How Great is the Lord

I just want to start my week out by complimenting the Lord and thanking Him for all He has done. I love the Lord with everything within me. This weekend I went on my women's retreat. It was the best time I have ever had. I was healed and delivered of somethings that I have been dealing with for sometime. I was all happy and ready to come home and share but it didn't exactly happen that way. Let me tell you the devil was on the attacked. On the outside of my door I was happy and excited and just couldn't wait to walk in my house to be with my husband and kids. I wanted so much to share the joy I had with them. But once I stepped through my door and was on the opposite side of it, I became my old self again in the sense that I was sad and depressed. I prayed silently to myself and tried to continue on with my sharing but we all know how hard it is to share and be happy when you are being attacked. Anyway, yesterday was no exception and I laid in bed last night and got up this morning prepared to go to battle. I know what the Lord did for me and I know what He shared with me this weekend and I will not allow it to be taken away from me. So, I had to apologize to my husband before I laid down. Bless his heart, I am so blessed to have him in my life. He worked so hard on our kitchen this weekend laying tile in the floor and then grouting and then I come home with my ungodly attitude. I love him so much and our children. But I have been praying this morning and I know that it is time for start stomping for God. One of the things I know the Lord delivered me from this weekend from doubt and the need to please everyone. You know, not wanting to say no to people even though you want to. God has taken those things up and tossed them to be seen no more. God takes things sometimes but we pick it back up and the devil knew what God did for me and he is fighting so hard to give it back. It isn't going to happen, I am not going to allow it. I have a great God who loves me and a great family and friends and I have a great church that holds lots of love and I am going to treat it all with greatness, just as the Lord wants. And in all honesty none of it deserves any less, even when we are not being treated so great, we are to stand with the Lord and pour out Love and understanding and so that is what I am doing. Anyway, I am going to go for now. I pray many blessings over everyone.

My Book of Proverbs Study

I have decided to post my notes that I am typing in my blog on my daily Proverbs study. They are my views and not any one elses and I do not expect them to become the views of anyone reading them. I am posting them so that it might motivate others to try it. I believe that you can read a verse in the Bible one day and it will help you with whatever is going on at that time. The main meanings in the Bible are always going to be same but underlying meanings, the stuff we deal with in our lives will always change so that we can find our comfort in whatever situation we are dealing with. I will admit that I haven't been able to do this everyday but this week I really found myself in conviction because I was getting up out of my bed, checking my email and looking up news and putting on laundry. The conviction placed on my heart was, what am I giving the Lord today? Should I be placing Him on my schedule of duties and get to Him after the house is cleaned and I have some free time? My answer to this is absolutely not. The Lord has given me so much and I wake up every morning with the blessing of seeing a new day and I want to thank Him for that and I want Him to be included in everything that I do. I want the Lord right there by my side during my day. Anyway, I will not say it has been easy. Everyday I had to remind myself and I did pray for the Lord to help me because it is such a habit of mine to want to check my email first thing in the morning and I have no clue why but it is. So I would sit down here at my keyboard and immediately upon opening my email I would feel that conviction come over me and I knew what I needed to do and I would do it. I don't know how long I will be doing this Proverbs thing but I do know until the Lord moves me on to something else you all will be seeing it. Like I said it is only my view of what that particular chapter during that day means to me. I don't expect it to change your view. I do hope that it motivates others to try it. I have truly learned so much about myself this past month in reading it, for instance, stuff I need to change in my life that make me act foolishly. Anyway, I guess I should explain how it works if I expect anyone to understand what I am doing. There are 31 chapters in the book of Proverbs from our Holy Bible. You are suppose to read the chapter that corresponds to the day of your current month. For example, today is the 14th of the month, when I got up this morning to do my study I read Proverbs, Chapter 14. I think you get the idea. Anyway, I am trying to remember where this idea came from but I do know I got it from one of the many devotional sites I visit. If I happen upon it I will post the side address up. It was not my idea but the Lord led me to the place I went to find it. You are suppose to pick one verse from the chapter your are reading and put it on a post-it or on an index card and study it through the day. I haven't done that yet but the reason is because I have just had so much revelation of stuff I needed to change come to me in reading and studying that I decided to not do that step just yet. Mind you I did pray about it, so it might help someone else to do that particular step but right now in my current studies it doesn't work for me. So with all this said, I pray everyone receives all they blessings they Lord has for them. Missy

