Saturday post..

Ok I already missed a night and it's not even been an entire night. Go figure..
“Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”- John 6:29
It's a blessing. But it's also our only way back to live with our Father to begin with. Can't have it w/o the belief never mind love of Him..
Psalm 126-128, 1 Corinthians 10:19-33
3 The LORD has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy. This is an understatement.

4 Thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.

5 May the LORD bless you from Zion
all the days of your life;
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
There are blessings of great Joy from this. Yet you have to keep working for this. It doesn't just get handed over to you.
6 and may you live to see your children's children.
Peace be upon Israel I pray that this will come about. I really do.
It rained most of the entire day today. So I was quite sluggish in all I did. But I managed to get some errands done and go to the laundry mat. Now I have got to get up the stairs and fold and put away the stuff. Still haven't done that. It's like day 8 still having this dam headache on top of my head. It seems the pills just cover it then when they wear off, it comes back..Weird. Back is sore and arms are.. but nothing really major.
I guess a snake came up on our porch today. Mike and I were sleeping so we missed it. Sam took a picture of it with her phone. It is thought to being an Oak snake. From looking online, it looks to being a poisonous snake. Great just what we need. Oh well, if it comes back, I can't say it will live a second time. B/c Jason's friend let it back up the tree.. So hope he's smart enough to keep going.. lol

“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.”- Isaiah 26:3 NIV in KJV it says, "You will keep him in perfect peace.Whose mind is stayed on You.
This was a tough one for me. I had to go back and read the entire chapt. From what I get of it, I may be wrong and if I am please correct me. If you continue to stay in the footsteps of the LOrd He will keep watch over you.. Something like that I presume...
That was the scripture of the day.. The reading plan for the day is Psalm 120-122, 1 Corinthians 9
The very first verse I just love:
1 I call on the LORD in my distress,
and he answers me. I mean you can't get any better then this. I have been praying for days upon days now to the Lord, in great distress about everything going on around here, From not getting cash from Jason, to not having enough money to get to RI to bring Melissa down. To everything. We are so desperate to have our prayers answered in help. It seems everything is financial. We have been in a set back now for the past six months that we have been clawing our way back daily from it. It's soooo hard!
In the following chapt. 121 it is asking who will watch over us. And it is a promise that that Lord will continually watch over day or night. No matter what he will keep us from any harm.
Anyway, today was mostly spent sharing with Mike today and what not. Right up till I drove him to work. So now that it's almost twelve thirty and I have to be up by five to pick him up from work. I must get the rest of my emails done so I can get to sleep for few hours. Good Night Bloggers...

Weds/Thurs 8/26/10

Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.
I just love that.. It's so beautifully written.. I heard Sis. Anne say it a couple times in conference. Then I seen it on her FB page.. just love it. I just stumpled upon it today in my daily devotional reading..
Well after a long and tiring night last night. I fially fell asleep around one thirty AM only to be awakened again by 4:20 AM. My head hurt so badly. All I did the entire time I slept was dream of the situation we are dealing with here. Between Jason/Sam not paying any cash to stay and ONLY helping with food and trying to deal wtih the idea of how to get Melissa to move down here, we are just beside ourselves with so much stress. I was so consumed with so many different thoughts running through my brain, that I couldn't fall back asleep till well after 8am. I was hurting so badly and so emotionally tired, that I had to email Sis. Christy and let her know that I would not be making it to the soup kitchen either. I was so depressed. I looked fwd to going and helping out today.. Anyway, I got to the point that this afternoon, I finally broke down and told Sam my issues and she presented it to Jason and he came and I told him everything. Then told him that we would be havig a family meeting about it at a later point. AT this family meeting I'm going to have him sign a paper to the fact of what we agreed upon, so he won't come back and say, that is not what we agreed on. Like he has done so many times. I'm through with that..
But it was enough to let off some of the stress level that I've been dealing with. Now I'm going to put Mike's Harley in the paper to see if we can get any bites on it. For that is the only way I believe we will be able to get the funds up to go and get Melissa w/o biting off more then we can chew. I feel so badly for him. I know that is his only "release" and I pray that he can save enough fast enough to pay off his new bigger and better bike. B/c he needs that stress reliever very much.. We have to do something for more income quickly also b/c we are slowly drowning in our own debts. Losing that whole $1 an hour made a pretty good difference in our budget. I can't believe how much so. Here we are trying to payoff the deposits and we keep getting the rug pulled out from under us and we get further behind. Now we are making up for the bounced check of the rent last month. (Due to a company that was told DONOT TAKE MY MONEY AGAIN.. CANCEL OUR ACCT.. and they don't listen..
Take note, NEVER and I mean NEVER apply for a payday loan online. They like to send your name to companies that you have no knowledge about until after they take monies out of our personal acct. go figure.. UGH!!! So now we are digging deeper in our pockets to come up with even more rent.. I'll be paying the landlord twice a month, you wait and see. Unreal!!!
Please Lord answer our prayer.. We really need a miracle to come around. We've been trying to sell things, I offer to baby sit for work, I can't work a regular job due to my illness. So it's up to Mike to be the soul worker and he is so wiped out from doing third shift, that it's really difficult for him to wake up and even look for another job. I feel so badly for him.. I just wish there was some way to help out more. Besides kick his cousin in the pants.. Either pay up or get out.. WE are NOT your parents and we shouldn't have to take care of you like we are.. UGH!!! Anyway, it's now three AM and I really need to try and get some sleep.
WOw! I feel a bit better just by getting that out of my system.. phew.....

