THANKFUL THURSDAY!

I am thankful for:
This rain God just sent our city

The MANY COUNTLESS blessings God has bestowed on me

My family

My friends

All the people God brings in my life to teach me lessons

The lessons I am learning

The hurdles I am jumping

The positivity I have

The effort God puts into my life

The Love I have

The Love I will receive

My future husband and kids (Yeah praying for them already)
My car and............
of Course MY BIBLE AND THE HOLY SPIRIT for stickin with me :)

Girl Talk

So last night i went but with a friend and we began to talk about how we are both cute 22 years old with no boyfriends. I told her that I realized that I have not been on a date in YEARS since I was like 16 for real. We both feel a little bad about this which is natural...but it is not EXACTLY godly. TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW!

I began to tell her about how I have been blog hopping and reading good stuff and I came to a conclusion! IF YOU ARE SINGLE, ITS OKAYYYYYY! God is using this time in you to groom you, to prepare you, to "perfect you" to bring you out to be the best woman possible so when you do meet that guy it will work out. God is also doing the same for your guy, GOD made everyone so he knows who would be the best match for you.

LET GOD DO THE WORK! Sit back, read a good book and be the best you possible in this time. I know I'm suppose to be a mom so now I'm working with kids, taking parenting classes, cooking etc, to prepare myself. ITS FUN!

God is good!

I really am not sure about what to write today but I can say that GOD IS GOOD. Sometimes its good to just sit and reflection God's goodness. I want to know from you all, what has he done for you lately??

A little bit of clarity

I have been reading Iyanla Vanzandt's book Tapping the Power Within (AWESOME book btw)

and I was reading a chapter about PRAYER. I found MYSELF ASKING: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN GOD IS TALKING TO YOU?

Well he talks to you all day through many different avenues, maybe its a song, maybe its a conscious feeling, maybe its a little nudge in your spirit, maybe its a feeling, or maybe its in his word.

GOD told me today that I need to begin applying all stories of the bible to my life and what they mean to me personally. I love this because everyone interprets the bible in their own way because the Holy Spirit has individual lessons for all of us to hone in on. I know mine are Faith, Love, peace and kindness which is great because that is pretty much all the BIBLE :)

ANYWAYS today I read 1st Kings 22...

To sum it up for you quickly. There are two kings Ahab (bad) and Jehoshaphat( lets call him jeho for short). Ahab wants to go to war so he calls in 400, yes 400, prophets who do not serve the Lord, they serve a false god with Ahab. These prophets tell Ahab and Jehoshaphat, that if they go to war, GOD is promising they will win.

Sooo Jeho is like "Uhhh are there any other prophets here who serve the Lord" & Ahab says "Yeah but this guy always gives me bad news and I don't like him but we can call him anyways". Sooo THEY call Micaiah in(REAL PROPHET), AND at first he gets sarcastic with Ahab but then he is like, "You are gonna lose and you are gonna die for sure. Your men will be scattered and I had a vision of God and his armies and a spirit has tricked these other prophets into lying against GOD by telling you, that you are gonna win."

So Ahab was like "Heyyyyyyyy, see I told you this guy always gives bad news, I'm not gonna die! I'm gonna put you in jail for saying that and you can come out when I get back from war." To avoid dying Ahab disguises himself as a soldier and makes Jeho dress as King Ahab. The opposite army begins to chase Jeho thinking that he is Ahab and some rogue soldier shoots into the Israelite army and his arrows lands in between the chinks in Ahabs armor and he dies. AS PROMISED....

....WOW....

OK so GOD revealed to me that I need to stop relying on other peoples opinion. Here there were 400 prophets saying one thing and one guy that you don't even like saying another. In life situations can look crazy and not be exactly how you think it should be but GOD ALWAYS RULES! He has the final decision, you can choose to consult him or you can put your trust in other people.

Youversion is the bomb...

As some of y'all know I am using Youversion.com to do my bible reading for the year.

When I was younger, in church, we were assigned to read the ENTIRE Bible in three years and I thought this was way too hard. I was so nervous yall, but eventually I did it (I think?) But I did not absorb ANYTHING AT ALL. Now I'M glad I'm grown and really re-reading because the Bible is fun. Right now IM LOVINGGG the story of David and his son Solomon.

Honestly think about it... David came from a normal farming and herding family and he was the baby. Literally like 8 years old when he defeated Goliath, a 9 foot MAN!
I keep asking God to show me his plan for my life and he keeps telling me to wait. (I'm working on my patience y'all) BUT I have to imagine what if I was David... If God would have told me that I was gonna fight a giant and win, become KING, have the WISEST and most rich son for a KING; I would not have believed it or I would have probably found a way to screw it up.

But thats the point, things come in due time, specifically Gods time. He doesn't have to reveal it all to you because he has it under control. Who am I to think I deserve to know now? I need to sit back and enjoy the ride and keep pursuing GOD! David didn't lose the faith even when his situation looked dire. (Saul's MULTIPLE attempts to kill him) He even was kind to his enemies. I want to be like David. That is all, hope this helps someone as it helped me :)

SUNDAY ART

Chuuuuuuuuuuuurch

Ok so last sunday was a great message: I will share...
TRUSTING GOD

We have to trust God in the midst of situations that dont look like YOU think they should. GOD knows everything and he has it all worked out. Sometimes you need to go through hardships for him to bring something positive out of you.

BEST ANALOGY: A seed... gets put in dirty dirty dirty dark dirt. An environment where it cannot see, ANYTHING, then we drown it with water, so now it is stuck in mud. BUT this environment is PERFECT for the seed to bring the plant out of it.

Then we bring up Lazarus, he was dead and GOD still waited a few days to bring him back, His sisters were probably like "UHHHHH can you come do this now or what?" God waited good and well till Lararus was dead and stinking. literally. Then he delivered him, im sure that deliverance was not what they expected but nevertheless it happened, as it should have.


TRUST HIM!