The Lord is Wonderful

I am sorry I haven't posted but I am here today. I had the most wonderful thing happen to me yesterday, which is in my class that I teach at our church on Wednesday night, God saved 3 girls and brought one girl back into rededication of her life. It is so funny that this happened because I was praying the other day and I realized that in all the time that I have be working for the Lord and being His servant, I had never witnessed that upclose God's workings and so I was praying about it. Also remember not in a selfish manner like, DearLord let me get someone saved type of deal but just in a simple prayer of realizing I really hadn't done that for God and I asked Him to use me and show me what I needed to do. I went to class last night with two short lessons one on praising the Lord and the other our normal lesson, needless to say, we never made it to the regular lesson. I just think it is so amazing how God works and how He uses us and molds us all so that we can be better servants to Him and meet Him one day. My fleshly self kept wanting to say I did it, I finally did it but I know that isn't true at all. I can do nothing, only the Lord can. I am so proud of the Lord and I feel so blessed to be in His presence. It was amazing to see how these girls were being molded last night by the dear Lord right before my eyes. To take the me out of it, I went and got another teacher last night and she gently walked them to where God wanted them. Let me tell you the devil was in my hear telling me I didn't do anything that the girls were not sincere and so on and so on but I knew deep in my heart it was a lie and that it was real, I saw the tears and I saw the relief and peace on each girls face. God moved in a mighty way as He always does but just a little closer last night. LOL, see this is one of the things I am talking about with myself and I am sure others. I make the statement "just a little closwer last night" but God is always moving, it is I, not the Lord who needs to take a closer notice and stop being so held back and reserved in what I do and see. God is always moving, I am the one sitting back choosing what to partake in. Praise God for His love and His wonders. Hey I would like to encourage you to do something if you read this. I was reading the other day, not sure where, but it said to go to the book of Proverbs and to read the chapter that corresponds with todays date. For example, today is the 28th, so you would read Proverbs 28. I have been trying to do this everyday. Do feel bad if you miss a day, we all do but I have been making an effort to read my chapter everyday. I want to say it is more amazing then anything as to the wisdom and knowledge that is being poured into my life. What I do is read my chapter and just give God my time and I go through each verse in that chapter and see what it means to me. I look up definitions to things I don't understand and just really study it. I love it, it is the most enlightening thing I have ever done. I encourage others to do this. I just started doing it but I guess I have been going for almost two weeks now and I love it. Anyway, just a little blurb.

Trial Day

I was so excited to start this blog today. I have been getting up early in the morning because I feel like God is wanting more time with me. So I decided to start getting up around 5 am in the morning. My kids get up around 6 or 6:30 to go to school so this gives me a chance to have some alone time with the Lord. I haven't really been doing as good as I like. This morning I didn't even hear the alarm but then again maybe the Lord knew I needed rest because I always hear the alarm. So back to my point, when I finally did get up this morning but I felt bad for not doing my time with God. That is when this blog came to mind. I don't feel like God wants us to be so down on ourselves. I mean I know we all make mistakes and obvisiously so does the Lord which is why He sent his only begotten son. I have found that all of my life, I have spent so much time punishing myself for things I asked God to forgive me for. I think we all tend to do that. We feel guilty for things that the Lord has tossed away. One of my favorite songs is Ocean Floor by Audio Adrenaline. That song is my anthem. I think the Lord has been trying to show me this for soooo long, that it was time to stop looking at my trials as punishments but as growth time and as blessings because this is my time to show Him my strength that He has given me. I am so proud to be a Christian and I am so thankful that God called me to Him. I want to grow to be thankful for my trials and that is what I am going to do. My blogs are my tributes to the Lord and they are my steps to peace and love and joy. They are my steps to be like God wants me to be.