tues word

“I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.”- Psalm 116:1-2
I have to give alot of kudos for this one.. Why you ask, before I even I got to the computer I took the dogs out. I was praying in the field while they were wondering around looking for a place to pee. I prayed that we will find a resource to be able to borrow from to go up to RI and be able to get up to RI and go pick up our daughter who is in need. She is on the verge of losing her place, staying at Mike's sisters house. Just like Michelle has done to everyone else, she has people stay with her, take care of her daughter *in supposed reduction in rent* but she still charges an astronomical price to live.. Now she tells Melissa better go put your name in housing, I'm losing mine and going to live in my friend's basement. UNREAL, there is a waiting list a mile long and can take up to a year to get in if not longer.
But to have this scripture given to me is a reassurance to know that He does hear my prayers and He will answer me. Thank you Lord for everything you do for me and my family...

daily readings. Monday day 1

This isn't part of the daily readings. But when you first sign on to the site it gives a daily scripture.. I thought it was appropriate to share b/c it fills my heart to know this is so true..
“When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O LORD, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.”- Psalm 94:18-19
The reading begins at Psalms 113 and 1 Corinthians 6 (I started late so I will have to catch up later on when the new year comes around or the Spirit guides me there.
Praise the LORD. [a]
1 Praise, O servants of the LORD,
praise the name of the LORD 4 The LORD is exalted over all the nations,
his glory above the heavens 9 He settles the barren woman in her home
as a happy mother of children.
Praise the LORD. (I think of Brandi again with this. She has been barren for quite sometime now. She was blessed Saturday by Sis. Anne that her innerds were to be better and that the Lord will provide a way for her to be able to have the child she ever so wanted. What a blessing to have...
Praise God, for he is the only one that can do that.. Praise God for the miracles that He performs in His time to bless others with.. Praise Him for the blessings in my life, even through the trials that we face in our daily lives, I KNOW, as Sis. Anne said, there will be quite the treasure to follow. I told Mike yesterday, through my tears, even with the way we moved down here, we were meant to be here, just not sure as to why. Maybe with the bringing of Melissa and the twins down, that is our treasure, I'm not sure. He's not sure,but we are willing to put it into the Lord's hands and let him mold our future to the way He sees fit.
Next is 114 Psalms I don't see the significance as of yet but will keep reading.. to 115 Psalms.
13 he will bless those who fear the LORD—
small and great alike.

14 May the LORD make you increase,
both you and your children.

15 May you be blessed by the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

16 The highest heavens belong to the LORD,
but the earth he has given to man.

17 It is not the dead who praise the LORD,
those who go down to silence;

18 it is we who extol the LORD,
both now and forevermore.
Praise the LORD. [b]
In order to be blessed by His blessings we must be able to acknowledge him, Praise Him, Let the world know we Praise Him. in the beginning of this chapt. it stresses how the city asks where is your Lord for he is not here. He is in Heaven they say. I feel He is here. But yes He does reside in Heaven. Blessings are reaped in the believers and followers.. And as Pastor Mark said yesterday, we need to not only learn of Him and get stirred up in our souls, but we need to Kinetically release our teachings to others and spread the news in order to continue to grow. We need to share it with the less fortunante whether it be prisoners, ppl in hospitals, etc etc etc.. We need to take our lives from the mediocre parts of Marah and tread our way to the bit more difficult parts of life of Elim. Thats where you will find Eternity.
The biggest part of 1 Corinthians 6 that stood out to me, was the how immoral acts are a sin. and in conclusion this last verse stood out to me. 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
This was the daily reading for the day. That's alot to read in a days time. Alot of different passages. But I guess to be able to read the bible in a year it's how it is done. Not too bad.. Maybe once in mylife I can actually get through this and have it done..

