Friday the 13th

I recieved this today and had to share as it fits with the the fact that its Friday the 13th.

"beyond all false superstition is a God, Jesus Christ, who loves You and will protect You. Nothing is greater than Him. No number, stone, circle or candle could ever save you. Nothing in creation can save you because it all withers and dies like your body will, except the kicker is, your spirit is alive in Christ Jesus and lives for all eternity. No umbrella in the house, no friday the 13th, no black cat, ladder or broken mirror can stop Christs love from shining beyond belief in your life if you would only trust Him fully to do so. "

Waiting...

Jesus, our saviour is faithful to us, when we are faithful to Him.  And oh how I never ever want to loose my faith in Him because I have seen it move mountains!!!!!

Mark 11:22-25  "Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God.  I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart.  I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.  But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too."

There has been something I have been praying for each day faithfully to Christ for around six years. I never once for a second though Jesus wouldnt answer this prayer, but I knew it was going to be in His timing and not mine.  These past few weeks Im starting to see this prayer of mine getting answered and yet again, God's timing is perfect.  Jesus' timing has always been perfect and always will be perfect because Christ our saviour is perfect.

But oh how easy it is in our human error to think that His timing and His need for us to be paitient in certain things is off isnt it? 

How easy it is to just give up on Christ and persue it ourselves only to stumble again and again.

But once you REALLY trust Christ to carry your burdens and prayers and handle them in the best way possible, the feeling of freedom, bliss and happiness just flourishes beyond belief. 

I have just sat here especially in the past few days again with my hands on my forehead, leaning back in my chair going...

"Jesus, you really do take care of us, hear our prayers and you are just so amazing.  I could not imagine these situations being more perfect and now seeing it the way You see it for me, I never ever want to put my trust in any person, clever thought, or opinion again.  I only want what You want because You want what is best for me, and all those who follow You.  I refuse to follow the World because it seems "better".  "Better" doesnt mean "best".  Jesus, my saviour, my God, You gives us Your best. "

Jesus prayed    “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,  that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—  I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."  John 17:20-23

I am far from being God

This morning as I am performing my housewife duties (and I mean this in a wonderful way, I adore being a housewife, may not be the best, but God is helping me in this) I was listening to Jesus Culture and their song Where You Go I'll Go and just cleaning away.  My youngest started to hit the keyboard and it stopped the song.  I got a bit flustered and frustrated and I got angry.  Not over the top angry, but I think I could have handled it better.  I started to laugh seconds later because I was like "That wasnt something Jesus would have done I dont think."  And the song is stating that as a believer "Where You go I'll go, what You say I'll say God, and what You pray I'll pray." 

Jesus only did what God told Him to do.  They are two in the same.  And they have a continuous relationship that is open.  When Christ died for us and upon accepting this amazing feat, we too are given that open relationship with God through the Holy Spirit that is poured upon us.  We have a direct line to God for everything.  And with that, I think that we should be going to Christ for everything.  Trusting Him with everything.  As humans we are bound to be struggling each day with at least one thing, and in those moments, weather it be with home situations, work situations, relationships, money etc, we should be going to God with these questions because God is always going to do what is best for us.  And whatever He shows me to do or say, I should be saying it because I know its best for me. 

God is never going to give us His second best.

Even though I have the Holy Spirit, and therefore God within me, I could argue that I am always going to know what is right, but I am far from being God myself, if  I were God I would have no issues what so ever, Christ would not have had to come and die for me and I would be committing something I think is very dangerous and so far off scripture and bringing Jesus down to a level I dare never bring Him too.  Im still human and still have error so I think in all honesty I can not fully trust my judgement that everything I think is right is best for me... following me here??  I still always have to be continuously going to God.  And thankfully when I do make mistakes (which we all do daily!) then when I die and go before judgement before God, I will be covered with the blood of Christ and will be seen as perfect before Gods eyes.  Thank You Jesus.

  1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

I think about the fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23 (Amplified Bible)

But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].
 
This is what I pray for.  That I would continously be able to practice these things.  They are all amazing attributes to have I think that totally show Christs unfailing Love. 
 
Continuously in prayer and I dont mean spending all my time sitting on my couch with my eyes closed praying, we can pray to God anywhere, before we answer our phone, before we log onto Facebook, before we go to make dinner, everything!  Just a quick "hey Jesus I wanna talk to you about something.."  I love that we can do that!!!  And He loves to have this relationship with us! Makes me all happy inside :) 

Happy Mothers Day

Today we celebrated Mothers Day in a laid back fashion as I was getting over a horrid 24 hour stomach bug that just didnt want me to get out of my home.  It started at 3pm yesterday afternoon and by the evening I was out of commission.  My stomach still feels achey from it, but praise God, I feel much better than 24 hours ago. 

