I wanted to do a post that encouraged everyone in their daily life. After thinking for a while if figured i would open this one to all of you. Click on comments and write a short testimony of what God is doing in your life..... Don't shy away from this one. Someone could be changed because of what God has done through you!
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God is teaching my to stop and listen to Him. I still get so caught up in the business of life that sometimes i forget about my Creator. I need to remember that this personal relationship I have with Him takes time and effort. I need to cultivate it by spending time in the word and by spending time in prayer..... i guess this is what God is doing in me right now.
Wow...what has God been doing in my life? As most of you know, I have been in a valley for alomost exactly a year now. Having said that, I have the innate capability of allowing my mind to spin in a whirlwind of doubt, confusion, worry, and fear. So, I constantly have to go think about His Word and apply it to my life. I have to believe that God is who He says He is, and He can do what He says He can do. In His Word, it says that God sees every one of my tears, hears every one of my cries, and He longs to grant me the desires of my heart. And, it says that God knows my thoughts, desires, and hurts before I ever let me come out of my mouth..isn't that amazing?! I have known all of these things for most of my life, but never really believed them enough to rest on them. So, I am learning to believe that God can take care of me, and I have to let go of ALL things and give them to Him. Only then, with faith, will I grow in Him and with Him. My desire is to KNOW God and learn His will for my life. This has been the hardest, longest road I have had to walk down, but I am getting there slowly...it is not in my timing, but in His that it will be done.
WOW, God has been doing some amazing things in my life. I will make it as short as possible for you guys. I was raised in a christian home and attended the same church growing up for 13 years. I will not name the church but i will say that the church fell COMPLETELY out of Gods will and away from his word. We were supposed to except this as members, and those of us who were in leadership were not supposed to question anything (big no no to them.) Well the holy spirit did something in my mom who in turn asked me to pray and seek God about the direction our church was heading in. After two weeks of just me and God (i wasnt attending there services b/c i didnt want them to influence me) God told me it was time to leave. So i spoke with my leader who told me it wasnt God i heard from. I knew it was, so I left anyways. The people i grew up with and were closest to were not allowed to speak to me and still dont to this day. Lets just say that I was mad at the church and slightly mad at God. I didnt understand. I fell away from my calling, my passion, and my relationship with my father. Things only got worse when the church i started attending later on partnered with the old church. I was hurt. That was in 04. I've always loved my God more than anything else but i stopped listening to him at that point and started making my own choices and doing my own thing. It wasnt until 2007 i started really chasing a deeper relationship with him again. I wanted him back in my life front and center. Its been hard for me. God has revealed things to me i had been avoiding and taught me lessons i honestly didnt want to learn. But let me just say God is amazing and faithful. The one thing i believe I've learned that i find more valuable and crucial than anything else this past year is this. If my relationship with the father had been built on the scriptures and my own convictions and experiences with him, i wouldnt have missed out on 3 amazing years doing what God has called me to do. We cant think that b/c we go to church, have christian parents, take notes during service, ect. that we are safe. We arent. Guys, the devil is out to steal, kill , and destroy. I know this all sounds so cliche but if we dont have a true, personal relationship with God we wont be able to stand. At least not for long. A relationship with God is like all other relationships, it takes effort, time, thought, DEVOTION. If we dont put these things into practice daily with him our relationship will slowly die. Just like it would if you were married and neglected them. We get so caught up in the actions and politics of religion that we ignore our relationship with the father. I hope and pray this is something close to your heart and that we live it daily. We WILL NOT make a difference in the kingdom if we dont. I ask that all that read this keep me in your prayers as i still struggle and i pray it helps someone else.
Love you all,
Sheryl.
weeeeeeeeell,
i think if anything stands out the most... something that God is trying to get through this thick skull of mine... its that no matter what mistakes i make, and no matter how many times i mess up, the most important thing is to move on. I believe that sitting in your sin is the number one way satan wins in the battles of our minds, and we need to realize that God's grace is suffucient, so pick up and try again. NOW, that is not a crutch to justify doing what you want and asking forgiveness later, but it is a humble way to embrace your humanity... for we all are going to screw up sooner or later. so there!
oh yeah, one more thing.... does anyone else have a problem, besides me, of watching the people around you... the people you love the most sometimes.... conform and settle for less than what really matters in life, and yet, they believe they are eating the cream of the crop. it frustrates me how easily our society, our generaton, is deceived by the world... thinking that who they are and what like and what they do is acceptable and, just the way it is supposed to be. So often i see decesions made to please everyone else, and to fit in everyone else's box, and the motives behind those decisions are never second-guessed.
HMMMM.... something to think about.... why do YOU do what you do... why do YOU like what you like.... who are YOU really and why?
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