Sunday update

Well I have to say yes it's been a very long time since I've been here. But I decided today after coming home from church, I don't have any empty notebooks hanging around and sometimes, when I do write for long periods of times, my hand and fingers cramp up. So why not go and start a live journal online and keep up that way. I am going to fill my inspirations as well as my personal insites on my life and life around me. Fair warnings, all may not be pleasant and I may gripe about things, but this way I can get that off my chest and carry on with my day(s) in a Christ like manner and be able to be the person that I needed to be. I have vowed that I am changing my ways and need to stop putting myself in Marah and lead myself BACK to Eflin is it and stay in the light of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am ready! I also went up today to Sister Christy and I told her that I was emailing her all my information and I wanted her to lead me and use me where she needed me to be. For I cannot grow spiritually alone and my family cannot grow spiritually w/o someone stepping forward and being the vessel that is needed to help it along. As I told Brandi Carrano (she and her husband are couple missionaries in Madrid Sprain) I told her how I'm a firm believer on when Mohammed went to the mountain b/c the mountain wouldn't come to him. (obviously) I'm not one to sit back and wait for someone to come and pick up my mat and carry me to Jesus b/c I need his light in my life. I am going to pick up my mat (as long as the good Lord allows me) and I'm going to carry it myself and run as fast as I can to his feet and take in as much light as I can get from him. And if someone allow the way needs me to pick theirs up too and carry it them for them, I can do that too. I"m here.. I'm ready to be the person I am and Help as many as I can..
Thank you Lord for this inspiration and Thank you Holy Spirit for coming into my soul and opening my heart and giving me the inspiration i needed this week at women's conference to know I need this so very much!I have met a couple of new friends at womens conference but the most inspiring that I've met was Brandi Carrano. Not for her talk, not for what she did on the alter. But for her radiance, but for her warmth, her love of Christ and the Almighty God Himself. Her love that just flows from her being and as she wrapped her arms around me I knew I had to befriend this woman and cling on to her love and learn from her. I put a friend request into her facebook and wrote her a short letter to let her know what she did in my heart just in that few very short moments..
It all started with me sitting in he pew listening to Sis. Anne Bosman, my heart just over flowing with the words and prayers that she was annointing upon others. The message or the "word" that she was presenting at that given moment.. I kept hearing in my head, "you need a hug, you need a hug, I need a hug, dang it you really need a hug." Now mind you No one can hear my heart, no one can hear what is being said in my head..So if the hug can't come to me (mountain won't go to Mohammed) then by all means I needed to go to that hug.. Now I felt like I needed to go to Sis. Anne b/c she made me feel like I needed this. But as the program ended and I got up to go down to Sis. Anne, something literally stopped me. Turned me to Sis Brandi and pushed me to her. I looked at her and said, "I'm sorry I really need a hug and since of course, hugs just don't come running to you." This wonderful woman wrapped her arms around my whole body and just squeezed me to her and whispered in my ear the love or Jesus and the love of life and just over flowed an already full heart. Talk about WOW!!! Talk about bawling your eyes out more then what I have already done. HOLY SMOKES!!! It was like I had known this lady my whole entire life and never let a moment pass w/o conversing with her.I just love this woman... I can't wait to actually get to know more of her and her life in Spain. She is working miracles and I pray that the miracles follow her in her life.
But this is just a "small" don't laugh but a small synapsis of what has been going on in my life these past few days. I can't wait to be able to write about more. I have set a goal to give a few minutes a day to the Father and to ponder on Him. So I will do my best to come on a daily basis and write about that..

Sunday May 23

Now that we are actually in Fla and we are in our own place. I guess it's a good time to get on the ball and get back into blogging again.. Even today in church Paster Dave said, "need to take a twenty mins to half hour to jouralize your life." I'm not sure if I'm ready for that long of journalizing but at least a few mins. a day is sufficient enough. He also stated that we should use "the word" as part of our journalizing..
Well today is such a perfect place to start. The lesson today was on waiting rooms. We are in the waiting room of our life, what are we to do with it and what NOT to do with it. We are suppose to serve others. For example if we pray 95% of the time for others, the Lord will see to it that the other 5% is taken care of for us. The scripture that he used for "waiting rooms" was of Paul (acts) in prison and how in the years he was there what he did while waiting for his release. He wrote the most spiritual of letters while in prison. He continued to make the best of his life even though people were trying to take the best of it away. That is what we are suppose to do. NOt complain, not stress, not doubt God in his inentions. BUt have the faith in God and serve where you can and let everything fall into place.
This couldn't of been any better for us. We have had life pretty easy here and there. Granted never perfect, but easy. Now just as I was telling Mike, we started to see things fall into place way too quickly and we took advantage of it. Then just when we think all is perfect, the rug comes out from under us and we struggle a bit more... Just like our house. WE have it, but, just as easy we can lose it.. We pray for the rent to be there every month, while Mike is waiting for his job to open up the training class so he can work.. The electric deposit, we had no idea where it was coming from. Tri-County Communitee center would only pay for half. We had to find the other half.. God furnished that for us.. We were in hopes of help from a food bank, I have volunteered to work the soup kitchen in return. I will be calling Monday to discuss the needs on Weds..
Even growing up I was always taught how service to others is very important and the blessings that come from it. Todays lesson was 110% on the money...