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What kind of runner are you?????

I use to run track in high school.  I was not a good sprinter.  I was more of a long distance runner.  For the last 8 yrs, as a stay-at-home mom, I have felt that my life  functioned like a marathon and I was cool with that.  I was comfortable with it. But in the last month there has been a shift.  My weekdays feel more like a sprint.  And I'm not a sprinter, or so I thought.  Business has picked up in the lives of my husband and I.  And I still have my 2 yr old at home with me for the most part.  So I'm finding my days being so filled up; and parts of my day come so quickly, that it feels like a sprint.  What do you do when days turn into a sprints, and you thought you were just a  distance runner.   First of all, when the shift has come from God and not by your own hand, you have to trust Him.  First trust Him.  Second, you have to realize that through the power of Jesus, you can do more than you could ever imagine.  Third, don't try to control what's happening.

A Band Aid just Ain't Good Enough Anymore

I was standing in my 7yr old daughter's room today, thinking about how quickly her room gets messy after her or I clean it up.  I was standing there thinking "I'm gonna come in here tonite and tidy it up. What came to my mind is that "that was just going to be a bandaid".  I ask myself the question "Are band aids ever good?". I believe band aids can be good at times, as it can keep a situation or a scar from growing worst and from getting infected. Band aids can protect, they can also keep things manageable. There is not necessarily anything wrong with a temporary fix to a problem, except when it comes to a time where "that problem" needs a more permanent fix. I realized, standing in my daughter's room, that the band aid of just doing some surface tidying was not going to swing it this time. I was going to have to go more in depth, throwing out stuff, cleaning out drawers, wiping surfaces, etc.  honestly, there does come a time whe

Satan and focusing on Jesus

I can assure you of something that is definitely going to happen when God starts moving in an area of your life and answering prayer; the devil will try to distract you.  When God starts moving in areas of our lives, our focus gets drawn to God.  That's what God wants, He wants us to focus on Jesus.  But many times as we start to make progress in an area, that we have been praying about, the devil comes and starts pointing out things in other areas.  The devil will use your children, he will try to draw attention to your children in ways where you start to question things that you shouldn't be questioning  He will use your house or he will try to get you to focus on what others might think of you. The enemy loves to come against any seed that God has deposited inside you, with an opposing seed. The enemy will come to you in a very suggestive way.  In a way that leaves you doubting.  When God speaks to you or shows you something, it will leave you with a sense of certainty and

Balence and prospering with the Lord

As I considered everything in my life, discovering a new balance;  I realized that if the Lord is sustaining something allow Him to do sustain it,  if there is something that is not being sustained, don't worry about it. I looked up the definition for "sustain" and I got the following definition: 1. to   support,   hold,   or   bear   up   from   below; bear   the   weight   of,   as   a   structure  I also think it means a constant supply or movement of God in  area.  After I realized that, the scripture below came to mind: Psalm 127 - Laboring and Prospering with the Lord 127  Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain. Many times there are alot of things that I'm tempted to focus on in my life.  So much I want to do with my family, ministry, business, etc.  But God has helped me realize over and over again that I need to focus on where He is focused and not tr

Let the dialogue begin

There is power in talking about your dreams and visions with others who support and love you.  Speaking out those things that whisper within you, can totally change the course of your life.  The whispers of your heart hold power far beyond their volume.  Sometimes we go about life thinking that the loud things have power.  But it's not the "loud" things that have power in your life, it's the quiet whispers on the inside of you.  It's the quiet, consistent way in which God speaks to you.  Look below. 1 Kings 19 :God’s Revelation to Elijah 11  Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord .” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord , but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; 12  and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small v

Paint life "Anew"!!

There is  this life coach and her motto is "I Paint Life".  That motto has been on my heart this morning.  As I considered what we were going to do today as a family, what ran through my  mind was all the motions I was going to have to go through to get myself ready to go, kids ready to go, and get the chores I need to get done around the house.  I was going through this list in my head and then I saw myself rushing to get these things done quickly to be out the door and doing something in a timely fashion.  For some reason the vision I had of myself hopping up out of the chair and getting to it, didn't sit well with me.  During the week I am on a schedule with school, with work, with dinner, with getting kids to bed, with getting kids out in the morning.......and that's great but this morning it dawned on me that you have to have time during the week where you have to stop, sit, and think about exactly what kind of picture you are painting of your life.  You have t

Learn to "savor"

I have a word for today and the word is "savor".  This is the word I need today.  This is for me as much as it is for anybody else.  One of the things I struggle with at times is that I forget to savor what God has brought into my life.  Many times there are things that I prayed, and prayed, and prayed for and then when God delivers; I let those same things I prayed for, start to stress me out.  This is not a good thing.  The bible says that "the blessings of the Lord, make one rich and He adds no sorrow with it".  This is what I see in my life at times and in the life of others.  Lets say you pray and pray for a great house for your family.  Then God finally blesses you with a great house and you let it become a stress point in your life because you are so worried about keeping it clean and orderly.  Instead of being able to savor it, you are too busy trying to sustain it.  Then you pray to have children, but when you do give birth to that child that you have pra

God sees

A long time ago, God told Noah to build a boat ( a ark).  He told Noah it was going to rain.  Now it had never rained in the earth prior to that, so no person including Noah had ever seen rain.  This boat that God told Noah to build was to be huge.  So Noah's ark was not built in a matter of days.  Scriptures show that it probably took over 50 years to build the ark.  So for over 50 years, Noah and his family were building this huge boat for it to rain, having never seen 1 drop of rain.  But you know Who had seen the rain, God had seen the rain.  God sees!!  Sometimes we feel like we need to see a sign before we act on something.  But, if you know God is leading you, then know that He sees, what you don't see.  He prepares you for blessings and for the storms that will turn into blessings.