, because on Friday from 3:00 untill 5:00 Misty Edwards plays at IHOP and so while I work I get to hear her worship! Everytime I come in on Fridays I am usually dealing with something and everytime without fail she sings something that ministers to me, or she just pulls my heart into the place of, no matter whats going on God still deserves my praise! Last year God brought Patrick and I through a really really rough time. Everything that year seemed to be falling apart and God almost seemed non existent. It was like all the big things, that didn't mean much to mean, but the things we needed to live were the hardest things to hold on to! But God was so faithful and he showed me how much he loved me by doing the most amazing things! I remember one night Patrick and I came home from our SEER internship classes at Gateway and we were both really hungry!! I knew we had no food except a little bit of bread and I wanted meat sooo badly! Our freezer was empty and I remember just falling to the floor and weeping because this was not an uncommon experience for us that year. Patrick joined me and we just hugged and prayed and worshiped God for what we had. Patrick felt the Lord push him to check the freezer again, and so even though he was hesitant he did. When he opened it up there was two pounds of ground beef in it! lol! How awesome is God! I mean that year no matter what was going on God just continued to watch out for us, down to the things we wanted. At the end of that year God blessed us with a new, cheaper and all around better apartment, a new car for me, a job for me, and promotion for Patrick and many more things! It's just so neat to see how we are pretty much the opposite now of what we were last
year, both physically and spiritually. We are much better off it both areas!
This year things have been great! But sadly I know that sometime another big lesson is in the process of being ready to rear it's irritating head! ha,ha! Recently God's been teaching me to have faith in his promises. It's amazing how even though we went through a terrible time last year and God still took care of us, I continue to lack the faith that he will take care of me! ha,ha! I feel so stupid saying that I don't trust him after everything I have been through. But I guess it's a process. A process and him slowly showing us his heart for us, of slowly showing us his love. I know that if God showed me his whole heart for me immediately I would probably die due to love exsporsure! ha,ha! But at the same time it's much easier to trust him then it was before. I can now look back and say:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, or what you will wear. Is life not more important than food, and the body more important than cloths? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about cloths? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Salomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God cloths the grass of the field, which is hear today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or what shall we wear? For the pagans run after these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them! But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and ALL these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own." Matthew 6: 25-34
That verse pretty much guides me through everyday! And I'll continue to push through this journey, this travel we call life. With many hurts and bruises and many tear until the day that Jesus brings me to the river of life and wipes every tear from my eye, and holds me in his ever lasting embrace forever!
Until next time....
"They will never again be hungry or thirsty;
They will never be scorched by the heat
Of the sun.
For the lamb on the throne
Will be their shepherd.
He will lead them to springs of life-giving water.
And God will wipe every tear from their eyes."
Revelation 7: 16-17
This year things have been great! But sadly I know that sometime another big lesson is in the process of being ready to rear it's irritating head! ha,ha! Recently God's been teaching me to have faith in his promises. It's amazing how even though we went through a terrible time last year and God still took care of us, I continue to lack the faith that he will take care of me! ha,ha! I feel so stupid saying that I don't trust him after everything I have been through. But I guess it's a process. A process and him slowly showing us his heart for us, of slowly showing us his love. I know that if God showed me his whole heart for me immediately I would probably die due to love exsporsure! ha,ha! But at the same time it's much easier to trust him then it was before. I can now look back and say:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, or what you will wear. Is life not more important than food, and the body more important than cloths? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about cloths? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Salomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God cloths the grass of the field, which is hear today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or what shall we wear? For the pagans run after these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them! But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and ALL these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own." Matthew 6: 25-34
That verse pretty much guides me through everyday! And I'll continue to push through this journey, this travel we call life. With many hurts and bruises and many tear until the day that Jesus brings me to the river of life and wipes every tear from my eye, and holds me in his ever lasting embrace forever!
Until next time....
"They will never again be hungry or thirsty;
They will never be scorched by the heat
Of the sun.
For the lamb on the throne
Will be their shepherd.
He will lead them to springs of life-giving water.
And God will wipe every tear from their eyes."
Revelation 7: 16-17
I really liked this post. It was encouraging:) Love you.
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