My oldest woke me up to breakfast in bed, some toast and yogurt and a tall glass of water.  She tended to her younger brothers the best she could and they played upstairs till my husband got home from a quick shift at work. 

"Are we going to the worship center this morning?"  He asks me

"I really wish I could, but I dont want to bring this there."

"Wanna come downstairs and watch some tv with me?" 

"I'll try."

I read in my Bible for a while, did some study.  God is good!

 Later in the afternoon I started to gain enough strength to get outside with the kids. I stood there watching the neighbourhood so filled with life.  My youngest playing with bubbles, my daughter making paper crafts with her friends.  My four year old showing me the tricks he can do on his big wheel bike.  Watching them check out the ants on the sidewalk watching them work hard.  Finding a worm and being completly fascinated with it.  My youngest has taken an interest in birds latley, listening to the bird calls and then flapping his arms frantically imitating their flight.   Precious moments. Things they notice that are so simple, yet so astonishing. 

A wasp decided my bra would be a nice place to explore...I got stung twice.  That doesnt feel terrific.  Thank God for AfterBite.

Its really terrific to see all the kids interacting with eachother in our area.  Ofcourse there is the occasional argument but all in all the vibe from the children is good. 

It was hot today. So hot infact that was actually had an icecream truck come down our street. I was more excited at first I think than the kids.  It brought back memories of when I was growing up and the kid with the Dickie Dee would come by and sell ice cream to all of us.  I betcha he makes a fortune in the summer!!! 

The kids all picked what they wanted and we sat with our neighbours and talked and the children laughed at their blue faces, ice cream headaches and other random moments. 

Upstairs for baths, a quick dinner and then began the prayers of paitience as we are just finishing week one of trying to get our 27 month old to go to sleep without nursing.  It took an hour of coaxing.  He wasnt angry, but just not tired enough, wanted to play.  I got him hushed by listening to the robins outside. "Hey here that?  Listen.... she's saying night night Zayden time to go to sleep".  He would laugh and listen for the next sentence.  Blissfull. 

Dispite feeling sick and being attacked by a wasp (yes I said attacked, thats what it felt like LOL), the day was beautiful and I thank God for each moment. 

And I think back to all the moments I have shared with these three beautiful blessings from Christ and I think to myself "its been amazing."  They arent babies anymore.  They have been growing into amazing individuals since conception.  Amazing human beings. 

And I pause to think... they are only 6, 4 and 2... and its been such a journey so far and we havent been hiking long. 

We are going to go down wrong roads together, we are going to have to climb huge hills and slide down rocky mountains, but we will also be able to pause in the streams and play, lay in the grass and feel the warmth of the sun and go crazy in the forests in the morning, and we will give thanks to God in all circumstances.  Its going to be amazing....

Shaking things up...

I am about to embark on the most intensive Bible Study and journey with Christ than I ever have before. 
I refuse to get into details on my blog about it because of the controversy that the topic I am studying is more than likley to start "drama" and negativity.  Two things I refuse to have during this study. 
I am doing this study because it is something very important to me.  To seek answers that I know are there, yet have probably been totally distroyed by translation, by "the church", and by ignorance.  This topic has caused much stress to many people I know, splits in families, splits between friends.  Ive had enough and came across some very good information that put some hope in my heart, some joy in my step, and made me praise my Lord Jesus Christ even more.  I am beyond to explore this, to dig into the Bible like I have never before. To meditate on Christs words, on the words of the Lord.  To find out what the words actually mean, to get into the nitty gritty.  Research the origional writings and what they said before they were translated into English.  This is so I can defend something very important to my family, friends and myself. 
If anyone reading this is interested in embarking in this with me, I more than welcome you, however I am not doing a public display of the study because I really cant be spending all day online (remember I have a bit of an addiction problem) debating.  But this is something that has put such excitement in my heart that I had to blog about it. Wish me luck!!

Job 26:7-10

This morning while doing some studying and meditation on Gods amazing word, I flipped to Job and began to read and came across this part of it that I just really chewed on for a while.  With all the hatred on the news, people murdering people thinking it is good, saying hurtful angry things about other human beings, this rotting decaying hatred that sticks to your ribs and does nothing good, we need to remember that God is bigger than anything of this world. 

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;

He suspends the earth over nothing.

He wraps up the waters in his clouds,

yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

He covers the face of the full moon,

spreading His clouds over it.

He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters

for a boundary between light and darkness.

I just sit in awe thinking, if He can do all this, imagine what He can do in hearts of all if we would just love like Christ did, all the time, without hesitation, without fear of judgement?

May!

Our street has exploded with the birth of new blossoms on the trees that line our road.  Its absolutly gorgeous.