Because I have Jesus. He is all that I need in every season.
For so long in my life I have not really "got that" and still am "leaning so much" and will never "reach it" BUT here lately I am just hungry for His Word and it has completely consumed my heart.
It was really hard for me to quit a full-time job that I LOVED. I have picked up MANY other responsibilities over the past few months. However, I have some days when I am just at home or days when I am alone in my car for hours. In quite alone hours like these I LOVE spending with the Lord. I know now that this is why HE placed me in this season. I am coming to know Him more and growing a little every day.
I am so very thankful for Love and his support during this season. God truly blessed me with a husband who loves me and works hard to support all my "fun"(even when that "fun" is staying up for hours on end writing research articles).
I have an amazing family and the most precious friends that I truly do not deserve!
I just want to say THANK YOU to all those people who make my life complete....you are being prayed for and praised today!!!
I remember a time in my life when Spiritually I could not handle Beth Moore. She was just "too deep" for me. I have laughed at myself this week after I have been to one of her LIVE events, completed one of her studies and ordered more materials off her website to begin this week....
I am just thanking God for His Word today. I am thankful for His closeness. I pray that He change me from the inside out and help me to be the woman HE has called me to be.......
If you haven't done the Eat Pray Love FREE download from Beth's site that I posted about this week...DO IT! It rocked my world!!
Also, if any of you ladies are interested in doing some small group Bible study...we are starting Beth Moore's Daniel study on August 11 at 5 in Wadley!! Let me know if you want more info!!!
I love you all and pray that you will seek HIM this week......
I copied the following from Beth Moore's Blog (it just spoke to my heart!)
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 1 Corinthians 4:20 NIV
God is using it to remind me that this thing isn’t about incessant chatter and nonstop Twitter noise and learning to speak fluent Christianese. It’s not tantamount to Bible banter and doctrinal debates and holy hair-splitting. It’s not about getting together at church and threatening week after week to live changed lives and think renewed thoughts. It’s not about getting all lathered up and sweaty-headed at events over theories of effective, influential, and abundant lives. This Christ thing to which we’ve been called is about actually doing it and through an unction not remotely our own.
When the Holy Spirit comes, He comes with power.
Where the Holy Spirit goes, He goes with power.
Whom the Holy Spirit infiltrates, He infuses with power.
Our lives were meant to be powerful. Less talk. More demonstration. Through things like a love that we know good and well is utterly beyond us and a faith that emerges in tact from a minefield soaked in blood and strewn with flesh. We were meant to be able to do what we can’t, like who we don’t, bless who we’d curse. We were promised strength in weakness and extravagant grace in our deprivation.
We were meant to wonder what has derailed or gone awry when a season of our lives persists in powerlessness for weeks on end. We were promised more than this. We’re not meant to write our own personalized chapters in a revised standard version of The Emperor’s New Clothes so the world could have a harder laugh at us. We who have placed our trust in Christ Jesus, the living, breathing-on-us Son of God, have been clothed with power from on high. (Luke 24:49) And it’s supposed to show.
Every limb of our lives where we welcome the Holy Spirit can be infused with strength not of this world and, yes, even in continued weakness or infirmity, should that be the case of our present calling. The coexistence of the two is the mystery of it. We’re not superwomen. We’re a long shot from perfect. But we were meant to be vividly powerful through the One who saved us and made Himself at home in us. Let’s not forget that today. Let’s not be satisfied just to talk about it. Let’s not just clap and cheer during that part of a service when a pastor or teacher tells us we’re calledmore than conquerors. The New Testament is not the theory of Christianity.
You may feel powerless right now, Sister, but, if you are in Christ, make no mistake: you are not. Get some backbone back in your prayer life if your spiritual spine has deteriorated. With reverence for His holiness and with the boldness He said we could bring to the Throne of Grace, read to God from His Word where He promised His people victory as they looked to Him alone…
…and where He promised to clothe us in power
…and where He said He’d make Himself conspicuous through our spiritual gifts and through supernatural works in His Name.
If you don’t know where those places are, go hunt them down. (But you could start in Romans 8, Luke 24, Acts 1, Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 12 and Hebrews 4.)
Tell Him you’re going to ask for it and ask for it and ask for it in His great Name and for His glory until He gives it to you and frees you from whatever this present powerlessness is. And then DO IT. Ask and ask and ask and tell Him you will do whatever it takes to cooperate and mean it! Throw your hands out to receive. And, then, when He gives it – and He will – don’t take credit for it. Appreciate it. Thank Him and thank Him for it. Know that it’s grace. Use it audaciously to bring Him attention.
Sister, you cannot fulfill your foreordained purpose without power. Go back after it but, whatever you do, don’t try to get it without Jesus coming with it. Power for power’s sake will blow you up. God-given unction isn’t meant to just come and go with periodic personal revival. We were meant to live powerful lives. Let’s get to them. If you’ve got an area of carnality that is quenching it, I promise you it’s not worth it. Believe me, I’ve been there. Repent, turn from it and get on with it. You’ve got a calling. And it takes divine power. You mean so much to me. Hold tight to Jesus.
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