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